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#28511414 - 10/20/23 07:04 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Baal-Shem Tov; "The light of God is hidden in this world; find it and you will see to the end of this universe."
Willam James; "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, while all about it parted from it by the filmiest of screens there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence, but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are there in all their completeness. . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question. . . . At any rate, they forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality."
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St. John of the Cross; "A person has only one will and if that is encumbered or occupied by anything, the person will not possess the freedom, solitude, and purity requisite for divine transformation."
Alan Watts - Out of Your Mind 10 - The World As Self (Part 2); "See, the real crime is that you won’t admit you’re God. That’s false modesty. So the guru challenges you, you see? He challenges you. If you raise the question. He doesn’t go out and preach in the streets and say, “Come on, everybody. You ought to be converted.” He sits down under a tree and waits. And people start coming around and they offer him propositions. He answers back. And he challenges you in any way that he thinks is appropriate to your situation.
Now, if you’ve got a thin shell and your mask is easily dispatched with, he simply uses what we might call an easy method. He says, “Listen, Shiva, come off it! Don’t pretend you’re this guy here! I know who you are.” And the guy sort of twinkles a bit and says, “Well, I guess you’re right.” But people aren’t like that. They have very thick shells, and so he has to invent ways of cracking them."
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#28511417 - 10/20/23 07:09 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua - Herein Lies the Treasure-Trove - Volume 1; "Buddha is your real body which remains pure and radiant, reveals itself before its owner and is inherently void and empty, silent and still."
Anthony De Mello - The Song of the Bird - THE SONG OF THE BIRD; "The disciples were full of questions about God.
Said the master, “God is the Unknown and the Unknowable. Every statement about him, every answer to your questions, is a distortion of the truth.”
The disciples were bewildered. “Then why do you speak about him at all?”
“Why does the bird sing?” said the master.
Not because it has a statement, but because it has a song.
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge."
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#28511418 - 10/20/23 07:09 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Rabbi Shneur Zalman - The Tanya - Chapter 19; "The human soul is the lamp of God."
Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Thomas Yuho Kirchner; Rinzai [Lin-chi I-hsuan] (?-866) - The Record of Linji - Discourses - XVII; "Outside mind there’s no dharma, nor is there anything to be gained within it. What are you seeking? Everywhere you say, ‘There’s something to practice, something to obtain.’ Make no mistake! Even if there were something to be gained by practice, it would be nothing but birth-and-death karma."
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#28511419 - 10/20/23 07:10 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Idries Shah - The Sufis; "There are as many paths to God as there are souls on earth."
Ramesh Menon - The Complete Mahabharata: Volume 1-12 - Volume 5 - SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA - CANTO 27 - Karma yoga: The way of action; "Arjuna says: “Then what makes a man to commit sin, even unwillingly, Vaarshaneya, with force as if coerced?”
The Gracious Lord says: “It is desire, it is anger, arisen from the rajoguna— voracious, direly sinful, know this, here, for an enemy. As fire is obscured by smoke and a mirror by dust, as the womb hides an embryo, so is it hidden by that. Shrouded, wisdom by this, of the wise the constant enemy, with lust’s form, Kaunteya, and an insatiable fire. Senses, mind, intellect, its abode, it is said; by these confounding, it shrouds the wisdom of the embodied. So, your senses first control, Bharatarishabha; kill this malignant thing, for this is the ruiner of knowledge and wisdom. The senses are lofty, they say; higher than the senses is mind; and beyond mind is intellect; but past intellect is He. So, knowing what is beyond the intellect, stilling the self with the soul, vanquish, Mahabaho, the enemy, lust-formed, unassailable.”"
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#28511420 - 10/20/23 07:10 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Job 12:22; "He uncovers mysteries hidden in darkness; he brings light to the deepest gloom."
