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deff
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: CityZen]
#14800667 - 07/20/11 10:20 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Through these actions now performed And all the virtues I have gained, May the pain of every living being Be wholly scattered and destroyed!
For all those ailing in the world, Until their every sickness has been healed, May I myself become for them The doctor, nurse, the medicine itself.
Raining down a flood of food and drink, May I dispel the ills of thirst and famine. And in the aeons marked by scarcity and want, May I myself appear as drink and sustenance.
For sentient beings, poor and destitute, May I become a treasure ever-plentiful, And lie before them closely in their reach, A varied source of all that they might need.
My body thus, and all my goods besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all and do not count the cost, To bring about the benefit of beings.
Nirvana is attained by giving all, Nirvana is the object of my striving: And all must be surrendered in a single instant, Therefore it is best to give it all to others.
This body I have now resigned To serve the pleasure of all living beings. Let them ever kill, despise, and beat it, Using it according to their wish.
And though they treat it like a toy, Or make it the butt of every mockery, My body has been given up to them. Why should I make so much of it?
And so let beings do to me Whatever does not bring them injury. Whatever they think of me, Let this not fail to bring them benefit.
And if in my regard they have A thought of anger or respect, May these states always be the cause Whereby their good and wishes are fulfilled.
All those who slight me to my face Or do to me some other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!
May I be a guard for those who are protectorless, A guide for those who journey on the road. For those who wish to cross the water, May I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.
May I be an isle for those who yearn for land, A lamp for those who long for light; For all those who need a resting place, a bed; For those who need a servant, may I be their slave.
May I be the wishing jewel, the vase of wealth, A word of power and the supreme healing, May I be the tree of miracles, For every being the abundant cow.
Just like the earth and space itself And all the other mighty elements, For boundless multitudes of beings May I always be the ground of life, the source of varied sustenance.
Thus for everything that lives, As far as are the limits of the sky, May I constantly be their source of livelihood Until they pass beyond all sorrow
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And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world.
-shantideva, 'guide to a bodhisattva's way of life'
the whole text is unbelievably beautiful, worth many reads imo
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#14800840 - 07/20/11 11:06 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Leave your home land - this is the practice of a Bodhisattva.
-37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#14814662 - 07/23/11 06:16 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you feel that you are not enlightened, you can always try to be. -Harish Johari
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Chronic7
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: husmmoor]
#14924547 - 08/15/11 06:31 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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There is no greater mystery than the following: Ourselves being the Reality, we seek to gain reality.
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Lion
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#14926641 - 08/15/11 03:21 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Where have I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why you are dying, and how it could all have been different? ... Now I know what the Law of the Kingdom is, of poor, desperate, tattered Malkhut, where Wisdom has gone into exile, groping to recover its former lucidity." - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#14927520 - 08/15/11 06:34 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Those who cleanse their hearts of the embittering poison of selfishness, hate, and greed find God as their own true self. The truth of divine life is not a hope but a reality, all else is illusion. Have faith and you will be redeemed. Have love and you will conquer the limited self of cravings that veil your own true being as God.
-Meher Baba
'course I don't really know what this word 'God' is all about but yeahhh
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goodhuck
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#14941001 - 08/18/11 05:39 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would never join any group that would have me as a member.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14941643 - 08/18/11 10:05 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#14942760 - 08/18/11 02:10 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."
"Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking."
"The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it."
~Oswald Chambers
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deff
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#14943966 - 08/18/11 06:39 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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The Song of the Vajra
Unborn, yet continuing without interruption, neither coming nor going, omnipresent, Supreme Dharma, unchangeable space, without definition, spontaneously self-liberating-- perfectly unobstructed space-- manifest from the very beginning, self-created, without location, with nothing negative to reject, and nothing positive to accept, infinite expanse, prenetrating everywhere, immense, and without limits, without ties, with nothing even to dissolve or to be liberated from, manifest beyond space and time, existing from the beginning, immense ying, inner space, radiant through clarity like the sun and the moon, self-perfected, indestructible like a Vajra, stable as a mountain, pure as a lotus, strong as a lion, incomparable pleasure beyond all limits, illumination, equanimity, peak of the Dharma, light of the universe, perfect from the beginning.
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goodhuck
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#14953502 - 08/20/11 05:48 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of The Law.
Love is the Law. Love Under Will.
Thou has no right but to do Thy Will.
Every Man and Woman is a Star.

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14954175 - 08/20/11 08:36 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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"How can a friend be in debt?" James Bond
-------------------- "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." ~Walt "Surprised, are you? Yes, I am extra, a gift, superfluous to the necessary, a proof of the generosity concealed in everything." ~Doris Lessing "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God." Rumi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: sonoffox]
#14974858 - 08/25/11 04:11 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Devotee: Why cannot the mind be turned inward in spite of repeated attempts?
Ramana Maharshi : It is done by practice and dispassion and it succeeds only gradually. The mind, having been so long a cow accustomed to graze stealthily on others' estates, is not easily confined to her stall. However much her keeper tempts her with luscious grass and fine fodder, she refuses the first time. Then she takes a bit, but her innate tendency to stray away asserts itself and she slips away. On being repeatedly tempted by the owner, she accustoms herself to the stall until finally, even if let loose, she does not stray away. Similarly with the mind. If once it finds its inner happiness it will not wander outward.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#14980333 - 08/26/11 02:50 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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If once it finds its inner happiness it will not wander outward.
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Thisssssssss
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goodhuck
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#14980356 - 08/26/11 03:06 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I y'am what I y'am, and that's all that I y'am. ~Popeye
I am the sum of my parts. ~Anon
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14980362 - 08/26/11 03:08 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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i am none of my parts - me
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goodhuck
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#14980505 - 08/26/11 04:34 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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The Chronic said: i am none of my parts - me
while i am not ever truly there to 'challenge' you, what parts are you "of" then? and if truly 'none' of your parts, have you 1) been shown only what NOT to be or 2) only shown what to be thru the nadir of negative action, eg, "oh this is what its like to be the underdog?" (or double neg. of the worst of the worst? to then make it thru?)
wow..
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14982266 - 08/26/11 02:36 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not necessarily spiritual, but this is one of the Secrets Of Power:
"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are dumber'n that!" -Robert Anton Wilson, George Carlin, etc..
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Clean]
#14982506 - 08/26/11 03:16 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." -Longchenpa
I also saw this version searching for it just now:
"Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good and bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." —Long Chen Pa
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hiro]
#15011011 - 09/01/11 09:04 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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