12-03-2013, 12:00 AM
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Hi NagualHuman.
I don't enter into question and answer discussions unless it's a question regarding exactly where the questioner is. Your comments and questions may be 'beautiful' as Kao mentioned, but it's all just more belief to me and I don't deal with that; my job is about assisting others in assassinating belief, not promote it. I'm the one handing you or anyone else a grenade. You are the one who has to pull the pin and demolish self. (Eliminating beliefs, personal history, self importance, etc., etc.)
You don't need to add me or anyone else to your equation, you need to subtract yourself. Begin by re-examining your assumptions. It's clear from your posts that you consider yourself a serious person, a serious seeker. That's the first assumption you'll want to challenge. You're sure that a serious seeker is what you are and you think I (and others) see you that way too, but this is not the case. I know serious when I see it and I know a hand-puppet of self importance and ego when I see it. You think you're on top of something, but the only thing to be on top of is ego and self importance, and it's on top of you like a house on a mouse.
Maybe if we were to have a discussion one day I would tell you to cut off an ounce of your body every day until you can answer the question, "Who am I?" Any ounce as long as it's an ounce. That should bring you quickly into focus; light a fire under you. If you had to do this, cut off an ounce of your body every day, how much time do you think you would waste writing posts full of CC lingo and twirling it around like a fancy six-shooter? Not bloody much. You would soon become a self-stalking-recapitulation-machine. Sleep and food would be reduced to barest minimums. Relationships and activities once deemed essential would be forgotten. You would enter into a burning mania of single-pointedness. Soon, anything other than the question Who am I? would seem comically irrelevant. There's your new-warrior's way; the warrior's way for the new millennium.
Who am I? That's the only koan there is; the only one anyone ever needs. Every day you don't answer this question, another ounce. Take a moment to think about what it would mean to have to sit down with a scalpel at a certain time every day and amputate an ounce of your body. You would quickly have to learn things about asking and answering, about how the process of recapitulation works and doesn't work, about how to help it and how to get out of its way. You would have to learn how to unlearn, un-do. You would discard clever CC concepts for cold facts, pretty CC vocabulary for words of scientific precision. The process is one of 'seeing' clearly, not just blindly lashing out. The act of seeing clearly takes time and resources and the mind must work almost ceaselessly at levels far beyond the everyday.
As barbaric and unthinkable as this ounce-a-day approach may seem, I can assure you that anyone who has ever managed to awaken to the totality of self was driven by equally unendurable mental and emotional forces.
This is where the process of recapitulation comes in. Recapitulation is ultimately about clear seeing; clearly seeing what is, which is what we do when we stop seeing what's not. We can use recapitulation to raise the ordinary powers of the mind up to the extraordinary levels necessary in order to see life and the world and ourselves as they truly are.
Your CC lingo or spirituality or whatever you choose to call it is just another false garment, another layer of the lie of self. Your spirituality defines the dimensions of your cell and the fact that you don't see that tells me that you have no idea where you are or whose rules you are living under. You have no grasp of your true situation, of the nature of your captive status. You're clinging desperately to your lies; shielding them with emotional energy. Why? Because these lies are you. They are who you are. You don't have imperfections, you are imperfections. Ask yourself why you even wrote the posts above? What's the point? None of what I'm saying is new to you. And you here you are, writing impassioned posts, trying to stand your lies back up on their feet. If you like your lies, fine, but you're not going to make them true through the power of your conviction. Who you are is a lie; that's a fact. You're a fictional character in a state of wondrous denial.
A serious person must remember at all times where he is and who's running the show. This is Ego's house. It controls everything. It has every advantage. Why not drop all these fancy terms and posts and just begin. As per the previous post, pick one thing and start the recapitulation.
Or not.
SHM
Hi NagualHuman.
I don't enter into question and answer discussions unless it's a question regarding exactly where the questioner is. Your comments and questions may be 'beautiful' as Kao mentioned, but it's all just more belief to me and I don't deal with that; my job is about assisting others in assassinating belief, not promote it. I'm the one handing you or anyone else a grenade. You are the one who has to pull the pin and demolish self. (Eliminating beliefs, personal history, self importance, etc., etc.)
You don't need to add me or anyone else to your equation, you need to subtract yourself. Begin by re-examining your assumptions. It's clear from your posts that you consider yourself a serious person, a serious seeker. That's the first assumption you'll want to challenge. You're sure that a serious seeker is what you are and you think I (and others) see you that way too, but this is not the case. I know serious when I see it and I know a hand-puppet of self importance and ego when I see it. You think you're on top of something, but the only thing to be on top of is ego and self importance, and it's on top of you like a house on a mouse.
Maybe if we were to have a discussion one day I would tell you to cut off an ounce of your body every day until you can answer the question, "Who am I?" Any ounce as long as it's an ounce. That should bring you quickly into focus; light a fire under you. If you had to do this, cut off an ounce of your body every day, how much time do you think you would waste writing posts full of CC lingo and twirling it around like a fancy six-shooter? Not bloody much. You would soon become a self-stalking-recapitulation-machine. Sleep and food would be reduced to barest minimums. Relationships and activities once deemed essential would be forgotten. You would enter into a burning mania of single-pointedness. Soon, anything other than the question Who am I? would seem comically irrelevant. There's your new-warrior's way; the warrior's way for the new millennium.
Who am I? That's the only koan there is; the only one anyone ever needs. Every day you don't answer this question, another ounce. Take a moment to think about what it would mean to have to sit down with a scalpel at a certain time every day and amputate an ounce of your body. You would quickly have to learn things about asking and answering, about how the process of recapitulation works and doesn't work, about how to help it and how to get out of its way. You would have to learn how to unlearn, un-do. You would discard clever CC concepts for cold facts, pretty CC vocabulary for words of scientific precision. The process is one of 'seeing' clearly, not just blindly lashing out. The act of seeing clearly takes time and resources and the mind must work almost ceaselessly at levels far beyond the everyday.
As barbaric and unthinkable as this ounce-a-day approach may seem, I can assure you that anyone who has ever managed to awaken to the totality of self was driven by equally unendurable mental and emotional forces.
This is where the process of recapitulation comes in. Recapitulation is ultimately about clear seeing; clearly seeing what is, which is what we do when we stop seeing what's not. We can use recapitulation to raise the ordinary powers of the mind up to the extraordinary levels necessary in order to see life and the world and ourselves as they truly are.
Your CC lingo or spirituality or whatever you choose to call it is just another false garment, another layer of the lie of self. Your spirituality defines the dimensions of your cell and the fact that you don't see that tells me that you have no idea where you are or whose rules you are living under. You have no grasp of your true situation, of the nature of your captive status. You're clinging desperately to your lies; shielding them with emotional energy. Why? Because these lies are you. They are who you are. You don't have imperfections, you are imperfections. Ask yourself why you even wrote the posts above? What's the point? None of what I'm saying is new to you. And you here you are, writing impassioned posts, trying to stand your lies back up on their feet. If you like your lies, fine, but you're not going to make them true through the power of your conviction. Who you are is a lie; that's a fact. You're a fictional character in a state of wondrous denial.
A serious person must remember at all times where he is and who's running the show. This is Ego's house. It controls everything. It has every advantage. Why not drop all these fancy terms and posts and just begin. As per the previous post, pick one thing and start the recapitulation.
Or not.
SHM