February 2012
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between love and wisdom
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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sick of it whatever it’s called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what’s here. ~ Ikkyu
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So why does it not know itself?
It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself. This is how the Self is. Its light penetrates everywhere And engulfs everything, So why does it not know itself? ~Foyan
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be still and solitary...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. - Frantz Kafka
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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move, today is today, always today. - Octavio Paz
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Can the knower be known?
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Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, But at the peak We all gaze at the Single bright moon.
~Ikkyu
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oh green green willow wonderfully red flower but I know the colors are not there ~Ikkyu
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I went looking for Him...
I went looking for Him And lost myself; The drop merged with the Sea — Who can find it now? Looking and looking for Him I lost myself; The Sea merged with the drop — Who can find it now? ~ Kabir
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Past mind can’t be grasped, Present mind can’t be grasped, Future mind can’t be grasped.
With which mind will you drink this tea?
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Only this moment is life
Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.
~Thich Naht Hahn
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And they pass by themselves without wondering
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; And they pass by themselves without wondering. ~ St. Augustine
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“Its genesis was one of those awakening visions which happen once in a lifetime when the miraculous landscape of reality is lit up by a sudden flash of lightning only to disappear again into the normal twilight world. But once the real universe has been tasted the old familiar one can never be quite the same.
It miraculously happened for me one spring morning in the bleak surroundings of a...
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I am not I
I am not I. I am this one Walking beside me whom I do not see, Whom at times I manage to visit, And whom at other times I forget; The one who remains silent when I talk, The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate, The one who takes a walk where I am not, The one who will remain standing when I die.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
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“When you meet a fencing master, show him your sword.
Do not give your poem to...”
– Master Lin-Chi
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You know how in dreams you are everyone: awake too you are everyone: I am listening breathing your ashy breath
~ Jean Valentine - To the Bardo
Door in the Mountain: New & Collected Poems
January 2012
30 posts
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I would like to live the way a river flows: carried out by the surprise of it’s own unfolding. - John O’Donohue
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Our deepest fear ...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
~ Marianne Williamson
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“Love is the highest and holiest action because it always contains that which is...”
– Thaddeus Golas
The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them. Therefore it is the king of a hundred streams.
tao te ching
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A nightingale's song
A nightingale’s song Brings me out of a dream: The morning glows. ~Roykan
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I want to unfold...
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere Because where I am folded, There, I am a lie. -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Once you accept time and space as real, you will consider yourself minute and...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The deepest words
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing. - Antonio Machado The Enlightened Heart, Edited by Stephen Mitchell
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Sister, speak to me of God...
“I said to the almond tree, ‘Sister, speak to me of God.’ And the almond tree blossomed.”
~Nikos Kazantzakis
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That which offers no resistance...
That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space. Few in the world can comprehend the teaching without words, or understand the value of non-action. ~ Lao Tzu
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At night, deep in the mountains...
At night, deep in the mountains, I sit in meditation The affairs of men never reach here; Everything is quiet and empty, All the incense has been swallowed up By the endless night. My robe has become a garment of dew. Unable to sleep I walk out into the woods— Suddenly, above the highest peak, The full moon appears. - Hakuin (1686-1768)
‘Haiku Moon’ brushwork by...
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Belief is the acceptance of something as a fact despite the absence of evidence …
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being...
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? (Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet)
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No Knowing
Do not follow the path I say for it does not exist you cannot find enlightenment contained within a list do not follow leaders they cannot set you free and perhaps now most importantly listen not to me. - Ikkyu
Lars Van De Goor - The Pathless Path
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Within the prison of your world appears a man...
Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same way by which you got into it. You got into it by forgetting what you are and you will get out of it by knowing yourself as you are.
~Nisargadatta...
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But, aha! the same world
“Consumed with anger, The world is an ugly place. Bathed in happiness, The world is a wonderful place. But, aha! the same world.” - Taitetsu Unno Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn to Gold
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While Rosaries Turned
I passed through churches and synagogues and found everyone speaking of You. With Your love in my heart I entered the idol-worshipper’s temple, I heard Your Name whispered while rosaries turned ~Abu Sa`id ibn Abi al-Khayr
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I sat there and forgot and forgot...
I sat there and forgot and forgot until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched… Eventually the watcher joined the river and then there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.” ~Norman Maclean
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“I will walk a thousand leagues in falsehood, that one step of the journey may be true”
~ Junayd of Baghdad
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Bye and bye comes the Great Awakening...
Bye and bye comes the Great Awakening, and we find that this life is really a great dream… . Then we are embraced in obliterating Unity. There is perfect adaptation to whatever may happen—and so we complete our allotted span.
Chuang-tzu
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This world
This world A fading Mountain echo Void and Unreal Within A light snow Three Thousand Realms Within those realms Light snow falls As the snow Engulfs my hut At dusk My heart, too Is completely consumed
- Ryokan
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When I die and you wish to visit me, do not come to my grave without a drum, for at God’s banquet mourners have no place’
~Mevlana, Divan-i Shams 683