28 February, 2014

Joy and wealth...


"If we were talking to you on your first day here we would say, "Welcome to planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have. And your work here—your lifetime career—is to seek joy.
"As you think thoughts that feel good to you, you will be in harmony with who-you-really-are. And in doing so you will utilize your profound freedom. Seek joy first, and all of the growth that you could ever imagine will come joyously and abundantly unto you."
Abraham (Esther Hicks)

Excerpted from the workshop: Money and the Law of Attraction on August 31, 2008

(ED note: If you are interested in the concept of the Law of Attraction I strongly recommend that you research her considerable works - available on you tube free or buy her books - on what we refer to as the law of cause and effect. Her practical explanation of how to use positive ego to create positive realities has many links to psychology, schools of positive thinking and spiritual traditions.)

27 February, 2014

Awake?

“When a man realizes He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer, 
The ripples of his mind are stilled.” 

Ashtavakra Gita 

26 February, 2014

Heavens...

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“Fire is his head, the sun and moon his eyes, 
The heavens his ears, the scriptures his voice, 
The air his breath, the universe his heart, 
And the earth his footrest. 
The Lord of Love Is 
the innermost Self of all.”

Mundaka Upanishad

24 February, 2014

Nagarjuna...

“I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha, the best of
teachers, who taught that whatever is dependently
arisen is unceasing, unborn, unannihilated,
not permanent, not coming, not going, 
Without distinction, without identity, 
And free from conceptual construction.” 

Nagarjuna

23 February, 2014

The Clouds Should Know Me By Now


“A hundred thousand worlds are flowers in the sky, 
a single mind and body is moonlight in the water; 
once the cunning ends and information stops, 
at that moment there is no place for thought. ” 

Han-Shan Te-Ch'ing
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now

22 February, 2014

When I Have Fears by John Keats

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When I have fears that I may cease to be 
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, 
Before high-piled books, in charactery, 
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; 
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, 
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, 
And think that I may never live to trace 
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; 
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, 
That I shall never look upon thee more, 
Never have relish in the faery power 
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore 
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think 
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. 

John Keats

21 February, 2014

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20 February, 2014

HH Dalai Lama

“My call for a spiritual revolution is thus not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow other-worldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather, it is a call for a radical re-orientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self towards concern for the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others interests alongside our own.”
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

18 February, 2014

UPANISHAD WISDOM


As is the human body so is the cosmic body,
As is the human mind so is the cosmic mind
As is the microcosm so is the macrocosm
As is the atom so is the universe

Upanishads

16 February, 2014

Thoughts and consciousness

“Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. 
Thought cannot exist without consciousness, 
but consciousness does not need thought”

Eckhart Tolle

13 February, 2014

The International Buddhist Flag


The Buddhist flag, first hoisted in 1885 in Sri Lanka, is a symbol of faith and peace used throughout the world to represent the Buddhist faith.
Buddhists should be aware of the correct meaning of this flag.

Tibetan Buddhist Flag

For more information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_flag

"The six vertical bands of the flag represent the six colors of the aura which Buddhists believe emanated from the body of the Buddha when he attained Enlightenment:

Blue (Nīla): Loving kindness, peace and universal compassion
Yellow (Pīta): The Middle Path – avoiding extremes, emptiness
Red (Lohita): The blessings of practice – achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune and dignity
White (Odāta): The purity of Dharma – leading to liberation, outside of time or space
Orange (Manjesta): The Buddha's teachings – wisdom

The sixth vertical band, on the fly, is made up of a combination of rectangular bands of the five other colours, and represents a compound of the other five colours in the aura's spectrum. This compound colour is referred to as Pabbhassara ('essence of light')"
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On envy...

RMRTP

“The unenvious heart is to be valued 
No less than virtuous conduct itself. 
Among the profuse precious things 
a man may acquire, None surpasses 
a nature free from envy toward all.” 

Tirukkural

12 February, 2014

Emptiness Within Emptiness by Julian Colgan

Their laughter is full of sorrow and their happiness 
is next to nothing when happiness is seen as a 
commodity of the body and its conditionings.
Trying to grasp what cannot be grasped,
why spend so many sleepless nights when the 
dawn of awakening is nearer and nearer 
to the mind that is as a seed for the infinite
to grow more infinite seeds of real joy and 
tolerance for all.
Thinking it is useless to strive by right means 
because of there being no place for virtue in the 
shackles of samsara,unlock the consciousness 
of the emptiness of the self by accepting to
 grow in all cases and in relations to all possible persons.

