Entries by vidji
Brother Lawrence : Wandering Thoughts in Prayer
Eighth Letter: Concerning Wandering Thoughts in Praye
You tell me nothing new; you are not
the only one that is troubled with wandering thoughts. Our mind is
extremely roving; but, as the will is mistress of all our faculties, she
must recall them, and carry them to God as their last end.
When the … Read the rest >
Edward Salim Michael : Hidden Influences Emanating from Beings and Things
To whatever person or object an aspirant, either consciously or unconsciously, allows his thoughts to drift and dwell upon, he is unknowingly connecting himself to that person or object. By so doing, he will subtly begin to receive certain impressions and feelings from these thoughts that will affect and color his being to a … Read the rest >
Yamada Mumon Roshi : when I see the moon, the moon is I
Sitting in zazen, I become nothing and everything become nothing, that is to say I and everything melt into One. So when I see a flower, the flower is I, when I see the moon, the moon is I. All things become I. There is no greater love than this.
Gerta Ital : Sudden Enlightenment
Unfortunately, most people who have
decided to start working on themselves are usually too impatient. They
want to see ‘successes’ as soon as possible, otherwise they feel that
Heaven hasn’t taken note of their efforts. It is a strange paradox:
nobody objects to the long years of training and study which are
necessary for … Read the rest >
Renunciation is an inner state of Mind – Swami Ramdas
So sannyas, or any other method of approach to God, employed by various seekers of Truth, is only a means by adopting which the soul seeks liberation from the thralldom of lust, greed, and wrath, and experiences the fullness and glory of its integral spiritual life and being. It is not by mere external … Read the rest >
Schopenhauer : remain as a pure subject to grasp the eternal form
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is a cliché, perhaps, but so true. It can spring up around any street corner and find its way into ordinary objects in our everyday lives, provided we are receptive. A simple flower, a tree that only yesterday was completely unremarkable because we were preoccupied … Read the rest >
Chaos and Harmony: by Trinh Xuan Thuan
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is a cliché, perhaps, but so true. It can spring up around any street corner and find its way into ordinary objects in our everyday lives, provided we are receptive.
A simple flower, a tree that only yesterday was completely unremarkable because we were preoccupied … Read the rest >
Are Nirvana and samsara one ? Huxley, the Perennial Philosophy
That nirvana and samsara are one is a
fact about the nature of the Universe; but it is a fact which cannot be
fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in
spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this
truth par hear-say, and to act upon it in practice, is … Read the rest >