Darkness to Light
Lead us from darkness to the light;
lead us from illusion to wisdom
lead us from death to the deathlessness.
Lead us from conflict and suffering
to harmony, peace and happiness.
~Upanishads
Darkness to Light
Wisdom
Words and Ideas
Words and Ideas
No matter what
people tell you,
words and ideas
can change the
world.
~ Robin Williams
Taoist Song
By Chi K’ang
Translated by Arthur Waley
I will cast out Wisdom and reject Learning.
My thoughts shall wander in the Great Void
Always repenting of wrongs done
Will never bring my heart to rest.
I cast my hook in a single stream;
But my joy is as though I possessed a Kingdom.
I loose my hair and go singing;
To the four frontiers men join in my refrain.
This is the purport of my song:
“My thoughts shall wander in the Great Void.”
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Heart Sutra
Great Wisdom Beyond Wisdom Heart Sutra
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita, perceived that all five skandhas in their own being are empty, and was saved from all suffering.
O Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form; that which is form is emptiness, that which is emptiness form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness.
O Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness: they do not appear nor disappear, are not tainted nor pure, do not increase nor decrease. Therefore, in emptiness, no form, no feelings, no, perceptions, no formations, no consciousness; no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of eyes, until no realm of mind-consciousness; no ignorance, and also no extinction of it, until no old age and death, and also no extinction of it; no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path, no cognition, also no attainment.
With nothing to attain, a Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita and the mind is no hindrance. Without any hindrance, no fears exist. Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in nirvana.
In the three worlds all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita and attain unsurpassed complete perfect enlightenment.
Therefore, know the Prajna Paramita is the great transcendent mantra, is the great bright mantra, is the utmost mantra, is the supreme mantra, which is able to release all suffering and is true not false. So, proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra, proclaim the mantra that says,
“Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate! Bodhi! Svaha!”
All Buddhas, ten directions, three times
All beings, Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas
Wisdom beyond wisdom, Maha Prajna Paramita
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0 World, thou choosest not
By George Santayana
O World, thou choosest not the better part!
It’s not wisdom to be only wise –
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies;
To trust the soul’s invincible surmise
Was all his science and his only art.
~ Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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