Tierno Bokar was a Sufi, a spiritual guide, sage and teacher. He lived in the first half of the twentieth century.
“In relation to one another,” he said, “humans are comparable to
walls located facing one another. Each wall is pierced by a multitude of
small holes where white birds and black birds are … Read the rest >
Some testimonies are particularly strong, like this boy remembering of a young american pilot during the second world war, and Barbro Karlen, whose testimonie about Anne Franck is more than troubling.
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
“ The beginning, in which God created heaven and earth, is the … Read the rest >
When one succeeds in staying focused, there is an outcome. But this outcome can only be achieved when I lose my ordinary individuality as I know it usually… Edward Salim Michael gives some important clues for meditation.
“Especially important is the idea which some people have that after
death there is just voidness, nothingness. This view is fundamentally
wrong.
The heart of the Lord Buddha and those of all the Arahants who have got rid of the kilesas which
would otherwise lead them into birth and death, have hot been
annihilated … Read the rest >
This is very strange.
I start to see so many things differently, I find that less and less
is certain; and I have to begin to understand this possibility of inner doing without interfering with anything.
It is only by inner work that any real development is possible. But
then, in spite of all … Read the rest >
“Motionless like the light of a lamp in a windless place is the controlled consciousness (free from its restless action, shut in from its outward motion) of the Yogin who practises union with the Self.
That in which the mind becomes silent and still by the practice of Yoga: that in which the Self … Read the rest >
We want to stop something in order to recognize a moment of awakening. But, to stop something, there must be a stillness, both externally as well as internally.
Our only prayer is to be firm in our
determination to give ourselves completely to the Buddha’sWay, so that
no doubts arise however long the road seems to be.
To be light and easy in the four parts of our body, to be strong and undismayed in body and in mind.
To drive out … Read the rest >
« It seems to me that we have
ultimately to go beyond all forms of thought – even beyond the Trinity,
the Incarnation, the Church, etc. All these belong to the world of «
signs » — manifestations of God in human thought — but God himself,
Truth itself, is beyond all forms of … Read the rest >
