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Il est fort curieux que la philosophie occidentale, qui a presque universellement accepté l’idée que la mort de l’individu ne met aucunement fin à quoi que ce soit d’essentiel de la vie, ait à peine honoré d’une pensée (excepté chez Platon et Shopenhauer) cette autre idée bien plus profonde et plus intimement joyeuse, et qui logiquement va de pair avec elle : l’idée qu’il en est de même pour la naissance de l’individu ; que je ne suis pas créé pour la première fois, mais que je suis progressivement réveillé d’un profond sommeil. Alors mes espoirs et mes aspirations, mes peurs et mes soucis peuvent m’apparaître comme étant les mêmes que ceux de milliers d’humains qui ont vécu avant moi. Et je peux espérer que ce que j’ai imploré pour la première fois il y a des siècles pourra m’être accordé dans quelques centaines d’années. Aucune pensée ne peut germer en moi qui ne soit le prolongement de la pensée d’un ancêtre ; il n’y a pas en réalité de nouveau germe (de pensée), il y a l’éclosion prédéterminée d’un bourgeon sur l’arbre antique et sacré de la vie.
Je sais très bien que la plupart de mes lecteurs, en dépit de Schopenhauer et des Upanishads, prendront ce que je viens de dire pour une métaphore plaisante et adéquate, et refuseront d’accepter à la lettre l’axiome que toute conscience est Une par essence.
Ma conception du monde: Le Veda d'un physicien (Science et conscience) - Erwin Schrödinger
Image taken on the 10th of May, 2021, Kew Gardens, London (ignore the Exif data). Please see my previous images and comments on this sculpture ("Leaf Spirit"). In this close-up it is a bit easier to detect the design principle of this work of art. The human face is composed of leaves (imprints or cutouts). The borders or limits of the face are 'fuzzy' and merge with the botanical live forms around it. I read this sculpture as an acknowledgment of a new perception of reality (in the West at least): the concept of the individualised and autonomous self has come to an end. Rather, the self is connected to everything around it. Our face is only a momentary surface expression of the history of life and cosmos. To express this, the sculptor used a term taken from animism and its spirit worlds. The Upanishads would also be capable of providing terminology for this new experience (such as 'Tat Tvam Asi').
France, Normandy, nature near Mont Saint Michel
Egli è il vasaio da cui si forma il vaso; egli è la creta con il quale è fabbricato. Tutto proviene da Egli, senza perdita o diminuzione della fonte, come la luce irradiata dal sole (Chāndogya Upanishad)
From what is not, lead me to what is; from darkness, lead me to light; from death, lead me to what is undying.
(Brhadaranyaka Upanisad I.3.28)
in another translation it is said:
Lead Us From the Unreal To the Real,
Lead Us From Darkness To Light,
Lead Us From Death To Immortality,
Let There Be Peace Peace Peace.
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28.
this is the original:
ॐ असतोमा सद्गमय ।
तमसोमा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्मामृतं गमय ।।
ॐ शान्ति शान्ति शान्तिः ।।
– बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद् 1.3.28.
just a quick one from afar......
From darkness, lead me to light;
"tamasomā jyotir gamaya" meaning - lead me From darkness, lead me to light;
This is Upanishad mantra- from Brihadaranyaka Upanishads.
Wish you all a DeLightful New Year.
Foglie multicolori d'autunno si posano su un masso coperto di muschio e di licheni
La natura ci parla con il suo magico linguaggio, si colora di mille sfumature, con la bellezza e delicatezza delle sue forme.
Ogni volta che mi stupisco ed entro in sintonia aprendomi all''incanto, sfuggo per un attimo al mondo della divisione, del conflitto, ed entro nel mondo dell' unità, dove una cosa, una creatura, dice ad ogni altra : ' Tat twam asi' ( questo sei tu...)
( liberamente da Farfalle, di H. Hesse)
Tat sta per l'immenso, l'impronunciabile, il divino.
