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2020-07-31 17:41:00+00:00
You deserve every ounce of happiness life has to offer. You ask why? The fact that you are breathing and living means the nature wants you; the universe wants you. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone screws up at some point, but it doesn't mean you are a disaster. Don't let anyone drill fear in you by making you feel any less. To quote Jesus Christ, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Don't be afraid of your immense potential, your happiness. Go claim it.
Bite down on your mouthpiece and say, "Let's go."
~from A Fistful of Love, Om Swami
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2020-07-30 16:40:00+00:00
🍃🍃🍃Spiritual Library published books on July🍃🍃🍃
🌻Shiva Sutras by Swami Sukhabodhananda
🌻The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
🌻Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
🌻The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim
🌻I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
🌻Life of Pi by Yann Martel
🌻Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down by Eknath Easwaran
🌻Om Mani Padme Hum
The Sound of Silence: The Diamond in the Lotus
🌻Ashtavakra Gita:Song of self realisation
🌻Mystical Poems of Rumi
🌻The Real You: Wisdom from Radhanath Swami
🌻The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
🌻The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
From Spiritual Library
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2020-07-30 02:00:16+00:00
One man complained that his life is too hard for him. He came to God, told him about his troubles, and asked:
– Can I choose another cross for myself?
God looked at him smiling, took him to the store of crosses and said:
– Choose…
A man came into the store, looked around, and was surprised: There is such a great variety of crosses – little, big, medium, heavy and light.
A man was walking by the store for a long time looking for the littlest and lightest cross and finally found it, then came to God and asked:
– May I take this one?
– Yes, you may, – answered God. – It is your own cross.
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2020-07-28 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-28 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-28 17:41:00+00:00
Shiva Sutras by Swami Sukhabodhananda
Ability is an important tool in life. Ability without commitment and awareness is like a vehicle without the engine. The Shiva Sutra enhances one’s awareness in a way one sees an opportunity in a difficulty and not a difficulty in an opportunity. There is an ‘outside reality’ and an ‘inside reality’ of one’s mind. There is also another dimension called ‘spiritual reality’. To harmonize all of them is a great awakening. Ordinary being loves one’s own ‘psycho dramas’ of justification, proving one’s point of view, blaming, being helpless... and this leads one to a state of inner poverty. To free oneself from these lower states of poverty and see them as ‘errors in one’s thinking’ is part of being effective and experiencing inner prosperity. The profound teaching of Lord Shiva introduces us to A Bigger Container where one learns to be charitable to one’s own self. —Swami Sukhabodhananda
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2020-07-28 05:41:00+00:00
Somebody asked Buddha very beautifully, "So many people listen to you and nobody is enlightened, why?" Buddha replied, "Go and ask the devotees who have listened to my discourse, what they want?" This person went and asked all those who were attending Buddha's lecture, "What is it that you want?" One said, "I want my daughterin-law's problem to be solved", while another said, "I want more money" Everybody was telling what they want; the list included everything other than enlightenment.
He did not reveal to them that Buddha had personally asked him to find out what they want. He posed himself as a journalist. Hearing his findings
Buddha answered, "They are coming to my lectures and what is their hidden agenda? Not enlightenment. Who are to be enlightened? Only those people who are interested in getting enlightened".
People came for time-pass, for spiritual entertainment.
~from Shiva Sutras,Swami Sukhabodhananda
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2020-07-27 04:40:05+00:00
https://t.me/spiritualscience
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2020-07-26 11:30:02+00:00
#audiobook
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
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2020-07-26 11:30:02+00:00
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2020-07-26 11:30:02+00:00
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2020-07-26 11:30:01+00:00
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2020-07-26 11:30:01+00:00
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
In this beautifully written book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness. Once we have these skills, we can slow our lives down and discover how to live in the moment - even simple acts like washing the dishes or drinking a cup of tea may be transformed into acts of meditation.
Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle anecdotes and practical exercises help us to arrive at greater self-understanding and peacefulness, whether we are beginners or advanced students. Irrespective of our particular religious beliefs, we can begin to reap the immense benefits that meditation has been scientifically proven to offer. We can all learn how to be mindful and experience the miracle of mindfulness for ourselves.
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2020-07-25 17:41:00+00:00
When your mind is liberated your heart floods with compassion: compassion for yourself, for having undergone countless sufferings because you were not yet able to relieve yourself of false views, hatred, ignorance, and anger; and compassion for others because they do not yet see and so are still imprisoned by false views, hatred, and ignorance and continue to create suffering for themselves and for others. Now you look at yourself and at others with the eyes of compassion, like a saint who hears the cry of every creature in the universe and whose voice is the voice of every person who has seen reality in perfect wholeness.
