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Post by Smithee on Jun 10, 2012 20:08:32 GMT 10
"How does the Master explain the evil in the world," asked a visitor.
One disciple replied, "He doesn't explain it. He's too busy doing something about it."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 11, 2012 16:35:13 GMT 10
Another time he declared: "When you are able to laugh in the face of life you become sovereign of the world - just like the person who is prepared to die."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 12, 2012 13:26:12 GMT 10
"I thought that spirituality has nothing to do with politics," said a somewhat shocked disciple when she first became acquainted with the Master's political activities.
"That's because you have no idea what spirituality is all about," was the Master's reply.
Another day he called out to her and said, "You have no idea what politics is all about either."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 13, 2012 11:20:45 GMT 10
A social worker poured out her woes to the Master. How much good she would be able to do for the poor if she did not have to spend so much time and energy protecting herself and her work from slander and misunderstandings.
The Master listened attentively, then responded in a single sentence: "No one throws stones at barren trees."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 14, 2012 14:39:22 GMT 10
It was well known that the Master had little use for "theology" as the word is commonly understood.
When asked point blank about it he said, "Theology has become an evil because it is not so much a quest for Truth as the maintenance of a belief system."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 15, 2012 14:25:06 GMT 10
The preacher took issue with the Master on the matter of dependence on God.
"God is our father," he said, "and we never cease to need his help."
Said the Master, "When a father helps his infant child, all the world smiles. When a father helps his grown-up child, all the world weeps!"
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Post by Smithee on Jun 16, 2012 15:04:53 GMT 10
"How long does the present last - a minute, a second?"
"Much less and much more," said the Master. "Less, because the moment you focus on it, it's gone."
"More, because if you ever get into it, you will stumble upon the Timeless, and will know what Eternity is."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 17, 2012 18:25:21 GMT 10
When the Master's firstborn arrived, he never seemed to have his fill of gazing at the infant.
"What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked.
"Outrageously happy," said the Master.
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Post by Smithee on Jun 18, 2012 12:00:31 GMT 10
The Master's complaint against most social activists was this: what they sought was reform, not revolution.
"There was once a very wise and gentle king," he said, "who learnt that there were a number of innocent persons in his state prison, So he decreed that another, more comfortable prison be constructed for the innocent."
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Post by Smithee on Jun 19, 2012 13:01:57 GMT 10
"What must I do to attain the divine?"
"The divine isn't something one attains through doing, but something one realizes through seeing."
"What then is the function of doing?"
"To express the divine, not to attain it."
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