Crumbs: August 29th, 2019. Quotes #2.
Ciao ragazzi,
Virtually Yours,
-d
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Do not think the Buddhas are other than you.
Dogen
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And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
H. D. Thoreau
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“If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
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The end of illusion is the end of you.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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We don’t want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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You see, the search takes you away from yourself – it is in the opposite direction – it has absolutely no relation.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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The search is always in the wrong direction, so all that you consider very profound, all that you consider sacred, is a contamination in that consciousness. You may not like the word ‘contamination’, but all that you consider sacred, holy and profound is a contamination.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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My life story goes up to a point, and then it stops – there is no more biography after that.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Desirelessness, non-greed, non-anger – those things have no meaning to me; they are false, and they are not only false, they are falsifying me. I’m finished with the whole business.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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I had arrived at a point where I said to myself “Buddha deluded himself and deluded others. All those teachers and saviors of mankind were damned fools – they fooled themselves – so I’m not interested in this kind of thing anymore,” so it went out of my system completely.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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If somebody asks me a question suddenly, I try to answer, emphasizing and pointing out that there is no answer to that question. So, I merely rephrase, restructure and throw the same question back at you. It’s not game playing, because I’m not interested in winning you over to my point of view. It’s not a question of offering opinions – of course I do have my opinions on everything from disease to divinity, but they’re as worthless as anybody else’s.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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What exactly is the question? Because the answer is there; I don’t have to give the answer. What I usually do is restructure the question, rephrase it in such a way that the question appears senseless to you.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Understanding is a state of being where the question isn’t there any more; there is nothing there that says “now I understand!” – that’s the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Illusion recognized must disappear.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Backward I see in my own days where I sweated
through fog with linguists and contenders;
I have no mockings or arguments—I witness and wait.
Walt Whitman
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So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Whoever you are, holding me now in hand,
Without one thing, all will be useless,
I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further,
I am not what you supposed, but far different.
Who is he that would become my follower?
Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
The way is suspicious—the result uncertain, perhaps destructive;
You would have to give up all else—I alone would
expect to be your God, sole and exclusive,
Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
The whole past theory of your life, and all conformity to
the lives around you, would have to be abandon’d;
Therefore release me now, before troubling yourself any further—
Let go your hand from my shoulders,
Put me down, and depart on your way.
But these leaves conning, you con at peril,
For these leaves, and me, you will not understand,
They will elude you at first, and still more afterward—
I will certainly elude you,
Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
Already you see I have escaped from you.
For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
Nor do those know me best who admire me, and vauntingly praise me,
Nor will the candidates for my love, (unless at most a very few,) prove victorious,
Nor will my poems do good only—they will do just as much evil, perhaps more;
For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit—that which I hinted at;
Therefore release me, and depart on your way.
Walt Whitman
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One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as most people do. His previously mistaken sense of personal volition and responsibility has disappeared in such freedom and joy that life is now just an amusing spectacle like a game or a dream, in which he has no real part.
Ramesh Balsekar
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The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.
Mark Twain
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He who knows how to live can walk abroad
Without fear of rhinoceros or tiger.
He will not be wounded in battle.
For in him rhinoceroses can find no place to thrust their horn,
Tigers no place to use their claws,
And weapons no place to pierce.
Why is this so?
Because he has no place for death to enter.
Tao Te Ching
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Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning—
I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade— this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?
Walt Whitman
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Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
Rumi
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Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, For if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What separates you, what isolates you, is your thought – it creates the frontiers, it creates the boundaries. And once the boundaries are not there, it is boundless, limitless.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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The mind of absolute trust is beyond all thought, all striving, is perfectly at peace, for in it there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow.
Seng-Ts’an
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He knows himself, and all that’s in him, who knows adversity. To scale great heights, we must come out of lowermost depths. The way to heaven is through hell. We need fiery baptisms in the fiercest flames of our own bosoms. We must feel our hearts hot—hissing in us. And ere their fire is revealed, it must burn its way out of us; though it consume us and itself.
Herman Melville, Mardi
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The person is a very small thing. Actually it is a composite, it cannot be said to exist by itself. Unperceived, it is just not there. It is but the shadow of the mind, the sum total of memories. Pure being is reflected in the mirror of the mind, as knowing. What is known takes the shape of a person, based on memory and habit. It is but a shadow, or a projection of the knower onto the screen of the mind.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I’ll sing this song the rest of my life until I drop dead; whether anybody listens to it or not is of no importance to me.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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What prevents you from understanding what you want to understand is this very thing which you are using to understand things. This is not my teaching or anybody’s teaching, but this is the only thing: You are trying to understand something through an instrument which is not the instrument to understand.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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As long as you follow somebody else’s path, the path is the product of thought, so it is actually not a new path; it’s the same old path, and you are playing the same old game in a new way. It is not a new game; it is the same old game that you are playing all the time, but you think you are playing a new game. When you see the absurdity of what you are doing, maybe you’ll realize “What the hell have I been doing for thirty years, forty years, fifty years!”
U.G. Krishnamurti
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Your teacher must go, it doesn’t matter who the teacher is. The very thing that you are reading – that’s the very thing you must be free from.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
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So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a-whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat.
Walt Whitman
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
Kahlil Gibran