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#64...Personal time is born in the spaces
between personal memories.

#65...Cosmic time is born in the spaces
between cosmic memories.

#66...Spirit is the potentiality for
space-time events.

#67...Spirit moving within itself creates
space-time events and becomes matter.

#68...Spirit and matter are one.

#69...Observer and observed are one.

#70...Seer and scenery are one.

#71...The seer, the observer, the experiencer,
the thinker, the field, and pure awareness
are all different words to describe Spirit.

#72...Spirit (the observer) has no height, no
width, no length, no breadth, no volume,
no space, no duration. It is eternal,
bounded, ineffable, and abstract.

#73...Spirit is invisible. It is soundless. It is
without texture, without taste, without smell.
It is dimensionless, spaceless, and timeless.

#74...Spirit is Me.

#75...Spirit is the immeasurable potential of all
that was, is, and will be, and it is Me.
It is the Field.

#76...When the Field vibrates it creates waves.

What is the way?

I am the Way.

What is the Road?

I am the Road.

Where does the Road take us?

To ourselves.

Why do we Journey to ourselves?

We can do naught else.

If we are the Way, the Road, and the Journey, why do we see them as separate?

Our perception of ourselves is not flawed. Our perceptions of other as Other is flawed. We are the Way, the Road, and the Journey. Why should there be more? Why should there be less?

I don't know.

Yes. You do know. You must awaken to yourself to recognize that enightenment is not something you achieve, it is something you already ARE.

- 2004, Conversations with A Rogue Buddha, Galactic Bodhi.

Thank you, sweet one.

I have seen my greatest triumph turn into my greatest defeat.

What is your greatest triumph, master?

Being born.

What, then is your greatest defeat?

Being born.

How can one be the other?

When we are young, we are the hero in our greatest play. When we grow old, we realize, we are the Villian as well.

- 2004, Conversations with a Rogue Buddha, Galactic Bodhi

"When we are young, we are the hero in our greatest play. When we grow old, we realize, we are the Villian as well."

- 2004, Conversations with a Rogue Buddha, Galactic Bodhi
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#77...The vibrating Field---with it's waves
of intelligence, information, and energy---
is the invisible source of the fabric
of the space-time continuum.

#78...Waves of intelligence are vibrations
of Spirit.

#79...Waves of intelligence are also my thoughts
and all thoughts everywhere.

#80...Since I am the Field, all thought are
my thoughts.

#81...Some thoughts are experienced
more personally.
I call them mine.

#82...Some thoughts I experience less personally.
I call these other people's thoughts and also
the thoughts of animals and Nature.

#83...Some thoughts I experience inside my
personal body, and some I experience outside
my body. Some are personal, other are
impersonal; however, all thoughts
are equally mine.

The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras in Asia and the basis on which the Tien Tai and Nichiren sects of Buddhism were established.

The Lotus Sutra purports to be a discourse delivered by the Buddha toward the end of his life. The tradition in Mahayana states that the Lotus Sutra was written down at the time of the Buddha and stored for five hundred years in the realm of the dragons (or Nagas). After this, they were reintroduced into the human realm at the time of the Fourth Buddhist Council in Kashmir. The tradition further claims that the teachings of the Lotus Sutra are higher than the teachings contained in the agamas and the Sutta Pitaka (the Sutra itself also claims this), and that humankind had been unable to understand the Lotus Sutra at the time of the Buddha (500 BCE).

This sutra is well-known for its extensive instruction on the concept and usage of skillful means, mostly in the form of parables. It is also one of the first sutras to use the term Mahayana, or "Great Vehicle" Buddhism. Another concept introduced by the Lotus Sutra is the idea that the Buddha is more of an eternal entity, who achieved nirvana eons ago, but willingly chose to remain in the cycle of rebirth to help teach beings the Dharma time and again. He reveals himself as the "father" of all beings and evinces the loving care of just such a father. Moreover, the sutra indicates that even after the Parinirvana (apparent physical death) of a Buddha, that Buddha continues to be real and to be capable of communicating with the world. The idea that the physical death of the / a Buddha is the termination of that Buddha is graphically refuted by the movement and meaning of this scripture, in which another Buddha, who "parinirvana-ed" long before, appears and communicates with Shakyamuni himself. In the vision of the Lotus Sutra, Buddhas are ultimately immortal. A similar doctrine of the eternity of Buddhas is repeatedly expounded in the tathagatagarbha sutras, which share certain family resemblances in spirit to the teachings of the Lotus Sutra.

The Lotus Sutra also often alludes to a special teaching that supersedes everything else that the Buddha has taught, but the Sutra never actually states what that teaching is. This is said to be in keeping with the general Mahayana Buddhist view that the highest teaching cannot be expressed in words.

