Thursday, December 9, 2010

I Love You and Buddha too .....



Oh Jesus I Love you, and I Love Buddha too, Rama Krishna, Guru Dev, Dao de Jing and Mohammad.

These are (some of) the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded:

1. And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."

2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"

3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

4. Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.
For many of the first will be last, and will become a single One."

5. Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.]"

18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."

19. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.

77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

48. Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move."

49. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again."

50. Jesus said, "If they say to you, 'Where have you come from?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, from the place where the light came into being by itself, established [itself], and appeared in their image.'

113. His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

The Gospel of Thomas (Sayings of Jesus / Logia)

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Black Elk, Lao Tzu, Aldous Huxley, Dalai Lama, Marcus Aurelius, Carlos Barrios


"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the centre of the universe, dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us." - Black Elk

The greatest wisdom is in simplicity, Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way. -Carlos Barrios

"Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy towards yourself.
By simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the dignity that comes from being still and simple." ~ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

"If we penetrate deeply into all aspects and all areas of life, we will find that hidden behind everything is love. We will discover that love is the force, the power and inspiration behind every word and every action. This applies to all people, irrespective of race, caste, creed, sect, religion or of what work people do." - Amma

"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men." - Albert Einstein

"We often think of peace as the absence of
war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we
could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our
own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we
transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons
for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or
later we would make new bombs. Seek to become more aware of what causes
anger and separation, and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in
your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully"-Thich Nhat Hanh

Always we hope someone else has the answer. some other place will be better, some other time it will all turn out. This is it. no one else has the answer. no other place will be better, and it has already turned out. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search your heart and see the way to do is to be. ~Lao Tzu~

A child-like person is not one whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, but a person who has given theirself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
~Aldous Huxley~

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air, a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air,but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:a blue sky,white clouds,the green leaves the black,curious eyes of a child~our own two eyes. All is a Miracle." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - Dalai Lama

"Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Goethe

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Baruch Spinoza and the Nazarene - Namaste !


I had to read Baruch Spinoza, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, the Isha Upanishads, Siddhartha and the Zohar to understand what Jesus was talking about. In the aramaic, Jesus (Yahshua the Nazarene) always calls "God" Abwun. (Aba Father) or "Father in Heaven" - the letters also mean the cosmic Light within all things (Aleph+ Bayt) . Slowly Christians are starting to see that Jesus was some sort of Master of Tao (The Way) who saw that the Light exists in everything so that the 1st Law is the same as the 2nd Law. Love God (the Light within ALL) as your neighbor, as yourself - whatsoever you do to the least of your brothers that you do unto me. Jesus says "I am in my Father (Abwun) and I am in you and you are in me (John 14:20) Once you realize that everything is connected you cannot harm another - I think the Buddha also says that, so do not hate, show only kindness, compassion and understanding. Then you will discover the true Light that Jesus was talking about. - Within yourself. Luke 17:21

Namaste (the Light in me sees the Light in you)

"I honor the Spirit in you which is also in me." -- attributed to but not claimed by author Deepak Chopra
"I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One."
"I salute the God within you."
"Your spirit and my spirit are ONE." -- attributed to Lilias Folan's shared teachings from her journeys to India.[citation needed]
"That which is of God in me greets that which is of God in you."
"The Divinity within me perceives and adores the Divinity within you."
"All that is best and highest in me greets/salutes all that is best and highest in you."
"I greet the God within."
"The light in me sees the light in you" -- attributed to Bridget Laureira's experience with yoga practice in New York City.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

I agree with the Dalai Lama. We need Compassion and Unconditional Love.

I agree with the Dalai Lama’s claim that “the essential message of all religions is very much the same.” – He calls it compassion.

Yes, Love your enemy and there is no enemy. Unconditional Love. It's what is needed.

Jesus did not come to die on the cross. He came to Live and he died because he said he was "yod heh", that He was One with Abwun.

The Nazorean came to remind us of 2 things. Love your Neighbor as yourself. Love "Abwun" with all your heart, mind and soul.

Something to read–> "Everything is God" - http://bit.ly/d2YznV

There is “one truth” behind the “many faiths,” and that core truth, he argues, is compassion. – Dalai Lama (True)

My Favorite Henry Miller Quotes... How much Joy !

Heaven is Now:

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. - Henry Miller

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. - Henry Miller

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious,awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. - Henry Miller

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. - Henry Miller

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. - Henry Miller

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. - Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry Miller

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, .... Henry Miller

Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. - Henry Miller

The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. - Henry Miller

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. - Henry Miller

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' - Henry Miller

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. - Henry Miller

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. - Henry Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. - Henry Miller

Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley




PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS - the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the thing - the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being - the thing is immemorial and universal. - Introduction to The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

The Perennial Philosophy is primarily concerned with the One, divine Reality substantial to the manifold world of things and lives and minds. But the nature of this one Reality is such that it cannot be directly and immediately apprehended except by those who have chosen to fulfil certain conditions, making themselves loving, pure in heart, and poor in spirit. Why should this be so ? We do not know. - Aldous Huxley

Do not ask whether the Principle is in this or that; it is in all beings - Chuang-Tzu

One Nature, perfect and pervading, circulates in all natures - Yung-chia Ta-shih

Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray. - Kabir

When the Ten Thousand things are viewed in their oneness, we return to the Origin and remain where we have always been. - Sen T'sen

Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived - Theologia Germanica

The Beloved is all in all; the lover merely veils Him; The Beloved is all that lives... Rumi

The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley

Friday, May 7, 2010

Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh




What I'm reading this weekend.
Found this on the book shelf. Forgot I had it.

"True understanding comes from true practice. Understanding and love are values that transcend all dogma." — Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)

"Because you are alive, everything is possible."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)

"As Buddhists or Christians... understanding is the most important component for transformation. If we talk to each other there is a possibility that we can understand the other person better. When we understand another person, we understand ourselves better. - Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)


Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hanh

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"Ein Od Milvado" - Nothing exists except God

Ein Od Milvado - there is nothing else but God.

When one contemplates things, everything is revealed as one. - Zohar

I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God. - Elizabet Barrett Browning

Ein Od Milvado - There is only God. God is One.

Someday you will hear all things applaud your wonder. Life claps in awe of the Divine's performance. - Meister Eckhart

The only zen you find at the top of mountains is the zen you bring up there - Robert M. Pirsig

To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love. ~Gangaji

The Kingdom of God is within you - Yahshua the Nazorean (Luke 17:21)

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Lennon, Luke, Buddha, Yahshua, Love, Love, Love, Love

For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.- John Lennon

And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you. - John Lennon

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky.I believe that what people call God is something in all of us-Lennon

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without-Buddha

The Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21) - Yeshua the Nazarene

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.” - Buddha

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” - Buddha

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” - Buddha


"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."-- Alan Watts

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” Buddha

"Wisdom of Awakening is inherent in everyone It's because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realise it ourselves" - Neng

"... Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known.." Gospel of Thomas

"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins" - Albert Schweitzer

"Seeing myself in others and others in myself, whom could I harm, whom could I exploit?" - Buddha

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Mead

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." ~ Albert Einstein

"Oh Jesus I love you, and I love Buddha too, Ramakrishna, Guru Dev, Tao Te Ching and Mohammed." - Mason Jennings

"What you are accomplishing may seem like a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed" Mother Teresa

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." - Albert Schweitzer