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The Emperor of China asked the great Bodhidarma to define the Sacred. The Spiritual Master shrugged, replying, "Nothing Sacred, just a vast openness."
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How do you put the Sky inside a jar? You can't. You can't. But that's what we've been trying to do, and the Sky just will not cooperate - thankfully! Rather than trying to contain the Sky, why not just, for once, dive into It and see what happens? That's what all true mystics do - at some point, they say, "Take me," and they have no idea of what is going to happen.
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
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A Bishop asked a Spiritual Teacher, "I hear you teach the doctrine of the Trinity is not true. Is that so?" "Yes," said the Teacher. "Then," said the Bishop, "I want to make sure I understand you, 'You teach that the doctrine of the Trinity is untrue?'" "No, sir!" replied the Teacher, "I have never said that the doctrine of the Trinity is untrue." "But I thought you said otherwise." "I did." "So, you teach the doctrine of the Trinity is not true." "Yes." "But you teach that the doctrine of the Trinity is true." "Yes." The Bishop never got the point - there was no point.
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When you're ready to see, you'll not see anything, but nothing. And you'll never know how to tell others of something so amazing, so beautiful, so holy. Why do you think sages smile and shine? Why do you think deeply spiritual beings always teach about our need to enjoy silence? Why are they humble enough to admit that they do not know, while others teach and preach their certainties? They've seen, while others talk.
*Arem Nahariim-Samadhi
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*Lotus of the Heart is a Work of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi ~ a Hospice Chaplain, interspiritual author, writer, poet, and bicyclist. He is someone in love with Life and inviting others to that same ecstasy of Love ~ and, by the way, herein is nothing he claims as his own.
