tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post3625733998507508064..comments2023-10-16T13:06:42.360+01:00Comments on Happiness of Being: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi: ‘Just sitting’ (shikantaza) and ‘choiceless awareness’Michael Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460943269122289281noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-78852994068853145312010-07-16T08:26:31.774+01:002010-07-16T08:26:31.774+01:00I offer to weave: Transparent vests, revealing th...I offer to weave: Transparent vests, revealing the living heart;<br />transparent hats, for thoughts ... seen through;<br />transparent gloves, as symbol of one hand.<br />ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-17142553316724388452010-07-08T05:11:19.411+01:002010-07-08T05:11:19.411+01:00The Master was entering an army encampment to atte...The Master was entering an army encampment to attend a dinner when he<br />saw one of the officers at the gate. He pointed to a bare wooden gatepost<br />and said, "A common mortal or a sage?"<br />The officer had no reply.<br />The Master struck the gatepost and said, "Even if you had managed a<br />reply, it would still just be a wooden post!" With that he entered the camp.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-4274870670137486342010-07-03T06:27:49.893+01:002010-07-03T06:27:49.893+01:00True Measure:
The true measure of a man is how he ...True Measure:<br />The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him<br />absolutely no good.<br />ALAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-28435544821010038102010-07-01T06:21:57.010+01:002010-07-01T06:21:57.010+01:00Tao Te Ching (feng/english)
The ancient masters w...Tao Te Ching (feng/english)<br /><br />The ancient masters were subtle, mysterious, profound, reponsive.<br />The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable.<br />Because it is unfathomable,<br />All we can do is describe their appearance.<br />Watchful, like men crossing a winter stream.<br />Alert, like men aware of danger.<br />Courteous, like visiting guests.<br />Yielding, like ice about to melt.<br />Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood.<br />Hollow, like caves.<br />Opaque, like muddy pools.<br /><br />Who can wait quietly while the mud settles?<br />Who can remain still until the moment of action?<br />Observers of the Tao do not seek fulfillment.<br />Not seeking fulfillment, they are not swayed by a desire for change.<br />hjAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-86147925022697050092010-06-15T14:03:21.562+01:002010-06-15T14:03:21.562+01:00Hold your breath and put your head underwater. Not...Hold your breath and put your head underwater. Notice that a clear intention begins to form within a matter of seconds.<br /><br />Now take a nice big bite of a habanero pepper and begin chewing it. Again, notice that a clear intention forms within seconds.<br /><br />When you are sick, notice that you gain clarity in your health intentions. When you lose your job, notice that your financial intentions become clearer.<br /><br />If you want to bring more clarity to your intentions, get off the sidelines of life, and get onto the field. The field is scarier. The sidelines are safer.<br /><br />Go immerse yourself in something you fear. A new intention will quickly form.<br /><br />A low-contrast life has very little power to form intentions. Such lives maintain that safety is a higher priority than growth. However, those who subscribe to such a philosophy eventually find themselves locked within their safes.<br /><br />The quickest way out of that safe is to follow the path of courage. Fear is its signpost.<br /><br />Turn toward your fears, and powerful intentions will form automatically.<br /><br />WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-62738891246941338082010-06-12T12:58:34.064+01:002010-06-12T12:58:34.064+01:00I have learned that everyone wants to live on the ...I have learned that everyone wants to live on the peak of <br />the mountain without knowing that real happiness is in how it <br />is scaled. I have learned that when a newborn child squeezes <br />for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he <br />has him trapped forever. I have learned that a man has the <br />right to look down on another only when he has to help the <br />other get to his feet. <br /><br />"<br /><br />GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-76948467388877598502010-06-12T05:27:33.078+01:002010-06-12T05:27:33.078+01:00Unbounded conciousness, you rascal.
