I am that which is...
I am everything that is, that was, and that will be. No mortal man has lifted my veil.
He is of himself alone, and it is to this aloneness that all things owe their being.
--- three ancient Egyptian inscriptions Beethoven framed.
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Interesting, thought provoking quotes!
I like the first 2 quotes, the last one has me a bit confused. Well, I am easily confused as it is!
love, Dara
I like the first 2 quotes, the last one has me a bit confused. Well, I am easily confused as it is!
love, Dara
thanks Dara, I'm glad you liked them. Â I was very pleasantly surprised when a fellow researcher and friend emailed them to me, mainly because I never knew Beethoven had an inclination for the mystical, though I guess, in retrospect, it's not all that surprising given the arguable profundity of some of his musical work. Â About the third quote, yes, it's a little odd. Â I think it's a statement of monism (and hence the aloneness of the supreme being, since there are none other like him).
take care,
Shawn
take care,
Shawn
I like some of those quotes quite well.. Well its the first time I have ever been on here, but maybe I will leave more notes another time.
Stacy...
Stacy...
The mind (like the moon) shines by the reflected light of the Self (which is the sun).
~Sri Ramana
...The world is essentially the manifestation of God to Himself. Thus it is expressed in the sacred saying which brings back the idea of creation to the idea of Knowledge: 'I was a hidden treasure; I wished to be known (or to know) and I created the world.' In the same sense Sufis compare the Universe to a combination of mirrors in which the Infinite Essence contemplates Itself in a multiplicity of forms, or which reflect in differing degrees the irradiation of the One Being.
~Ibn 'Ata'illah al-Iskandari
~Sri Ramana
...The world is essentially the manifestation of God to Himself. Thus it is expressed in the sacred saying which brings back the idea of creation to the idea of Knowledge: 'I was a hidden treasure; I wished to be known (or to know) and I created the world.' In the same sense Sufis compare the Universe to a combination of mirrors in which the Infinite Essence contemplates Itself in a multiplicity of forms, or which reflect in differing degrees the irradiation of the One Being.
~Ibn 'Ata'illah al-Iskandari
The fact that all ceated things seem to have existence and being in their own right is because we can neither conceive nor see, with our physical eyes, the Force of God which is in the created world. Were the eye able to see and conceive the vitality and spirituality in each created thing, which flows through it from it's divine source, then the physicality, materiality, and substantiality of the created world would not be seen at all; because apart from the spiritual dimension it is absolute nothingness. There is really nothing in existence besides God." (The teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman)
"Here from the very beginning, there is this One Thing, constantly lucid and mysterious, it has never been born and it has never died. It cannot be named or depicted" (Sosan - Korean Son/Zen Grand Master 1520-1604)
This essence is not born and can never die. It exists eternally. Some call it energy; others call it spirit. But what is it? No one knows. Any concept we have of what it is can only be an analogy... (p.93 The eye never sleeps: Striking to the heart of Zen)
The God who manifests Himself in His Sefirot (creation with form) is the very same God of traditional religious belief, and consequently, despite all the complexities such an idea involves, the emanation of the Sefirot is a process within God Himself. The hidden God in the aspect of Ein-Sof (formless spirit) and the God manifested in the emanation of the Sefirot (created forms within Himself) are one and the same, viewed from two different angles. (Kaballah p. 98)
'What can I do Muslims? I do not know myself. I am no Christian, no Jew, no Magian, no Musalman. Not of the East, not of the West. Not of the land, not of the sea. Not of the mine of nature, not of the circling heavens, not of the Earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire, not of the throne, not of the ground, of existence, of being, not of India, China, Bulgaria, Saqseen, not of the kingdom of the Iraqs, or of Khorasan, not of this world or the next, of heaven or hell, not of Adam, Eve, the gardens of Paradise or Eden... My place placeless, my trace traceless. Neither body nor soul: all is the life of my Beloved....' (Rumi)
... we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence...
