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toinelikesart: Self Portrait (as Diogenes) by Henry Keyworth...

thenewzeitgeist — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:01:13 -0400

Self Portrait (as Diogenes)

by Henry Keyworth Raine

You can tell how scared people are of being immortal. See what religion has done to them. It has...

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:21:03 -0400

You can tell how scared people are of being immortal. See what religion has done to them. It has taken the power from you and made you weak
— The Illuminati (@GodOfIlluminati) May 22, 2013

We are much more

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:17:06 -0400

davidkanigan:

Maybe the fear is that
we are less than
we think we are,
when the
actuality of it
is that we are much much more.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness

"Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in the political kingly sense, but god in..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:15:34 -0400

“Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in the political kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self – the deep down basic whatever there is. And you’re all that… only you’re pretending you’re not.”

- Alan Watts (via rowantrees)

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:27:54 -0400

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

- Nick Carroway, The Great Gatsby (via laughingalong)

This extraordinary thing which man has soughtLove is something...

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:51 -0400

This extraordinary thing which man has sought
Love is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. To find this extraordinary thing which man has sought endlessly through sacrifice, through worship, through relationship, through sex, through every form of pleasure and pain, is only possible when thought comes to understand itself and comes naturally to an end. Then love has no opposite, then love has no conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:07:41 -0400

fluttering-slips: Burning the Book The anthology of love poems I bought for a quarter is brittle,...

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:27 -0400

fluttering-slips:

Burning the Book

The anthology of love poems I bought
for a quarter is brittle, anyway, and comes
apart when I read it.

One at a time, I throw pages on the fire
and watch smoke make its way up
and out.

I’m almost to the index when I hear
a murmuring in the street. My neighbors
are watching it snow.

I put on my blue jacket and join them.
The children stand with their mouths
open.

I can see nouns—longing, rapture, bliss—
land on every tongue, then disappear.

Ron Koertge

"Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:42:11 -0400

“Easy to do are things
that are bad and harmful to oneself.
But exceedingly difficult to do
are things that are good and beneficial.
By oneself is evil done;
by oneself is one defiled.
By oneself is evil left undone;
by oneself is one made pure.
Purity and impurity depended on oneself;
no one can purify another.”

- (via samsaranmusing)

"The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern lights, and the great..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:07 -0400

“

The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern lights, and the great silences of a land lying northwest of Lake Superior. It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life that is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many places, but I seem to hear it best in the wilderness lake country of Quetico-Superior, where travel is still by pack and canoe over the ancient trails of the Indians and voyageurs.

I have heard it on misty migration nights when the dark has been alive with the high calling of birds, and in rapids when the air has been full of their rushing thunder. I have caught it at dawn when the mists were moving out of the bays, and on cold winter nights when the stars seemed close enough to touch. But the music can even be heard in the soft guttering of an open fire or in the beat of rain on a tent, and sometimes not until long afterward when, like an echo out of the past, you know it was there in some quiet place or when you were doing some simple thing out-of-doors.

I have discovered that I am not alone in my listening; that almost everyone is listening for something, that the search for places where the singing may be heard goes on everywhere. It seems to be part of the hunger that all of us have for a time when we were closer to lakes and rivers, to mountains and meadows and forests, than we are today. Because of our almost forgotten past there is a restlessness within us, an impatience with things as they are, which modern life with its comforts and distractions does not seem to satisfy. We sense intuitively that there must be something more, search for panaceas we hope will give us a sense of reality, fill our days and nights with such activity and our minds with such busyness that there is little time to think. When the pace stops we are often lost, and we plunge once more into the maelstrom hoping that if we move fast enough, somehow we may fill the void within us. We may not know exactly what it is we are listening for, but we hunt as instinctively for opportunities and places to listen as sick animals look for healing herbs.

”

- (via anaesthesia4aesthetes)

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:52:33 -0400

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via creatingaquietmind)

santmat: Union With God By Following the Path of Inner Light...

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:24 -0400

santmat:

Union With God By Following the Path of Inner Light and Sound Meditation — Studies in the Sar Bachan

“I will catch hold of the Shabd [Sound Current] firmly and will elevate my Surat [soul, attention-faculty of the soul] and perceive the Nabh* — the entrance to Sahasdal Kanwal* [Thousand Petaled Lotus] — where I will notice your subtle form. Penetrating into Sahasdal Kanwal I will ring (i.e. I will hear the Sound of) the Bell and ascending to the Crooked Tunnel I will hear the stimulating Sound of the Conch Shell. From there I will go round Trikuti* and with the Sound of Aumkara I will besiege (control and vanquish) my mind. My mind now becomes wrapped up (completely absorbed and engrossed) in this Sound and I begin to recognise and discern the identity of the Surat (as distinct from my mind and body), and the subtle, abstract and recondite Sound begins to get into my ears. Thereafter I took immersion [baptism] in Mansarovar [Lake of Nectar] (the reservoir of spirituality in the Sphere of Spirit) where I became purified (shedding the impurities that I had imbibed in my upward journey through the realm of the Universal Mind or Brahman) and attained to the purified pada (i.e. Atma-pada or the Spirit-Pole).

