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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: solarshroomster] * 3
    #28436691 - 08/17/23 02:37 AM (5 months, 9 days ago)

"to live alone one must be a beast or a god, says aristotle. leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher."
Nietzche

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

Jung, Red Book


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    #28438090 - 08/18/23 11:11 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

Albert Einstein;
"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."


Gyomay M. Kubose (1905-2000) - Zen Koans - Returning to the Ordinary World;

"A monk asked Kegon, “How does an enlightened one return to the ordinary world?”
Kegon replied, “A broken mirror never reflects again; fallen flowers never go back to the old branches.”

Commentary: In the Zen life there are no “ifs” or “buts.” The Zen life is always fully lived here and now. Many people live in the “if” world, speculating rather than doing. “If it does not work out’; “if I get hurt’; “if I die.” “If” people always excuse themselves in the “but” world: “I wanted to do it, but”; “I want to see you, but’; there are always excuses. The monk in this koan asks how an individual, once enlightened, relates to the ordinary world. Thus, he goes beyond his own experience and imagines the world of “ifs.” Rather, he should work hard and enlighten himself; then he will know the answer. Kegon’s reply will be misunderstood if one does not grasp that a Buddha, an enlightened one, lives this worldly life together with worldly people. For a Bodhisattva, everyday life is the enlightened life; the ordinary world is Nirvana. The broken mirror and fallen flowers have their places."


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    #28438093 - 08/18/23 11:12 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

T. S. Eliot;
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."


The Gospel of Thomas (1st-2nd century);
"The disciples said to him, “Tell us what our end will be.”
Jesus said, “If you haven’t found the beginning, why ask about the end? For where the beginning is, the end is also. Blessed are those who stand at the beginning, for they will know the end, and they will not taste death.”"


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    #28438094 - 08/18/23 11:13 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

Socrates;
"To fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No person knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest of blessings for a human being and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils."


Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Thomas Yuho Kirchner; Rinzai [Lin-chi I-hsuan] (?-866) - The Record of Linji - Discourses - X;
"If you wish to differ in no way from the patriarch-buddha, just don’t seek outside. The pure light in a single thought of yours—this is the dharmakāya buddha within your own house. The nondiscriminating light in a single thought of yours—this is the saṃbhogakāya buddha within your own house. The nondifferentiating light in a single thought of yours—this is the nirmāṇakāya buddha within your own house. This threefold body is you, listening to my discourse right now before my very eyes. It is precisely because you don’t run around seeking outside that you have such meritorious activities."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28438096 - 08/18/23 11:14 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

Matthew Juksan Sullivan - The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on the Blue Cliff Record - Introduction;
"A monk asked the Master, "What is a true statement?"
Zhaozhou replied, "Your mother is ugly.""


Melanippe of Euripides;
"Dream you that men’s misdeeds fly up to Heaven
And then some hand inscribes the record of them
Upon God’s tablets; and God, reading them,
Deals the world justice? Nay, the vault of Heaven
Could not find room to write the crimes of earth,
Nor God himself avail to punish them:
Justice is here on earth, had ye but eyes."


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    #28438097 - 08/18/23 11:14 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

Carl Jung quoting St.Bonaventure;
"… God [The Self] is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere …"


Alan Watts - Out of Your Mind 10 - The World As Self (Part 2) - VI. The Journey to Where You Already Are;
"Yoga, in the normal way of use, means the practice of meditation whereby one comes into the state of union, and the yogi means one who is a traveler, a seeker who is on the way to that point. But, again, strictly speaking, there is no method to arrive at the place where you are, and no amount of searching will uncover the Self because all searching implies the absence of the Self—the big Self—so that to seek it is to thrust it away, and to practice a discipline to attain it is to postpone realizing."


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    #28438098 - 08/18/23 11:15 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

Hugh Milne - Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard;
"Whenever a person or an organization feels they have the truth, the only truth, blame and judgement are sure to follow."


Proverbs 18:1-5;
”Unfriendly people care only about themselves;
they lash out at common sense.

Fools have no interest in understanding;
they only want to air their own opinions.

Doing wrong leads to disgrace,
and scandalous behavior brings contempt.

Wise words are like deep waters;
wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.

It is not right to acquit the guilty
or deny justice to the innocent."


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    #28438099 - 08/18/23 11:15 AM (5 months, 7 days ago)

Niels Bohr;
"There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."


Gyomay M. Kubose (1905-2000) - Zen Koans - Manjusri Enters the Gate;
"One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate, the Buddha called to him, "Manjusri, Manjusri, why do you not enter?"
Manjusri replied, "I do not see myself as outside. Why enter?"

