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Q: 'Brahman is real. The world is illusion' is the stock phrase of Sri Sankaracharya. Yet others say, 'The world is reality.' Which is true?

Ramana: Both statements are true. They refer to different stages of development and are spoken from different points of view. The aspirant starts with the definition, that which is real exists always. Then he eliminates the world as unreal because it is changing. The seeker ultimately reaches the Self and there finds unity as the prevailing note. Then that which was originally rejected as being unreal is found to be part of the unity. Being absorbed in the reality, the world is also real. There is only Being in Self-realization, and nothing but Being.
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"When all the self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing Love."

Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Feelin' Good

Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze drifting on by
You know how I feel
It's a new a dawn
And a new day
And a new life for me
And I'm feeling good
So good, yeah

Fish in the sea
You know how I feel
Rivers running free
You know how I feel
Bouncing on the tree
You know how I feel
It's a new a dawn
And a new day
And a new life for me
And I'm feeling good
So good
So good

Dragon fly out in the sun
You know what I mean
Don't you know?
Butterflies all having fun
You know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean
World is a new world and a bold world for me

Stars when you shine
You know how I feel
Scent of pine
You know how I feel
Oh, freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
It's a new dawn
And a new day
And a new love for me
And I'm feeling...
Oh...
I'm feeling good

You know how I feel
You know how I feel
You
You know how I feel
Feeling good
I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good
Feeling good
Feeling good
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me

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Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSAAlrqAHM

Lyrics and vocal by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche (Trungpa Rinpoche's son)
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I totally forgot to post something today. Maybe that's progress...
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"You don't find truth as much as you stumble upon it when you have cast away your illusions."

Adyashanti
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"We need not acquire anything new, only give up false ideas and useless accretions.
Instead of doing this, we try to grasp something strange and mysterious because we believe happiness lies elsewhere. This is the mistake."

Ramana Maharshi
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"You may believe in whatever you like and if you act on your belief, you will get the fruits of it; but to me it has no importance. I am what I am and this is enough for me. I have no desire to identify myself with anybody, however illustrious. Nor do I feel the need to take myths for reality. I am only interested in ignorance and the freedom from ignorance. The proper role of a Guru is to dispel ignorance in the hearts and minds of his disciples..."

Nisargadatta Maharaj
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As per your request, z0tl, a cartoon:

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"It is not necessary to stop [the mind's activity] if you understand what is happening, if you understand that it is still presence. When is it happening? Just ask yourself that question. When is all this happening? The obvious answer is that it can only be happening presently. So, is it anything other than presence? The happening itself is movements of energy. Thoughts are subtle sound. Sound is energy and energy is just vibration. So it is that omnipotence, that 'all-power'. It is omnipresence; it is 'all-presence'. And the knowing of that, the awareness of it, knowing that I am, the pure knowing is the 'all-knowing', the omniscience. It does not mean to know this or know that; it is just pure knowing. Pure knowing is the totality of knowing.
"Are you not that right now?"

Bob Adamson
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I had some idea earlier this morning what I would post here, but I forgot, so I opened up a book and pointed my finger:

Laziness, forgetting the oral instructions,
stupor and excitement, under-reacting and over-reacting
are described as the five faults.

Maitreya
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I don't know.
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"...according to the [commentaries] the decisive difference between simple walking and walking meditation as a satipatthana is that a meditator keeps in mind the question: 'Who goes? Whose is this going?'"

Analayo
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"Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all."

Robert Adams
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"Because people want something elaborate and mysterious, so many religions have come into existence. Only those who are mature can understand the matter in its naked simplicity."

Sri Ramana Maharshi
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"If you rest peacefully in your own self, you will know that in comparison even the state of an emperor is like a blade of grass."

Yogavasistha
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