(p. 59 The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Dudjom Rinpoche on the Buddha Nature)
The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. (p. 28 The Unfettered Mind)
'He, as the Self, is infinite, indivisible; he is consciousness, bliss. In him are merged all the three states of consciousness. From him are born mind, life, and the senses; earth, air, water, fire, and ether. He is the reality behind all existence. He is the Supreme Brahman. He is in all, He is the foundation of all. Subtler than the subtlest. He is eternal. Thou art he ! Thou art he !' (Kaivalya Upanishad)
"When one has awoken to the sameness of everything, there is great enlightenment." (Vairocana - Mahayana school of Buddhism)
"That Self is empty like space; but it is not nothingness, since it is consciousness. It is: yet because it cannot be experienced by the mind and senses, it is not. It being the Self of all, it is not experienced (as the object of experience) by anyone. Though one, it is reflected in the infinite atoms of existence and hence appears to be many. This appearance is however unreal... But the self is not unreal. It is not a void or nothingness: for it is the Self of all... (From The Concise Yoga Vasishtha)
The Tao is supreme goodness. It has no form and is limitless. It is formless because there is no visible trace of its existence. The Tao is that energy that has existed from the beginning when there was neither structure nor differentiation. It is the source of life in heaven and on earth. It creates and nourishes all things. (p. 4)
(Cultivating Stillness: A Taoist Manual for Tranforming Body and Mind)
"Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session." (Judaism - Frank Kafka)
"Mind, Buddha and living beings do not differ from one another." (Hui Hai - Chinese Ch'an / Zen Master 720 - 814)
That Self or infinite consciousness is, from the ordinary point of view, the creator, the protector and the overlord of all; and yet from the absolute point of view, in reality, being the Self of all, it has no such limited roles." (From The Concise Yoga Vasishtha)
'Lord Himself is the Relisher, Himself the Relish, and Himself the enjoyer. He himself is the Bride and Himself the Couch and Bridegroom. My Master is dyed with love and is fully pervading everywhere. He himself is the fisherman, and the fish and Himself the water and the net. He Himself is the metal ball of the net and Himself the bait within.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib - 23:36)
(The Tao) is always present and always available...
If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. (22)
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space:
All are transient expressions of the Tao. (33)
(Hua Hu Ching)
'Thou art the river and all are in Thee. Beside Thee, there is none else.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib - 11:51)
"Here from the very beginning, there is this One Thing, constantly lucid and mysterious, it has never been born and it has never died. It cannot be named or depicted" (Sosan - Korean Son/Zen Grand Master 1520-1604)
This essence is not born and can never die. It exists eternally. Some call it energy; others call it spirit. But what is it? No one knows. Any concept we have of what it is can only be an analogy... (p.93 The eye never sleeps: Striking to the heart of Zen)
The God who manifests Himself in His Sefirot (creation with form) is the very same God of traditional religious belief, and consequently, despite all the complexities such an idea involves, the emanation of the Sefirot is a process within God Himself. The hidden God in the aspect of Ein-Sof (formless spirit) and the God manifested in the emanation of the Sefirot (created forms within Himself) are one and the same, viewed from two different angles. (Kaballah p. 98)
'What can I do Muslims? I do not know myself. I am no Christian, no Jew, no Magian, no Musalman. Not of the East, not of the West. Not of the land, not of the sea. Not of the mine of nature, not of the circling heavens, not of the Earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire, not of the throne, not of the ground, of existence, of being, not of India, China, Bulgaria, Saqseen, not of the kingdom of the Iraqs, or of Khorasan, not of this world or the next, of heaven or hell, not of Adam, Eve, the gardens of Paradise or Eden... My place placeless, my trace traceless. Neither body nor soul: all is the life of my Beloved....' (Rumi)
... we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence...
