Thursday, October 23, 2008

Birth ---- The End


Dualism


The Truth is perfect like the vastness of space,
With nothing wanting, nothing superfluous;
It is indeed due to making choices
That the One Reality is lost sight of.
Pursue not the outer entanglements,
Dwell not in the inner Void;
When the mind rests serene in the oneness of 'things,
Dualism vanishes by itself.

----- Feel It


Wordiness and intellection. The more with them the further astray we go; Away, therefore, with wordiness and intellection, And there is no place where we cannot pass freely.

Ignorance is belief in the not knowingness which is the truth when achieved



o you know that leisurely sage who has gone beyond learning,
and who does not exert himself in anything?
He neither endeavors to avoid idle thoughts nor seeks after the Truth;[For he knows that] ignorance is also the Reality,[And that] this empty, illusory, body is nothing but the absolute Reality (Dharmakaya).

More words


hen oneness is not thoroughly understood,

In two ways loss may be sustained:

The denial of the world may lead to its absolute negation,

While the denying of the Void may result in the denying of your [true] Self.

"Let Go"



When we return to the root,
we gain the meaning;
When we pursue the external objects,
we lose the purpose.
The moment we are enlightened within,
We go beyond the voidness of a world confronting us.



Translation / quote n° 3757 : Seng-ts’an, (d.606), Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan) Source : Hsin-hsin ming “Inscription on the Self of the Self”, Suzuki, 1960, pp. 76-82

" I maintain that chaos is the truth, and beyond it is freedom"



hen no offence is offered by them, they are as if non-existent;

When the mind is not disturbed, it is as if there is no mind.

The subject is quieted as the object ceases;

The object ceases as the subject is quieted.


The object is an object for the subject;

The subject is a subject for an object.

Know that the relativity of the two Rests ultimately on the oneness of the Void.

In the oneness of the Void, the two are one, And each of the two contains in itself all the ten thousand things.


When no discrimination is made between this and that,How can a one-sided and prejudiced view arise?


Translation / quote n° 3759 : Seng-ts’an, (d.606), Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan) Source : Hsin-hsin ming “Inscription on the Self of the Self”, Suzuki, 1960, pp. 76-82

" We know very little about life, how can we know anything about death"


he Good Spirit, who was born simultaneously with you, will come now and count out your good deeds with white pebbles, and the Evil Spirit, who was born simultaneously with you, will come and count out your evil deeds with black pebbles. Thereupon you will be greatly frightened, awed, and terrified, and will tremble; and you will attempt to tell lies, saying, "I have not committed any evil deed."Then the Lord of Death will say, "I will consult the Mirror of karma." He will look in the Mirror, wherein every good and evil act is vividly reflected.


Lying will be of no avail.Then one of the executive furies of the Lord of Death will place a rope around your neck and drag you along; he will cut off your head, extract your heart, pull out your intestines, lick up your brain, drink your blood, eat your flesh, and gnaw your bones; but you will be incapable of dying. Although your body be hacked to pieces, it will revive again. The repeated hacking [symbolizing the pangs of the deceased's conscience] will cause intense pain and torture.


Even at the time that the pebbles are being counted out, be not frightened; tell no lies; and fear not the Lord of Death.Your body being a mental body is incapable of dying even though beheaded and quartered. In reality, your body is of the nature of voidness; you need not be afraid. The Lords of Death are your own hallucinations.


Your desire-body is a body of propensities, and void. Voidness cannot injure voidness; the qualityless cannot injure the qualityless. Apart from one's own hallucinations, in reality there are no such things existing outside oneself as Lord of Death, or god, or demon. Act so as to recognize this.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Our Intricate nature



To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour.
--- William Blake

Inner sense


Innocence comes before experience
but experience that looses innocence
cannot see the beauty of the world...


Today innocence is like a ghost
It appears only sometimes
only when it is night
and you are not sure
if it really exhists...

