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SOUL SOFTWARE
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul.
It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle.
In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
~ Deepak Chopra
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SOUL SOFTWARE
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul.
It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle.
In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
~ Deepak Chopra
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🍁 STORY OF
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ZEN GARDEN 🪴
Once a Zen master was teaching the art of gardening to the king of Japan. After three years of teaching he said, "Now I will come and see your garden -- that will be the examination of what you have done in these three years." And he told him before that "Whatsoever you are learning go on practising in your palace garden, any day I may come."
The king had prepared the garden and he was waiting for that great day; he rejoiced that the day had come. For those three years he had used nearly one thousand gardeners to implement everything in the minutest detail. And for that whole day and night -- because tomorrow morning the master would be there -- the garden was cleaned, everything was put exactly right, as it should be, no error, no mistake...
The master came. The king was very happy because whatsoever the master had said had been absolutely fulfilled; it was impossible to find any fault. But the master looked at the garden and became very serious -- which was not natural to the master. He was a man of laughter. He became sad.
As they moved into the garden he became more and more serious and the king started feeling a little trembling inside: Was he going to fail? What had gone wrong? The silence of the master was too heavy. Finally the king asked, "What is the matter? I have never seen you so serious. I was thinking you would be immensely happy that your disciple had worked hard."
The master said, "Everything is right but where are the golden leaves? I don't see any dead leaves, yellow leaves fluttering in the wind. Without that the garden looks dead; there is no song, no dance. Without that the garden looks very artificial.
The king had removed all the dead leaves, not only from the ground but even from the plants and trees. He had never thought of it, that death is also part of life, that it is not its opposite but its complementary, that without it there would be no life. And certainly the master was right: Yes, the garden was beautiful, but it looked as if it were a painting, not alive.
The master said, "The golden wind is missing. Where is Ummon's golden wind? Bring the golden wind!" The master took a bucket and went out of the garden, outside the gate to where all the leaves have been thrown. He collected the leaves in the bucket, came back and threw the leaves on the path. Suddenly the wind started blowing them here and there, and there was noise and there was music, and there was dance. The master said, "Now there is life! The wind is golden again."
This is Ummon's golden wind: when all thoughts fall down from your mind and your consciousness stands absolutely bare and naked.
Deep down near your roots the wind is blowing and all your thoughts are fluttering far away from you, no more part of you. They still remain there, they don't go anywhere, but they are no more part of you. You have transcended; you are standing above them, a watcher on the hills.
That's what meditation is.
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🍁 STORY OF
🌷 THE 🍃
ZEN GARDEN 🪴
Once a Zen master was teaching the art of gardening to the king of Japan. After three years of teaching he said, "Now I will come and see your garden -- that will be the examination of what you have done in these three years." And he told him before that "Whatsoever you are learning go on practising in your palace garden, any day I may come."
The king had prepared the garden and he was waiting for that great day; he rejoiced that the day had come. For those three years he had used nearly one thousand gardeners to implement everything in the minutest detail. And for that whole day and night -- because tomorrow morning the master would be there -- the garden was cleaned, everything was put exactly right, as it should be, no error, no mistake...
The master came. The king was very happy because whatsoever the master had said had been absolutely fulfilled; it was impossible to find any fault. But the master looked at the garden and became very serious -- which was not natural to the master. He was a man of laughter. He became sad.
As they moved into the garden he became more and more serious and the king started feeling a little trembling inside: Was he going to fail? What had gone wrong? The silence of the master was too heavy. Finally the king asked, "What is the matter? I have never seen you so serious. I was thinking you would be immensely happy that your disciple had worked hard."
The master said, "Everything is right but where are the golden leaves? I don't see any dead leaves, yellow leaves fluttering in the wind. Without that the garden looks dead; there is no song, no dance. Without that the garden looks very artificial.
The king had removed all the dead leaves, not only from the ground but even from the plants and trees. He had never thought of it, that death is also part of life, that it is not its opposite but its complementary, that without it there would be no life. And certainly the master was right: Yes, the garden was beautiful, but it looked as if it were a painting, not alive.
The master said, "The golden wind is missing. Where is Ummon's golden wind? Bring the golden wind!" The master took a bucket and went out of the garden, outside the gate to where all the leaves have been thrown. He collected the leaves in the bucket, came back and threw the leaves on the path. Suddenly the wind started blowing them here and there, and there was noise and there was music, and there was dance. The master said, "Now there is life! The wind is golden again."
This is Ummon's golden wind: when all thoughts fall down from your mind and your consciousness stands absolutely bare and naked.
Deep down near your roots the wind is blowing and all your thoughts are fluttering far away from you, no more part of you. They still remain there, they don't go anywhere, but they are no more part of you. You have transcended; you are standing above them, a watcher on the hills.
That's what meditation is.
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BE GOOD, DO GOOD
Just be the freaking person who cares more. Be the person who tries harder, loves stronger, gives more of a shit than all of the half-alive people who surround them. Be the person who answers their messages, shows up to their commitments and doesn’t leave others hanging or guessing at their eternally vague intentions. Be the person you wish you were dating. If you’re sick of the game then stop playing it. If you’re tired of the bullshit, then cut it.
Because the last thing this world needs is one more indifferent person. If you’re the only one left with passion, then use it. Use the hell out of it. At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely. Go out with the certainty that you gave it everything you had and didn’t hold anything back. Go out empty-handed when it comes to should-haves and might-have-beens. Because it’s an infinitely more fulfilling way to live than the alternative. It will always be more honorable to be out in the field getting trampled on than to be on the sidelines feeling superior for never having tried.
