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"That the world is, is the mystical."
-Wittgenstein
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"We need to matriculate from an answer-based philosophical mode to an event-oriented one. A limited precursory model of this can be demonstrated by the roundabout, intuitive techniques of the East and in Zen. The 'correct' answer to a Zen monk's koan is not a syllogistic resolution, but an event: the seeker who succeeds, who 'gets it', pops a neurological relay into an expanded non-linear awareness that subsumes rationality like Einsteinian relativity does Newtonian mechanics."
-Neil Freer, author of Breaking the Godspell
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"Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity."
-Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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"When you do something you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
-Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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"So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self."
-Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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"Can we retrain ourselves at this late date to become Finders of hidden treasure? And by what technique, seeing that it is precisely technique which has betrayed us? Derangement of the senses, insurrection, piety, poetry? Knowing how is a cheap mountebank’s trick. But knowing what might be like divine self-knowledge – it might create ex nihilo."
-Hakim Bey, Immediatism, p. 59
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"The universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity -- those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity -- those who mold themselves blind masks of ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes."
-Hakim Bey
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"The issue for mystics is not whether we use our language accurately to describe the world that is really there but whether we see that the things created by our language have the impermanence of foam on the face of the unnameable, the unknowable, the unutterable."
- James P. Carse, Breakfast at the Victory
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"This was not vision but a vision, not a new way of seeing but something new to see. It is one thing to see something remarkable appearing inexplicably in the world, it is quite another to see the world itself as remarkable and all of existence as inexplicable."
- James P. Carse, Breakfast at the Victory
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Do you believe in free will?
"Of course. I have no choice."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"It is possible, in a certain sense, that all states of liberation are nothing more than perfect knowledge of the contents of eternity. If one knows what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberates you into a satisfying all-at-onceness."
-Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations
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"I saw the circulation of my own dark blood; I saw the coupling of love and the modification of death; I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon -- the unimaginal universe. I felt infinite wonder, infinite pity."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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This is It
and I am It
and You are It
and so is That
and He is It
and She is It
and It is It
and that is That.
-James Broughton
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"It is the ego or thinking mind that falsely claims the functioning of Consciousness as "my" doing. It blusters and threatens, suggesting that if "I" am gone, nothing will be done. Of course, that is ridiculous! That is clearly not the case. In the absence of this egoic "I", the whole universe is done."
-Wayne Liquorman
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Love is the sacrifice of will.
If you cannot leave will behind
You have no will at all.
-Rumi
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Ram Tzu knows this...
You indulge in
Self improvement
And
All you have to show for it
is an improved self.
-Ram Tzu, No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced"
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Ram Tzu knows this...
You clever ones
Are always looking for a way
To beat the system.
You want enlightenment
You want eternal bliss
You want the ultimate orgasm
You want it all...
And
You want to be around
To enjoy it.
This renders you
The ultimate sucker.
You are fair game.
You get baptized and analyzed.
You get rolfed and ESTed.
You meditate and vegetate.
You're rebirthed and realigned.
You're fucked and sucked.
You chant, you rant,
You heal the child within.
You collect money in airports.
You get in touch with your feelings.
You have your palms, your cards,
Your auras and your chakras read.
If you're very clever
You go to India, Tibet,
Thailand, China...
In your heart
You know the Truth is incompatible
With indoor plumbing.
You humbly contract dysentery or hepatitis.
You pretend that Sai Baba
is different from Oral Roberts.
It's a wonder Ram Tzu hasn't died laughing.
-Ram Tzu, No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced"
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"To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars."
-Alan Watts
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"People do not go to hell after death. The designers of hell are human beings. The designs and buildings are almost completed. It is becoming difficult to add more hell."
-Tamo-san
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"Someone please tell me the exact point beyond which one can say with certainty: This is no longer a material concern but a spiritual one and vice versa."
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"A Diagnostic is someone who doesn't know whether there are two gods."
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"Jesus saves, Allah forgives... Cthulhu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich."
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"Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is a totally earth-related craft, but a lot more interesting than pot making or driftwood lamps. I got started at a picnic up in Bowstring in the northern part of the state. A fellow walked through a brick wall right there in the park. I said "Say, I want to try that." Stone walls are best, then brick and wood. Wooden walls with fiberglass insulation and steel doors aren’t so good. They won’t hurt you. If your wall walking is done properly, both you and the wall are left intact. It is just that they aren’t pleasant somehow. The worst things are wire fences, maybe it’s the molecular structure of the alloy or just the amount of give in the fence, I don’t know, but I’ve torn my jacket and lost my hat in a lot of fences. The best approach to a wall is, first, two hands placed flat against the surface; it’s a matter of concentration and just the right pressure. You will feel the dry, cool inner wall with your fingers, then there is a moment of total darkness before you step through on the other side."
-Louis Jenkins
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"
-Marcel Proust
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Change the imagery. Looking at the fully extended human being, the organs of sex are more central than the head, and we have love making the world go round, as in the flower. The head becomes the organ which directs the peripheral appendages -- tongue, teeth, hands and feet -- in their service to that generative center of delight and life where the opposition of male and female is reconciled, where the solid fills the spacious and the spacious includes the solid, where the convex is one with the concave, where the hub of the wheel grasps the axle, and where active energy pours itself out into passive fecundity. Come to think of it, there is nothing more metaphysical and spiritual than the symbolism of sexuality.
-Alan Watts, Erotic Spirituality
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The confusion starts when this notion of reincarnation gets intertwined with personal authorship. The authoring "me" believes it is incarnated and then is reincarnated as a separate entity. It believes itself to be separate from the Source, and out of that false sense of separation comes confusion, suffering and religion.
-Wayne Liquorman, Never Mind
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Quotes on the Nature of The Universe
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"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."
-Carl Zwanzig
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
-Rich Cook
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"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
-Edward P. Tryon
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"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."
-Max Frisch
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"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
-Woody Allen
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"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."
-Fred Hoyle
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"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
-Christopher Morley
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"I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge."
-Edward Chilton
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