The ultimate "teaching" of the sutra, however, is implied to the reader that "full Buddhahood" is only arrived at by exposure to the truths expressed implicitly in the Lotus Sutra via its many parables and references to a heretofore less clearly imagined cosmological order. Skillful means of most enlightened Buddhas is itself the highest teaching (the "Lotus Sutra" itself), in conjunction with the sutra's stated tenets that all other teachings are subservient to, propagated by and in the service of this highest truth and teaching aimed at creating "full Buddhas" out of pratyetkabuddhas, lesser buddhas and bodhisattvas. It is also implied in sections of the text that there is a parent-child relationship existing between the innumerable Buddhas and human beings and other types of beings, with an explicit indication that all religions and paths are in some way or another part of the skillful means of this highest Buddha Dharma which reaches its expressed pinnacle in the Lotus Sutra. Buddhism, as expressed in the Lotus Sutra, therefore logically comes to inherit the traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and all other Abrahamic religions. The various religious institutions and their doctrinal proponents notwithstanding, all paths are then, officially speaking, part of the skillful means and plan of Buddhism, thus the sutra's former disavowal of all competitive doctrinal disputes.

-Wikipedia.

Sorry.

These exercises are the modern version of Gyana Yoga, which is the yoga of knowledge. A sutra is a statement that can cause a shift in consciousness. Sometimes it may appear to be full of contradictions, and perhaps seem irrational. Yet at the same time it can provide a better framework for understanding the nature of our physical world, and our true nature. If some of these statements seem contrary to common sense, this is because they are coming into conflict with your everyday experience of the world through your senses. This is the world you experience in the ordinary waking state of consciousness. But once understood and incorporated into your awareness, the sutras can lead to new insights that open the gateway to higher states of consciousness. Gyana Yoga, the yoga of knowledge, has often been considered the most difficult but also the most gratifying road to enlightenment. By walking the path laid out One can gain a glimpse of this higher state of reality.

Thank you, Tracy for your contribution.

#84...Vibrations in the Field are thoughts in
consciousness. They are quantum events
in the space-time continuum. These are
the ways the observer becomes the process
of observation and the experiencer
becomes the process of experience.
This is the mind in action.

#85...When these vibrations condense or freeze,
matter is born.

#86...Frozen vibrations are matter.

#87...Frozen vibrations are the birth of matter.
They are the birth of the web of space-time
events. These are the things that occupy space
and have duration in time.

#88...Matter is the birth of particles
from waves.

#89...All particles are frozen waves.

#90...All material bodies are condensations
of frozen vibrations.

--- great thread Dusty-

Thank you so much. Maybe Deepak will not mind that I used his material in order to promote peace and awareness through his teaching.

All efforts at skillful teaching are to be encouraged. I think he wouldn't mind at all.

---positive insightful perspectives are always good from him or whoever

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Sunday, January 11, 2009


The role of leaders is important. Everything is determined by the leaders behavior. There is a passage in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that says only those who possess genuine wisdom and virtue win the highest regard from people. It all comes down to you. You have to polish and develop yourselves. Should there be a leader or leaders in faith whom you do not like, all you have to do is determine not to become like them. All you have to do is decide that you will become leaders who will make everyone feel comfortable and at ease.

#91...Matter is the world of material objects.
It is the scenery, the object of experience,
the observed.

#92...Spirit moving within itself creates mind,
and mind attending to itself
precipitates into matter.

#93...The observer observes itself
and becomes the observed.

#94...The seer sees itself
and becomes the scenery.

#95...The seer is the Spirit.

#96...The see is the mind.

#97...The scenery is the world.

#98...Seer, scenery, and seeing are One.

#99...Spirit, mind, and matter are One.

#100...Creation is the self interacting with itself
and experiencing itself. Sometimes it
is the seer, sometimes it is the seeing,
sometimes it is the scenery.

#101...All that exists is me interacting with
myself and experiencing myself as Spirit
mind, and matter.

#102...I experience myself subjectively
as the mind and objectively as the body
and the world.

#103...The body, mind, and world are just
different manifestations of myself as
different forms and phenomena.

#104...I am that which is beyond and before
and after all forms and phenomena.

#105...I am that,
You are that.
That alone is.

#106...Physicists describe four forces of nature.
These are the strong interaction, the weak
interaction, electromagnetism, and gravity.

#107...The strong interaction holds the nucleus
of the atom together.

#108...The weak interaction is responsible
for readioactive decay and the
transmutation of elements.

#109...Electromagnetism give rise to heat,
light, electricity, and magnetism.

#110...Gravity holds the planets together
and makes the world go around.

