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| Man know thyself and ye shall know the gods. For every joy there is a price to be paid. If his heart rules him his consciousness will soon take the place of the rod. What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it. It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, then presumptiously to attribute some random meanings to symbols. Exuberance is a good stimulus towatds action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration. People bring about their own undoing thru their tounges. To know means to record in ones memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it to oneself. - all of these were taken from the walls in egyptian temples Enlightenment is always sudden. It is grace; when the conditions are right, it happens. But the path leading up to the moment is gradual. We practice, we create the field, we prepare the ground, and the mind eventually opens suddenly and spontaniously. Then again, after sudden awakening can come a gradual cultivation and ripening of the enlightenment mind. - Josepth Goldstein A wise man hears his father's instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke. - Proverbs 13:1 He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom. - BOS I:7 One who stays focused on the beautiful, is unrestrained with senses, knowing no moderation in food, apathetic and unentergetic: Mara overcomes him as the wind, a weak tree One who stays focused on the foul, is restrained with regard to the senses, knowing moderation in food, full of conviction and energy: Mara does not overcome him, as the wind, a mountian of rock -Dhammanada 1 |
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