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I’ve come to realise that this simple Zen quote from Adyashanti is fundamental to enlightenment.
It can easily be re-written as “Do not seek happiness, only cease to cherish opinions” because it is, by and large our opinions that stop us being happy.
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I’m pretty sure this story comes from De Mello but can’t quite put my finger on the source right now.
There was a man who bought a lottery ticket and won a sports car. As the vehicle sparkled in the driveway friends and family commented on how lucky is was to have won it and what a fortunate man he was.
‘Maybe’ he replied.
A man approached a mystic looking for advice on how he might improve his life. He saw the mystic had a small bag and, curious, asked what was inside.
“Have a look” said the mystic and the man rummaged around in the bag. Much to his surprise he found an enormous diamond.
A guru was once attempting to explain to a crowd how human beings react to words, feed on words, live on words, rather than on reality. One of the men stood up and protested; he said, ‘I don’t agree that words have all that much effect on us.’
The guru said, ‘Sit down, you son of a bitch.’ The man went livid with rage and said, ‘You call yourself an enlightened person, a guru, a master, but you ought to be ashamed of yourself.’
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Did you hear about the lawyer who was presented with a plumber’s bill? He said to the plumber, “Hey, you’re charging me two hundred dollars an hour. I don’t make that kind of money as a lawyer”. The plumber said, “I didn’t make that kind of money when I was a lawyer either!” – Souce: Anthony de Mello
A disciple who went to the master and said, “Could you give me a word of wisdom? Could you tell me something that would guide me through my days”? It was the master’s day of silence, so he picked up a pad. It said, “Awareness”. When the disciple saw it, he said, “This is too brief. Can you expand on it a bit”? So the master took back the pad and wrote, “Awareness, awareness, awareness”. The disciple said, “Yes, but what does it mean”? The master took back the pad and wrote, “Awareness, awareness, awareness means — awareness”. – Source: Anthony de Mello
If this goes straight over your head (as it would mine a few months ago) see Enlightenment – Me and I. This is a starter to understanding awareness.
A tramp in London who was settling in for the night. He’d hardly been able to get a crust of bread to eat. Then he reaches this embankment on the river Thames. There was a slight drizzle, so he huddled in his old tattered cloak. He was about to go to sleep when suddenly a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce pulls up. Out of the car steps a beautiful young lady who says to him, “My poor man, are you planning on spending the night here on this embankment”?
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A guy goes in to a bar and sees a man sitting with a banana in his ear. After some hesitation he goes up to the other man and says “Excuse me, do you know you’ve got a banana in your ear”. The man says “What’s that?”.