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  • Know Thyself

    Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
    The proper study of mankind is Man.
    Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
    A being darkly wise and rudely great:
    With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
    With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride,
    He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,
    In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast,
    In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
    Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
    Alike in ignorance, his reason such
    Whether he thinks too little or too much:
    Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
    Still by himself abused, or disabused;
    Created half to rise and half to fall;
    Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
    Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
    The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

    Alexander Pope

    Links:
    Alexander Pope wikipedia.org

  • A real human being

    I dwell in spiritual tipsiness, looking into the meaning of mellowness.

    I do not know why there is a profound smile on my lips,
    neither do I care to find out.

    Lighting up me entire body,
    filling it to the brim with nothing.

    I die to my self.

    Not knowing who I am,
    or where I am.

    Lost to the world,
    entering Heaven.

    Walking the earth,
    returning from bliss.

    The spark of tipsiness has lit my life.
    How can anything be the same.

    Learning how to die moment by moment. In an instant a real human being.

  • The ego is a monkey

    The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next, one self-centered idea to the next. If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there.

    Hua Hu Ching X

  • Anuttara samyaksambodhi

    This means “complete, unsurpassed, perfect enlightment.” Notice, though, that the sutra first says the bodhisattva has nothing to attain and that, because of having nothing to attain, he attains complete liberation. You can’t attain liberation the way you attain a 1968 Camaro or D-plus on a math test. You can only attain liberation by clearly seeing there is nothing to attain.

    Reference:
    Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality
    by Brad Warner
    ISBN 9780861713806

    Link:
    Buddhahood wikipedia.org

    p. 81

  • The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

    I’m 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 back.
    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.

    Robert Frost

  • Here’s to the crazy ones

  • When I see a butterfly I smile

    When I see a butterfly, I smile.

    With my eyes I chase the butterfly, my body following.

    The butterfly flutters, aimless here and there. 

    I think, am I not like the butterfly? I smile.

  • Commandment of my Spirit

    In the search for meaning in my life I reached the barrier of reason. I felt the urge to go beyond the doors of the comprehensible. 

    Looking for God. I walk on the path of enlightenment in search of the ultimate truth. Transcending all. 

    Returning to the void. 

  • Commandment of my Spirit

    In the search for meaning in my life I reached the barrier of reason. I felt the urge to go beyond the doors of the comprehensible. 

    Looking for God. I walk on the path of enlightenment in search of the ultimate truth. Transcending all. 

    Returning to the void. 

  • Wanderlust

    I am leaving this harbour,
    giving urban a farewell.
    Its habitants seem too keen on God
    I cannot stomach their rights and wrong.
    I have lost my origin,
    and I don’t want to find it again
    Rather sailing into nature’s laws
    and be held by ocean’s paws

    Wanderlust!
    relentlessly craving
    Wanderlust
    peel off the layers until you get to the core.
    Did i imagine it would be like this?
    Was it something like this i wished for,
    or will i want more?

    Lust for comfort suffocates the soul
    this relentless, restlessness
    liberates me.
    I feel at home whenever
    the unknown surrounds me.
    I receive its embrace
    aboard my floating home.

    Wanderlust!
    Relentlessy craving wanderlust.
    Peel off the layers until you get to the core.
    Did I imagine it would be like this?
    Was it something like this I wished for,
    or will I want more?

    Bjoerk
    http://media.ghostrobot.net/7020_wanderlust.html

  • Give up learning and put an end to your troubles

    Is there a difference between yes and no?
    Is there a difference between good and evil?
    Must I fear what others fear? What nonsense!
    Other people are contented, enjoying the sacrificial feast of the ox.
    In spring some go to the park, and climb the terrace,
    But I alone am drifting, not knowing where I am.
    Like a newborn babe before it learns to smile,
    I am alone, without a place to go.
    Others have more than they need, but I alone have nothing.
    I am a fool. Oh, yes! I am confused.
    Others are clear and bright,
    But I alone am dim and weak.
    Others are sharp and clever,
    But I alone am dull and stupid.
    Oh, I drift like the waves of the sea,
    Without direction, like the restless wind.
    Everyone else is busy,
    But I alone am aimless and depressed.
    I am different.
    I am nourished by the great mother.