The Yellow God -


There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There's a little marble cross below the town
There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.

J. Milton Hayes

Different forms or our Soul
























“When we stop to consider, we recognize that happiness is not something we're going to get somewhere, nor is it the result of some action we take. The very fabric of our beingness is itself what we are always actually looking for. We seek pleasure, joy, happiness, peace, strength, power. But these are simply aspects of our existence. Our nature, our origin is the most precious thing there is. The existence itself is a delight. This existence, this delight, is the very center of reality, all the time.” - A. Hameed Ali

Play Ground of the Gods


Quantum understanding


Fred Alan Wolf, also known as Dr. Quantum’ has received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UCLA and he began researching the field of high atmospheric particle behavior following a nuclear explosion. Since then, he has delved into the relationship between human consciousness, psychology, physiology, the mystical, and the spiritual. He has authored eleven books and he continues to lecture, research, and teach worldwide. By far he is the most thrilling, enigmatic and seemingly informed talking heads that spoke in both ‘Bleep; and ‘The Secret’.


He is a science popularizer on the Discovery Channel.Fred Alan Wolf's definitions of Spirit, Soul, and Self:"Many, ranging from modern scientists to perhaps the Buddha, introduce great confusion into the search by not differentiating between spirit, soul, and self. Based on my research, the spirit appears to be virtual vibrations of vacuum energy, the soul turns out to be reflections of those virtual vibrations in time, and the self is an illusion arising from reflections of the soul in matter, appearing as the bodily senses as suggested by the Buddha. Hence the three are related but essentially different." In his book Mind Into Matter, Fred refers to emotions :"Hate, for example, is explained as a quantum statistical property of electrons ---and no two electrons will ever exist in the same quantum state.


While love, on the other hand, is explained in terms of quantum statistical behavior of photons---and all photons tend to move into the same state if given the chance. Thus, in a physical sense, the phrase "light is love" is more than a metaphor."Fred defines for us a "quantum event” :A quantum event occurs whenever an act of knowing/perception occurs. Usually this takes place when the world presents a scenario of possibilities to consciousness. This presentation continually arises--thus new possibilities are constantly presenting themselves to us. When the quantum event occurs, one of the possibilities is realized while the others are not. Thus the idea you create your reality arises. Before the event, reality consists of overlapping possibilities that taken together are paradoxical and the source of all of our creativity. When the event of consciousness occurs the paradox is resolved and suddenly a single possibility jumps into existence. This takes place whenever you have an idea, for example, or when you suddenly see something new.In his book, ‘Mind into Matter’ Fred’s goal was to show that within your own mind and body laid a majestic story filled with drama, pathos, humor, intelligence, fantasy, and fact. However, this is not the end of the story.


In his next book ‘Matter into Feeling’ he shows us how we must deal with the conflicts and resistance we face in our lives as we attempt to make sense of the world, and learn to put up with our material demands, our addictions, our ups and downs, successes and failures.In his book, ‘TheSpiritual Universe’, several questions are finally answered.


Did we ever in the past lose our souls? Can a soul actually leave a body? Can the soul be polluted? Can it be enlightened or is it already enlightened? Is it in danger and subject to the forces of good and evil? Does the soul we refer to so glibly really exist? Is it something as tangible as physical energy or matter? Does it literally leave the body at death and travel to another location? If so where does it go? Or are these conceptual considerations of the soul too literalistic, too simplistic to be taken seriously? Can we prove the existence of the soul once and for all? Can we scientifically prove that it does exist? Are we faced with total and complete oblivion at death? What is the soul's behavior in matter? What is its behavior in the human body? In an animal body? Do dogs and other animals have souls? Does a single cell have one? What happens to the soul after death of the body? Is the soul, if it exists, responsible for a human being's actions? If it is not responsible then who or what is?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Great Intellect



" I do not wish to step down to a lower level, just to have the satisfaction of being understood"

--Pablo

Thursday, October 16, 2008