~from The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
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2020-07-24 17:41:00+00:00
Everyone in this world can be happy. No matter how awful the experience you had as a child, it is all in the past. If you stop replaying in your head the video of the past, you can be happy at any moment. The moment that you are alive, breathing in and out, is the present. If you concentrate on the present, you will be free from suffering.
If you can concentrate on the present, all the things you experienced in the past become valuable assets. Whether you failed in your business, broke up with your girlfriend, or got hurt by someone, if you take all those things as precious experiences that help you understand your life, they will enable you to deal wisely with whatever comes your way in the future.
#venerable_pomnyun
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2020-07-23 17:41:00+00:00
#the_gospel_of_sri_ramakrishna
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2020-07-23 17:41:00+00:00
#the_gospel_of_sri_ramakrishna
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2020-07-23 17:41:00+00:00
Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
The profound teachings of a great mystic come to life More than a century after the passing of Ramakrishna, one of Indias greatest exemplars of God-consciousness and mystical union, his message of harmony and tolerance still inspires millions of people, both in the East and around the world.
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2020-07-22 17:41:00+00:00
But one must go into solitude to attain this divine love. To get butter from milk you must let it set into curd in a secluded spot: if it is too much disturbed, milk won’t turn into curd. Next, you must put aside all other duties, sit in a quiet spot, and churn the curd. Only then do you get butter.
“The world is water and the mind milk. If you pour milk into water they become one; you cannot find the pure milk any more. But turn the milk into curd and churn it into butter. Then, when that butter is placed in water, it will float. So, practise spiritual discipline in solitude and obtain the butter of knowledge and love. Even if you keep that butter in the water of the world the two will not mix. The butter will float."
~from Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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2020-07-20 19:41:00+00:00
#audiobook
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
By: Haemin Sunim, Haemin Sunim - translation, Chi-Young Kim - translation
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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2020-07-20 19:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-20 19:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-20 19:41:00+00:00
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim
"Is it the world that's busy, or is it my mind?"
The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with relationships and loved ones, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Even as we speed toward what comes next, Haemin Sunim's messages of encouragement speak directly to the anxieties that have become part of modern life and remind us of the strength and joy that come from slowing down.
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2020-07-20 17:41:00+00:00
An exceptional relationship is not
one with a good beginning
but one with a good ending.
Relationships often begin accidentally,
but when it comes to ending them,
we usually have choices.
Choose the ending wisely.
~from The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Haemin Sunim
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2020-07-19 05:41:00+00:00
In actuality who is he husband? Who am I? Who are these three boys who call themselves my children? We are burdened with perishable bodies which strike up bonds which are also unreal, and perishable. The only relationship that is permanent is the one which we form with God. My mate is He. He shall come to me in myriad shapes. In many shapes shall I surrender to His desire. I shall be fondled by Him. I shall be betrayed by Him. I shall pass through all the pathways of this world, condemning none, understanding all and then become part of Him. Then for me there shall be no return journey . . .
#kamala_das
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2020-07-18 17:41:00+00:00
LOVE AS AN OFFERING
To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention and love. To love is to offer the other person joy and a balm for their suffering. This capacity is what we have to learn to cultivate.
#Thich_nhat_hanh
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2020-07-17 05:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-17 05:41:00+00:00
I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work and is regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic".
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, "being this or that, here or that, then or now," but just timeless being.
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2020-07-16 17:41:00+00:00
The need for understanding arises from misunderstanding. What I say is true, but to you it is only a theory. How will you come to know that it is true? Listen, remember, ponder, visualise, experience. Also apply it in your daily life. Have patience with me and, above all have patience with yourself, for you are your only obstacle. The way leads through yourself beyond yourself. As long as you believe only the particular to be real, conscious and happy and reject the non-dual reality as something imagined, an abstract concept, you will find me doling out concepts and abstractions. But once you have touched the real within your own being, you will find me describing what for you is the nearest and the dearest.
~from I Am That, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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2020-07-16 02:45:00+00:00
Rama-Sita meet in the garden and the story of King Nimi
अस कहि फिरि चितए तेहि ओरा। सिय मुख ससि भए नयन चकोरा।। भए बिलोचन चारु अचंचल। मनहुँ सकुचि निमि तजे दिगंचल।।
According to legends, King Nimi resides on the eyelids of all humans and that's why our eyes blink. When Rama visited Pushp Vatika, Sita and Ram had an eye contact and that's when Nimi left the eye of Sita, out of respect for Rama (who was going to be his son-in-law). Due to this, Sita's eye stopped blinking until the eye contact was changed. Nimi was the first king of the Videha kingdom and belonged to the Janaka lineage of Mithila.
