... when I say Hungarian, I mean the Magyar element which I suppose has mid-Asiatic characteristics. Do these ideas point to some occult truth or some outstanding fact of previous birth? Confucius? Lao-Tse? Mencius? Hang-whang-pu? (Don't know who the last was, but his name sounds nice.) Can't remember anything about it. As for the Hungarian gypsy, I suppose we must have been everything at one time or... me. However, when I came here, I was told I looked just like a Tamil sannyasi and some Christians said I was just like Christ. So it may be. More seriously, Brunton seems to have thought I was Lao-Tse. Maybe, I can't say it is impossible. 7 December 1936 The Mother or you are said to have declared that a divine descent was attempted during the Renaissance, with Leonardo Page 56 ...
... first, and if you lay hold on that and refuse to go farther, being satisfied with this liberated Non-Existence, then you will naturally philosophise like the Buddhists that Sunya is the eternal truth. Lao Tse was more perspicacious when he spoke of it as the Nothing that is All. Many of course have the positive experience of the Atman first, not as a void but as pure unrelated Existence like the Adwaitins... and the entirely nihilistic kind is only one variety. Most Buddhism admits a Permanent as beyond the creation of Karma and Sanskaras. Even the Sunya of the Sunyapanthis is described like the Tao of Lao Tse as a Nothing which is All. So as a higher "above mental" state is admitted which one tries to reach by a strong discipline of the consciousness, it may be called spirituality. There are elements ...
... Aurobindo in 1936 that the Master had struck Paul Brunton as a Chinese sage, and given the disciple the impression as of a King of the Hungarian gypsies, swiftly came the answer: Confucius? Lao-Tse? Mencius? Hang-whang-pu? (Don't know who the last was, but his name sounds nice.) Can't remember anything about it. As for the Hungarian gypsy, I suppose we must have been everything at one time or... However, when I came here, I was told I looked just like a Tamil sannyasi and some Christians said I was just like Christ. So it may be. More seriously, Brunton seems to have thought I was Lao-Tse. Maybe, I can't say it is impossible. 96 * * For further instances of Sri Aurobindo's humour, the reader is referred to Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo in two volumes (1983) ...
... Some Answers and Explanations Our Many Selves Spontaneity What Lao Tse calls spontaneous is this: instead of being moved by a personal will—mental, vital or physical—one ought to stop all outer effort and let oneself be guided and moved by what the Chinese call Tao , which they identify with the Godhead—or God or the Supreme Principle or the Origin of ...
... 147 Jupiter, 25 KALI, 383 Kalidasa,210 Kant, 137, 139, 389 Kanwa, Rishi, 151 Kinnara, 47 Krishna, 9, 58, 76, 82, 93, 101, 105, 112, 116, 161,317 Kurukshetra, 66, 109, 116 LAo- TSE, 134 Laplace, 370 Lazarus, 200 Lenin, 142 Louis XIV, 209, 320, 418 Lucifer, 46, 81 MADAGASCAR, 323-4 Macbeth, 93 McDougall, 57 Mahakali, 44, 160, 207-10, 225, 382 ...
... reading of Wu Wei. If you have listened, you will remember that something's said there about being "spontaneous", and that the true way of living the true life is to live spontaneously. What Lao Tse calls spontaneous is this: instead of being moved by a personal will—mental, vital or physical—one ought to stop all outer effort and let oneself be guided and moved by what the Chinese call Tao ...
... existed before heaven and earth. O how peaceful it is! Alone it persists and does not change; it penetrates everything and does not perish. It may be regarded as the Mother of the universe. (Lao Tse) *** What is the most important moment in life? The present moment. For the past no longer exists and the future does not yet exist. *** We surrender to Thee this evening all that ...
... Khilafat, 51 Kierkegaard, 362, 375-6 Koran, the, 70 Korea, 209 Kosala,91 Kurukshetra, 80,81 LAERTES, 188 Lamarck, 254 Lao-tse, 242 Laplace, 225, 312, 319, 388 League of Nations, 78, 80, 85 Leibnitz, 327 Lenin, 125 Leo X, 207 Leonardo da Vinci, 120 Lewis, Cecil Day ...
... culture and civilisation; what the moderns have achieved is progress with regard to civilisation, Page 133 that is to say, the outer paraphernalia; but as regards culture a Plato, a Lao-tse, a Yajnavalkya are names to which we still bow down. One can answer, however, that even if in the last eight or ten thousand years which, they say, is the extent of the present cycle, the civilised ...
... if you lay hold on that and refuse to go farther, being satisfied with this liberated Non-Existence, then you will naturally philosophise like the Buddhists that Shunya is the eternal truth. Lao Tse is more perspicacious when he spoke of it as the Nothing that is All. Many of course have the positive experience of the Atman first, not as a void but as pure unrelated Existence like the Adwaitins ...
