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Roger R. Jackson - Tantric Treasures: Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India - pp 53-59 - Saraha's People Doha poem;
"Bah! Brahmins They don't know what's what: In vain they incant their four Vedas. They incant, holding earth And water and kusa grass, And sit at home Making offerings to fire. Their oblations are pointless - the acrid smoke just stings their eyes. [Saivas] With staff or trident, Dressed like lords, They pose as sages, Imparting ascetic advice. They're fakes - Their error deceives the world; They don't know right Any more than wrong. [Vaisnavas,] These 'saints' Smear their bodies with ashes, And wear their matted locks piled on their heads . . . Fixing his gaze, Bound in a posture, He whispers in to the ears Of rich folk... He grants a consecration - For a fee. [Jainas] The long-nailed yogin Looks filthy, Goes naked, Pulls out his hair by the roots. Jains mock the path by the way they look; They deceive themselves in teaching freedom. If going naked means release, Then the god and the jackal must have it. If baldness is perfection, Then a young girl's bottom must have it. [Bauddhas] Self-proclaimed Novices, monks and elders, These dress-up Friars and ascetics! Some sit writing comments On the sutras, Others seek To dry up intellect. Others run around In the Great Way, Where scripture turns to sophistry And word play. Some contemplate the mandala circle... . . . You may give up the innate And fancy nirvana, But not an ounce of the ultimate Will you gain." Self-Arising Primordial Awareness tantra (rigpa rang shar) - selections from; "Due to the sun of awareness rising within the realm of emptiness, the five unchanging kayas arise directly from the mandala of the great, undiminishing treasure. They present a nondual display within a nonconceptual state. On the level of truth, the five mind-body aggregates, without being deliberately structured, are revealed as a magical display of appearances, however they manifest. . . . Awareness, difficult for anyone to realize, is subtle, hard to comprehend, and seen by no one. It cannot be reified, but is equally present everywhere as the expanse of naturally occurring well-being. It arises as the display of samsara and nirvana within a continuous context."
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Six Dimensions Tantra;
"Through the pristine consciousness of the originally pure essence, there is freedom from the taint of ignorance. Through the pristine consciousness of the naturally perfect nature, there is freedom from the harm of deluded words. Through the pristine consciousness of all-pervading compassion, everything appears as interrelated in a single dhātu. Also, for instance, when merely illustrated with words, as such, in originally pure dharmatā there is no pristine consciousness, no kāyas, no light, and also no color. Since there is no entity established at all, there is no need to speak of the appearances of ignorance and afflictions. Apart from the appearance of the nature itself, there has never been a signifier to perceive; apart from intrinsic clarity without color, the aspect of consciousness and knowing are complete; because there is no object apprehended through an apprehension, the aspect of conceptual grasping does not exist; omnipresent from the primordial beginning in the primordial luminescence that transcends light; present as pure mahāmudrā in the intrinsic luminescence that transcends the kāyas. Yet a signifying object has never existed in the appearances of the nature. This is how it is present in the ultimate aspect: the white generated by the intrinsic luminescence is present as total profound clarity. Since profound clarity generates the brightness of the essence, the intrinsic exhaustion of appearances is the yellow aspect, intrinsically manifesting from the dhātu without showing externally. Existing in its own state without attachment, thoroughly clear radiance is free from being bound by itself, the intrinsic exhaustion of attachment is the red aspect. Profound clarity appears totally differentiated, free from activities and agents that grasp individual differentiated signifiers, unfabricated green is present as rays of the original [basis]. The aspect of profound clarity that does not show externally is the interconnection that pervades profound clarity, the blue of perfect immutability is present without ever having to have been perfected. As such, in the nature of that, the kāyas are free from characteristics of appearances. The perfected ones exist at the tips [of the rays of light] in primordial total intrinsic purity; this is not an appearance for the sense organs. Because physical signifiers are intrinsically pure, present as the totally profound clear basis, empty of both pervasion and pervader, present without being a blank void, the aspect of illuminating appearances is unceasing. The essence that gathers the quintessence of everything, immaculate and intrinsically pure, is present in the aspect of the nature as the great secret of the buddhas. Apart from the unceasing emptiness of the arising of diverse appearances of compassion, appearances manifest from the aspect of appearances as the two kinds of pristine consciousness of objects of knowledge. Since the appearance of the nonexistent is intrinsically pure, having never existed, the actions of deeds appear without ever having been performed in modes of appearance, which do nothing. Just like the light in the sun, it has no action but appears according to its nature. If the two pristine consciousnesses did not exist, it would not be different than the insentient. Alternately, this would only turn into a vacant emptiness. Knowing all objects of knowledge through the pristine consciousness of the compassion aspect, one’s reality is known. If that aspect of pristine consciousness did not exist, it would not be different than the matter of the four elements. Knowing all objects of knowledge, the inclinations of those to be tamed is known through the pristine consciousness