i.e. a degenerate, godless society called North America
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself
with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not
blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face
of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself
with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
by Max Ehrmann ©1927
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The Glass Bead Game
The universal chord, the masters' harmony,
Evoking in unsullied communion
Minds and times of high sanctity.
We draw upon the iconography
Whose mystery is able to contain The boundlessness, the storm of all existence,
Give chaos form, and hold our lives in rein.
The pattern sings like crystal constellations,
And when we tell our beads, we serve the whole,
And cannot be dislodged or misdirected,
Held in the orbit of the Cosmic Soul.
- Hermann Hesse
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Einstien on Buddhism
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God
and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be
based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as
a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope
with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
- Albert Einstein
Popular Misconceptions about Religion
Excerpts from the amazing ZenRaven
From 'Dharmakaya', from the book "Eyes To The Stars"
"In truth, you are the result of, the manifestation of a remarkable
consortia of exotic spiritual energies. Within these divine energies
are the blueprint for the human form you see about you. We are in
essence, spiritual. Without these miraculous energies,you would not even be......... "
The Book of Nature, a forerunner of the New Bible
All the harm that the so called Bible and Evangelical Christianity has Produced
Emerson's Essays
Specifically, read Nature from the second series
Hindusism is the world's oldest religion. It has no beginning.
It predates and preceeds all of recorded history. It has no human founder.
It is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the
Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of consciousness where man and God are one.
Doxology, Mantradhamma, and Brahamacharyya by the briliant ZenRaven, aka Dew
Alan Watts, who brought religion, aka Buddhism to American
Three books by he who wrote over 20 on the subject of ' Religion '
"Nirvana is right where you are, provided that you don’t object to it."
Religious Music
The Top 20, the most Significant Religious Albums in the last
60 years.
Religious, i.e. Spiritually Inclined Songs
Journey to Mariabronn, by Kansas
The Oath, by Merciful Fate
The Camera Eye, by Rush
Xanadu, by Rush
Here Come the Tears and Call for the Priest, by Judas Priest
We'll burn the Sky, by Scorpions
Sai Baba's Commentary on the Gayatri Mantra
Study Krishnamurti, the man, through his books, mainly ' Think On These Things '
Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed,
through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophic knowledge or psychological
technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the
contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.
From 'Introspections, from the Book, "Eyes To The Stars", by ZenRaven, aka Dew
Zen is the flower taken from the garden
replanted in the desert, smiling nonetheless
Zen is the yellow in blue, the red in purple, the green in black
The aria in the grand finale,
The specific in the whole, the power in the precisons
The glance in the stare
The adagio in the vivace, the whisper inside the shout
- The Lunar Buddha -
More on Jewish Culture and Religion. True Religion
Astronomy and Religion: The truthful connection, the significance
A trip to the Stargarden
Bookshelf
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Essayene, by ZenRaven
Why Study Philosophy?
In the Spirit, by Cassandra Freeman
For centuries, man has argued endlessly about the nature of God.
The genius of India
The 'Haimavati' is the glorious whiteness that descends from the heavens,
governing all expansion on the earth.
Sarasvati
Diwali, Navaratri, and Holi
The significance of the Moon in Indian culture and religion
Jyotish
Next: The Tao
12 Quotations to honor true Religion
"Music, in some way, should honor, bekon, or point to Creation
That which does none of these is Not Music
Omnizen
Vedanta, Voice of freedom
Rabbi A. Heschel
To All Things Zen
Shalom, the Poem ( 2013 )
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Chapters 3 and 4
Poem: A Witch, by Morgan
The Mind Of God, a Book by Professor Paul Davies
Tao Te Ching, ( read several interpretations)
By Terabess Here
Read More Emerson, especially the chapters ___________________
I Ching
Read " Autobiography of a Yogi : by the Sir Aurobindo
FutureZen, the future of Zen
Metaphysics
Read 3-4 other books by Alan Watts
Listen to his lectures on YouTube
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Now from the second book by Zen Raven, " Elucidation Emeritus '
URL:
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From the Tao Te Ching
Hexagram 41
If there were no laughter, the Tao would not be what it is.
Hence it is said:
The bright path seems dim;
Going forward seems like retreat;
The easy way seems hard;
The highest Virtue seems empty;
Great purity seems sullied;
A wealth of Virtue seems inadequate;
The strength of Virtue seems frail;
Real Virtue seems unreal;
The perfect square has no corners;
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