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Sri Sankaracharya - Vivekachudamani - Verse 13; "By reflection, reasoning and instructions of teachers, the truth is known, Not by ablutions, not by making donations, nor by performing hundreds of breath control exercises."
Jeff Brown - Love it Forward; "You can connect from all kinds of places- energetic harmony, sexual alchemy, intellectual alignment- but they won’t sustain love over a lifetime. You need a thread that goes deeper, that moves below and beyond the shifting sands of compatibility. That thread is fascination- a genuine fascination with someone’s inner world, with the way they organize reality, with the way they hearticulate their feelings, with the unfathomable and bottomless depths of their being. To hear their soul cry out to you again and again, and to never lose interest in what it is trying to convey. If there is that, then there will still be love when the body sickens, when the sexuality fades, when the perfection projection is long shattered. If there is that, you will swim in love’s waters until the very last breath."
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#28702059 - 03/17/24 08:43 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj; "The absolute is without quality and beyond consciousness."
Christopher Wilkinson - Star Light: Eight Early Tantras of the Space Section; "From the wisdom that is the king of the sky There rises the sun Of a shining great bliss. It cuts through the exaggerations and depreciations Of our conceptualizations.
The wheel of wisdom Is a magnificent light. It dawns clearly on us all, Without partiality.
The king of awareness brings us all together. Our happiness and sorrow Are beyond the extremes of our ideas. We are beyond any conceptions that are cravings. This is inconceivable. It is the dominion of the Dharma.
Buddhas and sentient beings are not a duality. There is obviously no practitioner and no practice. We put all our exaggerations and depreciations, With none excepted, To their peace.
Every Dharma is a space For the contemplation of our wisdom. The apparent world is the mudra of our guru. We use an essence that we do not discuss To teach the Dharma to ourselves.
Everything is stamped With the seal of the unborn. Compounded things Are a path that has no signs."
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#28702063 - 03/17/24 08:43 AM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Swami Abhyayananda; Jnanadev - Jnaneshvar: The Life and Works of the Celebrated Thirteenth Century Indian Mystic-Poet - Knowledge and Ignorance (from Amritanubhav); "By looking in a mirror, one perceives his own identity; But that identity was already there.
In the same way, relative knowledge gives the understanding Of the identity of the world and the Self -- But it is like using a knife To cut another knife.
Fire, in the process of annihilating camphor, Annihilates itself as well; This is exactly what happens to knowledge In the process of destroying ignorance.
The cresting of a wave is but its fall; The flash of a bolt of lightning Is but its fading.
Likewise, knowledge, Drinking up the water of ignorance, Grows so large That it completely annihilates itself.
This absolute Knowledge is like The intrinsic fullness of the moon, Which is unaffected By its apparent waxing and waning.
Likewise, that which is Consciousness Itself Does not possess the quality of being conscious, And is, therefore, not conscious of Itself.
If absolute Knowledge required the aid Of some other kind of knowledge to know Itself, It would be nothing but ignorance.
Of course, light is not darkness; But, to itself, is it even light?
If there is a pot, a pot is perceived, And if the pot is broken, its brokenness is perceived; If there is no pot at all, Is not its absence perceived as well?
It can be seen, therefore, That he who perceives that there is nothing Does not himself become nothing. The Self has this same unique kind of existence, Beyond both existence and non-existence.
The ultimate Reality Is neither an object to Itself Nor is It an object to anyone else. Should it then be regarded as non-existent?
In a tank the water may be so clear That it appears non-existent; Though one who looks into the tank may not see it, Still it is there.
Similarly, The ultimate Reality exists in Itself, And is beyond the conceptions Of existence or non-existence.
When a jar is placed on the ground, We have the ground with a jar; When the jar is taken away, We have the ground without a jar;
But when neither of these conditions exists, The ground exists in its unqualified state. It is in this same way That the ultimate Reality exists."
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.; "The one remains, the many change and pass, Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity Until death shatters it to fragments."
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Katsuki Sekida - Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy - CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Pure Existence; "One-eon nen is the hushed silence of the snow-clad Himalayas. Or it can be likened to the eternal silence of the fathomless depths of the sea. There is a koan that runs: “Pick up the silent rock from the depths of the sea without getting your sleeves wet, and bring it to me.” The silent rock is yourself. You are asked to pick yourself up from the depths of the sea. But first you will have to find yourself at the bottom of the sea, where eternal silence reigns, with no time, space, or causation and no difference between yourself and others."