(p. 59 The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Dudjom Rinpoche on the Buddha Nature)
The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. (p. 28 The Unfettered Mind)
'He, as the Self, is infinite, indivisible; he is consciousness, bliss. In him are merged all the three states of consciousness. From him are born mind, life, and the senses; earth, air, water, fire, and ether. He is the reality behind all existence. He is the Supreme Brahman. He is in all, He is the foundation of all. Subtler than the subtlest. He is eternal. Thou art he ! Thou art he !' (Kaivalya Upanishad)
"When one has awoken to the sameness of everything, there is great enlightenment." (Vairocana - Mahayana school of Buddhism)
"That Self is empty like space; but it is not nothingness, since it is consciousness. It is: yet because it cannot be experienced by the mind and senses, it is not. It being the Self of all, it is not experienced (as the object of experience) by anyone. Though one, it is reflected in the infinite atoms of existence and hence appears to be many. This appearance is however unreal... But the self is not unreal. It is not a void or nothingness: for it is the Self of all... (From The Concise Yoga Vasishtha)
The Tao is supreme goodness. It has no form and is limitless. It is formless because there is no visible trace of its existence. The Tao is that energy that has existed from the beginning when there was neither structure nor differentiation. It is the source of life in heaven and on earth. It creates and nourishes all things. (p. 4)
(Cultivating Stillness: A Taoist Manual for Tranforming Body and Mind)
"Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session." (Judaism - Frank Kafka)
"Mind, Buddha and living beings do not differ from one another." (Hui Hai - Chinese Ch'an / Zen Master 720 - 814)
That Self or infinite consciousness is, from the ordinary point of view, the creator, the protector and the overlord of all; and yet from the absolute point of view, in reality, being the Self of all, it has no such limited roles." (From The Concise Yoga Vasishtha)
'Lord Himself is the Relisher, Himself the Relish, and Himself the enjoyer. He himself is the Bride and Himself the Couch and Bridegroom. My Master is dyed with love and is fully pervading everywhere. He himself is the fisherman, and the fish and Himself the water and the net. He Himself is the metal ball of the net and Himself the bait within.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib - 23:36)
(The Tao) is always present and always available...
If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. (22)
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space:
All are transient expressions of the Tao. (33)
(Hua Hu Ching)
'Thou art the river and all are in Thee. Beside Thee, there is none else.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib - 11:51)
'The One Lord is within thy home (body) and the One without. He Himself is found within all places.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 45:67)
...The world is essentially the manifestation of God to Himself. Thus it is expressed in the sacred saying (hadith qudsi) which brings back the idea of creation to the idea of Knowledge: 'I was a hidden treasure; I wished to be known (or to know) and I created the world.' In the same sense Sufis compare the Universe to a combination of mirrors in which the Infinite Essence contemplates Itself in a multiplicity of forms, or which reflect in differing degrees the irradiaiton (at-tajalli) of the One Being. (Ibn 'Ata'illah al-Iskandari, in his Hikam)
There's a strange frenzy in my head, of birds flying, each particle circulating on its own. Is the one I love everywhere? (Jalaluddin Rumi)
All pictured forms are reflections in the water of the stream; when you rub your eyes, indeed, all are He. (Jalaluddin Rumi)
'As seconds, minutes, hours, quarters of a day, lunar days, weekdays, months and several seasons spring from the lone sun. So many forms originate from the Creator, O Nanak!' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 12:29)
'Know that the Father and I are one, and I am in you and you are in me.' (New Testament - John 14:12)
"There is One body and One Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (New Testament - Ephesians 4: 4 - 6)
Luke: God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him though he is not far from each one of us. "For in him we live and move and have our being"... (Acts 17:27-28)
"You fancy this world is permanent of itself and endures because of it's own nature, but really it is a ray of light from the Truth, and within it the Truth is concealed." (Sa'd Al-Din Mahmud Shabistari 1250 - 1320)
"The ocean is the same ocean as it has always been of old; the events of today are it's waves and it's rivers." (Sayyid Haydar Amuli - 14th century)
'Thousands are Thine eyes, yet Thou hast no eye. Thousands are Thine forms, yet Thou hast not even one. Thousands are Thine pure feet, even then Thou has not one foot. Thousands are Thine noses and yet Thou art without a nose. I am bewitched by these plays of thine. Amongst all there is light, and that light art Thou.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 13:75)
'Everything the Lord Himself is. There is no second. When that Lord Himself (as a Divine Ocean) causes us (as waves within Himself) to
"These are my sons. This is my wealth." In this way the fool troubles himself. He is not even the owner of himself; how much less of his sons and of his wealth! (The Buddha's Dhammapada 5:62)
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God", (1 John 3:1)
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)
...Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." (1 Corinthians 6:20)
Though we speak much we cannot reach the end, and the sum of our words is: "He is the all." Where shall we find strength to praise Him? For He is greater than all His works. (Ecclesiasticus 43: 27-28)
"And when he sees me in all - and sees all in me, then I never leave him, and he never leaves me. He who on this oneness of love, loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth he lives in me," (Krishna's counsel to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 6, 30:31)
And He is with you wherever you are ... (Qur'an 57:4)
Wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah (Qur'an 2:116)
28. "And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others; then he goes indeed to the highest Path." (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13).
