Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Jul 7, 2006 13:43:45 GMT -5
The Issue: King of Rainbows: Adundance:
In the East people have condemned the body, condemned matter, called matter 'illusory', maya - it does not really exist, it only appears to exist; it is made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. they denied the world, and that is the reason for the east remaining poor, sick, in starvation. Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. The other half of humanity has been accepting the material world and denying the inner world. Both are hald, and no man who is half can be contented. You have to be whole: Rich in the body , rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. Only a whole person is a holy person, according to me. I want Zorba and Buddha to meet together. Zorba alone is hollow. His dance has not an eternal significance, it is momentary pleasure. Soon he will be tired of it. Unless you have inexhaustible sources, available to you from the cosmos itself .. unless you become existential, you cannot become whole. This is my contribution to humanity: The whole person.
Clarifying the Issue: 9 of Rainbows: Ripeness
Only if your meditation has brought you a light that shines in every night will even death not be a death to you but a door to the divine. With the light in your heart, death itself is transformed into a door, and you eneter into the universal spirit; you become one with the ocean. And unless you know the oceanic experience, you have lived in vain. Now is always the time, and the fruit is always ripe. You just need to gather courage to enter into your inner forest. The fruit is always ripe and the time is always the right time. There is no such thing as wrong time.
Unconscious Influences: Integration:
The conflist is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some physiological defect or something else, the parson becomes split, the person becomes two persons - and the phonomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens,. If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very f*gile - then you become tow, you behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving,
The conflist is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some physiological defect or something else, the parson becomes split, the person becomes two persons - and the phonomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens,. If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very f*gile - then you become tow, you behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving, very beauriful,; in the evening you are very angry, absolutely different. You don't remember your moring... how can you remember? Another mind was funciton... and the person becomes two persons. If this bridge is strengthened so much the the two minds disappear as two and becomes on, then integration, then crystallization arises. What George Gurdjieff used to call the crystallization of being is nothing but these two minds becoming one, the meeting of the male and the female within, the meeting of yin and yang, the meeting of the left and right, the meeting of logic and illogic, the meeting of Plato and Aristotle.
Conscious Influences: Completion
This is the way of Zen, no to say things to their completion. This has to be understood; it is a very important methodology. Not to say everything means to give an opportunity to the listener to complete it. All answers are incomplete. The master has only given you a direction . . . By the time you reach the limit, you will know what is going to remain. This way, if somebody is trying to understand Zen intellectially he will fail. It is not an answer to the question but something more than the answer. It is indicating the very reality... The buddha nature is not something far away.. your very consciousness is buddha nature. And your consciousness can witness these things which constitute the world. The world will end but the mirror will remian, mirroring nothing.
Old ways: 10 of Water: Harmony
Listen to your heart, move according to your heart, whatsoever the stake: A condition of complete simplicity costing not less than everything. To be simple is arduous, because to be simple costs everything that you have. You have to lose all to be simple. That's why people have chosen to be complex and they have forgotten how to be simple. But only a simple heart throbs on God, hand in hand. Only a simple heart sings with God in deep harmony. To reach to that point you will have to find your heart, your own throb, your own beat.
Moving into the New: Silence
The energy of the whole has taken possession of you. You are possessed, you are no more, the whole is. This moment, as the silence penetrates in you, you can understand the significance of it, because it is the same that Gautam Biddha experienced. It is the same silence that Chuang Tzu or bodhidharma or Nansen ... The taste of the silence is the same. Time changes, the world goes on changing, but the experience of silence, the joy of it, remains the same. This is the only thing you can rely upon, the only thing that never dies. It is the only thing that you can call your very being.
The Self: 5 of Rainbows: The Outsider
So you are feeling yourself an outsider. This is good. This is the transitory period. Now you have to be alert not to fill yourself with pain and misery. Now that God is no longer there, who is going to console you? You don't need any consolation. Humanity has come of age. Be a man, be a woman, and stand on you own feet. . . The only way to be connected with exisntence is to go inwards, because there at the centeryou are still connected. You have been disconnected physically from your mother. That disconnection was absolutely necessary to make you an individual in you own right. But you are not disconnected from the universe. Your connection with the universe is of consciousness. You cannot see it, so you have to gp deep down with great awareness, watchfullness, witnessing, and you will find the connection. The buddha is the connection!
