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31 January 2022 06:41

Haemin Sunim

Try to share your true feelings.
Even if the other person is hurt at first, eventually she will be grateful to know the truth.
The truth is freeing to both the one who expresses it and the one who hears it.

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28 January 2022 03:30

Rubert Spira

Happiness, like the patch of blue, appears at first to be a temporary experience that occurs from time to time, but when investigated turns out to be ever-present and always available in the background of experience.
As such, happiness is not a temporary experience that alternates with unhappiness. It is not the opposite of unhappiness, any more than the blue sky is the opposite of the clouds. Just as the clouds are the veiling of the blue sky, so unhappiness is the veiling of happiness.
Happiness is our very nature and lies at the source of the mind, or the heart of ourself, in all conditions and under all circumstances. It cannot be acquired; it can only be revealed.
We cannot know happiness as an objective experience; we can only be it. We cannot be unhappy; we can only know unhappiness as an objective experience.
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26 January 2022 06:41

Rubert Spira

However, if we are lost in the contents of a movie, the screen will seem to be missing or unseen. Of course, the screen is always being seen, although we have temporarily overlooked or forgotten it due to our absorption in the movie.
Likewise, awareness is always present and aware of itself, but seems to cease knowing itself as it truly is when it loses itself in objective experience.

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24 January 2022 03:30

Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon preserved in a museum. Only when we find the spring of wisdom in our own life can it flow to future generations.

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21 January 2022 06:41

Sri Ramakrishna

One looks on God exactly according to one’s own inner feeling. Take, for instance, a devotee with an excess of tamas. He thinks that the Divine Mother eats goat. So he slaughters one for Her. Again, the devotee endowed with rajas cooks rice and various other dishes for the Mother. But the sāttvic devotee doesn’t make any outer show of his worship. People don’t even know he is worshipping. If he has no flowers, he worships God with mere Ganges water and the leaves of the bel-tree. His food offering to the Deity consists of sweetened puffed rice or a few candies. Occasionally he cooks a little rice pudding for the Deity.
“There is also another class of devotees, those who are beyond the three gunas. They have the nature of a child. Their worship consists in chanting God’s name—just His name.
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19 January 2022 06:41

The Power of Thought by Swami Paramananda

Nothing is more potent to mould human life than thought. The use or abuse of this force determines the destiny of man. When the thought is properly controlled and directed, it lifts him ever higher and higher; when it is ill-directed and uncontrolled, it drags him down and bars his growth, for verily man is what he thinks." Thus says Swami Paramananda, the author, who was the youngest disciple of Swami Vivekananda

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12 January 2022 06:41

Swami Vivekananda

No religion built upon a person can be taken up as a type by all the races of mankind. Even in one small city we find that so many hundreds of persons are taken up as types by the different minds in that one city. How is it possible that one person, as Muhamed, or Buddha, or Christ, can be taken up as the one type for the whole world? nay, that the whole of morality, and ethics, and spirituality, and religion, can be true only from the sanction of that one person, and one person alone?
Now the Vedantic religion does not require any such personal authority; its sanction is the eternal nature of man, its ethics are based upon the eternal spiritual solidarity of man, already existing, already attained, and not to be attained.
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08 January 2022 11:34

J Krishnamurti

From what you say you have fallen into a habit for many, many years and you have cultivated another habit, the habit of fighting it. So you want to get rid of one habit by cultivating another which is the denial of the first. You are fighting one habit with another. When you can’t get rid of the first habit you feel guilty, ashamed, depressed, perhaps angry with yourself for your weakness. The one habit and the other are the two sides of the same coin: without the first, the second wouldn’t be, so the second is really a continuation of the first as a reaction. So now you have two problems whereas in the beginning you had only one.
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06 January 2022 06:41

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If one understands that objects are only a temporary appearance, and becomes convinced that objects cannot really provide true happiness, then the apparent reality of the objects automatically fades away. It then becomes possible for one to develop detachment for those objects that were previously held dear to one as true. A wooden toy in the shape of a tamarind pod is not a real tamarind pod. It is made of wood. However, unless one has the discriminative ability to be able to tell the difference, the sight of the wooden tamarind is sure to make one's mouth start watering. The reason for this is the conviction that the thing is real. Once one becomes aware that the tamarind is made of wood, he may appreciate the artistic or aesthetic lines of the toy, but it will not affect his salivary glands. This discriminative knowledge, or the recognition that it is not real, results in true detachment towards the object.
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02 January 2022 05:37

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31 December 2021 07:30

​​Water knows no fear, anticipation, or surprise.
Remaining calm, clear, and true,
It suffers not the future
And reflects beauty in tranquility.

Water neither seeks nor resists conflict.
Flowing with simplicity and efficiency,
It suffers not the present
And reflects beauty in turbulence.

Water dwells not on drama or regret.
Resuming the original condition,
It suffers not the past
And reflects beauty in equilibrium.

