Archive for the Mysticism category
Talking with a hermit in the Zhongnan mountains, China.
by 10k films on May 8th, 2012
Anandamayi Ma
by 10k films on February 13th, 2012
“Whatever comes to pass is all right” (ja hoya jay) — Anandamayi Ma
Music: Lata S. Patel- Jaya Jaya Ma (Thanks A.M.)
“Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.” – Anandamayi Ma
Mu
by 10k films on February 6th, 2012
Mu (無) (in Japanese/Korean) or Wu (simplified Chinese: 无; traditional Chinese: 無; Mandarin Pinyin: wú; Jyutping: mou2), is a word which has been translated variously as “not”, “nothing”, “without”, “nothingness”, “non existent”, “non being”, or evocatively simply as “no thing”.
“No.”
by 10k films on February 4th, 2012
“A monk asked Zhaozhou: “Does a dog have buddha-nature or not?” Zhaozhou said: “No.” (Mu) This word No is not the No of existence and non-existence. It is not the No of true nothingness. Ultimately, what is it?
When you arrive here, you must abandon all with your whole body, not doing anything, not doing not-doing-anything. Go straight to the empty and free and vast, with no pondering what to think. The previous thought is already extinct, the following thought does not arise, the present thought is itself empty. You do not hold to emptiness, and you forget you are not holding on. You do not reify this forgetting: you escape from not reifying and the escape too is not kept. When you reach such a time, there’s just a spiritual light that’s clearly aware and totally still, appearing as a lofty presence.
Do not wrongly give birth to interpretations: just bring up the meditation saying twenty-four hours a day, whatever you are doing. Do not be oblivious of it for a moment: diligently come to grips with it and study it in fine detail. If you keep studying like this, pulling it back and forth, when you reach the proper time, you better look back most carefully and see what Zhaozhou’s No means. When you are [unable to turn back] like a rat going into a [hollow] horn, then views are cut off.
When those of sharp faculties get here, they empty through and smash the lacquer bucket [of ignorance] and capture and defeat Zhaozhou. They have no more doubts about the sayings of the world’s [enlightened] people.
Even if you are awakened like this, do not speak of it in front of people without wisdom. You must go see a legitimate teacher of the school.”
[A Buddha from Korea: The Zen Teachings of T’aego, translated by J. C. Cleary. Teaching No. 15 is on pp. 106–107.] See also the 10k film: “Master T’aego Addresses the Great Assembly of Dragons and Elephants“
son of the moment
by 10k films on January 17th, 2012
“The saint hath no fear because fear is the expectation either of some future calamity or of the eventual loss of some object of desire, whereas the saint is the son of his time (ibn waqtihi); he has no future that he should fear anything; and as he hath no fear so he hath no hope, since hope is the expectation either of gaining an object of desire or of being relieved from a misfortune, and this belongs to the future; nor does he grieve because grief arises from the rigour of time and how should he feel grief who is in the radiance of satisfaction (rida) and the garden of concord (muwafaqat)?”
Al-Junayd of Baghdad (830 -910)
The self is the source of thoughts
by 10k films on November 21st, 2011
“Why do you think of yourself as a householder? If you become a wandering monk, a similar thought – that you are a renunciate – will haunt you. Whether you continue as a husband or father, or renounce your family and go to the forest, your small self will still accompany you.
The self is the source of thoughts. It creates the body and the world and makes you think that you are really a householder. If you renounce the world, it will only substitute the thought ”renunciate” for ”householder” and the environment of the forest for that of the household. But the mental obstacles are always there. They even increase in new surroundings. There is no help in the change of environment.
The obstacle is the mind. It must be overcome, whether at home or in the forest. If you can do it in the forest, why not in the home? Therefore, why change the environment? Your efforts can be made even now, whatever your environment may be.” — Ramana Maharshi
It leads to Me
by 10k films on November 21st, 2011
”Whatever path men travel
Is My path
No matter where they walk
It leads to Me.”
Bhagavad Gita
Qasidat al-Ma’arifah (The Poem of Knowing) – Shaykh Yasin al-Tuhami
by 10k films on June 28th, 2011
Wa fi fana’i fana’ fana’i, wa fi fana’i la illaha illa anta
http://www.tenthousandfilms.com/Yasin_al_Tuhami_part1.mp3 (Thanks A.M)