August 2010
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“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” – Emily... →
I am shocked and saddened by the passing of Chris Al-Aswad at the age of 31. He was a dear friend with a contagious love for life that shone through his wonderful literary arts journal “Escape into Life” that he founded and edited. Although I never met Chris in person, I knew him well enough through our online correspondence that he was a remarkably talented and rare individual. When I heard...
July 2010
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“If we consider the knower independently of the known, it reveals itself as pure...”
– Jean Klein via The Witness: Turning the Light Around | Buddhist Geeks (via sharanam)
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Brahms: Hungarian Dances No.1 - Allegro molto...
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“Vulnerability is built into our hearts, which can be sliced open at any moment...”
– Norman Fischer (from Whiskey River)
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Evening
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven and one that falls; and leave you not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)...
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“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of...”
– Derrick Jensen (via aperfectcommotion)
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WatchA Zen Moment maybe…
kateoplis:
yes
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“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender is the Night” (via dilawidjanarko) (via looklikerain) (via fuckyeahzenmind)
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The Purpose of Labor is To Learn
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it. As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over. The purpose of labor is to learn; when you...
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“…A religious inquiry has to begin with what is missing in our way of living. God...”
– Vimala Thakar from “Totality in Essence,” 1971) (via sharanam & dreaminginthedeepsouth)
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“Through the practice of meditation, we gradually begin to relate with our world,...”
– Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (from: sharanam & Shambhala Sun via Ocean of Dharma
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The Next Time
Perfection is out of the question for people like us, so why plug away at the same old self when the landscape has opened its arms and given us marvelous shrines to flock towards? The great motels to the west are waiting, in somebody’s yard a pristine dog is hoping that we’ll drive by, and on the rubber surface of a lake people bobbing up and down will wave. The highway comes...
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“Yesterday is ashes,
tomorrow is wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.”
– Inuit proverb (via ratak-monodosico, catapleustico)
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“Let the body think of the spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing and shining into...”
– Plotinus (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
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“You don’t have to meditate for the sake of attaining enlightenment. If you are...”
– Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, “Do Nothing” (Spring 2010) (from Tricycle)
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“As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness
affect...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via paynehollow & sharanam)
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Kings of Convenience, “Misread” (from...
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“There’s a boy in you about three
Years old who hasn’t learned a thing for...”
– Robert Bly, “One Source of Bad Information” (via paynehollow)
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“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware...”
– Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (via awakeinthedream)
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“The idea is not love. The idea, the word is not love. But only when you have...”
– J. Krishnamurti, from a talk in Saanen, July 18th 1978 (via paynehollow)
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“You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky,...”
– J. Krishnamurti, the essence of beauty from a talk in Saanen, July 18th 1978 (This is wonderful paynehollow. Thank you.)
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Buddha
As if he listened. Silence. Depth. And we had back our breath. Yet nothing yet And he is star. And other great stars ring him though we cannot see that far. O he is fat. Do we suppose he’ll see us? He has need of that? Sink in any supplicating pose before him, he’ll sit deep and idle as a cat. For that which lures us back to his feet has circled in him now a million years. He has...
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Alexander Sokolov - Nocturne, Op 19, No 4...
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Falling
Long before daybreak none of the birds awake rain comes down with the sound of a huge wind rushing through the valley trees it comes down around us all at the same time and beyond it there is nothing it falls without hearing itself without knowing there is anyone here without seeing where it is or where it is going like a moment of great happiness of our own that we cannot remember coasting with...
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Sacred Graffiti: Do I want to belong, or do I want... →
“It seems to me what religion has often become is a belonging system or a mere belief system, both of which ask very little of us… Membership questions largely become a negotiation of who’s in and who’s out, who’s worthy, who’s unworthy, who’s right and who’s wrong. This appeals very much to our ego’s control needs, and our ego’s need to feel worthy, to feel superior, and to feel a part...
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“An excellent writer, Harding had probably a dozen books published in his...”
– TAT Forum | a spiritual magazine of essays, poetry and humor (via occurences)
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Sogyal Rinpoche on the beginning and the end
Two amazing synchronous quotes from Sogyal Rinpoche. The first by isatsan who shared:
“When people begin to meditate, they often say that their thoughts are running riot, and have become wilder than ever before. But I reassure them and say that this is a good sign. Far from meaning that your thoughts have become wilder, it shows that you have become quieter, and you are finally aware of just how...
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“If you say: “I will begin today to control my thoughts, to sit quietly in the...”
– J. Krishnamurti, The Only Revolution India Part 3 (from sharanam, who also asked, “What do you think of the idea of no dreaming wakefulness?”)
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TAT Forum | archive of back issues from this... →
Great link, thank you occurences)
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“Question: How long does it take a man to be reborn after death? Is it...”
– via Parabola via Ramana Maharshi on Facebook (via sharanam)
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“People associate monasticism and monks with asceticism and that is correct. But...”
– David Steindl-Rast, OSB (via sacredgraffiti) 