Thursday, January 7, 2010

Quoth The Wise Man

In original nature there is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror has no likes or dislikes.
- Seung Sahn

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi

That which is, is peace. All that we need do is to keep quiet. Peace is our real nature. We spoil it. What is required is that we cease to spoil it. If we remove all the rubbish from the mind, the peace will become manifest. That which is obstructing the peace must be removed. Peace is the only reality.
- Ramana Maharshi

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
- Alan Watts

...when you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the country-side thinking, 'I am all this.' There is simply 'all this.' 
- Alan Watts

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
- Alan Watts

Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.
- Eckhart Tolle

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti



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