Tat swam asi è un mantra, intendendo da un lato il Divino, il prossimo, la natura, dall'altro noi stessi. Noi siamo tutt'uno.
(Chandogya Upanishad)
Allora fermiamoci un attimo ad ascoltare...
Nella faggeta del Monte Buio, Liguria
The painter's palette
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Now as a man is like this or like that,
according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be;
a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad acts, bad;
he becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds;
And here they say that a person consists of desires,
and as is his desire, so is his will;
and as is his will, so is his deed;
and whatever deed he does, that he will reap.
< Brihadaranyaka Upanishad >
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∎ Karma
"Smaller than the smallest life,
larger than the infinite Vast,
The soul breathes in the secret heart of man."
from Upanishads
The outer sun asks us to see, and when we look around we see all darkness. The inner sun makes us see what we eternally are: the Light Infinite. -Excerpts from The Upanishads
Dans le texte sacré hindou les Upanishad qui est à la fois un recueil de chants et un livre de sagesse, on attribuait un Dieu à une note. Et chanter cette note c'était se retrouver en communion avec ce Dieu, son énergie ou sa planète. Les sons exerçant une action sur notre organisme et notre psychisme, en jouant cette note, le prêtre devenait l'instrument de ce Dieu, entrait en résonance avec lui pour voyager bien au-delà de la matière.
In the sacred Hindu text the Upanishads, which is both a collection of songs and a book of wisdom, a God was attributed to a note. And to sing this note was to find oneself in communion with this God, his energy or his planet. Since sounds have an effect on our organism and psyche, by playing this note, the priest became the instrument of this God, entering into resonance with him and traveling far beyond matter.
seen from the south; almost every morning those clouds are there; by noon they will have disappeared.
In Hinduism (especially in Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta), neti-neti is the mantra, meaning "not this, not this." This expression can be found in the Upanishads. One of the first Advaita philosophers to propose the neti-neti approach was Adi Shankara. This apophatic practice (see apophatic theology) is an expression of the fact that the Absolute is not something that can be described - it is beyond discursive thinking.
Neti-neti is also an analytical process — understanding something through a clear definition of what it is not. One of the key elements of Jnana Yoga is the “net-net research” - an approach to understanding the nature of Brahman without using asserting (and, therefore, inadequate) its definitions or descriptions: more precisely, we are talking about consistent “discarding” attempts to define the Absolute in a discursive way.
The goal of this exercise is to remove conceptual schemes and other obstacles to meditation. Similarly, a sage can express the nature of the divine, simply pointing out its incompatibility with anything else.
Similar directions in other (and Indian) theological systems trying to uncover the Absolute, noting what it is not (neti - not that), are called apophatic theology.
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Beyond us all, beyond the heavens. This is the light that shines in our hearts.
~ Chandogya Upanishad
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Not that which the eye sees, but that whereby the eye can see
Not that which the ear hears, but that whereby the ear can hear
Not that which the mind thinks, but that whereby the mind can think
Know that alone to be Brahman, the Eternal, and not what people here adore
Kena Upanishad
The first verse of Isha Upanishad has told us .... ma gridha - do not greed ! Dharma which we call Hiduism today; is a high philosophy of learned person . It is all about knowledge, wisdom and realization ! Consciousness is the basis of intelligence .
Sri Sri Ramakrishna said
“The goal of human life is the realization of the Ultimate Reality which alone can give man supreme fulfilment and everlasting peace. This is the essence of all religions.”
Swami Vivekananda has said
“Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.”
But probably his best quote is
"Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached" (Uttisthata Jagrata Prapya Varannibodhata Kshurasanna Dhara Nishita Durataya durgama Pathah tat kavayo Vadanti)is a slogan popularized in the late 19th century by Indian Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda, who took inspiration in a sloka of Katha Upanishad. It was his message to the world to get out of their hypnotized state of mind and discover their true nature.
