Poem by Stonehouse - 14th century chinese Zen master & mountain hermit
tag > Philosophy
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Abu Ma'shar Ja'far al-Balkhi (Albumasar), Persian astronomer and astrologer, 787-886
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The judgment you hold upon the material realm, manufactures itself as your experience.
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"The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves." - Joseph Campbell
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"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" - Abraham Maslow
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"If I cannot dwell anywhere, let me then stay nowhere, in this world brief as a grass hut."
- Monk Saigyo (西行)
(image: rain in Omiya by Hasui Kawase)
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Meditation is a climate, the real is as it is always
"Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living every moment of your life. Walking, sleeping, sitting, talking, listening – it has to become a kind of climate." - Osho
"A relaxed person remains in it. A person who goes on dropping the past remains meditative." - Osho
“The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before.” - Ramana Maharshi.
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Forget the problems and enjoy the gifts
"The vain man of intellect busies himself uselessly with finding out the 'why' and 'wherefore' of creation, while the humble man of wisdom makes friends with the Creator and enjoys His gift of supreme bliss." - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
What problems can there be which the mind did not create? Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, colored by like and dislike. - Nisargadatta
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"Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi" - A Latin proverb which literally means "the deepest rivers flow with the least sound". It is often paraphrased as "Still waters run deep.
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Illuminati Whispers
"As All Manifestation Is First Created In The Mind,It Slowly 'Becomes' And Unfolds In Life Through the Physical Universe. Doing Good To Others Is Not Only Beneficial To Them, But To Oneself As Well. The Eastern Philosophers Called This Karma, Physicists Made It Law, By Which Every Action Had An Equal And Opposite Reaction. Yet, No Matter What You Call "It", Being Good Is Just Good." ~ Dr. Adam Weishaupt cc.1804
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"If you want peace upon earth first establish peace in your heart. Change yourself and the circumstances will change." - Mirra Alfassa
