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14 Feb 2023 05:55

Haemin Sunim

When you have to make an important decision, don’t lose sleep over it. Just take the special medicine called “time” and wait. Your subconscious will search for the answer.
Two days later, or three, the answer will dawn on you as you are waking up, taking a shower, or talking to a friend.
Put faith in your subconscious mind and give yourself time.

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31 Dec 2022 18:32

Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one. The process that is going on in the cosmos on a large scale, is the same as that going on in the microcosm on a smaller scale. Just as this universe has its existence in separation, in distinction, and all the while is rushing towards unity, non-separation, so in our little worlds each soul is born, as it were, cut off from the rest of the world. The more ignorant, the more unenlightened the soul, the more it thinks that it is separate from the rest of the universe. The more ignorant the person, the more he thinks, he will die or will be born, and so forth—ideas that are an expression of this separateness. But we find that, as knowledge comes, man grows, morality is evolved and the idea of non-separateness begins. Whether men understand it or not, they are impelled by that power behind to become unselfish. That is the foundation of all morality. It is the quintessence of all ethics, preached in any language, or in any religion, or by any prophet in the world.

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14 Feb 2022 03:30

Haemin Sunim

With love in our hearts,
we find even the most mundane things sacred and beautiful.

With love in our hearts,
we become kinder and gentler, even to complete strangers.

Without love in our hearts,
we find the world meaningless and random.

Without love in our hearts,
we become strangers even to our family and friends.

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12 Feb 2022 07:42

Om swami

“The tree laden with fruits is always a bit bent. Not because of any burden but because it has something to offer. Humility"

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11 Feb 2022 03:30

Thich Nhat Hanh

Once a young child asked me, “How does it feel to be dead?” This is a very good, very deep question. I used the example of a cloud to explain to her about birth, death, and continuation. I explained that a cloud can never die. A cloud can only become something else, like rain or snow or hail. When you are a cloud, you feel like a cloud. And when you become rain, you feel like the rain. And when you become snow, you feel like the snow. Remanifestation is wonderful.

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08 Feb 2022 04:45

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07 Feb 2022 05:00

Pomnyun

There are two ways for people to become happy. One way is by doing work that they enjoy. However, although this may be fun, it may feel meaningless when they look back on it later on. For example, drinking and hanging out every day with your friends may have been a lot of fun, but when you look back on it in 10 years you will feel like you wasted your time. When you go to a bar, you have a great time, talking loudly and laughing hard, but when you leave the bar, you feel kind of empty. You may feel that way because there are no benefits to spending your time on such pursuits.

Another way is helping others. As human beings, we feel happy when we are useful to others or do something beneficial for others. Although doing something that helped others may have been very hard at the time, when we look back on it, we feel proud. We feel that what we did was meaningful and beneficial, so we believe we did the right thing even if it took a lot of effort.

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06 Feb 2022 05:00

Adi Shankara

Waste not your efforts to win the love of or to fight against friend and foe, children and relatives. See yourself in everyone and give up all feelings of duality completely.

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05 Feb 2022 06:41

J Krishnamurti

So can the brain ever understand the universe? They can say Venus is so much gas, has so many minerals, and so on, but the material description of Venus is not the beauty of it, the extraordinary quietness of it. And to understand all that immensity, can our brain be quiet? Not everlastingly chattering, chattering, chattering. Can that brain become extraordinarily simple and therefore extraordinarily subtle? And if that brain is capable of that subtleness, that immense sense of the great simplicity of time-thought and the rest of it, then perhaps that mind that is not the brain can communicate with it. The present brain cannot communicate with that mind, obviously. Though we do our utmost to communicate with it, all kinds of tricks, all forms of control, sacrifice, taking vows, right? And that thing can never... one can never touch it that way. The religious mind, religious brain, always has the background of great silence and solitude.

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04 Feb 2022 05:40

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04 Feb 2022 05:40

The Little Book of IKIGAI by Ken Mogi

The book "Ikigai: The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life" by Ken Mogi, explains the concepts of the Ikigai philosophy, a Japanese origin word that describes the pleasures and senses of life.