The sloka is inscribed on the main stage of an auditorium of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, a branch of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. This shloka is also the basis of the title of the book The Razor's Edge and the 1946 film and the 1984 film, and also of various music albums in the west by bands like AC/DC, Dave Holland, etc.
~ 'the phenomenal manifestations of the mystical Void, like the subatomic particles ( of modern physics), are not static and permanent, but dynamic and transitory, coming into being and vanishing in one ceaseless dance of movement and energy.'
....As that from which he came forth,
As that into which he will be dissolved,
As that in which he breathes.
~ The Tao of Physics, and Chandogya Upanishad.
Oceanside, central Oregon coast
Nikon D810, Nikkor 14-24mm @ 17 mm
four shots focus stacked and blended for dynamic range @ f/8, ISO 64 ~ 1/15s, 1/4s, 1.0s, 2.0s
The storm clouds were playing tricks here. The setting sun bounced off of the cloud cover. I like the way the lower altitude clouds are backlit.
Hungry for cotton candy?
There was one hell of a lightning storm shortly after this was shot. It lasted about an hour. Most of the lightning was cloud-to-cloud which seems like the norm out here in the Mojave. It was like somebody was sitting in the back seat firing a strobe.
I found a dead rattlesnake so it may be that the rattlesnake gods were just giving it a good send off. The snake had a seven-segment rattle. Does that mean it's 7 years old? The scales were mostly tan and brown with some pink ones. First time I've seen coral pink scales on a rattler. I see very few rattlers out here.
When, before a sunset or a mountain... you pause and say, ‘ah’: that is participation in divinity.
— Upanishads
Journalism grade image.
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There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart .
~ Chandogya Upanishad
Deep in his heart, the Indian seer heard with rapture the same “I AM” that Moses heard on Mount Horeb (Exod 3:14); it was enough for his contemplation, his peace and joy for ever. India become Christian would surely feel a quite special attraction to silent meditation on the name of Yahweh. . . . For the ineffable Name cannot be truly understood except in the “innermost depth of man’s heart,” where it lies concealed in its own mystery.... In this most secret centre of man’s being the only means of illumination is the purest awareness of the self; and this self-awareness is in fact nothing else than the reflection, the mirror, of the unique “I AM,” the very Name of Yahweh. . . .31 This whole mystery is Jesus, the “I AM,” ego eimi; my name is “I am” (ahamasmi namakah).
-From the spiritual diary of Abhishiktananda, Ascent to the Depth of the Heart, entry for April 24, 1972 (p. 347). See Brihadāranyaka Upanishad, 1, 4, 1.
Aiko founds his inner peace in these surroundings!
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Funfact from Wikipedia;
" In Hinduism, Om is one of the most important spiritual symbols. It refers to Atman (soul, self within) and Brahman (ultimate reality, entirety of the universe, truth, divine, supreme spirit, cosmic principles, knowledge).
The syllable is often found at the beginning and the end of chapters in the Vedas, the Upanishads, and other Hindu texts.
It is a sacred spiritual incantation made before and during the recitation of spiritual texts, during puja and private prayers, in ceremonies of rites of passages (sanskara) such as weddings, and sometimes during meditative and spiritual activities such as Yoga."
Colui che non riuscirà a capire che microcosmo e macrocosmo sono un solo e medesimo universo, non riuscirà mai a superare l'illusione dei sensi. (9; 1999)
Advaya-Taraka Upanishad
... to take the photograph of a breath. So I filled up the tub and let myself sink leaving only my right hand above the water holding my camera. And, as always, so far, in my life, I pulled myself up... in the air and let it all flood my whole body.
You are what you deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. - Brihadarankyaka Upanishad 4.5
" We only have to read the words of people recovering from addictions to see that behind the trappings of disease lies a mystical yearning that is as authentic and urgent as that of any pilgrim. Somewhere underneath bingeing, starving, exercising, drinking, hallucinating, climaxing, and purchasing, we are desperately seeking a way home to our self. The longer we have been in exile from this true self, the more desperate the yearning and, often, the more desperate the means of attaining pleasure." - Bringing Yoga to Life, Donna Farhi.
