Carpe Vexillum
08-01-2012, 01:03 AM
In accordance with a recent topic I would like to post this. You don't need special training, what you need is to pay attention, not to what I say, but to your own mind. I found these to be very interesting thoughts from rivrandi.
#0
It can be said that the ability to separate the inner or higher self from the lower self is a mark of spiritual development. But the ability to bring the two parts together intentionally and with freedom is a sign of divine wisdom and incarnation.
#1
Two birds, inseparable companions, are perched on the same tree: one eats the sweet fruit and the other looks on without eating.
#2
Its only in silence that love can exist. The quality of love is not born out of desire, conflict and all the rest of th ugliness and torture: it comes into being with the understanding of time, space, desire, pleasure, it is then that is is seen that love is not desire and pleasure. That innocent mind can solve all the problems and all that challenges that it meets. It is completely aware of all the problems of man--- and it becomes immeasurable. To such a mind, there is no time and no death; to come upon such a mind one has to end sorrow; the ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom.
#3
Now to find out if there is such a thing as the eternal, one has to understand what is time. Time is a most extraordinary thing--- and I am not talking about chronological time, time by the watch, which is both obvious and necessary. I am talking about time as a psychological continuity ... and is it possible to live in this world without giving continuity to action, so that one comes to every action afresh? That is, can I die to each action throughout the day, so that the mind never accumulates and is therefore never contaminated by the past, but is always new, fresh, innocent? I say that such a thing is possible, that one can live in this way, but that does not mean it is real for you. You have to find out for yourself.
#4
When one gives one's heart, it is a total action. And when you give your mind, it is a fragmentary action. And most of us give our minds to so many things. That is why we live a fragmentary life--- thinking one thing and doing another, and we are torn, contradictory. *To understand something, one must give not not only one's mind but one's heart to it. So when I look into any of your eyes next, if you see me working on something, you'll know if I give a fragmentary friendship, and make fragmentary art.
#5
I am troubled because I do not know how to reconcile my call by going to your distant shore with the realities of where I am. It is clear a bridge cannot be built from here to there. But it can be built from there to here?
Feel free to comment on any one or all of them... * Take the risk. Say what you wish. If you speak from the heart. Take the risk.
#0
It can be said that the ability to separate the inner or higher self from the lower self is a mark of spiritual development. But the ability to bring the two parts together intentionally and with freedom is a sign of divine wisdom and incarnation.
#1
Two birds, inseparable companions, are perched on the same tree: one eats the sweet fruit and the other looks on without eating.
#2
Its only in silence that love can exist. The quality of love is not born out of desire, conflict and all the rest of th ugliness and torture: it comes into being with the understanding of time, space, desire, pleasure, it is then that is is seen that love is not desire and pleasure. That innocent mind can solve all the problems and all that challenges that it meets. It is completely aware of all the problems of man--- and it becomes immeasurable. To such a mind, there is no time and no death; to come upon such a mind one has to end sorrow; the ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom.
#3
Now to find out if there is such a thing as the eternal, one has to understand what is time. Time is a most extraordinary thing--- and I am not talking about chronological time, time by the watch, which is both obvious and necessary. I am talking about time as a psychological continuity ... and is it possible to live in this world without giving continuity to action, so that one comes to every action afresh? That is, can I die to each action throughout the day, so that the mind never accumulates and is therefore never contaminated by the past, but is always new, fresh, innocent? I say that such a thing is possible, that one can live in this way, but that does not mean it is real for you. You have to find out for yourself.
#4
When one gives one's heart, it is a total action. And when you give your mind, it is a fragmentary action. And most of us give our minds to so many things. That is why we live a fragmentary life--- thinking one thing and doing another, and we are torn, contradictory. *To understand something, one must give not not only one's mind but one's heart to it. So when I look into any of your eyes next, if you see me working on something, you'll know if I give a fragmentary friendship, and make fragmentary art.
#5
I am troubled because I do not know how to reconcile my call by going to your distant shore with the realities of where I am. It is clear a bridge cannot be built from here to there. But it can be built from there to here?
Feel free to comment on any one or all of them... * Take the risk. Say what you wish. If you speak from the heart. Take the risk.