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2022-02-28 09:00:25+00:00
Bopchong
"Who am I? How should I live?"
It's only when you are lost in the search to answer these questions that a true meeting with yourself can take place, by staying up night after night until your vision brightens. And then you may meet your true self and you'll never be alone again. Your heart beats with the joy of replacing the pain of loneliness of the small self with the all-inclusive Self, and you become much, much clearer and much, much deeper.
People can't become fully human on their own. We can grow as humans only through genuine meetings.
It's spring, a time of hope, a time when we ought to meet something new.
A time when we should open up new eyes.
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2022-02-28 02:30:00+00:00
Remembering me, you shall overcome all difficulties through my grace. But if you will not heed me in your self-will, nothing will avail you. If you egotistically say, “I will not fight this battle,” your resolve will be useless; your own nature will drive you into it. (18:58–59)
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2022-02-27 18:10:03+00:00
HUACHU DAOREN
When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature….When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.
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2022-02-27 03:30:00+00:00
CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
Meditation is simply training our state of being so that our mind and body can be synchronized. Through the practice of meditation, we can learn to be without deception, to be fully genuine and alive.
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2022-02-27 02:30:00+00:00
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2022-02-27 02:30:00+00:00
Jnana Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
Jnana Yoga is a book of lectures by Swami Vivekananda as transcribed by Joseph Josiah Goodwin. The lectures were delivered mainly in New York and London. These lectures were recorded by Goodwin, a professional stenographer, who later became a disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
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2022-02-26 02:30:00+00:00
A famous Zen spiritual teacher came to the front door of the King’s palace. None of the guards tried to stop him as he entered and made his way to where the King himself was sitting on his throne.
“What do you want?” asked the King, immediately recognizing the visitor.
“I would like a place to sleep in this inn,” replied the teacher.
“But this is not an inn,” said the King, “It is my palace.”
“May | ask who owned this palace before you?”
“My father. He is dead.”
“And who owned it before him?”
“My grandfather. He too is dead.”
“And this place where people live for a short time and then move on — did I hear you say that it is NOT an inn?”
~Anonymous
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2022-02-25 02:30:00+00:00
Eckhart Tolle
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."
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2022-02-24 02:30:00+00:00
Ajahn Chah
We’re born and then we age; we age and then we get sick and die. It’s so normal. But we don’t like it. It’s as if we wanted the breath to come in and not go out; or to go out and not come in. When it comes in and out, out and in, we can live. Human beings and animals have been living right up to the present because fabrications follow their duty in line with their conditions. That’s their truth.
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2022-02-23 02:30:00+00:00
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2022-02-23 02:30:00+00:00
The Flight of the Eagle by J Krishnamurti
The Flight of the Eagle is regarded as one of Krishnamurti’s key works, grappling with themes such as freedom, change, peace, violence and – finally – the transcendental and the unknown.
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2022-02-22 02:30:00+00:00
Osho
"When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man."
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2022-02-21 02:30:00+00:00
Haemin Sunim
Our consciousness often does not know what our subconscious wants.
We think we want something, but when we get it, we realize we wanted something else.
When you wish to hear the voice of your subconscious, try meditation.
Meditation opens a secret path to your subconscious.
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2022-02-20 02:30:00+00:00
Emptiness
When you are with everyone but me,
you're with no one.
When you are with no one but me,
you're with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone,
be everyone.
When you become that many, you're nothing.
Empty.
~Rumi
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2022-02-19 02:30:00+00:00
Om Swami
A young boy lost one of his contact lenses while playing basketball in his driveway. He looked around a bit, as thoroughly as he could, but the lens was nowhere to be found.
He went inside and apprised his mother who told him that she would search for it herself.
‘But mum,’ he said, ‘I’ve already looked for it everywhere and it’s impossible to find. It’s tiny and totally transparent, as you know.’
The mother, however, still went outside to search and returned with the lens in her hand. All in a matter of less than ten minutes.
‘Wow!’ the boy exclaimed. ‘How on earth did you find it?’
‘Well, son,’ she replied, ‘we weren’t looking for the same thing. You were searching for a small piece of plastic. I, on the other hand, was looking for $200.’
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2022-02-18 16:00:36+00:00
Thou art the highest goal of man!
Can sightless men appreciate the glory of light?Can the deaf know the charms of melody?
Can those blinded by self-indulgence behold the health-and-beauty rays that flow from the sun of self-control? Can bewildered one's, spiritually poor but striving only for material riches, know aught of the wealth of peace?
Father, help us to develop your powers of discrimination. May we be not satisfied with fulfilments of earthly hopes, essentially ego tainted and limited. O Boundless Being, Transcendent Treasure! teach us to seek the highest goal-realization of Thee.
