Pope talks about Gay priests

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"

POPE FRANCIS

On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, 'Who Am I to Judge?' By RACHEL DONADIO "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" Francis was quoted as saying on Monday.    Videos: Behind the Pope's Shift | Pope's Remarks Link: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2013/07/30/todaysheadlines/index.html

Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World (BBC Documentary)

Published on Mar 9, 2013

In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world and offers a unique insight into one of the most ancient belief systems still practised today.

Buddhism began 2,500 years ago when one man had an amazing internal revelation underneath a peepul tree in India. Today it is practised by over 350 million people worldwide, with numbers continuing to grow year on year.

In an attempt to gain a better understanding of the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigate how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, Hughes visits some of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists across the globe.

Her journey begins at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, where Buddhism was born; here Hughes examines the foundations of the belief system - the three jewels.

At Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa, she looks deeper into the concept of dharma - the teaching of Buddha, and at the Temple of the Tooth in Sri Lanka, Bettany explores karma, the idea that our intentional acts will be mirrored in the future.

At Wat Pho Temple in Thailand, Hughes explores samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death that Buddhists seek to end by achieving enlightenment, before travelling to Angkor Wat in Cambodia to learn more about the practice of meditation.

In Hong Kong, Hughes visits the Giant Buddha and looks more closely at Zen, before arriving at the final wonder, the Hsi Lai temple in Los Angeles, to discover more about the ultimate goal for all Buddhists - nirvana.

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Zen Hermits are Fine Forest Friends...

Published on Mar 27, 2012

Extracts from the award winning film: "Amongst White Clouds" by Edward A. Burger about Zen Buddhist hermit monks living in remote hermitages in China's Zhongnan Mountains. 

Some fine pearls: 

"Put all your mind into it, but don't think...", 

"This reckless deluded mind", 

"Don't fear it, don't hurt it", 

"Let go of it all: Examine yourself & meditate quietly!", 

"Everyone has this precious jewel opportunity to awaken", 

"Work is spiritual cultivation", 

"When old your body won't list to you anymore, then it's too late to practice", 

"Leaving the world is a way of returning to it..." 

"Don't follow your old habits: Observe you mind", 

"We planted seeds in the past", 

"Why did you come here...?", 

"Holding on to this self is birth & death", 

"The Buddha is like a wise Doctor and all beings are like sick patients..."
"There is nothing more to say..."

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The Life Of Zen Master Dogen (Full Movie)

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Quantum Mechanics

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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap - NOVA

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A theologian who had a major influence on Martin Luther King’s religious ideas

Tillich, Paul (1886-1965)



A theologian who had a major influence on Martin Luther King’s religious ideas, Paul Tillich is considered one of the foremost thinkers of Protestantism. In response to Tillich’s death in October 1965, King commented: ‘‘He helped us to speak of God’s action in history in terms which adequately expressed both the faith and the intellect of modern man’’ (King, October 1965).

Paul Tillich was born on 20 August 1886, in the province of Brandenburg, Germany, to Johannes Tillich, a Lutheran pastor, and his wife Wilhelmina Mathilde. He studied at a number of German universities before obtaining his PhD at Breslau in 1911. In 1912 he was ordained as a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brandenburg. After serving as a chaplain in the German Army during World War I, he taught Theology at the Universities of Berlin, Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig, and Frankfort. Removed from his Frankfort post due to his public support of leftist intellectuals and Jews during the early Nazi regime, Tillich accepted Reinhold Niebuhr’s invitation to teach at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Tillich served on the faculty as a Professor of philosophical Theology from 1933 until his retirement in 1955, and went on to join the faculty at Harvard University. In 1962 he accepted a post as the Nuveen Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago, where he remained until his death.

King first encountered Tillich’s writings as a student at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University, but he did not substantively study Tillich’s work until choosing his dissertation topic, ‘‘A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman,’’ in early 1953. In his dissertation, King expressed disagreement with both men’s disavowal of personalism, and criticized Tillich’s abstract notion of God as ‘‘little more than a sub-personal reservoir of power’’ and ‘‘a pure absolute devoid of consciousness and life’’ (Papers 2:534). King did, however, praise both men’s ‘‘cry against the humanism of our generation … that has had all too much faith in man and all too little faith in God’’ (Papers 2:519).

King later credited Tillich’s work as a major influence on his religious thinking, having convinced him that ‘‘existentialism, in spite of the fact that it has become all too fashionable, had grasped certain basic truths about man and his condition that could not be permanently overlooked’’ (Papers 5:421). He frequently used Tillich’s cautioning view that ‘‘sin is separation’’ to illustrate the inherently evil nature of segregation in speeches in his later years (King, ‘‘The Negro Is Your Brother’’). Commenting on Tillich’s view of God in this context of modern alienation, King observed: ‘‘His Christian existentialism gave us a system of meaning and purpose for our lives in an age when war and doubt seriously threatened all that we had come to hold dear’’ (King, October 1965).

References
King, ‘‘A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman,’’ 15 April 1955, in Papers 2:339–544.

King, ‘‘The Negro Is Your Brother,’’ Atlantic Monthly 212 (August 1963): 78–81; 86–88.

King, ‘‘Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,’’ 13 April 1960, in Papers 5:419–425.

