A Zen Story
A university professor went to visit a famous Zen monk to ask about enlightenment. The monk remained silent, but handed the teacher a teacup. The monk filled the cup to the brim but kept pouring. The professor cried out, “Stop! The cup is too full and I cannot sip the tea!” The monk then spoke: “Like this cup, your mind is filled with too many opinions and ideas. How can you taste enlightenment if you do not empty your cup?”
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A university professor went to visit a famous Zen monk to ask about enlightenment. The monk remained silent, but handed the teacher a teacup. The monk filled the cup to the brim but kept pouring. The professor cried out, “Stop! The cup is too full and I cannot sip the tea!” The monk then spoke: “Like this cup, your mind is filled with too many opinions and ideas. How can you taste enlightenment if you do not empty your cup?”
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Thich Nhat Hanh
I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who, after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat.
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I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who, after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat.
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Eckhart Tolle
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
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The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
This interesting book allows us to explore Einstein's beliefs, philosophical ideas, and opinions on many subjects. In addition to these political perspectives, The World As I See It reveals the idealistic, spiritual, and witty side of this great intellectual as he approaches topics including 'Good and Evil', 'Religion and Science', 'Active Pacifism', 'Christianity and Judaism', and 'Minorities'. Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the changing world around him.
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This interesting book allows us to explore Einstein's beliefs, philosophical ideas, and opinions on many subjects. In addition to these political perspectives, The World As I See It reveals the idealistic, spiritual, and witty side of this great intellectual as he approaches topics including 'Good and Evil', 'Religion and Science', 'Active Pacifism', 'Christianity and Judaism', and 'Minorities'. Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the changing world around him.
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Nikita Gill
Imagine how much the universe must have loved
this thing to make it happen.
Imagine how many stars gave up their hearts
to bring this into fluid motion.
Does it make you curious?
Make you wonder what could be so marvellous?
That idea . . . it was you.
You are the universe’s fairytale come true.
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Imagine how much the universe must have loved
this thing to make it happen.
Imagine how many stars gave up their hearts
to bring this into fluid motion.
Does it make you curious?
Make you wonder what could be so marvellous?
That idea . . . it was you.
You are the universe’s fairytale come true.
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⛳️ Regular posts: As far as possible @SpiritualLibrary publishes post in a regular manner, helping you to maintain the Spiritual Wellness.
⛳️ Unique Style: @SpiritualLibrary keeps its own style and each post is fresh and no post will be published more than once.
⛳️ Freedom of subscribers: Unlike other channels @SpiritualLibrary respects your freedom of expression, you can all 16 emoticons to the posts.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
In Zen we like to ask the question, "What did your face look like before your grandmother was born?" Ask yourself this question and you will begin to see your own continuation. You will see that you have always been there. The moment of your conception is a moment of continuation, of manifesting in another form. If you keep looking you will see that instead of birth and death, there is only continuing transformation.
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In Zen we like to ask the question, "What did your face look like before your grandmother was born?" Ask yourself this question and you will begin to see your own continuation. You will see that you have always been there. The moment of your conception is a moment of continuation, of manifesting in another form. If you keep looking you will see that instead of birth and death, there is only continuing transformation.
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Adyashanti
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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Sam Harris
“Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.”
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“Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.”
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The Book of Woman by Osho
The Book of Woman delves into the mystique that is a woman. We get a view of woman as understood by Osho. The book goes into all the details of womanhood and explains all the functions of a woman. The topic is dealt with great sensitivity and vividness.
Osho talks about relationships, family, motherhood, birth control; all the issues that are central to the existence of a woman. A woman should not try to ape a man. She has an existence of her own and she should revel in her feminity and not be repulsed by it. Harmony in life can be achieved by a synchronisation between head and heart. The heart should rule a woman all the time and the head should follow and supply it with reason.
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The Book of Woman delves into the mystique that is a woman. We get a view of woman as understood by Osho. The book goes into all the details of womanhood and explains all the functions of a woman. The topic is dealt with great sensitivity and vividness.
Osho talks about relationships, family, motherhood, birth control; all the issues that are central to the existence of a woman. A woman should not try to ape a man. She has an existence of her own and she should revel in her feminity and not be repulsed by it. Harmony in life can be achieved by a synchronisation between head and heart. The heart should rule a woman all the time and the head should follow and supply it with reason.
