Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)
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The glorious light is sunshine.
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)
I live life in spirit of love and light.
The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness.
The light is more powerful than the darkness.
If I were a flower,humming bird would be my favourite beeAnd If I were blind,the light of darkness I'd love to see
The darkness had not overcome the light.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can__ hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing _ nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever __hat_ is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.