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When they came for the Fourth Amendment I didn't say anything
- because I had nothing to hide.
+ because I had nothing to hide.
When they came for the Second Amendment I didn't say anything
- because I didn't own a gun.
+ because I didn't own a gun.
When they came for the Fifth and Sixth Amendments I didn't say anything
- because I had committed no crimes.
+ because I had committed no crimes.
When they came for the First Amendment I couldn't say anything.
(taken from the Urine Nation News, spring/summer 1993, number 12, page 1)
all will be well along its banks.
The Integral Way depends on decreasing, not increasing:
- To correct your mind, rely on not-doing.
+ To correct your mind, rely on not-doing.
Decrease thinking and clinging to complications;
- keep your mind detached and whole.
+ keep your mind detached and whole.
Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity;
- keep your mind crystal clear.
+ keep your mind crystal clear.
Avoid daydreaming and allow your pure original insight to emerge.
Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity.
Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas;
- this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have.
+ this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have.
Remember: if you can cease all restless activity,
- your integral nature will appear.
-
+ your integral nature will appear.
-- Hua Hu Ching -- 45
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Dualistic thinking is a sickness.
Blind spirituality is unreal.
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the
- murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more
- sacred than simply breathing, religious robes no
- more spiritual than work clothes.
+ murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more
+ sacred than simply breathing, religious robes no
+ more spiritual than work clothes.
If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get
- caught up in spiritual superficialities.
+ caught up in spiritual superficialities.
Instead, live a quiet and simple life, free of ideas and
- concepts.
+ concepts.
Find contentment in the practice of undiscriminating
- virtue, the only true power.
+ virtue, the only true power.
Giving to others selflessly and anonymously, radiating
- light throughout the world and illuminating your
- own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for
- yourself and all beings.
+ light throughout the world and illuminating your
+ own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for
+ yourself and all beings.
This is what is meant by embodying the Tao.
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-- Khenpo Gawang, from "Your Mind Is Your Teacher: Self-Awakening through
Contemplative Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+ Those who wish to protect their practice should zealously guard the mind.
+The practice cannot be protected without guarding the unsteady mind.
+ Tigers, lions, elephants, bears, snakes, all enemies, all guardians of
+hells, evil spirits, and demons become controlled by controlling the mind
+alone. By subduing the mind alone, they all become subdued.
+ For the Propounder of the Truth said that all fears and immeasurable
+sufferings arise from the mind only.
+ -- Shantideva, "A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life", published by
+ Shambhala Publications