Great topic !!!
Here are two short books by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon) on Advaita - non duality.
Enjoy
atma-nirvriti (1).pdf (460.6 KB)
atma-darshan2.pdf (559.9 KB)
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Peace lies not in the world, but in the man who walks the path.
- Buddhist proverb -
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It is said that our ancestors,
the ones who were aligned with Source,
didn’t hunt.
The animals walked up to them and their spirit departed,
leaving their body behind as a gift.
What a beautiful thought… or is it a memory?
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I am reminded of a butcher in Japan who was considered to be a great master — and he was a butcher!
The whole day he was cutting animals and selling meat; that was his business. One Buddhist scholar could not believe that this man was thought to be a saint. He was simply a scholar. He went to the butcher and said, “This is something absolutely mad. Who are the people who think that you are a saint? How can a butcher be a saint?”
The butcher laughed. He answered, “Just by mixing meditation in the butchery. When I am cutting up an animal I am not angry, I am not hateful. I am full of love, I am full of compassion. I have great hope that next time he will be born in a human form; perhaps he will become a buddha. With all my blessings I am sending him on a new journey, releasing him from this prison.
“And moreover, my father was a butcher, my forefathers were butchers, and I am a poor butcher. I have never told anybody that I am a saint. If people think so, that’s their business. You should go and argue with them.
“As far as I am concerned, I am absolutely content with my profession because whatever you do, the question is not what you are doing but how you are doing it. The question is not the act; the question is the consciousness with which the act is being performed. Yes, I am killing animals, but I know that they will be killed anyway. If I am not killing them, somebody else will kill them. And he will not kill them with such love, with such compassion. How can I leave this profession?
“These animals are going to be killed. If I don’t kill them somebody else will kill them and he is not going to kill them with such meditation, with such love. So I would be leaving these poor animals in the hands of some butcher. I cannot do that. If I am going to be thrown into hell for being a butcher, that is acceptable. But I cannot leave these poor innocent animals in the hands of somebody who knows nothing of love.”
Can you see the point of this butcher? It is very subtle. He is ready to suffer in hell if that is going to be the consequence of his actions. But he cannot leave these poor animals in the hands of somebody who will simply kill them and not even bother about what he is doing.
He said, “I am so concerned with these animals and I love them so much — I cannot leave them in somebody else’s hands. Whatsoever happens to me, that I am ready to face.”
I can see why the people who could understand called him a master, a saint. He never gave a sermon, he never preached anything. He was illiterate, he knew nothing of the scriptures, but he lived religion in a very irreligious situation; that’s something tremendously important. He lived religion in something which is very irreligious. And yet he managed to live religiously. He must have been a great alchemist who transformed the whole act, gave it a new quality; something utterly profane and ugly became so beautiful, so graceful.
It is said that his fame spread far and wide and people started coming to see him while he was cutting up animals. Even the emperor of Japan came to see him while he was cutting because he had heard that the way he cuts, nobody has ever cut — such grace, such love, tears flowing from his eyes. And the miracle was that although human beings were not able to understand, perhaps the animals were able to understand.
Ordinarily when you want to kill an animal he tries to escape, but from this butcher no animal tried to escape. He hugged the animal. The animal was not bound by anything, tied with anything. He was completely free. It was as if deep down he wanted to die by this man’s hand.
And the emperor asked one thing, about the knife that he used to kill the animals. The knife looked so shiny, as if it had just been sharpened. The emperor asked, “Do you sharpen your knife every day?”
He said, “No, this is the knife my father used, and his father used, and it has never been sharpened. But we know exactly the points where it has to cut the animal so there is a minimum of pain possible — through the joints where two bones meet. The knife has to go through the joint, and those two bones that meet there go on sharpening the knife. And that is the point where the animal is going to feel the minimum pain.
“For three generations we have not sharpened the knife. A butcher sharpening a knife simply means he does not know his art” — he used the word “art” — “He does not know the art and he does not know how to do it lovingly.”
Osho – From False to the Truth
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Osho 
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“Evil can not be stopped in the world. It can only be resisted within oneself.”
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“What you resist, persists.” - Eckhart Tolle
"We all have a black dog and a white dog inside of us, the one we feed the most eventually destroys the other. "
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Faith confirmed, further definiton is of no consequence to my soul. It is mine to experience if I let it happen.
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Lighting the path for another also shows you the way.
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How to achieve world peace?
Gather every leader of every country of every kind in the same room with in the middle a very big round table holding a mountain of cannabis, edibles, rolling papers, vapes, bongs, etc.
We don’t let them out until they have consumed everything.
You’re welcome.
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a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle
trying to blow out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn brighter
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‘195 enter only 1 leaves’ ??? I want Willie Nelson to represent us…but sadly him and Snoop are American…
No, they all leave, in peace.
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready the teacher will disappear.”
Lao Tzu.
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A man who shaves his beard for a woman, deserves neither the beard, nor the woman.
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One for @misterbee 
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“ Rank and reward have no appeal to a man who is one with himself”.
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