of compassion. If this [pristine consciousness] does not exist, it would be equivalent to space. As such, the pristine consciousness of omniscience appears from the aspect of compassion. This cannot be perceived through anyone’s memories. This is present as the nature itself but is not present as the coarse apprehended object and apprehending subject. It appears as the subtle aspect of profound clarity." Peter Heehs; Akkapey-cittar - Siddhas, Yogis and Others - Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience - pp 288; "I do not exist The Lord does not exist The Self does not exist The Teacher does not exist Mantras do not exist Experience does not exist Tantras do not exist Doctrines have been destroyed Rites are just devil's play Knowledge - a hollow stable The Lord is but an illusion Everything is like that Why and what for to study? Why and what for to act? All set rules and all forms Have been burnt and annulled All manifested actions You see are only Void Those which in fact do not appear Will appear in Pure Nothingness"
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Look, spinvis, no offense, it's not that I don't appreciate your efforts; but the thread name is greatest spiritual quotes, not any and all spiritual quotes...
"A vain person should know that the good opinion of others, which he so achieves, is much easier and more true to create by silence than by talkativeness." - Arthur Schopenhauer -------------------- Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?' Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray." Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?' Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray." Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...' Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness." - The Big Bang Theory, S07E09
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Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Anthony De Mello - The Song of the Bird - Dedication;
"Theology: The art of telling stories about the Divine. Also the art of listening to them. Mysticism: The art of tasting and feeling in your heart the inner meaning of such stories to the point that they transform you." Anthony De Mello - The Song of the Bird - MONKEY SALVATION FOR A FISH; "“What on earth are you doing?” said I to the monkey when I saw him lift a fish from the water and place it on a tree. “I am saving it from drowning” was the reply. The sun that gives sight to the eagle blinds the owl." Anthony De Mello - The Song of the Bird - DOMESTICATED REBELS; "He was a difficult man. He thought differently and acted differently from the rest of us. He questioned everything. Was he a rebel or a prophet or a psychopath or a hero? “Who can tell the difference?” we said. “And who cares, anyway?” So we socialized him. We taught him to be sensitive to public opinion and to the feelings of others. We got him to conform. He was a comfortable person to live with now. Well adjusted. We had made him manageable and docile. We congratulated him on having achieved self-conquest. He began to congratulate himself too. He did not see that it was we who had conquered him. A big guy walked into the crowded room and yelled, “Is there a fellow by the name of Murphy here?” A little fellow stood up and said, “I’m Murphy.” The big guy nearly killed him. He cracked five of his ribs, he broke his nose, he gave him two black eyes, he flung him in a heap on the floor. Then he stomped out. After he had gone we were amazed to see the little fellow chuckling to himself. “I certainly made a fool of that guy,” he was saying softly to himself. “I’m not Murphy! Ha, ha!” A society that domesticates its rebels has gained its peace. But it has lost its future."
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Christopher D Wallis - The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece - The Heart of the Teachings on Recognition;
"Let’s get a bit more specific about what ‘opening to the opportunity for self-recognition’ means. It refers to noticing that the Power of Awareness (cit-śakti) that empowers and englobes the whole process—the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of each cognitive experience—is nothing but your very own Self, your essential Being. (I capitalize Self and Being here to denote equivalence to the Divine.) In other words, you recognize that you, the real you, the conscious knower of the process of cognition, are also its author. Furthermore, you see that this Awareness-self is the ground of the threefold process and is not separate from it; in fact, the act of creating, immersing in, and dissolving an experience is a self-transformation of Awareness. It is not such a huge step from that to the realization that you—what you really are—are the creator, sustainer, and dissolver of the whole world of your experience, of the universe as you know it. You are not only a manifestation of God (as all beings are), you are the God of the universe as you know it, in the sense that the universe as you know it is a direct expression of what you are. Though I have described this revelatory moment of recognition in words, it is not a thought; rather, it is a flash of wordless insight, a moment of nonconceptual seeing. We will return to this teaching later in the book." The Tantra Without Letters; "The ultimate essence, awareness itself, is not created; How could there be a creator? It is not contrived; there is no one to contrive it. It is not samsara or nirvana, not bondage or freedom, Not a specific point of view, it is free of any point from which to view. Not a state of perception, it is a totally lucid avenue of “seeing.” Not that which makes things manifest, it is free of any tendency to manifest. Not something that obscures, it is beyond anything obscuring it. Not something that diminishes, it pervades the ten directions without impediment. Not involving effort, it is beyond striving or achievement. Not one thing, it is nevertheless free of multiplicity. Not entailing a specific standpoint, it transcends both affirmation and denial."
