This idea that the disciple or student will call to the universe what they need to continue enlightenment has been proven over and over. If you define yourself as spiritual, it may come through your consciousness. You can apply this core belief to any aspect of your life; once you make a decision that something must shift or change. You need to trust life will unfold for you. For the type-A folks out there this is difficult to do. You want something so you believe you need to be productive in getting it.
If you keep showing up with love and patience everything you need to keep growing will continue to present itself. I have had some incredible experiences in my life where this happened.
First in December when I started realizing I was causing my own suffering, I made the decision that food was my vice or defense mechanism when I was insecure or discontent.
I started to research the best health options and stumbled onto the China study. We had healthy friends over for dinner and my friend Jeff recommended it. I quickly read the book and my jaw dropped. It exposed how diet correlated so deeply to disease. Since my mom had been recently diagnosed with dementia, I wanted to do everything I could to not end up that way.
We had family and friends coming in for the New Year to our beach house. My sister-in-law invited her friend Bonnie and boyfriend Scott who was working for Tony Robbins on his resort in Fiji.
I went to Costco and loaded the cart with processed food and alcohol. We were having a great time eating and drinking when they arrived. They were both glowing and declined everything we offered to them. They were vegan and training for an Iron Man competition.
I also discovered Scott ran the wellness program for Tony and was super-educated on nutrition and fitness. Here are some of my thoughts.. Any thoughts? Cormaggio talk , 31 May UTC [ reply ]. Ok, I'm pretty sure this quote deals with sex.
I heard a Dharma talk by a Tibetan teacher, and he said "You don't need to go looking for the teacher, as soon as you're ready the teacher will look for you", and I think I remember reading this somewhere else also. Dharma Masters are said to possess clairvoyance and this is one explanation for this statement. Clairvoyance aside it could also mean the teacher is the student. It means: "Do not make questions, do not search for answers, do not look for problems, do not search for teachers.
Do now, what lies in front of you. When this is mostly completed the next question, problem, and teacher will appear in front of you since the last one is not there anymore. So go for it, use the fake proverb because it reflects a truth. I would think the onus is on you to demonstrate that the message of the quote is true, Henrik! But how would you do that? If, for instance, I like so many people I know refuse to accept the scientific method as the ultimate system of knowledge; i.
Until I choose to recieve and assimilate incoming knowledge am I not immune to it? And how can anyone teach me or cause me to see their truth if I reject all attemts at such?
Although as a whole their message is said to reinstate the truth, to a nation who had deviated far from it. I am very grateful for forums like these where the truth has been searched for.
Christians say theirs is the only gospel and all else is false. I have never heard anyone attributing this quote to Buddha. Blavatsky, who is one of the greatest thinkers of the last millennium, and who the Catholic Church made great efforts to denigrate precisely because she exposes in her works the fraud Christianity and the church are, she too never attributes this quote to Buddha, and your material actually acknowledges that.
More so, when you put the stamp FAKE over the saying, as you do in your meme, the implication is that the saying is not a word of wisdom. It certainly is, and its message is, when one reaches a certain level of enlightenment, he is ready to make advancements with his cognitive growth.
Here are a few examples for you. So your saying you were not trying to make the case against Blavatsky, is at least disingenuous. However, there is no implication in the articel that she started this quote. I think I make it quite clear that Mabel Collins was the author. You looks like you also are very poor on statistic. After the first paragraph, the rest of the post is dedicated to attacking Theosophy and Blavatsky, the one who founded the famous Theosophical Society of New York.
Fake means fabricated, which is not one with being wrongly attributed to someone. Last but not the least, the only one who would have a vested interest in denigrated Buddha and words of wisdom associated with Eastern philosophy would be some kind of Christian church. The entire history of the Christian church and of Orthodox Judaism is an effort to denigrate and distort Buddhism, concepts of Kundalini Yoga, Taoism and Confucianism.
It worked with the poor in spirit. Never with the educated ones. I selected the part of the post dedicated to Blavatsky, did a word count, and factored that as a proportion of the total. The implication that anyone interested in clarifying which quotes are falsely attributed to the Buddha must be part of a Christian church is rather hilarious.
Thank you for the chuckle! Would you be kind enough to enrich this article on Wikipedia with an update from your article as i see it can be a valuable add to it, and great great article and nice form, thanks for all the effort.
Hi, Mo. First, thank you for keeping me from attributing it to the wrong person, as I am usually quite careful about such things. Nice job. Thank you, Bodhipaksa for a most interesting post. I would have liked to have read a bit more about Madam B and the Star in the East and possibly her discovery of Krishnamuti and his teachings.
I cut my acolyte teeth on those books and they evoke pleasant memories. Guirdief sorry, I forget how to spell it and some other fellow also figure in the story. I actually started to wonder, irregardless of who said it, is it true? Does the master appear when the student is ready? How would you know? Even so, the master will appear when the student is ready could just as easily be interpreted as the student will only recognize the master when the student is ready to learn.
Thank you for your edification of this quote. I was about to use the quote and went looking for its source. Happily, I found your article. Why are so many people upset that this is not a Buddha quote? Mind is so funny, if it wants to believe something it will ignore facts and reality…. Thanks for your efforts. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear. Have you looked in the Tao Te Ching to see if that saying is there?
Not assuming, merely wondering if I missed this reference in this discussion, or if someone had shared something that I might have somehow overlooked…. There is only one reference referring to teacher and student in the same para i. Regardless of origins, many quotes lose their origins and are passed down and are altered and changed.
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