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“The spirit in me
honours the spirit in you”
“Namaste” - a Himalayan
(Nepalese) greeting
"Mind matters most"
~ Buddha
"Mind precedes all phenomena,
Mind matters most,
Everything is mind-made."
~ Buddha
DISCIPLE: "What's the difference between knowledge and enlightenment?
MASTER: "When you have knowledge you use a torch to show the way.
When you are enlightened, you become a torch."
~ Anthony de Mello - Priest and Spiritual Guide (1932 - 1987)
"Help us to find God."
"No one can help you there."
"Why not?"
"For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean."
~ Unknown (Zen)
Is there life before death? —that is the question!
~ Unknown (Zen)
To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said,
"If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people.
It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."
~ Unknown (Zen)
"What is love?"
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.
~ Unknown (Zen)
Once mortals see their nature, all attachments end.
Awareness isn't hidden.
But you can only find it right now.
It's only now.
If you really want to find the Way,
don't hold on to anything.
~ Bodhidharma (thought of as the first Chinese teacher of Ch'an (Japan: Zen)
"Put the Owner on the phone"
~ Larry Crane
"Stay in the warriors voice."
~ Ms. Equanimous
"May all beings be Happy!
May all beings be Peaceful!
May all beings be liberated!
~ S.N Goenka
"Be your beingness"
~ Lester Levenson
"It is impossible for a man to learn
what he thinks he already knows"
~ Epictetus
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using intelligence, but memory"
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness"
~ Sophocles
"Do not speak unless you can improve upon silence"
~ Buddha
"Forever is composed of nows"
~ Emily Dickinson
"THE FOUR NOBLEST QUALITIES OF MIND"
* Loving kindness and friendliness ([i]"metta"[/i])
* Compassion and empathy
* Joy and rejoicing
* Equanimity and peace of mind
~ Buddha, via "Awakenining the Buddha within",
--- Lama Surya Das, p.340
"MEDITATION ON THE FOUR NOBLEST QUALITIES OF MIND"
"May all beings have happiness
and the cause of happiness".
"May all beings remain free from suffering
and the cause of suffering".
"May all beings remain unseparated from the sacred joy
and happiness that is totally free from sorrow."
"May all beings come to rest in the boundless and all-inclusive
equanimity that is beyond attachments and aversions"
~ Buddha, via "Awakenining the Buddha within",
--- Lama Surya Das, p.341
"Mastery over physical action and vocal action is excellent
but mastery over mind action is most important."
~ Buddha Message for Day from Mountain (3rd April)
"The soul has now no further awareness of the body
and will give herself no foreign name,
not man, not living being, nor anything at all."
~ Plotinus (cited p.20 Douglas Harding's ... "On Hving No Head")
"After the body has been cast off to a distance like a corpse,
the Sage never more attaches himself to it"
~ Sankara (p.20 above)
"If one opens one's eyes and seeks the body,
it is not to be found any more.
This is called: In the empty chamber it grows light.
Inside and outside, everything is equally light.
That is a very favorable sign."
~ "The Secret of the Golden Flower" (p.20 above)
"Vow to acheive the perfect understanding that
the illusory body is like dew and lightning."
~ Zen master Hau Yun, 1959 (final words)
“Namaste”
“The spirit in me
Honours the spirit in you”