Short Profound Quotes

[Yimpa]

 

On 7/26/2022 at 5:52 PM, UnbornTao said:

What about a koan?

Mu!

There you go.

Muah.

[Yimpa]

On 10/29/2025 at 3:48 PM, Yimpa said:

no need for pick up when you’ve got God to lift you up

 

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Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, fell me in the firmness under you. -Rumi

 

Edited June 4 by Yimpa

[Spiritual Warrior]

"Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood and carry water."

 

Enlightenment is not something that is out there and needs to be searched for. It is right here and will always be here. Once you become aware of this Truth, your life will go on as if nothing changed because nothing has changed. 

[Spiritual Warrior]

"There are two energies inside you: Architect (he) and Mystic (she). He needs to plan; he needs how and why of everything. She just watches things unfold; the universe shows her it's most mysterious and magical depths. She can accept him because human planning is just a small part of universal magic. But he feels threatened by her. So, she is asleep inside you." - Shunya 

[Yimpa]

 

[Yimpa]

Love is radical and total Self-acceptance.

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[Yimpa]

“TOE-tally” -Curt Jaimungal

 

 

[Yimpa]

extraordinary evidence requires an extraordinarily open mind 

[UnbornTao]

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Tokusan was studying Zen under Ryutan. One night he came to Ryutan and asked many questions. The teacher said: "The night is getting old. Why don't you retire?"

So Tokusan bowed and opened the screen to go out, observing: "It is very dark outside."

Ryutan offered Tokusan a lighted candle to find his way. Just as Tokusan received it, Ryutan blew it out.

At that moment the mind of Tokusan was opened.

"What have you attained?" asked Ryutan.

"From now on," said Tokusan, "I will not doubt the teacher's words."

The next day Ryutan told the monks: "I see one monk among you. His teeth are like the sword tree, his mouth is like the blood bowl. If you hit him hard with a big stick, he will not even so much as look back at you. Someday he will mount the highest peak and carry my teaching there."

On that day, in front of the lecture hall, Tokusan burned to ashes his commentaries on the sutras. He said: "However abstruse the teachings are, in comparison with this enlightenment they are like a single hair to the great sky. However profound the complicated knowledge of the world, compared to this enlightenment it is like one drop of water to the great ocean."

Then he left that monastery.

 

Edited 11 hours ago by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out

Carl Sagan.