08-23-2006, 12:00 AM
Saranica ....
By ... "this is my blooming map, what's yours ?" ......I meant that it is important for you to know your own mind, "your own blooming map" ... and that you know where you are going ... what your intent is, because if you do not take responsibility of creating your own journey .... chances are somebody or something else will do it for you.
"Universe has the most interesting sense of humour))"
Paradoxes indeed are great .... I don't think, that we truly "get" anything until we see the paradoxicality of any situation really.
"But then of course.. "good" can't exist either outside of duality.."
Yes. Buddhism talks about it in terms of "overcoming moralism" ... which doesn't mean, that we should now all become immoral and evil .... but trying to live up to some mentally created concepts of ideal-sense-of-self , or perfection becomes a total manufactured delusional hang-up.
And besides ...self-importance being the biggest delusion of all ... the stance we take on things, in the name of ....
Thus self-importance be it in the name of "goodness" is violence .... for it doesn't seek alignments, it is arrogance that seeks the control over alignments by pretending they do not exist.
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True hollowness doesn't give a **** about death, nor about going pass the eagle, nor about saving its soul. Hollow is already the void.
Sounds about right to my "map". But are you there yet ?
If not ... then where are you at ?
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Totally loved the idea in CC books about making one's life so impeccable, that every little act we perform is like our last dance on this earth ... in the face of our Death .... or Infinity ...
(for it cuts out all the **** ... and builds "personal power").
And there really is no other way to "stay tuned" to Infinity, but entering into non-thought, as Infinity is a totally open ... limitless situation.
Non-thought also being the only way to fixate our "dreaming body" to Infinity ....
But dancing to our deaths is acknowledging the total vulnerability of our relative reference points. In a way it is to be in a state of an infant. It is also a state of total hopelessness at the same time !
All this is "suffering" (in Buddhist books) but we are brave and fearless enough to take it, (this also marks the entrance point into Tantra ... or Shamanism as I understand it) ... We turn all that into energy ... instead of getting all doomed and gloomed about it.
A Tantric statement says:
Suffering is Energy.
Impermanence is a consort to dance with.
Egolessness is a way to be.
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Don Juan told Carlos repeatedly that "Infinity is all around you"..... but in the same fashion The Wisdom of Infinity is all around us.
(Thus Co-Emergent Wisdom (Buddhist term) is to learn to see the basic messages (hidden) in our life situations, which is also the teaching. It means openness to "Spirit" or "Cosmic" messages that are coming across to us all the time, through phenomena. Acknowledging them, respecting them. Wisdom thus becomes an all-pervasive affair. We may hold some knowledge-mind-stuff, but Wisdom of Infinity is self-existing "radiance" .... in a sense of sun and moon shining .... happening all the time.
Power is vital and important. But working with energy in Shamanic sense Power also becomes a more decentralized process. Like with Infinity and Wisdom of Infinity ... Energy and Power is all and everywhere. Wisdom/Power of Infinity doesn't belong to anybody ... Wisdom simply "radiates" and Power makes thing happen (synchronicities etc.etc.)
If we try to centralize The Wisdom or the Energy of Infinity within ourselves (as something the separate self has) ... then we simply end up closing off from it actually.
Paradoxes indeed are great !
Thus if we walk the gradual Shamanic path ... first it seems that we become "witnesses" to the Wisdom and Power of Infinity and then we learn to dance to it's tune ... thus learning to "utilize" it in specific ways .... and also thus becoming "participants of "IT" ....
And lastly (?) ... we become the Dance, as well as the tuneless tune of Infinity by becoming a "zero" and yet there is this self-existing "radiance" shining through everything.
**************
So we start to Dance.
Ever Present Force (Death ... Infinity) being like the basic field, the awareness-ground that we dance on.
The Co-Emergent wisdom is there shining through our life situations and our dance is the impeccable action of it.
**************
That is my dream anyway .... what's yours ?
Meaning that if we don't take responsibility of manifesting our own dreams, chances are that .....
