Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Jul 15, 2006 16:09:43 GMT -5
The Issue: Innocence
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included, your name, your identity, everything, becuase this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being - innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence; You will become a child again, reborn.
Clarifying The Issue: Change
Life repeats itself mindlessly - unless you become mindful, it will go on repaeting like a wheel. That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death - the wheel of time. It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death, death is followed by birth; love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love; success is followed by failure, failure is followed by success. Just see! If you can watch just for a few days, you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern. One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy, and another day you are so dull, so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide. And put the other day you were so full of life, so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness, and today there is great complaint and you don't see the point why onbe should go on living . . . And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern. Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
Subconscious Influences: 6 of Clouds: The Burden
A man's true life is the way in which he puts off the lie imposed by others on him. Stripped, naked, natural, he is what he is. This is a matter of being, and not of becoming. The lie cannot become the truth, the personality cannot become your soul. There is no way to make the nonessential the essential. The nonessential remains nonessential and the essential remains essential, they are not convertible. And Striving towards truth is nothing but creating more confusion. The truth has not to be achieved. It cannot be achieved, it is already the case. Only the lie has to be dropped. All aims and ends and ideals and goals and ideologies, religions, and systems of improvement and btterment, are lies. Beware of them. Recognize the fact that, as you are, you are a lie. Manipulated, cultivated by others. Striving after truth is a distraction and a postponement. it is the lie's way to hide. See the lie, look deep into the lie of your personality. Because to see the lie is to cease to lie. No longer to lie is to seek no more for any truth - there is no need. The moment the lie disappears, truth is there in all its beauty and radiance. in the seeing of the lie it disappears, and what is left is the truth.
Conscious Influences: New Vision
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended, Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots. Otherwise, ordinarily, everybody is moving without roots, not knowing from where their heart goes on receiving energy, not knowing who goes on breathing in them, not knowing the life juice that is running inside them. It is not the body, it is not the mind - it is something transcendental to all duality, that is called bhagavat - the bhagavat in the ten directions . . . Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions: The height, the depth. And then slowly, slowly as this becomes your established situation, you start looking around, spreading into all other eight directions. And once you have attained to the point where your weight and your depth meet, then you can look around to the very circumference of the universe. then your consciousness starts unfolding in all ten directions, but the road has been one.
Old Ways: 4 of Clouds: Postponement
The women in this picture is living in a gray landscape, full of unreal, cut-out clouds. Through the window frames she can se colors and light and aliveness, and although she would like to move through the frame - as we can see by the rainbow colors appearing in her garment - she can't quite manage to do it. There is still too much 'what-if?' activity in her mind. Tomorrow never comes, they say, but no matter how often it is said, it seems that most of us tend to forget the truth of it. In fact, the one and only result of postponing things is a dull and depressing feeling of incompletion and 'stuck-ness' today. The relief and expansiveness you will feel once you put aside all the dithering thoughts that are preventing you from acting now will make you wonder why you ever waited so long.
Moving into the New: King of Water: Healing
No, you carry your wound. With the ego your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safeguarding his own wound. Who has got the energy? But still it happens, because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for anything. You cannot touch a man of Tao. Why? - beacuse there is no one to be touched. There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, whole. This word 'whole' is beautiful. The word 'heal' comes from the whole, and the word 'holy' also come from the whole. He is whole, healed, holy. Be aware of your wound. Don't help it to grow, let it be healed; and it will be healed only when you move to the roots. The less the head, the more the wound will heal; with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it, don't react and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.
Self: Courage
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed. nothing can be guartanteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: The struggle with the soil. with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many. There is no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the inknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possess the seed and the seed moves. The same is the path for man. It is arduous, Much courage will be needed
How others see you: 7 of Rainbows: Patience
We have forgetten how to ait; it is almost an abandoned space. And it is our greatest treasure to be able to ait for the right moment. The whole existence waits for the right moment. Even trees know it - when it is time to bring the flowers and when it is time to let go of all the leaves and stand naked against the sky. They are still beautiful in that nakedness, waiting for the new foliage with a great trust that the old has gone, and the new will soon be coming, and that new leaves will start grwoing. We have forgotten to wait, we want everything in a hurry. it is a great loss to humanity . . . In silence and waiting something inside you goes on growing - your authentic being. And one day it jumps and becomes a flame and your whole personality is hattered; you are a [wo]man. And this new [wo]man knows what ceremony is, this new wo[man] knows life's eternal juices.
