The Buddha replied: “Not at all! Since the knots were tied one after another in a certain order, we cannot untie them, unless we follow the reverse order.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Lama Anagarika Govinda
Salvation, Deliverance, Action
If we take the view that consciousness is not a product of the world, but that the world is a product of consciousness, it becomes obvious that we live in exactly the type of world which we have created and therefore deserved, and that the remedy cannot be an escape from the world, but only a change of mind. Such a change, however, can only take place, if we know the innermost nature of this mind and its power. Continue reading
The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon
An ecstasy of joy, whose immense tension sometimes dissolves into a stream of tears, and whose pace is sometimes like a storm and sometimes becomes slow; a state of being completely beside oneself, yet with the clearest consciousness of an infinite number of fine tremors and wave-like vibrations running down to the very toes; a depth of happiness, in which all that is painful and dark, does not act as a contradiction but as a necessary condition, a challenge, as a necessary colour within such an abundance of light; an instinct for rhythmic proportions, which spans extensive realms of form — the extension, the need for an all-encompassing rhythm ins almost a criterion for the power of inspiration, a kind of compensating counter-force against its pressure and tension. Continue reading