Zisi; "Confucius said, “Sincerity is the way of heaven; arriving at sincerity is the way of man. The sincere person does the right thing without trying, understands the truth without thinking, and acts always in keeping with the Tao.” Only those who have absolute sincerity can fulfill their own nature. Fulfilling their own nature, they can fulfill the nature of other people. Fulfilling the nature of other people, they can fulfill the nature of all beings. Fulfilling the nature of all beings, they can participate in the transforming and nourishing powers of heaven and earth. Sincerity is the fulfillment of our own nature, and to arrive at it we need only follow our true self. Sincerity is the beginning and end of existence; without it, nothing can endure. Therefore the mature person values sincerity above all things. Sincerity is not only the fulfillment of our own being; it is also the quality through which all beings are fulfilled. When we fulfill our own being, we become truly human; when we fulfill all beings, we arrive at true understanding. These qualities--humanity and understanding--are inherent in our nature, and by means of them we unite the inner and the outer. Thus, when we act with sincerity, everything we do is right."
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Daniel J. Boorstin; "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Sister Madonna Kolbenschlag; "I think our concept of God is a product of our own dualistic thinking, which is that things are either transcendent or immanent. And I don't believe that anymore. Spirit and matter are not split in the manner that we have stereo-typically thought of it. My experience of God is of being transcendent and immanent all at once . . . I no longer believe that God is up there, and I don't believe that God is only within me, and I don't believe that God is merely out there in history. I think we are actually in God at all times."
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#28514041 - 10/22/23 11:29 AM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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Shankara, Vivekachudamani v.119
"The traits of pure Sattva are cheerfulness, the realisation of one's own Self, supreme peace, contentment, bliss, and steady devotion for the Atman, by which the aspirant enjoys bliss everlasting-..."
Bhagavan Nityananda
"Jivatman is Paramatman." (The individual soul is the Self.)
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The Key - Corpus Hermeticum X. (XI.)
For neither can he who perceiveth It, perceive aught else; nor he who gazeth on It, gaze on aught else; nor hear aught else, nor stir his body any way. Staying his body’s every sense and every motion he stayeth still.
And shining then all round his mind, It shines through his whole soul, and draws it out of body, transforming all of him to essence.
For it is possible, my son, that a man’s soul should be made like to God, e’en while it still is in a body, if it doth contemplate the Beauty of the Good.
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It requires moral courage to grieve.
Søren Kierkegaard
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#28546382 - 11/17/23 11:16 AM (2 months, 9 days ago) |
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Guru Gobind Singh; "Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not through showmanship. They who practice deceit, attain not Deliverance in the Hereafter. They do so only to accomplish the affairs of the world and even the kings worship them for their appearance! But through showmanship, God is attained not, howsoever one searches. He who subdues his mind alone recognizes the Transcendent God."
Huang-po Hsi-yun (?-849); "People perform a vast number of complex practices hoping to gain spiritual merit as countless as the grains of sand on the riverbed of the Ganges: but you are essentially already perfect in every way. Don’t try and augment perfection with meaningless practice. If it’s the right occasion to perform them, let practices happen. When the time has passed, let them stop. If you are not absolutely sure that mind is the Buddha, and if you are attached to the ideas of winning merit from spiritual practices, then your thinking is misguided and not in harmony with the Way. To practice complex spiritual practices is to progress step by step: but the eternal Buddha is not a Buddha of progressive stages. Just awaken to the one Mind, and there is absolutely nothing to be attained. This is the real Buddha."
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Alan Watts - Out of Your Mind 4 - The Web of Life (Part 2); "When you peel an onion, and you don’t really understand the nature of an onion, you might look for the pit in the center, like any ordinary fruit has. But the onion doesn’t have a center. It’s all skins. And so, when you get right down, there’s nothing but a bunch of skins. You say, “Well, that was kind of disappointing.” But, of course, you have to understand that the skins were the part that you eat."