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“Even the most beautiful women get terrible diarrhea”
-my cousin
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Chuang-tzu - PART II, Book XXII, 6 - WHERE IS TAO?;
"Master Tung Kwo asked Chuang: "Show me where the Tao is found." Chuang Tzu replied: "There is nowhere it is not to be found." The former insisted: "Show me at least some definite place where Tao is found." "It is in the ant." said Chuang. "Is it in some lesser being?" "It is in the weeds." "Can you go further down the scale of things?" "It is in this piece of tile." "Further?" "It is in this turd."" Ekai - The Gateless Gate - called Mumonkan - 21. Dried Dung; "A monk asked Ummon: “What is Buddha?” Ummon answered him: “Dried dung.” Mumon’s comment: It seems to me Ummon is so poor he cannot distinguish the taste of one food from another, or else he is too busy to write read-able letters. Well, he tried to hold his school with dried dung. And his teaching was just as useless. “Lightning flashes, Sparks shower. In one blink of your eyes You have missed seeing.”"
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Swami Sivananda - An Exercise For Developing Virtue;
"Examine your character. Pick up the defects you find in it, and find their opposites. Let us say that you suffer from irritability. The opposite of irritability is patience. Try to develop this virtue by meditating on the abstract virtue of patience. Regularly, every morning, sit down in the lotus posture. Sit in a solitary place for half an hour – think of patience. Think of its values, think of its practice under provocation. Thus, take one point each day. Think about that point steadily, without letting the mind wander. Think of yourself as perfectly patient, a model of patience. End the meditation with a vow that: “This patience, which is my true self, I will feel and show, today and every day”. For a few days there may be no perceptible change. You may still show and feel irritability. But go on practising. You will see that soon, thoughts of patience will arise simultaneously with the irritable impulse and the irritation will be checked. Go on practising. Irritable impulses will grow more and more feeble, until you find that irritability has disappeared and patience has become your normal attitude towards annoyance. In this manner you may develop various other virtues, such as sympathy, self-restraint, purity, humility, benevolence, nobility and generosity. Concentration of the mind on God, after its purification, gives real happiness and knowledge. You are born for this purpose only. Dive deep. The divine flame, the Light of lights is burning there. Merge within." Jiddu Krishnamurti - Amsterdam 1955 - Talk 1; "Any society that does not respond to the new challenge of a group or an individual obviously decays. And it seems to me that if we would create a new world, a new society, we must have a free mind. And that mind cannot come about without real self-knowledge. Do not say, ‘All this has been said by so-and-so in the past. We can never find out the totality of our whole self.’ On the contrary, I think one can. To find out, the mind must surely be in a state in which there is no condemnation. Because what I am is the fact. Whatever I am -jealous, envious, haughty, ambitious, whatever it be -can we not just observe it without condemnation? Because the very process of condemnation is another form of conditioning what is. If one would understand the whole process of the self, there must be no identification, condemnation, or judgment, but an awareness in which there is no choice- just observation. If you attempt it, you will see how extraordinarily difficult it is. Because all our morality, our social and educational training, leads us to compare and to condemn, to judge. And the moment you judge, you have stopped the process of inquiry, insight. Thus, in the process of relationship, one begins to discover what the ways of the self are."
