Quotes of the week

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“To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.” (v) ~ Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize Literature 1915

 

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[Mihela]

MEETING CONFUSION

Instead of struggling against the force of confusion, we could meet it and relax. When we do that, we gradually discover that clarity is always there. In the middle of the worst scenario of the worst person in the world, in the middle of all the heavy dialogue with ourselves, open space is always there.

 

 

Peme Chodron o odprtosti v odnosu s tvari, ki jih zaznavamo ( zunanjimi al notranjimi).

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And than we strugle relaxed

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"Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own.

On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest." ~ Lloyd Biggle Jr.

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[Mihela]

HOW DO WE REACT?

 

When someone blames us, how do we react? When we’ve lost something, how do we react? When we feel we’ve gained something, how do we react? When we feel pleasure or pain, is it as simple as that? Do we just feel pleasure or pain? Or is there a whole libretto that goes along with it?

 

When we become inquisitive about these things, look into them, see who we are and what we do, with the curiosity of a young child, what might seem like a problem becomes a source of wisdom. Oddly enough, this curiosity begins to undercut what we call ego pain or self-centeredness, and we see more clearly.

 

Moja ljubljena Pema Chodron...

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"Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you anymore." ~Franz Kafka

 

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“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!” ~ George Elliston

 

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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

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[viyola]

*Kdor nič ne ve, pa ne ve, da nič ne ve, je neumnež, izogibaj se ga!Kdor nič ne ve, pa ve, da nič ne ve, je nevednež, pouči ga!Kdor nekaj ve, pa ne ve, da nekaj ve, spi, zbudi ga!Kdor nekaj ve, pa ve, da nekaj ve, je modrec, sledi mu!(Kitajski pregovor)

[Mihela]

July 4, 2012

THE PERFECTION OF PATIENCE

Patience is not learned in safety. It is not learned when everything is harmonious and going well. When everything is smooth sailing, who needs patience? If you stay in your room with the door locked and the curtains drawn, everything may seem harmonious, but the minute anything doesn’t go your way, you blow up. There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

še ena od Pene Chodron...

 

 

to pa je za tehtnice pomembna lekcija...

[Mihela]

HOW TO DEFEAT FEAR

 

Once there was a young warrior. Her teacher told her that she had to do battle with fear. She didn’t want to do that. It seemed too aggressive; it was scary; it seemed unfriendly. But the teacher said she had to do it and gave instructions for the battle.

 

The day arrived. The student warrior stood on one side, and fear stood on the other. The warrior was feeling very small, and fear was looking big and wrathful. The young warrior roused herself and went toward fear, prostrated three times, and asked, “May I have permission to go into battle with you?”

 

Fear said, “Thank you for showing me so much respect that you ask permission.”

 

Then the young warrior said, “How can I defeat you?”

 

Fear replied, “My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do whatever I say. If you don’t do what I tell you, I have no power. You can listen to me, and you can have respect for me. You can even be convinced by me. But if you don’t do what I say, I have no power.”

 

In that way, the student warrior learned how to defeat fear.

[Marsa]

"Živemu človeku se vse zgodi."

[Seaside]

"You taught me to be nice,so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong,no outrage, no passion." ~Garrison Keillor

 

 

[Mihela]

When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a space, a break in the chatter, a glimpse of open sky. This is our birthright—the wisdom with which we were born, the vast unfolding display of primordial richness, primordial openness, primordial wisdom itself. When one thought has ended and another has not yet begun, we can rest in that space.

 

tko še ena modra od Peme

[Marsa]

Nič ni težko tistemu, ki hoče.

(latinski pregovor)

[Marsa]

Ne napredovati pomeni nazadovati.

(latinski pregovor)

[sin]

““The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.”” ~ Castaneda

 

““Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”” ~ Castaneda

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Ljudje smo res hecni.. sami ne vemo kdo smo, druge pa z lahkoto postavljamo v različne predale našega sistema dojemanja in vrednotenja.