Istorya for the SOUL

[regnauld]

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Transformation cannot happen if we allow ourselves to be overcome by fear. Muslim and Christian mystics say that the great obstacle to spirituality is fear. To "lose"oneself in GOD is fearsome. Jesus says:

"Fear not, it is I" (Mark 6:50). Here we have the Secret of Christian and Islamic Spirituality.
There is a Sufi story that describes well this concept of the desire to move and the obstacles coming from the ego:

"I want to learn to swim."
"Do you want to bargain about it?"
"No, I only have to take my ton of cabbage."
"What cabbage?"
"The food which I will need on the other island."
"There is better food there. I don't know what you mean,"
"I cannot be sure, I must take my cabbage."
"You cannot swim for one thing with a ton of cabbage."
"Then, I cannot go."

[NASYO]

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the
needs of prehistoric man, it is only example of
evolution providing a species with an organ which
it does not know how to use.

- ARTHUR KOESTLER

This man doesn't know how to feed his own soul..

[regnauld]

This man doesn't know how to feed his own soul..

So, how does one feed one's soul? through the bible?

[regnauld]

The importance of single-mindedness, of bare attention, is illustrated in the following anecdote:

One day a man of the people said to the Zen master Ikkyu:
"Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?"
Ikkyu immediately took hios brush and wrote the word "Attention."
"Is that all?" asked the man. "Will you not add something more?"
Ikkyu then wrote twice running: "Attention. Attention."
"Well," remarked the man rather irritably, "I really
don't see much depth or subtlety in what you have just
written."
Then Ikkyu wrote the same word three times running:
"Attention. Attention. Attention."
Half angered, the man demanded: "What does that
word Attention mean anyway?"
And Ikkyu answered, gently: "Attention means attention."

[dwardwarbinx]

huh? hahahahahaha... makakatawa man sad ko nimo sir oi...
wala sa net? Hard to find? No wonder naa ra sa barnes and noble. Even amazon and msn shopping sell those books.

OT:
dude, i think he meant the stories are hard to find and wala sa net, not the books. lols.
of course amazon has those books. *rolls eyes* doh
havent checked though so I can't really tell kung hard to find ba jud ang stories. weh

[Hellblazer 2.1]

So, how does one feed one's soul? through the bible?

through "Chicken Soup for the Soul"

[herp_doctor]

soul food.. soul music..

[Hellblazer 2.1]

...soul asylum...

[regnauld]

Two monks were once travelling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.
"Come on, girl," siad the first monk. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.
The second monk did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. "We monks don't go near females," he said. "It is dangerous. Why did you do that?"
"I left the girl there,: the first monk said. "Are you still carrying her?"

[regnauld]

One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank. "How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!" Chuang-tzu exclaimed.
"You are not a fish," his friend said. "How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?"
"You are not me," Chuang-tzu said. "How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?"