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Book: "Moment to Moment Mindfulness. A Pictorial Manual for Meditators" - by Achan Sobin S. Namto (1989) (PDF)
"Those who perceive the arising and ceasing of mental and Physical states, even though they live for a day, are far better than those who never see the arising and ceasing of mental states and physical live a hundred years." - Dhammapada
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Can Mindfulness Evolve From Wellness Pursuit to Medical Treatment? (nytimes)
"It may be the case, that scientists need to develop new metrics to analyze a potential medical intervention that’s rooted in ancient Buddhist philosophy."
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Is there evolution of consciousness? J. Krishnamurti & David Bohm in conversation (1983)
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"If you can't find truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?"
- Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師) (1200 – 1253)
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Ram Dass is dead - by Brad Warner
"Looking over Ram Dass’s work now he strikes me as one of those guys who was at once really smart and really stupid. It’s funny how often those go hand-in-hand. He’s also one of those guys who was absolutely part of the cultural elite, yet managed to convince everybody that he was just a regular guy. He was super rich, super privileged, and super well-connected right from the start, and remained so until the end of his life. Although he also added super famous and super spiritual to the list of super things he super was. Spirituality, it seemed, was yet another way for him to be super. He was one of those driven Type A personalities who wanted to be number one in everything he did. So when he got into spirituality, he got into it with the same mindset. And he achieved his goal. He was the most famous and most spiritual of all the super famous, super spiritual guys. He had lots of groovy sounding theories about higher consciousness, which were mostly bullshit."
Related: Ram Dass is ready to die - by David Marchese (nytimes, sept.2019)
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Hakuin Ekaku (白隠慧鶴) (1686-1769) was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He possessed an unusual ability to convey the meaning of Zen to large numbers of people from all classes and religions. His work had a profound effect on Zen study & painting. Master Hakuin published many texts, including "Yasen kanna" (夜船閑話), "Idle Talk on a Night Boat" - a work on health-improving meditation techniques (PDF, PDF)
Related: The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin
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Japanese Hanging Scroll of Bodhidharma seated on grass. From Song of the Brush. Found via "Daily Life as Spiritual Exercise, by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim"
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“Behind the rock in the dark probably hides a tiger, and the coiling giant root resembles a crouching dragon” (暗石疑藏虎，盤根似臥龍) - Yu Xin (513–581)
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“Study requires calm, talent requires study. Without study there is no way to expand talent; without calm, there is no way to accomplish study.” - Zhuge Liang
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Buddhist Meditation on the Foul, and the Body in Horror Manga - by Videshi Sutra
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"What you practice, you become." - Liu Hung Chieh
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"And now i see with eye serene, the very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, a traveler between life and death." - William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
