The good news is that we are Buddha.
The bad news is that all beings are Buddha.
The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
Source: Tradition and Transitions
The good news is that we are Buddha.
The bad news is that all beings are Buddha.
The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2nd Timothy 1:7
110. The one who cognized the Truth is free. The free one does not commit sin: because he who commits sin becomes a slave of sin (i.e. first of all, burdens his destiny).
The true knowledge is like mother and father (i.e. like wise teachers, advisers, and guardians of their child).
Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world.
But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom.
Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, “This is mine! And this is mine!” But it says: “This is yours!”
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45. Faith receives. Love gives.
One must not receive without faith. One must not give without love.
Therefore, in order to receive, we believe, and in order to give truly, we love.
But if one gives without love, he does not benefit from such giving.
48. A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.
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The Kingdom of God is a Society of the best men and women, working for the best ends, according to the best methods. It's membership is a multitude whom no man can number; it's methods are as various as human nature; its field is the world. It is a commonwealth, yet it honors a King; it is a Social Brotherhood, but it acknowldeges the Fatherhood of God. Though not a philosophy the world turns to it for light; though not Political it is the incubator of all great laws. It is more human than the State, for it deals with deeper needs; more Catholic than the Church, for it inlcudes whom the Church rejects. It is a Propaganda, yet it works not by agitation of ideals. It is a Religion, yet it holds the worship of God to be mainly the service of man. Though not a Scientific Society its watchword is Evolution; though not an Ethic, it possesses the Sermon of the Mount. This mysterious Society owns no wealth but distributes fortunes. It has no minutes for history keeps them; no member's roll for no one could make it. It's entry-money is nothing; its subscription, all you have The Society never meets and it never adjourns. Its law is one word--loyalty; its Gospel one message -- love. Verily "Whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it."
[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.
What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.
"As often as you did it to one of the least of My brothers and sisters, you did it to Me."
