thich nhat hanh

Wu Hsin

 

Lao Tzu

 

H.P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy

 “Theosophy, in its abstract meaning, is Divine Wisdom, or the aggregate of the knowledge and wisdom that underlie the Universe—the homogeneity of eternal GOOD; and in its concrete sense it is the sum total of the same as allotted to man by nature, on this earth,”

                                                 

 

Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Introduction

 “Esoteric philosophy reconciles all religions, strips every one of its outward, human garments, and shows the root of each to be identical with that of every other great religion. It proves the necessity of an absolute Divine Principle in nature. It denies Deity no more than it does the Sun. Esoteric philosophy has never rejected God in Nature, nor Deity as the absolute and abstract Ens. It only refuses to accept any of the gods of the so-called monotheistic religions, gods created by man in his own image and likeness, a blasphemous and sorry caricature of the Ever Unknowable.” 

                                                                              

The Absolute in Theosophy

 

The Absolute

The Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle

The concept of the Absolute is related to the concepts of Truth and Deity in Theosophical Philosophy.  There is no concept of a personal extra-cosmic God in Theosophy.  Instead, the concept of the Absolute in some manner suggests the ALL, the ONE and the Sourceless Source of all that is.  The Absolute receives no prayer-requests and plays no favorites but instead is the groundless ground, so to speak, from which all life can be traced. The Absolute is the source of Law and Life in the universe and represents the ultimate reality.

                                                 

                                                            

The Jain moralists say:

Wisdom is an attribute of man. Wisdom only can lead to salvation, or enable man to sail safely over the solemn main of life. Wisdom only can dispel the gloom of false knowledge, like mists after sun-rise. Wisdom only can absolve man from the consequences of action. Wisdom is Supreme; and no action can equal wisdom. Wisdom is joy. Wisdom is summum bonum. Wisdom is Brahma himself.

                                            

“Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance…

 

Osho, Die O Yogi Die

 

 "Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B – the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."

"When you have dropped all the tension about the future – that I should become this and I should become that – the ego evaporates. The ego lives on a base of the past and the future. Understand this a little. The claims of the ego are of the past, "I did this, I did that" – it is all in the past. And the ego says, "I will definitely accomplish this, I will definitely show you that I can accomplish that." That is all in the future. The ego simply does not exist in the present. If you come to the present, then the ego disappears. That is death to the ego.Coming to the present is the death of the ego."

                                         

Tagore

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees and the stars and the blue hills appear to us as symbols aching with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

Ramana Marharshi

“The Self, which is pure consciousness, has no ego-sense about it. Neither can the physical body, which is inert in itself, have this ego-sense. Between the two, that is, between the Self or pure consciousness and the inert physical body there arises mysteriously the ego-sense or ‘I’ notion, the hybrid which is neither of them, and this flourishes as an individual being. The ego or individual being is at the root of all that is futile and undesirable in life.”

                                          

Peter Deunov

 

 “Peacemakers are living in the Divine Fire.Peacemaking is the Divine beam,
which comes from the depth of the human soul.
The peacemakers are the Sons of God.
Peacemaking is a Divine Light and it comes from the flame that has created it.”

                                             

Sri Nisargadatta

 

The mind is like a river, flowing ceaselessly in the bed of the body; you identify yourself with some particular ripple and call it "my thought". All you are conscious of is your mind.

Awareness is the cognizance of consciousness as a whole.

                                              

SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARA

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Rabia Hayek

 

Jesus and Buddha didn’t build churches or temples.They realized that when you make each breath holy~ you become the temple.

                                                

Robert Adams

 

 There is absolutely nothing in this

world that can rise up against you

if you understand who you are !

It is when you believe that you are

human, when you believe you are

a body and a mind, then and only

then do you begin to have problems.

But if you stop thinking, if you allow

yourself not to think, where are the

problems?

The problems are in the thoughts.

Your body is in your thoughts.

Your experiences are in your thoughts.

Where else would they be?

And ultimately the thoughts do

not exist. There are no thoughts.

There is no mind.

So you're playing games with yourself.

This is God's divine leela, the play of consciousness.

                                           

Paul Brunton Chapter 4: Seek the Deeper Stillness

 

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When the personal ego's thoughts and desires are stripped off, we behold ourselves as we were in the first state and as we shall be in the final one. We are then the Overself alone, in its Godlike solitude and stillness.