King, Statement on death of Tillich, October 1965, MLKJP-GAMK.

Macleod, Paul Tillich, 1973.

Pauck and Pauck, Paul Tillich, 1976.

Tillich, My Search for Absolutes, 1967.



 

Link:  http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_tillich_paul_1886_1965/

Quotes: Paul Tillich

“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
― Paul Tillich


“Language ... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now



“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
― Paul Tillich


“The first duty of love is to listen.”
― Paul Tillich


“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
― Paul Tillich



“Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human”
― Paul Tillich


“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”
― Paul Tillich



“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.”
― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now



Boredom is rage spread thin”
― Paul Tillich


“man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity”
― Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology 2: Existence and the Christ
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“Astonishment is the root of philosophy.”
― Paul Tillich
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“There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.”
― Paul Tillich


“Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith


“...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith



“I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.”
― Paul Tillich, The Protestant Era


“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich



“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”
― Paul Tillich


“...sin is separation.”
― Paul Tillich, The Essential Tillich
 
“In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware”
― Paul Tillich




“Wine is like the incarnation-it is both divine and human.”
― Paul Tillich


“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be


“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." Paul Tillich”
― Paul Tillich


“Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.”
― Paul Tillich



“I hope for the day when everyone can speak of God without embarrassment.”
― Paul Tillich


“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”
― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now


“In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith


“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith


[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to be



“Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith


“The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be


“Paul Tillich - Loneliness & Solitude: "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain to pray: and when the evening was come, he was alone" - Matthew 14.23.

'He was there alone.' So are we. Man [humankind] is alone because he/[she] is man [human]. In some way every creature is alone...Loneliness can be conqured only by those who can bear solitude (1973:15 & 20).

To overcome 'our' sense of aloness is a life long pursuite - let us not despair in its pursuite!”
― Paul Tillich, Boundaries of Our Being


“Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.”
― Paul Tillich


“...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.”
― Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith


“The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.”
― Paul Tillich


Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich




Link: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/41343.Paul_Tillich?page=2

Quotes: Courage to Be by Paul Tillich

Courage to Be

• experience of the power of being which is present even in the face of the most radical manifestation of non being.

• vitality in man is proportional to intentionality.
• vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

• absolute faith is the dependence of the experience of nonbeing on the experience on being and the dependence of the experience of meaninglessness on the experience of meaning. even in the state of despair one has enough being to make despair possible.

• absolute faith, the acceptance of being accepted. Of course, in the state of despair there is nobody and nothing that accepts. But there is the power of acceptance itself which is experienced. Meaninglessness, as long as it is experienced, includes an experience of the "power of acceptance". To accept this power of acceptance consciously is the religious answer of absolute faith, of a faith which has been deprived by doubt of any concrete content, which nevertheless is faith and the source of the most paradoxical manifestation of the courage to be.

• The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt.

*Bust of Paul Johannes Tillich by James Rosati in New Harmony, Indiana, U.S.A.

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Tao And The Wu-Wei Principle

Tao And The Wu-Wei Principle

This unceasing flow of change manifests itself as a natural order governed by unalterable, yet perceivable laws. Paradoxically, it is the constancy of these governing principles (like the rising and setting of the sun and moon and the changing of the seasons) that allows people to recognize and utilize them in their own process of transformation. Gaining an awareness of life's essential unity and learning to cooperate with its natural flow and order enables people to attain a state of being that is both fully free and independent and at the same time fully connected to the life flow of the Universe - being at one with the Tao. From the Taoist viewpoint this represents the ultimate stage of human existence.

The writings of the legendary Taoist sages, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, furnish us with specific principles as a guide to attaining this state of oneness. Through understanding these principles and applying them to daily living we may consciously become a part of life's flow.

A key principle in realizing our oneness with the Tao is that of wu-wei, or "non-doing." Wu-wei refers to behavior that arises from a sense of oneself as connected to others and to one's environment. It is not motivated by a sense of separateness. It is action that is spontaneous and effortless. At the same time it is not to be considered inertia, laziness, or mere passivity. Rather, it is the experience of going with the grain or swimming with the current. Our contemporary expression, "going with the flow," is a direct expression of this fundamental Taoist principle, which in its most basic form refers to behavior occurring in response to the flow of the Tao.

The principle of wu-wei contains certain implications. Foremost among these is the need to consciously experience ourselves as part of the unity of life that is the Tao. Lao Tzu writes that we must be quiet and watchful, learning to listen to both our own inner voices and to the voices of our environment in a non-interfering, receptive manner. In this way we also learn to rely on more than just our intellect and logical mind to gather and assess information. We develop and trust our intuition as our direct connection to the Tao. We heed the intelligence of our whole body, not only our brain. And we learn through our own experience. All of this allows us to respond readily to the needs of the environment, which of course includes ourselves. And just as the Tao functions in a manner to promote harmony and balance, our own actions, performed in the spirit of wu-wei, produce the same result.

Wu-wei also implies action that is spontaneous, natural, and effortless. As with the Tao, this behavior simply flows through us because it is the right action, appropriate to its time and place, and serving the purpose of greater harmony and balance. Chuang Tzu refers to this type of being in the world as flowing, or more poetically (and provocatively), as "purposeless wandering!" How opposite this concept is to some of our most cherished cultural values. To have no purpose is unthinkable and even frightening, certainly anti-social and perhaps pathological in the context of modern day living. And yet it would be difficult to maintain that our current values have promoted harmony and balance, either environmentally or on an individual level.