Commentary: The important question in this koan is “what is the gate?” Normally a gate is something through which one enters or exits. It divides the inside from the outside. But in the world of Dharma, or Truth, there is no inside or outside; the truth is immanent and universal. When the Buddha asked Manjusri (symbol of wisdom) to enter the gate, he was testing Manjusri’s understanding. Manjusri replied, in effect, that there is no gate in the world of Truth. Truth is everywhere; he was not outside it. But still, humankind feels that there is a gate. But it is a gateless gate and hard to enter, even though it stands wide open all the time! The gateless gates are numerous—as many as there are people. Each must enter through his own gate."


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    #28446295 - 08/25/23 11:03 AM (5 months, 21 hours ago)

Philip B. Yampolsky; Daikon Eno [Hui Neng] (638-713) - The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript;
"Only practicing straightforward mind, and in all things having no attachments whatsoever, is called the samadhi of oneness. [But] the deluded man clings to the characteristics of things, adheres to the samadhi of oneness, [thinks] that straightforward mind is sitting without moving and casting aside delusions without letting things arise in the mind. This he [falsely] considers to be the samadhi of oneness. This kind of practice is the same as insentiency and the cause of an obstruction to the Way. The Way must be something that circulates freely; why should he impede it? If the mind does not abide in things, the Way circulates freely; if the mind abides in things, it becomes entangled."


John Monbourquette;
"Without deep and honest self-acceptance, the spiritual life rests on a dangerous psychological foundation and is nothing more than escape into a world of illusion. Humble self-knowledge is the most basic condition for any true spirituality."


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    #28446296 - 08/25/23 11:04 AM (5 months, 21 hours ago)

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022) - The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now - The First Door of Liberation;
"Imagine, for a moment, a beautiful flower. That flower might be an orchid or a rose, or even a simple little daisy growing beside a path. Looking into a flower, we can see that it is full of life. It contains soil, rain, and sunshine. It is also full of clouds, oceans, and minerals. It is even full of space and time. In fact, the whole cosmos is present in this one little flower. If we took out just one of these “non-flower” elements, the flower would not be there. Without the soil’s nutrients, the flower could not grow. Without rain and sunshine, the flower would die. And if we removed all the non-flower elements, there would be nothing substantive left that we could call a “flower.” So our observation tells us that the flower is full of the whole cosmos, while at the same time it is empty of a separate self-existence. The flower cannot exist by itself alone.

We too are full of so many things and yet empty of a separate self. Like the flower, we contain earth, water, air, sunlight, and warmth. We contain space and consciousness. We contain our ancestors, our parents and grandparents, education, food, and culture. The whole cosmos has come together to create the wonderful manifestation that we are. If we remove any of these “non-us” elements, we will find there is no “us” left.

Emptiness does not mean nothingness. Saying that we are empty does not mean that we do not exist. No matter if something is full or empty, that thing clearly needs to be there in the first place. When we say a cup is empty, the cup must be there in order to be empty. When we say that we are empty, it means that we must be there in order to be empty of a permanent, separate self.

About thirty years ago I was looking for an English word to describe our deep interconnection with everything else. I liked the word “togetherness,” but I finally came up with the word “interbeing.” The verb “to be” can be misleading, because we cannot be by ourselves, alone. “To be” is always to “inter-be.” If we combine the prefix “inter” with the verb “to be,” we have a new verb, “inter-be.” To inter-be reflects reality more accurately. We inter-are with one another and with all life.

There is a biologist named Lewis Thomas, whose work I appreciate very much. He describes how our human bodies are “shared, rented, and occupied” by countless other tiny organisms, without whom we couldn’t “move a muscle, drum a finger, or think a thought.” Our body is a community, and the trillions of non-human cells in our body are even more numerous than the human cells. Without them, we could not be here in this moment. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to think, to feel, or to speak. There are, he says, no solitary beings. The whole planet is one giant, living, breathing cell, with all its working parts linked in symbiosis.

We can observe emptiness and interbeing everywhere in our daily life. If we look at a child, it’s easy to see the child’s mother and father, grandmother and grandfather, in her. The way she looks, the way she acts, the things she says. Even her skills and talents are the same as her parents’. If at times we cannot understand why the child is acting a certain way, it is helpful to remember that she is not a separate selfentity. She is a continuation. Her parents and ancestors are inside her. When she walks and talks, they walk and talk as well. Looking into the child, we can be in touch with her parents and ancestors, but equally, looking into the parent, we can see the child. We do not exist independently. We inter-are. Everything relies on everything else in the cosmos in order to manifest—whether a star, a cloud, a flower, a tree, or you and me.

