There is no other calling for the 21st Century

 

The Bodhisattva Warrior is a being who is dedicated to assisting all sentient beings in achieving complete enlightenment. To achieve complete enlightenment is to liberate oneself from the influences of a fear-driven consciousness, and a culture of fear which dominates contemporary society. This is what it means to be truly free. Then what follows naturally is a sincere desire to live your life as a benefit for others, to dedicate your life to - being a human-being. There is no other calling, no other vocation, more urgent, more necessary, for the 21st Century.

 

Sjá: http://www.seijakuroshionline.org/ 

Menn eiga að vita, að innra með þeim býr hið eilífa

 

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Menn eiga að vita, að innra með þeim býr hið eilífa, og ekkert, er þeir þurfa að vita, er þessu æðra. Þegar maður skynjar sitt innra sjálf, hinn kvika efnisheim og hið skapandi almætti, þá er allt fullkomnað. Þetta þrennt er eitt: Guð.

 

Svetasvatara Upanishad - Fyrsti hluti. Sören Sörenson endursagði úr frummálinu.

 

Overcome your uncertainties ...

 

Overcome your uncertainties
And free yourself
From dwelling on sorrow.
If you delight in existence,
You will become a guide
To those who need you,
Revealing the path to many.

 

Sutta Nipata

Ken Wilber - I Am Big Mind

A new dimension of consciousness has come in

 

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought.  A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

 

Eckhart Tolle

 

 

Dagskrá Guðspekifélagsins um næstu helgi

 

Föstudaginn 12. febrúar Dagmar Hjörleifsdóttir: Kynning á hugleiðslu.

Laugardaginn 13. febrúar Þorlákur Morthensen: ,,Kærleikurinn og Búdda"

www.gudspekifelagid.is

Happiness is your nature

 

Happiness is your nature.
It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside
when it is inside.

 

Ramana Maharshi

Seek Until You Find

 

You must seek until you find. Only when you find what you have been looking for will you be able to truly stop seeking. Better not to stop seeking energetically until then. It is imperative that you do not stop seeking until you reach the goal of Enlightenment. Do not allow yourself to stop until you've come to the absolute end of all seeking. Only when you have come home forever and you know without any doubt that it is all over should you allow yourself to stop.

 

Andrew Cohen

The silent watcher

 

Be present as the watcher of your mind -- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations.  Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.  Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future.  Don't judge or analyze what you observe.  Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction.  Don't make a personal problem out of them.  You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

Eckhart Tolle

But then at some point you do it for others. Because the others are you.

 

But no matter what kind of PureLand or different group, we can alllearn from the different teachings ofthe same Buddha. Refrain from allevils – greed, anger and ignorance. Goto that space of calmness within yourself.That’s the absence of greed,anger and ignorance. This is notclingingto birth and death. This isnot-clinging to samsara and nirvana.This is deep compassion, for all sentientbeings. Maybe for the first 10years this is for yourself. But then atsome point you do it for others.Because the others are you. And thisactually makes it easier. This is theBodhisattva approach. Doing somethingfor someone else. When we doit for ourselves, we become too critical.‘Am I being too greedy? Is itreally ok to want that?’ But whenyou do it for someone else, that

someone else includes you.

  

Dharma talk sem Jakusho Kwong-roshi hélt 12. ágúst 2009 meðan á sesshin stóð á Sonoma Mountain Zen Center.