~Paramahamsa Yogananda
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2022-02-18 02:30:00+00:00
One who is free from selfish attachments, who has mastered himself and his passions, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from action. Listen and I shall explain now, Arjuna, how one who has attained perfection also attains Brahman, the supreme consummation of wisdom. (18:49–50)
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2022-02-17 02:30:00+00:00
Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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2022-02-16 02:30:00+00:00
Upanishad Wisdom
The Lord dwells in the womb of the cosmos,
The creator who is in all creatures.
He is that which is born and to be born;
His face is everywhere.
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2022-02-15 02:30:00+00:00
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2022-02-15 02:30:00+00:00
Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
Bhakti Yoga, or the path of devotion, is based on the doctrine "Love is God and God is Love". The Bhakti yogi experiences separation and longs to meet or even just glimpse his beloved, God. Nothing else attracts him, nothing else holds his attention, all else is meaningless
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2022-02-14 02:30:00+00:00
Haemin Sunim
With love in our hearts,
we find even the most mundane things sacred and beautiful.
With love in our hearts,
we become kinder and gentler, even to complete strangers.
Without love in our hearts,
we find the world meaningless and random.
Without love in our hearts,
we become strangers even to our family and friends.
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2022-02-13 02:30:00+00:00
Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve” (18:66).
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2022-02-12 06:42:10+00:00
Om swami
“The tree laden with fruits is always a bit bent. Not because of any burden but because it has something to offer. Humility"
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2022-02-12 02:30:00+00:00
Observing thought
I must love the very thing I am studying. If you want to understand a child, you must love and not condemn him. You must play with him, watch his movements, his idiosyncrasies, his ways of behavior; but if you merely condemn, resist or blame him, there is no comprehension of the child. Similarly, to understand what is, one must observe what one thinks, feels and does from moment to moment. That is the actual.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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2022-02-11 02:30:00+00:00
Thich Nhat Hanh
Once a young child asked me, “How does it feel to be dead?” This is a very good, very deep question. I used the example of a cloud to explain to her about birth, death, and continuation. I explained that a cloud can never die. A cloud can only become something else, like rain or snow or hail. When you are a cloud, you feel like a cloud. And when you become rain, you feel like the rain. And when you become snow, you feel like the snow. Remanifestation is wonderful.
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2022-02-10 02:30:00+00:00
Alan Watts
If I first see a tree in the winter, I might assume that it is not a fruit-tree. But when I return in the summer to find it covered with plums, I must exclaim, "Excuse me! You were a fruit-tree after all." Imagine, then, that a billion years ago some beings from another part of the galaxy made a tour through the solar system in their flying saucer and found no life. They would dismiss it as "Just a bunch of old rocks!" But if they returned today, they would have to apologize: "Well—you were peopling rocks after all!" You may, of course, argue that there is no analogy between the two situations. The fruit-tree was at one time a seed inside a plum, but the earth—much less the solar system or the galaxy—was never a seed inside a person. But, oddly enough, you would be wrong.
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2022-02-08 03:45:59+00:00
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2022-02-08 02:30:00+00:00
Whatever you do, make it an offering to me – the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. (9:27–28)
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2022-02-07 04:00:06+00:00
Pomnyun
There are two ways for people to become happy. One way is by doing work that they enjoy. However, although this may be fun, it may feel meaningless when they look back on it later on. For example, drinking and hanging out every day with your friends may have been a lot of fun, but when you look back on it in 10 years you will feel like you wasted your time. When you go to a bar, you have a great time, talking loudly and laughing hard, but when you leave the bar, you feel kind of empty. You may feel that way because there are no benefits to spending your time on such pursuits.
Another way is helping others. As human beings, we feel happy when we are useful to others or do something beneficial for others. Although doing something that helped others may have been very hard at the time, when we look back on it, we feel proud. We feel that what we did was meaningful and beneficial, so we believe we did the right thing even if it took a lot of effort.
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2022-02-06 12:30:00+00:00
Om Swami
Just like our desires and emotions are cyclical, so are the good and bad times in our lives. It is absolutely impossible that each day will turn out the way you expect it to, or that every time only pleasing news will knock on your door. At times, situations are undesirable and unpleasant, but we can’t avoid them. We have to deal with them. As they say, someone’s got to make the trains run on time. Granted, it’s not always feasible to deal with unpleasant situations with a pleasant mood, but it is possible to handle them with patience.
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate.
(Bhagavad Gita 2.48)
‘O, the finest archer!’ Krishna says to Arjuna, ‘the yoga of equanimity is to maintain your steadfastness in the face of both success and failure, it is to act with a degree of detachment.’
