Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is greater yoga than anything else. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is, how do we handle it? It is in the handling of whatever our tasks are that we achieve greatness inwardly, that we achieve power. You don't need a special task. Every task is special. We always want something glossy. We expect that it has to be different, but what can be different? There only is what there is in the physical. So it really doesn't matter what the job is, it really doesn't matter which house it is, karma will bring us to whatever one is right at whatever moment we are in. The issue is, how do we handle it? - "The Bhagavad Gita", Tantric Buddhism. |
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The world shines brightly |
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The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind, whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path. Meditating with clarity so that at the end of one's meditation the world shines brightly. That means you've meditated. If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real. So we have to push ourselves to stillness, to the natural state. - "The Natural State", Tantric Buddhism |
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Innocence & the Natural State |
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Eventually the natural state becomes so natural that it really doesn't require effort. We abide in it perpetually. But it's only by modifying the mind and one's perception of life continually for a number of years that that occurs, with a grand sense of brightness, seeing and innocence that escapes humanity. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.
We have to continue to see our own innocence in a world that doesn't care for innocence, which doesn't even acknowledge the divinity of existence. In a world of beings gone mad with their societies and their structures and their technologies, but who are completely oblivious to the religious experience of every given moment.
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