So this cause of everything which surpasses everything is at the same time namelessness which befits him and all the names of all the creatures..... He contains in Himself from the beginning all creatures.... in such a way that he can be honored and named in terms of every creature. (From the Christian Philokalia - Saint Dionysius The Areopagite - Divine Names, I, 1, 6, pg 3, 596)
God is Breath, for the breath of the wind is shared by all, goes everywhere; nothing shuts it in, nothing holds it prisoner. (From the Philokalia - Saint Maximus The Confessor on Divine Names, I, 4, pg 4, 208)
...The world is essentially the manifestation of God to Himself. Thus it is expressed in the sacred saying (hadith qudsi) which brings back the idea of creation to the idea of Knowledge: 'I was a hidden treasure; I wished to be known (or to know) and I created the world.' In the same sense Sufis compare the Universe to a combination of mirrors in which the Infinite Essence contemplates Itself in a multiplicity of forms, or which reflect in differing degrees the irradiaiton (at-tajalli) of the One Being. (Ibn 'Ata'illah al-Iskandari, in his Hikam)
There's a strange frenzy in my head, of birds flying, each particle circulating on its own. Is the one I love everywhere? (Jalaluddin Rumi)
All pictured forms are reflections in the water of the stream; when you rub your eyes, indeed, all are He. (Jalaluddin Rumi)
'As seconds, minutes, hours, quarters of a day, lunar days, weekdays, months and several seasons spring from the lone sun. So many forms originate from the Creator, O Nanak!' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 12:29)
'Know that the Father and I are one, and I am in you and you are in me.' (New Testament - John 14:12)
"There is One body and One Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (New Testament - Ephesians 4: 4 - 6)
Luke: God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him though he is not far from each one of us. "For in him we live and move and have our being"... (Acts 17:27-28)
"You fancy this world is permanent of itself and endures because of it's own nature, but really it is a ray of light from the Truth, and within it the Truth is concealed." (Sa'd Al-Din Mahmud Shabistari 1250 - 1320)
"The ocean is the same ocean as it has always been of old; the events of today are it's waves and it's rivers." (Sayyid Haydar Amuli - 14th century)
'Thousands are Thine eyes, yet Thou hast no eye. Thousands are Thine forms, yet Thou hast not even one. Thousands are Thine pure feet, even then Thou has not one foot. Thousands are Thine noses and yet Thou art without a nose. I am bewitched by these plays of thine. Amongst all there is light, and that light art Thou.' (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 13:75)
'Everything the Lord Himself is. There is no second. When that Lord Himself (as a Divine Ocean) causes us (as waves within Himself) to
"These are my sons. This is my wealth." In this way the fool troubles himself. He is not even the owner of himself; how much less of his sons and of his wealth! (The Buddha's Dhammapada 5:62)
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God", (1 John 3:1)
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)
...Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." (1 Corinthians 6:20)
Though we speak much we cannot reach the end, and the sum of our words is: "He is the all." Where shall we find strength to praise Him? For He is greater than all His works. (Ecclesiasticus 43: 27-28)
"And when he sees me in all - and sees all in me, then I never leave him, and he never leaves me. He who on this oneness of love, loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth he lives in me," (Krishna's counsel to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 6, 30:31)
And He is with you wherever you are ... (Qur'an 57:4)
Wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah (Qur'an 2:116)
28. "And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others; then he goes indeed to the highest Path." (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13).