Through 5 steps, the author will help you find your Ikigai, showing how it is rooted in Japanese culture, and give lessons that will change your life. All of this through an easy reading, making the absorption of knowledge easier.
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03 Feb 2022 03:30

Spirit of Faith

During the war, Duryodhan taunted Bheeshma, the commander-in-chief of the Kaurav army, saying he was being lenient with the Pandavas, for he could have easily killed them, had he chosen to do so. Bheeshma felt insulted, and resolved that by sunset the next day, he would either kill their foremost warrior, Arjun, or to protect him, Shree Krishna would have to break His vow and lift weapons.
When the battle ended that evening, this news spread in the Pandava camp. Everyone was sad to hear it as Bheeshma was known for keeping his vows. Shree Krishna was lost in contemplation about what could be done. He had vowed not to lift weapons during the war, but now it concerned Arjun’s life.
Pondering over the problem, Shree Krishna realised that it was midnight. He thought, ‘If I am so concerned, how worried must Arjun be, for it is his death that Grandsire Bheeshma has announced.’ He walked over to Arjun’s tent to console him. However, He found sounds of snoring emanating from the tent as Arjun was fast asleep.
Shree Krishna shook him awake, ‘My dear friend, do you not know about the vow made by Bheeshma?’
‘Of course, I do, my Lord.’
‘Then are you not worried?’
‘When You are so concerned about my protection that You are unable to sleep till early morning, then why should I worry for myself?’
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31 Jan 2022 18:41

Mark Nepo

When young, it was my first fall from love. It broke me open the way lightning splits a tree. Then, years later, cancer broke me further. This time it broke me wider, the way a flood carves the banks of a narrow stream. Then, having to leave a twenty-year marriage. This broke me the way wind shatters glass. Then, in Africa, it was the anonymous face of a schoolboy beginning his life. This broke me yet again. But this was like hot water melting soap.
Each time I tried to close up what had been opened. It was a reflex, natural enough. But the lesson was, of course, the other way. The lesson was in never closing again.
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29 Jan 2022 03:30

Thich Nhat Hanh

If we are able to touch our ground of no birth and no death, we will have no fear. That is the base of our true happiness.

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27 Jan 2022 06:41

Osho

The whole work of meditation is to make you aware of all that is mind, and disidentify yourself from it. When the mind is angry, you can realize that it is simply a gramophone record. When the mind is sad, you can simply remember that it is only a gramophone record. A certain situation is pressing the remote control and you feel sad, you feel angry, you feel frustrated, you feel worried, you feel tense—all these things are coming from the outside and the mind is responding to them. But you are the watcher, you are not the actor. It is not your reaction.
Hence the whole art of meditation is to learn awareness, alertness, consciousness. While you are feeling angry, don’t repress it; let it be there. Just become aware. See it as if it is some object outside you. Slowly go on cutting your identifications with the mind. Then you have found your real individuality, your being, your soul
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12 Feb 2023 12:44

Do what you are good at, that has always been my advice. If you can sing, sing your heart out; sing to the world, and the world will reward your singing. If you can dance, dance your way to the stars, and become a star. If you can play the tabla, then tabla your way to glory! If you can paint, become another Gauguin, another Jamini Roy. If you can visualize a story, a screenplay, aim to be another Satyajit Ray, a Renoir, a Benegal. If you can act, be an actor. If you are better behind the camera, be a great cameraman. Be a camera!

~Ruskin Bond

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15 Feb 2022 03:30

Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

Bhakti Yoga, or the path of devotion, is based on the doctrine "Love is God and God is Love". The Bhakti yogi experiences separation and longs to meet or even just glimpse his beloved, God. Nothing else attracts him, nothing else holds his attention, all else is meaningless

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13 Feb 2022 03:30

Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve” (18:66).
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12 Feb 2022 03:30

Observing thought

I must love the very thing I am studying. If you want to understand a child, you must love and not condemn him. You must play with him, watch his movements, his idiosyncrasies, his ways of behavior; but if you merely condemn, resist or blame him, there is no comprehension of the child. Similarly, to understand what is, one must observe what one thinks, feels and does from moment to moment. That is the actual.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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10 Feb 2022 03:30

Alan Watts

​​If I first see a tree in the winter, I might assume that it is not a fruit-tree. But when I return in the summer to find it covered with plums, I must exclaim, "Excuse me! You were a fruit-tree after all." Imagine, then, that a billion years ago some beings from another part of the galaxy made a tour through the solar system in their flying saucer and found no life. They would dismiss it as "Just a bunch of old rocks!" But if they returned today, they would have to apologize: "Well—you were peopling rocks after all!" You may, of course, argue that there is no analogy between the two situations. The fruit-tree was at one time a seed inside a plum, but the earth—much less the solar system or the galaxy—was never a seed inside a person. But, oddly enough, you would be wrong.

