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 >
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 >
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 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 >
