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Mystics of all traditions have pointed to death as one of the ultimate teachers. It is through the contemplation of, and the surrender to death that we come to fully embrace, not only life, but reality itself. On our spiritual journey, we may come to recognize that birth and death are more than two opposite poles; they are the very dance of our shared reality. Unperceivable to us in its absolute totality, reality takes the shapes of all that is experienced: the subject and the object, the thought and the thinker, the perceiver and the perceived, the personal and the impersonal. Death is the unveiling part of this dance: the sacred dissolution that returns all seemingly separate things to the totality. Each form revealing itself as emptiness, each personal expression revealing its impersonal intelligence, each cycle of life and death a blossoming of consciousness. Living a life in this recognition—that Samsara is Nirvana—is the longing at the heart of all mystical paths. Thus reclaiming the blessings of death—death as ally, death as wisdom, death as guru—is part of the work of our time.
"Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love."
— Reiner Maria Rilke
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Hakuin’s Verse for Reigaku
“Don’t you regret the misfortune of a wasted life and idle death?
Those many years of sitting and silently illuminating yourself?
Don’t say the practice of Zen does not yield miraculous results,
Eyes won’t open for some till they’re losing their hair and teeth.”
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HURRY THE FCK UP
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"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."
-- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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If anything can be gained that was not present before, it can also be lost, whereas the Absolute is eternal, here and now.
- Ramana Maharshi
Future enlightenment is a misleading concept.
A more accurate understanding is that enlightenment is our genuine nature.
It’s also called Stillness, Silence, Being, Consciousness, Awareness, the Absolute; Bliss, Peace, God, Brahman, Infinite Spirit, or the Self.
We’re in a beautiful oasis, but we have the false impression that we must wander through the desert to find it.
We’re like a groundhog, popping his head out of his burrow, to ask the way to his burrow.
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- 80% of your social media friends are fake.
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