HAL 9000

2016-03-13

There is no other task but to know your own original face. This is called independence; the spirit is clear and free. If you say there is some particular...

2014-02-21

When a lute is played, there is no previous store of playing that it comes from. When the music stops, it does not go anywhere else. It came into existence...

2013-01-03

What does the spring wind have in mind, Coming day and night to these groves and gardens? It never asks who owns the peach and damson trees But blows...

2012-11-27

Put away all hindrances, let your mind full of love pervade one quarter of the world, and so too the second quarter, and so the third, and so the fourth...

2011-12-20

People who do not know how to practice the way want to get rid of afflictions. Afflictions are originally void and null; you are trying to use the way...

2011-09-05

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance...

2011-08-05

All formations are transient; all formations are subject to suffering; all things are without a self. Therefore, whatever there be of form, of feeling...

2011-01-31

. . Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy...

2010-12-02

. . When you keep thinking about sense objects, attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire, the lust of possession that burns to anger. Anger clouds the...

2010-10-24

. . That which makes the eye see but cannot be Seen by the eye, that is the Self indeed. This Self is not someone other than you. - Kena Upanishad