I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible
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| — | Jane Austen |
A book that goes on a personal journey through 2,500 years of occluded music history, to suggest that ancient civilizations once possessed an advanced harmonic science that integrated perception, physiology, and acoustics.
“Using a spectral analysis of harmonic interference over an octave, the author shows how reflective patterns on vibrated surfaces can be found in the growth patterns of the human anatomy, particularly our ears and brain. From this simple correspondence, perception of music is then explained as the natural process of anticipating and matching harmonic interference patterns against identical structures in our auditory system. When represented visually, music becomes organic geometries floating inside a harmonically structured space - exactly as our ears and brain understand it.”
some quotes from within:
“Answer: The Dhamma of the Buddha is not found in books. If you want to really see for yourself what the Buddha was talking about, you don’t need to bother with books. Watch your own mind. ”
“Answer: If you have any questions, you are welcome to come and ask them anytime. But we don’t need daily interviews here. If I answer your every little question, you will never understand the process of doubt in your own mind. It is essential that you learn to examine yourself, to interview yourself.”
“Q: What about other methods of practice? These days there seem to be so many teachers and so many different systems of meditation that it is confusing.
Answer: It is like going into town. One can approach from the north,from the southeast, from many roads. Often these systems just differ outwardly. Whether you walk one way or another, fast or slow, if you are mindful, it is all the same. There is one essential point that all good practice must eventually come to—not clinging. In the end, all meditation systems must be let go of.”
Every particle of the world is a mirror,
In each atom lies the blazing light
of a thousand suns.
Cleave the heart of a rain-drop,
a hundred pure oceans will flow forth.
Look closely at a grain of sand,
the seed of a thousand beings can be seen.
The foot of an ant is alger than an elephant;
In essence, a drop of water
is no different than the Nile.
In the heart of a barley-corn
lies the fruit of a hundred harvests;
Within the pulp of a millet seed
an entire universe can be found.
In the wing of a fly,
an ocean of wonder;
In the pupil of the eye, an endless heaven.
Though the inner chamber of the heart is small,
the creation of the Universe
gladly makes its home there.
In each atom lies the blazing light
of a thousand suns.
Cleave the heart of a rain-drop,
a hundred pure oceans will flow forth.
Look closely at a grain of sand,
the seed of a thousand beings can be seen.
The foot of an ant is alger than an elephant;
In essence, a drop of water
is no different than the Nile.
In the heart of a barley-corn
lies the fruit of a hundred harvests;
Within the pulp of a millet seed
an entire universe can be found.
In the wing of a fly,
an ocean of wonder;
In the pupil of the eye, an endless heaven.
Though the inner chamber of the heart is small,
the creation of the Universe
gladly makes its home there.
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| — | Mahmud Shabistari (Sufi Poem) |
If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterized as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the interdependence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general.
This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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| — | Albert Einstein |
When the mind disappears, time disappears. When time disappears, the world disappears. When the world disappears, all form disappears. But when everything disappears, you are still there—formless, timeless, thoughtless. Your nature is stillness, peace, and unconditional freedom. Close your eyes and go all the way home and you’ll find this out for yourself.
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| — | Andrew Cohen |
Even religious aspiration is seen as a condition! It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t aspire, but it just means that you should recognise aspiration in itself as being limited. And emptiness is not self either—attachment to the idea of emptiness is also attachment. That also is to be let go of ! The practice then becomes one of turning away from conditioned phenomena, not creating anything more around the existing conditions. So whatever arises in your consciousness—anger or greed or anything—you recognise it is there but you make nothing out of it. You can turn to the emptiness of the mind—to the sound of silence. This gives the conditions like anger a way out to cessation; you let it go away.
