‘When you strive to gain quiescence by stopping motion, the quiescence so gained is ever in motion. So long as you tarry in such dualism, how can you realize oneness?’ The Third Patriarch of Zen
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‘When you strive to gain quiescence by stopping motion, the quiescence so gained is ever in motion. So long as you tarry in such dualism, how can you realize oneness?’ The Third Patriarch of Zen
‘I swear by the one who never says tomorrow, as the circle of the moon refuses to sell installments of light. It gives all it has, whatever that is at the moment.’ Rumi
‘Arrive at the magic formula we seek: PLURALISM = MONISM—via all the dualisms that are the enemy, an entirely necessary enemy, the furniture we are forever rearranging.’ Deleuze & Guattari
‘Clear sight has nothing to do with trying to see; it is just the realization that eyes will take in every detail all by themselves, for so long as they are open one can hardly prevent the light from reaching them.’ Alan Watts
‘The conscious aspect of the Zen life is not… satori—not the ‘original mind’—but everything one is left free to do and see and feel when the cramp in the mind has been released.’ Alan Watts
‘Perfect resignation gives the deepest joy of all. Accept it as your sole resource.’ Anandamayi Ma
Consider the clear-sight of consciousness itself as guru, as teacher of the spirit (spiritual teacher). This is the panacea of the mind: pure, absolute self-knowing.
A man went in search of fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.
‘For why, one could ask, were even a few created—why even a single individual?—if he is supposed to exist only to be rejected for eternity? For that is worse than never having been at all.’ Kant
A short meditation on the moon. The Sufi saint Rumi says, “There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” Let yourself settle like water and glimpse the reflection of her next to your Self. See the constant presence hidden within others.
Science and religion may be in fact “too diffuse as cultural phenomena to be said to have a nature.” Despite this, might certain perspectives of science and religion be compatible in understanding traditional spiritual doctrines like those of free will and the soul? To answer this, we will explore the compatibility between the mystical and phenomenological experience of the religious realm with the findings of contemporary science.