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V anishingly (mingran), forming a oneness with creation.

Kuo Hsiang quote, Daoism / Neo Daoism
ZZJS, 129, trad. B. Ziporyn, 2003, p.69

see also "vanishingly embodying all things”, ZZJS, 195, trad. B. Ziporyn, 2003, p.69 ; “vanishingly forming a oneness with one’s own time.”, ZZJS, 184, trad. B. Ziporyn, 2003, p.69

F ollowing the pathway and uniting with the ultimate, it is therefore called root of Heaven and Earth.

Wang Bi quote, Daoism
commentary on the Tao Te King, 6.1, trad. P.J. Lin, 1977, p.13

I f one has a self (?) it is impossible to achieve the great oneness.

Kuo Hsiang quote, Daoism / Neo Daoism
ZZJS, 397, trad. B. Ziporyn, 2003, p.67

see also ZZJS, 185 and 401, trad. B. Ziporyn, 2003, p.67, ZZJS, 78, trad. B. Ziporyn, 2003, p.73

I n ultimate sameness you have no self; and without self from where would you get to have anything.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.11 (Huang Lao school), trad. A.C Graham, p.150

T he great man have no self.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.17 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. A.C Graham, p.150

T herefore constantly void of desire and empty, one may discern the mystery of the origin of things.

Wang Bi quote, Daoism
commentaire du D.D.J., 1.3, trad. P.J. Lin, 1977, p.4

see also commentaries 19.1, 20.3, 20.6, 20.14, 37.4, 80.4

D esirous of lust and beautiful sight, one injures one’s essence and loses one’s vision.

Ho Shang Gong quote, Daoism
commentary on the Tao Te King, chap.12, trad. A. Chan, 1991, p.141

A s for goods and possession, the great man does not compete for them.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.17 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. A.C. Graham, 1981, p.150

U nknown even to my ears, eyes, body, I do not know how to name it; thus it cannot be investigated further, but merges together to make one.

Wang Bi quote, Daoism
commentaire du D.D.J., 14.1, trad. P.J. Lin, 1977, p.24

Y ou can’t talk to hole-in-the-corner scholars about the Way, because they are constricted by their doctrines.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.17 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. A.C. Graham, 1981, p.145

P ractice fasting and austerities to clear your channels of the heart, cleanse the quintessential-and-daemonic in you, smash to pieces your knowledge

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.22 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. A.C. Graham, 1981, p.132

I would wish my lord to strip his body and rid it from his hide, wash his heart and rid it of desires.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.20 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. A.C. Graham, 1981, p.173

T hose who know men are merely clever; there are less than those who know themselves and surpass cleverness

Wang Bi quote, Daoism
commentary on the Tao Te King, 33.1, trad. P.J. Lin, 1977, p.60

B eing inexhaustible to self-inspection (…) this is the integrity of the Great man.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.24 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. A.C. Graham, p.150

B y cultivating one’s nature (?), one will return to virtue (?). When virtue is perfect, one will be one with the beginning (?), one become vacuous (?), one become great.

Tchuang Tzu quote, Daoism
Zhuangzi, chap.22 (shool of Tchuang Tzu), trad. W.T. Chang, 1969, p.202

T rials and Tribulations in Life:
The distress that is experienced burns to ashes all pleasures derived from worldly things. This is what is called Tapasya. The heartache, the anguish over the effect of obstructions, are the beginning of an awakening to Consciousness.

Remember, one is born to experience various kinds of joys and sorrows according to one's desire. For the time being, God comes to you in the disguise of suffering. He is purifying you in this manner. The suffering is for your own best. A mother gives a slap to her beloved child for its own good, in order to keep it on the right path. When a fond mother gives her baby a bath, the child may scream desperately, yet the mother will not let the baby go until she has thoroughly washed and scrubbed him.

Ma Anandamayî quote, Hinduism
The Life and Teachings of Anandamayi Ma

G od encased the human soul successively in three bodies—the idea, or causal, body; the subtle astral body, seat of man's mental and emotional natures; and the gross physical body. On earth a man is equipped with his physical senses. An astral being works with his consciousness and feelings and a body made of lifetrons.(1) A causal-bodied being remains in the blissful realm of ideas.

