By Richard Hooper
The crucial Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is a treasury of rates and passages from the good Sufi mystics, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Jews, and Christians during the centuries.
This assortment, curated by means of non secular student Richard Hooper, stresses the wonderful thing about non secular language and mystical adventure, together with enormous quantities of entries from world's significant non secular traditions, the best poets, mystics, sages, and saints of all time.
Included are decisions from William Blake, Ramakrishna, Rumi, St. John of the move, Osho, Tagore, Chuang Tzu, and plenty of extra. the decisions are given context through the introductory essays by way of Hooper, which discover the Perennial Philosophy, the character of the magical adventure, and how of non-dualism.
The crucial Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is a perfect reward in addition to a resource for day-by-day assistance and aid, whatever the spiritual or sectarian affiliations.
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NAMING THE UNNAMEABLE ONE That-Which-Is, is beyond name and beyond form. It can be given names, or no name at all. All names for the ultimate ground of being can never be more than metaphors: Ultimate Reality, the Absolute, Universal Mind, Buddha-nature, Brahman, the All, Ain Soph, the Great Spirit, Tao, or the Force. In the end, Lao Tzu, in The Tao Te Ching simply calls it Tao: The Tao that can be named, is not the everlasting Tao. Names can be given to it, but not the timeless name. As that which stands behind creation, it is nameless.
They wanted more than fame and recognition, a place in history. They even wanted more than family, friends, and great sex. They wanted, instead, the pearl of great price, the jewel within the lotus. They wanted true peace of mind, true freedom, bliss consciousness, and the perpetual ecstasy that comes with the realization of one's essential union with the All. They wanted the greatest treasure in life: to become enlightened; to become liberated from human suffering; to become one with the All. They wanted a heart so open with love and compassion that it included every living thing.
These words are only human constructs that are ultimately empty of meaning. Because the mystical experience itself is ineffable, religions and mystical traditions are limited in being able to describe the nature of the Absolute in words. To some extent, they are like the fabled blind men describing an elephant by touching only one part of it. Mystical language is always metaphorical. NAMING THE UNNAMEABLE ONE That-Which-Is, is beyond name and beyond form. It can be given names, or no name at all.