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When the body and mind dissolve, they do not exist anywhere, any more than musical notes lay heaped up anywhere. When a lute is played upon, there is no previous store of sound; and when the music ceases, it does not go anywhere in space.

- Visuddhimagga Sutra

“At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.”

Laurie Lee

Mind set free in the dharma realm,
I sit at the moon-filled window
Watching the mountains with my ears,
Hearing the stream with open eyes.
Each molecule preaches perfect law.
Each moment chants true sutra:
The most fleeting thought is timeless.
A single hair's enough to stir the sea.

- Shutaku (14th c)

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each day brings its own special peace
all i am required to do is breathe it in

Each day I become more disheveled but I continue to watch the news.

What think you, disciples, whether is more, the water which is in the four great oceans, or the tears which have flowed from you while you strayed and wandered on this long pilgrimage, because that was your portion which you abhorred and that which you loved was not your portion?

- Samyutta-nikaya

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

~ Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

Do not follow the ideas of others,
But learn to listen to the voice within yourself.
Your body and mind will become clear,
And you will realize the unity of all beings.

- Dogen (1200-1253)

In these remote and secluded depths
of quiet mystery,
silence boundless,
distances empty,
you see endeavor denies
our nature
and appearance the inner pattern.
When eyes and ears can tell us
nothing of such things,
how could anyone follow
the path with mere footsteps?

- Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433)

meditation IS enlightenment

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The slightest movement of your dualistic thought will prevent you from entering the palace of meditation and wisdom.

The Buddha meditated for six years, Bodhidharma for nine. The practice of meditation is not a method for attainment of realization—it is enlightenment itself.

- Dogen (1200-1253)

@rookie54 said
meditation IS enlightenment

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The slightest movement of your dualistic thought will prevent you from entering the palace of meditation and wisdom.

The Buddha meditated for six years, Bodhidharma for nine. The practice of meditation is not a method for attainment of realization—it is enlightenment itself.

- Dogen (1200-1253)

Knowing God IS enlightenment

The embodiment of truth is revealed in and through the person and name of Jesus.

I guess that interjection precludes me from entering into your palace of isolation and self-absorption.

@secondson said
Knowing God IS enlightenment

The embodiment of truth is revealed in and through the person and name of Jesus.

I guess that interjection precludes me from entering into your palace of isolation and self-absorption.

Whatever enlightens is enlightenment.

As per your last statement; you, and you alone made the declaration of preclusion. It must be a very lonely place in front of the mirror.

The time that passed before you were born is equal to the time which will elapse after you die.

The sage battles her own ego,

The fool, everyone else’s.

~Sufi Proverb

God bless everyone
no exceptions

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To see the body as unreal
Is to see the Body of the Buddha.
To know the mind as an illusion
Is to know the Illusion of the Buddha.
If a person sees clearly that mind and body
Are not real,
How does he differ from the Buddha?

- Krakucchanda Buddha

"There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment;
There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice."

— Dōgen Zenji