I remember one time when I was in London, doing walking meditation along the street, and I saw a book displayed in a bookshop window with the title My Mother, Myself. I didn’t buy the book because I felt I already knew what was inside. It’s true that each one of us is a continuation of our mother; we are our mother. And so whenever we are angry at our mother or father, we are also being angry at ourselves. Whatever we do, our parents are doing it with us. This may be hard to accept, but it’s the truth. We can’t say we don’t want to have anything to do with our parents. They are in us, and we are in them. We are the continuation of all our ancestors. Thanks to impermanence, we have a chance to transform our inheritance in a beautiful direction.

Every time I offer incense or prostrate before the altar in my hermitage, I do not do this as an individual self but as a whole lineage. Whenever I walk, sit, eat, or practice calligraphy, I do so with the awareness that all my ancestors are within me in that moment. I am their continuation. Whatever I am doing, the energy of mindfulness enables me to do it as “us,” not as “me.” When I hold a calligraphy brush, I know I cannot remove my father from my hand. I know I cannot remove my mother or my ancestors from me. They are present in all my cells, in my gestures, in my capacity to draw a beautiful circle. Nor can I remove my spiritual teachers from my hand. They are there in the peace, concentration, and mindfulness I enjoy as I make the circle. We are all drawing the circle together. There is no separate self doing it. While practicing calligraphy, I touch the profound insight of no self. It becomes a deep practice of meditation.

Whether we’re at work or at home, we can practice to see all our ancestors and teachers present in our actions. We can see their presence when we express a talent or skill they have transmitted to us. We can see their hands in ours as we prepare a meal or wash the dishes. We can experience profound connection and free ourselves from the idea that we are a separate self."


Hindu proverb;
"Rivers do not drink their own water.
Trees do not eat their own fruit.
Clouds do not swallow their own rain.
What great ones have is always
for the benefit of others."


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    #28446298 - 08/25/23 11:04 AM (5 months, 20 hours ago)

Robert Frost;
"We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."


A.H. Almaas;
"Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life, are not chance or haphazard. They're actually yours. They're specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself.

You're not going to go in the right direction unless there's something pricking you in the side telling you, 'look here, this way'. That part of you loves you so much that it doesn't want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up. It will make you suffer greatly if you don't listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose."


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    #28446299 - 08/25/23 11:05 AM (5 months, 20 hours ago)

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī;
"When you are with everyone but me, you’re with no one. When you are with no one but me, you’re with everyone."


Gyomay M. Kubose (1905-2000) - Zen Koans - I. Transcending Duality;
"Contemporary Western culture is dualistic; everything is dichotomized into good or bad, right or wrong, friend or enemy, this or that. To dichotomize is to divide, and competition usually follows. It necessitates making constant judgments (this is right; that is wrong) that create trouble in society as well as in individual life. If one wishes a life of peace and harmony, duality must be transcended and the world of oneness attained. Oneness does not mean sameness. Each one is unique and absolute. Each one has its own beauty and value and should not be compared. Peace and freedom exist only in the world of oneness, the absolute world. Zen stresses the transcending of duality in the following koans."


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    #28446300 - 08/25/23 11:06 AM (5 months, 20 hours ago)

Chuang-tzu;
"When we understand, we are at the center of the circle, and there we sit while Yes and No chase each other around the circumference."


Ramesh Menon - The Complete Mahabharata: Volume 1-12 - Volume 5 - SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA - CANTO 26 - Samkhya yoga: The way of Samkhya;
"Arjuna says:
“How can you tell a man of resolution, who is founded in samadhi, Kesava?
How does a realised one speak? How does he sit, how walk?”

The Gracious Lord says:
“When a man abandons all desires, Partha, which spring in the mind,
and gratifies himself in just his soul, a man of unshakeable wisdom he is said to be.
Unaffected by adversity, whose mind, in fortune unmoved to desire;
free of passion, fear and anger, a true muni is called.
Who everywhere is without affection; who, upon finding fortune or misfortune,
neither exults nor feels aversion, his wisdom is founded.
And when, like a tortoise completely retracts all its limbs, a man
does his senses from their objects of desire, his wisdom is founded.
Through restraint the embodied can refrain from indulging the senses,
but not from desire; even his desires disappear at the vision of God.

Of even, son of Kunti, a restrained man,
his turbid senses forcibly ravish his mind.
All the senses restraining, the sage sits intent on me;
for, one whose senses are tamed, his wisdom is established.
Dwelling on the objects of desire, a man becomes attached to these;
from attachment is born desire; from desire anger arises.
From rage comes upheaval; from turmoil, the wavering memory;
after the loss of memory, destruction of the mind; when the mind is destroyed, he dies.