So this cause of everything which surpasses everything is at the same time namelessness which befits him and all the names of all the creatures..... He contains in Himself from the beginning all creatures.... in such a way that he can be honored and named in terms of every creature. (From the Christian Philokalia - Saint Dionysius The Areopagite - Divine Names, I, 1, 6, pg 3, 596)
God is Breath, for the breath of the wind is shared by all, goes everywhere; nothing shuts it in, nothing holds it prisoner. (From the Philokalia - Saint Maximus The Confessor on Divine Names, I, 4, pg 4, 208)
We and our existences are nonexistences. Thou art Absolute Existence showing Thyself as perishable things. (Jalaluddin Rumi)
"The One Mind (Universal Soul/infinite consciousness) alone is Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp the Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full eon, they will not be able to attain to it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind (Universal Soul) is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifested in the Buddhas." (From - The Zen Teaching of Huang Po).
What is, is the sole reality - which is neither created nor destroyed. It is that infinite consciousness that is perceived by the ignorant as the universe. (Yoga Vasishtha 3.52)
'Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there" (Mohammed Neguib)
... the "Sigh of Compassion" flows through the things of the world like the waters of a river and is unceasingly renewed. (Ibn `Arabi)
Everything we call other than God, everything we call the universe, is realted to the Divine Being as the shadow to the person. The world is God's shadow... The shadow is at once God and something other than God. Everything we perceive is the Divine Being in the eternal hexeities of the possibles. (Ibn `Arabi)
"There are three classes of devotees. The lowest one says, "God is up there," and he points to heaven. The mediocre devotee says that God dwells in the heart as the "Inner Controller." But the highest devotee says: "God alone has become everything. All things that we perceive are so many forms of God." (From The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna p. 292-293)
The Tao gives birth to One.
One gives birth to yin and yang.
Yin and yang give birth to all things...
The complete whole is the complete whole.
So also is any part the complete whole...
But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one.
The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it. (46)
(Hua Hu Ching)
"Everyone who has insight into the matter will understand clearly that everything created and having being is as absolute naught with regard to the Activating Force, which is in all created being. This force constitutes it's reality and draws it forth from absolute nothingness to being. (The teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman)
One in All, All in One - if only this is realized, no more worry about your being perfect!" (Sosan - Korean Son/Zen Grand Master 1520-1604)
"The One Mind (Universal Soul/infinite consciousness) alone is Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp the Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full eon, they will not be able to attain to it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind (Universal Soul) is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifested in the Buddhas." (From - The Zen Teaching of Huang Po).
What is, is the sole reality - which is neither created nor destroyed. It is that infinite consciousness that is perceived by the ignorant as the universe. (Yoga Vasishtha 3.52)
'Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there" (Mohammed Neguib)
... the "Sigh of Compassion" flows through the things of the world like the waters of a river and is unceasingly renewed. (Ibn `Arabi)
Everything we call other than God, everything we call the universe, is realted to the Divine Being as the shadow to the person. The world is God's shadow... The shadow is at once God and something other than God. Everything we perceive is the Divine Being in the eternal hexeities of the possibles. (Ibn `Arabi)
"There are three classes of devotees. The lowest one says, "God is up there," and he points to heaven. The mediocre devotee says that God dwells in the heart as the "Inner Controller." But the highest devotee says: "God alone has become everything. All things that we perceive are so many forms of God." (From The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna p. 292-293)
The Tao gives birth to One.
One gives birth to yin and yang.
Yin and yang give birth to all things...
The complete whole is the complete whole.
So also is any part the complete whole...
But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one.