    Laozi (Laotzu) XX

    Feng & English

  • The inner depths

    Inwardly alert, open, calm.
    Outwardly upright, extended, filled with spirit.
    This is the foundation of stillness.
    Add the hard and the soft, the powerful and the relaxed,
    Motion and stillness, contraction and extension:
    In the instant these converge, there is power.

    Grand Master Wang Xiang Zhai

    Reference:
    The Way of Power: Reaching Full Strength in Body and Mind
    Lam Kam Chuen
    ISBN: 9781856751988

    p. 18

    Links:
    Search Lam Kam Chuen at neigong.net

  • Transformations of a Spiritual Dragon

    A dragon, as spiritual luminosity, can be large or small, can rise or descend, can disappear or appear, can penetrate rocks and mountains, can leap in the clouds and travel with the rain. How can it do all this? Its done by the activity of the spirit.

    What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of inconceivable spiritual transmutation. The reason humans can be humans is because of the spirit. As long as the spirit is there, they live. When the spirit leaves, they die.

    The spirit penetrates heaven and earth, knows the past and present, enters into every subtlety, exist in every place. It enters water without drowning, enters fire without burning, penetrates metal and rock without a hindrance. It so large that it fills the universe, so small that it fits into a hairtip. It is imperceptible, ungraspable, inexplicable, indescribable.

    One who can use the spirit skillfully changes in accordance with time, and therefore can share the qualities of heaven and earth, share the light of sun and moon, share the order of the four seasons, command nature in the primordial state, and serve nature in the temporal state. This is like the transformations of the spiritual dragon, which cannot be seen in the traces of form.

    Reference:
    Awakening to the Tao
    by Liu I-Ming translated by Thomas Cleary
    ISBN: 159030344X

    P. 23-24

  • Sternenfreundschaft

    von Friedrich Nietzsche

    Wir waren Freunde und sind uns fremd geworden. Aber das ist recht so und wir wollen’s uns nicht verhehlen und verdunkeln, – als ob wir uns dessen zu schämen hätten. Wir sind zwei Schiffe, deren jedes sein Ziel und seine Bahn hat; wir können uns wohl kreuzen und ein Fest miteinander feiern, wie wir es getan haben, – und dann lagen die braven Schiffe so ruhig in einem Hafen und in einer Sonne, daß es scheinen mochte, sie seien schon am Ziele und hätten ein Ziel gehabt. Aber dann trieb uns die allmächtige Gewalt unserer Aufgabe wieder auseinander, in verschiedene Meere und Sonnenstriche und vielleicht sehen wir uns nie wieder, – vielleicht auch sehen wir uns wohl, aber erkennen uns nicht wieder: die verschiedenen Meere und Sonnen haben uns verändert! Daß wir uns fremd werden müssen, ist das Gesetz über uns: eben dadurch sollen wir uns auch ehrwürdiger werden! Eben dadurch soll der Gedanke an unsere ehemalige Freundschaft heiliger werden! Es gibt wahrscheinlich eine ungeheure unsichtbare Kurve und Sternenbahn, in der unsere so verschiedenen Straßen und Ziele als kleine Wegstrecken einbegriffen sein mögen, – erheben wir uns zu diesem Gedanken! Aber unser Leben ist zu kurz und unsere Sehkraft zu gering, als daß wir mehr als Freunde im Sinne jener erhabenen Möglichkeit sein könnten. – Und so wollen wir an unsere Sternen-Freundschaft glauben, selbst wenn wir einander Erden-Feinde sein müßten.

    Thank you Olaf. 🙂

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