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Erik Pema Kunsang & Marcia Binder Schmidt; Padmasambhava - Treasures from Juniper Ridge: The Profound Instructions of Padmasambhava to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal - Advice on How to Practice the Profound Instructions;
"There is no ease within samsara's realms; Ease is found in the awakened state. Through effort this awakened state is never gained; It is not achieved with effort, but by letting be and never striving. By rejection, samsara is not left behind; It is freed within itself by letting be. Your attempts to cure your miseries have brought no ease; You are at ease by loosely letting be. You find no happiness from craving; Only when you have let go of craving. Attachment is not cut by trying to avoid it; Only by revulsion is it truly stopped." Samantabhadra: Mirror of Enlightened Mind Tantra (kun tu bzang po thugs kyi me long); "The infinite expanse of enlightenment is unobscured and totally pure. Since buddhahood does not exist, there is not even the label "buddha." Since reification does not exist, there is not even the label "ordinary being." Since conceptualization does not exist, there is no confusion due to nonrecognition. Since fixation does not exist, there are no concepts or objects. Since attachment does not exist, there are no habitual patterns of ordinary mind. Since the past does not exist, there is not even the label "future." Since the present does not exist, there is not even the label "afflictive emotion." Since the teachings do not exist, there is not even the label "teacher." This yoga-the spacious realization of the single sphere of being-- is one of abiding definitively and without change on a level from which there is no regression, is spontaneously present and without change in the state of supreme bliss, and is the unobscured, clearly evident fruition in the nonconceptual state."
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Abhinavagupta;
"We do not base our contention that [reality] is one because of the contradictions inherent in saying that it is dual. It is your approach that accepts this [method]. [While], if [duality and oneness] were in fact [to contradict each other], they would clearly be two [distinct realities]." Christopher D. Wallis - Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition - The Philosophy of Nondual Śaiva Tantra - UNPACKING THE VIEW; "As thinking beings, we perform analytic and synthetic mental operations in our contemplation of reality. Some of those operations rigidify, becoming more or less durable and persistent mental constructs, which we then use as filters to select and interpret what we think is significant in reality, thereby narrowing further our already limited spectrum of perception. Then we make the final error of believing that the interpretive constructs we superimpose on reality are reality itself, instead of what they actually are, imperfect representations that served a particular need at a particular time. This wrong understanding causes us suffering. Indeed, it is the only cause of suffering."
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Lakshmanjoo;
"Take one particle of anything which exists in this world. In that one particle there is to be realized the totality of the whole universe. The totality of energy is found in one particle. Everything is full of one thing and one thing is full of all things." The Heaped Jewels Tantra (rinpoche püng wa / rin po che spungs ba); "When there is resting in the natural state without concentration, understanding manifests in each individual’s mind, without all the words concerning mind having to be taught by anyone. As one’s mind becomes familiar with this, all that is nonmanifest and all apparent phenomena, which themselves entail no concepts, are naturally pure. Thus everything, in an unobstructed way, becomes a variation of the supreme simultaneity of emptiness and lucidity. Each of the four elements—earth, water, fire, and air—dissipates into space like mist without its respective potential actually taking form. Regardless of the complexity with which fixation based on confusion is experienced, aspects of dualistic perception, in that they are unborn, naturally cease, so that nothing manifests. With this natural resolution, one’s own illuminating experience is similar for all other beings."
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Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega;
"We cannot simply consider Siva to be the sum total of the entire manifest reality. He is more than that, infinitely more. However, his condition of surpassing his own manifestation does not in any way cause him to be seperate from that manifestation." The All-Creating King Tantra (Kunjed Gyalpo / Kulayarāja Tantra); "Because the great perfection is timelessly beyond causality, the state in which nothing need be done is not accomplished by being sought or achieved. Teachers who view things in terms of causality issue pronouncements. They take mundane phenomena with ordinary characteristics as their standard and rely on causality in trying to accomplish results. There are no causes, only mind, and so there are never any results. Because awakened mind is unborn, do not take the phenomena experienced by worldly people as its metaphor and misinterpret it as something that comes into being and then decays. Without realizing that it occurs naturally, beyond causality, they take mundane phenomena with ordinary characteristics as their standard and rely upon causes, claiming that results occur from them. Such is the natural transmission of spiritual approaches based on causes and results. Listen, O great and courageous being! Timeless awareness—what is termed “timeless awareness”— is naturally occurring timeless awareness, unceasing and in harmony with everything. Not dependent on causes, this incomparable timeless awareness gives rise to everything, and there is no other source of phenomena. To take mundane phenomena, whether causes or effects, as the standard— such seeking will not bring about what has never existed as a result. Because awakened mind is not created by causes, do not take mundane phenomena, which come into being and cease, as the standard. Because awakened mind is not created by conditions, do not take mundane phenomena, which come into being and cease, as its metaphors. O great and courageous one, if one strives in meditation and other spiritual practice, desiring something great, this greatness will not be achieved through such effort. Such greatness is and has always been naturally occurring timeless awareness."