Emancipated from attraction and revulsion, but going among the objects of the senses,
tamed by the Atman, ruled by the soul, he attains grace.
With grace, of all suffering the end comes;
the tranquil one’s wisdom, surely, is quickly constant.
No wisdom for the wilful, and not for the reckless, faith;
and for the faithless, there is no peace; for the peaceless, from where joy?
Which ever of the ever-roving senses the mind yields to,
that bears his wisdom away, as the wind a boat on the sea.

So, he, Mahabaho, who withdraws completely
the senses from the objects of sensuality, his wisdom is profound.
When night comes for all creatures, is when the ascetic awakes;
what is waking for the rest, that is night for the visionary.
Always still, the ocean, though being filled by water entering into it;
equally, he who contains all desires entering him, acquires peace, not he who submits to desire.
Leaving the things of desire, who roams the earth, unattached,
without ‘mine’, without ‘I’, he attains peace.
This is the Brahmi state, Partha; attaining to this, he is no more tempted;
abiding in this at his final hour, as well, he goes to Brahmanirvana.”"


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    #28446302 - 08/25/23 11:07 AM (5 months, 20 hours ago)

Red Pine; Bodhidharma - The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma - Outline of Practice - [Two Entrances and] Four Practices;
"MANY roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: [principle] and practice. To enter by [principle] means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things [both ordinary and enlightened] share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion. Those who turn from delusion back to reality, who meditate [in "wall contemplation" in which self and other, ordinary person and sage, are one and the same], and who remain unmoved even by scriptures are in complete and unspoken agreement with [principle]. Without moving, without effort, they enter, we say, by principle.

To enter by practice refers to four all-inclusive practices: Suffering injustice, adapting to conditions, seeking nothing, and practicing the Dharma.

First, suffering injustice. When those who search for the Path encounter adversity, they should think to themselves, "In Countless ages gone by, I’ve turned from the essential to the trivial and wandered through all manner of existence, often angry without cause and guilty of numberless transgressions. Now, though I do no wrong, I’m punished by my past. Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. I accept it with an open heart and without complaint of injustice." [The sutra says, “Face hardships without distress.”] With such understanding you’re in harmony with [principle]. And by suffering injustice you enter the Path.

[The second is the practice of the acceptance of circumstances.] As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. When conditions change, it ends. Why delight In Its existence? But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Third, seeking nothing. People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose [principle] over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring. Calamity forever alternates with Prosperity! To dwell in the three realms is to dwell in a burning house. To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop Imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.

Fourth, practicing the Dharma.’ The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty. Defilement and attachment, subject and object don’t exist [and there is no defilement and no attachment, no "this" and "that."]. The sutras say, "The Dharma includes no being because it’s free from the impurity of being, and the Dharma includes no self because it’s free from the impurity of self." Those wise enough to believe and understand these truths are bound to practice according to the Dharma. And since that which is real includes nothing worth begrudging, they give their body, life, and property in charity, without regret, without the vanity of giver, gift, or recipient, and without bias or attachment. And to eliminate impurity they teach others, but without becoming attached to form. Thus, through their own practice they’re able to help others and glorify the Way of Enlightenment. And as with charity, they also practice the other virtues. But while practicing the six virtues to eliminate delusion, they practice nothing at all. This is what’s meant by practicing the Dharma."


Jeff Brown - Hearticulations: On Love, Friendship, and Healing;
"One of the important things I learned after escaping my childhood home was that no one was entitled to steal my peace of mind. I didn’t understand this when I was young. Throughout my childhood, I would watch as my good moods were continually undermined by the bad moods of others. If they weren’t angry and blaming, they were depressed and despondent. There was no boundary anywhere, and no guidance on how to sustain genuine positivity in the heart of misery. Misery begot misery begot misery. It took many years to learn that there was another way of being in this world—one where I was allowed to protect my precious peace. And it was perhaps the most important lesson I ever learned at the School of Heart Knocks. Because if you allow yourself to get too close to lite-dimmers and border-crossers, you will deny yourself the life that awaits you. You will live under someone else’s cloud until it becomes your own. Simply put, people are entitled to their moods, but they aren’t entitled to yours. Your peace is not negotiable."


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    #28446303 - 08/25/23 11:08 AM (5 months, 20 hours ago)

Philip B. Yampolsky; Daikon Eno [Hui Neng] (638-713) - The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript;
"Successive thoughts do not stop; prior thoughts, present thoughts, and future thoughts follow one after the other without cessation. If one instant of thought is cut off, the Dharma body separates from the physical body, and in the midst of successive thoughts there will be no place for attachment to anything. If one instant of thought clings, then successive thoughts cling; this is known as being fettered. If in all things successive thoughts do not cling, then you are unfettered. Therefore, non-abiding is made the basis.

