December 2011
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"The Snow Man" ~ Wallace Stevens
“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves.
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That...
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“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson; “Journals”, May, 1849
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“ “Joy and Woe”
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we...”
– William Blake; “Joy and Woe”
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“A Master once described the journey to enlightenment as ‘like filling a sieve...”
– Total Immersion
(Unknown, from the book 1001 Pearls of Buddhist Wisdom)
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“People tell themselves stories and then pour their lives into the stories they...”
– Anon (as quoted in Huston Smith’s “The Soul of Christianity” p. 37)
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“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of...”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via yama-bato)
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Wisdom Library →
A resource covering various wisdom traditions but mainly Buddhism.
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The aim of Buddhist meditation then, is to let go...
sharanam:
…Then we learn: when we emphasise our personality we create problems, because the personal qualities are different for each one of us. We have our common human problems: old age, sickness and death; but there are attitudes, cultural expectations and assumptions wherein we differ, and these are conditioned into the mind after we are born. Because of this, I often say to people,...
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“Authentic religion is more about subtraction than addition, more letting go of...”
– ~ Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation.
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‘Finding The Missing Peace – A Primer of Buddhist...
A series of six talks by Ajahn Amaro’s also available as a pdf book ‘Finding The Missing Peace – A Primer of Buddhist Meditation.’
With gratitude to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
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“The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life,...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (Yes, Thank you, apoetreflects)
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“The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them...”
– Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), p. 204 (via parabola-magazine)
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“Recollecting the Three Refuges” - a...
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The Meaning of the Finger Pointing to the Moon
“The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, “I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas I do not quite understand. Please enlighten me.”
The patriach responded, “I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning.”
Said the nun, “You cannot even recognize...
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The "Four Marks" of the Mystical State.
“1. True mysticism is active and practical, not passive and theoretical. It is an organic life-process, a something which the whole self does; not something as to which its intellect holds an opinion. 2. Its aims are wholly transcendental and spiritual. It is in no way concerned with adding to, exploring, re-arranging, or improving anything in the visible universe. The mystic brushes aside that...
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“You take refuge in the Buddha not as a savior - not with the feeling that you...”
– Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche | Facebook (via sharanam)
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What does it mean to "seek refuge in the Three...
The above is question on Quora that sharanam has so kindly and beautifully responded to.
You can find the reply here.