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Tools of the Path => Other Paths [Public] => Topic started by: Nichi on January 13, 2011, 04:02:54 AM
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"We have a basic conditioning, probably in some form of Christian religion, of which little remains today but its ethical content, or in one of the modern psychologies, that of Freud, Adler, or Jung, or in some scientific discipline, all of which are fundamentally and implacably dualist. Then the [seeking] urge manifests, and we start reading. Every time we happen on a statement or sentiment that fits in with our conditioned notions we adopt it, perhaps with enthusiasm, at the same time ignoring, as though they did not exist, the statements or sentiments which either we did not like or did not understand. And every time we re-read the Masters or the sutras we seize upon further chosen morsels, as our own jig-saw puzzle builds up within us, until we have a personal patchwork that corresponds with nothing on Earth that could matter in the least. Not in a thousand million kalpas could such a process produce the essential understanding that the urge is obliging us to seek."
from Ask The Awakened, 1963
Wei Wu Wei
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"Disputation and discussion are both futile.
Why is that?
Because nothing either party could say could possibly be true,
And whereas dispute picks out the false,
Which is too easy to see,
Discussion seeks the truth which is being pointed at,
Which is too difficult to describe."
from Posthumous Pieces, 1968
Wei Wu Wei
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Your New Age
Is neither new
Nor will it last an age.
You ride a pendulum
On a clock wound
To run for eternity.
Your despair has
Today turned to hope.
Tomorrow it will
Turn back again.
The walls of oppression
You tear down here
Will be rebuilt
There.
The meek shall
Inherit the earth
Then the clever ones
Will take it back from them.
The torture chamber
Will empty
And refill.
A disease will
Be conquered
And a new one will
Appear to take its place.
This strikes you
As a bleak vision
But Ram Tzu knows this...
It is your hope for a better future
That keeps you in chains today.
Ram Tzu
No Way for the Spiritually Advanced
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"The seeker is he who is in search of himself... To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not.
Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.
The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being."
from I AM THAT
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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You believe in free will.
You believe you make yourself sick.
You believe you choose your own parents.
You believe you can control your dreams.
You believe you can take charge of your life.
You believe there is a child within that you can heal.
You believe you have the power of prayer.
You believe that you can make a difference.
You believe your pain is your fault.
You believe you can do better.
You believe you are responsible.
You believe all sorts of shit.
Ram Tzu knows this...
When God wants you to do something
You believe it's your own idea.
- Ram Tzu
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Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
- Bhagavad Gita
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"Disputation and discussion are both futile.
Why is that?
Because nothing either party could say could possibly be true,
And whereas dispute picks out the false,
Which is too easy to see,
Discussion seeks the truth which is being pointed at,
Which is too difficult to describe."
from Posthumous Pieces, 1968
Wei Wu Wei
Been feeling like this a lot, lately. Glad to see I', not just plain lazy! :P
Thanks for posting these, they feel very comforting to me.
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Ram Tzu knows this…
The more you pursue it
The further away it goes.
The harder you struggle
The deeper you sink.
Only a drunk can
Truly be sober.
Only a whore can
Truly be chaste.
Life is no place
For idle speculation.
No one has ever learned
From the mistakes of others.
A lie cloaked in truth
Is still a lie.
If it makes sense to you
You're in real trouble.
You always look for God
In high places…
Guess again.
Ram Tzu is not your friend
If you find him
Kill him.
- Ram Tzu
No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced"
Ram Tzu
Advaita Press, 1990
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The Universe is not human-hearted.
~Ramesh Balsekar
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The Universe is not human-hearted.
~Ramesh Balsekar
...and how we like to forget it and attribute to it our own qualities.
Good reminder!
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Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
What DJ said, about CC thinking about himself too much.