Whole within whole and perfection within 
perfection, the goal of having no goal is the 
same as having an empty mind, for when 
emptiness is within emptiness, universes flow freely
from place to place and space to space;
knowing that everything is as it is for a reason,
and that nothing is in everything, and 
everything is there to bring the consciousness 
to a perfection beyond extremes.

Soft while hard and hard while soft,
virtue is in being as flexible as the winding sun
and is as smooth as the glistening sun rays
blissfully beating off of the brow of the pure 
contemplation of the pure meditator, ever 
fixed on the perfection beyond perfection. 

Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake To Buddhahood
emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/

11 February, 2014

On inner refuge...

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“Inner refuge is refuge in ourselves, in our ultimate potential. 
When we recognize and nourish this potential, we have 
found the real meaning of refuge.”

Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"

10 February, 2014

On attachment

“Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming 
cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning
to  have relaxed control over our mind through 
understanding the real causes of happiness and
fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more 
and suffer less.” 

Kathleen McDonald
 "How to Meditate"

09 February, 2014

On thinking...

“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams 
of compulsive thinking that the universe really 
disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability 
to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”

Eckhart Tolle

07 February, 2014

Shantideva wisdom

“We who are like senseless children 
Shrink from suffering, but love its causes. 
We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! 
Why should others be the object of our anger?” 

Shantideva
 "Bodhicaryavatara"

06 February, 2014

Detachment

“The world no longer holds him. He has gone beyond 
the bounds of human nature. Without compassion or the 
wish to harm, Without pride or humility. Nothing disturbs 
him. Nothing surprises him. Because he is free, He neither 
craves nor disdains the things of the world. He takes them 
as they come. His mind is always detached.” 


Ashtavakra Gita

05 February, 2014

Spiritual Poverty for Eternal Release by Julian Colgan


What is the nature of the natureless reality?
A nature that has no nature is a free nature,
for what is free does not strive for what is already at hand.

The self which has no self is of the self of everyone,
being the nature of the natureless reality.
Released from distress due to immediately perceiving
that there is nothing in itself which is innately a source of distress,
projections of the mind are not present to the perceiver
when the build up to there being a perceiver never really took place.

Empty like a bowl that is eternally ringing
though it never began to ring,
what real substance is there to flickering thoughts
that are seemingly coming from within,
but are in actuality as vacant as the soundless sound.

Seeking the buddha nature by hearing the buddha nature,
everything in all realities is an object of enlightenment
because everything contains that which cannot be contained.

Pouring the self back into the fathomless self,
though there is no 'I', there is still 'I'.
Both present and not present,
I am and am not. 

Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/

04 February, 2014

Inner universe

Feel the gentle breeze flowing through your veins,
Feel the warmth of your heart in the sun,
See the flight of the swan in an empty sky
Hear the sweet sound of a silent song
Dance with your heart, forget your feet
Write a tale without a pen,
Leave your legacy without defining it
Live knowing all about death
Die having really lived.
Ultimate and relative are One

Somwang

03 February, 2014

Ripples....

“Love the moment, and the energy of that 
moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” 

Corita Kent

Stillness


“No relationship can thrive without the sense
of spaciousness that comes with
stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in
nature together. When going for a walk or
sitting in the car or at home,
become comfortable with being in stillness
together. Stillness cannot and need not be
created. Just be receptive to the stillness
that is already there, but is usually
obscured by mental noise.”

Eckhart Tolle

01 February, 2014

Images...

Myriad images:
 faces, moments, feelings rise and die,
Landscapes, colours, pictures fleeting by.
Valley of the mind, meadow of the heart,
Endless waves in motion, the senses part
All that shimmers is but a dream,
From which we've yet to wean
Retreating from this endless show
Is the only place there is to know
It is here, it is now, it is clear
The freedom path to which to steer
Therein all is peace, bliss, complete
No shifting sands beneath our feet
Impossible to grasp, recount or define
is the true being of our Eternal Mind.

Somwang (Copyright)
RMRTP