Thank you very much for this thread

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. -- Swami Sivananda


Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness. -- Zen Master Rama

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.

The Buddha

Saw this little gem yesterday ..


He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool - shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is willing - teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep - wake him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man - follow him."

- ancient proverb

Miriam Knight, founder of New Conscious Awakenings...online...

"The universe organizes itself to help those who surrender to it."

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

"If you can see God in everything, then God will look back
at you through everything."

-Ernest Holmes

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"What about when they say the sound of the rain has given you a sermon? Is that correct? I do not agree; the sound of the rain is YOU giving a sermon."

-Zen Master Foyan

"...our only limit is our capacity to receive."


--Emmit Fox

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The ego cannot survive without judgment.




--A Course In Miracles
or ACIM

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A few quotes by the Great Yogi Sri Aurobindo:

Some quotes by His Twinsoul partner:

Ramana Maharashi: That which is does not even say I AM.

Pir Vilayat Khan: The ego is very important ..... until one no longer needs it.

The Upanishads: "Neither do I know nor do I not know".

I absolutely LOVE this quote ! I just hope that the majority doesn't agree with me or it is time to pause and reflect. :smile:

Superb and worth repeating !

"My teacher said, "Suppose a bit of filth is stuck on the tip of the nose of a sleeping man, totally unknown to him. When he wakes up, he notices a foul smell; sniffing his shirt, he thinks his shirt stinks, and so he takes it off. But then whatever he picks up stinks; he doesn't realize the odor is on his nose. If someone who knows tells him it has nothing to do with the things themselves, he stubbornly refuses to believe it. The knowing one tells him to simply wipe his nose with his hand, but he won't. Were he willing to wipe his nose, only then could he know he was already getting somewhere; finally he would wash it off with water and there would be no foul odor at all. Whatever he smelled, that foul odor wouldn't be there from the start. Studying Zen is also like this; those who will not stop and watch themselves on their own instead pursue intellectual interpretation, but the pursuit of intellectual interpretation, seeking rationales and making comparative judgments, is all completely off. If you would turn your attention around and watch yourself, you would understand everything."

-Zen Master Foyan

Oh gee...that was when I didn't know how to spell Nisargadatta!
Great quotes everybody!

I like this. I AM is still a label. Still an identity.

Some of the Greatest Teachers only refer to themselves in the 'third person', because they are no longer identified with 'ego' or 'l'.

That's gotta be pretty weird though. "Scarlett is going to the shop for some food" or "Scarlett is going to sleep" or something.

Krishnamurti often referred to himself as "the speaker".

Luntrus no like speak like that.
Luntrus tired.

oh very nice

The Stair
 

Yesterday, Upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there
he wasn't there again today
oh how I wish he'd go away!:fish:

l think they mostly referred to themselves in this way through correspondence with strangers and the like, not in everyday conversations with familiar ppl..

One of my favorite koans... it can be difficult to contemplate, but it is really striking :tongue: :

A monk asked Hsueh-feng "How is it when the ancient stream is cold from the source?"

Hsueh-feng said, "When you look directly into it, you don't see the bottom."

The monk asked "How about one who drinks of it?"

Hsueh-feng said, "It doesn't go in by way of the mouth."

The monk recounted this to Chao-chou. Chao-chou said, "It can't go in by way of the nostrils."

The monk then asked Chao-chou, "How is it when the ancient stream is cold from the source?"

Chao-chou said, "Painful."

The monk said, "What about one who drinks of it?"

Chao-chou said, "He dies."

Hsueh-feng heard this quoted and said, "Chao-chou is an ancient buddha; from now on, I won't answer any more questions."

"All verbal teachings are just to cure diseases. Because diseases are not the same, the remedies are also different. That is why it is sometimes said that there is Buddha, and sometimes it is said that there is no Buddha.

True words are those that actually cure sickness; if the cure manages to heal, then all are true words. If they can't effectively cure sickness, all are false words.

True words are false words when they give rise to views. False words are true words when they cut off the delusions of sentient beings. Because disease is unreal, there is only unreal medicine to cure it."

-Zen Master Pai-Chang

I am the Source of everything; from Me all creation emerges.
With this realization the wise, the awestricken, adore Me.

- from The Gita, Ch 10v8, Krishna

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He who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. -- Jesus Christ


If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is. -- Harbhajan Yogi Bhajan



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Where did Christ say that??

That would be Proverbs 15:15.
Then, 17:22...a merry heart does good like a medicine.

"There are people in the world who constantly lecture on scriptures and ethics, who know what is wrong and what is not wrong, what is sinful and what is not sinful, what is offensive and what is not offensive. They are outwardly proper in their bearing, but have not stopped bad patterns in their inner minds; are they able to attain liberation from miseries?

Suppose someone inwardly has full knowledge of cause and effect, and the various conditions for misery and happiness, and he is also proper and mannerly in outward appearance, yet cannot take care of himself and keeps five hundred iron barbs inside his clothes - do you think this person can be free of pain? If people who study the way now are outwardly proper but inwardly do not stop bad patterns in their minds, they will be like this."

-Zen Master Fu Shan-Hui

"To 'leave the world' means that you do not let the feelings of worldly people hang on your mind."

-Zen Master Dogen

"No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease."

-Zen Master Dogen