the play's the thing Wherein Ile catch the conscience of the King

Hamlet.   For murther, though it haue no tongue will speake

With most miraculous organ : Ile haue these Players

1635Play something like the murther of my father

Before mine Vncle, Ile obserue his lookes,

Ile tent him to the quicke, if a doe blench

I know my course.  The spirit that I haue seene

May be a deale, and the deale hath power

1640T'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps,

Out of my weakenes, and my melancholy,

As he is very potent with such spirits,

Abuses me to damne me; Ile haue grounds

More relatiue then this, the play's the thing

1645Wherein Ile catch the conscience of the King.  Exit.  
 -Hamlet, 1604, II, ii

  In the shallow world of routine pecking orders, one-way street modes, proud and vain courts,  pompous entertainment and contrived masquerading  one may read a little.  By and by one parts a curtain or two.  

  At length there may be  true wind in the face, the dance team of life arriving or passing by or the enlightened teacher  summoning  to a session.  There at length may be the renunciation, the refuge, the moment of creativity or of fathoming, of insight, of perspective, of renewal, of affirmation, of high purpose or hope come again.  And a fresh cycle of opportunity beckons, even beckons twice.  

                                -Padma Sambhava, in Prayer and Meditation, 1978

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  Beware recounting those most sacred experiences that should be held between you and the inner Guru in the hallowed silence of the all-knowing.  Beware of taking the joy of spiritual freedom and desecrating it through vulgar stories and degrading humor that appeal to the base elements of the lower self….

  Plant the markers of your pyramid of awareness firmly in the sands of time.  And define the boundaries of your reality with poise and equanimity.  This is the balancing action of the threefold flame and the equilateral triangle of the three jewels,—the buddha, the dharma and the samgha (Sanskrit; in Pali it is buddha, dhamma and sangha).  Be free and bear witness to the truth.  Understand that the statement “God is the only power that can act” is a mantra to the sacred fire that consumes the cause and core of errors.  Withdraw the sting and the poison of the viper who tries to sham you for past mistakes.  And realize that with each fall or stumble there lies a goldmine of lessons, growth and wisdom….

  Be willing to call a spade a spade.     -Gautama Buddha:  The Perfection of Truth (7th perfection of the 10 Perfections of the Law), in Quietly Comes the Buddha, S. U. Press, 1998