The Black Vault

Zen meditation is not physical culture, nor is it a method to gain something material. It is peacefulness and blessedness itself. It is the actualization of truth and wisdom.

The Practice of Meditation, Zen Master Dogen

Big surprise, found it rather quickly, Thomas Paine on Common Sense in 4 parts 12.8 megs......., 14 days 200 downloads. https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=Z01QS3hRcG81bmcwTVE9PQ This may violate copyrights I don't think so, I believe Common Sense is in the pub...

We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude, concerned with the needs and happiness of others.... A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertil...

Thanks Blackvault, I am fairly new here and haven't been posting much because of these type of threads....

Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit—such as love and compassion, patience, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

MonarchSmile wrote:Required readings in schools.............in America at least

College yes but not high school.......I didn't read Plato, Socrates, Homer etc until I went to University.

The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests. In a new history of the 4th century BC, Cambridge University Classicist Dr. Michael Scott reveals how the implosion...

There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know t...

Anyone who, even for a second, feels a pure, clear confidence on hearing the truth will experience immeasurable happiness. Why? Because, at that moment, that person is not caught up in the concept of a self or a living being or a life span. He is not caught up in concepts about the world, nor is he ...

One should not imagine oneself to be one with the eye or independent of it or the owner of it. The same with the ear and all the other senses, including the mind. Nor should one imagine oneself to be identical with the world or contained in it or independent of it or the owner of it. In this way, fr...