To allow oneself to "wander without purpose" can be frightening because it challenges some of our most basic assumptions about life, about who we are as humans, and about our role in the world. From a Taoist point of view it is our cherished beliefs - that we exist as separate beings, that we can exercise willful control over all situations, and that our role is to conquer our environment - that lead to a state of disharmony and imbalance. Yet, "the Tao nourishes everything," Lao Tzu writes. If we can learn to follow the Tao, practicing non-action," then nothing remains undone. This means trusting our own bodies, our thoughts and emotions, and also believing that the environment will provide support and guidance. Thus the need to develop watchfulness and quietness of mind.

In cultivating wu-wei, timing becomes an important aspect of our behavior. We learn to perceive processes in their earliest stages and thus are able to take timely action. "Deal with the small before it becomes large," is a well-known dictum from Lao Tzu.

And finally, in the words of Chuang Tzu, we learn "detachment, forgetfulness of results, and abandonment of all hope of profit." By allowing the Tao to work through us, we render our actions truly spontaneous, natural, and effortless. We thus flow with all experiences and feelings as they come and go. We know intuitively that actions which are not ego-motivated, but in response to the needs of the environment, lead toward harmonious balance and give ultimate meaning and "purpose" to our lives. Such actions are attuned to the deepest flow of life itself.

To allow wu-wei to manifest in our lives may seem like a daunting task. And yet, if we pause to reflect on our past experiences, we will recall possibly many instances when our actions were spontaneous and natural, when they arose out of the needs of the moment without thought of profit or tangible result. "The work is done and then forgotten. And so it lasts forever," writes Lao Tzu.

By listening carefully within, as well as to our surroundings, by remembering that we are part of an interconnected whole, by remaining still until action is called forth, we can perform valuable, necessary, and long-lasting service in the world while cultivating our ability to be at one with the Tao. Such is the power of wu-wei, allowing ourselves to be guided by the Tao.

Fonte: http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/june98/tao.html

 

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Maintain Mindful Awareness off the Meditation Cushion

Maintain Mindful Awareness off the Meditation Cushion


Khandro Rinpoche on How to Maintain Mindful Awareness off the Meditation Cushion

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Nisargadatta Maharaj - Pure Knowledge

Nisargadatta Maharaj


Consciousness is the sense of knowingness 'I am' without words, and it appeared unknowingly and unsolicited. Only in the realm of knowingness 'I am' – the consciousness – can a world be, and so also an experience. Hold on to this knowingness 'I am' and the fount of knowledge will well up within you, revealing the mystery of the Universe; of your body and psyche; of the play of the five elements, the three 'gunas' and 'prakriti-purusha'; and of everything else. In the process of this revelation, your individualistic personality confined to the body shall expand into the manifested universe, and it will be realized that you permeate and embrace the entire cosmos as your 'body' only. This is known as the 'Pure Superknowledge'.

As long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace - immersed in the deep silence of reality.

Link: http://wearebuddhamind.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pure-superknowledge.html

On Meditation

Nisargadata Maharaj
Questioner: All teachers advise to meditate. What is the purpose of meditation?

Maharaj: We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness. Incidentally practice of meditation affects deeply our character. We are slaves to what we do not know; of what we know we are masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its causes and its workings, we overcome it by the very knowing; the unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious. The dissolution of the unconscious releases energy; the mind feels adequate and become quiet.

Q: What is the use of a quiet mind?

M: When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.

Q: As I can make out, I live on many levels and life on each level requires energy. The self by its very nature delights in everything and its energies flow outwards. Is it not the purpose of meditation to dam up the energies on the higher levels, or to push them back and up, so as to enable the higher levels to prosper also? M: It is not so much the matter of levels as of gunas (qualities). Meditation is a sattvic activity and aims at complete elimination of tamas (inertia) and rajas (motivity). Pure sattva (harmony) is perfect freedom from sloth and restlessness.

Q: How to strengthen and purify the sattva?

M: The sattva is pure and strong always. It is like the sun. It may seem obscured by clouds and dust, but only from the point of view of the perceiver. Deal with the causes of obscuration, not with the sun.

Q: What is the use of sattva? M: What is the use of truth, goodness, harmony, beauty? They are their own goal. They manifest spontaneously and effortlessly, when things are left to themselves, are not interfered with, not shunned, or wanted, or conceptualised, but just experienced in full awareness, such awareness itself is sattva. It does not make use of things and people -- it fulfils them.

Q: Since I cannot improve sattva, am I to deal with tamas and rajas only? How can I deal with them?

M: By watching their influence in you and on you. Be aware of them in operation, watch their expressions in your thoughts, words and deeds, and gradually their grip on you will lessen and the clear light of sattva will emerge. It is neither difficult, nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of success.



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Ten spiritual observations

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Ten spiritual observations


Lama Surya Das


Truth telling is a rigorous spiritual practice.

Buddha's not pretending.

We can't just believe whatever we think. We think, therefore, we err.

That which we call "I" is just impermanent, ownerless karma rolling along. Don't take it personally.

