People are forms and character, their color.
Failing is not that bad,
Trying is not that easy,
And winning is not that glorious.
Peace through war is violence,
War through peace is non-violence.
To smile at your foes is not as easy as it looks,
Although you only need to stretch your lips a bit.
Könchog Thubten
A 21 year old Tibetan monk.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Nakedness of quiet
The nakedness of quiet or presence disarms you so that you can't avoid any experience, any event, anything.
Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
Realize yourself and be free. When you are in the true quiet, you realize that when you hear a jackhammer, that's the quietness -- it's just taken some form. True quiet is absolutely inclusive. It goes beyond all dualistic ideas of what quiet is. When we come into stillness, we find that stillness is not separate from motion or movement.
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time. Every minute that you are awake, every minute that you are alive, every minute that you breathe, it's right there.
Adyshanti
"Emptiness Dancing"
Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
Realize yourself and be free. When you are in the true quiet, you realize that when you hear a jackhammer, that's the quietness -- it's just taken some form. True quiet is absolutely inclusive. It goes beyond all dualistic ideas of what quiet is. When we come into stillness, we find that stillness is not separate from motion or movement.
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time. Every minute that you are awake, every minute that you are alive, every minute that you breathe, it's right there.
Adyshanti
"Emptiness Dancing"
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