Homage to Manjushri!
I bow down to the all-powerful Buddha
Whose mind is free of attachment,
Who in his compassion and wisdom
Has taught the inexpressible.
In truth there is no birth –
Then surely no cessation or liberation;
The Buddha is like the sky
And all beings have that nature.
Neither samsara nor nirvana exist,
But all is a complex continuum
With an intrinsic face [...]
And the Horse Came Back
Once there lived a father and son. They were poor and lived a hard life.
One day their only horse ran away. Their fellow villagers lamented saying,
“What will you do now? That was your only horse. How will you farm your
land. Youare so unlucky.” To this the poor farmer said, “We’ll see.”
A [...]
I recently published a quotation from Women Who Run with the Wolves
by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This has long been a favourite book of mine, and was one of the first books I read when I stepped on to the spiritual path. It helped me to open up and learn about myself, and I have [...]
There is no path to truth. Truth must be discovered, but there is no formula for its discovery. What is formulated is not true. You must set out on the uncharted sea, and the uncharted sea is yourself. You must set out to discover yourself, but not according to any plan or pattern, for then [...]
Steve Toth posted on Allspirit yahoogroup:
A group of people once commended a certain man in the presence of the
Prophet, praising him excessively. Thereupon the Prophet said, “What
kind of intellect does he have?” But they replied, saying, “We tell
thee about his diligence in prayer and about the various good works he
does, and you ask us about [...]
“The true task of spiritual life
is not found in faraway places
or unusual states of consciousness.
It is here in the present.
It asks of us a welcoming spirit
to greet all that life presents to us
with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart.
We can bow to both beauty and suffering,
to our entanglements and confusion,
to our fears and to the [...]
