Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943-2004

"Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels"

Thich Nhat Hanh

We are a wave appearing on the surface of the ocean. The body of a wave does not last very long - perhaps only ten to twenty seconds.

The wave is subject to beginning and ending, to going up and coming down. The wave may be caught in the idea that ‘I am here now, and I won’t be here later.’ And the wave may feel afraid or even angry. But the wave also has her ocean body. She has come from the ocean, and she will go back to the ocean. She has both her wave body and her ocean body. She is not only a wave; she is also the ocean. The wave does not need to look for a separate ocean body, because she is in this very moment both her wave body and her ocean body. As soon as the wave can go back to herself and touch her true nature, which is water, then all fear and anxiety disappear

RAO KALVALA

 

OSHO

 

NISARGADATTA

 

The Dalai Lama's secret temple by Ian Baker

The Lukhang murals illustrate " the secret" path of the Buddhist tantras in which it is held that one can penetrate the veils of obscured vision and attain enlightenment in a single lifetime or a matter of years.  Tantra based its doctrine not on the rejection of agitated mental states, but on their transformation.

As stated in the Hevajra Tantra: " what for others is a source of bondage, in Tantra is a cause of liberation." The final expression of the Tantras is the path of Dzogchen,  a school of thought and practice which is based on the recognition of 'kadak', the minds primordial purity. Through the methods of Dzogchen, the practitioner awakens to the blissful radiance of his or her innate Buddha Nature.

- Ma Anandamayi

 “This body always says and will continue to say that it is man’s bounden duty as a human being to find God, to know himself. The search after Truth is man’s only expedient for attaining supreme peace.”

Ram Varma

The Attitude That gives Beautitude of life........

Attitude is the modus operandi; the mental position with regard to the action, the state or the fact. It is the way in which a person conducts or behaves in responding to the situations of life. The success of the mission we want to accomplish is largely influenced by the kind of attitude a person has. It is the secret to the whole being..

It is the intrinsic splendidness/loveliness of the Inner Being that gets awakened/alive by constantly having a pure- peaceful-positive-progressive attitude. And by knowing (really knowing) the eternal Truth that whatever glorious or beautiful or mighty being exists anywhere, it has sprung from but a spark of the intrinsic splendour (of the SELF).

Thus the most desirable attitude that results in the  beautitude / splendour of life has the following essential requirements that help to have the Direct Connection with the Self/Supreme Self:

- Humbly-gratefully trusting in the Self and the Supreme Self.

- Open and optimistic

- Positive (powered from within)

- Accepting/acknowledging the reality of the Power within).

- Heart-felt (aligned to the Inner Call, needing no defence)

- Enjoyer ( I am here to enjoy life, turning things around accordingly).

Regular silent moments/meditation, prayer, communion and selfless service go a long way in cultivating this special attitude. It is not only helpful for maintaining good health, peace, harmony and love, but also in all the areas of life integrally.

Stay steady, do not waver.....just radiate from this great attitude and do all things in its magnificent Light and Love..

With Love and Light......Namaste......Ram

 

 

Paramahansa Yogananda

“Beneath the temporary mental masks of those whose behavior I dislike, I see the perfect love of my great Beloved, even as I see it in those worthy souls that I love. To stop loving is to stem the purifying flow of love. I shall loyally love every being, every thing, until I find all races, all creatures, all animate and inanimate objects embraced by my love. I will love until every soul, every star, every forsaken creature, every atom, is lodged in my heart; for in the infinite love of God, my breast of eternity is large enough to hold everything in me.”

OSHO

 

excerpts from; The Moksha Gita by Swami Sivananda

The Ultimate Reality is the support for the world even as the Sun is the support for the mirage. The world is the dazzling of Eternal Consciousness. The nihilists are wrong in saying that nothing exists at all. The world-phenomenon cannot be based on Nothing-less or Emptiness. An appearance demands a Reality as its corollary. The world is an expression of Brahman through Maya even as the body is an expression of Atman through mind. The Prana, the mind and the senses are the operative organs of the active self which is agitated by the Vikshepa-Shakti or the distracting power of Maya. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says that the one Brahman alone puts on all names, forms and does all actions in its own Being. Thus the whole universe is to be understood as a sport of the one Absolute which seems to play in Itself by revealing Itself in multifarious forms.

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

The Eternal Atman.

The Self is your real Self, the Atma.

You are a spirit of consciousness, of the one consciousness that is the source of eternal being.

