Entries by vidji
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 >
How the Buddha answered to insults
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Rajagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels’ Sanctuary. Then the brahman Akkosaka Bharadvaja
heard that a brahman of the Bharadvaja clan had gone forth from the
home life into homelessness in the presence of the Blessed One. Angered
& displeased, he went to the Blessed … Read the rest >
Tierno Bokar : White birds and black birds
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 >
Reincarnation : troubling testimonies – Video –
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.
Meister Eckhart : There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow
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 >