Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Sept 15, 2006 20:29:38 GMT -5
Card 1: The Issue: Intensity: Knight of Fire
Zen says: Think of all the great words and great teachings as your deadly anemy. Avoid them, because you have to find your own source. You have not to be a follower, an imitator. You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.
Card 2: Clarifying the Issue: Existence
You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and moon, the trees and birds and earth - everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.
Card 3: Unconscious Influences: Beyond Illusion
This is the only distinction between the dream and the real: reality allows you to doubt and the dream does not allow you to doubt . . . To me, the capacity to doubt is one of the greatest blessings to humanity. The religions have been enemies because they ahave been cutting the very roots of doubt, and there is a reason why they have been doing that: because they want people to believe in certain illusions that they have been preaching . . . Why have the people like Gautem Buddha been so insistent that the whole existence - except your witnessing self, except your awareness - is just ephemeral, made of the same stuff as dreams are made of? They are not saying that these pillars are not there. Don't misunderstand because of the word 'illusion' . . . It has been translated as illusion, but illusion is not the right word. Illusion does not exist. Reality exists. Maya is just in between - it almost exists. As far as day-to-day activities are concerned, it can be taken as reality. Only in the ultimate sense, from the peak of your illumination, it becomes unreal, illusory.
Card 4: Conscious Influences: Sorrow: 9 of Clouds
The pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go missing . . . This pain is just to make you more alert - because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise, they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibilty. When your woman/man leaves alone - those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman/man so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she/he is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery dissappears.
Card 5: The old: Abundance: King of Rainbows
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 material world, and denying the inner world. Both are half, 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 is 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 sinificance, 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.
I'll post the rest when I've got the time.
Zen says: Think of all the great words and great teachings as your deadly anemy. Avoid them, because you have to find your own source. You have not to be a follower, an imitator. You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.
Card 2: Clarifying the Issue: Existence
You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and moon, the trees and birds and earth - everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.
Card 3: Unconscious Influences: Beyond Illusion
This is the only distinction between the dream and the real: reality allows you to doubt and the dream does not allow you to doubt . . . To me, the capacity to doubt is one of the greatest blessings to humanity. The religions have been enemies because they ahave been cutting the very roots of doubt, and there is a reason why they have been doing that: because they want people to believe in certain illusions that they have been preaching . . . Why have the people like Gautem Buddha been so insistent that the whole existence - except your witnessing self, except your awareness - is just ephemeral, made of the same stuff as dreams are made of? They are not saying that these pillars are not there. Don't misunderstand because of the word 'illusion' . . . It has been translated as illusion, but illusion is not the right word. Illusion does not exist. Reality exists. Maya is just in between - it almost exists. As far as day-to-day activities are concerned, it can be taken as reality. Only in the ultimate sense, from the peak of your illumination, it becomes unreal, illusory.
Card 4: Conscious Influences: Sorrow: 9 of Clouds
The pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go missing . . . This pain is just to make you more alert - because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise, they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibilty. When your woman/man leaves alone - those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman/man so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she/he is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery dissappears.
Card 5: The old: Abundance: King of Rainbows
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 material world, and denying the inner world. Both are half, 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 is 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 sinificance, 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.
I'll post the rest when I've got the time.