Posts tagged "religion"
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"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there"
- Robert M. Pirsig
27
"If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"
- Dōgen
141
"

I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can
get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple
witness of your thought processes.

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you.
Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you
judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this
is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once
the gap is there, you are in for a great suprise, that you are not the mind, that
you are the witness, A watcher.

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as
you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start
disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for
the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

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- Osho
232
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
- Alan Wilson Watts
51
"The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God… Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there’s some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us… Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves."
- Pema Chödrön
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I used stained glass from churches that have closed down in Philly, along with the bottles of bottoms that I layer with colored glass.  This is for the people that don’t go to church but want a connection to their spirituality. “The Outdoor Church” -Justin Tyner

I used stained glass from churches that have closed down in Philly, along with the bottles of bottoms that I layer with colored glass.  This is for the people that don’t go to church but want a connection to their spirituality.
“The Outdoor Church”
-Justin Tyner

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"When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow"
- Gautama Buddha
45
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else."
- Shunryu Suzuki
174
"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
198
"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps."
- Hermann Hess
62
"Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
76
"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."
- Albert Einstein
60
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."
- Pema Chödrön
704
"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."
- Ray Bradbury
103
"You only lose what you cling to."
- Gautama Buddha