Everyone is a little crazy. Remembering this helps us lighten up.

We need a spiritual life, not just special experiences.

Grasping fleeting things to tightly gives us rope burn.

Awareness practice helps us become more transparent to ourselves.

Resistance is another form of clinging.

Practice being there while getting there.


From Words of Wisdom, © 2008 by Lama Surya Das. Reprinted with the permission of Koa Books, koabooks.com - From: Tricycle Magazine




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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.” 
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"Meditation is a SATTVIC activity and aims at complete elimination of TAMAS (inertia) and RAJAS (motivity). Pure SATTVA (harmony) is perfect freddom from sloth and restlessness,
The SATTVA is pure and strong always. It is its own goal. It manifests spontaneously and effortlessly, when things are left to themselves, are not interfered with, not shunned, or wanted, or conceptualized, but just experienced in full awareness. Such awareness itself is SATTVA. it does not make use of things and people - it fulfills them."

"Consciousness is power. be aware of what need to be done and it will be done. Only keep alert - and quiet. Once you reach your destination and know your real nature, your existence becomes a blessing to all. You may not know, nor will the world know, yet the help irradiates. There are people in the world who do more good them everybody. They radiate light and peace with no intention or knowledge. taking nothing as their own, they are neither proud, nor do they crave for reputation. They are just unable to desire anything for themselves, not even the joy of helping others knowing that God is good they are at peace."

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Quotes from 'I am That' by Nisargadatta Maharaj

-- Go deep into the sense of ‘I am’ and you will find. How do you find a thing you have mislaid or forgotten? You keep it in your mind until you recall it. The sense of being, of ‘I am’ is the first to emerge. Ask yourself whence it comes or just watch it quietly. When the mind stays in the ‘I am’, without moving, you enter a state, which cannot be verbalized, but which can be experienced. All you need to do is to try and try again. After all the sense of ‘I am’ is always with you, only you have attached all kinds of things to it- body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, possessions and so on. All these self-identifications are misleading, because of these you take yourself to be what you are not --

-- Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought ‘I am’. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part --

-- To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite the not-self. Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge liberation. And what is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and death. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal creature, you created so much trouble for yourself that you have to wake up, like from a bad dream --

-- All this is temporary, while I am dealing with the eternal. Gods and their universes come and go, avatars follow each other in endless succession, and in the end we are back at the source. I talk only of the timeless source of all the gods with all their universes, past, present and future --

-- God is only an idea in your mind. The fact is you. The only thing you know for sure is: 'here and now I am'. Remove, the 'here and now' the 'I am' remains, unassailable. The word exists in memory, memory comes into consciousness; consciousness exists in awareness and awareness is the reflection of the light on the waters of existence  --

-- Once you accept time and space as real, you will consider yourself minute and short-lived. But are they real? Do they depend on you, or you on them? As body, you are in space. As mind, you are in time. But are you mere body with a mind in it? Have you ever investigated? --

-- Experience, however sublime, is not the real thing. By its very nature it comes and goes. Self-realisation is not an acquisition. It is more of the nature of understanding. Once arrived at, it cannot be lost. On the other hand, consciousness is changeful, flowing, undergoing transformation from moment to moment. Do not hold on to consciousness and its contents. Consciousness held, ceases. To try to perpetuate a flash of insight, or a burst of happiness is destructive of what it wants to preserve. What comes must go. The permanent is beyond all comings and goings. Go to the root of all experience, to the sense of being. Beyond being and not-being lies the immensity of the real. Try and try again --

-- There can be no experience of the Absolute as it is beyond all experience. On the other hand, the self is the experiencing factor in every experience and thus, in a way, validates the multiplicity of experiences. The world may be full of things of great value, but if there is nobody to buy them, they have no price. The Absolute contains everything experienceable, but without the experience they are as nothing. That which makes the experience possible is the Absolute. That which makes it actual is the Self --

-- Fearlessness comes by itself, when you see that there is nothing to be afraid of. When you walk in a crowded street, you just bypass people. Some you see, some you just glance at, but you do not stop. It is the stopping that creates the bottleneck. Keep moving! Disregard names and shapes, don't be attached to them; your attachment is your bondage --






Link:  http://nisargadatta.org/pages/quotes_i_am_that.html

MAURICE FRYDMAN BIO

Maurice Frydman, aka Swami Bharatananda (1900 in Warsaw, Poland - 9 March 1976, India), was an engineer and humanitarian who spent the later part of his life in India. He lived at the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi and took an active part in India's fight for independence—notably in helping to draft a new constitution for the State of Aundh that became the Aundh Experiment.

He was a Polish Jew who subsequently converted to Hinduism. Frydman came to India in the late 1930s as a Jewish refugee from Warsaw. A successful capitalist, he was managing director of the Mysore State Government Electrical Factory in Bangalore.

Eventually he was won over by Hindu philosophy and became a sannyasi. Frydman was instrumental, along with Gandhi and the Raja of Aundh, in helping to draft the November Declaration, which handed over rule of the state of Aundh from the Raja to the residents in 1938-9.

He became acquainted with one of the sons of the Raja of Aundh, and was well-regarded by the Raja himself. According to the Raja's son, Apa Pant, "Frydman had great influence with my father, and on his seventy-fifth birthday he said, 'Raja Saheb, why don't you go and make a declaration to Mahatma Gandhi that you are giving all power to the people because it will help in the freedom struggle.'"

