After experience had taught me that all things which frequently take place in ordinary life are vain and futile, and when I saw that all the things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them; I determined at last [...]
From: ‘Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras’
When an event or object in the external world is recorded by the
senses, a thought-wave is raised in the mind. The ego-sense
identifies itself with this wave…This false identification is the cause of all
our misery (because we cling to pleasant, yet transient,
thought-waves, and shrink from unpleasant, yet unavoidable,
thought-waves)…The real Self, the Atman, remains [...]
THE jewel is lost in the mud, and all are seeking for it;
Some look for it in the east, and some in the west;
some in the water and some amongst stones.
But the servant Kabir has appraised it at its true value,
and has wrapped it with care in the end of the mantle
of his heart.
~Kabir
Trans. Rabindranath [...]
I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
Don’t talk about sorrow,
tell me of that treasure,
hidden if it is to you,
then just remain silent.
Last night
I lost my grip on reality
and welcomed insanity.
Love
saw me and said,
I showed up.
Wipe you tears
and be silent.
I said, O Love
I am frightened,
but it’s [...]
Dear Fellow-reader:
The March issue of the TAT Forum is now on-line at www.tatfoundation.org/forum.htm
This Month’s Contents: How it will be by Shawn Nevins | 2 Haiku by Bart Marshall | a poem by David Weimer | The Checklist-Introduction [referencing Richard Rose] by David Scoma | words we use | Quotes [...]
The Great Way is very difficult to express in words. Because it is hard to speak of, just look into beginninglessness, the beginningless beginning. When you reach the point where there is not even any beginninglessness, and not even any nonexistence of beginninglessness, this is the primordial. The primordial Way cannot be assessed; there is [...]
Your true substance…
Rumi
Your true substance is concealed in falsehood,
like the taste of butter in buttermilk.
Your falsehood is this perishable body;
your truth is that exalted spirit.
For many years, this buttermilk of the body,
is visible and manifest, while the butter, which is
the spirit, is perishing and ignored within it-
until God sends a prophet, a chosen servant, a
shaker [...]
“In the strictest sense, we cannot actually
think about life and reality at all, because
this would have to include thinking about
thinking, thinking about thinking about
thinking, and so *ad infinitum*. One can
only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy
of the universe on the assumption that one is
totally separate from it. But if you and your
thoughts are part of this [...]
“If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our [...]
Please take a pen and a sheet of paper: Go to the foot of a tree or to your writing desk, and make a list of all the things that can make you happy right now: the clouds in the sky, the flowers in the garden, the children playing, the fact that you have met [...]