Good friends, being outwardly separated from all forms, this is non-form. When you are separated from form, the substance of your nature is pure. Therefore, non-form is made the substance. To be unstained in all environments is called no-thought..."


Barry Long - The Way In: A Book of self-discovery - THE SPIRIT IN YOU;
"You are longing to be re-united with the spirit or truth of yourself within. I say re-united because you weren't always separated from it. That extraordinary spirit is truth, love, freedom and fulfilment — in one complete and astounding package. Once you find it and merge with it, all your doubts, fears, longing and incompleteness vanish — for all time. And, miraculously, so do all your worldly problems.
That is the truth. That is the truth of yourself. That is the focus of my teaching. You'll notice that it is not based on any formal religion, dogma or belief: it is simply self-knowledge."


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    #28454936 - 09/01/23 01:21 PM (4 months, 24 days ago)

Verse attributed to Saraha (Pawo Tsukle 742);
"My body is intoxicated by beer,
My speech is intoxicated by Adamantine Songs,
My mind is intoxicated by innate wisdom!"


The Tantra of the Supreme Secret: The Enlightened Mind of All Tathagatas;
"The three kayas—utterly lucid emptiness—are not permanent, for they have no substance.
They cannot be denied, for they embody utter lucidity.
They are not separate, not divisible into outer or inner.
The spacious kayas of unobstructed emptiness are the inseparability of appearance and emptiness—intangible.
Enlightened form is without origination, transition, or change.
Enlightened speech is unborn ultimate speech,
unspoken in words yet clear in meaning,
beyond any words that could describe or express it.
Enlightened mind is awareness, pure like space.
There is no “I”-consciousness, no basis of ordinary experience, no sensory consciousness.
There is no sensation and so no feeling, no perception and so no reification of self, no mental states and so no origination or duration, no consciousness and so no confusion, no objects of the five senses and so no reification, no desire and so no attachment, no benefit or harm and so no karmic ripening, no belief in identity and so no reification of self.
Timeless awareness is evident when there is no confusion involving the five senses.
The nature of everything is evenness, buddhahood.
There is no distortion in enlightened form, speech, or mind, nothing to be seen with view, nothing to cultivate in meditation, no involvement in conduct, no levels or paths to be traversed."


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    #28454938 - 09/01/23 01:22 PM (4 months, 24 days ago)

Dzogchen Tantra;
"As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers
Seek teachings everywhere.
Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze
Seek seclusion to digest
all that you have gathered.
Like a mad one beyond all limits
go where you please and live like a lion
completely free of all fear."


Lara Braitstein; Sempa Dorje's 1998 bilingual Tibetan/Hindi edition of Abhayadatta's text - pp 29-33;
"Once, having asked [for] cooked radishes, the wife, having prepared radishes and buffalo curd arrived before her husband. Since he had entered samadhi, when he did not accept it she went back. Then Saraha did not arise from the midst of samadhi for 12 years.

Then he arose, and said to his wife, "Where are my cooked radishes?"

[His] wife said, "You didn't arise from samadhi for 12 years, so now where are they?
Now it is Spring there aren't any [radishes]" she said.

(And) then Saraha said to his wife, "I will go to practice on the mountain."

His wife said, "Physical solitude is not solitude. Solitude from dualistic mind and conceptual thought - that is the highest solitude. Although you abided in meditation for 12 years, if you could not sever the subtle thought of radishes, of what benefit is it to go to the mountain?"

Saraha realized that truth. He abandoned naming (dualistic mind, wrong perceptions) and conceptual thought. Since he achieved the essential meaning, having accomplished the highest siddhi which is the Great Seal, he achieved the limitless welfare of beings.

Together with his wife they went to the celestial realm."


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    #28454941 - 09/01/23 01:23 PM (4 months, 24 days ago)

Abhinava Gupta - Essence of the Tantras (summary verse of the introduction to his Essence of the Tantras);
"Tradition teaches us that ignorance is the sole cause of bondage: it is taught under the name “impurity” in scripture.
When the power of all-encompassing insight arises, it is completely uprooted.
With the arising of the full consciousness of the Self, by which all impurity is destroyed, there is liberation."


