It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.
T. Scott McLeodTags: love buddhism peace zen suffering transcendence meditation enlightenment zen-buddhism spiritual-journeys spiritual-journey
Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of "union" - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on the hospital bed. In the yogic view, it is in these moments that we know who we really are. We rest in our true nature and know beyond a doubt that everything is OK, and not just OK, but unutterably well. We know that there is nothing to accept and nothing to reject. Life just is as it is.
Stephen CopeTags: transcendence yoga union
Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into the church and its unique story and language. Worship should be an occasion of cross-cultural hospitality. Consider an analogy: when I travel to France, I hope to be made to feel welcome. However, I don't expect my French hosts to become Americans in order to make me feel at home. I don't expect them to start speaking English, ordering pizza, talking about the New York Yankees, and so on. Indeed, if I wanted that, I would have just stayed home! Instead, what I'm hoping for is to be welcomed into their unique French culture; that's why I've come to France in the first place. And I know that this will take some work on my part. I'm expecting things to be different; indeed, I'm looking for just this difference. So also, I think, with hospitable worship: seekers are looking for something our culture can't provide. Many don't want a religious version of what they can already get at the mall. And this is especially true of postmodern or Gen X seekers: they are looking for elements of transcendence and challenge that MTV could never give them. Rather than an MTVized version of the gospel, they are searching for the mysterious practices of the ancient gospel.
James K.A. SmithTags: christianity church worship transcendence tradition gospel postmodernism liturgy mtv seeker-sensitive
Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then somehow transcend the time that otherwise marks the face. It is as though someone else is looking at us, from somewhere inside the face, where everything is different. One can hardly be closer to another human soul.
Karl Ove KnausgårdTags: life perception time soul old-age humans transcendence body eyes
I look up to the night sky
but I see no moon
All I see is the sweet face
of Kim Jong-un
Tags: poetry transcendence north-korea
Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
Zeena SchreckTags: life-after-death transcendence reincarnation death-of-the-human-race materialism-versus-spiritualism zeena-schreck beatdom
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.
Carl SaganTags: science reason sense-of-wonder scientific-method transcendence science-vs-religion prophecy
Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the existential crisis by which art—great art—is fully experienced. There is a fluidity between art and life, then, in the same way that there is, in the best lives, a fluidity between mind and matter, self and soul, life and death. Experience seems to stream clearly through some lives, rather than getting slowed and clogged up in the drift-waste of ego, or stagnating in little inlets of despair, envy, rage. It has to do with seizing and releasing as a single gesture. It has to do with standing in relation to life and death ... owning an emptiness that, because you have claimed it, has become a source of light, wearing your wound that, like a ramshackle house on some high exposed hill, sings with the hard wind that is steadily destroying it.
Christian WimanTags: life art death singing transcendence
Redefined soul anew, bow now with pride. Reborn from the darkness, a man now wise.
Tyler J. HebertTags: motivational wisdom spirituality transcendence ascension
I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.
Shih-t'ouTags: motivational wisdom inspirational consciousness truth happiness experience empowerment inspiration philosophy peace spiritual zen mind read self-help spirituality motivation mindfulness transcendence meditation self-improvement awareness transformation enlightenment gift contemporary nonfiction relaxation tao real wellness inspiring buddism awakening oneness spiritual-growth inspire non-fiction bliss advaita visionary nonduality tao-te-ching illustration non-duality pure-awareness wellbeing upanishads illustrated mind-and-soul mind-body-and-soul power-of-now
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