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BE GOOD, DO GOOD
Just be the freaking person who cares more. Be the person who tries harder, loves stronger, gives more of a shit than all of the half-alive people who surround them. Be the person who answers their messages, shows up to their commitments and doesn’t leave others hanging or guessing at their eternally vague intentions. Be the person you wish you were dating. If you’re sick of the game then stop playing it. If you’re tired of the bullshit, then cut it.
Because the last thing this world needs is one more indifferent person. If you’re the only one left with passion, then use it. Use the hell out of it. At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely. Go out with the certainty that you gave it everything you had and didn’t hold anything back. Go out empty-handed when it comes to should-haves and might-have-beens. Because it’s an infinitely more fulfilling way to live than the alternative. It will always be more honorable to be out in the field getting trampled on than to be on the sidelines feeling superior for never having tried.
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Mr. B. C. Das, the Physics Lecturer, asked:
“Yoga means union. I wonder union of which with which.”
Maharshi: Exactly. Yoga implies prior division and it means later union of one with another. Who is to be united with whom?
You are the seeker, seeking union with something. That something is apart from you. Your Self is intimate to you. You are aware of the Self. Seek it and be it. That will expand as the Infinite. Then there will be no question of yoga, etc. Whose is the separation (viyoga)?
Find it.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Mr. B. C. Das, the Physics Lecturer, asked:
“Yoga means union. I wonder union of which with which.”
Maharshi: Exactly. Yoga implies prior division and it means later union of one with another. Who is to be united with whom?
You are the seeker, seeking union with something. That something is apart from you. Your Self is intimate to you. You are aware of the Self. Seek it and be it. That will expand as the Infinite. Then there will be no question of yoga, etc. Whose is the separation (viyoga)?
Find it.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Greetings on
International Yoga Day,
2022
The human who sees me in everything,
and everything within me,
will not be lost to me, nor
will I ever be lost to him/her.
He/She who is rooted in oneness,
realizes that I am
in every being; wherever
he/she goes, he/she remains in me.
When he/she sees all beings as equal
in suffering or in joy,
because they are like himself/herself,
that human has grown perfect in Yoga.
~ Bhagavad Gita
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Greetings on
International Yoga Day,
2022
The human who sees me in everything,
and everything within me,
will not be lost to me, nor
will I ever be lost to him/her.
He/She who is rooted in oneness,
realizes that I am
in every being; wherever
he/she goes, he/she remains in me.
When he/she sees all beings as equal
in suffering or in joy,
because they are like himself/herself,
that human has grown perfect in Yoga.
~ Bhagavad Gita
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Greetings on
World Music Day,
2022
“Whatever you do, whatever you utter - the very words, are sounds of music from the hand of God playing His instrument.
Always think that you are an instrument in His hand - He is the power house. Even when you do nothing, this is also His wish.
He is the player, let Him play the drum as He wishes.”
~ Ma Anandamayi
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Greetings on
World Music Day,
2022
“Whatever you do, whatever you utter - the very words, are sounds of music from the hand of God playing His instrument.
Always think that you are an instrument in His hand - He is the power house. Even when you do nothing, this is also His wish.
He is the player, let Him play the drum as He wishes.”
~ Ma Anandamayi
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There is a Sun
within every person.
~ Rumi
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There is a Sun
within every person.
~ Rumi
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“When you wake up from your story, guess what you realize about everybody else? They are not their story. They are spirit, too. And that spirit is totally independent of their story and your story about them.
So you not only lose your center, you lose their center, that box you would put them in. You see they are the same.
This is why it is said that enlightenment is never a personal matter.
You can’t realize you are enlightened and still believe that others aren’t. You can’t see your true nature without seeing the true nature of everything. It is literally impossible.
This is a tremendous act of compassion, an act of love.”
~ Adyashanti
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“When you wake up from your story, guess what you realize about everybody else? They are not their story. They are spirit, too. And that spirit is totally independent of their story and your story about them.
So you not only lose your center, you lose their center, that box you would put them in. You see they are the same.
This is why it is said that enlightenment is never a personal matter.
You can’t realize you are enlightened and still believe that others aren’t. You can’t see your true nature without seeing the true nature of everything. It is literally impossible.
This is a tremendous act of compassion, an act of love.”
~ Adyashanti
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🧘♂ THE EMPTY BOAT 🛶
" A monk decides to meditate alone.
Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.
After a few hours of unperturbed silence,
he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.
But when he opened his eyes,
saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake ...
At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him;
it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.
After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers;
the other person is just an empty boat.
Anger is inside me. "
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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🧘♂ THE EMPTY BOAT 🛶
" A monk decides to meditate alone.
Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.
After a few hours of unperturbed silence,
he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.
But when he opened his eyes,
saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake ...
At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him;
it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.
After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers;
the other person is just an empty boat.
Anger is inside me. "
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Many spiritual practices are pleasant.
They don’t challenge
your identity and its delusion,
therefore they are attractive
to your mind.
There’s nothing threatening
when someone tells you,
“We’re chanting because
it purifies the energy
and brings you closer to God.”
If feels nice for people
— adventurous and agreeable.
But I’m not interested in adventure,
I’m here only for liberation!
Not entertainment for your mind,
but the smelling salts that will
stun you into awakening.
💛 Mooji
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Many spiritual practices are pleasant.
They don’t challenge
your identity and its delusion,
therefore they are attractive
to your mind.
There’s nothing threatening
when someone tells you,
“We’re chanting because
it purifies the energy
and brings you closer to God.”
If feels nice for people
— adventurous and agreeable.
But I’m not interested in adventure,
I’m here only for liberation!
Not entertainment for your mind,
but the smelling salts that will
stun you into awakening.
💛 Mooji
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