Virtues are fruit of self-discipline and do not drop from the sky as does rain and snow.
~ Zen
~ Zen
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The Gateless Gate
If a reader is brave enough and goes straight forward in his meditation, no delsuions can disturb him. He will become enlightened just as did the patriarches in India and in china, probably even better. But if he hesitates one moment, he is as a person watching from a small window for a horseman to pass by, and in a wink he has missed seeing.
" The great path has no gates,
Thousand of roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate
He walks freely between heaven and earth."
~ Zen
If a reader is brave enough and goes straight forward in his meditation, no delsuions can disturb him. He will become enlightened just as did the patriarches in India and in china, probably even better. But if he hesitates one moment, he is as a person watching from a small window for a horseman to pass by, and in a wink he has missed seeing.
" The great path has no gates,
Thousand of roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate
He walks freely between heaven and earth."
~ Zen
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It is too clear and so it i hard to see.
A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern.
Had he known what fire was,
He could have cooked his rice much sooner.
~ Zen
A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern.
Had he known what fire was,
He could have cooked his rice much sooner.
~ Zen
4
When it comes to your mind, don't welcome and develop on it. When it leaves you, don't say good bye or come again and let it leaves in silence. This is true silence you will experience in you. Lengthen this silence and stillness and let the seed of wisdom and compassion germinates. This is a correct way of meditation that takes place. So all these will come into you less and less and until you reach a stage of voidness. Awakening of your true self will soon emerge. Do you need any hint to understand this?
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You will be free when you realise your pure Consciousness is your true nature. Your natural state of being is not hidden from you. However you choose to complicate a matter even though how simple or minute a matter will be. I always shake my head when I look at people who prefer to stay in their dreams.
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Anger, greed and attachment can not last long, they just come and go. But compassion and loving-kindness are in-rooted in you and in your deep consciousness. A time will come when you wake up from your deep slumber,you know how to get rid of your karmic bad behaviors and all the negativities. When the clouds are dispersed, your bright Sun will radiate the light of your true self.
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Be aware of your existence from moment to moment, you will live and enjoy every second of your life.
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Contributed by Sanjeev Malhotra
We need to have a feeling that we are all one. When we say we are all one, it does not mean only for the sake of saying. We have to understand everything is made of atoms and atoms closely packed in molecules and large no. of molecules bunched together looks like shapes to our physical eyes. But there are atoms in the air outside also. Similar atoms are there in walls, bricks, tables and all furnitures and in all human beings. Hence we are all one in terms of our basic unit of existence is atoms. If are concerned only the form our physical eyes see as our physical body in terms or earning, accumulation, growth in terms of finance, knowledge etc and neglecting the same growth of others around us, we are in real terms not growing. It will be like i am cleaning my one hand and leaving the other dirty. If i have to grow, i have to make sure everyone else also grows and has food and enough money for sustenance of life. That is the reason our texts and masters preach for compassion and loving kindness and helping others so that all grow and in real terms we grow.
We need to have a feeling that we are all one. When we say we are all one, it does not mean only for the sake of saying. We have to understand everything is made of atoms and atoms closely packed in molecules and large no. of molecules bunched together looks like shapes to our physical eyes. But there are atoms in the air outside also. Similar atoms are there in walls, bricks, tables and all furnitures and in all human beings. Hence we are all one in terms of our basic unit of existence is atoms. If are concerned only the form our physical eyes see as our physical body in terms or earning, accumulation, growth in terms of finance, knowledge etc and neglecting the same growth of others around us, we are in real terms not growing. It will be like i am cleaning my one hand and leaving the other dirty. If i have to grow, i have to make sure everyone else also grows and has food and enough money for sustenance of life. That is the reason our texts and masters preach for compassion and loving kindness and helping others so that all grow and in real terms we grow.
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When you realise who you are, your life and events will unfold accordingly in front of you. You are the most satisfied people who will be contented with everything that you have. You choose to live in simplicity. You throw away all your masks and review your true face to anyone whom you come across. You need not lie but only saying the truth.You feel happy, peaceful and comfortable at all time. Your friends will find you strange and can not believe their eyes and ears when they have conversation with you. They were wondering why your ambition, your aggressiveness and fighting spirit have all disappeared like vapour. They could not see the burning fire in your eyes but compassion and loving-kindness.
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