Chickenman twisted out of my psyche way back in the 1990s, last century, even. He helped me generate a doctorate. I know….strange!
He was important to me. Super Chickenwoman joined him last year. Chickenman is Marcel to Rrose’s Super-Chickenwoman, and both look at victimhood, that ‘born and bred to be eaten’ scenario, where even their product, the evidence of their striving towards a type of eternity, their unfertilised eggs, are bred to be eaten by another species.
They might be the patron-saints of ‘victimhood'.
My suggestion was that this was a universal, though not usually so graphically illustrated, so starkly, even.
That ‘even’, is always Marcel’s.
It all takes me back, by circumlocution, to my favourite Upanishad, a recurring motif, something that has fed me for decades:
“I am food, I am food, I am food! I am the eater of food, I am the eater of food, I am the eater of food! I am the poet, I am the poet, I am the poet! I am the first-born of the Right. Before the Devas I was in the centre of all that is immortal. He who gives me away, he alone preserves me: him who eats food, I eat as food.”
I will say it: Marcel Duchamp’s work is about Hope in the face of ‘Hopelessness’ and impotence. I am sorry this is often missed, and I would like to at least attempt to make this clearer.
It is profoundly relevant to our present moment.
She has a certain 'beating around the Barbara Bushness' about her; I love the way some women watch. Super-Chickenwoman might be 'totemesque', in that regard.
All honour to her turkey wings (invisible detail), and gorgeous turkey neck.
As Joni sang in 'Hejira':
Well, I looked at the granite markers
Those tribute to finality, to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
Clever Joni.
Pastel on newsprint
I made this shortly after I started doing art at age 56. There was no preconceived idea. I just picked up a piece of pastel and started moving my hand and arm on the paper. This is the image that resulted. When I showed it to the teacher of an art class I had just started, he said "What were you on when you did THAT?", lol! The answer: nothing. I was just following the impulses as they popped up within. I made this in the horizontal orientation. It was only after it was done and I turned it to this vertical orientation that I saw that it resembled a serpent.
At the time, and for years prior, I spent many hours each day in mantra meditation, pranayama breathing, and yoga asanas, and had experienced many moments of expanded awareness and bliss. But I knew almost nothing about kundalini or its awakening.
I now know that the Sanskrit word "kundalini" means "coiled one". In the Dharma religions, it is a primal energy, or shakti, located at the base of the spine. Different spiritual traditions teach methods of "awakening" kundalini for the purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment. Kundalini is described as lying "coiled" at the base of the spine, represented as either a goddess or sleeping serpent waiting to be awakened. ... To me, this image reflects the creative phase of the creation/maintenance/destruction cycle.
Kundalini awakening is said to result in deep meditation, enlightenment and bliss. This awakening involves the Kundalini physically moving up the central channel to reach within the Sahasrara Chakra at the top of the head. Many systems of yoga focus on the awakening of Kundalini through meditation, pranayama breathing, the practice of asana and chanting of mantras. In physical terms, many report the Kundalini experience to be a feeling of electric current running along the spine.
—Adapted from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
Also, " ... The Supreme Brahman is described as the swallower, devourer (attā = soul) of the universe; for just as he creates and maintains it, he destroys it also. But where does it go when it is destroyed? One answer may be that it simply vanishes. But the Upanishads are opposed to such an idea of destruction. Only the forms and shapes of the world are gone, but not the being of the world, which is the Being of the Brahman. Then what happens to the world? It is absorbed, assimilated to the Brahman. The Brahman swallows, absorbs, assimilates the world to itself."
