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The most commonly used word is the word ‘I’. To delve into the sense of ‘I’ in order to reach its source is all he talks about.
“The key to everything—remain apart. Our aim is to have constantly a sensation of oneself, of one’s individuality, this sensation cannot be expressed intellectually, because it is organic. It is something which makes you independent when you are with other people.”
― Transcripts of Gurdjieff's Meetings 1941-1946
― Transcripts of Gurdjieff's Meetings 1941-1946
“To love with all your heart, the heart must first be opened.”
― Sex Magic, Tantra & Tarot: The Way of the Secret Lover
― Sex Magic, Tantra & Tarot: The Way of the Secret Lover
“That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine love: and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God
“The text presented here, the Vajra Essence by Düdjom Lingpa, a nineteenth-century master of the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism, is known as the Nelug Rangjung in Tibetan, meaning “the natural emergence of the nature of existence.”1 This is an ideal teaching in which to unravel some of the common misunderstandings of Tibetan Buddhism, since it is a sweeping practice that can take one from the basics all the way to enlightenment in a single lifetime. The present volume explains the initial section on shamatha, or meditative quiescence, about nine percent of the entire Vajra Essence root text.”
― Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence
― Stilling the Mind: Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence
“At the most fundamental level, the level that is the most useful for doing insight practices, we wish desperately that there was some separate, permanent self, and we spend huge amounts of time doing our best to prop up this illusion. In order to do this, we habitually ignore lots of useful information about our reality and give our mental impressions and simplifications of reality much more importance than they are necessarily due. It is this illusion that adds a problematic element to the normal and understandable ways in which we go about trying to be happy. We constantly struggle with reality because we misunderstand it, i.e. because reality misunderstands itself.”
― Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
― Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
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