You who create...Unbounded conciousness, you rascal.<br />You who created all the worlds and set them in motion.<br />On one little ball you created me.<br />And formed me and informed me and set me to seeking.<br /><br />That I did.<br /><br />Seeking and searching for millions of years<br />Until at last I found You. <br />You tricked me!<br />When I found You, I found only myself.<br />How the laughter rang out!<br /><br />Peace - MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-87169764525950442342010-06-12T02:44:43.320+01:002010-06-12T02:44:43.320+01:00Ego
Sometimes I have fantasies
Of potential hurt...Ego <br /><br />Sometimes I have fantasies<br />Of potential hurts<br />That never will happen.<br />Such is the soup of ego,<br />A bizarre concoction<br />Of 'high' and 'low',<br />Better see it for what it is<br />Or it'll be a bitter ride.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-91774059407825000442010-06-04T08:09:31.275+01:002010-06-04T08:09:31.275+01:00I heard a funny story last night. Seems there was ...I heard a funny story last night. Seems there was this devotee who had been<br />with his guru for 18 years and found out some stuff about him. He went to<br />his guru and said I've heard that you are a liar, cheat and hypocrite. The<br />guru got angry, called him an ingrate and told him to go away for 6 months<br />and meditate. After 6 month the disciple went back to the guru. The guru<br />got excited and assumed the disciple had learned the errors of his way. So<br />his asked him if God had spoken to him and the disciple told him yes and the<br />guru wanted to know what he said and he told him that he told him the guru<br />was a liar, a cheat and a hypocrite. The guru got quiet and after a long<br />pause said to him with much excitement "He mentioned me by name !!!!!"<br /><br />Namaste,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-60564743296284305852010-06-03T12:22:42.344+01:002010-06-03T12:22:42.344+01:00Actually one zen teacher calls shikantaza 'jus...Actually one zen teacher calls shikantaza 'just-being'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-69673624063206204512010-06-01T02:54:35.239+01:002010-06-01T02:54:35.239+01:00The Layers
I have walked through many lives
some ...The Layers<br /><br />I have walked through many lives<br />some of them my own,<br />and I am not who I was,<br />though some principle of being<br />abides, from which I struggle<br />not to stray.<br />When I look behind,<br />as I am compelled t look<br />before I can gather strength<br />to proceed on my journey,<br />I see the milestones dwindling<br />toward the horizon<br />and the slow fires trailing<br />from the abandoned camp-sites,<br />over which scavenger angels<br />wheel on heavy wings.<br />Oh, I have made myself a tribe<br />out of my true affections,<br />and my tribe is scattered!<br />How shall the heart be reconciled<br />to its feast of losses?<br />In a rising wind<br />the manic dust of my friends,<br />those who fell along the way,<br />bitterly stings my face.<br />Yet I turn, I turn,<br />exulting somewhat,<br />with my will intact to go<br />wherever I need to go,<br />and every stone on the road<br />precious to me.<br />In my darkest night,<br />when the moon was covered<br />and I roamed through wreckage,<br />a nimbus-clouded voice<br />directed me:<br />"Live in the layers,<br />not on the litter."<br />Though I lack the art<br />to decipher it.<br />no doubt the next chapter<br />in my book of transformations<br />is already written.<br />I am not done with my changes.<br /><br />KunitzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-87154422054932651632010-06-01T02:54:35.238+01:002010-06-01T02:54:35.238+01:00The Layers
I have walked through many lives
some ...The Layers<br /><br />I have walked through many lives<br />some of them my own,<br />and I am not who I was,<br />though some principle of being<br />abides, from which I struggle<br />not to stray.<br />When I look behind,<br />as I am compelled t look<br />before I can gather strength<br />to proceed on my journey,<br />I see the milestones dwindling<br />toward the horizon<br />and the slow fires trailing<br />from the abandoned camp-sites,<br />over which scavenger angels<br />wheel on heavy wings.<br />Oh, I have made myself a tribe<br />out of my true affections,<br />and my tribe is scattered!<br />How shall the heart be reconciled<br />to its feast of losses?<br />In a rising wind<br />the manic dust of my friends,<br />those who fell along the way,<br />bitterly stings my face.<br />Yet I turn, I turn,<br />exulting somewhat,<br />with my will intact to go<br />wherever I need to go,<br />and every stone on the road<br />precious to me.<br />In my darkest night,<br />when the moon was covered<br />and I roamed through wreckage,<br />a nimbus-clouded voice<br />directed me:<br />"Live in the layers,<br />not on the litter."<br />Though I lack the art<br />to decipher it.<br />no doubt the next chapter<br />in my book of transformations<br />is already written.<br />I am not done with my changes.<br /><br />KunitzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-70222631746908182662010-05-26T04:26:07.191+01:002010-05-26T04:26:07.191+01:00Wayfarer,
Your whole mind and body have been tied...Wayfarer,<br /><br />Your whole mind and body have been tied<br />To the foot of the Divine Elephant<br />With a thousand golden chains.<br /><br />Now, begin to rain intelligence and compassion<br />Upon all your tender wounded cells<br /><br />And realize the profound absurdity<br />Of thinking that you can ever go Anywhere<br />Or do Anything<br /><br />Without God's will.<br />HafizAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-35335863333595970172010-05-21T07:38:41.990+01:002010-05-21T07:38:41.990+01:00Buddha Said....