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Mark Dyczkowski;
"The universe is the wonderful variety of Siva's nature created by Him when he reflects on Himself and thinks 'I am diverse.' Siva contemplates none other than Himself, wether He knows Himself as the multiplicity of things or as their undivided source." The Pearl Garland Tantra (mu tig phreng ba'i rgyud); "Since one has already arrived without taking a step, the very path to follow has already been traversed. Since there is nothing to describe with the spoken word, the realm of expression and imagination is forever transcended. Since the proliferation and resolution of thoughts are timelessly empty, there is timeless abiding in supreme meditative stability. Since distortions are naturally pure, there is abiding in a supremely unobstructed, undistorted state."
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Mahdanirvana Tantra XIV. 117;
"All the imagined names and forms are as playthings for the children." The Great Garuda Tantra (Khyung chen / Khyung chen mkha' lding); "Holding the breath and dosing the eyes bind one's mind. In the state that has no underlying basis, uncontrived and free of anything to rely on, assuming specific postures and trying to relax in lucidity bind one to sensory appearances. If one's mind is not impartial and free of extremes, mental analysis and speculation prevent one from experiencing the way of abiding. Without the confidence that comes from resting naturally in timeless freedom, in which nothing need be done, realization is constrained by wishful thinking and fleeting meditative experiences. Without the key point of its resting in its own place, which need not be sought, awareness is bound by one's relying on teachings that concern causality."
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Milarepa;
"All worldly pursuits end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation, births in death." Garab Dorje - The Natural Freedom That Underlies Characteristics (mtshan ma rang grol); "For example, the great garuda, most majestic of birds, though yet unhatched overwhelms nagas with its splendor. Its wings reach full development while still within the egg. Once freed from the confines of the shell, it soars far above the earth. How could this be easy for other birds? How could it be so? But it is so for the great garuda, who is completely at ease in the sky. There is freedom whether or not one realizes it. Evenness means there is no distinction between present and future lives, and the realm of evenness is uninterrupted. For those who believe that freedom comes about through the nine spiritual approaches or believe in thorough training, renunciation, or transformation, whatever they believe accords with the supreme approach itself. Why does it accord? Everything is supreme bliss, the expanse of dharmakaya, and there is nothing that is not free within the expanse of dharmakaya. The nature of phenomena is naturally arising, the kaya of the vajra heart essence. The dynamic energy of this heart essence is perfect within any embodiment based on habitual patterns. Even though that embodiment is cast off, awareness is not subject to birth, death, or the intermediate state, for it alone is inseparable from everything, so emanations occur without restriction and are active everywhere without impediment. This is the depth of immersion in genuine being—“the one who rides the wind effortlessly.” It does not apply to any inferior spiritual approaches. The discovery that it applies to ati is the key point of fruition."
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Alan Watts - The Tao of Philosophy 5 - Myth of Myself;
"So instead, it has become fashionable—and it is nothing more than a fashion—to believe that the universe is dumb; stupid. That intelligence, values, love and fine feelings reside only within the bag of the human epidermis, and that outside that the thing is simply a kind of a chaotic, stupid interaction of blind forces. Courtesy of Dr. Freud, for example, biological life is based on something called libido, which was a very, very loaded word. Blind, ruthless, uncomprehending lust: that’s the foundation of the human unconscious. And similarly—to thinkers of the 19th century like Ernst Haeckel, even Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and so on—there was this notion that at the root of being is an energy, and this energy is blind. This energy is just energy, and it’s utterly and totally stupid, and our intelligence is an unfortunate accident. By some weird freak of evolution we came to be these feeling and rational beings—more or less rational—and this is a ghastly mistake, because here we are in a universe that has nothing in common with us, that doesn’t share our feelings, has no real interest in us; we’re just sort of a cosmic fluke. And therefore the only hope for mankind is to beat this irrational universe into submission, and conquer it, and master it. Now, all this is perfectly idiotic. If you would think that the idea of the universe as being the creation of a benevolent old gentleman—although he’s not so benevolent; he takes a sort of “this hurts me more than it’s going to hurt you” sort of attitude to things—you can have that on the one hand. And if that becomes uncomfortable, you can exchange it for its opposite: the idea that the ultimate reality doesn’t have any intelligence at all. At least that gets rid of the old bogey in the sky, in exchange for a picture of the world that is completely stupid. Now, these ideas don’t make any sense—especially the last one—because you cannot get an intelligent organism, such as a human being, out of an unintelligent universe. The saying in the New Testament that “figs do not grow on thistles nor grapes on thorns” applies equally to the world. You do not find an intelligent organism living in an unintelligent environment." Goethe's Faust - The Second Part of the Tragedy (1832) - CHORUS MYSTICUS: "All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were darkened by; The Eternal Feminine Draws us on high."