Christopher D. Wallis - Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition - The Philosophy of Nondual Śaiva Tantra - THOUGHTS TO LIVE BY;
"Quite simply, since reality is One, and everything is equally an expression of that one divine Light of Consciousness, every experience by definition is an experience of God. As the scriptures say, “Śiva is the substance of every experience whatsoever.” Now, some interpreters of the tradition say, “Everything is God, but some things are more God than others.” This is as nonsensical as the famous quote from Animal Farm, “Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.” If we propose that some things are more God than others, like concentrated orange juice versus watered-down orange juice, then we must also propose the existence of something that is not God that waters down divinity. But no such thing can be found, at least in this philosophy, because 1) the definition of God here is the unbounded Light of Consciousness, 2) everything that is known to exist is an object of experience, and 3) every experience is by definition pervaded by consciousness.
Therefore, this—whatever is happening right now—is as God as it gets. Now, if you are in a miserable or banal life situation, you may be disappointed by this announcement. But notice I said, “This is as God as it gets,” not, “This is as free as it gets.” Freedom means actually experiencing the divinity in each moment, which is the same as not wanting the present moment to be any different from the way it is. When you don’t want any moment to be any different, then you are no longer struggling (or even waiting) for a better situation, and therefore you are free to fully show up for what is actually happening now. Paradoxically, this reveals the inherent joy of consciousness, because by not struggling against some part of reality, you see and meet the whole of the moment, and you naturally enjoy it to the maximum extent you are capable of in that moment.
Ultimate freedom, then, is not an experience or a state of mind. It can’t be, because no experience or state of mind is permanent. An experience, however great and wonderful, cannot be the goal of the spiritual path, for as soon as it is gone, you want it again, and then you are not free—and radical freedom is the avowed goal of all yoga. So, this leads us to the necessary conclusion that pleasurable experience, however refined and pure, cannot be more divine than anything else. The pursuit of spiritual “highs” is not the path of yoga, Tantrik or otherwise. Nor is final liberation the result of a high experience. It is the result of total surrender of all your grasping, total opening to what is beyond all your stories."


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    #28454943 - 09/01/23 01:24 PM (4 months, 24 days ago)

Kunzang Tenzin; Saraha - Saraha's Dohakosa: The Royal Song (Doha mdzod spyod pa'i glu: Dohakosa nama caryagiti);
"HOMAGE TO ARYAMANJUSRI!
Homage to the destroyer of demonic power!

The wind lashes calm waters into rollers and breakers;
The king makes multifarious forms out of unity,
Seeing many faces of this one Archer, Saraha.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two;
The vision and the viewer are one,
You broken, brittle mind!

Many lamps are lit in the house,
But the blind are still in darkness;
Sahaja is all-pervasive
But the fool cannot see what is under his nose.

Just as many rivers are one in the ocean
All half-truths are swallowed by the one truth;
The effulgence of the sun illuminates all dark corners.

Clouds draw water from the ocean to fall as rain on the earth
And there is neither increase nor decrease;
Just so, reality remains unaltered like the pure sky.

Replete with the Buddha's perfections
Sahaja is the one essential nature;
Beings are born into it and pass into it,
Yet there is neither existence nor non-existence in it.

Forsaking bliss the fool roams abroad,
Hoping for mundane pleasure;
Your mouth is full of honey now,
Swallow it while you may!

Fools attempt to avoid their suffering,
The wise enact their pain.
Drink the cup of sky-nectar
While others hunger for outward appearances.

Flies eat filth, spurning the fragrance of sandalwood;
Man lost to nirvana furthers his own confusion,
Thirsting for the coarse and vulgar.

The rain water filling an ox's hoof-print
Evaporates when the sun shines;
The imperfections of a perfect mind,
All are dissolved in perfection.

Salt sea water absorbed by clouds turns sweet;
The venom of passionate reaction
In a strong and selfless mind becomes elixir.

The unutterable is free of pain;
Non-meditation gives true pleasure.
Though we fear the dragon's roar
Rain falls from the clouds to ripen the harvest.

The nature of beginning and end is here and now,
And the first does not exist without the last;
The rational fool conceptualising the inconceivable
Separates emptiness from compassion.

The bee knows from birth
That flowers are the source of honey;
How can the fool know
That samsara and nirvana are one?

Facing himself in a mirror
The fool sees an alien form;
The mind with truth forgotten
Serves untruth's outward sham.

Flowers' fragrance is intangible
Yet its reality pervades the air,
Just as mandala circles are informed
By a formless presence.

Still water stung by an icy wind
Freezes hard in starched and jagged shapes;
In an emotional mind agitated by critical concepts
The unformed becomes hard and intractable.

Mind immaculate by nature is untouched
By samsara and nirvana's mud;
But just like a jewel lost in a swamp
Though it retains its lustre it does not shine.

As mental sloth increases pure awareness diminishes;
As mental sloth increases suffering also grows.
Shoots sprout from the seed and leaves from the branches.

Separating unity from multiplicity in the mind
The light grows dim and we wander in the lower realms;
Who is more deserving of pity than he
Who walks into fire with his eyes wide open?

Obsessed with the joys of sexual embrace
The fool believes he knows ultimate truth;
He is like someone who stands at his door
And, flirting, talks about sex.