As a sympathiser with the Indian independence movement, the Raja accepted this idea. Frydman wrote a draft declaration, and the Raja and his son, Apa Pant, travelled to see Gandhi in Wardha, where the Mahatma drew up a new constitution for the state. The constitution, which gave full responsible government to the people of Aundh, was adopted on 21 January 1939.

This "Aundh Experiment" was a rare event in pre-independence India, where the rulers of princely states were generally reluctant to give up their power. After some initial hesitation among the populace of the state it proved to be very successful, lasting until the merger of the princely states into India in 1948.

While in India, Frydman became a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and lived in his ashram, where he made the spinning wheel that Gandhi himself used. Frydman used his engineering skill to create several new types of spinning wheels for Gandhi, which piqued his interest in finding the most efficient and economical spinning wheel for India.  He was close to Nehru, and was associated with Sri Ramana Maharshi and J. Krishnamurti.

A longtime friend to Advaita guru, Nisargadatta Maharaj, who considered him a Jnani,
Maurice Frydman died in 1976 in India, with Sri Nisargadatta by his bedside.  Frydman edited and translated Nisargadatta Maharaj's tape-recorded conversations into the English-language book I Am That, published in 1973.
   
Frydman helped Wanda Dynowska, a Polish theosophist who came to India in the 1930s, to establish a Polish-Indian Library (Biblioteka Polsko-Indyjska). The library holds a collection of books aimed "to show India to Poland and Poland to India", containing translations from Indian languages to Polish and from Polish to English.

During the 2nd World War he helped with the transfer of Polish orphans from Siberia, displaced there by the Soviets after their annexation of Eastern Poland to Siberia in 1939-1941. They were moved from Siberia via Iran (with the Polish army of Gen. Władysław Anders) mainly to India, Kenya and New Zealand.

After 1959 he helped Wanda Dynowska with Tibetan refugees in India.




Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Frydman

Seeking Truth (Nisargadatta)

The lamps are different, but the light is the same. Concentrate on light. Their light is your light. May all beings benefit.

..............

"You are like the point of the pencil — by mere contact with you the mind draws its picture of the world. You are single and simple — the picture is complex and extensive. Don’t be misled by the picture — remain aware of the tiny point — which is everywhere in the picture." Page 452


"The difference lies in what I do not experience. I do not experience fear or greed, hate or anger. I ask nothing, refuse nothing, keep nothing. In these matters I do not compromise. Maybe this is the outstanding difference between us. I will not compromise, I am true to myself, while you are afraid of reality." Page 171

"My teacher told me to hold an to the sense ‘I am’ tenaciously and not to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am — un- bound." Page 223

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truth is truth
truth can never be represented nor be worded nor be told
truth is here and now, not the words "here and now"
truth is to be lived
truth is to love
truth is simply you without the ideas of you

and YOU are the truth when you give up all the illusions of truth or the shadows of truth

words are just words, nothing more
a representation of the real, but not the real
a pointer to the real but not the real

thinking is so linear, but the real is not, it is all

in one moment

like being totally in love

being speechless, being timeless, being mindless, being .... just being

wish I AM here always, without dreams, without the ideas of I.

Chan Eng's review 

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20466767-chan-eng

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Nisargadatta Maharaj

I AM THAT is a transcription of question-and-answer dialogues between the Indian yoga teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj and his students and visitors.

He believes that the perceived world and mind are illusory manifestations of a non-describable, yet aware, entity. I can see how I construct my own reality as my brain processes the inputs from my sensory organs.

However, I think their is a reality from which my perceptions arise. He helpfully challenges my assumption that what I see is "the" reality. We may be manifestations of a different reality that we cannot perceive, but that is not a testable proposition.

He believes that the goal of human beings should be to identify with the "I" behind perception, thought, and feelings. That is the doorway to a non-rational experience of the entity that is manifested in but also transcends our known inner and outer worlds. Ekart Tolle takes a similar position in his book, "The Power of Now." I find this to be more helpful on a psychological than theoretical basis. It is very helpful to me, when I am sad, frustrated, or anxious, to be able to say "there is that feeling of sadness, which is not me." "There is that thought about that patient." That detaches me from the thought or feeling enough to process it constructively.

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Source: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299869.I_Am_That


Links: I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


http://nisargadatta.org/index.html



http://www.davidgodman.org/interviews/nis1.shtml

Godman has lots of good stuff Living the Inspiration of Sri Ramana Maharshi Remembering Nisargadatta Maharaj Download all interviews here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That

http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=7143.75


http://www.celextel.org/otherbooks/nisargadattamaharaj/iamthat.html

Lists online books:

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism), and a Guru, belonging to the Navnath Sampradaya. 

Sri Nisargadatta, with his direct and minimalistic explanation of non-dualism, is considered the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi. 

In 1973, the publication of his most famous and widely-translated book, "I AM THAT", an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers.

According to Sri Nisargadatta, the purpose of spirituality is to know who you are. His discussions are not for academic scholars. He is a rebellious spirit, abrupt in his style of discussion, provocative, and immensely profound, cutting to the core and wasting little effort on inessentials. His terse but potent sayings are known for their ability to trigger radical shifts from philosophical mind-games to the purity of consciousness, just by hearing or even reading them.

