Amrita-bindu Upanishad

 It is indeed the mind that is the cause of men’s bondage and liberation. the mind that is attached to sense-objects leads to bondage, while dissociated from sense-objects it tends to lead to liberation.

Mundaka Upanishad

 Om is the bow; the Atman is the arrow; Brahman is said to be the mark. it is to be struck by an undistracted mind. then the atman becomes one with Brahman, as the arrow with the target.

Dimensions

 

Olaf Stapledon, book Sirius

I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.“

Swami Rama

“The day we follow the teachings of the Upanishads, which are meant for the whole universe, there will be complete freedom from all bondage, from all problems. Freedom is the central teaching of the Upanishads.”

Rabindranath Tagore

‘The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day

runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment..’‘The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day...

RAMANA MAHARSHI

You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

Kolbrin Manuscripts

The truly awakened soul is beyond carnal lust and mortal grief, his love is alike for all my creation and thus he shows supreme love for me. By this love alone he knows me in truth, who and what I am, and knowing me in truth he participates in my whole being. Those who seek union with me must first prepare a dwelling place for me in their hearts; but those who are not pure, those who do not fight for me, those who have not suffered under the discipline of love and those without wisdom cannot attain union, no matter how much they strive. I am the God of illumination, I am the God of enlightenment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

 Our greatest fear is that when we die we will become nothing. Many of us believe that our entire existence is only a life span beginning the moment we are born or conceived and ending the moment we die.

We believe that we are born from nothing and that when we die we become nothing. And so, we are filled with fear of annihilation. The Buddha has a very different understanding of our existence. It is the understanding that birth and death are notions. They are not real.

The fact that we think they are true makes a powerful illusion that causes all our suffering.

The Buddha taught there is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is. When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear. It is a great relief. We can enjoy life and appreciate it in a new way.

SHISAKU