Katsuki Sekida - Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records - HEKIGANROKU - Case 80 Jōshū’s “A Newborn Baby”; "MAIN SUBJECT A monk asked Jōshū, “Does a newborn baby possess the six senses or not?” Jōshū said, “It is like throwing a ball into the rapids.” The monk later asked Tōsu, “What is the meaning of ‘throwing a ball into the rapids’?” Tōsu said, “Nen after nen, without ceasing.”
SETCHŌ’S VERSE The question: the six senses. Purposeless. Well acquainted with it, the masters. A ball is thrown into the rapids; Do you know where it is carried?"
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#28706875 - 03/21/24 08:58 AM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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“Existence, consciousness and bliss are the three longings of the human heart.
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Bliss [is attained by being] able to direct all his attention inward. He becomes capable of satisfying all the wants of his heart and can thereby gain contentment, Ananda, the Real Bliss.
Consciousness of all the modifications of Nature up to its first and primal manifestation, the Word (Aum) and even of his own Real Self, gradually appears.
Existence [involves knowing the difference between what's real;' what really exists and what does not. When man] withdraws all the developments of Ignorance, in this way, freed from the control of this creation of Darkness, he comprehends his own Self as Indestructible and Ever-Existince Real Substance. So Sat, the Existence of Self, comes to light.” ― Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science
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Gautama Buddha; "Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth."
Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.); "Don't depend on or believe any particular creed exclusively, so that you reject all other creeds. If you do so you will lose the benefit of a wider knowledge and will not be able to see the real truth. Recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not limited by any one creed."
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The All-Creating King Tantra (Kunjed Gyalpo / Kulayarāja Tantra); "Awakened mind, the universal cause, accounts for the five great elements that are the essence of mind— the five bodhisattva teachers. Theirs is the sambhogakaya embodiment; the teaching is elucidated by virtue of its own essence; these teachers reveal the nature of self-knowing awareness. As enlightened intent itself, these sambhogakaya teachers do not conceive of themselves in any way, nor do they create concepts about something “other”— phenomena as sense objects. The five bodhisattva teachers all reveal the nature of phenomena in this way. The timeless awareness of awakened mind occurs naturally as the embodiment of these teachers, so words and letters are not revealed. Revealing the nature of self-knowing awareness involves no concept of self, no concept of other, but rather reveals the enlightened intent of nonconceptual evenness. By realizing this, all ordinary beings of the three realms become equal to all buddhas. The nature of phenomena that they seek is attained unsought."
Aldous Huxley - Perennial Philosophy - p. 12; "Meister Eckhart: ‘To gauge the soul we must gauge it with God, for the Ground of God and the Ground of the soul are one and the same.’"
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#28714039 - 03/26/24 02:54 AM (2 months, 30 days ago) |
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Ben Okri; "One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us."
Ellen M. Chen; Lao Tzu - The Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary - 43; "1. The softest (chih jou) in the world, Gallops (ch 'ih ch 'eng) in the hardest (chih chien) in the world. That which is not penetrates that which has no crevice (wu yu ju wu chien).
2. I thereby know the benefit of no-action (wu-wei). The teaching without words, The benefit of no-action, Hardly anything in the world can compare with them."
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#28714043 - 03/26/24 02:54 AM (2 months, 30 days ago) |
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H.P. Blavatsky - Letter to Thomas H. Evans, Occult World, dec. 1885; "... it has been decreed, from time immemorial, that each one must be his own sufficient pilot and body-guard so far as visible things are concerned.
The 'Kingdom of Heaven,' which I need not tell you is but the dominion of man's immortal spirit over the inner force of the Universe, must be taken by violence.
I am sorry to be compelled to tell you, that the prize of Wisdom and Power must be won through danger, trial, temptation, the allurements of sense and all the besetments of this world of matter which they counterpoise, hence antagonists of spirit. Broad, smooth and flower-sprinkled is the way to the world's rewards; narrow, hard, sorrow beset the path to the Temple of Truth."
