THE MASTER'S EDGE

I have no lineage; I make "unshadowed by thought"              my lineage.

I have no religion; I make character my religion.

I have no god; I let God have me.

-Mokurai

It is a sign of an evil generation when women are given authority over men.

- Chinese proverb 

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

- Written on Silent Thunder wall

On a bright sunlit morning, spring changes into summer.

Sitting quietly in the garden, I grow dumb then dumber.

Allowing the cherry blossoms
to become my voice, my thought;
forgetting what 'should be', or 'ought.'
"Cherry blossoms in June?" you say
I respond -"Where there's a mind, there's a way".

- Mokurai

If my opponent does not move, then I don't move.

If my opponent moves, then I move first.

- Unknown

The land that is nowhere, that is the True Home.

-The Secret of the Golden Flower

Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
The Master is his own physician.
He has healed himself of all knowing.
Thus he is truly whole.

-Tao Te Ching, ch71

Great minds discuss ideas,

Average minds discuss events,

Small minds discuss people.

- John Milton

Discipline creates its own momentum.

- Mokurai

Every good book says "Put me down, and start

practicing what I'm talking about!"

Every great story has a death in it.

ON THE DECLINE OF THE SOUL -

First evil is tolerated, then embraced,

then hailed as being good,

then it becomes unlawful

to do what is actually good.

When things go right - Praise God!

When things go wrong - Praise God!

When things go in circles - Praise God!

Then be Quiet, and hear God.

- Mokurai

Belief in God is a distraction!

Direct perception of,

and union with, God,

is our destiny.

The pineal gland is the key.

Good karma still produces suffering.

Only when conceptual thought

completely ceases will there be the

flash of Enlightenment.

There is only one Being.

The question is -

who is it?

Vedic definition of a man of God -

"Softer than a flower, where kindness is concerned,

stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake."

-Yogananda

From science, then if it must be so, let man learn the

philosophical truth that there is no material universe;

its warp and woof is maya, illusion.

-Yogananda

I walked across mountain after mountain

ducking under fallen logs

drinking from natural fountain.

Mile after wearying mile

yet I could only smile.

But when the boulders just behind

became many a floating white cloud,

I was at first troubled, afraid for my mind -

then comforted, this great wonder allowed.

-Mokurai

INSTEAD

Laughing at loneliness, instead

grab hold of a star, and wed

your mind with its light, and maim

and destroy all that will come, or came.

-Mokurai

NEGOTIATIONS

Those who argue for the sensual

are but life's losers, eventual.

Fecundity and death go hand in hand-

we sigh and die to make the world more manned.

From the womb to the grave and then reborn

because the karmic bind has not been torn.

Break the spell, tend to well, the gland pineal;

and with the body make a brand new deal.

For with Divine Light as the Master,

Negotiations will go much faster.

- Mokurai