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Master Sheng Yen - Final Verse;
"Busy with nothing, growing old Within emptiness, weeping and crying Intrinsically, there is no "I" Life and death, thus cast aside" Sholeh Wolpé; Attar of Nishapur - The Conference of the Birds - The Birds Confer and Make Excuses - DELUSIVE LOVE - The Nightingale’s Excuse; "The lovesick Nightingale stumbled forward, drunk with passion and so beside itself, it knew neither here nor there. The nightingale was a bird whose thousand songs contained a thousand spiritual mysteries. It began to speak, and all the birds fell silent: The mysteries of love begin and end with me. I repeat love’s teachings each night. There is no one who’s suffered like King David for whom I can chant with passion the holy book of love. The reed wails because of what I reveal, the lute’s melancholic notes arise from my chants; gardens are in a riot because of me, lovers’ hearts burn and burst when they hear my songs. I reveal a new mystery every moment. I create a new song every hour. When love invades my soul, I surge and crash like the ocean. Those who witness my agitation, swoon. Those who arrive sober, leave intoxicated. And when I have no one to tell my secrets, I keep them to myself all the year long. But when each spring my lover unfolds and scatters her fragrance across the world, I spill my heart’s desires to that beauty and bandage my pain by gazing at her face. Then, as my adored one disappears again, this melancholic nightingale falls silent once more, for no one can fathom my secret—no, no one but a rose is privy to such things. So deeply intoxicated am I with the rose that my own existence is nothing to me. It’s demanding to be filled with such love; my desire for the slender rose is sufficient. A nightingale has no stamina for one like the Great Simorgh. For this bird, the love of a rose is quite enough. My beloved’s many folded petals calm my heart. How can I bereave myself of such joy? The rose stuns my heart when she flowers in joyful laughter, for in unveiling her smile she reveals herself. How can a nightingale survive even a day empty of such a love’s happy song?"
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The Odes of Solomon (1st - 2nd Century);
"My heart was split, and a flower appeared; and grace sprang up; and it bore fruit for my God. You split me, tore my heart open, filled me with love. You poured your spirit into me; I knew you as I know myself. Speaking waters touched me from your fountain, the source of life. I swallowed them and was drunk with the water that never dies. And my drunkenness was insight, intimacy with your spirit. And you have made all things new; you have showed me all things shining. You have granted me perfect ease; I have become like Paradise, a garden whose fruit is joy; and you are the sun upon me. My eyes are radiant with your spirit; my nostrils fill with your fragrance. My ears delight in your music, and my face is covered with your dew. Blessed are the men and women who are planted on your earth, in your garden, who grow as your trees and flowers grow, who transform their darkness to light. Their roots plunge into darkness; their faces turn toward the light. All those who love you are beautiful; they overflow with your presence so that they can do nothing but good. There is infinite space in your garden; all men, all women are welcome here; all they need do is enter." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj; "It cannot be explained by concepts. How can words explain that from which words originate? You need an "I" to perceive it, but words cannot describe it. Words can only describe what is not."
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Lewis Mackenzie; Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828);
"This dewdrop world— Is a dewdrop world, And yet, and yet . . ." Daniel Liebert; Jelaluddin Rumi - Rumi: Fragments, Ecstasies - NO LONGER DRUNK, BUT THE WINE ITSELF; "I am not Christian, Jew, Pagan, Muslim. I am not of East nor West; land nor sea. I am not of nature nor of spirit. I am not of earth, of water, of air, of fire. I am not of India, of China, of Bulgaria. I am not of Iraq nor of Khorasan. I am not of this world nor of the next world. I am not of heaven nor of hell I am without body and soul for he is One only Beloved First and last Inward and Outward and I Cry, "One!" and I cry, "He is!" I drained this cup; there is nothing, now, but ecstatic annihilation were I ever other than this I regret being born if forever it is this, I'll trample both worlds! and dance ecstatic forever! O, Shams, I am so drunk! what can I say, but I am so drunk on love"
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