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08 Feb 2022 03:30

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me – the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. (9:27–28)
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06 Feb 2022 13:30

Om Swami

Just like our desires and emotions are cyclical, so are the good and bad times in our lives. It is absolutely impossible that each day will turn out the way you expect it to, or that every time only pleasing news will knock on your door. At times, situations are undesirable and unpleasant, but we can’t avoid them. We have to deal with them. As they say, someone’s got to make the trains run on time. Granted, it’s not always feasible to deal with unpleasant situations with a pleasant mood, but it is possible to handle them with patience.

yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya
siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga uchyate.
(Bhagavad Gita 2.48)

‘O, the finest archer!’ Krishna says to Arjuna, ‘the yoga of equanimity is to maintain your steadfastness in the face of both success and failure, it is to act with a degree of detachment.’

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05 Feb 2022 17:30

Thich Nhat Hanh

Reality cannot be described in terms of being and nonbeing. Being and nonbeing are notions created by you, exactly like the notions of birth and death, coming and going.
If your beloved one can no longer be seen, it does not mean that from being she has become nonbeing. If you realize this truth about your beloved, you will suffer much less, and if you realize this truth about yourself, you will transcend your fear of dying, of nonbeing.

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04 Feb 2022 13:30

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf

People who don't understand meditation think that it is some kind of special inner manipulation which will magically shut off these waves so that the mind's surface will be flat, peaceful, and tranquil. But just as you can't put a glass plate on the water to calm the waves, so you can't artificially suppress the waves of your mind, and it is not too smart to try. It will only create more tension and inner struggle, not calmness. That doesn't mean that calmness is unattainable. It's just that it cannot be attained by misguided attempts to suppress the mind's natural activity.

It is possible through meditation to find shelter from much of the wind that agitates the mind. Over time, a good deal of the turbulence may die down from lack of continuous feeding. But ultimately the winds of life and of the mind will blow, do what we may. Meditation is about knowing something about this and how to work with it.
~Wherever you go There you are

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04 Feb 2022 05:40

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02 Feb 2022 06:41

Pomnyun

If you want to to achieve something you can either keep trying or quit. Feeling stressed out over things you want to achieve but failing to do so is because of greed. Stress comes from having a high expectation but not wanting to put in a requisite effort. So it's very easy to distinguish between impure and pure desires. If you suffer because your desire wasn't fulfilled then that is the result of your greed. However, if you are able to say, "Oh that didn't work, how about if I try it this way? Hmm, that didn't work either. Let's try this way." If you keep such an investigative mind, failure doesn't cost you suffering, because you are driven by genuinely wanting to achieve that goal.
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31 Jan 2022 06:41

Haemin Sunim

Try to share your true feelings.
Even if the other person is hurt at first, eventually she will be grateful to know the truth.
The truth is freeing to both the one who expresses it and the one who hears it.

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28 Jan 2022 03:30

Rubert Spira

Happiness, like the patch of blue, appears at first to be a temporary experience that occurs from time to time, but when investigated turns out to be ever-present and always available in the background of experience.
As such, happiness is not a temporary experience that alternates with unhappiness. It is not the opposite of unhappiness, any more than the blue sky is the opposite of the clouds. Just as the clouds are the veiling of the blue sky, so unhappiness is the veiling of happiness.
Happiness is our very nature and lies at the source of the mind, or the heart of ourself, in all conditions and under all circumstances. It cannot be acquired; it can only be revealed.
We cannot know happiness as an objective experience; we can only be it. We cannot be unhappy; we can only know unhappiness as an objective experience.
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26 Jan 2022 06:41

Rubert Spira

However, if we are lost in the contents of a movie, the screen will seem to be missing or unseen. Of course, the screen is always being seen, although we have temporarily overlooked or forgotten it due to our absorption in the movie.
Likewise, awareness is always present and aware of itself, but seems to cease knowing itself as it truly is when it loses itself in objective experience.

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