Denial: 7 of Clouds: Politics
Anybody who can be a good pretender, a hypocrite, will become your leader politically, will become your preist religiously. All he needs is hypocrisy, all that he needs is cunningness, all that he needs is a facade to hide behind. Your politicians live double lives, your priests live double lives - one from the front door and one from the back door. And the back-door live is their real life. Those front door smiles are just false, those faces looking so innocent are just cultivated. If you want to see the reality of the politician you will have to see him from his back door. There he is in his nudity as he is and so is the priest. These two kinds of cunning people have dominated humanity. And they have found out very early on that if you want to dominate humanity, make it weak, make it feel guilty, make it feel unworthy. Destory its dignity, take all glory away from it, humiliate it. And they have found such subtle ways of humiliation that htey don't come in the picture at all, they leave it to you to humiliate yourself, to destroy yourself. They have taught you a kind of slow suicide.
Outcome: Inner Voice
If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you. When you open your eyes, it is truth opening his eyes. When you close your eyes, it is truth who is closing its eyes. This is a tremendous meditation. If you can somply understand the device, you don't have to do anything; whatever you are doing is being done by truth. You are walking, it is truth; you are sleeping, it is truth resting; you are speaking, it is truth speaking, you are silent, it is truth that is silent. This is one of the most simnple meditation techniques. Slowly, slowly, everything settles by this simple formula, and then there is no need for the technique. When you are cured, you throw away the meditation, you throw away the medicine. Then you live as truth - alive, radiant, contented, blissful, as ong unto yourself. Your whole life becomes a prayer wihtout any words, or better to say a prayerfulness, a grace, a beauty which does not belong to our mundane owrld, a ray of light coming from the beyond into the darkness of our world.
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included, your name, your identity, everything, becuase this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being - innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence; You will become a child again, reborn.
Clarifying The Issue: Change
Life repeats itself mindlessly - unless you become mindful, it will go on repaeting like a wheel. That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death - the wheel of time. It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death, death is followed by birth; love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love; success is followed by failure, failure is followed by success. Just see! If you can watch just for a few days, you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern. One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy, and another day you are so dull, so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide. And put the other day you were so full of life, so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness, and today there is great complaint and you don't see the point why onbe should go on living . . . And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern. Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
Subconscious Influences: 6 of Clouds: The Burden
A man's true life is the way in which he puts off the lie imposed by others on him. Stripped, naked, natural, he is what he is. This is a matter of being, and not of becoming. The lie cannot become the truth, the personality cannot become your soul. There is no way to make the nonessential the essential. The nonessential remains nonessential and the essential remains essential, they are not convertible. And Striving towards truth is nothing but creating more confusion. The truth has not to be achieved. It cannot be achieved, it is already the case. Only the lie has to be dropped. All aims and ends and ideals and goals and ideologies, religions, and systems of improvement and btterment, are lies. Beware of them. Recognize the fact that, as you are, you are a lie. Manipulated, cultivated by others. Striving after truth is a distraction and a postponement. it is the lie's way to hide. See the lie, look deep into the lie of your personality. Because to see the lie is to cease to lie. No longer to lie is to seek no more for any truth - there is no need. The moment the lie disappears, truth is there in all its beauty and radiance. in the seeing of the lie it disappears, and what is left is the truth.
Conscious Influences: New Vision
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended, Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots. Otherwise, ordinarily, everybody is moving without roots, not knowing from where their heart goes on receiving energy, not knowing who goes on breathing in them, not knowing the life juice that is running inside them. It is not the body, it is not the mind - it is something transcendental to all duality, that is called bhagavat - the bhagavat in the ten directions . . . Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions: The height, the depth. And then slowly, slowly as this becomes your established situation, you start looking around, spreading into all other eight directions. And once you have attained to the point where your weight and your depth meet, then you can look around to the very circumference of the universe. then your consciousness starts unfolding in all ten directions, but the road has been one.
