In this week’s talk, Zach explores what it means to remember our true radiant nature. Great spiritual gurus tell us to look within. The path of discourse that brings us to self-discovery is known as the gyana path. The yogic path encourages us to stop our questioning altogether and rest in the truth of who we are.
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Intro poem is unpublished.
Quotes from the episode:
Just drop all seeking,
turn your attention inward,
and sacrifice your mind to
the One Self radiating in the Heart
of your very being.
For this to be your own presently lived experience,
Self-inquiry is the one direct and immediate way.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi
Do not go outside yourself, but turn back within; truth dwells in the inner man; and if you find your nature given to frequent change, go beyond yourself. Move on, then, to that source where the light of reason itself receives the light.
– St Augustine
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
– Lao Tzu
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet
You should therefore cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
– Zen Master Dogen
The human mind possesses the Buddha-nature… It can be compared to a man who has a jewel in his clothes he knows not of, or to a man who seeks after food when he has a treasure in his own storehouse.
– Surangama Sutra
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognize it at once as your own nature.
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is a place in the heart where everything meets.
Go there if you want to find me.
Mind, senses, soul, eternity, all are there.
Are you there?
Enter the bowl of vastness that is the heart.
Give yourself to it with total abandon….
Once you know the way
The nature of attention will call you
To return, again and again,
And be saturated with knowing,
“I belong here, I am at home here.”
– Radiance sutras, tr. Lorin Roche
