Lama Govinda Quotes

Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into hands, a poem or memory-laden fragrance may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life.

Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon following the breath of the atmosphere – in the same way the pilgrim abandons himself to the breath of the greater life that… leads him beyond the farthest horizons to an aim which is already present within him, though yet hidden from his sight.

The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet…this worshipful or religious attitude is not impressed by scientific facts, like figures of altitude, which are foremost in the mind of modern man. Nor is it motivated by the urge to ‘conquer’ the mountain.

The life of human beings is suspended between the poles of heaven and earth. Let us retain within us the width of heaven, but let us not forget the earth that bears us. Earth and heaven are the symbols of the finite and the infinite, in which we share equally. It is not our task to choose between these two poles of our existence or to give up the one for the sake of the other, but to recognize their mutual interdependence and to integrate them into our very being.

As pessoas argumentarão: "Mas se reencarnação é verdade, por que não me lembro de quem eu era? Por que não me lembro das minhas vidas passadas?" Lama Anagarika Govinda, mestre tibetano, responde: "A maioria das pessoas não se lembra de seus nascimentos, e ainda assim elas não duvidam que nasceram recentemente. Elas esquecem que a memória ativa é apenas uma pequena parte da nossa consciência normal, e que nossa memória subconsciente registra e preserva cada impressão e experiência passada, que nossa 'mente desperta' falha em lembrar." Carl Jung, em seu trabalho psicológico, continuou lutando com essa questão da memória subconsciente. Ele a chamou de "o inconsciente coletivo", que era uma maneira pela qual um ocidental poderia abordar a ideia da reencarnação, de informações que vem de fora desta vida.

What we resist persists, and what we accept, we can transform. When we fully accept our anxiety by allowing it to be, without begrudging it, it then goes through a subtle transformation. As Lama Govinda said, “We are transformed by what we accept.” In