How others see you: Ace of Clouds: Consciousness
Most of the cards in this suit of the mind are either cartoon-like or troubled, because the influence of the mind in our lives is generally either ridiculous or oppressive. But this card of Consciousness shows a vast Buddha figur. He is so expansive he has gone even beyond the stars, and above his head is pure emptiness. He represents the consciousness that is available to all who become master of the mind and can use it as the servant it is meant to be. When you choose this card, it means that there is a crystal clarity available right now, detached, rooted in the deep stillness that lies at the core of your being. There is no desire to understand from the perspective of the mind - th understanding you have now is existential, whole, in harmony with the pulse of life itself. Accept this great gift , and share it.
Deep Desire or Denial: 6 of Rainbows: Compromise
Don't be clever, otherwise you will remain the same, you will not change. Half-techniques on the path of love and half-techniques on the path of meditation will create much confusion in you. They will not help... But to ask for help is against the ego, so you try to compromise. This compromise will be more dangerous, it will confuse you more because, made out of confusion, it will create more confusion. So try to understand why you hanker for compromise. Sooner or later wou will be able to understand that compromise is not going to help. And compromise may be a way of not going in either direction, or it may be just a repression of your confusion. It will assert itself. Never repress anything, be clear-cut about your situation. And if you are confused, remember that you are confused. This will be the first clear-cut thing about you: That you are confuse. You have started on the journey.
Outcome: 8 of water: Letting Go
In existence there is nobody who is superior and nobody who is inferior. The blade of grass and the great star are absolutely equal... But man wants to be higher than others, he wants to conquer nater, hence he has to fight continuously. All complesity arises out of this fight. The innocent person is one who has renounced fighting; who is no longer interested in being higher, who is no longer interested in preforming, in proving that he is someone special; who has become like a roseflower or like a dewdrop on the lotuse leaf; who has become part of this infinity; who has melted, merged and become one with the ocean and is just a wave, who has no idea of the 'I'. The disappearance of the 'I' is innocence.
In the East people have condemned the body, condemned matter, called matter 'illusory', maya - it does not really exist, it only appears to exist; it is made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. they denied the world, and that is the reason for the east remaining poor, sick, in starvation. Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. The other half of humanity has been accepting the material world and denying the inner world. Both are hald, and no man who is half can be contented. You have to be whole: Rich in the body , rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. Only a whole person is a holy person, according to me. I want Zorba and Buddha to meet together. Zorba alone is hollow. His dance has not an eternal significance, it is momentary pleasure. Soon he will be tired of it. Unless you have inexhaustible sources, available to you from the cosmos itself .. unless you become existential, you cannot become whole. This is my contribution to humanity: The whole person.
Clarifying the Issue: 9 of Rainbows: Ripeness
Only if your meditation has brought you a light that shines in every night will even death not be a death to you but a door to the divine. With the light in your heart, death itself is transformed into a door, and you eneter into the universal spirit; you become one with the ocean. And unless you know the oceanic experience, you have lived in vain. Now is always the time, and the fruit is always ripe. You just need to gather courage to enter into your inner forest. The fruit is always ripe and the time is always the right time. There is no such thing as wrong time.
Unconscious Influences: Integration:
The conflist is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some physiological defect or something else, the parson becomes split, the person becomes two persons - and the phonomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens,. If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very f*gile - then you become tow, you behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving,
The conflist is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some physiological defect or something else, the parson becomes split, the person becomes two persons - and the phonomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens,. If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very f*gile - then you become tow, you behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving, very beauriful,; in the evening you are very angry, absolutely different. You don't remember your moring... how can you remember? Another mind was funciton... and the person becomes two persons. If this bridge is strengthened so much the the two minds disappear as two and becomes on, then integration, then crystallization arises. What George Gurdjieff used to call the crystallization of being is nothing but these two minds becoming one, the meeting of the male and the female within, the meeting of yin and yang, the meeting of the left and right, the meeting of logic and illogic, the meeting of Plato and Aristotle.