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2022-02-06 04:00:21+00:00
Adi Shankara
Waste not your efforts to win the love of or to fight against friend and foe, children and relatives. See yourself in everyone and give up all feelings of duality completely.
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2022-02-05 16:30:00+00:00
Thich Nhat Hanh
Reality cannot be described in terms of being and nonbeing. Being and nonbeing are notions created by you, exactly like the notions of birth and death, coming and going.
If your beloved one can no longer be seen, it does not mean that from being she has become nonbeing. If you realize this truth about your beloved, you will suffer much less, and if you realize this truth about yourself, you will transcend your fear of dying, of nonbeing.
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2022-02-05 05:41:00+00:00
J Krishnamurti
So can the brain ever understand the universe? They can say Venus is so much gas, has so many minerals, and so on, but the material description of Venus is not the beauty of it, the extraordinary quietness of it. And to understand all that immensity, can our brain be quiet? Not everlastingly chattering, chattering, chattering. Can that brain become extraordinarily simple and therefore extraordinarily subtle? And if that brain is capable of that subtleness, that immense sense of the great simplicity of time-thought and the rest of it, then perhaps that mind that is not the brain can communicate with it. The present brain cannot communicate with that mind, obviously. Though we do our utmost to communicate with it, all kinds of tricks, all forms of control, sacrifice, taking vows, right? And that thing can never... one can never touch it that way. The religious mind, religious brain, always has the background of great silence and solitude.
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2022-02-04 12:30:01+00:00
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
People who don't understand meditation think that it is some kind of special inner manipulation which will magically shut off these waves so that the mind's surface will be flat, peaceful, and tranquil. But just as you can't put a glass plate on the water to calm the waves, so you can't artificially suppress the waves of your mind, and it is not too smart to try. It will only create more tension and inner struggle, not calmness. That doesn't mean that calmness is unattainable. It's just that it cannot be attained by misguided attempts to suppress the mind's natural activity.
It is possible through meditation to find shelter from much of the wind that agitates the mind. Over time, a good deal of the turbulence may die down from lack of continuous feeding. But ultimately the winds of life and of the mind will blow, do what we may. Meditation is about knowing something about this and how to work with it.
~Wherever you go There you are
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2022-02-04 04:40:00+00:00
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2022-02-04 04:40:00+00:00
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2022-02-04 04:40:00+00:00
The Little Book of IKIGAI by Ken Mogi
The book "Ikigai: The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life" by Ken Mogi, explains the concepts of the Ikigai philosophy, a Japanese origin word that describes the pleasures and senses of life.
Through 5 steps, the author will help you find your Ikigai, showing how it is rooted in Japanese culture, and give lessons that will change your life. All of this through an easy reading, making the absorption of knowledge easier.
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2022-02-03 02:30:00+00:00
Spirit of Faith
During the war, Duryodhan taunted Bheeshma, the commander-in-chief of the Kaurav army, saying he was being lenient with the Pandavas, for he could have easily killed them, had he chosen to do so. Bheeshma felt insulted, and resolved that by sunset the next day, he would either kill their foremost warrior, Arjun, or to protect him, Shree Krishna would have to break His vow and lift weapons.
When the battle ended that evening, this news spread in the Pandava camp. Everyone was sad to hear it as Bheeshma was known for keeping his vows. Shree Krishna was lost in contemplation about what could be done. He had vowed not to lift weapons during the war, but now it concerned Arjun’s life.
Pondering over the problem, Shree Krishna realised that it was midnight. He thought, ‘If I am so concerned, how worried must Arjun be, for it is his death that Grandsire Bheeshma has announced.’ He walked over to Arjun’s tent to console him. However, He found sounds of snoring emanating from the tent as Arjun was fast asleep.
Shree Krishna shook him awake, ‘My dear friend, do you not know about the vow made by Bheeshma?’
‘Of course, I do, my Lord.’
‘Then are you not worried?’
‘When You are so concerned about my protection that You are unable to sleep till early morning, then why should I worry for myself?’
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2022-02-02 05:41:00+00:00
Pomnyun
If you want to to achieve something you can either keep trying or quit. Feeling stressed out over things you want to achieve but failing to do so is because of greed. Stress comes from having a high expectation but not wanting to put in a requisite effort. So it's very easy to distinguish between impure and pure desires. If you suffer because your desire wasn't fulfilled then that is the result of your greed. However, if you are able to say, "Oh that didn't work, how about if I try it this way? Hmm, that didn't work either. Let's try this way." If you keep such an investigative mind, failure doesn't cost you suffering, because you are driven by genuinely wanting to achieve that goal.
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