Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The existential puzzle


           

         The mind needs a puzzle to solve and wisdom quotes are puzzle pieces, each might add to our understanding about the nature of reality.
Until we realize that the truth of being has always been within us.
Until we know that it was not the mind, but our own being, that recognized the truth.





             “By whose commands this mind works?
              By whose will the life's breath circulates?
              Who is responsible for man's speech?
              What intelligence does lead the eyes and the ears?                                      


           “The ears cannot hear it; it is what makes the ears hear.
             The eyes cannot see it; it is what makes the eyes see.
             You cannot speak about it; it is what makes you speak.
             The mind cannot imagine it; it is what makes the mind think.”        
                                      

            “It is the Ear behind the ears,
             Mind behind the mind,
             Speech behind speech,
             Vital Life behind life.”     

                                                                Kena Upanishad


















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