“I went round the top of Sunn* [void] and from there I moved up and captured the fort of Maha Sunn* [great void]. Reaching the Rotating Cave [Banwar Gupha*] I heard the Sound of Sohang (Ana-hoo [Ana-HU]) and then, every instant, I picked up the Sound of Sattnaam. Ascending to Sattlok I found a resting place there (baithak) and my True or Satt Surat (i.e. my Surat that is the son of Satt Purush) became absorbed and merged into the Satt Shabd.

“Beyond it, there are the Invisible [Alakh] and the Inaccessible [Agam] spheres and beyond them is the abode of Radhasoami, the Nameless Lord.”

— Mystic Verses of Swami Ji Maharaj, Sar Bachan Radhasoami Poetry, Book Two, excerpted from Discourse/Bhajan 5, Hymn/Shabd 5

Quintessential Discourse Radhasoami: Sar Bachan Radhasoami Poetry, Volume II; Translations into Contemporary English, Commentary and Footnotes, by M.G. Gupta: http://www.spiritualawakeningradio.com/brsarbachan.html

* To look up mystic terms, see, GLOSSARY of the Radhasoami Faith – PDF File:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/118302722/Glossary-of-the-Radhasoami-Faith

You could lose yourself. There's nothing to hold onto.

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:35:56 -0400

davidkanigan:

“What’s the matter with you? What is it? What is it you’re doing here? I don’t ask you to look for the words for it. Words are secondary. I want you to find the feel of it. I want you to find the fire of it. I want you to touch the source of your life, to feel the joy and the love that can come from living from the source of your being. Throw yourself completely into the aliveness of your life. It’s pretty risky. You could lose yourself. There’s nothing to hold onto.”

- Yun-men

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thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:35:20 -0400

"My process is no process. All that’s important is that I make a start, and allow the art to..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:34:21 -0400

“My process is no process. All that’s important is that I make a start, and allow the art to naturally grow.”

- Karma Sirikogar (via whisperingpetals)

"Somebody says a mean word to you and then something in you tightens — that’s the shenpa. Then it..."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:34:02 -0400

“Somebody says a mean word to you and then something in you tightens — that’s the shenpa. Then it starts to spiral into low self-esteem, or blaming them, or anger at them, denigrating yourself. And maybe if you have strong addictions, you just go right for your addiction to cover over the bad feeling that arose when that person said that mean word to you. This is a mean word that gets you, hooks you. Another mean word may not affect you but we’re talking about where it touches that sore place — that’s a shenpa. Someone criticizes you — they criticize your work, they criticize your appearance, they criticize your child — and, shenpa: almost co-arising.”

- Pema Chödrön (via the-tempests-storm)

"The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:33:42 -0400

“The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.”

- Don Miguel Ruiz

Well, this and non attachment from things as they are. Sam.

(via samsaranmusing)

"Why did Bodhidharma go over the mountains? Because they were in his way."

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:33:28 -0400

“Why did Bodhidharma go over the mountains?
Because they were in his way.”

- (via madjimbeau)

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thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:32:07 -0400

hardingmeyer: back at work

thenewzeitgeist — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:22:04 -0400

hardingmeyer:

back at work

Zen Humanism

toinelikesart: Self Portrait (as Diogenes) by Henry Keyworth...

Self Portrait (as Diogenes)

by Henry Keyworth Raine

You can tell how scared people are of being immortal. See what religion has done to them. It has...

We are much more

"Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in the political﻿ kingly sense, but god in..."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of..."

This extraordinary thing which man has soughtLove is something...

Photo

fluttering-slips: Burning the Book The anthology of love poems I bought for a quarter is brittle,...

"Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are..."

"The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern lights, and the great..."

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of..."

santmat: Union With God By Following the Path of Inner Light...

You could lose yourself. There's nothing to hold onto.

Photo

"My process is no process. All that’s important is that I make a start, and allow the art to..."

"Somebody says a mean word to you and then something in you tightens — that’s the shenpa. Then it..."

"The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does."

"Why did Bodhidharma go over the mountains? Because they were in his way."

Photo

hardingmeyer: back at work

"Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in the political kingly sense, but god in..."