Guest guest Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Mazie, By the way, could you tell me the source is for the quote that you posted at the end of this message? Thanks. michael Dear Michael, The quotes were taken from my files, and this particular file holds quotes of Bhagavan which I've copied from a book I once had called, "Absolute Consciousness." "In the interior of the heart-cave (there)shines alone the one absolute as the "I - I",verily the consciousness - Self." "What is called the heart is no other than the absolute." "Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart or Seat of Consciousness,it is all the same." >From another file oracled-up on a happy lark for this post - from "The Gospel of Thomas" - 22) "Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to His disciples, " These infants being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom."They said to Him, Shall we then, as children, enter the Kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one,and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside,and the above like the below,and when you make the male and the female into a single one,so that the male not be male nor the female female;and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye,and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot,and an image in the place of an image;then will you enter [the Kingdom]. 50) Jesus said, If they say to you: "From where have you originated?"say to them: "We have come from the Light, where the Light has originated through itself. It stood and it revealed itself in their image." If they ask you: "What is the sign of your Father in you?"Say to them: "It is a movement and a rest." 67) Jesus said, "Whoever knows the all but fails to know himselflacks everything." 108) Jesus said, "He who will drink from my mouth will become as I am. And I myself shall become he,and the hidden things shall be revealed to him." ~ from "The Gospel of Thomas" - translated by Thomas O. Lambdin And from Bob, a transliteration he did of a much treasured Buddhist classic: The Heart Sutra "Form is empty. Emptiness is form. The activity of form is not other than emptiness, nor is the action of emptiness other than form. It's the same with feeling, knowing, conception, and consciousness. Dear One, in this way all dharmas are empty, without any qualification, not existing, not ceasing, without bondage or liberation from bondage, undiminished, limitless. Dear One, in this way, in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no knowing, no conception, no consciousness. There is no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no shape, no sound, no color, no flavor, no feeling, no space. There is no center of vision, no center of mind, no center to reference interpretation of perception. No ignorance, no transition from ignorance to the end of ignorance, no aging and death, no end of aging and death. It's the same for suffering, misery sin, nivana. There is no path, no wisdom, no enlightenment, no non-enlightenment. Dear One, in this way all buddhas -- realizing nothing, anchored in the Heart -- are clear, fearless. They are not the one confused, they are not the one suffering. They are Free. There's a saying: "Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi swaha." This is how the Compassionate One -- Beloved -- whispers from the Heart." ~ Bob O'Hearn May this email find you Happy, my Dear Friend Michael. As I Am, M 'There Are Hundreds of Waysto Kneel and Kiss the GroundLet the Beauty You LoveBe What You Do...' zie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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