18 quotes
Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (1960)
There seems never to have been a time at which sentient beings have not escaped from the dungeon of individuality.
All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
The Tenth Man : The Great Joke (1966)
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.
Posthumous Pieces (1968)
What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.
All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself —
And there isn't one.
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any "one" to suffer — he will.
Posthumous Pieces (1968)
Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!
Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (1960)
The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane — while the other half of the window is wide open?
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)
The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.
Introduction to Open Secret (1965)