Category Archives: Quotes
Buddha’s Advice On Belief And Scepticism
You have to give Buddha a lot of credit. This is a guy that in ~400 to 500 BC celebrated the law of conservation of energy as a truth to be internalized and made the basis of philosophy/religion. The notion … Continue reading
Pledge to Dispel the Misery of the World
With the wish to free all beings I will always go for refuge To the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha Until the attainment of full Enlightenment Enthused by Compassion and Wisdom Today in the Buddha’s presence I generate the Mind of … Continue reading
Beyond Theology
“When God is dead, man, who was always defined as a creature other than God, begins to feel himself as other than reality – a sentimental irregularity in a dog-eat-dog system that might have been contrived by the Devil, if … Continue reading
Poetry and Religion
So I was reading reddit.com and a user submitted a photograph of the following religious peom with the title, “Sigh…this was posted on a hallway whiteboard in my office the other day.” “Almighty God, of majesty high walked on this … Continue reading
Wittgenstein on Philosophy
This post is a response of sorts to Maya: “All Duality is Falsely Imagined.” This comes from Wittgenstein’s The Blue Book which was at first only a manuscript guarded by his students at Cambridge. It is the most organized of … Continue reading
Maya – “All Duality Is Falsely Imagined”
This post is in response to Delineation. “Translated into conventional and – let it be repeated – mytho-poetic language, the knowledge of Brahman is represented as the discovery that this world which seemed to be Many is in truth One, … Continue reading
Listen, Little Man
From a book of the same name by Wilhelm Reich, the “hero” of Century of the Self Part III; the psychoanalyst who showed us a way out of the Freudian embrace of the unconscious consuming mind, inspiration to millions of … Continue reading
Boiling Spirits
This is a great story with many applications: There’s an oft told anecdote about a medical missionary in a remote place, who watches, in horror, as people give untreated well water to their babies. The children regularly get diarrhea, and … Continue reading
Salvation Or Satori
Sesshu Toyo “One of the errors which most surely hinder man’s intemporal realization is that of seeing in this realization a compulsive character. In many “spiritual” systems, religious or otherwise, man has the “duty” of achieving his “salvation”; he denies … Continue reading
Wittgenstein’s Most Cherished Emphasis
“What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence” Ludwig Wittgenstein
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