"Once I asked my Master, "What is
the difference between you and me?"
And he replied, "Hafiz, only this. If a herd of wild buffalo broke
into our
house and knocked over our empty begging bowls not a drop would
spill
from yours. But there is Something Invisible that the Divine has
placed in
mine. If that spilled from my bowl, it could drown this whole
world.""
Heart, Self & Soul - Robert Frager
Spiritual and Religious Historical
Traditions
Beezone
"It is I who have created all! I am the source of everything in creation."
Jnaneshwara and Bodily Transformation of Yoga Siddhi
"I bow down to the most sublime of speakers, the completely awakened one who taught..."
'Salutations to that Reality which inheres as the Self in all, from which all the creations are projected, in which they have their being and into which they are finally dissolved! Salutations to that Intelligence which inheres as the Self in all, from which the knower, knowledge and the known, the seer, sight and the seen, the doer, cause and deed, are manifested! Salutations to that Supreme Bliss which inheres as the Self in all, which constitutes the life of all and from whose unfathomable depths happiness is sprayed as fine particles in Heaven or on Earth (where on the sum-total of happiness is not equal to a particle of that unalloyed, natural Bliss). The Siddhas (invisible and immortal beings of the noblest order) proclaimed.'
"And what have I elucidated? Misery have I elucidated; the origin of misery have I elucidated; the cessation of misery have I elucidated; and the path leading to the cessation of misery have I elucidated. Why have I elucidated this? Because this does profit, has to do with the fundamentals of religion, and tends to absence of passion, to knowledge, supreme wisdom, and nirvana".
Siddharta Gautama (d. 483 B.C.E.) in the Pali Majjhima Nikaya (first century C.E.)
"I have indicated that there is actually one tradition. There are many historical traditions, but there is really one tradition, one great tradition. It is the tradition of mankind and it's older than the history that mankind has recorded. There is a prehistorical background to all the historical traditions, what I call a kind of walkabout tradition, before there were concentrated bodies of civilization, of civil society where human beings became highly organized in large numbers, people were still being religious, you see. They were being everything that human beings, generally speaking, are now. They are part of the Great Tradition also and it is a universal tradition because it is based on one Reality, not only the Great Indivisible Unconditional Reality, but the unity of the whole of conditional existence and the commonality and the unity of the whole of what is the human being."
Chogyam Trungpa
"To understand more precisely the process of confirming the solidity of I and other, that is, the development of ego, it is helpful to be familiar with the five skandhas, a set of Buddhist concepts which describe ego a five-step process."
"The reason such critical study is useful is that you already have all kinds of inherited, thought-up, and propagandized ideas that correspond to ideas that can be found in the traditions. Thus, you can see how those ideas traditionally get elaborated as a way of life, and you can see their limitations." Adi Da Samraj
Norman D. Livergood
Rudolph Steiner, Christianity as Mystical Fact
Swami Nityananda did not write books, go on lecture tours, or create a spiritual organization to propagate his teaching. He did, however, make himself available to thousands of people who revered him as Spiritual Master.
The Cakras and the Three Hearts
"The person that came to be called Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along the banks of the Ganges in a village adjacent to Kashi.."
"In 1941 Sati Godavari Mataji assumed the mantle of her Guru Shri Upasani Baba Maharaj with the strength, simplicity and dignity of a realized being"
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Guru
Adi Da Samraj
Reginal Ray
Siva
Sutras
c. 800
C.E.
"The
Aphorisms of Siva, or Siva Sutras (SS), are a late
reiteration of the Vedic view of
consciousness."
Vishnu Bhagavata
Tripura Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded advaita philosophy.
The wisdom and humor of Alan Watts.
Chogyam Trungpa
"Little Ramana"
Contempory of Ramana Maharshi
Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati (Tembe)
The great saint and ascetic who revived the ancient Dattatreya tradition
Swami Vishnu Tirtha Maharaj
Kundalini Divine Power.
Sage and Great Yogi
Maha Ati
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Ramana Maharshi - The Teaching and Realization
Adi Da Samraj
Upasani Baba's Prophetic Announcement
"...emphatically declared that He would incarnate himself if and when Dharma is in chaos and needs reform".
Jesus and The Law of Sacrafice
Adi Da Samraj
Jesus was the sacrifice of self, the sacrifice of one's being in the form of love and sacrificial acts toward others.
Swami Vyas Dev Ji.
The Bliss Sheath
References to the intuition of the Heart as the spiritual core of Being.
A principle
text of Mahayana Buddhism
Bihar School of Yoga Magazine Archive's
The magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga - Great resource on Yoga.
Adi Da Samraj
"The restless mind cannot think of the transcendental Reality"
Why focus on the Outbreath
"My first recollection of the Vidyadhara was when he gave..."
Chogyam Trungpa and Adi Da
The Message of the Practice Lineage -
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on line of the Trungpas.
The Ashtavakra Gita or the Song of Ashtavakra
The Song of the Eightfold Cripple
The Character of the Liberated Man and Woman -
The Yoga-Vasistha
The Way of Divine Communion and Traditional Yoga -
The Way of Divine Communion...duplicates the eightfold ("ashtanga") process of yoga.
The Six States of Bardo Chogyam Trungpa
The View from Delphi
A series of rhapsodies on the spiritual foundations of Western thought.
Paul Muller-Ortega
Man
and Woman
Vishnu
Bhagavata
The Six States of Bardo Chogyam Trungpa
The incarnation of Consciousness and Light
What Does it Look Like?
from
Jnaneshwar's Amritanubhava
What Does Adi Da Mean When He Uses the Term 'The Great Tradition'?
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