Swami Jagadananda - A Thousand Teachings: The Upadesasahasri of Sankara - CHAPTER-XVI - CONSISTING OF EARTH - 5-7; "Just as light assumes the forms of objects revealed by it, but is really different from, though apparently mixed up with them, so, the Self is different from the mental modifications (whose forms It assumes while revealing them). The Self illumines, without effort, the intellect in the forms of sound etc. present before It; like a stationary lamp devoid of any effort which illumined everything within its reach. Pleasure etc. qualify the intellect identifying Itself with the combination of the body and the senses and illumined by the eternal Light of the Self."
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Ikkyu; "I shall not die. I shall not go anywhere. I’ll be here . . . Just don’t ask me anything."
Jeff Brown - Hearticulations: On Love, Friendship, and Healing; "It’s one thing to find your ‘center’ while detaching from the world. It’s a whole other thing to find it at the heart of the world. For years, I left the world to find my ‘self.’ This was an essential step, because I was not yet self-connected enough to find my center in the heart of society. I was too light, too soft, too traumatized. But then I came to realize that if I couldn’t hold to my center in the world, then I didn’t have much of a center. If all it took was a few days in the marketplace, on urban streets, dealing with humanity, before I had to run back to the woods to find myself… then what had I found? A very fragile, hollow center. So the work continued, this time in the world itself. No easy feat, because of my trauma history, but the truest work I have ever done. Because now I can sit in the middle of hell, and feel my core. Because now I can stand amid the fires of distraction, and sustain my focus. It’s one thing to find your center while hiding from the world. It’s quite another to find it in the heart of the everything. Because the wholly grail is YOU, unstoppably solid in the heart of the madness."
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Buddhist Story: The Old Man and the Scorpion; "One morning, after he had finished his meditation, the old man opened his eyes and saw a scorpion floating helplessly in the water. As the scorpion was washed closer to the tree, the old man quickly stretched himself out on one of the long roots that branched out into the river and reached out to rescue the drowning creature. As soon as he touched it, the scorpion stung him. Instinctively the man withdrew his hand. A minute later, after he had regained his balance, he stretched himself out again on the roots to save the scorpion. This time the scorpion stung him so badly with its poisonous tail that his hand became swollen and bloody and his face contorted with pain.
At that moment, a passerby saw the old man stretched out on the roots struggling with the scorpion and shouted: "Hey, stupid old man, what's wrong with you? Only a fool would risk his life for the sake of an ugly, evil creature. Don't you know you could kill yourself trying to save that ungrateful scorpion?"
The old man turned his head. Looking into the stranger's eyes he said calmly, "My friend, just because it is the scorpion's nature to sting, that does not change my nature to save.""
Plotinus - The Essence of Plotinus: Extracts from the Six Enneads and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus; "Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly."
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Daniel Liebert; Jelaluddin Rumi - Rumi: Fragments, Ecstasies - EIGHT; "love Says, “I will deliver you this instant!”
I groped for excuses but love came excusing me
I don’t feel strange anymore with my heart here my soul there
I discovered He is heart and soul
It was He, not I knocking at the door It was He within
I caress my own breast for there He is hidden
no one else knows you; since you are I I know you
forms become a trifle when feeling and intuition richly intensify
in the end a man tires of everything except heart's desiring; soul’s journeying
sultan, saint, pickpocket; love has everyone by the ear dragging us to God by secret ways
I never knew that God, too, desires us"
Wu Hsin - Behind the Mind; "The two great delusions are that life is controllable and that there is an entity, me, who can exercise said control. But if we cannot even control the thoughts that appear to us, how can we possibly believe we can control what occurs to us?"
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#28546390 - 11/17/23 11:19 AM (2 months, 9 days ago) |
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Anthony De Mello - One Minute Wisdom - EFFORTLESSNESS; "To a man who hesitated to embark on the spiritual quest for fear of the effort and renunciation the Master said:
“How much effort and renunciation does it take to open one’s eyes and see?”"