I do not believe in a fate that ...Buddha Said....<br /><br /><br />I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.<br /><br />He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.<br /><br />Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.<br /><br />To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.<br /><br />There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-43907221983008641572010-05-20T10:24:54.364+01:002010-05-20T10:24:54.364+01:00An aspirant is seeking a path for himself, may fin...An aspirant is seeking a path for himself, may find it has been trodden before and can learn from that and perhaps avoid repeating other unworkable or limited patterns. By contrast, Western philosophy is a dry theoretical excersise created by dilettantes: of the intellect and reason rather than understanding tested and tried by inner experience<br />MurrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-49649749748818452242010-05-17T22:10:14.165+01:002010-05-17T22:10:14.165+01:00From Day by Day with Bhagawan
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The visitor a...From Day by Day with Bhagawan<br />"<br />The visitor also asked, “When a man realises the Self,what will he see?” Bhagavan replied, “There is no seeing. Seeing is only Being. The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true. All of us are realising,i.e., regarding as real, that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realise the Self as the Self, or in other words, ‘Be the Self’. At one stage one would laugh at oneself that one tried to discover the Self which is so self-evident. So, what can we say to this question?<br />"<br /><br />How amazing some many Vedas and Upanishads and books to realize this Being, which is there always. <br />The illusion of having to reach somewhere is so strong in us that we fail to look at the obvious right here and now with us. This illusion which is created by thought is also from Being since can any one think without Being? and/but we all know intuitively that we can Be without thinking (may be not without a lot of practice :))<br /><br />Regards<br />ArvindAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-43266799644011465602010-05-08T05:07:57.289+01:002010-05-08T05:07:57.289+01:00Therefore they say, 'the breath is Vayu (God o...Therefore they say, 'the breath is Vayu (God of the wind), seed is breath; <br />seed comes into being first when man comes into existence.' In that he <br />recites a triplet to Vishnu, thus he makes his breath perfect...Where <br />there is expiration, there is inspiration; in that he recites a triplet to <br />Indra and Vayu, thus his expiration and inspiration he makes perfect." - <br />from the Aitareya BrahmanaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-82452372326577617582010-04-29T05:41:26.474+01:002010-04-29T05:41:26.474+01:00Comment: I find it impossible to be aware all the ...Comment: I find it impossible to be aware all the time.<br /><br />K: Don't be aware all the time. Just be aware in little bits.<br />Please, there is no being aware all the time -- that is a<br />dreadful idea. It is a nightmare, this terrible desire for<br />continuity. Just be aware for one minute, for one second,<br />and in that one second of awareness you can see the whole<br />universe. That is not a poetic phrase. We see things in a<br />flash, in a single moment; but having seen something, we<br />want to capture, to hold it, give it continuity. That is not<br />being aware at all. When you say, "I must be aware all the<br />time," you have made a problem of it, and then you should<br />really find out why you want to be aware all the time --<br />see the greed it implies, the desire to acquire. And to say,<br />"Well, I am aware all the time," means nothing.<br /><br />Is love, like marriage, for ever and ever? Are marriages<br />for ever and ever? You know better than I do. Is love for<br />ever and ever, or is it something totally stripped of time?