Inspirational Words Thread

[SageTree]

There are degrees of nearness. Simply bye existing,
every creature lives near

the creator, but there is a nobility deeper than just
being. The sun warms

generally the mountainside, but it illuminates the shaft
of a gold mine. The bush will

never know how the sun is with gold, There are dead
branches and live branches

full of sap. The sun brings flowers and fruit from one
and more withering to the

other. Don't be the kind of ecstatic who feels ashamed
when he or she comes

back to normal. Be a clear and rational lunatic whom
the most intellegent human

beings follow. Don't be a cat toying with a mouse. Go
after the love lion. You have

inflated yourself with imagination. Drink in rather the
soul of Khidr, who doesn't

flinch when its time to die. All winter you carved
water jars out of ice.

How well will they hold the summer snowmelt?

[SageTree]

A chickpea leaps over the rim of a pot
where it's being boiled.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

The cook knocks him down with the ladle.

"Don't try to jump out.
You think I'm tourtuing you.
I'm giving you flavour,
so you can mix with the spices and rice
and be lovely vitality of a human being.

Remeber when you drank rain in the garden?
That was for all this."

Grace first. Sexual pleasure,
then a boiling new life begins,
and the Friend has something good to eat.

Eventually the chickpea
will say to the cook.

"Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimming spoon.
I can't do this by myself.

I am like and elephant that dreams of gardens
back in Hindustan and doesn't pay attention
to his driver. You are my cook, my driver
my way into existance. I love you cooking."

The cook says,
"I was once like you,
fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time,
and boiled in my body, two fierce boilins.

My animal soul grew powerful.
I controled it with practices,
and I boiled some more and boiled
once beyond that,
and became your teacher"

[my_scatterheart]

ahhh. Rumi. My fav:
"Be Lost in the Call"

Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
why did you create these two worlds?

Reality replied: O prisoner of time,
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,
and I wished this treasure to be known,
so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;
its darkened back, the world;
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.

Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw,
and a mirror might be revealed.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work.

My King addressed the soul of my flesh:
You return just as you left.
Where are the traces of my gifts?

We know that alchemy transforms copper into gold.
This Sun doesn't want a crown or robe from God's grace.
He is a hat to a hundred bald men,
a covering for ten who were naked.

Jesus sat humbly on the back of an ass, my child!
How could a zephyr ride an ass?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
Reason, tread the path of selflessness into eternity.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call.

[flatule]

I have weed

-flatule.

Weed is my source of inspiration, sadly enough. I don't really live for much else.

[SageTree]

Originally Posted by flatule

I have weed

-flatule.

Weed is my source of inspiration, sadly enough. I don't really live for much else.

Could I dig deeper and ask what you're inspired to do by smoking it? For me when I'm inspired it is sometimes the topic of what I've read, or probes me deeper into an understanding of my thoughts and feelings. I guess I could also be asking what is inspiration to you? I don't mean this in a bad way to say that it's not enough to be inspired by weed, but your spin on what that ment to you didn't sound so confident, and I just want to say its okay. For me I see weed sometimes as the force to the kinetic energy of a thought in my mind, in other words, it gets the ball rolling.

Peace
Sage

[Flamingnun]

"Expelliarmus" - Harry Potter

[my_scatterheart]

My gram she said Bless the sunshine and the rain. That was my gram.

[SageTree]

Originally Posted by my_scatterheart

My gram she said Bless the sunshine and the rain. That was my gram.

When we pray for no rain we could very well be cursing the farmer. But that is also let us be thankful for things we think aren't lessons right way. Good advice Gram.

[SageTree]

On communication:

" Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' tradition.
Many years ago I recognized that by understanding your own tradition better, you also develope increased respect, consideration, and understanding for others."

This is also the book I got one of my first mantra:

Breathing in , I calm my body
Breathing out, I smile
Dwelling in the present moment,
I know this is a wonderful moment.

This book was the first book I really looked at to link my Buddhist driven divergence from Christianity, once I really wanted to begin to understand my birth religion, described by one I aspired to understand. I figured this would be ' in my language' so I would understand it better. This book was more than I thought, and I continue to read and find new things often in it, as my understanding of one faith, many paths, and as I grow to accept the stories of the gospels, in my own understanding. Seeing how that story is a metaphore that is broadly applicable type realizations.

He writes many good books, fulled with love and compassion. Anger is a book I'd highly recommend for anyone struggling with anger and its roots. It really helped me think about mine in a different way, and to the greater extent understand what emotions are and are not.

Good evening,
SageTree

[SageTree]

A jug fills drop by drop. -Buddha

Is a perennial metaphore that it takes time and effort to fill ourselves and deepen our understand.

To me this is a verse of patients.

[rollingthunder]

You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that
is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything
tries to be round.....The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball,and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birdsmake their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours...
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come
back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood
to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

'Crowfoot'... Blackfoot warrior and Elder


-Thunder

[SageTree]

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”

“Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.”

“The faith of each is in accordance with one's own nature.”

from: The Holy Bhagavad Gita

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” -Stuart Chase


SageTree

[rollingthunder]

"Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, and beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a strange ... Show respect to all people and bow to no one ... "

~Tecumseh, Shawnee~

not meant in a mean way.. but its more of a self-respect statement..

-Thunder

[SageTree]

Really nice man.

[rollingthunder]

thanks

[SageTree]

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -Mother Teresa

[SageTree]

The Analogy of the Chariot
Take from a dialog on Buddhism and Self
Nagasena points out that we can't say exactly what a chariot is, either; it's not the pole or the axle or the wheels, or the flag-staff, yoke, reins, etc. But that doesn't mean there are no chariots. Milinda realizes that "it is in dependence on the pole, the axle, the wheels, the framework, the flag-staff, etc., that there takes place this denomination 'chariot' ..." Nagasena concludes: "It is just so with me. In dependence on [the parts] there takes place this denomination 'Nagasena.' ... In ultimate reality, however, this person cannot be apprehended."

Our atoms/cells are a group working together. What enables our bodies to transpire? What is the foundation of matter?

[rollingthunder]

The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence
The sign of a perfect equilibrium.
Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit.
The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm
And unshaken by the storms of existence
Not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree,
Not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool
His, in the mind of the unlettered sage,
Is the ideal attitude and conduct of life.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Ohiyesa, Wahpeton Santee Sioux

-Thunder

[SageTree]

Conquer the angry person by love.
Conquer the ill-natured human by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.

~The Dhammapada

[reverie]

"The world is an involuntary orgy. We are all already fantastically naked, exposed, and in love. All the violence of the world is foreplay; orgasms happen when we participate in our lives. Time is our constant sex partner."


"Fun is active faith. Faith is the celebration of "I don't know". The city is a bravely unfolding movie entertaining us so effectively we are hypnotized by it. The movie is a comedy about mammals in a movie taking the movie too seriously and deciding it is a tragedy."


"Boredom is an illusion. Boredom is the continuous state of not noticing that the unexpected is constantly arriving while the anticipated is never showing up. Boredom is anti-Cruise propaganda. Cruising is an act, the realization that standing still is exalting."

- Timothy Speed Levitch.


In this thread I may run the risk of posting quotes form Levitch a lot, as he has become my main fixation and fascination these days.