01.25.10
Devise no Word
Here are a few quotes from Osho to start out this short post.
“Devise no word, says the founder of Zen, Bodhidharma, because with the word starts the world. That is exactly what the Bible says: In the beginning was the word. And in the end also is the word
The moment you enter into the world of words, you start falling away from that which is
This makes me think mainly of Lao Tzu and Ramana Maharshi when devise no word comes to mind. Two masters that which teaching was based off this principle, it seemed to work very well for these two masters, however these are special cases, for other masters words seemed to be devised in order to pull in the seeker into a kind of clever trap.. it gets the minds attention until the point at which the mind surrenders to silence. When this silence happens then:
Devise no word. If your mind creates no word, in that silence is God, or truth, or nirvana. The moment the word enters, you are no longer in your own self. You have gone away.
01.06.10
Perfection and Imperfection
This post will not be long… and when i say it will not be long is just comes down to this…
Perfection does not exist when individual expectation come up… Perfection exists when everything is seen right here-now. Even the imperfection that can be seen in the here-now is perfection at it’s imperfections.
Don’t waste time thinking about making something perfect at in the future… but rather be here-now, that is the only time things fall into place through perfection, whatever this word actually means is indescribable, but i hope that the pointer covey’s something deeper to the reader.
“Don’t forget to breathe.”
12.22.09
The Master and the Disciple : No Separation
I’ve been having some talks over on Mikes blog of goodness and the thought of disciple and master came into thought lately. I would have to say that I’ve been quiet humbled, that there is a point that gathering of information can leave one to believe that they know something that others don’t although this is never the case. Only through subjective points of view does that separate-ness appear. So I have been humbled in seeing that What i think I know, I do not actually know and through all of this the idea of disciple and master came abruptly into this awareness…
The thought is that the there is no separation between the two, the master and disciple are not two but are one and the same, the only appearance is so that the disciple may come to the conclusion on his own that he was never a disciple and he was never the master but they were both the same one-ness just different manifestations of the same truth. It is as Truth is allowing itself to show itself off to itself… or as I like to call it, Love abiding in Love… Just so we’re clear, Truth and Love are one and the same… it is coming to see itself and just because there is an appearing difference it is not separate….
Also Something also brought this thought of one-ness to the forefront, just at seeing the title of one Lunes recent posts allowed it to be recognized that energy does indeed never die… that it has always been, even when the body dies that energy doesn’t just exhaust itself… It still is, always is, always has been, it is not subject to bodily death (or any kind of death for that matter). I see energy as just another word for the many expressions of what is pointing to who we actually are… It goes by tons of words but there is no separation between them, their essence is the same. It is the One (or the No-Self). Even this is a pointer… in a sense…
12.17.09
What is Real? You…You.
This sort of goes along with one of my previous posts, Maya : Your World is Illusion about what really is the problem/solution at hand.
What brought about this thought is that i was having short conversation with a friend about personal preference and the dawn of this thought that all seeing is subjective.. it is only relative truth. This is easily seen all you have to do is see what conditioned views you have as opposed to someone elses conditioned views to know that neither one of them is actually real. They seem real to you because they are “your” views, and you believe that “you” are having them but that’s not the case. They are all subjective, not only yours but everyone elses. So then you have to see that none of that rubbish is real then, you are not seeing Reality but only a dream like reality, one in which you’ve created. It doesn’t matter how real you’ve made it for yourself, that’s the nature of an illusion, “The appearance of being real.”
Because of this, the by product then is that the conditioning is going to have a very mechanical outcome. Let me give you a quote to help out..
Gauntam Buddha used to say to his disciples,”To be angry is so stupid that it is inconceivable that intelligent human beings go on doing it. Somebody else is doing something and you are getting angry? He may be doing something wrong, he may be saying something wrong, he may be making some effort to humiliate you, to insult you-but that is his freedom. If you react, you are a slave. If you say to the person, ‘It is your joy to insult me, it is my joy not to be angry,’ you are behaving like a master.”
12.12.09
Poem on Silence: Adyashanti
The waves of the mind
demand so much of Silence.
But she does not talk back
does not give answers nor arguments.
She is the hidden author of every thought
every feeling
every moment.
Silence.
She speaks only one word.
And that word is this very existence.
No name you give Her
touches Her
captures Her.
No understanding
can embrace Her.
Mind throws itself at Silence
demanding to be let in.
But no mind can enter into
Her radiant darkness
Her pure and smiling
nothingness.
The mind hurls itself
into sacred questions.
But Silence remains
unmoved by tantrums.
She asks only for nothing.
Nothing.
But you won’t give it to Her
because it is the last coin
in your pocket.
And you would rather
give her your demands than
your sacred and empty hands.
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Everything leaps out in the celebration of mystery,
but only nothing enters the sacred source,
the silent substance.
Only nothing gets touched and becomes sacred,
realizes its own divinity,
realizes what it is
without the aid of a single thought.
Silence is my secret.
Not hidden.
Not hidden.
Adyashanti – Emptiness Dancing
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This secret is no farther than merely being in the moment, you just have to be receptive to what is firmly and always has been in place. That you are not separate from the whole, that you are nothing in particular but you are all that is. You go beyond any concept and because of this, how could you reside only through the minds intellect. You are not those qualities, that you have been lead to believe, they are just mere by products of the personality. So let the personality play it’s game, it is all in good fun, but you need not be attached to that as your identity. You are at a much larger (or smaller) scale then that. This is why it’s so hard to put what you are in words… because the Truth does not take opposition into account because there is no opposition, there never was. Duality is an appearance, a phenomenal experience of the human being, but all experiences are like dreams, so watch the dream as if you were the sky and the dream were the cloud passing by. Do not try and hold the cloud in place and do not be sad that the cloud will move on, it is it’s nature to float on. See that it is you that you are looking for, seeking, and then seeking will drop away. See that you are not to be tied down, that you are the sky to the cloud, not the cloud to the sky.
You are Being, appearing as Human – Adyashanti
12.07.09
Maya: Your World is Illusion
The more I sit with this concept the more it reveals for me… and this started to subside more recently through some events in life that have come up. They aren’t even exactly related to this personality but it seems that it effects everything all the same, or doesn’t effect it at all… On the surface it seems to affect many people, but really it is like the weed that you pull and over time it just comes back….
The only way to get rid of the weed is to pull it out by the root… In this case this is the person questioning. If you take the questioner out of the equation, where does the problem ever arrive… but I digress… this is about the world being an illusion.
It seems that each individual makes the first mistake of believing that there is a separation between them and the next person, and this is because appearances in there own to the mind are very deceiving. You see a tree, a rock, a car, and they are… welll… a tree, a rock, and a car, but there is no difference in what they actually are then to what you are. Nothing said that non-separation meant that everything was to be the exact same thing, which is why there are such beautiful things in the world, and well what seems to be not so beautiful things in the world.
