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#3754 - Wednesday, December
23, 2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Silence is the language of God, all else is translation - Rumi
"I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself..." -- Meister Eckhart
Posted to Facebook by Tim Gerchmez
"The silence of a quiet mind is the essence of that beauty. Because it is silent and because it is not the plaything of thought, then in that silence there comes that which is indestructible, which is sacred. In the coming of that which is sacred then life becomes sacred, your life becomes sacred, our relationship becomes sacred, everything becomes sacred." -Krishnamurti Posted to Facebook by Cathy Gintner
You are not what happens; you are
the space in which it happens. You are not your thoughts; they
come and go. You are the vastness in which these thoughts appear
and disappear because underneath all your thinking there is the
stillness of pure being,... pure consciousness, the timeless
dimension of yourself.
- Eckhart Tolle
from http://now-for-you.com posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
GangaJi: Choose silence, and love is
apparent
"When we choose silence, we choose to give up the reasons
not to love, which are the reasons for going to war, or
continuing war, or separating, or being a victim, or being right.
In a moment of silence, in a moment of no thought, no mind, we
choose to give those up. This i...s what my teacher invited me
to.
Just
choose silence. Don’t even choose love. Choose silence, and
love is
apparent. If we choose love we already have an idea of what love
is.
But
if you choose silence, that is the end of ideas. You are willing
to
have no idea, to see what is present when there is no idea, past,
present, future. No idea of love, no idea of truth, no idea of
you, no
idea of me. Love is apparent."
posted to Facebook by Cullen Anderson
When we are empty of ego we, too, can carry
on in calm acceptance of
life's varying events. When we cease making prejudicial
distinctions -
gentle or harsh, beautiful or ugly, good or bad - a peaceful
stillness
will permeate our mind. If there is no ego, there is no
agitation.
- Master Han Shan posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
Live in your Unborn Buddha-Mind.
Then there's no regression. No need for advancement. Any idea of
wanting to make progress is already a regression from the place
of the Unborn. A man of the Unborn has nothing to do with
advancing or backsliding. He's always beyond them both.
Since the Buddha-Mind takes care of everything
by means of the Unborn, it has nothing to do with Samsara or
Nirvana. Seen from the place of the Unborn, both are like shadows
in a dream. There can be no death for what was never born.
The marvelous brightness of the Buddha-Mind,
by means of words, is able to enlighten people and deliver them
from their illusions one by one. And when someone hears these
words, understands and affirms them, he will know for himself
that the Buddha-Mind's wonderful brightness surpasses even the
brightness of the sun and moon.
What an incalculable treasure is your
Buddha-Mind!
-
Writing: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of
Zen Master Bankei
Translated by Norman Waddell
posted to OpenAwareness by Dan