You are Atma and Atma is identical to Paramatma. So at your core you are identical to what is called ‘God’.

This Atma is reality because Atma is unchanging, eternal and self effulgent consciousness.

The mind and the body on the other hand are not unchanging, eternal or self effulgent.

The body is the creation of nature and the mind is the creation of the senses.

Both the body and the mind have relative beingness, their beingness depends on what the body eats and what the mind perceives through the senses of the body.

The body has a beginning and the body has an end. The mind has beginnings and endings constantly, it is like the reflection of the sun bouncing off the movement of water.

We are having this relative experience as eternal beings to realise our true nature as the eternal Atman and to learn how to break out of the bindings of attachment.

“The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise the Self. There is nothing else to do.”

Joseph Campbell Creative Mythology

T]he waters of the fountains of inspiration dispensed to artists by the Muses, the liquor in the little pails of the guides and guardians of the mysteries, the drink of the gods, and the distillate of love are the same, in various strengths, to wit, ambrosia (Sanskrit, ‘amrta,’ 'immortality’), the potion of deathless life experienced here and now. It is milk, it is wine, it is tea, it is coffee, it is anything you like, when drunk with a certain insight—life itself, when experienced from a certain depth and height.

Robert Adams

The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain.

The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self. The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your real nature, the source of all happiness and peace.

ANANDAMAYI MA

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Be careful. The moment you start talking you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and interdependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, mere creations of the mind. Words create words, reality is silent."

Anthony de Mello

′′ If you want to love, you must learn to see again.

And if you want to see,

you need to learn to give up your drug [your need for other people].

It's so simple... Stop your addiction. The tentacles of society that have wrapped you up and suffocated your existence. You have to let them go. On the outside, everything will go as it was before, but even though you will continue to be in the world, you will no longer be.

In your heart, you will now be free at last if you are completely alone. Your addiction on your medicine will die. You don't have to go to the desert. You can be in the middle of people and enjoy it too much. But they no longer have the power to make you happy or unhappy. That means loneliness. In this loneliness your addiction dies.

Love ability is born. No one sees others as a means of satisfying their addiction. Only someone who has tried it knows the horrors of the process. It's like inviting yourself to die It's like asking the poor drug addict to give up the only happiness he's ever known.

How to replace it with the taste of bread and fruit and the pure taste of morning air, and the sweetness of mountain stream water?

While struggling with withdrawal symptoms and the gap he is experiencing inside him now that his medicine is gone, nothing can fill the void except his medicine.

[Can you imagine a life in which you refuse to enjoy a word of appreciation,, or support your head on someone's shoulder for support,,

Think of a life in which you don't depend on anyone emotionally, so that no one has the power to make you happy or unhappy anymore. Do you refuse to need a certain person,,, or invite someone of your own. Air birds have their nest and foxes have their holes, but you will have nowhere to rest your head in your journey in life.

If you ever get to this situation, you'll finally know what it means to see with a vision that's clean and not covered by fear or desire. Every word there counts. You'll know what it means to love. But to come to the land of love, you have to go through the pain of death, because loving faces means dying in your need for them and being completely alone....

Overall, we seek to heal our loneliness through emotional dependence on humans, through arrogance and noise. This is not a cure. Return to things, return to nature, climb to the mountains. Then you will know that your heart brought you to the infinite desert of loneliness, there is no one there next to you, absolutely none. At first this will seem unbearable. But it's only because you're not used to solitude.

If you manage to stay there for a while, the desert will suddenly bloom in love. Your heart will break in song. And it will be spring forever. the medicine won't be out. You will be free. Then you will understand what freedom is, what love is, what happiness is, what reality is, what is truth, what is God. You'll see, you'll know beyond concepts, addictions and attachments.

Swami Sivananda

 Jnana is knowledge. To know Brahman as one's own Self is Jnana. To say, "I am Brahman, the pure, all-pervading Consciousness, the non-enjoyer, non-doer and silent witness," is Jnana. To behold the one Self everywhere is Jnana

via~ Ramana Bhakti

Attaining a vision beyond the reach of sight

and an awareness more subtle than the tiniest atom,

I have become established in the absolute reality of the Self.

And thus my mind has merged with the supreme

in which there is no going, no coming,

no connection with anything whatsoever.

Seeing itself in all that is,

its separation has come to an end.

(Muruganar -Sri Ramana Anubhuti)