Garab Dorjé - Cutting Through the Three Times (dus gsum chig chod); "The ground of being, without beginning or end, is spontaneously present. The way things arise, without beginning or end, cannot be suppressed. The way things are, without beginning or end, has no specific frame of reference. The way things are freed, without beginning or end, is uninterrupted. Without interruption, the nature of phenomena is the expanse of evenness. Everything abides naturally within the expanse of evenness. In the single nature of phenomena, there is no question of whether or not there is evenness. Because the realm of evenness is uninterrupted, ongoing ultimate truth, without extremes, is the fortress of the sky above. Since the four limitations are negated in the single state of spontaneous presence, infinite extension without extremes is the fortress of the earth below. Owing to the connection between the directions—above, below, and every point in between— victorious ones speak of the “fortress of blending these in the open space between.” Unbiased and all-accommodating view is termed “fortress,” the bastion of awareness—awakened mind— is termed "stronghold,” the expanse of the unborn basic space of phenomena is termed "domain,” naturally occurring timeless awareness, surpassing ordinary experience, is termed “entitlement,” and the razor’s edge of what is indeterminate and naturally arising is termed "weapon.” The whirling blade of spontaneous presence, equal in all circumstances, cuts completely through the limitations of making things determinate, so the sphere without edges or corners is all-embracing. There is freedom within the expanse that cannot be sought and is indivisible."
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Taigen Dan Leighton, Yi Wu; Honghzhi Zhengue - Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi - RELIGIOUS VERSES - Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss; "By seeking appearance and sound one cannot truly find the Way. The deep source of realization comes with constancy, bliss, self, and purity. Its purity is constant, its bliss is myself. The two are mutually dependent, like firewood and fire. The self's bliss is not exhausted, constant purity has no end. Deep existence is beyond forms, Wisdom illuminates the inside of the circle. Inside the circle the self vanishes, neither existent nor nonexistent. Intimately conveying spirirual energy, it subtly turns the mysterious pivot. When the mysterious pivot finds opportunity to turn, the original light auspiciously appears. When the mind's conditioning has not yet sprouted, how can words and images be distinguished? Who is it that can distinguish them? Clearly understand and know by yourself. Whole and inclusive with inherent insight, it's not concerned with discriminating thought. When discriminating thought is not involved, it's like white reed flowers shining in the snow. One beam of light's gleam permeates the vastness. The gleam permeates all directions, from the outset not covered or concealed. Catching the opportunity to emerge, amid transformations it flourishes. Following appropriately amid transformations, the pure bliss is unchanged. Sky encompasses it, ocean seals it, every moment without deficiency. In the achievement without deficiency inside and outside are interfused. All dharmas transcend their limits, all gates are wide open. Through the open gates are the byways of playful wandering. Dropping off senses and sense objects is like the flowers of our gazing and listening falling away. Gazing and listening are only distant conditions of thousands of hands and eyes. The others die from being too busy, but I maintain continuity. In the wonder of continuity are no traces of subtle identifications. Within purity is bliss, within silence illumination. The house of silent illumination is the hall of pure bliss. Dwelling in peace and forgetting hardship, let go of adornments and become genuine. The motto for becoming genuine: nothing is gained by speaking. The goodness of Vimalakirti enters the gate of nonduality."
Stephen Mitchell - The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose; "Even a deathbed can be the place of rebirth, as the Tibetans well know. When we open our eyes, there is no one who sees, nothing to‘be seen. The light is already shining."
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Kabir; "Why are we here? To become ourselves in You."
Alan Watts - Unpreachable Religion; "If we got with ourselves and really admitted that we are organisms, we might also get with each other. Here, again, I pointed out how little we actually get with each other; how, in this television world, everybody stays at home, and if you walk out on the streets in the evening the police stop you and wonder whether you’re crazy. And especially if you’re not going anywhere, because going for a walk—that’s deeply suspicious. I mean, a person has to have a purpose, you see? He must be going somewhere. And so we don’t get with each other except for public expressions of getting rid of our hostility, like football or prize-fighting. And even in the spectacles one sees on this television it’s perfectly proper to exhibit people slugging and slaying each other. But, oh dear, no! Not people loving each other—except in a rather restrained way. One can only draw the conclusion that the assumption underlying this is that expressions of physical love are far more dangerous than expressions of physical hatred. And it seems to me that a culture that has that sort of assumption is basically crazy and devoted—unintentionally, indeed, but nevertheless in fact—devoted not to survival but to the actual destruction of life."
