Buddha-nature, Buddhahood, Buddha-mind, Awakened One, Patriarch, God are merely different expressions for the same emptiness

 

These thin lines of India ink reveal all truth.

Students, sit earnestly in zazen, and you will realize that everything born in this world is ultimately empty, including oneself and the original face of existence. All things indeed emerge out of emptiness.  This original formlessness is “Buddha,” and all other similar terms-Buddha-nature, Buddhahood, Buddha-mind, Awakened One, Patriarch, God—are merely different expressions for the same emptiness. 

Ikkyu  (1394-1481)

Sjá frekar hér: http://www.dailyzen.com/zen/zen_reading0907.asp 

Þetta er tilgangur yogafræða ...

 

Það er ótrúlegt hvað margir lærðir menn og konur, bæði vísindamenn og fræðimenn, hafa hunsað jafn algenga reynslu og trúarlega reynslu djúphyggjumanna sem ævinlega er í grundvallaratriðum hin sama. Þetta verður furðulegra vegna þess að allir höfundar hinna stóru trúarbragða og sumir mestu heimspekingar, rithöfundar og listamenn hafa deilt þessari reynslu. Allir hafa túlkað hana á sama veg: stutt innsýn inn í annað líf í öðrum heimi.    Þetta er tilgangur yogafræða.  Að maðurinn fái innsýn inn í annað líf í öðrum heimi, ófjötraður af öllum því sem bindur hann þessum heimi. Tilgangurinn er stutt leiftursýn og sú skynjun að maðurinn geti aldrei beðið endanlegan ósigur þrátt fyrir mistök, hrörnun, sjúkdóma og sorgir. Ekkert fær til lengdar haggað öryggi okkar, friði og hamingju. Sálin á eilífan þegnrétt í öðru ríki, annari tilveru sem er æðri okkar.   

Gopi Krishna – The Awakening of Kundalini (Tekið úr Ganglera, hausthefti frá árinu 2000. Gunnar Dal þýddi)

Gangleri í áskrift.  

 

At night deep in the mountains, I sit in meditation

 

At night deep in the mountains,
I sit in meditation
The affairs of men never reach here;
Everything is quiet and empty
All the incense has been swallowed up
By the endless night.
My robe has become a garment of dew.
Unable to sleep I walk out into the woods
Suddenly, above the highest peak,
The full moon appears.

 

Ryokan Taigu (1758-1831)

 

 

 

One evening a thief visited Ryokan's hut at the base of the mountain only to discover there was nothing to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. "You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift." The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away. Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."

The Continuous Awakening: Sustaining an Authentic Practice in a Chaotic World með Sally Kempton 11. júlí

 

Join us July 11th for
The Continuous Awakening: Sustaining an Authentic Practice in a Chaotic World
With Sally Kempton

 

 

About Sally Kempton

One evening in 1971, while sitting in her Manhattan living room, Sally Kempton was overcome by a feeling of all-encompassing, unconditional love that seemed to come out of nowhere. The dramatic experience initiated an inner search that led her, two years later, to encounter her Guru, Swami Muktananda. Today, Sally Durgananda Kempton is a teacher of inner yoga, trained in the non-dual traditions of Hindu wisdom. Her classes and trainings offer a deep transmission of heart-based spaciousness. She is known for her ability to convey esoteric tantric teachings with an acute sense of the psychological and practical challenges of contemporary life. She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal. To learn more about Sally Kempton and sign up for her mailing list, visit www.SallyKempton.com

 
 
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Even the most exalted states and most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant ...

 

Even the most exalted states and most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

 

Jack Kornfield

There is an adamantine Buddha Nature within the bodies of sentient beings

 

There is an adamantine Buddha Nature
Within the bodies of sentient beings.
Like the sun, it is essentially bright,
Perfect, and complete.
Although vast and limitless,
It is merely covered by the layered clouds
Of the five skandas.
Like a lamp inside a jar,
Its light shines nonetheless.

 

 Sutra of the Ten Stages

 

Eckhart Tolle TV o.fl.

 

Hér getið þið horft á Eckhart Tolle Tv: http://www.eckharttolletv.com/#

 

Sjá einnig: Big Mind TV hér: http://bigmind.org/Big_Mind_TV/View.html 

 

og Conscious TV hér:   http://www.conscious.tv/

Death … may be what we call God

When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot. In the same way, can you totally drop hate, envy, pride of possession, attachment to beliefs, to opinions, to ideas, to a particular way of thinking? Can you drop all that in an instant? There is no “how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity. To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die—to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge—which is death.
I want to know all about death, because death may be reality; it may be what we call God—that most extraordinary something that lives and moves and yet has no beginning and no end.  

Krishnamurti - The Collected Works vol XI, p 242

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The goal of meditation

 

Meditation should open the inner channels, calm and relax the mind and body, and develop the immense divine potential of each human being.

People who meditate regularly also gain material prosperity, physical and mental health, creative inspiration, intellectual prowess, enhanced youth and vigor.

The goal, however, should be self-knowledge and God-realization, in order to become firmly established in our divine nature.

 

 

 

Paramahamsa Prajnanananda