“Suddenly it happened! I was listening and lightning went through me.
The veil was torn asunder, I was awake! I had just experienced ‘It’.
Everything existed and nothing existed. Another Reality had broken
through this world. I myself existed and did not exist… I had
experienced that which is spoken of in all centuries: individuals, in
whatever stage of their lives, have had an experience which struck them
with the force of lightning and linked them once and for all to the
circuits of True Life.”
"To what extent the habit of sitting can impress and change us becomes
clear only when we have taken pains to practice it. After a short time
we find ourselves asking: how is it possible that such a simple exercise
can have such far-reaching effects on the body and soul? Sitting still,
we begin to realize, is not what we had imagined physical or spiritual
practice to be. We are faced, therefore, with the question: “What is it
we are really practicing if, although both are affected it is neither
body nor spirit?” The answer to this is that the person who practices is
himself being practiced."
Karl Graf Dürckheim (October 24, 1896 – December 28, 1988), German diplomat,
psychotherapist and Zen Master
A rare documentary on the teachings of a spiritual master, including footage filmed at his death bed.
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