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When
you have walked through the valley of death, with your open eyes daring
to see and your torn out heart bearing the pain as all things small
and large one by one are ripped away from you, as all your hopes and
all your dreams are taken away, as all of your loved ones are taken
from you, as all of the world is taken from you, as all of what you
have and all of what you are is taken from you, as your thoughts and
your mind are taken from you and when your crushed and mangled soul
finally releases its desperate grip on life reaching what seems like
nothing and sounds like silence then, then...
Satori Retreat, Byron Bay, May 2004.
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One
does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
C.G. Jung.
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There
comes a time when silence becomes dishonesty.
Frantz
Fanon
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I
had nowhere to hide, so I stopped being afraid.
Genghis
Khan
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Getting
what I want. - Wanting what I got?
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The
Heart Sutra
Prajna Paramita (Perfection of Wisdom)
Avalokiteshvara,
the bodhisattva mahasattva, said to venerable Shariputra:
Form
is emptiness; emptiness also is form.
Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness.
In the same way, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness
are emptiness.
Thus, Shariputra, all dharmas are emptiness.
There are no characteristics.
There is no birth and no cessation.
There is no impurity and no purity.
There is no decrease and no increase.
Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling,
no perception,
no formation, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no
tongue, no body, no mind;
no appearance, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no dharmas,
no mind consciousness; no ignorance, no end of ignorance,
no old age and death, no end of old age and death;
no suffering, no origin of suffering, no cessation of suffering,
no path, no wisdom,
no attainment and no non-attainment.
"Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha."
Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely gone
beyond, praise to awakening.
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If
you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always
got.
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I am scared, yet not that scared that I will deny
it.
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Wisdom is to lose
the lot. To lose it all is to find it all.
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mg
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If you spend long enough in a smelly room
you will not notice the odour.
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The joy of little children feeding hungry ducks.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table
and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still
and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
...Franz Kafka
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When
man closes his lips, it is then that God speaks.
...Hazrat Inayat Khan
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If you treat people as if they were what you wish
them to be,
you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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According
to advice attributed to the Buddha one may wish to consider the
following.
Do not necessarily trust something:
just because it is a myth
or a tradition.
just because it is mentioned
by many people.
Just because it is mentioned
in books or publications.
Just because it is vigorously
defended by good arguments.
Just because it fits your
own interests or matches your opinions.
Just because it is supported
by apparent proofs.
Just because it is defended
by some authority.
Just because it is proposed
by teachers, experts, priests or monks.
Your eyes and ears can sometime fool you....
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There
is an immense, all pervading, ever present, timeless,
irresistible, effortless, intentionless, formless, choiceless,
indescribably real force, power, presence;
that is all there is and can ever be.
The
implication is that I am not and
can never be separate from this.
To
know this, to feel this, to be awake to this, that is bliss.
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