The wind stirs in the House of Emptiness
Exciting delusions of emotional pleasure;
Fallen from celestial space, stung,
The tormented yogin faints away.

Like a brahmin taking rice and butter
Offering sacrifice to the flame,
He who visualises material things as celestial ambrosia
Deludes himself that a dream is ultimate reality.

Enlightening the House of Brahma in the fontanelle
Stroking the uvala in wanton delight,
Confused, believing binding pleasure to be spiritual release,
The vain fools calls himself a yogin.

Teaching that virtue is irrelevant to intrinsic awareness,
He mistakes the lock for the key;
Ignorant of the true nature of the gem
The fool calls green glass emerald.

His mind takes brass for gold,
Momentary peak experience for reality accomplished;
Clinging to the joy of ephemeral dreams
He calls his short-thrift life Eternal Bliss.

With a discursive understanding of the symbol EVAM,
Creating four seals through an analysis of the moment,
He labels his peak experience sahaja:
He is clinging to a reflection mistaken for the mirror.

Like befuddled deer leaping into a mirage of water
Deluded fools in their ignorance cling to outer forms
And with their thirst unslaked, bound and confined,
They idealise their prison, pretending happiness.

The relatively real is free of intellectual constructs,
And ultimately real mind, active or quiescent, is no-mind,
And this is the supreme, the highest of the high, immaculate;
Friends, know this sacred high!

In mind absorbed in samadhi that is concept-free,
Passion is immaculately pure;
Like a lotus rooted in the slime of a lake bottom,
This sublime reality is untouched by the pollution of existence.

Make solid your vision of all things as visionary dream
And you attain transcendence,
Instantaneous realisation and equanimity;
A strong mind binding the demons of darkness
Beyond thought your own spontaneous nature is accomplished.

Appearances have never ceased to be their original radiance,
And unformed, form never had a substantial nature to be grasped;
It is a continuum of unique meditation,
In an inactive, stainless, meditative mind that is no-mind.

Thus the I is intellect, mind and mind-forms,
I the world, all seemingly alien show,
I the infinite variety of vision-viewer,
I the desire, the anger, the mental sloth -
And bodhicitta.

Now there is a lamp lit in spiritual darkness
Healing the splits riven by the intellect
So that all mental defilements are erased.
Who can define the nature of detachment?

It cannot be denied nor yet affirmed,
And ungraspable it is inconceivable.
Through conceptualisation fools are bound,
While concept-free there is immaculate sahaja.

The concepts of unity and multiplicity do not bring integration;
Only through awareness do sentient beings reach freedom.
Cognition of radiance is strong meditation;
Abide in a calm, quiescent mind.

Reaching the joy swollen land
Powers of seeing expand,
And there is joy and laughter;
Even chasing objects there is no separation.

From joy, buds of pure pleasure emerge,
Bursting into blooms of supreme pleasure,
And so long as outflow is contained
Unutterable bliss will surely mature.

What, where and by whom are nothing,
Yet the entire event is imperative.
Whether love and attachment or desirelessness
The form of the event is emptiness.

Like pigs we wallow in this sensual mire
But what can stain our pearly mind?
Nothing can ever contaminate it,
And by nothing can we ever be bound.

This song of existential freedom was composed by
the Glorious Master Yogin Saraha."


Lama Thubten Yeshe - Introduction to Tantra - 3 PLEASURE, DISAPPOINTMENT, AND FULFILLMENT;
"With the proper understanding of transformation, whatever we do, twenty-four hours a day, can bring us closer to our goal of totality and self-fulfillment. All our actions — walking, eating, and even urinating! — can be brought into our spiritual path. Even our sleep, which is usually spent in the darkness of unconsciousness or in the chaos of dreams, can be turned into the clear-light experience of subtle, penetrating wisdom."


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    #28454945 - 09/01/23 01:25 PM (4 months, 24 days ago)

Inje Nyomba Kunzang Tenzin; Kukuraja - Guhyagarbha-tantra (gSang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid nges pa) - Chapter 31. Direct perception of Vajrasattva's face by high beings with creative minds;
"Samantabhadra and sentient beings are gathered indivisibly in immaculate existential space, and in order to demonstrate experientially the direct perception of Vajrasattva's face, deliberately, Samantabhadra speaks:

In direct perception of this mundane world, where things are never what they seem, where all is delusory enchantment, like hallucination, seeing all and everything as a continuity like the reflection of the moon in water, that is the buddha's pristine awareness, and a flash of undivided recognition of that gives us a unitary experience of total presence. A finger snap of ungrounded limitless space, in timeless existential space, the here and now, that is Vajrasattva wielding an utterly inviolable vajra. When vision and conduct are in sync with direct perception, we see his face in the intrinsic purity of the mandala.