He talked about the 'direct way' of knowing the Final Reality, in which one becomes aware of one's original nature through mental discrimination, breaking the mind's false identification with the ego, knowing that "You are already That". The scene for these talks was a small upstairs room at his humble flat in Khetwadi, used for his own meditation and also for daily chantings. 

A simple man, Nisargadatta was a house-holder and a petty shop-keeper selling bidis - hand-made leaf-rolled cigarettes.

 

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The 8 famous Books of Maharaj

Traditional Scriptures

Photos of Nisargadatta Maharaj


● Quotes from 'I am That'

● Quotes from 'Seeds of Consciousness'

● Quotes from 'Prior to Consciousness'

● Quotes from 'Consciousness and the Absolute'

● Quotes from 'Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj'

● Quotes from 'The Nectar of Immortality'

● Quotes from 'The Ultimate Medicine'

● Quotes from 'The Experience of Nothingness'



Source: http://nisargadatta.org/pages/quotes_nisargadatta_maharaj.html

Nisargadatta Maharaj - I Am That

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all.  Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, and whatever is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj



Philosopher

Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita, and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya.

Wikipedia

Born: April 17, 1897, Mumbai, India
Died: September 8, 1981, Mumbai, India

Books

 

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Sudhaker S. Dikshit (Editor), Maurice Frydman (Translator)

This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic" is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work.

"I Am That" preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities.

The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. 

He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, "not being this or that, here or there, then or now," but just timeless being.

(online: http://www.celextel.org/otherbooks/nisargadattamaharaj/iamthat.html )

The real does not die, the unreal never lived..

Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you. you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment.

The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death.  The body will survive as long as it is needed.  It is not important that it should live long.

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Paperback, 550 pages

Buddhists

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Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist who is a professor of physics, and the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. He is an advocate of scientific skepticism,  science education, and the science of morality. Krauss is one of the few living physicists referred to by Scientific American as a "public intellectual", and he is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U.S. physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics.





“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss


“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it”
― Lawrence M. Krauss


“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode.

So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss



The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

“every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. it really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss

“I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss

“Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about "why" questions. When we ask, "Why?" we usually mean "How?" If we can answer the latter, that generally suffices for our purposes. For example, we might ask: "Why is the Earth 93 million miles from the Sun?" but what we really probably mean is, "How is the Earth 93 million miles from the Sun?" That is, we are interested in what physical processes led to the Earth ending up in its present position. "Why" implicitly suggests purpose, and when we try to understand the solar system in scientific terms, we do not generally ascribe purpose to it.” 

― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing


Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime.

As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space.

This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing



“The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss


“Their mutual gravitational attraction will ultimately cause them to collapse inward, in manifest disagreement with an apparently static universe.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss


“A physicist, an engineer and a psychologist are called in as consultants to a dairy farm whose production has been below par. Each is given time to inspect the details of the operation before making a report.
The first to be called is the engineer, who states: "The size of the stalls for the cattle should be decreased. Efficiency could be improved if the cows were more closely packed, with a net allotment of 275 cubic feet per cow. Also, the diameter of the milking tubes should be increased by 4 percent to allow for a greater average flow rate during the milking periods."
The next to report is the psychologist, who proposes:
"The inside of the barn should be painted green. This is a more mellow color than brown and should help induce greater milk flow. Also, more trees should be planted in the fields to add diversity to the scenery for the cattle during grazing, to reduce boredom."
Finally, the physicist is called upon. He asks for a blackboard and then draws a circle. He begins: "Assume the cow is a sphere....”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, Fear Of Physics: A Guide For The Perplexed

Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.
Interview with Richard Dawkins (5:12)


There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
The Physics of Star Trek, HarperPerennial edition (1996), p. 16.


Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.
The Physics of Star Trek, HarperPerennial edition (1996), p. 17.


Richard Feynman used to go up to people all the time and he'd say "You won't believe what happened to me today... you won't believe what happened to me" and people would say "What?" and he'd say "Absolutely nothing". Because we humans believe that everything that happens to us is special and significant. And that — and Carl Sagan wrote beautifully about that in The Demon-Haunted World — that is much of the source of religion. Everything that happens is unusual and I expect that the likelihood that Richard and I ever would've met. If you think about all the variables: the probability that we were in the same place at the same time, ate breakfast the same. Whatever. It's zero. Every event that happens has small probability... but it happens and then when it happens; if it's weird, if you dream one million nights and it's nonsense but one night you dream that your friend is gonna break his leg and the next day he breaks his arm... *sound of revelation* So the real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 Closing words (01:03:20 - 01:04:30)


If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009


The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 (16:50-17:23)


In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.  Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible.  Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation.  They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009


The other thing people don't realise about science which differentiates it from religion is that, the most exciting thing about being a scientist is not knowing and being wrong. Because that means there is a lot left to learn.
"Cosmic Connections" by Lawrence Krauss, 2011 (23:22-23:35)


It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.
In a panel discussion on Real Time with Bill Maher, 02/08/2013

Link:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss

Quotes - We are perfect Buddha Mind

The idea that I am not the body gives reality to the body,when in fact, there is no such thing as body;
it is but a state of mind. -Nisargadatta


