“It was all very well to say `Drink me,’ but the wise little Alice was not going
to do THAT in a hurry. `No, I’ll look first,’ she said, `and see whether it’s
marked “poison” or not’; for she had read several nice little histories about
children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and [...]
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 [...]
From sayings of Ancestor Lu, quoted in:
Vitality, Energy, Spirit: A Taoist Sourcebook (Shambhala Classics)
Translated & edited by Thomas Cleary
How is doing applied? To study its application, one must ask the autonomous mind. The autonomous mind is imbued with great understanding; it observes the changes of movement and stillness of yin and yang, looks to absolute [...]
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
~Ramana Maharshi
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation. [...]
Jealousy can be a consuming fire in the mind, a state of great suffering. The starting place for working with it, a place that many people neglect, is seeing it, recognizing it, and feeling it without condemnation or judgment. Condemning or judging only feeds it. If we condemn ourself for being jealous, we simply strengthen [...]
Milarepa’s Last Testament
As told by Lama Surya Das
After the enlightened cave-yogi and songmaster Milarepa left this
world, a scrap of rice paper was found inscribed with his handwriting.
His ascetic followers were astounded, for it stated that beneath a
nearby boulder was buried all the gold that ascetic Mila had hoarded
during his life.
A few eager disciples dug around [...]
