@LamaSuryaDas No other? Heschel: "Impartiality with regard to history is a pretense"—whic…

Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

3 July 2025 at 11:30Reply to @LamaSuryaDas

@LamaSuryaDas No other? Heschel: "Impartiality with regard to history is a pretense"—which is to say, a fundamental repudiation of reciprocity itself and an existentially defective moral system. Contemplative depth is itself evolving. It includes context and current.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1940734949260513365 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 10/ Situated at the confluence of Himalayan Islam and Indic currents, Nund Rishi's genius was to translate Islam into the rhythm and grammar of Kashmir's pre-Islamic soul—not diluting it, but deepening a blend of Shaivite, Buddhist, and Islamic linguistic and religious registers. 11/33 He called the Qur’an the “Sahaja Qur’an.” Sahaja—a Sanskrit word—names a mode of being: innate, uncontrived, and indivisible from the Real. Not something attained, it is how truth arises when nothing obstructs it. No striving. No gatekeepers. No hierarchies. Only alignment. Quote tweets: As in Tibetan Dzogchen, some forms of Tantra admit to ultimate Reality as veiled, yes, but fully immediate, whole and present. Hence, the Sahajiya school, describing a quotidian ecology independent of encapsulation in any ‘a priori’ scheme of ideas, conceptions, or ideologies. The path is not prefabricated. It doesn’t already exist. It is the moment by moment evolution of our experience, the moment by moment evolution of the world of phenomena, the moment by moment evolution of our thoughts and emotions. Pema Chodron Enlightenment is the light that wholeness brings. Marie-Louise Von Franz Wholeness is another name of God. David Richo Heaven is not a place of disembodied spirits but an embrace of love that transforms this present earthly life into the divine presence of enduring love. Heaven is this world clearly seen. Ilia Delio What the Buddha found out was that our life is the life of everything else. Jack Kornfield This supreme Lord who pervades all existence, the true Self of all creatures, may be realized through undivided love. Bhagavad Gita All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image. 2. Cor. 3:18 Your neighbors are the channel by which all your virtues come to birth. St. Catherine of Sienna You are born into an existence which, while it is lived to all appearances in this world of ours, is framed in other existential dimensions. Mircea Eliade All things perish except his Face. Q: 28:88 Reality eternally manifests through the world. Wherever you turn, there is the Face of God. Jami Final integration is a state of transcultural maturity far beyond mere social adjustment. The man who is “fully born” has attained to a deep inner freedom - the Freedom of the Spirit we read of in the New Testament. He is guided not just by will and reason, but by: “spontaneous behavior subject to dynamic Insight.” Thomas Merton When the Mahdi rises and emerges from his concealment he reveals the diversity and Transcendent Unity of the revealed religions to humanity, their concrete restoration for the various orthodox religious communities and the Divinely mandated unveiling of their common metaphysical principles and unity. Zachary Markwith There is no Way; the way is made by walking. Antonio Machado "We are really 'saved' when we no longer think of ourselves as 'saved,' because there is no alternative. This is when profound incarnation [occurs]. The reality of God is intensely perceived as present in everything, even in the passions & illusions of superficial consciousness." Carl McColman "You don't have to think about your experiences if you are really in union with God." Thomas Keating, OCSO 2/ Referred to as ‘jivan-mukta' ('living liberation') in both Hinduism and Sikhism, the path is also a current within Mahayana Buddhism, analogous to the totalizing simplicity of Zen integration and the 'sustained spontaneous activity’ of the Daoist perfect man.