#ramayana
#beautiful_indian_tales
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2020-07-14 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-14 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-14 17:41:00+00:00
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan -- and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.
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2020-07-14 16:22:10+00:00
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2020-07-14 05:41:00+00:00
Once we feel our heart starting to open, we can try directing our compassionate gaze toward the one who wounded us. Try to look deeply and understand their pain and suffering. If they were happy, it’s highly unlikely they would have done such a thing to us. See what lies beneath their unhappiness. The aim of this practice is not to excuse the wrongs that were done to us but to untie the knot of our own emotions, which are holding us back and preventing us from living a full life. In other words, we try to forgive not for the sake of the aggressor but to free ourselves from the past. In order to achieve this, it is important that we try to understand that person.
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#haemin_sunim
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2020-07-13 19:41:00+00:00
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
~from Life of Pi, Yann Martel
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#movie #ebook
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2020-07-12 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-12 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-12 17:41:00+00:00
Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down by Eknath Easwaran
Through stories, insights, and step-by-step advice, Easwaran shows us how to calm our minds.
When the mind is unhurried, we are patient, kind, and focused, ready to respond to what really matters amidst the clamor of a busy day. The secret is to train our minds to work steadily and with one-pointed attention, however many tasks confront us.
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2020-07-12 12:11:48+00:00
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2020-07-11 16:54:09+00:00
One day, I asked Granny, “Why do these snakes have to lose their skin?” Her reply was full of wisdom. I realize now that she was speaking of more than snakes.
“If snakes do not shed their skin,” she replied,
“they cannot grow. They will suffocate in their old skin.” I often remember her words. Today we too need to grow.
~from Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down, Eknath Easwaran
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2020-07-10 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-10 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-10 17:41:00+00:00
Om Mani Padme Hum
The Sound of Silence: The Diamond in the Lotus
The Sound of Silence, the Diamond in the Lotus
‘Nobody has to lead you and nobody has to save you,’ insists a radical and rebellious Osho as he launches a series of attacks on false knowledge and oppression. His vision is of a world changed by the love that arises from meditation. He considers the mantra ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’ the best attempt to describe ‘the beauty within yourself’. This inner truth is the ‘real thing’, not the teachings of society, politicians and priests.
Starting with the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and replying to questions on divisive educational systems, science corrupted by politics, and oppressive religions, Osho keeps saying that love is the key and we all have everything we need within ourselves.
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2020-07-10 05:41:00+00:00
Unless a tree blossoms, it knows no blissfulness. It goes on feeling something is missing. You may have all the pleasures and comforts and luxuries of the world, but unless you know yourself, unless your inner lotus opens, you will go on missing something. You may not be certain what you are missing but a feeling... that something is being missed, that ”I am not complete,” that ”I am not whole,” that ”I am not what existence wanted me to be.” This ”missing” feeling goes on nagging everybody. Only the expansion of your consciousness will help you to get rid of this feeling, of this nagging, of this anguish, this angst.
~from Om Mani Padme Hum,Osho
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2020-07-09 17:41:00+00:00
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om means, like Brahma, that which is behind it all, the unmanifest. Mani means jewel or crystal. Padme means lotus, and Hum means heart. So, on one level what it means is the entire universe is just like a pure jewel or crystal right in the heart or center of the lotus flower, which is me, and it is manifest, it comes forth in light, in manifest light, in my own heart. That’s one way of interpreting it. You start to say Om Mani Padme Hum and you’re thinking, “God in unmanifest form is like a jewel in the middle of a lotus, manifest in my heart.” You go through that and feel it in your heart – that’s one trip.
#ram_dass
#audio
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2020-07-09 05:41:00+00:00
They are dear to me who run not after the pleasant
Or away from the painful, grieve not
Over the past, lust not today,
But let things come and go as they happen.
Who serve both friend and foe with equal love,
Not buoyed up by praise or cast down by blame,
Alike in heat and cold, pleasure and pain,
Free from selfish attachments and self-will,
Ever full, in harmony everywhere,
Firm in faith - such as these are dear to me.
But dearest to me are those who seek me
In faith and love as life’s eternal goal.