You are what you are, but you know what you are not. - Nisargadatta

 
Happiness and sorrow, right and wrong, good and evil are all mere attributes of the mind. - Ramesh


Wanting to let go and the letting go are two different things. The letting go will happen only whey
you're not wanting to let go. - Ramesh



If there's nowhere to rest at the end / how can I get lost on the way? - Ikkyu
 

Seeing is to see that there is nothing to see. - Tulku Urgen Rinpoche
   

I do nothing, nor is anything done to me. - Nisargadatta


I am what I am and nothing can affect me. I appear to depend on everything, but in fact all depends on
me. - Nisargadatta
 

Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. Right understanding is the only remedy,
whatever name you give it.- Nisargadatta


Silence doesn't mean not talking. Silence is absence of questions, absence of thinking, true
meditation. - Ramesh
 

Go beyond the "I-am-body" idea, and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space
and time. - Nisargadatta


To remember, to forget--these are all states of mind, thought-bound, word-bound. - Nisargadatta


There is a state beyond forgetting and not forgetting -- the natural state. - Nisargadatta

Liberation occurs through recognizing just by that which you are bound. - Wangchuk Dorje
 

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple,basic,elementary and totally obvious, that
it is completely overlooked. - Ramesh


What do you mean, 'deeper level'? Zen practice only one level. No deep, understand? - Kyodo Roshi


Whatever you come across--go beyond. -- Nisargadatta


Also different thoughts arise; they are empty, yet in the emptiness one perceives thoughts. - Dudjom
Rinpoche


There is nothing like ignorance, only inattention. - Nisargadatta
 

Suffering never befalls one who clings not to mind and body and is detached. - Buddha


Ultimate understanding can only be pure silence. There is no question of any "one" understanding
anything or accepting anything. - Ramesh



The mind cannot know what is beyond the mind, but the mind is known by what is beyond it. -
Nisargadatta


It is the wish to experience life as a separate entity that turns the outer world into a threatening
multiple enemy. - Ramesh


Thought is neither to be accepted nor rejected but ignored so that it disappears as spontaneously as it
appeared. - Ramesh

 
There is no need to avoid false thoughts or seek true ones because all thought is spontaneous,
involuntary and without substance. - Ramesh


Do not investigate the roots of things; investigate the root of mind. - Padmasambhava


The whole world is a single flower. - Zen Master Mang Gong


In post meditation, be a child of illusion. - Atisha


In one's natural, immediate attention or awareness there are no boundaries, no separate items of
manifestation. - Ramesh


Life can be really and truly simple if we don't fight it. - Ramesh Balsekar

   
When hoping and attempting to understand is not there, then life becomes meaningful. - U.G.
Krishnamurti


You give reality to concepts, while concepts are distortions of reality. - Nisargadatta


Let phenomena play fool of themselves. - Trungpa Rinpoche



When mind is flowing, flexible, adaptable - it’s stronger than anything! - Sogyal Rinpoche
 

Your mind needs to be strong but also flexible, like water. - Sogyal Rinpoche


One powerful way to evoke compassion is to think of others as exactly the same as you. - Sogyal
Rinpoche


The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay
with the tightening. - Pema Chodron

 
Only in the absolute absence of all conceptualization is to be found the perfect peace of Absolute
Presence. - Nisardagadatta


A thought has come, it is witnessed, and it gets cut off. The witnessing does not need any mental
processes. - Ramesh
 

To want nothing and do nothing--that is true creation! To watch the universe emerging and subsiding in
one's heart is a wonder. - Nisargdta.


The idea that I am not the body gives reality to the body,when in fact, there is no such thing as body;
it is but a state of mind. -Nisarg.


You are what you are, but you know what you are not. - Nisargadatta


Happiness and sorrow, right and wrong, good and evil are all mere attributes of the mind. - Ramesh


Wanting to let go and the letting go are two different things. The letting go will happen only whey
you're not wanting to let go. - Ramesh

   
If there's nowhere to rest at the end / how can I get lost on the way? - Ikkyu


Seeing is to see that there is nothing to see. - Tulku Urgen Rinpoche


I do nothing, nor is anything done to me. - Nisargadatta


I am what I am and nothing can affect me. I appear to depend on everything, but in fact all depends on
me. - Nisargadatta


Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. Right understanding is the only remedy,
whatever name you give it.- Nisargadatta


Silence doesn't mean not talking. Silence is absence of questions, absence of thinking, true
meditation. - Ramesh
 

Go beyond the "I-am-body" idea, and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space
and time. - Nisargadatta
 

To remember, to forget--these are all states of mind, thought-bound, word-bound. - Nisargadatta


There is a state beyond forgetting and not forgetting -- the natural state. - Nisargadatta
   

Liberation occurs through recognizing just by that which you are bound. - Wangchuk Dorje
   

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple,basic,elementary and totally obvious, that
it is completely overlooked. - Ramesh


What do you mean, 'deeper level'? Zen practice only one level. No deep, understand? - Kyodo Roshi


Whatever you come across--go beyond. -- Nisargadatta


Also different thoughts arise; they are empty, yet in the emptiness one perceives thoughts. - Dudjom
Rinpoche
 

There is nothing like ignorance, only inattention. - Nisargadatta


Suffering never befalls one who clings not to mind and body and is detached. - Buddha
 