Paramhansa Yogananda quote, Hinduism, Kriya Yoga

(1) Sri Yukteswar used the word prana; I have translated it as lifetrons. The Hindu scriptures refer not only to the anu, "atom," and to the paramanu, "beyond the atom," finer electronic energies; but also to prana, "creative lifetronic force." Atoms and electrons are blind forces; prana is inherently intelligent. The pranic lifetrons in the spermatozoa and ova, for instance, guide the embryonic development according to a karmic design.

T he world illusion, maya, is individually called avidya, literally, "not-knowledge," ignorance, delusion. Maya or avidya can never be destroyed through intellectual conviction or analysis, but solely through attaining the interior state of nirbikalpa samadhi.

Paramhansa Yogananda quote, Hinduism, Kriya Yoga
Autobiography of a Yog, chap. The Law of Miracles

T ruth is High, Higher Still is Truthful Living!

Guru Nanak quote, Sikhism
Shri Guru Granth Sahib

W hat sort of illness awaits us tonight, what sort of death tomorrow? While we have life, not to practice Buddha's Law, but to spend the time in sleep is the height of foolishness. Because of such foolishness Buddhism today Is in a state of decline. When it was at its zenith monks devoted themselves to the practice of sitting in meditation (zazen), but nowadays sitting is not generally insisted upon and consequently Buddhism is losing ground.' . . .

Upon another occasion his attendants said to him, 'The monks are getting overtired or falling ill, and some are thinking of leaving the monastery, all because they are required to sit too long in meditation. Shouldn't the length of the sitting period be shortened?' The master became highly indignant. 'That would be quite wrong. A monk who is not really devoted to the religious life may very well fall asleep in a half hour or an hour. But one truly devoted to it who has resolved to persevere in his religious discipline will eventually come to enjoy the practice of sitting, no matter how long it lasts.

The Shobo Genzo quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
From the Shobo genzo zuimonki pp. 50-2, translated by Wm. Theodore de Bary, in De Bary (ed.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, op. Cit., Pp. 253-4

I n the pursuit of the Way [Buddhism] the prime essential is sitting (zazen). . . . By reflecting upon various 'public-cases' (koan) and dialogues of the patriarchs, one may perhaps get the sense of them but it will only result in one's being led astray from the way of the Buddha, our founder. just to pass the time in sitting straight, without any thought of acquisition, without any sense of achieving enlightenment -this is the way of the Founder. It is true that our predecessors recommended both the koan and sitting, but it was the sitting that they particularly insisted upon. There have been some who attained enlightenment through the test of the koan, but the true cause of their enlightenment was the merit and effectiveness of sitting. Truly the merit lies in the sitting.

The Shobo Genzo quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
From the Shobo genzo zuimonki, pp. 98-9, translated in De Bary (ed.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, op. cit., P. 253

W hen you go out on a boat and look around, you feel as if the shore were moving. But if you fix your eyes on the rim of the boat, you become aware that the boat is moving. It is exactly the same when you try to know the objective world while still in a state of confusion in regard to your own body and mind; you are under the misapprehension that your own mind, your own nature, is something real and enduring [while the external world is transitory]. Only when you sit straight and look into yourself, does it become clear that [you yourself are changing ] the objective world has a reality apart from you.

The Shobo Genzo quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
From Hashida, Shobo genzo shakui, 1, 142-64, selections translated in De Bary (ed.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Op. Cit., Pp. 251-2

T o study the way of the Buddha is to study your own self. To study your own self is to forget yourself. To forget yourself is to have the objective world prevail in you. To have the objective world prevail in you, is to let go of your 'own' body and mind as well as the body and mind of 'others.' The enlightenment thus attained may seem to come to an end, but though it appears to have stopped this momentary enlightenment should be prolonged and prolonged.

The Shobo Genzo quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
From Hashida, Shobo genzo shakui, 1, 142-64, selections translated in De Bary (ed.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Op. Cit., Pp. 251-2

T his proves that in their enthusiasm [i.e., their state of inspiration] they are not aware of what they are doing and are not living a human or bodily existence as far as sensation and volition are concerned, but live instead another and diviner kind, which fills them and takes complete possession of them.

Iamblichus quote, Philosophy / Néoplatonism
On the Mysteries, III, 4-6, Translation and introduction by Frederick C. Grant, in his Hellenistic Religions (New York, 1953), PP. 173-5

T o every one of you We have appointed a right way and an open road.

The Quran quote, Islam
V, 50-3

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