adyashanti - from understanding to realising

quote from einstein and nabakov

I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wind, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain.
I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but the shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed upon us and unappreciated.

—Vladimir Nabokov

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

Einstien - 

letter to a distraught father who had lost his young son and had asked Einstein for some comforting words":

The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (Princeton University Press, 2005: ISBN 0691120749), p. 206

podcast on the history on tibetan buddhism, its daoist / chan roots

by Reggie Ray

says that the tradition we know as mahamudra is actually a blend of Dzogchen, Chan and Daoism

http://www.dharmaocean.org/episode-131-our-basic-nature/