—P.T. Raju, Structural Depths of Indian Thought, p. 420
A lingam, sometimes referred to as linga or Shiva linga, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva in Shaivism. The word lingam is found in the Upanishads and epic literature, where it means a "mark, sign, emblem, characteristic," the "evidence, proof, symptom" of God and God's power. The lingam of the Shaivism tradition is a short cylindrical pillar-like symbol of Shiva, made of stone, metal, gem, wood, clay or precious stones. It is often represented within a disc-shaped platform, the yoni – its feminine counterpart, consisting of a flat element, horizontal compared to the vertical lingam, and designed to allow liquid offerings to drain away for collection.
Anoraniyan mahato-mahiyan
Smaller than the smallest is bigger than the biggest
—Katha Upanishad 1.2.20
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins. Veda Upanishads
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Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no grief. How can the multiplicity of life delude the one who sees its unity?
The Self is everywhere. Bright is the Self, indivisible, untouched by sin, wise, immanent and transcendent. He it is who holds the cosmos together.
– Isha Upanishad, 4-8 (translated by Eknath Easwaran).
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Sculptures of Tridev i.e. Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma on the wall of Kote Venkataramana Temple, Bengaluru.
"One of the earliest mention of Brahma with Vishnu and Shiva is in the fifth Prapathaka (lesson) of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, probably composed in late 1st millennium BCE. Brahma is discussed in verse 5,1 also called the Kutsayana Hymn first, and expounded in verse 5,2."
Tú eres lo que tu deseo más profundo es.
Como es tu deseo, es tu intención.
Como es tu intención, es tu voluntad.
Como es tu voluntad, son tus actos.
Como son tus actos, es tu destino.
UPANISHADS.
"That by which one knows form, taste, smell, sound, touch and sense enjoyments, by That also one knows whatever remains (to be known). This verily is That (which thou hast asked to know).
That by which a mortal perceives, both in dream and in waking, by knowing that great all-pervading Atman the wise man grieves no more.»
Katha Upanishad
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«То, благодаря чему человек познает форму, вкус, запах, звук, осязание и чувственные наслаждения, благодаря этому он также узнает все, что остается (чтобы быть познанным). Воистину, это и есть То (о чем ты просил узнать).
То, благодаря чему смертный воспринимает как во сне, так и наяву, зная этот великий всепроникающий Атман, мудрец больше не скорбит.»
Катха Упанишада
There is a Light that shines above this heaven, above all worlds, above all that exists in the higher worlds,
beyond which there are none higher is the Light that shines within man.
Chandogya Upanishad, III, 13, 7
Birla Mandir, Jaipur (temple Lakshmi Narayan) est un temple hindou situé à Jaipur, en Inde et est l'un des nombreux mandirs Birla. Il a été intégré par la Fondation BM Birla en 1988 et est uniquement intégré en marbre blanc. Il est dédié à la déesse hindoue Lakshmi et au Seigneur Vishnu (Narayan), dont les images apparaissent à l'intérieur, ainsi que d'autres dieux et déesses hindous et des sélections de la Gita et des Upanishads. Festivals tels que Diwali et Janamashtami sont attribués au temple. Le temple est situé dans le quartier Tilak Nagar de Jaipur, près de la colline Moti Dungari.
D'après diapositive.
"For truth is a bright beam of light shining into every area of your life, instructing and correcting you to discover the ways to godly living". -Bible
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.” -Buddha
“Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth.” -Quran
This Self is the Light of lights, beyond darkness; whoever knows this Self, becomes immortal.” -Upanishad
“A little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness.” -Jewish Proverb
“It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” -Tao Te Ching
Que 2011 venha cheio de brilho e de boas vibrações
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"O Ser resplandescente está além do pensamento.
Brilha no grande, brilha no pequeno, brilha no longíquo, brilha no mais próximo, brilha num recanto secreto do coração".
(Mundaka Upanishad, III:6)
असतो मा साद गमय, तमसो मा ज्योतिर् गमय, मृत्योर मा अमृतम् गमय
- Lead us from ignorance to truth, Lead us from darkness to light, Lead us from death to immortality (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)
There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth
Beyond the highest, the very highest Heavens,
This is the light that shines in your heart.
