I don't think you should work with any teacher.
'Cause you don't know what it's all about yet. You should come
to the fashionable restaurants with us and have a good time.
'Cause we have a good time. 'Cause God is in everything..."
Appendix D: Excerpts from Rama's Advertisements and Brochures
(from a full-page spread in The New York Times)
The Still Center of the Turning Worlds
"There is a still center of Eternity. A place where all pasts,
presents and futures meet. This intersecting point of knowledge
and experience, pleasure and pain, mortality and immortality has been
described and referred to in a variety of different ways by mystics,
prophets and teachers who have experienced it.
"Some have described it as God or Heaven. Others have referred to it
as Nirvana or Tao. In Zen it is called Zen mind or Enlightenment.
"While names, descriptions and methods for reaching the still
center of being vary greatly, the ultimate worth of this awareness
is agreed upon by all who have shared it. The experience of
the still center of being brings freedom, self-control, balance
and power to those who have attuned their lives to it.
"Zen is the study of the Ten Thousand States of Mind and of Enlightenment,
the still center which lies beyond the Ten Thousand States of Mind.
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