Buddhism as a "Science of the Mind"

Cosmic Connections

Allot of good stuff here, take it slow.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft

In the belief of reincarnation, the "soul" is constantly passing into new bodies and the space in between births is thought to be seemingly short to the living and very long to the deceased (It is believed that the longer you stay in a meditative state of peace while living the space between death and life shortens,) this is why you cannot remember pasty lives, they feel VERY distant.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

Connected | Trailer 2012

No Fear in the Now

Genius

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

- Dune

Polarity

If I were to have both a good attitude at times

and also a bad one at other times

am I not still ME at ALL times?

Or am I one person,

another person,

or just ONE complex being?

This is just like the cat in the box (in physics) being both alive and dead until observed. Positive and negative are perspective, so reality is more complex and subtle than just black and white.

Schrödinger's cat

-EB

Events

“…Sayings have a source,

events have a leader...”

From the Tao Te Ching

“The day when we shall know exactly what “electricity” is, will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.”

Nikola Tesla

People's starvation

From the Tao Te Ching

When people are starving, it is because their governments take too much,
causing them to starve.
When people are hard to control,
It is because of the contrivances of their governments,
which make them hard to control.
When people slight death,
it is because of the earnestness with which they seek life;
that makes them slight death.
Only those who do not contrive to live are wise in valuing life.

There is no "Fourth" dimension

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Check out the link, I was trying to pick out one or two Bruce Lee quotes, but so many were so good, check them out.

as above so below

Via: OnlineSchools.org

Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American

Unity & Freedom

anger

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
- Buddha