tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15893824.post7680994625038171052..comments2024-03-22T10:46:55.863+00:00Comments on Paul Trafford's blog: Heart like a Crystal: Francisco de Osuna and the Tenth RecollectionPaul Traffordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06180404719893389714noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15893824.post-33761617441348966682011-07-30T04:08:51.214+01:002011-07-30T04:08:51.214+01:00Interesting how people, when they bring their mind...Interesting how people, when they bring their minds within to stillness, have very similar experiences. Look at this poem:<br /><br />Chih Te (730)<br /><br />Not going, not coming,<br />Rooted, deep and still<br />Not reaching out, not reaching in<br />Just resting, at the center<br />A single jewel, the flawless crystal drop<br />In the blaze of its brilliance<br />The way beyond. <br /><br />Chih Te was a Zen master.<br /><br />Also, coming back to the Christian tradition, there is the work of the Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec, titled 'The Third Life":<br /><br />"And here there is nothing but an eternal contemplation and gazing at the light with the light and in the light." <br />"And therefore, all inner contemplatives should go out, according to the way of contemplation, above reason, above distinction, and above their created being, with eternal inward-gazing through the inborn light ; so they are transformed and at one with that same light by which they see and which they see."<br /><br />Ruusbroec spoke about the place where the inner light could be found as "the ground of his spirit, where the hidden truth reveals itself without intermediary"<br /><br />http://www.sofiatopia.org/equiaeon/3thlife.htm#1<br /><br />Unfortunately, his understanding of God as being within was not well accepted at that time.<br /><br />Luang phi Sander.Khemadhammohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00701526285830329095noreply@blogger.com