Thought for the Week – 23rd of May 2016

 

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Quote: Alan Watts

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If the saint can only see that the unsaintly are just the other side of the same coin

If the intellectual can only see that the idiot is just the other side of the same coin, his insulting attitude, his disregard for the idiot will disappear and a feeling of brotherhood will be born. Continue reading

Just drop the whole load!

A man had gathered ten thousand golden rupees. And at that time, the rupee was really gold; the word ‘rupee’ simply means gold. And this was his desire – that one day when they were ten thousand, he would offer them to Ramakrishna, of course, to gain virtue in the other life. When small donations are given and people are getting great virtues… for ten thousand gold pieces you can purchase even God’s own house!

 

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Thought for the Week – 9th June 2014

Spider Monkey (c), Litchfield Park, AZ

“You have to work on yourself.
No one can do the work for you, and you cannot do it for them.
As Alan Watts said,
‘Kindly let me help you or you will drown’ said the monkey,
putting the fish safely up a tree.”

We have no present

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. Continue reading