Marblehead Posted July 21, 2017 1 minute ago, CloudHands said: "stop glorifying busy" silent thunder I like the quote but why the injunction form, self addressed ? Yeah, glorify wu wei. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Starjumper Posted July 21, 2017 The eyes are useless when the mind is blind. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted July 22, 2017 14 hours ago, Starjumper said: The eyes are useless when the mind is blind. reminds me of the Bob Marley quote: Some folks feel the rain, others just get wet. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RiverSnake Posted July 23, 2017 (edited) "True magic is neither black nor white. It's both because nature is both loving and cruel, all at the same time. The only good or bad in the heart of the witch. Life keeps a balance on its own." The Craft Edited July 23, 2017 by OldSaint 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted July 25, 2017 @Spotless Read this and immediately thought of you and your handle here. The greatest sin is to call yourself a sinner. You are a child of God. Though gold be covered with mud for centuries, it remains gold. So the pure ‘gold’ of the soul can be covered over with the mud of delusion for aeons, but in its true nature it remains forever undefiled.” —Paramhansa Yogananda” 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Posted July 25, 2017 "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." -Bokonon 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RiverSnake Posted July 26, 2017 "Just tell me where in the world do you find these angels.....who are going to organize our society for us?" Milton Friedman 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Starjumper Posted July 26, 2017 "Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark" Cheyenne 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted July 29, 2017 From the opening to his book THIS IS IT... Alan Watts Spiritual and mystical suggest something rarefied, otherworldly, and loftily religious, opposted to an ordinary material life which is simply practical and commonplace. The whole point of these essays is to show the fallacy of this opposition, to show that the spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from the ordinary. We need, above all, to disentangle ourselves from habits of speech and thought which set the two apart, making it impossible for us to see that this--the immediate, everyday, and present experience--is IT, the entire, ultimate point. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blue eyed snake Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) Be prepared to appreciate what you meet. -Dune- Edited August 3, 2017 by blue eyed snake 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted August 3, 2017 Also be prepared to run away. Marblehead 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
9th Posted August 5, 2017 This singing art is sea foam. The graceful movements come from a pearl somewhere on the ocean floor. Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the centre of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. - Rumi 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aletheia Posted August 5, 2017 On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. —H.L. Menken 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted August 8, 2017 By member WuDao- Every moment is the peach. This bell does not unring. (-: 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted August 13, 2017 I gotta stay reminded of this. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted August 13, 2017 (edited) "The great falling away of that which never was, bricks come tumbling down, a temple built for no one. A veil of dualism, experience appearing, disappearing. Awareness imagining duality. Oh Maya. The grand dynamic stillness, fullness of the emptiness, the deafening unstruck sound of silence. A veil of non-dualism, experience appearing, disappearing. Awareness imagining unity. Oh Maya. A dreamer in a dream, dreams of drifting off to sleep, a dream-awakening within the dream. Unawareness. Oh Maya!" -neti neti Edited August 13, 2017 by neti neti 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted August 13, 2017 Quote On one occasion the Sage(Ramana Maharshi) was asked whether or not it was his duty to preach the Truth to all the people and thus make them free. He answered: “If one awakens from a dream, does he ask: ‘Have those men, that I saw in the dream, awakened?’ Just so, the Sage is not concerned about the people of the world.” Referring to the notion – now fashionable – that it would be selfish to attain freedom for oneself, leaving all the world in bondage, he said: “This is like a dreamer saying: ‘I shall not awaken till all these dream-men awake.’ " 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nohbody Posted August 13, 2017 mirror facing mirror nowhere else - Ikkyu 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted August 15, 2017 Help in suffering more? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Starjumper Posted August 16, 2017 If you stare into the void, and it blinks first, you win. But the prize is insanity. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted August 16, 2017 Now that's irony without the ironing board. I guess I'm going to have to restart that thread of Nietzsche quotes. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nohbody Posted August 18, 2017 What a monument of human smallness is this idea of the philosopher king. What a contrast between it and the simplicity of humaneness of Socrates, who warned the statesmen against the danger of being dazzled by his own power, excellence, and wisdom, and who tried to teach him what matters most — that we are all frail humanbeings. What a decline from this world of irony and reason and truthfulness down to Plato's kingdom of the sage whose magicalpowers raise him high above ordinary men; although not quite high enough to forgo the use of lies, or to neglect the sorry trade of every shaman — the selling of spells, of breeding spells, in exchange for power over his fellow-men. - Karl Popper 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Starjumper Posted August 18, 2017 I object not all shamans are like that. You could say that chi kung masters are shamans, and the Taoist ones are 'supposed' to be ethical. The real ones cultivate power for their own advancement and the only power they really prefer is the power of yielding. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nohbody Posted August 18, 2017 The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. - Robert Anton Wilson 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites