"it has been a secret wish to be in this situation-- having almost no money"
Yes... nice one... I sooo hear you. .
I also see what you mean about behaviours ... I too have felt that hmmnn... annoyance with American and European arrogance and abrasiveness... the way it always seems so drastic, and I have often felt melted and impressed by the images of "asian or indigenous hospitality".... the sort of benign feeling.... I also have always admired cultures who still seem to embody a "connection to the earth" in a "natural way" as opposed to our technological worship, and i think maybe there are some capacities to be shared.
But I still feel this immovable fact staring me in the face which says that the true ordering of all this, the process by which true sharing would take place requires an inner revolution that is total... you see? Not from one THING to another THING, but revoution within THAT WHICH IS. It's kind of simple...easy to see. There really can't be this separate entity that thinks it has the power to choose its way through life and "have opinions", likes and dislikes... can there? I can't be sitting back from you with a bunch of theories that "I believe" and "a way of life that I lead that i believe is right" and call that sharing... the sitting back is the essence of not sharing. (even if "I plunge in" there still is separation because it's "me plunging in"). We can't have this separate entity staying on the superficial level, making changes to our superficial conduct, and calling that order. I think that is clear.
So when I talked about "Being universal love", i think we have to go really really slowly, right? Cause EVERYONE talks like that. I feel like I'm saying something very different... (and i think you are trying to communicate around this too, but i want to see if we can get a little clearer) I am not suggesting that there is a some thing that WE are not now, that WE must get to. We both see, i think, how the seeker with its seeking prevents seeing THAT WHICH IS. In fact, any effort at all is still a product of a mind that is separate, and therefore conflictual (not that one can drift). We also see that "wanting THAT WHICH IS to be different" is the same unfortunate process, because there is a "wanter" - which is the past. However, at the same time, all this doesn't mean that there isn't an immovable demand for order, for passionate action, it just means that it can't have it's roots in the past... can't be based in the past. Can we just see the truth of this?
You're right... in a sense, there is no rush... no point in "rushing," but not because "we have time," but because that is full of desire and fear - that would have it's roots in the past... there IS, however, an immovable demand for an immediate, spontaneous inner revolution... awareness in which there is no personality... not "me, I've got to figure it out."...not an awareness that you could describe, with lights and flashes and emotion (the so--called mystical experience ), not "something for YOU to do", not a revolution because it would be "right or respectable", but just see: the present simply will not accept the past... you can just see the sanity of that. There can be no order in life unless it takes place. This isn't something that "YOU have to get to." Can we just inquire into this a bit? see this? We're just pointing here, just touching, enquiring... seeing if we can see the truth of what we're talking about... so I haven't given you anything to do, or propegated any theories, or suggested any regimes, or assumed any judgements.
Phew... I would say that in seeing this, if we are seeing this, the mind is in a crisis in which it cannot make a single move from a psychologically separate place. There would still be a demand for "personal" arrangements on the most superficial of levels - eating - clothing etc. , but doesn't the crisis remain? I would call such a crisis, "being universal love."
(there might be a temptation to say "but I don't see this." May I suggest that you doubt and question that voice - you know? Just don't say that. Not because there isn't some more we could talk about, and not that you should pretend, but because that voice is just more conclusion... that voice isn't interested in looking... not seeking, just looking.....)
love
raven
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
struggle...
There is no struggle in simply seeing the fact of struggle.
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For such a mind, there would be freedom from struggle, and therefore the capacity to act.
This is not, however, a mind which could say, "I am free of struggle", but only a mind which is seeing the falseness of that phenomenon, indeed that the personal, is the very essence of struggle.
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For such a mind, there would be freedom from struggle, and therefore the capacity to act.
This is not, however, a mind which could say, "I am free of struggle", but only a mind which is seeing the falseness of that phenomenon, indeed that the personal, is the very essence of struggle.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
the black hole that is "ME"...
There is a black hole that turns people into slaves, killers, prisoners, and injured dependents.
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For some reason... the synapses stick, so that an image, feeling... energy claims centrality... and then the brain gets captured, forced to "create" around IT... around the image!... and then the limbs and the gestures are all claimed - they all must maintain this centre, this thing (which by definition cannot exist... it is past, only an image) This centre and its process is the black hole of human misery and consumption.
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There is the black hole where the brain accepts thought as a basis, and there is light - the fact that thought cannot touch - that illuminates the truth of the current situation.
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Is there, right now, a mind which is free to look?
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For some reason... the synapses stick, so that an image, feeling... energy claims centrality... and then the brain gets captured, forced to "create" around IT... around the image!... and then the limbs and the gestures are all claimed - they all must maintain this centre, this thing (which by definition cannot exist... it is past, only an image) This centre and its process is the black hole of human misery and consumption.
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There is the black hole where the brain accepts thought as a basis, and there is light - the fact that thought cannot touch - that illuminates the truth of the current situation.
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Is there, right now, a mind which is free to look?
letter to a friend...
thanks for getting back to me...
I don't mean to be pedantic... you know? Abrasive... picky.
I'm afraid my gestures have been feeling that way for you. And they feel that way for me too, at least on the surface, and that sucks i suppose, but it strikes me that we can't accept the stupidity and dullness that exists on this side of the abrasiveness... I'm afraid that we're not seeing the whole picture... i'm suggesting that we aren't... and with a gentle looking...gentle touching, maybe the whole picture comes clear. And yes, that means the end of "everything I hold dear"... of course. I'm not interested in spoiling anyone's fun, per se, but that's not all that's going on for me in our conversations, or in my comments about situations and events. I feel quite clear that i'm not working to "be right", or propegate a philoshophy, or exercise a method, or follow a tradition, or "not follow" a tradition, or participate in a regime or maintain a sense of personal control.
I am seeing, living at the heart of, a demand for universal action. And that demand simply doesn't accept anything personal... "what I want/don't want". It doesn't accept it in this brain, and so it can't participate in the personal regimes of others - no matter how "respectable", no matter how ratified by tradition, no matter how "creative" - the tradition, the personal and collective momentum, of a millenia or of a day, is a corrupt, contradictory affair.
Ugh... it feels so harsh... I don't know why, I just know that if we don't find out what it means to be completely honest in life, then our amusements and pastimes and pursuits are really horrifying. Our laughter becomes the laughter of the dictator, our music, our dance becomes the next drug...holding down a state that is responsible for utter disorder. And that is going on. The state of the human "personal" is the state of dishonesty, of contradiction, of separation. Our "first world climate" is still the _expression of selfishness (not that the third world is selfless). Anyone can see it, and yet we talk about success., service and nobility.
And there really is no time for this understanding to take place is there? Will there be some eventual time when there will be seeing?... this seeing must be now or never. This doesn't mean pressure. There is no pressure, no obligation, no guilt. It's just a fact: there is this immoveable demand - understand wholeness immediately, or live in conflict. There's no authority in that. I think it possible to see that quite clearly. There is no authority - inner or outer. The chooser, "the authority", "the believer", is the essence of non-understanding... it can never "choose order" - that's what dr. frankenstein tries to do. "piece together (and maintain) a reality that 'works'." Sorry. Never gonna happen....
Well... sorry, you know, I'm not sure you wanted to go into it... I'm not sure if any of this interests you. But this is where we're at i think, and I feel like maybe life is calling this stuff out between the two of us.
love raven
I don't mean to be pedantic... you know? Abrasive... picky.
I'm afraid my gestures have been feeling that way for you. And they feel that way for me too, at least on the surface, and that sucks i suppose, but it strikes me that we can't accept the stupidity and dullness that exists on this side of the abrasiveness... I'm afraid that we're not seeing the whole picture... i'm suggesting that we aren't... and with a gentle looking...gentle touching, maybe the whole picture comes clear. And yes, that means the end of "everything I hold dear"... of course. I'm not interested in spoiling anyone's fun, per se, but that's not all that's going on for me in our conversations, or in my comments about situations and events. I feel quite clear that i'm not working to "be right", or propegate a philoshophy, or exercise a method, or follow a tradition, or "not follow" a tradition, or participate in a regime or maintain a sense of personal control.
I am seeing, living at the heart of, a demand for universal action. And that demand simply doesn't accept anything personal... "what I want/don't want". It doesn't accept it in this brain, and so it can't participate in the personal regimes of others - no matter how "respectable", no matter how ratified by tradition, no matter how "creative" - the tradition, the personal and collective momentum, of a millenia or of a day, is a corrupt, contradictory affair.
Ugh... it feels so harsh... I don't know why, I just know that if we don't find out what it means to be completely honest in life, then our amusements and pastimes and pursuits are really horrifying. Our laughter becomes the laughter of the dictator, our music, our dance becomes the next drug...holding down a state that is responsible for utter disorder. And that is going on. The state of the human "personal" is the state of dishonesty, of contradiction, of separation. Our "first world climate" is still the _expression of selfishness (not that the third world is selfless). Anyone can see it, and yet we talk about success., service and nobility.
And there really is no time for this understanding to take place is there? Will there be some eventual time when there will be seeing?... this seeing must be now or never. This doesn't mean pressure. There is no pressure, no obligation, no guilt. It's just a fact: there is this immoveable demand - understand wholeness immediately, or live in conflict. There's no authority in that. I think it possible to see that quite clearly. There is no authority - inner or outer. The chooser, "the authority", "the believer", is the essence of non-understanding... it can never "choose order" - that's what dr. frankenstein tries to do. "piece together (and maintain) a reality that 'works'." Sorry. Never gonna happen....
Well... sorry, you know, I'm not sure you wanted to go into it... I'm not sure if any of this interests you. But this is where we're at i think, and I feel like maybe life is calling this stuff out between the two of us.
love raven
Thursday, March 16, 2006
letter to my sister...
Here is a letter which is working to communicate truthfully. See first that the words themselves are never the thing described. Just as the word “tree” is never the actual tree, the actuality that these words are working to touch, is the burning fact of your life, which I suggest, is the burning fact of life itself. So as you are reading, is it possible not just to hear the words, but to be aware of the burning fact of this moment… the feelings and reactions, of which these words are but a very small part
So we are working to gently point out and see the actual fact of what is happening in life,
So that maybe there can be a free mind which is seeing the truth,
Not tied to any beliefs, speculation or hope,
and therefore a life of universal action, absolute intelligence and responsibility,
effortless, energized meaning.
Life is showing us immense disorder. Disorder is the fact, isn’t it?
We can identify thousands of different expressions of disorder,
But if one looks, one will see that all disorder shares the same root.
Is it possible to simply look, be aware, and see the actual root of disorder in daily life?
Are we looking? Or are we so broken up, so used to our pleasures, our false sense of control, our giving our lives over to authority - that we are just giving up? Wanting to be told what to do? Wanting to find the so-called “right” authority to whom we can give the responsibility of our lives? Let’s see if we can work together a bit, look together and find out the root of disorder in life. There is no pressure in this inquiry, no authority, there is only your life, with its demand for creative action. Life is showing disorder… what is its root? We might have several explanations coming to mind…. “The economy”, “the environment”, “the evil of mankind”, “genes”, “my foolishness” but may I suggest, everything is so interconnected. Let’s question these reactions a bit and see if we can get clear. Not rely on speculation, theory or conclusions?
We know that we can control one expression of disorder, but then a new one crops up. We can end one war, but meanwhile other ones are in the making. So what is the root? The ACTUAL root , not a concept we can pass around and be authorities about.
So let’s just look. Feel it out.
You see… Life shows what it shows. We see what life shows - what life IS. Spontaneously, effortlessly immediately, the fact of our life is shown isn’t it? Right now it is showing fear… conflict… great anxiety and tension. That is the fact. So go really slowly here. See the beauty of this. No matter what I think about it, the fact of my life, the misery, the confusion, the struggle and strife, with the occasional pleasure, it is illuminated. So… is it possible to understand at a single glance, the root of our contradiction, our inner and outer disorder?
Isn’t conflict perpetuated in us when suddenly there is that voice which says, “ME, I am seeing disorder.” I realize this might seem like a very challenging statement, but really it is quite simple. The fact of life is shown spontaneously, so what is this voice, “me” that pops into the scenario? Humans have lived with this voice for thousands of years. We have made it noble, we have based our entire culture upon it, but I’m suggesting that if one touches this and looks a bit, one will see that just as life shows the fact, it also shows that this movement away from the fact as “me” is a nonsensical, conflictual phenomenon.
Isn’t this voice necessarily the past, the memory of that particular brain, standing up and saying “I am alive” Doesn’t it represent a cleft in the brain? Separation? And therefore everything it does merely perpetuates separation and the nightmare of human struggle trying to accommodate for this separation?
How? Just look. There is the fact, which is disorder, and then there is this observer, this thing that thinks it is somehow different or separate from the fact, and it thinks, “I’m gonna do something about the fact.” This is akin to trying to make yourself fly by lifting upwards on your own belt buckle, isn’t it?
Just see the truth of this. If one merely looks, observes the nature of that which life shows, one will see that any movement away from the fact as “ME” and “what I’m doing, not doing, etc.“ constitutes the foundation of ALL HUMAN DISORDER, but most importantly, the disorder in one’s own existence.
Wouldn’t a mind, seeing the truth of this, lose its capacity to react as “me”? Wouldn’t such a mind have no choice but to be completely involved in life, therefore completely free of fear, completely free of reaction, and therefore free of the root of disorder – spontaneously creative and responsible in relationship? Feel this out… see if you can see the truth (or falseness) of what I am talking about.
So we are working to gently point out and see the actual fact of what is happening in life,
So that maybe there can be a free mind which is seeing the truth,
Not tied to any beliefs, speculation or hope,
and therefore a life of universal action, absolute intelligence and responsibility,
effortless, energized meaning.
Life is showing us immense disorder. Disorder is the fact, isn’t it?
We can identify thousands of different expressions of disorder,
But if one looks, one will see that all disorder shares the same root.
Is it possible to simply look, be aware, and see the actual root of disorder in daily life?
Are we looking? Or are we so broken up, so used to our pleasures, our false sense of control, our giving our lives over to authority - that we are just giving up? Wanting to be told what to do? Wanting to find the so-called “right” authority to whom we can give the responsibility of our lives? Let’s see if we can work together a bit, look together and find out the root of disorder in life. There is no pressure in this inquiry, no authority, there is only your life, with its demand for creative action. Life is showing disorder… what is its root? We might have several explanations coming to mind…. “The economy”, “the environment”, “the evil of mankind”, “genes”, “my foolishness” but may I suggest, everything is so interconnected. Let’s question these reactions a bit and see if we can get clear. Not rely on speculation, theory or conclusions?
We know that we can control one expression of disorder, but then a new one crops up. We can end one war, but meanwhile other ones are in the making. So what is the root? The ACTUAL root , not a concept we can pass around and be authorities about.
So let’s just look. Feel it out.
You see… Life shows what it shows. We see what life shows - what life IS. Spontaneously, effortlessly immediately, the fact of our life is shown isn’t it? Right now it is showing fear… conflict… great anxiety and tension. That is the fact. So go really slowly here. See the beauty of this. No matter what I think about it, the fact of my life, the misery, the confusion, the struggle and strife, with the occasional pleasure, it is illuminated. So… is it possible to understand at a single glance, the root of our contradiction, our inner and outer disorder?
Isn’t conflict perpetuated in us when suddenly there is that voice which says, “ME, I am seeing disorder.” I realize this might seem like a very challenging statement, but really it is quite simple. The fact of life is shown spontaneously, so what is this voice, “me” that pops into the scenario? Humans have lived with this voice for thousands of years. We have made it noble, we have based our entire culture upon it, but I’m suggesting that if one touches this and looks a bit, one will see that just as life shows the fact, it also shows that this movement away from the fact as “me” is a nonsensical, conflictual phenomenon.
Isn’t this voice necessarily the past, the memory of that particular brain, standing up and saying “I am alive” Doesn’t it represent a cleft in the brain? Separation? And therefore everything it does merely perpetuates separation and the nightmare of human struggle trying to accommodate for this separation?
How? Just look. There is the fact, which is disorder, and then there is this observer, this thing that thinks it is somehow different or separate from the fact, and it thinks, “I’m gonna do something about the fact.” This is akin to trying to make yourself fly by lifting upwards on your own belt buckle, isn’t it?
Just see the truth of this. If one merely looks, observes the nature of that which life shows, one will see that any movement away from the fact as “ME” and “what I’m doing, not doing, etc.“ constitutes the foundation of ALL HUMAN DISORDER, but most importantly, the disorder in one’s own existence.
Wouldn’t a mind, seeing the truth of this, lose its capacity to react as “me”? Wouldn’t such a mind have no choice but to be completely involved in life, therefore completely free of fear, completely free of reaction, and therefore free of the root of disorder – spontaneously creative and responsible in relationship? Feel this out… see if you can see the truth (or falseness) of what I am talking about.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Live this flight...
there is still that voice saying, "I hafta do something - I hafta be something"
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get off life support
life doesn't need support
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Have a child... live...
but there is a great delusion in that world of "wanting to have a child"
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See what life is showing
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That pain is something trying to be born
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Live this flight
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Born of Honest Conversation
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get off life support
life doesn't need support
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Have a child... live...
but there is a great delusion in that world of "wanting to have a child"
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See what life is showing
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That pain is something trying to be born
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Live this flight
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Born of Honest Conversation
This universal dream...
We are transmuting and birthing the order of this universal dream
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A "story" is pain.
A belief is pain...
Because rather than transmuting in regard to what is [indeed, merely the transmutation of what is], the brain is stuck perpetuating [maintaining] an image [of what is]...
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THE CRAZY SHIP [THE FEAR SHIP]
Is it possible to get off?
Deluded - disorganized deluded
- organized deluded
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"YOU" can't do anything about this situation. The point of this writing is to get clear about that.
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The only economy is a universal economy, and the only way it could be maintained is in the understanding and ending of conflict... the root of conflict.
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Can the mind, hearing these words, be free of them.
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Met Amy downtown.
-The only thing that's going to bring absolute order to life, which is your life, is understanding what it means to love. This understanding is not dependent upon circumstances, which means nothing external [or internal] can stop it. This understanding will make you spontaneously claim your divine warriorship [ugh] Like the relationship between the sun and a flower... just burning with astonishing grace, accuracy and meaning which has nothing to do with thought.
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what do i have to do?
you have to give up your life
how?
only by seeing that inherent in the fact of consciousness, there is NO personality.
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Human mediocrity, conflict, illness, IS: Me, I can, can't do something.
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The chest of drawers,
the closet
the carpet
the crossed legs
the pain
the light and the fake flowers
the warmth and the moistness
the hum and the pain
this is how to let it go.
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Can we immediately
spontaneously
participate in
a total revolution of the human mind?
For thousands of years,
the overwhelming tendency has been for the human brain to get stuck thereby enclosing itself as a separate entity, accumulating walls - gets stuck, then spends its days affirming and [protecting that stuckness]
consciousness itself IS that revolution.
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There is discord among people of every form. There is discord within.
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just being sick and hurt:
no, I wasn't bad and the authority right
Is there energy to tear down the walls?
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A "story" is pain.
A belief is pain...
Because rather than transmuting in regard to what is [indeed, merely the transmutation of what is], the brain is stuck perpetuating [maintaining] an image [of what is]...
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THE CRAZY SHIP [THE FEAR SHIP]
Is it possible to get off?
Deluded - disorganized deluded
- organized deluded
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"YOU" can't do anything about this situation. The point of this writing is to get clear about that.
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The only economy is a universal economy, and the only way it could be maintained is in the understanding and ending of conflict... the root of conflict.
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Can the mind, hearing these words, be free of them.
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Met Amy downtown.
-The only thing that's going to bring absolute order to life, which is your life, is understanding what it means to love. This understanding is not dependent upon circumstances, which means nothing external [or internal] can stop it. This understanding will make you spontaneously claim your divine warriorship [ugh] Like the relationship between the sun and a flower... just burning with astonishing grace, accuracy and meaning which has nothing to do with thought.
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what do i have to do?
you have to give up your life
how?
only by seeing that inherent in the fact of consciousness, there is NO personality.
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Human mediocrity, conflict, illness, IS: Me, I can, can't do something.
-
The chest of drawers,
the closet
the carpet
the crossed legs
the pain
the light and the fake flowers
the warmth and the moistness
the hum and the pain
this is how to let it go.
-
Can we immediately
spontaneously
participate in
a total revolution of the human mind?
For thousands of years,
the overwhelming tendency has been for the human brain to get stuck thereby enclosing itself as a separate entity, accumulating walls - gets stuck, then spends its days affirming and [protecting that stuckness]
consciousness itself IS that revolution.
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There is discord among people of every form. There is discord within.
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just being sick and hurt:
no, I wasn't bad and the authority right
Is there energy to tear down the walls?
The word is never the actual thing...
Everybody can't do the same thing, be in the same place, co-ordinate the same resources... but everyone MUST love if there is to be order in "singular" and community life. If love has to happen RIGHT NOW - could it involve a concept?
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Is there ONE THING at this moment that doesn't hurt anyone or anything?
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This thing exists without will. Will is always born in the past so represents an insufficient response to the present... (it is a delusion perpetually)
action in the present would be born spontaneously of itself... the SEEN is active.
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understanding the root of sorrow....of disorder.
action would be unstoppable and ecstatic.
it involves everything because this moment IS everything.
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there are all kinds of disorder, but action requires the end of disorder NOW!
[ie. you cannot be a disordered entity 'bringing about order']
[seeing this requires a deeper understanding of the nature of disorder (ie. disorder is not just the physical manifestations)]
So what is the one thing that could constitute immediate, spontaneous, ubiquitous action? Could it be born of memory? So what is left?
[are you actually with the crisis of this question? is the demand of the previous few lines of inquiry truly with you? Or are they just a bunch of words to be pushed around?]
[If you are truly there, then Seeing is the only thing left isn't it?]
seeing ... the seen IS action if there is a mind that sees [the truth of the statement] that the end of disorder must be now.
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the foundation of human tradition is the sense of me... it is the basis of our tradition of depravity, mischief, disorder and war. And all the guises it takes, from "renunciate" to "civilization" are furthur perpetuations of this most unfortuante phenomenon.
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just seeing is unstoppable. A mind which could spontaneously understand the root of human disorder would be unstoppable in its power to bring order and create.
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Intelligence isn't primitive or civilized, but it is the only thing which will bring order to life.
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revolution - within what is.
- establishing comprehension
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If you see that there has to be love at the beginning, then you must also see that it can't be something generated for could the unloving mind generate love?
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Awareness itself is "the thing" that has transcended, arrived, broken through conditioning.
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rather than "setting up" on the "certainty" of "the fact", the synapses set upon the certainty of human attatchment [images]
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If you go for a walk, you cannot have an image of what the path is from last wee and walk that... is may have snowed... the mind must be availabe to live in truth... can there then be effort to live in truth as in, "okay, i will be fresh, aware?"
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human ordering... the "coming together" and what happens at that point.
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The "nation" that "makes this work" is the nation of human hearts.
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when there is something saying HOW?, it is attachment... It is truing to enforce and maintain the world of psychological time.
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No matter what you've done or learned, there is still a situation demanding a fresh response, and that response cannot be found in what you've done or learned.
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The "me"'s way of observation is to assert a conclusion: "I am full of hatred." But that is not true observation because in fact, the observer is part of that thing which it is calling hatred.... so the so called observation is actually a conceptual conslusion - [an image which is cut and pasted into the continued sense of "me and who I think I am"] designed to keep a sense of separation... if there is conclusion, there cannot be observation.
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If one says to another, "be aware". Has that one given the other something to do? Isn't awareness itself already demanding that? What is the thing which is going to "Be aware?"
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Reality transmuter ... saying humans are a plague to the earth is like saying that the bloodcells are a plague to the body.
Consciousness is an interrelated dream organism. Right now there is a demand for action, for truthful transmutation, if this would occur, it would mean order, action and nourishment amongst all that is because it all co-exists.
To the degree that the human mind is caught in a sense of separation, the human species IS like a plague to the rest of creation... the human mind must see that inherent in awareness itself, there is impersonality.
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Ask not, what's it gonna be like when "I" am in full collaboration with all the animals, plants, people, weather, etc. Awareness itself IS that full collaboration. [can it be lived immediately - just seeing the truth of what is?]
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The work is seeing what life is showing .. [a spontaneous act for the mind which understands that IT IS WHAT LIFE IS SHOWING] the intelligence is inherent in the seen. That intelligence would birth order.
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Creation itself is your creation [what you have created]
Don't get hung up in "trying to create" SOME THING in your environment or in yourself... that's always the work of the "me" trying to affirm itself.
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Just look, in looking, Is that which is looked at , different from that which is looking?
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What we MUST concern ourselves with immediately, is understanding the end of human reaction, ... only there would be the spoontaneous intelligent revolution that is demanded of us right now.
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Seeing itself is inherently free of conflict. Even if what the discriminating factor would call "conflict" is seen, the seeing [itself] is free of it , so THERE is no conflict... conflict could only begin if the mind adheres to the discrimination as "me and what i should/shouldn't do about it".
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We have to go into something which has never occurred before.
Revolution is demanded ... is inherent in awareness. Turning. Universe - One turn.
Even if there have been eloquent articulations or descriptions of the fact... these descriptions are not the fact, and there is no time to come upon revolution... this thing that wants to take time, that wants to propegtate "teachings" is the essence of conflict.
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What I
can do
about IT
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observed observer
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You're the only one who can be aware of the precise nature of your viewpoint... the fact of consciousness. Life needs for there to be transmutation THERE... the end of reaction.
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Complete inaction in regard to what is
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The fact of the moment doesn't belong to anything
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The word is never the actual thing
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No desire does not mean you will end up in a cave
No desire would mean that you would be intouch with all the things the others have, but you would be the central redemptive agent, and all relations would be about communicating order.
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Is "being aware of the truth" "a strategy"? or is it something life is demanding of you?
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The only chance for order, ecstasy, action, is understanding right now. Not, "i'm in the wrong place, action will be over there."
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Is it possible to live in truth.
Don't say, I wanna go live in the country, and then I will live in truth.
In fact, see that the sayer is false...
If the country happens then it happens born of truth and there is no dependence.
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If one were to love what life shows, one would find that there is a birth taking place. (ah... the virgin birth because it has no [external] requirements!) It is innocent.
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Youre already let go
What is is the meaning
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Is there ONE THING at this moment that doesn't hurt anyone or anything?
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This thing exists without will. Will is always born in the past so represents an insufficient response to the present... (it is a delusion perpetually)
action in the present would be born spontaneously of itself... the SEEN is active.
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understanding the root of sorrow....of disorder.
action would be unstoppable and ecstatic.
it involves everything because this moment IS everything.
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there are all kinds of disorder, but action requires the end of disorder NOW!
[ie. you cannot be a disordered entity 'bringing about order']
[seeing this requires a deeper understanding of the nature of disorder (ie. disorder is not just the physical manifestations)]
So what is the one thing that could constitute immediate, spontaneous, ubiquitous action? Could it be born of memory? So what is left?
[are you actually with the crisis of this question? is the demand of the previous few lines of inquiry truly with you? Or are they just a bunch of words to be pushed around?]
[If you are truly there, then Seeing is the only thing left isn't it?]
seeing ... the seen IS action if there is a mind that sees [the truth of the statement] that the end of disorder must be now.
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the foundation of human tradition is the sense of me... it is the basis of our tradition of depravity, mischief, disorder and war. And all the guises it takes, from "renunciate" to "civilization" are furthur perpetuations of this most unfortuante phenomenon.
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just seeing is unstoppable. A mind which could spontaneously understand the root of human disorder would be unstoppable in its power to bring order and create.
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Intelligence isn't primitive or civilized, but it is the only thing which will bring order to life.
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revolution - within what is.
- establishing comprehension
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If you see that there has to be love at the beginning, then you must also see that it can't be something generated for could the unloving mind generate love?
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Awareness itself is "the thing" that has transcended, arrived, broken through conditioning.
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rather than "setting up" on the "certainty" of "the fact", the synapses set upon the certainty of human attatchment [images]
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If you go for a walk, you cannot have an image of what the path is from last wee and walk that... is may have snowed... the mind must be availabe to live in truth... can there then be effort to live in truth as in, "okay, i will be fresh, aware?"
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human ordering... the "coming together" and what happens at that point.
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The "nation" that "makes this work" is the nation of human hearts.
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when there is something saying HOW?, it is attachment... It is truing to enforce and maintain the world of psychological time.
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No matter what you've done or learned, there is still a situation demanding a fresh response, and that response cannot be found in what you've done or learned.
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The "me"'s way of observation is to assert a conclusion: "I am full of hatred." But that is not true observation because in fact, the observer is part of that thing which it is calling hatred.... so the so called observation is actually a conceptual conslusion - [an image which is cut and pasted into the continued sense of "me and who I think I am"] designed to keep a sense of separation... if there is conclusion, there cannot be observation.
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If one says to another, "be aware". Has that one given the other something to do? Isn't awareness itself already demanding that? What is the thing which is going to "Be aware?"
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Reality transmuter ... saying humans are a plague to the earth is like saying that the bloodcells are a plague to the body.
Consciousness is an interrelated dream organism. Right now there is a demand for action, for truthful transmutation, if this would occur, it would mean order, action and nourishment amongst all that is because it all co-exists.
To the degree that the human mind is caught in a sense of separation, the human species IS like a plague to the rest of creation... the human mind must see that inherent in awareness itself, there is impersonality.
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Ask not, what's it gonna be like when "I" am in full collaboration with all the animals, plants, people, weather, etc. Awareness itself IS that full collaboration. [can it be lived immediately - just seeing the truth of what is?]
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The work is seeing what life is showing .. [a spontaneous act for the mind which understands that IT IS WHAT LIFE IS SHOWING] the intelligence is inherent in the seen. That intelligence would birth order.
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Creation itself is your creation [what you have created]
Don't get hung up in "trying to create" SOME THING in your environment or in yourself... that's always the work of the "me" trying to affirm itself.
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Just look, in looking, Is that which is looked at , different from that which is looking?
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What we MUST concern ourselves with immediately, is understanding the end of human reaction, ... only there would be the spoontaneous intelligent revolution that is demanded of us right now.
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Seeing itself is inherently free of conflict. Even if what the discriminating factor would call "conflict" is seen, the seeing [itself] is free of it , so THERE is no conflict... conflict could only begin if the mind adheres to the discrimination as "me and what i should/shouldn't do about it".
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We have to go into something which has never occurred before.
Revolution is demanded ... is inherent in awareness. Turning. Universe - One turn.
Even if there have been eloquent articulations or descriptions of the fact... these descriptions are not the fact, and there is no time to come upon revolution... this thing that wants to take time, that wants to propegtate "teachings" is the essence of conflict.
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What I
can do
about IT
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observed observer
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You're the only one who can be aware of the precise nature of your viewpoint... the fact of consciousness. Life needs for there to be transmutation THERE... the end of reaction.
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Complete inaction in regard to what is
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The fact of the moment doesn't belong to anything
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The word is never the actual thing
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No desire does not mean you will end up in a cave
No desire would mean that you would be intouch with all the things the others have, but you would be the central redemptive agent, and all relations would be about communicating order.
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Is "being aware of the truth" "a strategy"? or is it something life is demanding of you?
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The only chance for order, ecstasy, action, is understanding right now. Not, "i'm in the wrong place, action will be over there."
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Is it possible to live in truth.
Don't say, I wanna go live in the country, and then I will live in truth.
In fact, see that the sayer is false...
If the country happens then it happens born of truth and there is no dependence.
-
If one were to love what life shows, one would find that there is a birth taking place. (ah... the virgin birth because it has no [external] requirements!) It is innocent.
-
Youre already let go
What is is the meaning
-
early spring rain...
Is the plant exclusive?
There is order, but it is not exclusive because it's order is born in the same place that everything's order is born.
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Being a student of yoga is like being a student of english - it doesn't mean you have anything to say.
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can each and every gesture affirm the universal? Not protect the imopossible, psychological me?
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Can THE SEEN order itself?
Can there be no movement away from WHAT IS?
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"What am I gonna do?"
No conflict in seeing.
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"turning" at the centre inspires turning at the periphery.
The step away at the centre sends the being to the periphery where there is conflict.
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In seeing, suddenly there is this - judger.
"everything is fucked"
"I'm in pain"
"I'm in trouble"
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Awareness - isness IS surrendered. It has to do the astonishing work of ordering . There is NO established past order.
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Those that understand are the immediate sangha. There is no choice there.
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Relinquishing ideological pursuits... "pursuing what is" which isn't really a pursuit... but a following ... like the water down the wash... a totally free, released phenomenon.
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The personal never sets free... it only ensures that future generations have to fight against the effects of the personal.
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The separate mind can understand "no method" verbally, but then it will merely go out into its conditioned world and continue to adjust for pleasure. A mind that truly understands no method is in action.
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In ISNESS all possibilities meet.
Can isness change itself?
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Freedom:
the energy of this organism is not supporting anything evil.
The root of evil?
Inaction and the various ways it stays inactive constitutes evil.
The root of inaction?
the brain not receiving the NOW... the "what is" happening.
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If something is borne of love, there is no problem.
If is is born of desire there is conflict.
Desire and conflict are simultaneous.
Can the past be... unstuck...?
Can the brain be unstuck?
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Is this moment something "I" am doing?
Yes, it is dependent on this brain, but the separated movement [as I] must be understoood as false or else this moment becomes something that "I" can do something about ... this "I" is necessarily the past so anything it does constitutes an incomplete, draining, conflictual and deluded gesture.
-
being is the triumph
not some "experience"
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Is true exchange possible?
This moment IS true exchange.
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The whole truth must be seen...
the fact is you are nourished... you have an experience to go through.
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can there be only seeing? human disorder is based in its denial...[the denial of "only seeing" (?)] find out.
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Your child's senses are beset upon by the truth... when you don't go there with him, [when you live in your shoddy little image of yourself] you cleave his brain.
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The fact of this moment isn't gradual is it? So can learning be gradual?
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Being - awareness is the work... in that there would be spontaneous seeing and that which is would refresh itself. It is not "me" being aware.
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There is nothing stopping this awareness
And so there is nothing stopping action and true communication.
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Can there be the end of the capacity for selfishness?
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DISORDER IS DISORDER IS DISORDER [the infinite variations of disorder which we can identify are but manifestations of the principle disorder]
Now... if something were actually done about the root of disorder - if there were truthful creative action, at that moment, there's nothing disorderly is there? You see? For that being, there is action, and so, disorder is gone. There's intelligence there, and that intelligence requires EVERYTHING, so order is not a fixed state to arrive at in the future, order cannot be measured, but merely seeing what is, right now [with a mind which also sees the false nature of the personal and so cannot slosh into duality] constitutes order and therefore creative action.
-
just see... does that require time? method?
Does seeing this word, feeling the clothing on you skin... does it require a method?
So seeing what is cannot involve a method, and seeing what is is not a method because it is here? You can see that if you don't see what is, there is conflict... what's the point of life?
-
can the mind only burn?
-
There is order, but it is not exclusive because it's order is born in the same place that everything's order is born.
-
Being a student of yoga is like being a student of english - it doesn't mean you have anything to say.
-
can each and every gesture affirm the universal? Not protect the imopossible, psychological me?
-
Can THE SEEN order itself?
Can there be no movement away from WHAT IS?
-
"What am I gonna do?"
No conflict in seeing.
-
"turning" at the centre inspires turning at the periphery.
The step away at the centre sends the being to the periphery where there is conflict.
-
In seeing, suddenly there is this - judger.
"everything is fucked"
"I'm in pain"
"I'm in trouble"
-
Awareness - isness IS surrendered. It has to do the astonishing work of ordering . There is NO established past order.
-
Those that understand are the immediate sangha. There is no choice there.
-
Relinquishing ideological pursuits... "pursuing what is" which isn't really a pursuit... but a following ... like the water down the wash... a totally free, released phenomenon.
-
The personal never sets free... it only ensures that future generations have to fight against the effects of the personal.
-
The separate mind can understand "no method" verbally, but then it will merely go out into its conditioned world and continue to adjust for pleasure. A mind that truly understands no method is in action.
-
In ISNESS all possibilities meet.
Can isness change itself?
-
Freedom:
the energy of this organism is not supporting anything evil.
The root of evil?
Inaction and the various ways it stays inactive constitutes evil.
The root of inaction?
the brain not receiving the NOW... the "what is" happening.
-
If something is borne of love, there is no problem.
If is is born of desire there is conflict.
Desire and conflict are simultaneous.
Can the past be... unstuck...?
Can the brain be unstuck?
-
Is this moment something "I" am doing?
Yes, it is dependent on this brain, but the separated movement [as I] must be understoood as false or else this moment becomes something that "I" can do something about ... this "I" is necessarily the past so anything it does constitutes an incomplete, draining, conflictual and deluded gesture.
-
being is the triumph
not some "experience"
-
Is true exchange possible?
This moment IS true exchange.
-
The whole truth must be seen...
the fact is you are nourished... you have an experience to go through.
-
can there be only seeing? human disorder is based in its denial...[the denial of "only seeing" (?)] find out.
-
Your child's senses are beset upon by the truth... when you don't go there with him, [when you live in your shoddy little image of yourself] you cleave his brain.
-
The fact of this moment isn't gradual is it? So can learning be gradual?
-
Being - awareness is the work... in that there would be spontaneous seeing and that which is would refresh itself. It is not "me" being aware.
-
There is nothing stopping this awareness
And so there is nothing stopping action and true communication.
-
Can there be the end of the capacity for selfishness?
-
DISORDER IS DISORDER IS DISORDER [the infinite variations of disorder which we can identify are but manifestations of the principle disorder]
Now... if something were actually done about the root of disorder - if there were truthful creative action, at that moment, there's nothing disorderly is there? You see? For that being, there is action, and so, disorder is gone. There's intelligence there, and that intelligence requires EVERYTHING, so order is not a fixed state to arrive at in the future, order cannot be measured, but merely seeing what is, right now [with a mind which also sees the false nature of the personal and so cannot slosh into duality] constitutes order and therefore creative action.
-
just see... does that require time? method?
Does seeing this word, feeling the clothing on you skin... does it require a method?
So seeing what is cannot involve a method, and seeing what is is not a method because it is here? You can see that if you don't see what is, there is conflict... what's the point of life?
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can the mind only burn?
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Lonely...
Lonely
onely
only
one
Why is lonely a problem?
The only oneness
The synapses don't move, and suddenly, "something that isn't" holds more sway than "that which is."
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Can the brain be totally free?
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Surely the fact of this awareness would include everything?
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Can "the personal" stay out of "the seen?"
Can there be nothing but observation?
The actual, along with an understanding of the creation of illusion?
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Is it possible to be graceful...
Is it possible that there is a life which is free of conflict... whole ... in order?
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There must be exchange
Exchange is what would establish order
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Is the sun in conflict?
Order is born in this fire...
Awareness is born in this fire.
Right now ... can this human awareness take its order?
It reaches you free of violence... if there is no reaction, then there is no choice but for it to birth order.
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Awareness is free of "what I want" so one could say that freedom is inherent in awareness... but communicating that is the challenge.
-
Can I establish universal order?
Seeing clearly.
So that the truth is affirmed in each heart.
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If there is looking, there couldn't be sorrow...
sorrow is a reaction where what is desired to be seen is not seen. If there is looking and conflict is seen, or hell is seen... the reactions says... that shouldn't be happening .. isness has no time and there would be true action in regard to the seen.
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To "get sorted out" - live at the place where you are already sorted out.
That would mean pure observation
Seeing IS sorted out.
It (the seen) will NEVER be "what you want"
it will NEVER meet any preset conditions.
The seen is "what you are" can it ceaselessly crash into itself... such crashing might be grace ... like the sun crashing into itself.
an act vs. action
-
seeing is the "help"
seeing is the action
Grace is just this
Everything is known
There is no choice about JUST THIS
JUST THIS would bear the relations of graceful communication.
-
Just see
that in awareness
there is nothing
personal
-
Being is absolutely demanding for each and everyone...
If there were not the spectre of the personal... the me, the we, there would be grace, order, and community with its total intelligence.
-
In all cases, there must be a poetic, figurative mind.
If gestures are allowed to refer to furthur gestures,
the mind is on a downward spiral of conceptualization.
If gestures are allowed to point to "what is happening",
there could be seeing
the truth and therefore action.
-
In all situations, love, impersonal seeing, is the right thing to do.
-
The true "must" is "that which is shown"
If the mind could stay with that, perhaps there would be action...
The "I must" is a consumptive, deluded reaction of momentum in which an image, the past, denies the "shown".
-
Seeing is the essence of freshness.
Seeing staleness, is freshness in regard to staleness.
-
re: "there is an imprediment to grace"
Awareness IS grace.
-
Those who see emptiness directly are united in action.
-
Absolute authenticity, absolute order.
-
It has to be an order which each one can attain - no tricks, no regimes. Each one sees the whole truth, so action is unavoidable.
-
Traditions around the world say "be committed" and that will end disorder.
Are we serious about ending the conflict and disorder of the human mind?
Me... the personal... is the origin of disorder... :me: is the tendency of the mind to stick in an impression.
-
immediate freedom ... can awareness be free of any sense... any movement of "the personal?"
-
sorrow is personal.
-
Awareness is not afraid.
Awareness in a being in which there was no movement as me.
-
Awareness itself would be "the order"
Awareness constitutes the end of whatever is shown.
onely
only
one
Why is lonely a problem?
The only oneness
The synapses don't move, and suddenly, "something that isn't" holds more sway than "that which is."
-
Can the brain be totally free?
-
Surely the fact of this awareness would include everything?
-
Can "the personal" stay out of "the seen?"
Can there be nothing but observation?
The actual, along with an understanding of the creation of illusion?
-
Is it possible to be graceful...
Is it possible that there is a life which is free of conflict... whole ... in order?
-
There must be exchange
Exchange is what would establish order
-
Is the sun in conflict?
