This Life is fragile and needs to be nurtured with loving care. Each moment we live, think about the air you breathe, the heart that beats within you, the relationships that are important to you. Don't take anything or anyone for granted. ~ Merrill Osmond
Follow the truth of the Way. Reflect on it Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you. Do not turn away What is given you, Nor reach out for What is given to others, Lest you disturb your quietness. - Buddha in the Dhammapada
From: 'Living Truth' Jean Klein When you give up intentional living, when you are open to life, there is no more place for the person. This openness to life is a perfect insecurity, but in this apparent insecurity for the person there is security. Alan Watts said there is security in insecurity, which means you find your real security when there is no projected security. When you look for security you can never find it, because you project memory, the already known, and life is constantly and completely different from what you expected. To be attuned to the real nature of life, you must live completely in the unknown, without any strategy. In this attuning, you will find yourself secure. Otherwise, you are swimming upstream all your life. Apparently, the person is in insecurity, but what is not the person is in real security. When you go on the battlefield you can take all your instruments, all the tools that you need, but you must never codify any way of living. You must be completely open to the moment itself. When you are completely open to the moment itself, there is apparent insecurity, but you will come face to face with real security. We constantly project security through experiences or memory. In projecting security we can never find security. In the non-projecting of security we find real security. But this non-projecting is a kind of insecurity for the person, it is true.
There is no moment when the Self as consciousness does not exist nor when the seer remains apart from consciousness. This consciousness is the eternal being and only being. from: 'Absolute Consciousness' Ramana Maharshi As selected by Grace J McMartin
Enlightenent is already there - like a diamond buried in the mud. It is not something we have to go and find an bring home. It is already there. Which is why, in our meditation, in the very beginning, we train ourselves in knowing that we have nothing to strive for. Nowhere to go, nothing new to create. It's all here already. The path of training is simply systematically to remove the obstacles. To free ourselves from the mind poisons. The route to that, inevitably, is mindfulness. ~Rob Nairn
The Rose Garden "Just as the rose consists of many petals held together, so the person who attains to the unfoldment of the soul begins to show many different qualities. The qualities emit fragrance in the form of a spiritual personality. The rose has a beautiful structure, and the personality which proves the unfoldment of the soul has also a fine structure, in manner, in dealing with others, in speech, in action. The atmosphere of a spiritual being pervades the air like the perfume of a rose." From The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Volume X
Profound and tranquil, free from complexity, Uncompounded luminous clarity, Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas; This is the depth of the mind of the buddhas. In this, there is not a thing to be removed, Nor anything that needs to be added. It is merely the immaculate, Looking naturally at itself. ~Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others' viewpoints. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
D.H. Lawrence
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me!
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed
By the fine, fine wind that takes its course through the chaos of the
world
Like a fine, an exquisite chisel, a wedge-blade inserted;
If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge
Driven by invisible blows,
The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the
Hesperides.
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul,
I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,
Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.
What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody wants to do us harm.
No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them.
From: 'Open Secret' Tony Parsons I am not ... ... my life story, the mind, the body, feelings, experiences of pain or pleasure, struggle, success or failure. I am not loneliness, stillness, frustration or compassion. I am not even what I think is my purpose, the seeking, the finding, or anything which is called a spiritual experience. When I don't know what I am I sanctify these experiences, take ownership of them and give them great significance. I believe they mean something which, once understood, will give me answers and provide formulas. But these experiences are only consciousness concealing and revealing itself in order to be recognised. When I know what I am I discover that I am not existence, I am the presence which allows existence to be. Existence either blossoms in that presence or reflects back my sense of separation.
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