Meditations

 

Awakening

 

 

 

The Buddha was asked, "Are you God?"

"No, " he said.

"Well, then, what are you?"

"Awake," said the Buddha.

Our original nature is, in highest truth,

devoid of any atom of objectivity.

It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure;

it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy ~

and that is all.

Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

 

~ Huang Po

 

 

Rabbi Jacob used to say:

Better a single moment of awakening in this world
than eternity in the world to come.

And better a single moment of inner peace
in the world to come than eternity in this world.

Why?

A single moment of awakening in this world
is eternity in the world to come.

The inner peace in the world to come
is living in this world with full attention.

The two are one, flip sides of a coin
forever tumbling and never caught. 

~ Unknown, Pirke Avot 4:22

 

 

 

Your vision will become clear

only when you look into your heart ...

Who looks outside, dreams.

Who looks inside, awakens.

 

~ Carl Jung

 

 

 

Awakening begins when a man realizes

that he is going nowhere

and does not know where to go.

 

 

~ Georges Gurdjieff

 

 

 

As you awaken,

You go beyond the need

to accumulate

and perform

and achieve.

When you go beyond it,

You begin to develop

an increased susceptibility

to the love extended by others

as well as

the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

Love becomes what you are.

 

 

~ Wayne Dyer

 

 

 

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