Conscious Influences: Completion
This is the way of Zen, no to say things to their completion. This has to be understood; it is a very important methodology. Not to say everything means to give an opportunity to the listener to complete it. All answers are incomplete. The master has only given you a direction . . . By the time you reach the limit, you will know what is going to remain. This way, if somebody is trying to understand Zen intellectially he will fail. It is not an answer to the question but something more than the answer. It is indicating the very reality... The buddha nature is not something far away.. your very consciousness is buddha nature. And your consciousness can witness these things which constitute the world. The world will end but the mirror will remian, mirroring nothing.
Old ways: 10 of Water: Harmony
Listen to your heart, move according to your heart, whatsoever the stake: A condition of complete simplicity costing not less than everything. To be simple is arduous, because to be simple costs everything that you have. You have to lose all to be simple. That's why people have chosen to be complex and they have forgotten how to be simple. But only a simple heart throbs on God, hand in hand. Only a simple heart sings with God in deep harmony. To reach to that point you will have to find your heart, your own throb, your own beat.
Moving into the New: Silence
The energy of the whole has taken possession of you. You are possessed, you are no more, the whole is. This moment, as the silence penetrates in you, you can understand the significance of it, because it is the same that Gautam Biddha experienced. It is the same silence that Chuang Tzu or bodhidharma or Nansen ... The taste of the silence is the same. Time changes, the world goes on changing, but the experience of silence, the joy of it, remains the same. This is the only thing you can rely upon, the only thing that never dies. It is the only thing that you can call your very being.
The Self: 5 of Rainbows: The Outsider
So you are feeling yourself an outsider. This is good. This is the transitory period. Now you have to be alert not to fill yourself with pain and misery. Now that God is no longer there, who is going to console you? You don't need any consolation. Humanity has come of age. Be a man, be a woman, and stand on you own feet. . . The only way to be connected with exisntence is to go inwards, because there at the centeryou are still connected. You have been disconnected physically from your mother. That disconnection was absolutely necessary to make you an individual in you own right. But you are not disconnected from the universe. Your connection with the universe is of consciousness. You cannot see it, so you have to gp deep down with great awareness, watchfullness, witnessing, and you will find the connection. The buddha is the connection!
How others see you: Ace of Clouds: Consciousness
Most of the cards in this suit of the mind are either cartoon-like or troubled, because the influence of the mind in our lives is generally either ridiculous or oppressive. But this card of Consciousness shows a vast Buddha figur. He is so expansive he has gone even beyond the stars, and above his head is pure emptiness. He represents the consciousness that is available to all who become master of the mind and can use it as the servant it is meant to be. When you choose this card, it means that there is a crystal clarity available right now, detached, rooted in the deep stillness that lies at the core of your being. There is no desire to understand from the perspective of the mind - th understanding you have now is existential, whole, in harmony with the pulse of life itself. Accept this great gift , and share it.
Deep Desire or Denial: 6 of Rainbows: Compromise
Don't be clever, otherwise you will remain the same, you will not change. Half-techniques on the path of love and half-techniques on the path of meditation will create much confusion in you. They will not help... But to ask for help is against the ego, so you try to compromise. This compromise will be more dangerous, it will confuse you more because, made out of confusion, it will create more confusion. So try to understand why you hanker for compromise. Sooner or later wou will be able to understand that compromise is not going to help. And compromise may be a way of not going in either direction, or it may be just a repression of your confusion. It will assert itself. Never repress anything, be clear-cut about your situation. And if you are confused, remember that you are confused. This will be the first clear-cut thing about you: That you are confuse. You have started on the journey.
Outcome: 8 of water: Letting Go
In existence there is nobody who is superior and nobody who is inferior. The blade of grass and the great star are absolutely equal... But man wants to be higher than others, he wants to conquer nater, hence he has to fight continuously. All complesity arises out of this fight. The innocent person is one who has renounced fighting; who is no longer interested in being higher, who is no longer interested in preforming, in proving that he is someone special; who has become like a roseflower or like a dewdrop on the lotuse leaf; who has become part of this infinity; who has melted, merged and become one with the ocean and is just a wave, who has no idea of the 'I'. The disappearance of the 'I' is innocence.