Lama Thubten Yeshe - The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa - PART TWO- Preliminary Practices - 7. Purifying Negativities; "The conventional, relative mind causes negativity to become bottled up and to increase. However, if you can recognize that even the concept of negative energy is an illusion and has the nature of nonduality, the negativity will be lessened. Just like everything else, positive and negative are interdependent; they are made up by our own mind."
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#28546392 - 11/17/23 11:19 AM (2 months, 9 days ago) |
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Milarepa's Dzogchen Song for Nepali Dharmabodhi; "The Man who can watch his mind without distraction Does not need to gabble or chat. The man who can be absorbed in self-awareness Does not need to sit stiffly like a corpse. If he knows the nature of all forms The eight worldly longings disappear by themselves. If he has no desire or hatred in his heart He doesn't need to show off or pretend. The great Awakening of the Bodhi mind, That goes beyond Samsara and Nirvana both, Can never be achieved by searching and by wanting."
Barry Long - The Way In: A Book of self-discovery - THE SPIRIT IN YOU; People do not realise that the nameless longing is a mighty power in them that can be used consciously to bring about this union and self-realisation. At times the longing will make you sigh and feel unfillably empty. But the longing is not the cruel afflicting thing your mind will try to make it out to be. It is the pure energy of the divine magnet, your divine nucleus, drawing your reluctant, outwardly fixated awareness in towards itself. You are either ready to use the power or you are not. People who are not ready won't or cannot feel the nameless longing. It is too fine and uncomfortable for them. Their minds quickly translate it into the desire for some object, person or condition in the world. So they chase or worry after it in that form, turning their back on their own power. It never works. There’s always something missing; always more aggravation. And in the end of course, they die. But when you stick with the power and use it consciously to unite with the truth of yourself, you discover that there is no death; that you — life — are immortal. Isn’t that what everyone would like to know? Well, it’s true. But, again, you have to know it in your own experience; or else it’s just another belief, someone else’s jargon."
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Seppo; "We are like those who, immersed in water, stretch out their hands begging for a drink."
Thomas Cleary; Ch'an Foyen - Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present - Not Knowing; "Sometimes when I question students, they all say they do not know or understand; they just say they eat when hungry and sleep when tired. What redemption is there in such talk? You even say you are not cognizant of whether the month is long or short, and do not care whether it is a leap year; who understands this affair of yours? Now I ask you, how do you explain the logic of not knowing? You hear others say this, so you say it yourselves; but have you ever understood that principle of not knowing? An ancient said, “Not knowing means nothing is not known, nowhere not reached.” This is called unknowing so that you people today may reach that unknown state. This is the realm of the sages — how could it be like the blindness and nonunderstanding that people today call not knowing? If you go on like this always declaring you don’t know and are not concerned, how will you communicate if someone questions you? There might be no one to continue on the road of Zen! It won’t do to be like this. Make your choice carefully!"
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Guru Nanak Dev Ji - Guru Granth Sahib - Mūl Mantar / Morning Prayer; "Ikk Oankar Holiest of Holies, the one God, infinite
Satnam The Eternal Reality / the one name ever existent
KartaPurkh He that does everything in the Universe, creating, sustaining, destroying
Nirbhao The fearless
Nirwair The inimically unique
Akaal moorat The immortal
Ajooni That neither dies, or is born
Sai-bhang The self-existent
Gur The sweet-worded Enlightener
Parsaad The Gracious that blesses"
Marge Piercy; “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
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Muju - Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand) - 71. Learning To Be Silent; "The pupils of the Tendai school used to study meditation before Zen entered Japan. Four of them who were intimate friends promised one another to observe seven days of silence.
On the first day all were silent. Their meditation had begun auspiciously, but when night came and the oil lamps were growing dim one of the pupils could not help exclaiming to a servant: "Fix those lamps."
The second pupil was surprised to hear the first one talk. "We are not supposed to say a word," he remarked.
"You two are stupid. Why did you talk?" asked the third.
"I am the only one who has not talked," concluded the fourth pupil."
Dante (1265-1321); “The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way that light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself; so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other.”
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