Re: Radical Understanding IV

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Well, I'm all for the light within! I thought you were talking about a different sort of light. Yes, I knew you were on board with suchness and such; I thought you were not unboard... More »

Stream of Life - part of Gitanjali by Tagore

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Taikunping in Now I Can See the Moon

Stream of Life The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through... More »

Re: My current self-healing.

Posted on Oct 24th, 2009 by Ian Gardner in Self-healing by "Meditational Focus".

I response to someone's comment on the MF procedure in my journal I said the following which I post here for what it may be worth to members: 'The primary cause* is, of course, the... More »

Re: Love's Heart

Posted on Oct 16th, 2009 by HummingBird in Meeting Love

That Quick   A lover looks at creekwater and wants to be that quick to fall, to kneel, then all the way down in full prostration. A lover wants to die of his love like... More »

Re: The "near death experiences" - suggestions for books & studie

Posted on Aug 14th, 2009 by starpeople in What Is Enlightenment?

Thanks for posting this, I will come back to it Bob and have a good slow read of it later Tony

Re: The natural state?

Posted on Aug 14th, 2009 by Is. in Integral Archipelago

"What do you think enlightenment is about?"   The four quotes I posted represents it very well, but since you ask I can try to formulate my own answer. Enlightenment is a state of being that is without ignorance.... More »

Re: Wilber's Post-Metaphysical Spirit (God)

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by starlight in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Hello Infimitus! limits of language. This might very well be the culprit causing all the misunderstanding...until we are able to see beyond these restrictions that we incorporate ONto our language, we will fight to the... More »

Re: Wilber's Post-Metaphysical Spirit (God)

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Zakariyya in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

There is nothing absolutely empty, as there is nothing absolutely dense E=MC2, REMEMBER God is that which is uncreated, it has nothing to do with emptiness or non dual, two overused, and highly misunderstood terms. Remember... More »

Re: August Smorgasbord #2

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by rudyan in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Thank you for reposting the Sharon Butala quote, Sandra. I was wondering how I had missed that, but I see it was from before my time here. (And maybe I did read, and forgot.) From... More »

Re: What purpose do life's distractions serve?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Meenakshi in Questions & Reflections: The Group

Kate, we become free when we realize it's not only about the words but the spaces between them Not only about the veils but what's beyond them Not only about the exercise but the breath... More »

What is easy for you?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by radicalgnostic

What is easy for me now are things I considered to be difficult in  years past. Sobriety. Before, the possibility of my living without the crutch of alcohol was remote. I had the attitude once... More »

LIBERATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UPANIŞADS AND BUDDHISM

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Peacehunter

LIBERATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UPANIŞADS AND BUDDHISM   Shuva Langker Tanchangya Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Introduction 6 th century B.C. is the era in... More »

An Enlarged Heart after a punch in the stomach

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by Doug

My uncle Bill. God rest his tired soul. and I walked through the summer and two doors down an older boy was in his backyard. I don't know how it started? Perhaps my uncle Bill,... More »

[Ego]Death is the road to Awe...

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by RLtruthseeker-artist

(warning, this contains the ending to the movie, The Fountain) The Spirit of the Fountain dies not. It is called the Mysterious Feminine. The Doorway of the Mysterious Feminine is called Heaven-and-Earth. Lingering like gossamer, it has only... More »

Sunshine and Darkness

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by cheese

       -the first says- "Darkness fills the sky, for the sun has dissapeared below the horizon. It fills the other half of Earth with light and joy. But here in darkness we lay, in  fear... More »

Autumn turns the tide.

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by ch3shyr3_cat

Hmm.. I really haven't written a blog in a long time. I haven't actually participated in much online activity in a while. (when you have to go outside to you use your internet connection in... More »

Who would you really like to get to know?

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by jagadish

...my dear Father who is no more...he lived nearly for 80 years , but when he was alive i had taken his presence for granted!!...& today at every turning point in life i fondly remember... More »

Master! I am in love..with you.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Attainment

  Bodhidharma's name stands out amongst all the Buddhist enlightened people second only to Guatam Buddha.  I met this man when I was about 18.  I fell deeply in love.  He stays in my heart... More »

The Practice You Culitivate Doesn't Exist Apart from Your Mind

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Attainment

I had wanted to share about Bodhidharma, first the man and now briefly some of his message.     These quotes I have taken from different talks Bodhidharma gave to his disciples.  They are not given to you... More »

What is your wish for the week ahead?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by foreigner

that I could take over for one week all the grief and sadness of A,  widowed by the death of my boss, just to let her take some rest...but I can't.. so wishing is not... More »

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace! - according to a tradition reported by Tabarani, "You will not see your Lord before being dead" and that is because, in the contemplation of this dead-resurrected one, all creatures are annihilated, and for him only one thing exists, one Reality only. Whatever will be the lot of the believers in their posthumous states is prefigured in one degree or another in this life for the initiates. The "return" of things - considered in relation to [the diversity of] their forms - to Allah and the end of their becoming, expresses only a change of cognitive status and not at all a modification of the reality. For him who dies and achieves the resurrection, the multiple is one, by reason of its essential unity; and the One is multiple, by reason of the multiplicity in Him of relations and aspects.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? hall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly so advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

These beThree silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead. 

If you should go before me, dear, walk slowly Down the ways of death, well worn and wide, For I would want to overtake you quickly And seek the journey's ending by your side. I would be so forlorn not to descry you Down some shining high road when I came; Walk slowly, dear, and often look behind you, And pause to hear if someone calls your name.

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