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Going on ahead.
“But it is a general principle that ‘you can’t go home again,’ you can’t really regress, the adult cannot become a child in the strict sense. You can’t…
Sasha Manu
Jul 26, 2021
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The Timeless Realm.
“If he lacks this focus, if his soul is dispersed in the manifold from the beginning, then he will never have time to make the movement; he will…
Sasha Manu
Jul 11, 2021
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He was at rest.
“In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for near an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and…
Sasha Manu
Jun 2, 2021
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We are all teachers.
"Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And…
Sasha Manu
May 4, 2021
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Freedom and Resilience.
“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your…
Sasha Manu
Apr 7, 2021
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Refinement at all times.
“As Zen master Pao-ch'e of Mount Ma-ku was fanning himself, a monk came and said, “The nature of wind is permanently abiding and there is no place it…
Sasha Manu
Mar 21, 2021
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Patience is commitment.
“At a hospital, he was told that both his legs should be amputated at the knee. When he had the operation, he only said to his army surgeon, “Please cut…
Sasha Manu
Mar 6, 2021
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Make No Mistake.
“Make no mistake. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling…
Sasha Manu
Feb 20, 2021
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They made no history.
“In the age when life on earth was full, no one paid any special attention to worthy men, nor did they single out the man of ability. Rulers were simply…
Sasha Manu
Jan 24, 2021
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Don't Halt. Don't Strain.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them…
Sasha Manu
Jan 11, 2021
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View is the forerunner.
Our experiences are simply exteriorizations of inner beliefs. That’s the big lesson in this life. In Vajrayana, it’s taught as the ‘view’. Views range…
Sasha Manu
Dec 22, 2020
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Sheer art.
“All appearance is sheer art, beautiful beyond all enduring, appealing beyond all possibility of possession. It cannot be possessed but it is entirely…
Sasha Manu
Dec 6, 2020
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