(Post date: 2005-10-12)Mirrored from http://www.theonion.com. All Rights Reserved
LHASA, TIBET--Employing the brash style that first brought him to prominence, Sri Dhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6.
Sri Dhananjai Bikram walked away with the World Yoga Championship after averaging 1.89 breaths per minute for two straight...
(Post date: 2005-10-06)Verses On the Faith Mind
by Sengstan
translated by Richard B. Clarke
The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however
and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth
then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set ...
(Post date: 2005-10-06)Dates: died Jan. 10, 866 A.D., China
"Followers of the Way, Buddha is not to be attained.
There is no real Dharma; it is all but surface
manifestations, like printed letters on a sign board to
indicate the Way."
"I have no dharma to give. I only cure diseases and undo knots.
Followers of the Way who come from everywhere, try not to
depend on anything. ... There is no Buddha, no Dharma, ...
(Post date: 2005-10-06)Lao Tzu
Translated during the summer of 1991 by Charles Muller
Revised, July 1997
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1.
The Tao that can be followed is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth
While naming is the origin of the myriad things.
Therefore, al...
(Post date: 2005-10-06)Translated by JOHN RICHARDS
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
The Ashtavakra Gita, or the Ashtavakra Samhita as it is sometimes called, is a very ancient Sanskrit text. Nothing seems to be known about the author, though tradition ascribes it to the sage Ashtavakra; hence the name.
There is little doubt though that it is very old, probably dating back to the days of the classic Vedanta peri...
(Post date: 2005-10-06)U.G. Krishnamurti
Part One
(Compiled from conversations in India and Switzerland, 1973 to 1976)
People call me an 'enlightened man' -- I detest that term -- they can't find any other word to describe the way I am functioning. At the same time, I point out that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all. I say that because all my life I've searched and wanted to be an enlightened ma...
