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Truth
May 24, 2012 9:00:30 GMT
Post by withinsilence on May 24, 2012 9:00:30 GMT
Subtle Truth: You have the flash of understanding, that extraordinary rapidity of insight, when the mind is very still, when thought is absent, when the mind is not burdened with its own noise. So, the understanding of anything -of a modern picture, of a child, of your wife, of your neighbor, or the understanding of truth, which is in all things- can only come when the mind is very still. But such stillness cannot be cultivated because if you cultivate a still mind, it is not a still mind, it is a dead mind. The more you are interested in something, the more your intention to understand, the more simple, clear, free the mind is. Then verbalization ceases. After all, thought is word, and it is the word that interferes. It is the screen of words, which is memory, that intervenes between the challenge and the response. It is the word that is responding to the challenge, which we call intellection. So, the mind that is chattering, that is verbalizing, cannot understand truth -truth in relationship, not an abstract truth. There is no abstract truth. But truth is very subtle. It is the subtle that is difficult to follow. It is not abstract. It comes so swiftly, so darkly, it cannot be held by the mind. Like a thief in the night, it comes darkly, not when you are prepared to receive it. Your reception is merely an invitation of greed. So a mind that is caught in the net of words cannot understand truth.
J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life
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Truth
Jul 22, 2012 16:29:58 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Jul 22, 2012 16:29:58 GMT
Truth is a word, words are not truth, what more need be said?
Truth remains hidden behind the words until one looks past them and sees its light.
Truth is discovered, lies are created, thus truth is when falsity is dropped.
It is fear which prevents the dawn of truth but in truth there is nothing to fear. Fear breeds lies and fear itself is a lie, drop it and see the truth.
Nothing liberates like truth, nothing holds one in bondage like falsity. Drop one to know the other and feel which one you've been living in.
All lies originate in a state of self absorption, if there is no false identity, then what is the need to lie?
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Aug 1, 2012 14:05:42 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 1, 2012 14:05:42 GMT
Buddha; bright light of morning dawn hidding behind passing clouds.
Lao Tzu; full cup, truth cannot enter, upside down losing brings relief, but whose watching?
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Truth
Aug 2, 2012 6:43:24 GMT
Post by gurthbruins on Aug 2, 2012 6:43:24 GMT
Truth is a lie - all lies are true. Words cannot lie, because they do not say anything.
The opposite of any truth is equally true. Dualities, dualities!
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Truth
Aug 2, 2012 11:39:08 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 2, 2012 11:39:08 GMT
knowing not, it knows believing not, it doubts doubting not, it experiences experienced, it knows
seeing not, it sees looking not, it wanders wandering not, it inquires inquiring, it trusts trusting, it sees
blind trust, deception deceived, distrust trusting not, seek seeking, sought sought, no seeker no seeker, no thing no thing, every thing no mind, mind not two, not two, whole whole, serene serenity, faith faithful, equanimity animus
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Aug 9, 2012 13:59:52 GMT
Post by popee on Aug 9, 2012 13:59:52 GMT
Words cannot lie, because they do not say anything. ;D
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Aug 9, 2012 19:23:55 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 9, 2012 19:23:55 GMT
they say nothing yet the world is moved by them, even kills for them!
that's the fallacy, its not the words that kill stupid its you.................... believing they're true!
what an identity won't do to prove itself right or hang on to control.
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Aug 10, 2012 0:43:41 GMT
Post by popee on Aug 10, 2012 0:43:41 GMT
kill what? a form? why care? they are all transitory anyway. including any thoughts of the matter.
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Aug 10, 2012 1:03:52 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 10, 2012 1:03:52 GMT
kill what? a form? why care? they are all transitory anyway. including any thoughts of the matter.
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Truth
Aug 23, 2012 1:21:51 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 23, 2012 1:21:51 GMT
'...Meister Eckhart would not even admit that God was good....Eckhart's position was that anything that was good can become better, and whatever may become better may become best. God cannot be referred to as "good", "better", or best because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect, even calling Him by the name of God. God is "superessential nothingness" and "transcendent Being"..."beyond all words and beyond all understanding. The best a man can do is remain silent, because anytime he prates on about God, he is committing the sin of lying. The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, He would never hold Him to be God.'
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Aug 23, 2012 7:57:34 GMT
Post by gurthbruins on Aug 23, 2012 7:57:34 GMT
Exactly, we'll never understand anything, except by standing under it. You really have to get down low to do that! It might actually help to stop talking... but who cares?
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Aug 23, 2012 18:58:53 GMT
Post by popee on Aug 23, 2012 18:58:53 GMT
words are like a snap shot of a moving target
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Aug 24, 2012 10:46:16 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 24, 2012 10:46:16 GMT
Exactly, we'll never understand anything, except by standing under it. You really have to get down low to do that! It might actually help to stop talking... but who cares? Nicely put Gurth. All care, many about something, many about nothing, but few let go of every thing to care about ALL.
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Aug 26, 2012 11:16:50 GMT
Post by popee on Aug 26, 2012 11:16:50 GMT
its funny how people believe anything they want to believe
taking the credit for something, or averting the blame, are two favorite themes
if their bullshit is called out by someone, they seamlessly concoct some new story which keeps their "being right" intact
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Truth
Aug 26, 2012 11:39:09 GMT
Post by withinsilence on Aug 26, 2012 11:39:09 GMT
its funny how people believe anything they want to believe taking the credit for something, or averting the blame, are two favorite themes if their bullshit is called out by someone, they seamlessly concoct some new story which keeps their "being right" intact this stems from organized religion as God is good thus anything that happens that is good in your life God did it Devil is bad, thus anything that happens in you life or you do that is bad the Devil did it. this keeps the ignorant focused outside "them self" and lost in confusion and conflict when in truth both of these seeming opposites are one and the same, not only within you but is the same single source within all. which is exactly what Gurth was describing in this post with words of confirmation from J. Krishnamurti: Yes, Good. To me, the prime error is thinking someone else knows more than oneself. The "truth", the only truth For You, being inside You, it follows, as Krishnamurti said, that you must reject all spiritual authorities. Ask these super religious people, "if God does everything good in your life, and the Devil does everything bad, then what is the point of you?" Get back to the root, where this "you" "I" stems from, originates, before it goes in either direction, good/bad, forward/backward, stop moving the mind forward or backward, just let it be, it will rest at center/balanced and peace shall be known
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