They go beyond death to immortality
#sri_krishna
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2020-07-08 17:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-08 17:41:00+00:00
Ashtavakra Gita:Song of self realisation
Authored by Maharishi Vyasa, this lucid dialogue between Rajarshi Janak and Astavakra systematically deals with mystical experiences of the spiritual reality. To all advanced students of meditation, Ashtavakra Geeta directly points out the way and the goal.
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2020-07-08 05:41:00+00:00
O pure Intelligence! Do not disturb your mind by affirming and negating things. Silencing them, abide happily in your own Self, which is an embodiment of the Bliss Absolute. You are by nature nothing but the pure infinite Consciousness.
There is nothing for you to affirm nor is there anything for you to negate. In the Self there are neither the bodies nor the mind nor the intellect. These belong to the realm of delusion. To the awakened Self, there is nothing to assert or to negate. Therefore, ‘silencing them’ live happily in your divine spiritual nature. As the divine Spirit you are a mass of Bliss. None of the disturbances of the pluralistic world can rise to shatter the one light of Consciousness.
~from Ashtavakra Gita: The song of self realisation commentary by Swami Chinmayanada
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2020-07-07 05:41:01+00:00
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2020-07-07 05:41:00+00:00
Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–73), legendary Persian Muslim poet, theologian, and mystic, wrote poems acclaimed through the centuries for their powerful spiritual images and provocative content, which often described Rumi’s love for God in romantic or erotic terms. His vast body of work includes more than three thousand lyrics and odes. This volume includes four hundred poems selected by renowned Rumi scholar A. J. Arberry, who provides here one of the most comprehensive and adept English translations of this enigmatic genius. Mystical Poems is the definitive resource for anyone seeking an introduction to or an enriched understanding of one of the world’s greatest poets.
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2020-07-06 16:39:33+00:00
“The truth is a strange thing You can try to suppress it, but it will always find its way to the surface. We make a lie into our truth in order to survive. We try to forget, until we can’t anymore. We don’t even know half of the mysteries of this world. We’re wanderers in the darkness.”
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2020-07-05 17:41:00+00:00
Nothing within our experience comes from nothing, what then to speak of the entire universe, which is operating in such an incredibly scientific manner. The technology of one’s own body is greater than the best computers man has ever made. Have those computers just come from nothing?
If everything comes from something, then that “something” is the definition of God. The ancient literatures explain that God is the Absolute Truth from whom everything emanates. Obviously, that “something” from which everything emanates is not something ordinary like us. That “something” is much greater.
The different books of knowledge like Bhagavad-Gita, Koran, Bible, etc, which we know of, are the messages coming from that “something” —God.
~from The Real You: Wisdom from Radhanath Swami
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2020-07-04 05:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-04 05:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-04 05:41:00+00:00
The Real You: Wisdom from Radhanath Swami
When the sun shines on a snow-capped mountain, the layers of snow melt down helplessly. Similarly, when sun-like wisdom shines on a covered entity, layers of ignorance start melting away, thus uncovering The Real You.
In this book, you will find a combination of the wisdom of the heart and the wisdom of art. This combined wisdom can make us ponder, wonder and help us overcome the blunder of ignorance which leads to suffering and sorrow. This book is a collection of pearls of wisdom, in the necklace of life, for the beauty of the soul.
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2020-07-02 17:41:00+00:00
A buddha is an idle person. He doesn’t run around after fortune and fame. What good are such things in the end? People who don’t see their nature and think reading sutras, invoking buddhas, studying long and hard, practicing morning and night, never lying down, or acquiring knowledge is the Dharma, blaspheme the Dharma. Buddhas of the past and future only talk about seeing your nature. All practices are impermanent. Unless they see their nature, people who claim to have attained unexcelled, complete enlightenment are liars.
#bodhidharama
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2020-07-02 05:41:00+00:00
"He who has more of this unselfishness is more spiritual and nearer to Shiva. Whether he is learned or ignorant, he is nearer to Shiva than anybody else, whether he knows it or not. And if a man is selfish, even though he has visited all the temples, seen all the places of pilgrimage, and painted himself like a leopard, he is still further off from Shiva".
#swami_vivekananda
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2020-07-01 05:41:18+00:00
Audiobooks from @blarkhive 🙏
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2020-07-01 05:41:00+00:00
#Audiobook
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle👇
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2020-07-01 05:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-01 05:41:00+00:00
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2020-07-01 05:41:00+00:00
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle's extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question and answer format to guide us. A word of mouth phenomenon since its first publication, The Power of Now is one of those rare books with the power to create an experience in readers, one that can radically change their lives for the better.