<br /><br />J. Krishnamurti<br />hjAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-21942964972331766152010-04-28T07:35:46.470+01:002010-04-28T07:35:46.470+01:00Question: I am contaminated by society. How am I t...Question: I am contaminated by society. How am I to be free <br />of that contamination? <br /><br />K: Surely, the question is not how to be free of that <br />contamination, for then you merely create another conflict, <br />another problem. The 'I' is not contaminated by society; it <br />is the contamination. The 'I' is a thing that has been put <br />together through conflict, through envy, through ambition <br />and the desire for power, through agony, guilt, despair. <br />And is it possible for that 'I' to dissolve itself without <br />conflict? <br /><br />These are not theoretical or theological questions. If one <br />is at all serious about understanding oneself, one sees <br />that any effort to dissolve the 'I' has a motive; it is the <br />result of a reaction, and therefore still part of the 'I'. <br />So what is to be done? One can see the fact and not do a <br />thing about it. The fact is that every thought, every <br />feeling, is the result of society with its ambitions, its <br />envies, its greeds; and this whole process is the 'I'. The <br />very act of seeing this process in its entirety is its <br />dissipation; you do not have to make an effort to dissipate <br />it. To see something poisonous is to leave it alone. <br /><br />J. Krishnamurti, June 10, 1962, London, England <br />hjAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-57184685685425788842010-04-27T03:05:43.228+01:002010-04-27T03:05:43.228+01:00It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically ...It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.<br />Richard FeynmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-41717362903576791612010-04-25T04:07:11.790+01:002010-04-25T04:07:11.790+01:00Struggling blindly
in the fog of beliefs,
you gras...Struggling blindly<br />in the fog of beliefs,<br />you grasp first one then another<br />in the quest for security.<br /><br />What you seek lies between and behind these beliefs.<br />I am the respectful doubt,<br />the solvent that detaches beliefs.<br /><br />Believe in Me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-65114084893850141312010-04-23T09:26:27.754+01:002010-04-23T09:26:27.754+01:00@Shawn Nevins
Extraordinary comment. Superb, actu...@Shawn Nevins<br /><br />Extraordinary comment. Superb, actually- "Creation is downstream from the source. Find the source.": our preoccupation with the created world sets us on a course that takes us away from the source, right?<br /><br />Thanks for the insightful comments.baskarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-4942553099533051712010-04-23T07:29:22.673+01:002010-04-23T07:29:22.673+01:00To question reality is good. To create your own re...To question reality is good. To create your own reality is not to question. <br />What you want has nothing to do with what Is. <br />What Is, is not, as far as you are concerned. <br />If all is one, that doesn't leave much room for you. <br />If all is one, where is zero? <br />It is best to know the tides before building sand castles. <br />Quantum physicists are well-educated mechanics. <br />Who decides what you decide? <br />Those who create their own reality also create the facts to prove it. <br />If we are all one, then I don't need a co-creator. <br />Creation is downstream from the source. Find the source. <br />Your thoughts are as empty as an atom. <br />Shawn NevinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-42964020664324452312010-04-15T05:00:29.826+01:002010-04-15T05:00:29.826+01:00"I was a hidden treasure, and I desired to be..."I was a hidden treasure, and I desired to be known; therefore I created the<br />creation in order that I might be known." -Sufi Wisdom<br />hjAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345918888953765241.post-20327851735783905282010-04-13T04:55:12.892+01:002010-04-13T04:55:12.892+01:00If a person demands worship, that person has his/h...If a person demands worship, that person has his/her head <br />up a cloud , whether or not they are realized/enlightened. <br />I don't care if they live in the streets or are regarded as <br />avatars. The Self has *no* expectations and makes *no* <br />demands. These *always* arise from the personality, and are <br />indicative of a narcissistic character disorder much more <br />than any real understanding or wisdom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com