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Nondual Highlights Issue #2210 Sunday, July 24, 2005
A
Zen student came to Bankei and complained: "Master, I have
an ungovernable temper. How can I cure it?"
"You have something very strange," replied Bankei.
"Let me see what you have."
"Just now I cannot show it to you," replied the
student.
"When can you show it to me?" asked Bankei.
"It arises unexpectedly," replied the student.
"Then," concluded Bankei, "it must not be your
true nature. If it were, you could show it to me at any time.
When you were born you did not have it, and your parents did not
give it to you. Think that over."
- From Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
posted to DailyDharma
There is nothing to gain. Abandon all imaginings and know
yourself as you are. Self-knowledge is detachment. All craving is
due to a sense of insufficiency. When you know that you lack
nothing, that all there is, is you and yours, desire ceases.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Tang-en asked Kyo zan, "At this very moment tell me what you
are doing? "Ha! My mouth isn't that fast!" said Kyo
zan.
How can we speak, or even contemplate the present before it
turning to past?
- posted to AdvaitaToZen
Life is an Infinite Discovery of Emotions and Wisdom born from
the Ocean of Cosmic Capriciousness.
It is impossible to escape Life... for we are Life.
We are Consciousness and at this Period we are experiencing but
one of the Infinite Amounts of Experiences of our Infinite Life
as a Consciousness.
Enjoy the Moment of Nowness for Infinite Life has no Destination.
MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY ARE GOING SOME PLACE
- posted to CosmicCookies
Do not remain a man of intellect among the lovers,
especially if you love that sweet-faced Beloved.
May the men of intellect stay far from the lovers,
may the smell of dung stay far from the east wind!
If a man of intellect should enter, tell him the way
is blocked; but if a lover should come, extend him a
hundred welcomes!
By the time intellect has deliberated and reflected,
love has flown to the seventh heaven.
By the time intellect has found a camel for the
hajj, love has circled the Kaaba.
Love has come and covered my mouth: "Throw
away your poetry and come to the stars!"
- Rumi, Ghazal (Ode) 182, Translation by William C. Chittick, The
Sufi Path of Love - The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi,
posted to Sunlight
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service
of others.
- Mahatma Ghandi
Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your
heart.
- Ram Dass