~ The Upanishads 8th-4th Century BC
The Great Bell Chant thank you Francine :-)
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I passed the back of this house, known as Ionic Villa, on a walk along the Regent's Canal this morning. I felt compelled to take a look (and a photo) round the front. It is one of six villa houses in Regent's Park by Quinlan Terry. Designed in a range of classical styles, they look as though they have been there for many, many years. However they are relative new builds, having been constructed between 1988 and 2002. The detail on this one, 'Ionic Villa', indicates that it was completed in 1989.
The coat of arms indicates an Indian connection with two royal elephants supporting a shield and crown, while the phrase 'Truth Always Triumphs' is the national motto of India, "Satyameva Jayate" (Sanskrit: सत्यमेव जयते satyam-eva jayate; lit. "Truth alone triumphs.") is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture Mundaka Upanishad.
The rear of the house is shown on the following photo. www.flickr.com/photos/kevertonphoto/40181206593/in/photos...
I understand (via an internet search) that Ionic Villa may be owned by Dr Apurv Bagri, who combines commanding interests in metal trading with a directorship of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and academic roles at City University and London Business School (LBS is a short stroll from Ionic Villa through Regent’s Park). The family have also endowed a number of sizeable charitable ventures. His late father, Baron Bagri, a self-made entrepreneur from India, was the former owner of Hanover Lodge, a larger house, next door and over the fence, which was sold to Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko for £120 million in 2012.
He carried speech across first. When speech had become freed from death, it became (what it had been before) Agni (fire). That Agni, after having stepped beyond death, shines.
Then he carried breath (scent) across. When breath had become freed from death, it became vayu (air). That vayu, after having stepped beyond death, blows.
Then he carried the eye across. When the eye had become freed from death, it became Aditya (the sun). That Aditya, after having stepped beyond death, burns.
Then he carried the ear across. When the ear had become freed from death, it became the quarters (space). These are our quarters (space), which have stepped beyond death.
(Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad: First Adhyâya, Third Brahmana)
"Delight" from The Upanishads
From Delight we came into existence.
In Delight we grow.
At the end of our journey’s close,
Into Delight we retire.
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|| Koan || Tat Tvam Asi || Upanishades ||
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A koan is a Zen riddle whose solution leads to the immediate experience of enlightenment, because the limits of logical thinking must be broken. This technique is centuries-Zen already been time tested and proven, but absolutely requires letting go of traditional ways of thinking.
The solution can not be "reached", the breakthrough happens when the time is right.
Koans:
A monk asked Joshu in all seriousness: "Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?" Joshu said: "MU!"
Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?
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Ein Koan ist ein Zen-Rätsel, dessen Lösung zur unmittelbaren Erfahrung der Erleuchtung führt, weil die Grenzen des logischen Denkens durchbrochen werden müssen. Diese Zen-Technik ist bereits jahrhunderte lang erprobt und bewährt, erfordert jedoch absolutes Loslassens von herkömmlichen Denkstrukturen. Die Lösung kann nicht "erreicht" werden, der Durchbruch geschieht aber sobald die Zeit dazu reif ist.
Ein Mönch fragte Joshu in allem Ernst: "Hat ein Hund Buddhanatur oder nicht?" Joshu sagte: "MU!"
"OM" is is a sacred sound and a spiritual icon and also a mantra in Hindu religion.
In Hinduism, Om is one of the most important spiritual symbols. It refers to Atman (soul, self within) and Brahman (ultimate reality, entirety of the universe, truth, divine, supreme spirit, cosmic principles, knowledge). The syllable is often found at the beginning and the end of chapters in the Vedas, the Upanishads, and other Hindu texts. It is a sacred spiritual incantation made before and during the recitation of spiritual texts, during puja and private prayers, in ceremonies of rites of passages (sanskara) such as weddings, and sometimes during meditative and spiritual activities such as Yoga.