Become Water!
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27 December 2021 06:41

​​Love is the highest spiritual practice.
The boundaries between ourselves and others melt, and we experience the true “We” and true Oneness.
Love is the way the Divine manifests and flows in a tangible form from human to human.
That’s how we get to experience heaven on earth through loving each other.

#the_choice_for_love
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25 December 2021 04:00

❝My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world❞
- Jesus Christ

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20 December 2021 06:41

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
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17 December 2021 06:41

By hyperdeveloping the mirror-neuron system, evolution in effect turned culture into the new genome. Armed with culture, humans could adapt to hostile new environments and figure out how to exploit formerly inaccessible or poisonous food sources in just one or two generations—instead of the hundreds or thousands of generations such adaptations would have taken to accomplish through genetic evolution.
Thus culture became a significant new source of evolutionary pressure, which helped select brains that had even better mirror-neuron systems and the imitative learning associated with them. The result was one of the many self-amplifying snowball effects that culminated in Homo sapiens, the ape that looked into its own mind and saw the whole cosmos reflected inside.
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29 January 2022 03:30

Thich Nhat Hanh

If we are able to touch our ground of no birth and no death, we will have no fear. That is the base of our true happiness.

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27 January 2022 06:41

Osho

The whole work of meditation is to make you aware of all that is mind, and disidentify yourself from it. When the mind is angry, you can realize that it is simply a gramophone record. When the mind is sad, you can simply remember that it is only a gramophone record. A certain situation is pressing the remote control and you feel sad, you feel angry, you feel frustrated, you feel worried, you feel tense—all these things are coming from the outside and the mind is responding to them. But you are the watcher, you are not the actor. It is not your reaction.
Hence the whole art of meditation is to learn awareness, alertness, consciousness. While you are feeling angry, don’t repress it; let it be there. Just become aware. See it as if it is some object outside you. Slowly go on cutting your identifications with the mind. Then you have found your real individuality, your being, your soul
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25 January 2022 06:41

Eckhart Tolle ~ Stillness Speaks

Pay attention to the gap — the
gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and out-breath.
When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something” becomes — just awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

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22 January 2022 12:30

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind. (2:47–48)
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19 January 2022 06:41

#the_power_of_thought
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17 January 2022 06:41

Khalil Gibran

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

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10 January 2022 06:41

Mark Nepo

There is a beautiful Tibetan myth that helps us to accept our sadness as a threshold to all that is life-changing and lasting. This myth affirms that all spiritual warriors have a broken heart—alas, must have a broken heart—because it is only through the break that the wonder and mysteries of life can enter us.
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07 January 2022 06:41

Sadhguru

The moment you create good and bad, you're dividing the world. Once you divide it, where is the question of inclusion? Where is the question of yoga? Where is the question of becoming one with everything? Where is the question of knowing truth?
Your division is because of your stupidity; it has nothing to do with reality. Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.
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05 January 2022 06:41

Osho

When suffering arises, the first thing to do is to stop, follow our breathing, and acknowledge it. Don’t try to deny uncomfortable emotions or push them down.

Breathing in, I know suffering is there.
Breathing out, I say hello to my suffering.

To take one mindful breath requires the presence of our mind, our body, and our intention. With our conscious breath, we reunite our body and mind and arrive in the present moment. Just breathing in mindfully already brings us a surprising amount of freedom. With each breath, we generate mindful energy, bringing mind and body together in the present moment to receive this caring acknowledgment of our suffering. In just two or three breaths taken with your full attention, you may notice that regret and sorrow about the past have paused, as well as uncertainty, fear, and worries about the future.
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31 December 2021 15:30

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28 December 2021 17:28

Best occult and esoteric books
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26 December 2021 06:41

Books published in Spiritual Library

🧸I Am That by Osho

🧸The Ancient Science of Mantra by Om Swami

🧸No Mud No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh

🧸Evolve: Two Minute Wisdom by Radhanath Swami

🧸Krishna:The Man and His Philosophy by Osho

🧸Buddhist Boot Camp by Timber Hawkeye

🧸In Zen: The Art of Simple by Shunnyō Masuno

🧸Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

🧸What are you doing with your life by J Krishnamurti

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22 December 2021 06:41

For those who have found the still point of Eternity, around which all—including themselves—revolves, everything is acceptable as it is; indeed, can be experienced as glorious and wonderful. The first duty of the individual, consequently, is simply to play his given role—as do the sun and moon, the various animal and plant species, the waters, the rocks, and the stars—without resistance, without fault; and then, if possible, so to order one’s mind as to identify its consciousness with the inhabiting principle of the whole.
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18 December 2021 06:41

Zen Key

"I have heard tell of Buddhism as a doctrine of enlightenment.
What is its method? In other words, what do you do every day?''
"We walk, we eat, we wash ourselves, we sit down ... "
"What is there that is special in those actions? Everyone
walks, eats, washes himself, sits down . . ."
"Sir, there is a difference. When we walk, we are aware of the fact that we walk; when we eat, we are aware of the fact that we eat, and so on. When others walk, eat, wash themselves, or sit down, they are not aware of what they do."
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17 December 2021 05:00

Everyone able to download and read the books here?