By ... "this is my blooming map, what's yours ?" ......I meant that it is important for you to know your own mind, "your own blooming map" ... and that you know where you are going ... what your intent is, because if you do not take responsibility of creating your own journey .... chances are somebody or something else will do it for you.
"Universe has the most interesting sense of humour))"
Paradoxes indeed are great .... I don't think, that we truly "get" anything until we see the paradoxicality of any situation really.
"But then of course.. "good" can't exist either outside of duality.."
Yes. Buddhism talks about it in terms of "overcoming moralism" ... which doesn't mean, that we should now all become immoral and evil .... but trying to live up to some mentally created concepts of ideal-sense-of-self , or perfection becomes a total manufactured delusional hang-up.
And besides ...self-importance being the biggest delusion of all ... the stance we take on things, in the name of ....
Thus self-importance be it in the name of "goodness" is violence .... for it doesn't seek alignments, it is arrogance that seeks the control over alignments by pretending they do not exist.
***********
True hollowness doesn't give a **** about death, nor about going pass the eagle, nor about saving its soul. Hollow is already the void.
Sounds about right to my "map". But are you there yet ?
If not ... then where are you at ?
********************
Totally loved the idea in CC books about making one's life so impeccable, that every little act we perform is like our last dance on this earth ... in the face of our Death .... or Infinity ...
(for it cuts out all the **** ... and builds "personal power").
And there really is no other way to "stay tuned" to Infinity, but entering into non-thought, as Infinity is a totally open ... limitless situation.
Non-thought also being the only way to fixate our "dreaming body" to Infinity ....
But dancing to our deaths is acknowledging the total vulnerability of our relative reference points. In a way it is to be in a state of an infant. It is also a state of total hopelessness at the same time !
All this is "suffering" (in Buddhist books) but we are brave and fearless enough to take it, (this also marks the entrance point into Tantra ... or Shamanism as I understand it) ... We turn all that into energy ... instead of getting all doomed and gloomed about it.
A Tantric statement says:
Suffering is Energy.
Impermanence is a consort to dance with.
Egolessness is a way to be.
*************
Don Juan told Carlos repeatedly that "Infinity is all around you"..... but in the same fashion The Wisdom of Infinity is all around us.
(Thus Co-Emergent Wisdom (Buddhist term) is to learn to see the basic messages (hidden) in our life situations, which is also the teaching. It means openness to "Spirit" or "Cosmic" messages that are coming across to us all the time, through phenomena. Acknowledging them, respecting them. Wisdom thus becomes an all-pervasive affair. We may hold some knowledge-mind-stuff, but Wisdom of Infinity is self-existing "radiance" .... in a sense of sun and moon shining .... happening all the time.
Power is vital and important. But working with energy in Shamanic sense Power also becomes a more decentralized process. Like with Infinity and Wisdom of Infinity ... Energy and Power is all and everywhere. Wisdom/Power of Infinity doesn't belong to anybody ... Wisdom simply "radiates" and Power makes thing happen (synchronicities etc.etc.)
If we try to centralize The Wisdom or the Energy of Infinity within ourselves (as something the separate self has) ... then we simply end up closing off from it actually.
Paradoxes indeed are great !
Thus if we walk the gradual Shamanic path ... first it seems that we become "witnesses" to the Wisdom and Power of Infinity and then we learn to dance to it's tune ... thus learning to "utilize" it in specific ways .... and also thus becoming "participants of "IT" ....
And lastly (?) ... we become the Dance, as well as the tuneless tune of Infinity by becoming a "zero" and yet there is this self-existing "radiance" shining through everything.
**************
So we start to Dance.
Ever Present Force (Death ... Infinity) being like the basic field, the awareness-ground that we dance on.
The Co-Emergent wisdom is there shining through our life situations and our dance is the impeccable action of it.
**************
That is my dream anyway .... what's yours ?
Meaning that if we don't take responsibility of manifesting our own dreams, chances are that .....