2015年4月27日月曜日

Beauty & Pure 187





The boat may remain in water, but if water enters the boat it will bring great catastrophe. [Likewise] a man may live in the world, but if the world enters [the mind of] the man the whole life will be miserable.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai' 821)
















2015年4月21日火曜日

Beauty & Pure 186

Another impatient questioner elaborated long premises and finished asking why some children die a premature death. He required the answer not to satisfy the grown-up ones who look on, but the babies who are the victims.
M.: Let the victims ask. Why do you ask and desire the answer from the standpoint of the child?






2015年4月5日日曜日

Beauty & Pure 185

This body is the cross. The ego – the identification ‘I am the body’ – is Jesus. The killing of the ego through Self-enquiry is the crucifixion of Jesus. The survival of Self from the death of the ego, and Its shining forth as the Supreme Thing is His Resurrection.