Ultimate understanding can only be pure silence. There is no question of any "one" understanding
anything or accepting anything. - Ramesh


The mind cannot know what is beyond the mind, but the mind is known by what is beyond it. -
Nisargadatta
 


It is the wish to experience life as a separate entity that turns the outer world into a threatening
multiple enemy. - Ramesh
 
Thought is neither to be accepted nor rejected but ignored so that it disappears as spontaneously as it
appeared. - Ramesh


There is no need to avoid false thoughts or seek true ones because all thought is spontaneous,
involuntary and without substance. - Ramesh


Do not investigate the roots of things; investigate the root of mind. - Padmasambhava



The whole world is a single flower. - Zen Master Mang Gong



In post meditation, be a child of illusion. - Atisha
 

In one's natural, immediate attention or awareness there are no boundaries, no separate items of
manifestation. - Ramesh


Life can be really and truly simple if we don't fight it. - Ramesh Balsekar


When hoping and attempting to understand is not there, then life becomes meaningful. - U.G.
Krishnamurti

You give reality to concepts, while concepts are distortions of reality. - Nisargadatta


Let phenomena play fool of themselves. - Trungpa Rinpoche


When mind is flowing, flexible, adaptable - it’s stronger than anything! - Sogyal Rinpoche


Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. - Thich Nhat Hahn


Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost. -
Nisargadatta


Harmony between the inner and the outer is happiness. On the other hand, self-identification with the
outer causes suffering. - Nisargadatta


If you don't abandon the wish for your own happiness and the negative emotions coming from it, you'll
never find true happiness.- Garchen R.


By gently returning to the present, our mind calms down, and everything seems workable. - Pema Chodron


From joy you have come, in joy you are living, and in joy you are to return. - Hariharananda


Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world. - Nisargadatta


The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. -
Nisargadatta


Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. - Trungpa Rinpoche


Whenever you let go of the false belief in a self, you will see your true nature, emptiness-compassion.
- Garchen RInpoche


The only cause of happiness is love and the only cause of suffering is self-grasping. - Garchen
Rinpoche


I can show you the path to liberation, but liberation depends on yourself. - Buddha


All suffering without exception comes from wishing for one's own happiness. - Garchen Rinpoche
there can be no salvation without investigation, because non-investigation is the main cause of
bondage. - Nisargadatta


Blissful is passionlessness in the world. But the abolition of the conceit I am -- That is truly the
supreme bliss. - Buddha


The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that
is love. - Nisargadatta


You should all have a sky inside you. - Dudjom Rinpoche


Whatever you find yourself thinking, let that thought rise and settle, without any constraint. - Sogyal
Rinpoche


Whatever thoughts and emotions arise in meditation, allow them to rise and settle, like the waves in
the ocean. - Sogyal Rinpoche


To identify oneself with the particular is all the sin there is. The impersonal is real, the personal
appears and disappears. - Nisargadatta

   
Good is virtue until life's end,good is faith that is steadfast,good is the acquisition of wisdom,and
good is the avoidance of evil. -Buddha


Any sensual bliss in the world, any heavenly bliss, isn't worth one sixteenth-sixteenth of the bliss of
the ending of craving. - Buddha


Allow things to be as they are. - Ramesh Balsekar


Fighting the ego, the mind, is precisely what the ego wants. What is really needed is a negative or
feminine action. - Ramesh


Names and shapes change incessantly. Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind.
That is enough. - Nisargadatta

Happiness lies in the forgetting of the world. Leave the world as it is, don't destroy it, but know
that it is not. - Ranjit Maharaj
 

Do everything you have to do, but be detached by understanding, because whatever you feel, perceive,
and achieve is Illusion. - Ranjit M.


It is vital to realize that understanding is all, that there is no question of altering or amending
what is. - Ramesh


On the basis of individuality and freedom of choice the manifest universe will never yield its secret.
- Ramesh


Our world is not, in fact, an objective world but a purely subjective one. - Ramesh


When you maintain the mind in its natural state, wonderful qualities shine out like light from the sun.
- K.Palden Sherab Rinpoche
 

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself. -
Nisargadatta
 

One is not wise because one speaks much. One who is peaceable, friendly and fearless is called "wise. -
Buddha


You need not stop thinking.Just cease being interested.It is disinterestedness that liberates. Don't
hold on, that is all. - Nisargadatta


There is a state which is beyond any concepts or thoughts, which is inconceivable. Its nature is void
and its expression is compassion.- D.K


In essence, a perfect attitude is to meet the teacher, receive his teachings, and put them into
practice. - Dilgo Khyentse


Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and
bring to perfection equipoise. - Buddha


A man attached to desires cannot get solitude anywhere, whereas a detached man is always in solitude
wherever he may be. - Ramesh

Solitude is never a function of place, but of mind. - Ramesh
 

Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss consciously. - Nisargadatta


The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance,an openness to
all situations without limit. -Dilgo K.


If one stops fueling thought with active involvement, thought settles and one enters into a calm and
undisturbed state. - Ngakpa Chögyam


We are perfect Buddha Mind

"Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names
and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is
subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought,expected or imagined, is in
the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear." - Nisargadatta
Maharaj





We are perfect Buddha Mind
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