THE TAO THAT CAN BE NAMED

PICTURES OF GOD WHEN HE'S NOT LOOKING

[oceanandwave-deactivated2018032]

There is no greater deception than believing that liberation, which is ever present as one’s own nature, will be attained at some later stage.“

Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) (via oceanandwave)

[yelling-deactivated20190615]

The price of apathy toward public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato (via yelling)

[itsquoted]

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Charles de Montesquieu (via itsquoted)

[thetaothatcanbenamed]

The Socratic education begins … with the awakening of the mind to the need for criticism, to the uncertainty of the principles by which it supposed itself to be guided.

— John Anderson, 1930s.

[maxistentialist-deactivated2020]

Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information.

Edward Tufte (via maxistentialist)

[aslovelyasatree]

If you aren’t amazed most of the time you aren’t paying attention.

Michael Lipsey (via aslovelyasatree)

[ashramof1-deactivated20201019]

Reality is not a concept, nor the manifestation of a concept. It has nothing to do with concepts. Concern yourself with your mind, remove its distortions and impurities. Once you have had the taste of your own self, you will find it everywhere and at all times. Therefore it is so important that you should come to it. Once you know it, you will never lose it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (via ashramof1)

[artemisdreaming]

[artesens]

Cercles Ascèse, 2012

Fabienne Verdier

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity. Lao Zi

[ashramof1-deactivated20201019]

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via ashramof1)

[fuckyeahjapanandkorea]

[gentlechamomile]

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

Helen Shucman  (via mindofataurus)

[middlenameconfused]

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

Mark Nepo (via creatingaquietmind)

[ashramof1-deactivated20201019]

I think, therefore I am not here

Thich Nhat Hanh (via ashramof1)

[lazyyogi]

"You" will never find true clarity. All you can do is be silent—and get out of clarity’s way. 

[visionsofsilence]

[thetaothatcanbenamed]

Paying homage to the Buddha is different from what we Westerners consider as idol worship. A core lesson of Buddhism is that the Buddha, as a human being, was able to realize the true nature of existence. The statues of Buddha serve to remind us, also human beings, that all the initial conditions for enlightenment are already provided. The rest of the practice, as the Buddha summed in his final words, is that the practitioner "strive on with diligence".

[oceanandwave-deactivated2018032]

Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don’t bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.

Mooji (via oceanandwave)

[lazyyogi]

We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin.

Alan Watts (via lazyyogi)