Petros will teach a free class on the true spiritual meaning of the Temple Endowment, as restored in these latter days by the Prophets and Messengers of the G(n)ospel of Exaltation.
Date: Friday, September 7, 2012
Time: 7pm
Location:
Alpha Book Center
4532 N. 7th St.
Phoenix, AZ
While Hinayana and Mahayana regard the absolute voidness as the object of realization to be attained by freeing oneself from bonds of impure relative dimension, the Tantras beginwith the awareness of the voidness of all phenomena, and aim at re-integrating with the relative – working with the method of transformation. The relative is not renounced or rejected but used as the means of transformation itself, until dualism is overcome, and all phenomena can be said to be of “one taste,” pure from the beginning.
— Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, from The Crystal and the Way of Light
If we do not take the truths in union, but associate ultimate reality with wisdom and conventional reality with delusion, the inseparable view will be divided. If we separate the nature of appearance and emptiness, we have strayed far from realization of the nature of mind.
— Anyen Rinpoche, from The Union of Dzogchen and Bodhicitta
Not existence and not nonexistence
Not these two conjoined nor the opposite of this
Freed from four extremes, the truly wise
Are those who keep within the middle way.
— Aryadeva
The subtler attainments come with birth or are attained through herbs (ausadhi), mantra, austerities (tapas) or concentration (samadhi).
— Patanjali, Yoga Sutras, 4.1
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled persons make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.
— Wikipedia
The Edge … There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it’s In.
— Hunter S. Thompson, “Midnight on the Coast Highway” (reprinted in Songs of the Doomed)
The tendency to carry youthful characteristics into adult life, which renders man perpetually immature and unfinished, is at the root of his uniqueness in the Universe, and is particularly pronounced in the creative individual. . . . The creative individual is an imperishable juvenile.
— Eric Hoffer
To know yourself as an awakened individual is also to know yourself as the being of the surrounding context.
— Starseed: The Third Millennium
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