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Radhanath Swami
Human nature is that people reciprocate with what you give them. If you are impersonal to others, most people will be impersonal to you. If you do not show care and affection for others, people will probably ignore you. That is human nature.
So anyone can say, “Nobody loves me. Everybody is so impersonal to me.” But I have seldom found someone who extends himself to be caring, loving and affectionate towards others and doesn’t receive love from others. How you behave with others draws certain qualities from within them. If you insult others, you draw out their anger. If you praise others, you draw out their pride. If you are affectionate to others, you can draw out whatever affection is within their hearts. In giving, we receive.
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Human nature is that people reciprocate with what you give them. If you are impersonal to others, most people will be impersonal to you. If you do not show care and affection for others, people will probably ignore you. That is human nature.
So anyone can say, “Nobody loves me. Everybody is so impersonal to me.” But I have seldom found someone who extends himself to be caring, loving and affectionate towards others and doesn’t receive love from others. How you behave with others draws certain qualities from within them. If you insult others, you draw out their anger. If you praise others, you draw out their pride. If you are affectionate to others, you can draw out whatever affection is within their hearts. In giving, we receive.
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Swami Vivekananda
It is true that external nature is majestic, with its mountains, and oceans, and rivers, and with its infinite powers and varieties. Yet there is a more majestic internal nature of man, higher than the sun, moon and stars, higher than this earth of ours, higher than the physical universe, transcending these little lives of ours; and it affords another field of study.
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It is true that external nature is majestic, with its mountains, and oceans, and rivers, and with its infinite powers and varieties. Yet there is a more majestic internal nature of man, higher than the sun, moon and stars, higher than this earth of ours, higher than the physical universe, transcending these little lives of ours; and it affords another field of study.
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Forwarded from Spiritual Books
🌳🌳🌳List of books published in @SpiritualLibrary for the past months🌳🌳🌳
🔹The Power of Thought by Swami Paramananda
🔹The Little Book of IKIGAI by Ken Mogi
🔹Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
🔹The Flight of the Eagle by J Krishnamurti
🔹Jnana Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
🔹The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
🔹Sex matters: From Sex to Superconciousness by Osho
🔹The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
🔹The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
🔹The Book of Woman by Osho
🔹The Power of Thought by Swami Paramananda
🔹The Little Book of IKIGAI by Ken Mogi
🔹Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
🔹The Flight of the Eagle by J Krishnamurti
🔹Jnana Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
🔹The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
🔹Sex matters: From Sex to Superconciousness by Osho
🔹The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
🔹The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
🔹The Book of Woman by Osho
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Om Swami
We don’t make the oceans, mountains or the rivers. We don’t make sunlight, clouds or the rain. We simply bear a witness to the majestic creation around us. Yogic texts state that each one of us has an entire universe within us. The Bible, too, says that the kingdom of God is within us. And, that kingdom, this universe of our inner world, has a whole range of places – from exquisitely beautiful to excruciatingly painful. There are dark woods of fear, marshes of negativity, rotting trees of ego, cacti of jealousy, creepers of covetousness, a quagmire of desires and a stinking residue of hate.
Having said that, in our same inner world there are some hauntingly beautiful places, too. An ocean of bliss, tides of love, seasons of life, the colours of spring, a phase of autumn, the warm winter sun of forgiveness, and beautiful moonless nights studded with stars of our random acts of kindness. It’s all there. It’s all here, in us, within us.
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We don’t make the oceans, mountains or the rivers. We don’t make sunlight, clouds or the rain. We simply bear a witness to the majestic creation around us. Yogic texts state that each one of us has an entire universe within us. The Bible, too, says that the kingdom of God is within us. And, that kingdom, this universe of our inner world, has a whole range of places – from exquisitely beautiful to excruciatingly painful. There are dark woods of fear, marshes of negativity, rotting trees of ego, cacti of jealousy, creepers of covetousness, a quagmire of desires and a stinking residue of hate.
Having said that, in our same inner world there are some hauntingly beautiful places, too. An ocean of bliss, tides of love, seasons of life, the colours of spring, a phase of autumn, the warm winter sun of forgiveness, and beautiful moonless nights studded with stars of our random acts of kindness. It’s all there. It’s all here, in us, within us.