That boundless existential space is oneself in a union of utter purity, and all is spontaneously awakened. Whoever experiences this realization he is seeing with the eye of pure awareness and he sees the immaculate matrix of being, and he is utterly inviolable, adamantine, imperturbable. Intrinsic existential space radiates clear light which is the immaculate voice of pristine being (sattva). In that recognition is direct perception of his face.

With this spontaneity of perfect equipoise, the mind is filled with the magnificent self-sprung mandala of the Five Tathagathas, the five aspects of awareness, and in this unitary mind free of subject and object contemplating the buddhas' radiance as nothing at all, without seeing or hearing or any sensation, here is the clear light of pure awareness of intrinsic presence and everything is realized as intrinsically empty and in reality there is no substance whatsoever.

Just as the victorious Buddha sat as a focus in the middle of the hosts of Mara all gathered around the bodhi tree, miserable in their state of malignancy trying to cut the tree but quite unable, so is Vajrasattva: when oneself is at one with samadhi that is direct perception of the vajra-face.

The mind filled with Vajrasattva, samadhi saturated with radiance, everything becomes his vajra-nature, and since he is everything, nothing can harm him; with oneself and sattva inseparable action accords with whatever appears, and the vision and activity of oneself and sattva are one and that is direct perception of the vajra-face.

Now, the immaculate mandala of reflected images: conjoined by means of the coarse and tangible (thabs) apprehending sensory distinctions, perfect insight (prajna) is realized and the non-dual connection of means and insight is sublime skilful means. All and everything as the space of that manifold insight, all appearances and existence, everything whatsoever, unmoving from the intrinsical here and now, are neither existent nor non-existent and their being and non-being are indivisible: all is gathered into the space of existential sameness and such a communion never coming into being, everything, in that way, inseparable from sameness, is inviolable. That is the abode of sattva and the supreme order who realize that, their status in accord with sattva, they see directly the vajra-face.

All transforming illusion, the psycho-organism and the elements of perception, is one in the suchness of the ground of being, and illusory appearances, all reflected images, lack any substance in their very nature; yet that very absence of substance displays multiplicity: the five aspects of the psycho-organism are the Five Tathagathas, sense organs and conciousnesses are the bodhisattvas, the objects and times are the goddesses the four concepts of the self are the four wrathful male guardians, the four extreme views of eternalism and nihilism are the four wrathful female guardians. That awakened mind – known as intrinsic presence – all as existential space, Samantabhadra, that is Vajrasattva. Whoever recognizes that, his buddha-mind in harmony with sattva, He sees the vajra-face.

All things, all experience without exception, can be expressed by representational name, word, letters and sound, but like all those letters, names and sounds nothing whatsoever has any substance. That very absence of substance appears as multiplicity, the nature of appearances is nothing at all; although there is a constant stream of creativity it is no-thing and that is immaculate. The utterly inviolable here and now is not insensate matter; it is radiantly clear light, and Vajrasattva abides there. Whoever recognizes that is a member of the supreme order, and indivisible from the vajra-order he has direct perception of the vajra-face.

The eminent man or woman with high creativity can realize the meaning of such universal identity; but the result is intangible, for the place in which enlightened mind exists is like a womb or an egg. Although unreal, obscurations do arise, and just as in the process of their creation they dissolve so the forms of thought are abandoned instantaneously. In that way he is empowered by all things and he becomes a being of the sublime order.

Identical to Vajrasattva, the supreme siddhis are perfected in him; he attains the blissful pure land, supreme wisdom becomes his display, and he is an exemplar to gods and men; he is empowered in body speech and mind and whatever he imagines is actualized.

He is mastered by the four boundless states, his activity everywhere is supreme awareness of bliss, and he has reached the place where suffering has ceased – the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Reaching the supreme vajra-status, through the blessings of great compassion he leads all beings without exception into that vajra-order.

Annihilating the hosts of Mara, taming the passions impeccably he turns the wheel of dharma; to all beings without exception he teaches the nature of impermanence in a way compatible with their every path – to the shravakas the way of the arhat, to the bodhisattvas the way of the self-born, to the spontaneously originated buddhas of the unsurpassable approach, inviolable existential space. Without moving from intrinsic existential space he reveals to everyone immutability, and all paths without exception are accomplished in that space.

Thus he spoke the vajra-secret word! The word spoken by himself to himself!"


Christopher Wilkinson; Vairochana - Atiyoga: The Eighteen Tantras;
"From the beginning,
The Dharma and the mind are not a duality.
We may seek for the nature of the mind,
But we will not find it."


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