Sponsor |  prozacmilkshake | Jun 9, 2004 2:41pm | I have been overwhelmed by Adyashanti's philosophy on life and spirituality, and plan to devour anything and everything I can get my hands on of his. This little tidbit really spoke to my heart. Let's have a peek into what he has to say...
"Spiritual people often want unconditional support and understanding from their friends, family, and mates, but all too often seem blind to their own short-comings when it comes to the amount of unconditional support and understanding that they give to others. I have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual others are and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while completely missing the fact that they themselves are not nearly as spiritually enlightened as they would like to think that they are. Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you interact with others; with all others, not just those who support you in the way that you want. How you interact with those who do not support you shows how enlightened you really are.
As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you ARE. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free. To give up being either ignorant or enlightened is the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your Self. What I am describing is the birth of True Love."
There is a wonderful story about a young man who checks into the monastery, full of juice and ready to be enlightened yesterday. He asks the abbot, "How long will it take me to be enlightened?" To which the abbot answers, "About ten years." The young man says, "Ten years! Why ten years?" The abbot replies, "Oh, twenty years in your case." The man asks, "Why do you say twenty years?" The abbot says, "Oh, I'm sorry. I was mistaken...thirty years."
Visit him here: zen.satsang.org [zen.satsang.org]
~We are, each of us like angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another~ |
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|  Kindtraum | Aug 5, 2004 11:13am | "Do not say, 'I follow the one true path of the spirit,' but rather, 'I have found the spirit walking on my path.' for spirit walks on all paths."
--Khalil Gibran |
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Sponsor | | prozacmilkshake | Aug 5, 2004 6:09pm | Believe nothing on the faith of traditions,
even though they have been held in honor
for many generations and in diverse places.
Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it.
Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past.
Do not believe what you yourself have imagined,
persuading yourself that a God inspires you.
Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests.
After examination, believe what you yourself have tested
and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto. --Gautama Buddha
{thanks to nworb.stumbleupon.com [nworb.stumbleupon.com] for this one!:)} |
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Sponsor | | Firebringer | Sep 12, 2004 6:26pm | "There is something more important than ideas. It is freedom from ideas. For a Buddhist to be attached to any doctrine, even a Buddhist one, is to betray the Buddha"
(Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King for the Nobel Peace Prize) |
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|  |  151868 | Sep 16, 2004 9:53pm | Serene Light, shining in the
Ground of my being,
Draw me to yourself.
Draw me past the snares of the senses.
Out of the mazes of the mind.
Free me from symbols, from words,
That I may discover
The Signified
The Word Unspoken
In the darkness
That veils the ground of my being.
Amen
Byzantine Prayer |
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Sponsor | | Statix | Sep 16, 2004 10:14pm | | It definitely is! Very profound and delighting... |
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| | | 151868 | Sep 16, 2004 10:57pm | re: 15 - 17
Yeah - the lady who runs the meditation gp I use to attend regularly (wish that wasn't past tense) would read that to bring us in to or out of meditation. Imagine that being read at barely a whisper, very slowly. it's nice.
I find it calms and opens my spirit. I physically feel it in the solar plexus. Glad you guys like it too! |
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