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“There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.”

~ Bhagavad Gita

"Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it changes from one form to another."

~ first law of thermodynamics

Activities are endless, like ripples on a stream. They end only when you drop them.

Human moods are like the changing highlights and shadows on a sunlit mountain range.

All activities are like the games children play, like castles being made of sand.

View them with delight and equanimity, like grandparents overseeing their grandchildren, or a shepherd resting on a grassy knoll watching over his grazing flock. ~ Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche

“There is some Good in this World...

And it's worth Fighting For...”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“When we are alone on a starlit night; when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children; when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet Bashō we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash—at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness,” the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.”

― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

Beyond the mind there is no suffering.

Nisargadatta Maharaj.

“Thus, as we have seen, the easily accessible explicit content of consciousness is included within a much greater implicit (or implicate) background. This in turn evidently has to be contained in a yet greater background which may include not only neuro-physiological processes at levels of which we are not generally conscious but also a yet greater background of unknown (and indeed ultimately unknowable) depths of inwardness that may be analogous to the 'sea' of energy that fills the sensibly perceived 'empty' space.”― David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way, This is not philosophy. This is physics.” is a better choice than ~ Bashar

The most important thing for anyone to realize is that you and every person you see will soon be dead. It sounds so gloomy to us because we have devised a culture fundamentally resisting death.

From the first standpoint, the worst is going to happen: you’re all going to die. And don’t just put it off in the back of your mind and say "I’ll consider that later." It’s the most important thing to consider NOW, because it is the mercy of nature, because it’s going to enable you to let go and not defend yourself all the time, waste all energies in self-defense.

There is a wonderful quote that says: “I pray that death will not come and find me still unannihilated.” In other words, man dies happy if there is no one to die which means the ego has disappeared before death caught up to him. But you see, the knowledge of death helps the ego to disappear because it tells you that you can’t hang on. So what we need is to go out with a bang instead of a whimper.

— Alan Watts-

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Try to realize that when you're sleeping and you are in deep sleep you have no wants, you have no desires. You are not trying to get rich. You are not trying to get rid of a disease. You're not trying to find boyfriends or girlfriends. You're not trying to run around enjoying yourself, the beach or whatever.

You're in deep sleep. That’s why when you get up from deep sleep you're happy. The first moment you get out of a deep sleep you feel refreshed. You feel good. Check yourself out and see if I'm wrong.

I don't care what problems you may think you have when you wake up from a deep sleep you always feel good. Until you start thinking!

As the I comes to the brain. You become cognizant of the world, the universe and your body. But prior to that you felt wonderful. So this proves to you that when you can do this during waking state then you're asleep while awake.

If you can surrender everything. Give up everything then total happiness will come by itself. Remember that when you are totally surrendered you will feel a greater happiness, and a greater joy and a greater peace. This is an important point.

-Robert Adams

In brief, taking your own mind as witness, make your life and practice one, and at the time of death, with no thought of anything left undone, do not be ashamed of yourself. This itself is the pith instruction of all practices.

– Dudjom Rinpoche

from the book "Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice"Please

Letting the last breath come.

Letting the last breath go.

Dissolving, dissolving into vast space,

the light body released from its heavier form.

A sense of connectedness with all that is,

all sense of separation dissolved

in the vastness of being.

Each breath melting into space

as though it were the last.

Stephen Levine

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“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”

— John Green (via goodreadss)

Standing on the edge,

Trembling open,

You think there is something to do.

But all that is required is to

Be still.

Be still and know.

Look into the Round Mirror

Unnameable darkness,

Streaming light radiance.

Look so deeply into your self

Your image disappears.

Now what are you?

Silence does not answer.

When all these scholarly people used to come to Ramana Maharshi, these pundits, they had memorized the upanishads, the vedas and they wanted to see what Maharshi says, and they asked Ramana, "Is all necessary?" And he would just say, "Yes, yes, it's all necessary just keep it up." (students laugh) Because he realized that he would be arguing with these people for five hours. So he agreed with everybody. And Jesus said the same thing, he said, "Agree quickly with thy adversary." Don't argue with someone. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” Let people believe what they want. Every human being on this earth is in a different grade in school. The universe is like a school room. We're all in different grades. Some people have to believe this and some people have to believe that. That is what makes maya so interesting. There are multiplicity of thoughts, of forms, of things, of everything. And everybody wants to stick up for their rights and for their point of view. So let them, they're all right. The reason it's all right is because it is all coming from their mind. They are creating God in their image. Think of the God you believe in, Jehovah, Christ, Allah these are all names given to the one God by man. And people worship these Gods in different ways. It's all good. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. But when you begin to practice Advaita Vedanta, non-duality, you transcend all the belief systems, you transcend the whole world, the whole universe, you get rid of everything so there is nothing left for you to hold on to. And when there is nothing left for you to hold onto you then become the Self. Until then believe all the things you want to believe.~ Robert Adams

So what is emptiness? It is simply this unfindability. When we look for the flower among its parts, we are confronted with the abscence of such flower. That absence we are confronted with is the flower's emptiness. But then, is there no flower? Of course there is. To seek for the core of any phenomenon is ultimately to arrive at a more subtle appreciation of its emptiness, its unfindability.

– 14th Dalai Lama

from the book "An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life"

“When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.In the same way, it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born we were kicked off a precipice and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it. So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat.” – Alan Watts.

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“This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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