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Kunzang Tenzin; Nagarjuna - Nagarjuna's Mahamudra Vision "The Twenty Mahayana Verses
In Sanskrit: Mahayanavimsaka In Tibetan: Theg pa chen po nyi shu pa
Homage to Manjusrikumarabhuta!
1. I bow down to the all-powerful Buddha Whose mind is free of attachment, Who in his compassion and wisdom Has taught the inexpressible.
2. In truth there is no birth - Then surely no cessation or liberation; The Buddha is like the sky And all beings have that nature.
3. Neither Samsara nor Nirvana exist, But all is a complex continuum With an intrinsic face of void, The object of ultimate awareness.
4. The nature of all things Appears like a reflection, Pure and naturally quiescent, With a non-dual identity of suchness.
5. The common mind imagines a self Where there is nothing at all, And it conceives of emotional states - Happiness, suffering, and equanimity.
6. The six states of being in Samsara, The happiness of heaven, The suffering of hell, Are all false creations, figments of mind.
7. Likewise the ideas of bad action causing suffering, Old age, disease and death, And the idea that virtue leads to happiness, Are mere ideas, unreal notions.
8. Like an artist frightened By the devil he paints, The sufferer in Samsara Is terrified by his own imagination.
9. Like a man caught in quicksands Thrashing and struggling about, So beings drown In the mess of their own thoughts.
10. Mistaking fantasy for reality Causes an experience of suffering; Mind is poisoned by interpretation Of consciousness of form.
11. Dissolving figment and fantasy With a mind of compassionate insight, Remain in perfect awareness In order to help all beings.
12. So acquiring conventional virtue Freed from the web of interpretive thought, Insurpassable understanding is gained As Buddha, friend to the world.
13. Knowing the relativity of all, The ultimate truth is always seen; Dismissing the idea of beginning, middle and end The flow is seen as Emptiness.
14. So all samsara and nirvana is seen as it is - Empty and insubstantial, Naked and changeless, Eternally quiescent and illumined.
15. As the figments of a dream Dissolve upon waking, So the confusion of Samsara Fades away in enlightenment.
16. Idealising things of no substance As eternal, substantial and satisfying, Shrouding them in a fog of desire The round of existence arises.
17. The nature of beings is unborn Yet commonly beings are conceived to exist; Both beings and their ideas Are false beliefs.
18. It is nothing but an artifice of mind This birth into an illusory becoming, Into a world of good and evil action With good or bad rebirth to follow.
19. When the wheel of mind ceases to turn All things come to an end. So there is nothing inherently substantial And all things are utterly pure.
20. This great ocean of samsara, Full of delusive thought, Can be crossed in the boat Universal Approach. Who can reach the other side without it?"
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī; "Love brings the lover to union with the beloved.
I’ve spent my life, my heart And my eyes this way. I used to think that love And beloved are different. I know now they are the same. I was seeing two in one."
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Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
And if worry can’t accomplish a little thing like that, what’s the use of worrying over bigger things?
Luke 12:25-26
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Life's too long
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All suffering comes from wanting your own happiness. Complete awakening arises from the intention to help others. So, exchange completely your happiness For the suffering of others — this is the practice of a bodhisattva.
- 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
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"Ram asks Hanuman- “Who are you, Hanuman?” Hanuman answers- “When I don’t know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you."
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Allah: "Bros before hoes."
-------------------- I'M NASTY AF. YEAH, I'M A NASTY MOTHERFUCKER AND I'M FK'N PROUD OF IT. SO FUCK YOU, FUCK UR MOMMA, AND FUCK EVERYBODY ELSE WHO GOTS A PROBLEM WITH DA NIFFLERZ. SUCK MY LIL DICK YOU FAGZ
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my favorite quote is buddha he said those who are energetic and two other things i don't remember are every growing in glory
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-------------------- Omnicyclion.org higher knowledge starts here
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"The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding." - The Kyballion
There is far more information being conveyed in older texts and myths than it may appear on the surface.
-------------------- 🅃 🄴 🄰 🄼 🄲 🄻 🄸 🄽 🄶 🅆 🅁 🄰 🄿 "The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding." - The Kyballion, Three Initiates Advanced Research of the Chronological History of Artifical Intelligence X
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