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Thank you for visiting Brian Edwards' web site. Brian is the author of two books - 'The Many Faces of Love' and 'A Holistic Approach To Autism'. In this site he introduces you to his books and shares with you some of his thoughts and life story. He aims to unveil to the majority the subtle, precious understanding that allows contrary religious beliefs and scientific facts to thrillingly support one another. Because only such authentic, peaceful, equal coexistence might ever diffuse the ubiquitous World dramas that threaten us all..... Brian employs the devices of 'edgy humour' and deeply serious, challenging events to achieve this end of constant Enlightened joy and wisdom in real life. If you'd like to contact Brian you can e-mail him at BrianVEdwards@yahoo.co.uk or phone him on 07821168113 (2 to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. Non-secure number)

When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one then shall you enter the kingdom . . . I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus of Nazareth

There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche . . . don't you experience even when unconscious? Can you exist without knowing? A lapse in memory: is it a proof of non-existence? And can you validly talk about your own non-existence as an actual experience? . . Can there be the sense of 'I am' without being somebody or other? . . You are not that 'I am'. YOU ARE, as the Absolute, prior to this 'I am' . . This is your last illusion, that you are a Gnani, that you are different from, and superior to, the common man. Again you identify yourself with your mind . . As long as you see the least difference, you are a stranger to reality. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no right to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud . . . There is the inexpressible; it shows itself; it is the mystical. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The horror of it is that beauty is not only a terrifying thing --- it is also a mysterious one. In it the Devil struggles with God, and the field of battle is the hearts of men . . Without criticism there will be nothing but a 'hosanna'. But in order to create life a 'hosannah' alone is not enough, the 'hosannah' must pass through the crucible of doubt . . And he's a noble creature, within him seethes a hidden indignation at having to pretend . . . at having to put on holiness all the time. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am so relieved that I don't have to pretend to be enlightened any more. Poor Krishnamurti . . . he still has to pretend. Osho

Hashang was a follower of Buddha's teachings on emptiness, but he completely misunderstood Buddha's teachings on emptiness and spread a dangerous heresy among the Tibetan people . . . By meditating on nothingness instead of emptiness they had forsaken the profound path; and by abandoning all conceptual minds, including love, compassion, and bodhichitta they had forsaken the vast path. The path to Enlightenemnt was blocked for them . . . Emptiness is not an affirming negative, but a non-affirming negative . . . For example, selflessness of persons is a non-affirming negative because the mind that realizes it merely eliminates the negated object, an inherently existent person, without realizing another phenomenon . . . Proponents of lower tenets hold tightly to the view of inherent existence mainly because they cannot understand how it is possible for things to be produced from causes if neither cause nor effect exists from its own side. For them, the very fact that causes produce effects proves that causes and effects exist from their own side, and therefore that they inherently exist . . . Things are not inherently produced because they are not produced from self, from other, from both self and other or without a cause. Production from self, from other, from both self and other and without a cause are called 'extremes' because to assert any of these positions is to fall into the extreme of existence . . . although all things are empty of inherent existence, nevertheless from these empty causes empty effects are generated . . . If things were inherently existent they would never produce effects because they would never change. Similarly, they would not be produced because they would not depend upon anything else . . . Since all things lack inherent existence they are free from the extreme of existence, and since they are nominally existent they are free from the extreme of non-existence . . . We are like fish caught in nets who cannot escape the horrible fate that awaits them . . . we are trapped in nets cast by our self grasping mind. Self-grasping is the root of all deluded views . . . As we become more familiar with emptiness, our self-grasping will gradually weaken, and eventually cease altogether. When this happens, all conceptions grasping at extremes will also cease because without self-grasping they cannot be sustained . . . It is important to distinguish the inherently existent self, which does not exist, from the self merely imputed by conception on the aggregates of body and mind, which does exist.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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