Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[xyz]

[Stigweard]

"When plants are alive, they are soft and supple.

When they die, they become brittle and dry.

When a human being is born, he is tender and weak.

At death, he become hard and stiff.

Therefore, the hard and the stiff are students of death,

While the soft and the gentle are students of life."

 

- Hua-Ching Ni

"The Uncharted Voyage Toward The Subtle Light" (page 363)

[Guan-Wen]

[Mal]

Stop using me to justify your war - God

[Guan-Wen]

Here's one I've always loved:

 

 

Master Thic Naht Hanh Is a great modern master. He has that great ability tro bring us back to the moment.

 

"Breathe You Are Alive" is another excellent work

 

ANOTHER GOODIE:

 

 

Well done Two Trees and thankyou for qouting the Diamond Sutra!

 

When in doubt , go to the classics.

 

when i standing in line at the bank

i just do testicle breathing

nobody know that i do

 

-Mantak Chia, Healing Love tape.

 

 

Thank goodness for testicle breathing!

 

I practrise whnever I am brought back to the mopment - at home, work, between times..

 

I love cricket [the game]. Cricket is like a moving meditation. In cricket, it is ok to fiddle with your tackle from time to time. Kind-of an overt show of testicle breathing...

 

Anybody else ou there that loves cricket?

 

"You do well to love cricket. To play it keenly, honourably, generously, self-sacrificingly, is a moral lesson in itself. And the classroom is God's air and sunshine." The fourth Lord Harris.

 

When i was in the Green movement, I was part of a faction:"Greens for Sport."

 

I s there a Tao Bums for Sport faction???

 

"There aren't two things in this universe." Jen Fa-jung

 

"You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck." El Ghazali

 

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly, man got to ask himself, 'why, why, why.'

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land, man got to tell himself he understand." Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

[/"See but one in all things. It is the second which leads you astray." Can't quite remember who. Maybe Meister Eckhart. Does anyone else Know?]

Edited October 29, 2008 by Guan-Wen

[Guan-Wen]

"he not busy being born is busy dying" --Bob Dylan

 

 

Easy Rider!!!

 

The whole soundtrack!!

 

"The river flows. It flows to the sea. Wherever that river goes, that's where I want to be...

All he wanted, was to be free. and that's the way it turned out to be..

Go river go past the shady tree

Flow river flow flow to the sea

Floooooowwww to the seeeeea..."

 

Ballad of Easy Rider

[Guan-Wen]

[wuliheron]

This is a paraphrase of R. W. Emerson:

 

"Virtue is its own reward, to have a friend you must first be a friend."

[Seth Ananda]

Here in this very body

Are the sacred rivers

Here is the sun and the moon

and all the pilgrimage places.

I have never found a Temple

as Blissful

as my own body.

 

Saraha (if i remembered it right and if i didn't then, Saraha/Seth )

 

 

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

 

J Krishnamurti.

 

 

"If the universe is utterly mechanistic, then it is highly Improbable that we are living in a mechanistic universe"

- Johnstones Paradox.

Ramsey Dukes.

 

"Groovy!"

Evil dead.

 

 

Great thread

Seth

[mianguo]

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao Tzu

 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

[Fitz P. Faustus]

"Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it's only action that can make a man."

 

"In German, if one is polite, one lies."

 

"Have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labour, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before"

 

"Simple folks never sense the devil's presence, not even when his hands are on their throats."

all 4 -Goethe's Faust

 

"A bad leader is hated, a better leader is loved, but the best leader is one who is ignored." -I'm pretty sure to say the least that Lao Tzu said this.

 

"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"-Its from V for Vendetta, means By the power of truth I, while living, have conquered the universe. In the movie its stated that it from Faust but its in no version i have ever read.

 

i have more somewhere but i can't find the author of the quotes for some reason.

[picnic]

i found some of my favourite quotes to add...

 

We do not possess an 'ego'.

We are possessed by the idea of one.

* * *

 

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

* * *

 

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream.

'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by.

'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered,

and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed.

But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered,

'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices,

but just a quiet certitude.

* * *

 

"life is fucking awesome" - (the buddha)

[picnic]

"To draw a conclusion, is to say your mind is no longer open." "An open mind never concludes. A closed mind said this"

[picnic]

Not the Tao but still a good quote...

 

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

[Harold]

[ ...to live outside the law you must be honest...

 

(Bob Dylan)

[Flowingwater]

' It is not through power in which water cuts through rock,

but with persistance '

 

Unsure of author. ( Doesn't exactly quote that way either, but close too. )

 

' Tao never does;

Yet through it

All things are done. '

 

Tao Teh Ching

 

Simplicity is truely amazing.

Edited December 7, 2008 by Flowingwater

[Timm Gleeson]

as the shadow follows the body, as we think so we become.

-Buddha

 

 

Reminds me of a fav, and apologies if it's said already:

 

"You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are."

 

...which led me to find:

 

"If your thinking is brilliant, then you will be brilliant; but if your thinking isn't brilliant then you will not be brilliant no matter how brilliant you think you are."

 

Is swearing/cussing meant to be some form of higher-level practice? You know what I mean...

 

Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Insert Culturally Relevant Social Happy Event

[teopakees]

My girfriend has a poster on her wall which reads:

 

We are not

Human beings

Having

Spiritual

Experiences

 

We are

Spiritual

Beings Having

Human

Experiences

 

As we are, we do.

As we do, we are.

[teopakees]

The Red Wheelbarrow

 

so much depends

upon

 

a red wheel

barrow

 

glazed with rain

water

 

beside the white

chickens. - William Carlos Williams

[teopakees]

Watermelons

 

Green Buddhas

On the fruit stand

We eat the smile

And spit out the teeth. - Charles Simic

[teopakees]

When you want more than you have

You think you need

And when you think more than you want

Your thoughts begin to bleed.

from song "Society" by Eddie Vedder for the movie "Into the Wild"

[wuming]

A couple of my faves,

 

"My body is a temple and a nightclub too" I think that might have been Baba Ram.

 

"All things in moderation, including moderation itself" This one probably goes back a long way but the last time I came across it The Barefoot Doctor used it.

 

These maybe more relevant today as there will be lots of nightclubbing and immoderate behavior tonight!

 

Pz, WM

[teopakees]

nobody's fault but mine. Led Zeppelin

[ghost dancer]

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 

Dylan Thomas

[teopakees]

...and the morning

lasted all day.

The Dream Academy