Old Ways: 4 of Clouds: Postponement
The women in this picture is living in a gray landscape, full of unreal, cut-out clouds. Through the window frames she can se colors and light and aliveness, and although she would like to move through the frame - as we can see by the rainbow colors appearing in her garment - she can't quite manage to do it. There is still too much 'what-if?' activity in her mind. Tomorrow never comes, they say, but no matter how often it is said, it seems that most of us tend to forget the truth of it. In fact, the one and only result of postponing things is a dull and depressing feeling of incompletion and 'stuck-ness' today. The relief and expansiveness you will feel once you put aside all the dithering thoughts that are preventing you from acting now will make you wonder why you ever waited so long.
Moving into the New: King of Water: Healing
No, you carry your wound. With the ego your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safeguarding his own wound. Who has got the energy? But still it happens, because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for anything. You cannot touch a man of Tao. Why? - beacuse there is no one to be touched. There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, whole. This word 'whole' is beautiful. The word 'heal' comes from the whole, and the word 'holy' also come from the whole. He is whole, healed, holy. Be aware of your wound. Don't help it to grow, let it be healed; and it will be healed only when you move to the roots. The less the head, the more the wound will heal; with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it, don't react and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.
Self: Courage
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed. nothing can be guartanteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: The struggle with the soil. with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many. There is no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the inknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possess the seed and the seed moves. The same is the path for man. It is arduous, Much courage will be needed
How others see you: 7 of Rainbows: Patience
We have forgetten how to ait; it is almost an abandoned space. And it is our greatest treasure to be able to ait for the right moment. The whole existence waits for the right moment. Even trees know it - when it is time to bring the flowers and when it is time to let go of all the leaves and stand naked against the sky. They are still beautiful in that nakedness, waiting for the new foliage with a great trust that the old has gone, and the new will soon be coming, and that new leaves will start grwoing. We have forgotten to wait, we want everything in a hurry. it is a great loss to humanity . . . In silence and waiting something inside you goes on growing - your authentic being. And one day it jumps and becomes a flame and your whole personality is hattered; you are a [wo]man. And this new [wo]man knows what ceremony is, this new wo[man] knows life's eternal juices.
Denial: 7 of Clouds: Politics
Anybody who can be a good pretender, a hypocrite, will become your leader politically, will become your preist religiously. All he needs is hypocrisy, all that he needs is cunningness, all that he needs is a facade to hide behind. Your politicians live double lives, your priests live double lives - one from the front door and one from the back door. And the back-door live is their real life. Those front door smiles are just false, those faces looking so innocent are just cultivated. If you want to see the reality of the politician you will have to see him from his back door. There he is in his nudity as he is and so is the priest. These two kinds of cunning people have dominated humanity. And they have found out very early on that if you want to dominate humanity, make it weak, make it feel guilty, make it feel unworthy. Destory its dignity, take all glory away from it, humiliate it. And they have found such subtle ways of humiliation that htey don't come in the picture at all, they leave it to you to humiliate yourself, to destroy yourself. They have taught you a kind of slow suicide.
Outcome: Inner Voice
If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you. When you open your eyes, it is truth opening his eyes. When you close your eyes, it is truth who is closing its eyes. This is a tremendous meditation. If you can somply understand the device, you don't have to do anything; whatever you are doing is being done by truth. You are walking, it is truth; you are sleeping, it is truth resting; you are speaking, it is truth speaking, you are silent, it is truth that is silent. This is one of the most simnple meditation techniques. Slowly, slowly, everything settles by this simple formula, and then there is no need for the technique. When you are cured, you throw away the meditation, you throw away the medicine. Then you live as truth - alive, radiant, contented, blissful, as ong unto yourself. Your whole life becomes a prayer wihtout any words, or better to say a prayerfulness, a grace, a beauty which does not belong to our mundane owrld, a ray of light coming from the beyond into the darkness of our world.