Wu Hsin

 “Q: Master, kindly detail for me the efforts you require I make in order to be free.

A: All effort is rooted in the body-sense. To one who does not identify with a body, what effort can be made?”

Panache Desai

 

- A message from 23 nights temple -

“IN TIMES OF HARDSHIP, IT IS NOT MONEY, NOT PEOPLE, BUT THE INNER STRENGTH OF YOUR OWN HEART THAT GIVES STRENGTH.”

Nikos Kazantzakis

 

“Priestesses with sacred snakes wrapped around their arms,”

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

 Ideally, the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future, to always remain in the present.

 

Krishnamurti

 Death is inevitable. It may take years or it may happen tomorrow – there is a sudden ending of this continuity. So realising that, acting with care and affection, live with death. That means no attachment whatsoever to anything – to your name, your fame, your power, your position – nothing. It is not difficult; it is very easy if you really want to do it. With the ending of that which is continuous – the ending – there is a new beginning. Without ending, there is no beginning. I know you will agree and say, ‘Yes, marvellous, perfect,’ but then carry on with your ugly life. And that is where there is great sorrow...

ADYASHANTI

 "True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all. With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself."

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,

 "He who has attained this Knowledge of Brahman is a jivanmukta, liberated while living in the body. He rightly understands that the Atman and the body are two separate things.

After realizing God one does not identify the Atman with the body. These two are separate, like the kernel and the shell of the coconut when its milk dries up. The Atman moves, as it were, within the body. When the ‘milk’ of worldly-mindedness has dried up, one gets Self-Knowledge, Then one feels that Atman and body are two separate things.

The kernel of a green almond or betel-nut cannot be separated from the shell; but when they are ripe the juice dries up and the kernel separates from the shell. After the attainment of the Knowledge of Brahman, the ‘milk' of worldly-mindedness dries up.

But it is extremely difficult to attain the Knowledge of Brahman. One doesn't get it by merely talking about it. Some people feign it. (Smiling) .

There was a man who was a great liar; but on the other hand, he used to say he had the Knowledge of Brahman. When someone took him to task for telling lies, he said: 'Why, this world is truly like a dream. If everything is unreal, then can truth itself be real? Truth is as unreal as falsehood.' “

Rajneesh

 

“Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane.”

                                                       

Rumi

 The source is within you. And this whole world is springing from it."