2

One feels gathered into the depths of the silence, enfolded by it and then, hidden within it, intuits the mysterious inexplicable invisible and higher power which must remain forever nameless.

                                           

Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

 

 The language we’ve inherited confuses (this). We say “my” body and “your” body and “his” body and “her” body, but it isn’t that wayThis Cartesian “Me,” this autonomous little homunculus who sits behind our eyeballs looking out through them in order to pass judgment on the affairs of the world, is just completely ridiculous. This self-appointed little editor of reality is just an impossible fiction that collapses the moment one examines it.

                                                    

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state.

Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,

and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being.

For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry is the one direct and immediate way."

Cosmic Guru

So a cosmic guru means everything in the cosmos is the guru. We can learn from anything and everything if we want to learn.

turiyatitta

 “The lives of these silent saviours challenge us to reconsider the essence of action and spirituality, compelling us to acknowledge that in the mosaic of existence, every piece of sacrifice weaves the possibility of a more enlightened world.”

Osho

 You are not to do anything to be happy. In fact you have done too much to become unhappy. If you want to be unhappy, do too much. If you want to be happy, allow things, allow things to be. Rest, relax, and be in a let-go. Let go is the secret of life. When you are in a let-go many things, millions of things, start happening. They were already happening but you were never aware.

Mundaka Upanishad

 

mysticallion

 

The Slow Dance of Galaxies

Galaxies slow dancing, pirouette and sway

Swirling ever closer while whirling away

To the celestial rhythms the pulsars all play

Nothing stands still in this endless ballet

Advashanti

 

-Sadhguru

 Celebration should not be limited to a particular occasion. Your whole life, your very existence should become a celebration. Life itself is reason enough to celebrate.

“Let us be at peace with our bodies and our minds .Thich Nhat Hanh

Let us return to ourselves and become wholly ourselves.

Let us be aware of the source of being,

common to us all and to all living things.

Evoking the presence of the Great Compassion,

let us fill our hearts with our own compassion,

towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Let us pray that we ourselves cease to be

the cause of suffering to each other.

With humility, with awareness of the existence of life,and of the suffering that is going on around us,let us practice the establishment of peace in our hearts and on the earth.”

Adi Shankaracharya

 The Atman, the Sun of Knowledge that rises in the sky of the heart, destroys the darkness of the ignorance, pervades and sustains all and shines and makes everything to shine.

Nisargadatta

 

Aatma Deepo Bhava (Be your own light).

Aatma deepo bhava meaning 'self-realization' is the path to move on and look ahead for a brighter tomorrow.

Khalil Gibran

 “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

Ramana Maharshi

 When you realize the ONE, the many will not be seen..

India Ame’ye

 

“It takes courage to live softly - to move slow, to be gentle, to not rush to judgment, to take your time, to speak unhurriedly, to fully listen to someone without being so readied to interrupt and speak, to not force or hustle, or to stay connected to your life force and deeper wellspring of creativity. It takes fearlessness to feel worthy of not constantly taking in new information. It takes an act of bravery to decide to feel safe to just be.”

Mansoor al- Hallaj ❤

" Your spirit

is mingled with mine

as Wine is mixed

with water;

whatever touches you

touches me.

In all the stations

of the soul

.... you are I. "

                            

Yogananda

 

Paul Brunton

 We suffer from stagnation and imagine that existence in the intellect and body is enough; it is not. The primary emphasis must be laid on the living principle of our being, the central self which creates both body and intellect.

The Mahasiddha Milarepa

 Rest in a natural way like a small child.

Rest like an ocean without waves.

Rest within clarity like a candle flame.

Rest without self-concerns like a human corpse.

Rest unmoving like a mountain.

Gary Zukav

 “Every experience that you have and will have upon the Earth encourages the alignment of your personality with your soul. Every circumstance and situation gives you the opportunity to choose this path, to allow your soul to shine through you, to bring into the physical world through you its unending and unfathomable reverence for and love of Life.”  

Ram Dass

 "How much of who I was yesterday is defining who I am today? How much can I allow who I am today to be totally open and tuning and responding to the situation, which includes everything I was yesterday, but also all that I will be tomorrow?"