Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
Humility, metaphysically, implies the absence of any entity to be either 'proud' or 'humble'.
The purest doctrines, such as those of Ramana Maharshi, Padma Sambhava, Huang Po and Shen Hui, just teach that it is sufficient by analysis to comprehend that there is no entity which could have effective volition, that an apparent act of volition when in accord with the inevitable can only be a vain gesture and, when in discord, the fluttering of a caged bird against the bars of his cage. When he knows that, then at last he has peace and is glad.
The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen).
It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er.
There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er.
There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept
One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.
There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.
The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any “one†to suffer — he will.
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself -
And there isn't one.
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself -
And there isn't one.
Having found no self that is not other, the seeker must find that there is no other that is not self, so that in the absence of both other and self, there may be known the perfect peace, of the presence of absolute absence.
We are required to cease looking at objects as events apart from ourselves, and to know them at their source – which is our perceiving of them.
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.
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