The things that

change are not our real life.

Within us there is another body,

another beauty. It belongs to that ray of light

which never changes. We must discover how to mingle

with it and become one with that unchanging thing.

We must realize and understand this treasure

of truth. That is why we have

come to the world.

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

enlightenment is not a disappearance

Enlightenment

is not an asexual, dispassionate,

head-in-the-clouds, nails-in-the-palms

disappearance from the game of life. It’s a

volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment

to love in action, coupled with

hard-headed practical

grist.

Elissa Giles

QUESTION.

Everyone has a secret agenda.

What’s yours?

ANSWER.

To show what a moral vision

would look like if it were rooted in the quest

for beauty, truth, love, pleasure, and liberation

instead of order, control, politeness,

fear, and self-denial.

Rob Brezsny

the practice of true reality

yanik chauvin

The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtlety and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts or grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions.

You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others. Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events.

Everything is unhindered; clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is brightly illumined and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrow points meeting.

Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person.

So we hear that this is how one of the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.

Hongzhi Zhenjue