The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it. (46)
(Hua Hu Ching)
"Everyone who has insight into the matter will understand clearly that everything created and having being is as absolute naught with regard to the Activating Force, which is in all created being. This force constitutes it's reality and draws it forth from absolute nothingness to being. (The teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman)
One in All, All in One - if only this is realized, no more worry about your being perfect!" (Sosan - Korean Son/Zen Grand Master 1520-1604)
Just as light which enables us to see each object does not need any other light to be visible itself, so God who enables us to see everything does not need a light by which we might be able to see Him, because He is light by His very essence. (Philokalia - Saint Evagrius of Poytus - Centuries, I, 35)
'And this Self, who is pure consciousness is Brahman. He is God, all gods: the five elements - earth, air, fire, water, ether; all beings great or small, born of eggs, born from the womb, born from heat, born from soil: horses, cows, men, elephants, birds; everything that breathes, the beings that walk and the beings that walk not. The reality behind all these is Brahman who is pure consciousness. All these while they live, and after they have ceased to live, exist in him. (Aitareya Upanishad)
... persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One. (Rumi)
... in everything there is a sign that points to the Oneness of Him. (Rumi)
'Within thee abides God. (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 33:25)
As the rays of the sun differ not from the sun, so matter differs not from God. (Avadhut Gita, 2.7)
"This universe is nothing but the Self-experiencing of the Infinite." (p. 329 of the Concise Yoga Vasishtha)
'Lo, I am with you always' means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside. Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. (Jalaluddin Rumi)
You are Brahman (God), I am Brahman, the whole universe is Brahman. Whatever you are doing realize this truth at all times. This Brahman or the Self alone is the reality in all beings, even as clay is the real substance in thousands of pots. (Yoga Vasishtha, 6.1.49)
'He who knows this body is the foam of a wave, the shadow of a mirage, he breaks the sharp arrows of MARA (maya / illusion). (The Buddha's Dhammapada 4:46).
"The Master said to me: "All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind (Soul), besides which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you - begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured." (From - The Zen Teaching of Huang Po).
The beauty of the Unseen Form (Infinite Consciousness) is beyond description -- borrow a thousand illuminated eyes, borrow!! (Jalaluddin Rumi)
'And this Self, who is pure consciousness is Brahman. He is God, all gods: the five elements - earth, air, fire, water, ether; all beings great or small, born of eggs, born from the womb, born from heat, born from soil: horses, cows, men, elephants, birds; everything that breathes, the beings that walk and the beings that walk not. The reality behind all these is Brahman who is pure consciousness. All these while they live, and after they have ceased to live, exist in him. (Aitareya Upanishad)
... persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One. (Rumi)
... in everything there is a sign that points to the Oneness of Him. (Rumi)
'Within thee abides God. (Sri Guru Granth Sahib 33:25)
As the rays of the sun differ not from the sun, so matter differs not from God. (Avadhut Gita, 2.7)
"This universe is nothing but the Self-experiencing of the Infinite." (p. 329 of the Concise Yoga Vasishtha)
'Lo, I am with you always' means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside. Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. (Jalaluddin Rumi)
You are Brahman (God), I am Brahman, the whole universe is Brahman. Whatever you are doing realize this truth at all times. This Brahman or the Self alone is the reality in all beings, even as clay is the real substance in thousands of pots. (Yoga Vasishtha, 6.1.49)
'He who knows this body is the foam of a wave, the shadow of a mirage, he breaks the sharp arrows of MARA (maya / illusion). (The Buddha's Dhammapada 4:46).
"The Master said to me: "All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind (Soul), besides which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you - begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured." (From - The Zen Teaching of Huang Po).
The beauty of the Unseen Form (Infinite Consciousness) is beyond description -- borrow a thousand illuminated eyes, borrow!! (Jalaluddin Rumi)
In the final stage of egolessness there is an "obscure knowledge" that All is in all--that All is actually each. This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to "perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe." ~Aldous Huxley
All is a type of activity
what once is, forever will be
I this one "what once is, forever will be," it is very true!! it think...
Love ya,
Stacy...
Love ya,
Stacy...
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If you ever find yourself walking down the highway and a man in a white pickup truck comes by to pick you up, ya better get in the truck with him. Â He's likely to be the only one who believes ya. Â Likewise, if you ever find yourself driving down the highway in a white pickup truck, and you see a fellow walking down the road with a bunch of feathers in his ear; you better pick him up. Â He knows where you're goin.' |
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You can learn a lot watching a boat paddle. |
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You better be careful or one of these day's your likely to find Jesus staring back at you from a curtain like your Uncle Frank. |
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