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Haemin Sunim
Instead of a lottery ticket, buy some flowers for yourself and your family.
If you buy flowers and place them in the living room, you will feel like a winner every time and find abundant beauty whenever you pass by the living room.
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Instead of a lottery ticket, buy some flowers for yourself and your family.
If you buy flowers and place them in the living room, you will feel like a winner every time and find abundant beauty whenever you pass by the living room.
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Ajahn Chah
Having been born we will experience ageing, illness, death and separation. These things are right here. We don’t need to look up at the sky or down at the earth. The Dhamma that we need to see and to know can be seen right here within us, every moment of every day.
When there is a birth, we are filled with joy. When there is a death, we grieve. That’s how we spend our lives. These are the things we need to know about, but we still have not really looked into them and seen the truth.
We are stuck deep in this ignorance. We ask, ‘When will we see the Dhamma?’ - but it is right here to be seen in the present.
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Having been born we will experience ageing, illness, death and separation. These things are right here. We don’t need to look up at the sky or down at the earth. The Dhamma that we need to see and to know can be seen right here within us, every moment of every day.
When there is a birth, we are filled with joy. When there is a death, we grieve. That’s how we spend our lives. These are the things we need to know about, but we still have not really looked into them and seen the truth.
We are stuck deep in this ignorance. We ask, ‘When will we see the Dhamma?’ - but it is right here to be seen in the present.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
How do you see the person who is sitting on the platform? You not only see visually, but you also see intellectually; you are seeing that person through your memory, through your likes and dislikes, through your various forms of conditioning, and therefore you are not seeing, are you? When you really see something, you see without any of that. Is it not possible to look at a flower without naming it, without giving it a label—just to look at it? And is it not possible when you hear something lovely—not just organized music, but the note of a bird in a forest—to listen to it with all your being? And in the same way, can one not really perceive something? Because, if the mind is capable of actually perceiving, feeling, then there is only experiencing and not the experiencer; then you will find that conflict, with all its miseries, hopes, defenses, and so on, comes to an end.
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How do you see the person who is sitting on the platform? You not only see visually, but you also see intellectually; you are seeing that person through your memory, through your likes and dislikes, through your various forms of conditioning, and therefore you are not seeing, are you? When you really see something, you see without any of that. Is it not possible to look at a flower without naming it, without giving it a label—just to look at it? And is it not possible when you hear something lovely—not just organized music, but the note of a bird in a forest—to listen to it with all your being? And in the same way, can one not really perceive something? Because, if the mind is capable of actually perceiving, feeling, then there is only experiencing and not the experiencer; then you will find that conflict, with all its miseries, hopes, defenses, and so on, comes to an end.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
What do you think birth is? Most of us think birth means that something begins to exist where something didn't exist before. In our mind we have the concept that birth means that from nothing you suddenly become something; from no one you suddenly become someone. Most of us would define birth like that. Looking deeply, we see that this definition is not sound. From nothing, you cannot become something. From no one, you can never become someone.
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What do you think birth is? Most of us think birth means that something begins to exist where something didn't exist before. In our mind we have the concept that birth means that from nothing you suddenly become something; from no one you suddenly become someone. Most of us would define birth like that. Looking deeply, we see that this definition is not sound. From nothing, you cannot become something. From no one, you can never become someone.
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Leonardo da Vinci
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’"
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"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’"
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Siddhartha- Herman Hesse
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
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Falling into Grace by Adyashanti
Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of mindfulness and spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery of our essential being. In his many years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. In Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights that will spark a revolution in the way we perceive life-through a progressive inquiry exploring the concept of a separate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that perpetuate suffering: "taking the backward step" into the pure potential of the present moment; why mindfulness and spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process; absolute union with every part of our experience and true autonomy-the unique expression of our own sense of freedom.
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Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of mindfulness and spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery of our essential being. In his many years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. In Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights that will spark a revolution in the way we perceive life-through a progressive inquiry exploring the concept of a separate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that perpetuate suffering: "taking the backward step" into the pure potential of the present moment; why mindfulness and spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process; absolute union with every part of our experience and true autonomy-the unique expression of our own sense of freedom.
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