Vorm en Leegte

Tijdschrift Vorm en Leegte uit 2010

Het Nederland Boeddhistisch Archief

Met onder andere:

Herman Wijffels over duurzaamheid: 

'Ik ben hoopvol' 

Omgaan met pijn tijdens meditatie 

Dingeman Boot 

Therapie of de Boeddha? 

Paula Borsboom

Knowledge and the Sacred [2]

~Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Consciousness is itself proof of the primacy of the Spirit or Divine Consciousness of which human consciousness is a reflection and echo. 

The very natural propensity of the human intelligence to regard the Spirit as having primacy over the material and of consciousness as being on a higher level of reality than even the largest material object in the universe is itself proof of the primacy of the substance of knowledge over that which it knows, for the raison d’être of intelligence is to know reality objectively, totally, and adequately according to the famous principle of adequation of the medieval Scholastics.

Human consciousness or subjectivity which makes knowledge possible is itself proof that the Spirit is the Substance compared to which all material manifestation, even what appears as the most substantial, is but an accident. It is in the nature and destiny of man to know and ultimately to know the Absolute and the Infinite through an intelligence which is total and objective and which is inseparable from the Sacred that is at once its origin and end. 

Meher Baba [1]

THE LOVER AND THE BLOVED

God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. 

And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.

Beloved and Lover implies separation. And separation creates longing; and longing causes search. 

And the wider and the more intense the search the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.

Self-Observation [2]

 ~Maurice Nicoll

Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky

The object of this Work is to make us conscious in ourselves and to ourselves, to what is going on in us, to the vast inner traffic of thoughts and feelings that lies within, in the psychic invisible realm as distinct from the vast outer physical world of things and people that the senses reveal to us. Here, in this inner world, and in what we select and reject in it, lies the key to the Work, and so to evolution. 

You all know how to reject and select things in the outer world. You discard useless things from your business and cling to useful things. It is the same idea. Suppose, by long observation, you notice that 'I's create moods, thoughts and feelings, that depress you, that eat you, that make you despondent, or negative, or suspicious, or evil-minded. Then what are you going to do? 

Spontaneous Creativity [1]

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

An Excerpt from Spontaneous Creativity

Creativity is the food of joy. When we are creative, we express the joy of being alive. We are all creative at the core. But what is creativity, exactly? Is it an artist toiling in her loft, a composer hunched over his piano, your grandmother icing a cake, your neighbor planting a garden? 

Without doubt, these are all creative endeavors. But in the Bön Buddhist tradition creativity is far more than a display of specific skills or talents or behavior. It is an expression of our state of being—who we truly are.

Creativity is often linked to flow—energized focus, effortless expression, total immersion in what we are doing. Both creativity and flow arise from the same source—the fundamental spaciousness of being. The essence of creativity is the spontaneous outpouring of positive qualities from that open source.