SAYINGS OF THE WISE


Sayings of the Wise

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The Lotus Lords

The lotus lords of the flames of wisdom descend on those who make their body a Temple to house it.


The Mind

The Student asked the Teacher to explain the mind.  "Some say the mind is one, and there is only one mind. What do you say venerable Teacher?"

Here is your answer. This kind of thinking is reflected thinking, but something is missing from it. Let us use a feeling sense to discover the truth. And on the path of feeling we can feel it is both true and untrue. So now let us follow the paths of the light to represent for us the One Mind, as the same as the One Light of Sun.  Consider how Light and Warmth can be  separated in the Cosmic Bodies of the Sun and the Moon and this affects the natures of all living bodies. This is the way to understand light and warmth and unravel this great riddle of the One Mind. 

 If we follow the light through the world, we see how a plant grows from two kinds of light, the light of the moon, which is the Sun-light. So we can say like this, the light is one light, but we also know from the growth of the life in the plant these lead to a different result. And if we take this into the inner being one can clearly see that the light may indeed be one light, but it has been separated into warmth and light, and just light as in the reflected light of the moon.  So we can say there is indeed One Light, the light of the Sun, and that is even to the Light of the Moon, but the Light at the Source is warm, and the light of the Moon is cold and separated from it is the element of the warmth, so the mind too has elements that it must consider that have conditioned it.  

And so the One Mind must consider its reflections as these have been separated into soul and life. Eventually all reflections go back to the source from which they have come, and so the many minds travel back to the one mind and are refreshed, revitalized, as they rest in the bosom of Divine Light and Love.  


The Missing Link in Understanding Our Condition

The missing piece in our understanding of our reflective mental nature is that the mind is sterile. It is actually like trying to fly with one wing and other is a reflection in a mirror.

 It all changes when one understands this secret and how and where to look for the missing part.



The Path of The Tao

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth The named is the mother of myriad things

Thus, constantly without desire, one observes its essence Constantly with desire, one observes its manifestations These two emerge together but differ in name The unity is said to be the mystery Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders

Tao Te Ching 32


The Path of the Wise

"THE LAMA'S LAW

O ye who look to enter in through Discipline to Bliss, Ye shall not stray from out the way, if ye remember this: Ye shall not waste a weary hour, nor hope for Hope in vain, If ye persist with will until self-righteousness is slain.

If through the mist of mortal eyes,deluded, ye discern That ye are holier than these, ye have the whole to learn!If ye are tied with tangled pride Know then, your purest thoughts deny the Truth ye never saw! If ye resent in discontent the searchlight of reproof,

Preferring praise, ye waste your days at sin's not Soul's behoof! Each gain for self denies the Self that knows the self is vain. Who crowns accomplishment with pride must build the whole again!

But if, at each ascending step, more clearly ye perceive That he must kill the lower will,who would the world relieve And they are last who would be first, their effort thrown away;

Be patient then and persevere. Ye tread the Middle Way! "


The Philosopher

Philosophy is the Love of Learning - do you feel the urge and power of love moving in your thoughts? Blowing like a wind?

Giving freshness and musical spirit song? Say yes to Philosophy and the love of learning!


The Question of the Student about Anxiety

The student came to the teacher and said : teacher I am weary of this word! What shall I do! I want to go home and fly amongst the stars, and feel the endless light in my soul to take me where my knowledge is pure and whole. What shall I do now? I am tired by the thought of this world.

The Teacher pondered the question, and then smiled, and said;

Dear one, you have discovered only the borders of things.  Only when you awakened your eyes to see the new day have you discovered that you are still tired too. And so you are perplexed,  as all who see are also perplexed, who suddenly discover they have not awakened refreshed!  And have you not seen you have always awakened so? And alas you see the 1st voice of your self that always grows a little afraid for the coming day!  

And consider too this, you have indeed discovered the things you need for this day as it was the day before too! But the soul does not remember it, nor does it know how to apply anything this day, for the world is also different from what it was!  The soul never knows until it comes. And also consider how the darkness seemed so long too! And the soul is also eager to come!  

 As all of these change; and the world wills to change so! She is a spirit and she comes at times to inspire and whisper into souls knowledge and lifeListen for her on your awakening! Trust her, as she who knows the hidden soul. She knows wisdom and how to show you the spiritual path of love.  She is your spiritual soul companion on your path.  She inspires you to find your light, and to discover how to make the light and illumine your soul in the night of your being.  And in your day to see her there as a living soul with you.   

So one can say that one confronts border after border, law after law, rule after rule, and all of these the world presents to the soul until one grow weary as well....and tires from endless borders. A mystery yes! But then, one has already felt the attraction of the something the world wants too. And she haunts the dream and draws you out after your rest - if not before it - and says "come! Come, that we may know more and see and know what it means!  

And so we go out and cross the borders. 1st, one has now to do well and to prepare itself in reflective thought and then to enter again, refreshed into any kingdom, lower of higher. The soul that knows well the elements of fire, earth, air, and water and can make a meal, and turn a strong wind to sail, and a raging fire to a slow cooking stove, a river to a mill, and the parched and barren earth to a garden.


The Riddle of the Ego

The Riddle of the Ego


As I become less of what I am, I become more of what I was....


The Road Less Travelled - Poem by Robert Frost

The Road Less Travelled - Poem by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,


And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


the Search for the Self

“Perhaps there is more understanding and beauty in life when the glaring sunlight is softened by the patterns of shadows. Perhaps there is more depth in a relationship that has weathered some storms. Experience that never disappoints or saddens or stirs up feeling is a bland experience with little challenge or variation of color. Perhaps it's when we experience confidence and faith and hope that we see materialize before our eyes this builds up within us a feeling of inner strength, courage, and security. We are all personalities that grow and develop as a result of our experiences, relationships, thoughts, and emotions. We are the sum total of all the parts that go into the making of a life.”
― Virginia M. Axline, Dibs in Search of Self

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