... world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah, Omar Khayyam, Pythagoras, Kant, Firdausi, Ramakrishna, Vivek ananda , Pasteur, Giordano Bruno and Antoine the Healer ...
... gradually upgraded the level of Her stories as the children grew older. Towards the later years, She took up more serious texts such as the Wu Wei, a text of Henry Borel based on the philosophy of Lao-Tse and towards the end, She took up the ‘Dhammapada’. She took this up because it was a simple method of teaching meditation to the children. Since after 1956, these classes were held in the Playground ...
... one thing needful. India of today, we repeat, is fundamentally and essentially the India of the Vedas, even in a more literal sense than that China of Mao-tse- Tung (or Sun-yat-Sen) is the China of Lao-tse. A race dies out altogether or continues to lead a superficial mechanical existence, that is to say, vegetates as an inchoate mass, when it knows to live only in its body, confined only to the ...
... integral, 2, 197 and thought, 147 Kuhn, Thomas S., 316 Lajoie, Denise H., 390 Page 422 Lama Govinda, 321 Lamprecht, Karl G., 250 Lao Tse, 376 Laya (laya), 227, 367, 373, 380 Liberation, 367, 383-84, 394 and transformation, 167-69, 394 See also Moksha; Mukti Life, 62, 377 See also Vital, the ...
... culture and civilisation; what the moderns have achieved is progress with regard to civilisation, Page 82 that is to say, the outer paraphernalia; but as regards culture a Plato, a Lao-tse, a Yajnavalkya are names to which we still bow down. One can answer, however, that even if in the last eight or ten thousand years which, they say, is the extent of the present cycle, the civilised ...
... full text is given in an appendix to this talk. × Wu Wei : a novel based upon the philosophy of Lao Tse, by Henri Borel (Librairie Fischbacher, 33 rue de Seine, Paris). × The message broadcast by All India ...
... distinction we can gather from the Gita which is the main authority on this subject.” 4 Among the Vibhutis may be counted: Veda Vyasa, Hatshepsut, Moses, Pericles, Socrates, Alexander, Confucius, Lao Tse, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and undoubtedly many more in all times and climes. All of them were concretely ...
... Peru. Page 3 And luckily at the very beginning of my survey — in China itself — I found the word of wisdom. It came from the sage Confucius. I would rather be a disciple of Lao-Tse than a Confucian, which is perhaps the Chinese for confusion, (laughter) Anyway, here Confucius was quite clear and not in the least confused. His aphorism read: "Our greatest glory lies not in never ...
... famous people in the world or any of them; but you must prove your case.... 80 (2)AK: When Paul Brunton saw you, he had the impression of you as a Chinese sage. Sri Aurobindo: Confucius? Lao-Tse? Mencius? Hang-whang-pu? Don't know who the last was, but his name sounds nice! 81 (3)AK: That incorrigible Nirod has a chronic habit of misquoting me. He garbles my words, misreads my corrections ...
... the Chinese tradition of Wu Wei. Spontaneity or the naturalness of experience is a way of living that has to be attained by a kind of strenuous effort which is not really a contradiction in terms. Lao Tse explains: “There exists an absolute Reality, without beginning and without end, which we can’t understand and which, therefore, to us resembles Nothing.” It is the Indian analogue of neti neti ...
... together, but I have seen some letters he wrote. To one person he said, "If you want the Taoist experience, all you have to do is come here and live at the Ashram—you will have the REALIZATION of Lao-Tse's philosophy." He's a sage! A little later: ...I have come to understand that the Chinese are a lunar race—their origin is the moon. They came to earth when the moon got too cold and... Chinese disciple who translates Sri Aurobindo into Chinese. × Probably in March 1920, at the time Mao Tse-tung was writing The Great Union of the Popular Masses. × Sat : existence or being; Chit-Tapas ...
... man's place within it. China's two great philosophers had lived during the first half of the second millennium BC. Confucius had laid down theories of man and the way of human society around 500 BC. Lao Tzu is thought to have expounded his mystical vision of man and the tao or 'way of nature' around 300 BC. Taoism is particularly important to the history of the Chinese martial arts, although it is only... brilliant tactician and strategist whose book, the Art of War (c.350 BC), is still essential reading for all ambitious military personnel. Sun Tzu's thoughts on warfare are said to have influenced Mao Tse-tung. By 300 BC, therefore, the military arts had passed the stage of martial arts as practised by local war lords. Nevertheless, conditions in other, non-military, aspects of Chinese life may have ...
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