#111...These four forces (electromagnetism,
gravity, strong and weak interactions) are
the matrix of the material universe.

#112...The four fundamental forces of Nature
come from one Unified Field. The Unified
Field is the source of creation---The dancer.

#113...The Unified Field is the field
of dimensionless reality. It is the
potentiality for all the information energy
and matter in the Universe.

#114...The Unified Field is the ground state
of all there is. It is the potentiality for
space-time and space-time events.

#115...The curvature of space-time
is called gravity.
It is part of the dance,
the process of creation.

#116...The friction within space-time is
electromagnetism, which is heat, light,
electricity, and energy. It is also part of
the dance---the process of creation.

#117...The condensation of space-time as weak
and strong forces creates matter---the earth.
water, fire, air, and space. It is the expression
of the dance or that which is created.

#118...Earth, fire, water, air, and space are matter
in its solid, metabolic, liquid, gaseous,
and quantum mechanical forms.

#119...Since the Unified Field is the ground state
of everything and since the Spirit is also the
ground state of everything, the Spirit and
Unified Field are One.

#120...The Unified Field is the consciousness
of Nature.

~~~
There is more...

#121...The forces of Nature---heat, light,
electricity, magnetism, strong and weak
forces, and gravity---'are the mind of Nature'.

#122...The material universe is the body
of Nature.


Since I and the Unified Field are One in
our ground state, I am the witness in the
Unified Field, my thoughts or mind are just
a different manifestation of the same forces
of Nature that we call heat, light, electricity,
magnetism, and gravity. My body is just a
different manifestation of the same body
that I call the Universe.

#123...I am the thinker, the thought, the word,
and the flesh.

#124...I am the field, the wave, and the particle.

#125...I am the ground state, the forces of Nature,
and the material world.

#126...I am the dancer, the dancing,
and the dance.

#127...I am the creator, the process
of creating, and that
which is created.

#128...I am infinite forms and phenomena.

#129...I have invented space.

#130...I have created time.

#131...I manifest as gravity, which holds the
planets and makes the world go around.

#132...I am the source of all energy
and all its forms.

#133...I am everything I observe and the
observer as well.

#134...I am existence.

#135...As existence I am before the beginning,
during the middle, and after the end of
all forms and phenomena. I am the chair
I sit on and the clothes I am wearing and the
mountains that I see and the stars and distant
galaxies. I am everything in general and
anything in particular.

#136...When I see light and color,
I am light and color.

#137...When I hear sound and music,
I am sound and music.

#138...I am everything I taste, touch, smell,
feel, and see.

#139...I am electricity, I am heat, I am cold.

#140...I am laughter, I am tears.

#141...I am the anger in angry people.

#142...I am the jealousy in jealous people.

#143...I am the hate in hateful people.

#144...I am the love in loving people.

#145...I am the compassion
in compassionate people.

#146...I am everything as it is.

#147...I have no need to attack myself
or anybody.

#148...I have no need to forgive myself or
anybody, because there is nothing to forgive.

~~~ almost done ~~~

#149...I have no need to defend my self
or anybody.

#150...I have no need to hurt myself
or anybody.

#151...I am totally defenseless.

#152...In my total defenselessness is my
invincibility.

#153...I totally surrender to what is because
I am what is.

#154...In my world, I am whatever is. There is
nothing to forger, nothing to forgive, nothing
to remember, no grudges to hold, no conflicts
to fight, no one to spite; even in conflict
there is no conflict.

#155...In my world there is lightheartedness and
carefreeness and silent joyfulness.

#156...In my world there is life in all its moods,
in all it contradictions, and in all its
manifestations.

#157...I accept this Life as Life itself.

#158...Because I accept Life as Life,
in my world, nothing ever goes wrong.

#159...In my Being is the Universe.

#160...Personality is time bound. It comes about
when the present is identified with the past
and projected into the future.

#161...Attention devoid of memory or
anticipation is life-centered, present moment
awareness. Life-centered, present moment,
choiceless awareness is timeless.

#162...Time exists only as the continuity
of memory using the ego as an internal
reference point.

#163...My original state is always present
but not in manifestation.

#164...There is no bondage except for the idea
of a separate "me" or "mine."

#165...The world happens only as an appearance
in consciousness.

#166...The physical world of form and
phenomena is the totality of the known
manifested in the infinity of the unknown
unmanifest consciousness.

#167...I do nothing,
Being manifests, and living happens.

#168...I am that consciousness.
You are that consciousness.
All that exists is consciousness.

#169...I am infinite, immortal, enlightened.

#170...Infinity, immortality, enlightenment
are my natural state.

#171...My natural state is usually
overshadowed by the turbulence of the mind.

~~~ just a little more ~~~