Monday December 20, 2004 12:10

Happy Solstice

Friday December 17, 2004 15:32

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."

Joseph Campbell

Tuesday December 14, 2004 22:23

The Wan Ling Record of Zen Master Huang Po

Huang-po (d.850)

Q: What is the Buddha?

A: Mind is the Buddha, while cessation of conceptual thought is the Way. Once you stop arousing concepts and thinking in terms of existence and non-existence, long and short, other and self, active and passive, and suchlike, you will find that your Mind is intrinsically the Buddha, that the Buddha is intrinsically Mind, and that Mind resembles a void. Therefore it is written that "the true Dharmakaya resembles a void." Seek for nothing but this, else your search must end in sorrow.

Though you perform the six paramitas for as many eons as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, adding also all the other sorts of activities for gaining Enlightenment, you will still fall short of the goal. Why? Because these are karma-forming activities and, when the good karma they produce has been exhausted, you will be born again in the ephemeral world.

Therefore is it also written: "The Sambhogakaya is not a real Buddha, nor a real teacher of the Dharma. Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha!

Sunday December 5, 2004 20:58

In the market, in the cloister -- only God I saw.
In the valley and on the mountain -- only God I saw.
Him I have seen beside me oft in tribulation;
In favour and in fortune -- only God I saw.
In prayer and fasting, in praise and contemplation,
In the religion of the Prophet -- only God I saw.
Neither soul nor body, accident nor substance,
Qualities nor causes -- only God I saw.
I oped mine eyes and by the light of His face around me
In all the eye discovered -- only God I saw.
Like a candle I was melting in His fire:
Amidst the flames outflashing -- only God I saw.
Myself with mine own eyes I saw most clearly,
But when I looked with God's eyes -- only God I saw.
I passed away into nothingness, I vanished,
And lo, I was the All-living -- only God I saw.

Divan-i Baba Kohi of Shiraz*,
Ghazal # 73 (Nicholson numbering),
"Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose",
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Cambridge University press, London, 1922

Sunday December 5, 2004 16:41

Friday December 3, 2004 19:31

Just in case...

Guru -
The manifest form of the teaching principle of God.
'Gu' refers to darkness assuming the form of ignorance. 'Ru' refers to radiance in the form of spiritual knowledge. This radiance dispels the darkness of ignorance. Thus, the Guru is One Who with His radiance, dispels the darkness of ignorance in His disciple.

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