In this talk, Zach explores the power of words on the spiritual path. We must understand that words are a vehicle to greater understanding. But like any vehicle, we leave it beyond when we get to the destination. One powerful word and concept is tapas, which can mean fire, motivation, and discipline.
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Nothing in the universe resembles God so much as silence.
– Meister Eckhart
Silence is God’s first language,
everything else is a poor translation.
Whatever we say about God
is more unlike God than saying nothing.
If we do say something,
it can only be a pointer toward the mystery
that can never be articulated in words.
All that words can do is point in the direction of the mystery.
Let Love alone speak.
– Father Thomas Keating
The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
– Lao Tzu
It is Known to him to whom it is Unknown;. he knows it not to whom it is known. (It is) Unknown to those who know, and Known to those who do not know.
– Upanishads
Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right actions arises by itself?
– Lao Tzu
The Lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond.
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
with it own ageless eyes,
One
One Love
One Light
One God
One
The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One.
– Rumi
