Louis Komjathy Quotes
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Handbooks for Daoist Practice Quotes
“Daoism (Taoism) is a Chinese religious tradition in the process of being transmitted and adapted to a global context. On the most basic level, Daoism refers to an indigenous Chinese religious tradition in which reverence for and veneration of the Dao (Tao), translatable as both the Way and a way, is a matter of ultimate concern.”
“In contrast to adherents of other Chinese religious and cultural traditions, Daoists (Taoists) understand the Dao as Source of all that is, unnamable mystery, all-pervading numinosity, and the cosmological process which is the universe.
The Dao is impersonal and simultaneously immanent and transcendent.”
“Inward Training advocates a diverse training regimen, which includes dietetics, conservation, psychophysiological refinement, expansions of consciousness, and mystical unification.”
“The identity of Daoists derives from their being and presence. One is a Daoist based on the extent to which one is aligned with and embodies the Dao in its multi-layered numinosity.
One is a Daoist based on the extent to which one embodies Daoist principles and follows a Daoist way of life.”
“Wisdom is more than knowledge. On one level, wisdom is knowledge that is engaged with and refined by the actuality of living and experiencing.
It has been clarified by one’s own life experiences. More than this, wisdom involves insight; it involves one’s 'awakened nature'.”
Introducing Contemplative Studies Quotes
“The transformative potential of Contemplative Studies does not end with or culminate in individual personhood. It may (should?) be expressed in ecological and sociopolitical activity, as 'contemplative‐being-in‐the‐world'.”
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“Whatever we can observe, like a cup upon the table, is an object and exists apart from our awareness, which is its perceiver. Yet we cannot only observe external objects, we can also observe internal objects. We can note whether our sense organs are acute or impaired, as when our vision begins to fail. Similarly we can observe our emotions, our thoughts, and even our own ego, which are all fluctuating phenomena, if we look deeply. We can observe the functions
of the mind just as we can observe the movements of our body.
Just as the eye is not damaged when a cup falls onto the floor and breaks, so consciousness is not damaged when the contents of the mind get altered or damaged. The witnessing consciousness is apart from the objects and conditions that it observes. Therefore, the first thing we observe about the mind is that, as something observable, the mind is an object. The mind is material and part of the external world. It belongs to us but it is not who we really are, just as our house belongs to us but is not us. This may be shocking to consider, but it is really something intuitively known to us. When we speak of "my mind," we are defining the mind as an object that belongs to us and not as ourselves.”
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