Ideas realized
“… the dualistic appearances of delusion are the play on the surface of the mind, like waves on a deep and vast ocean… the uncontrived, nondual appearances of the nature of mind are the display of its innate creative dynamics, similar to the totality of water’s movement throughout the entire ocean.”
from “Milarepa’s Kungfu” by K. Brinnhölzl
“When we see the empty glass once filled with water we see just that, the empty glass once filled with water.”
“Yet, on deeper reflection comes realization that the empty glass once filled with water is remainder of thirst fulfilled.”
“Likewise, body bereft of spirit is not but reminder of the fulfillment of spirit, that only temporarily embodied its earthen vessel.”
“And as water freed eventually returns to the greater ocean, so too does spirit return to that greater, when freed of self-notion.”
“Mourn not for the body bereft of spirit but rejoice in the fulfillment of the spirit.”
”Do you understand?”
The student upon some reflection replies.
“Mourn not for temporal passing,
Find peace in that everlasting.
Realize the spirit ascending,
Fulfilled by transcending.”
“Good. Good. Very good.”
“In the beginning was the Word (logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” –John 1:1
“The Gospel In Brief: The Life of Jesus” by Leo Tolstoy, a fusion of the four Gospels into one, according to the real sense of the teaching.”
Herein an outline thereof and synthesis of teaching therein.
Introduction: Knowledge of Life
1. The Son of God
2. God is Spirit
3. The Source of Knowledge
4. The Kingdom of God
5. True Life
6. False Life
7. The Father and I are One
8. Life Outside of Time
9. Temptations
10. The Struggle with Temptations
11. The Farewell Conversation
12. The Spirits Victory over the Flesh
Conclusion: The First Epistle of John the Evangelist
Division of the teaching in the Gospel into the above twelve chapters (or six, since each pair of the twelve may be taken as one):
Jesus Christ’s proclamation replaced faith in an external God with a knowledge of [true] life:
As Christ’s whole teaching, stated in most concise form,
| Our Father | Man is the son of the Father |
| Which art in heaven | God is the infinite spiritual source of life |
| Hallowed be Thy name | May the Source of Life be held holy |
| Thy kingdom come | May His power be established over all men |
| Thy will be done, as in heaven | May His will be fulfilled, as it is in Himself |
| So also on earth | So also in the bodily life |
| Give us our daily bread | The temporal life is the food of the true life |
| This day | The true life is in the present |
| And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors | May the faults and errors of the past not hide this true life from us |
| And lead us not into temptation | And may they not lead us into delusion |
| But deliver us from evil | So that no evil may come to us |
| For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory | And there shall be order, and strength, and reason |
spirit Middle English “life, the animating or vital principle in man and animals,” from
esperit Old French “spirit, soul” from
spīritus Latin, original meaning “breath, breathing” and hence “spirit, soul, courage, vigor,” “a breathing (of respiration, also of the wind), breath;” also “breath of a god,” hence “inspiration; breath of life,” hence life itself from
*(s)peis Porto-Indo-European (PIE) root “to blow”
Compare with:
Lung (Tibetan: རླུང rlung) “wind or breath” and a key concept in the Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, a concept that is particularly important to understandings of the subtle body and the trikaya (body, speech and mind).
The distinction between “soul” (that which gives life to body) and “spirit” (that which transcends the body) mirrors that between “psykhē” and “pneuma” in Classical Greek:
psykhē “cold air”, hence “breath of life” and “soul” from PIE root *bhes- “to breathe”
pneuma “breath, motile air, spirit” from verb pnéō “to breathe”.
God Old English “supreme being, deity” from
*guthan Proto-Germanic (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ) of uncertain origin; perhaps from
*ghut- PIE “that which is invoked” (source also of Old Church Slavonic zovo “to call,” Sanskrit huta-“invoked,” an epithet of Indra), from
*gheu(e)- PIE “root “to call, invoke”
Word Old English “speech, talk, utterance, sentence, statement, news, report, word,” from
*wurda- Proto-Germanic (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian word, Dutch woord, Old High German, German wort, Old Norse orð, Gothic waurd), from
*were- PIE “speak, say”
Logos “the divine Word, second person of the Christian Trinity,” from
logos Greek “word, speech, statement, discourse,” also “a computation, account,” also “reason, judgment, understanding,” from
*log-o- PIE suffixed form of root *leg- “to collect, gather,” with derivatives meaning “to speak,” on notion of “to pick out words”
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” – John 1:14
That conditioned presently, Shall be unconditioned inherently, What not subject to origination, What not subject to cessation? Thereof suffering persistent From attachment incessant.
Guardian of the Threshold, Who watches over the door To Paravati and Mahadeva, behold The offerings I place before. The all encompassing sound, Syllable of bliss without bound, And expression of true intention.
Stream of thoughts fall Like drops of rain. Ripples recall And reflect again. Quite them all, Let the mind reign.
“All of these practices were thought
By the Mighty One for the sake of wisdom
Therefore, those who wish to pacify suffering
Should generate this wisdom”
I. Recognition Of The Nature Of Wisdom
A. Ascertaining The Two Truths
B. Establishing As The Path The Knowledge That Deceptive Truths Are Like Illusions
C. Establishing As The Path The Knowledge That Ultimate Truths Are Emptiness
II. Introducing The Object Of Meditation: Identfitylessness
A. The Identfitylessness Of The Person
B. The Identfitylessness Of Phenomena
III. Negating The Conception To Be Eliminated: The Apprehension Of True Existence
A. Refuting The True Existence Of Subject And Object
B. Establishing Emptiness Of True Existence From The Viewpoint Of The Cause
C. Establishing Emptiness Of True Existence From The Point Of View Of The Effect
IV. The Results Of Wisdom
The Four Noble Truths, in twelve points, as foundation and framework of refuge (and practice):
1) This is suffering (to be understood)
2) This is the origin to suffering (to be abandoned)
3) This is the end to suffering (to be fully realized)
4) This is the way to the end of suffering (to be fully developed)
If empty self perceived, And selfless phenomena conceived, Who then would guide? And who on path proceeds? Who is it that strives? Though continuum remaining, Moment by moment changing, Between conceptions Clear perfection.