Order is born in this fire...
Awareness is born in this fire.
Right now ... can this human awareness take its order?
It reaches you free of violence... if there is no reaction, then there is no choice but for it to birth order.
-
Awareness is free of "what I want" so one could say that freedom is inherent in awareness... but communicating that is the challenge.
-
Can I establish universal order?
Seeing clearly.
So that the truth is affirmed in each heart.
-
If there is looking, there couldn't be sorrow...
sorrow is a reaction where what is desired to be seen is not seen. If there is looking and conflict is seen, or hell is seen... the reactions says... that shouldn't be happening .. isness has no time and there would be true action in regard to the seen.
-
To "get sorted out" - live at the place where you are already sorted out.
That would mean pure observation
Seeing IS sorted out.
It (the seen) will NEVER be "what you want"
it will NEVER meet any preset conditions.
The seen is "what you are" can it ceaselessly crash into itself... such crashing might be grace ... like the sun crashing into itself.
an act vs. action
-
seeing is the "help"
seeing is the action
Grace is just this
Everything is known
There is no choice about JUST THIS
JUST THIS would bear the relations of graceful communication.
-
Just see
that in awareness
there is nothing
personal
-
Being is absolutely demanding for each and everyone...
If there were not the spectre of the personal... the me, the we, there would be grace, order, and community with its total intelligence.
-
In all cases, there must be a poetic, figurative mind.
If gestures are allowed to refer to furthur gestures,
the mind is on a downward spiral of conceptualization.
If gestures are allowed to point to "what is happening",
there could be seeing
the truth and therefore action.
-
In all situations, love, impersonal seeing, is the right thing to do.
-
The true "must" is "that which is shown"
If the mind could stay with that, perhaps there would be action...
The "I must" is a consumptive, deluded reaction of momentum in which an image, the past, denies the "shown".
-
Seeing is the essence of freshness.
Seeing staleness, is freshness in regard to staleness.
-
re: "there is an imprediment to grace"
Awareness IS grace.
-
Those who see emptiness directly are united in action.
-
Absolute authenticity, absolute order.
-
It has to be an order which each one can attain - no tricks, no regimes. Each one sees the whole truth, so action is unavoidable.
-
Traditions around the world say "be committed" and that will end disorder.
Are we serious about ending the conflict and disorder of the human mind?
Me... the personal... is the origin of disorder... :me: is the tendency of the mind to stick in an impression.
-
immediate freedom ... can awareness be free of any sense... any movement of "the personal?"
-
sorrow is personal.
-
Awareness is not afraid.
Awareness in a being in which there was no movement as me.
-
Awareness itself would be "the order"
Awareness constitutes the end of whatever is shown.
the seen
the seen
What is this thing that says…”this is stupid?”
-
In “trying” three more moths were let in
Can the “tryer” be over… then there is no choice for anything.
-
Can there be only isness?
Not a fixed mechanical mind.
-
*
Isness says me and suddenly channels are co-opted to maintain a self image.
-
I end the human capacity for disorder.
-
Is is possible to live the fullness of this let go explosion?
-
Is it possible to end now… to live now
-
Awareness is what to do…
-
Is it possible to live now…
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What is the root of inaction and can it end?
-
What is this “thing” that Thinks it can change it?
-
Truly… there is no choice about this. [There is no choice about the truth]
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The realm of the chooser is an aberration [and therefore it is not meeting the truth.]
The only way there could be absolute cleanliness would be if there ceased to be movement …. Energy born of will.
-
In awareness… is there actually an observer.
Is there seeing without the seer?
-
Is conformity a universal crime?
Yes… it has a center.
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My life ends the human capacity for disorder.
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If there is choice – a chooser – here, there is harm and the perpetuation of harm.
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Is there one thing trying to happen right now?
-
You r immaculate life is pressed up against you… can there be no escape from it?
Without understanding, the root of escape, no matter what the circumstances, there must be conflict.
-
My being
This being
BEING
ENDS THE
Human capacity
For disorder
Spontaneously immediately
Absolutely
-
Where is the platform that is escape?
The relentlessness that is action would have to put away “the platform”.
-
Action is life showing what is.
-
Can there be the immediate end of continuation?
-
Not a single step away from what is shown as “me”… the image… the what will be
-
Awareness is the marriage… is the togetherness
-
“I” can’t do anything about “the shown”, but if there is no step away, what happens?
-
I finally accepted that we are already in love, already married.
-
The nature of human gathering…
-
People coming together…
-
Is it possible to be an authority, as in the one who knows and the one who doesn’t?
-
is it possible that there be a human gathering which sets everybody free?
-
cont’d … already divine universal dancers.
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Awareness is the most poignant thing. It has to generate action.
-
Me and all the things “I’m gonna do”, is a fictitious swirling.
-
Life is impersonal. Within that impersonality would be order.
-
Simply see… complete inaction.
-
Only the seen. The seen is enough. The seen is “the best that you can do”
The seen is love.
The seen is pure.
The seen has nothing to do with “what I want.”
What is this thing that says…”this is stupid?”
-
In “trying” three more moths were let in
Can the “tryer” be over… then there is no choice for anything.
-
Can there be only isness?
Not a fixed mechanical mind.
-
*
Isness says me and suddenly channels are co-opted to maintain a self image.
-
I end the human capacity for disorder.
-
Is is possible to live the fullness of this let go explosion?
-
Is it possible to end now… to live now
-
Awareness is what to do…
-
Is it possible to live now…
-
What is the root of inaction and can it end?
-
What is this “thing” that Thinks it can change it?
-
Truly… there is no choice about this. [There is no choice about the truth]
-
The realm of the chooser is an aberration [and therefore it is not meeting the truth.]
The only way there could be absolute cleanliness would be if there ceased to be movement …. Energy born of will.
-
In awareness… is there actually an observer.
Is there seeing without the seer?
-
Is conformity a universal crime?
Yes… it has a center.
-
My life ends the human capacity for disorder.
-
If there is choice – a chooser – here, there is harm and the perpetuation of harm.
-
Is there one thing trying to happen right now?
-
You r immaculate life is pressed up against you… can there be no escape from it?
Without understanding, the root of escape, no matter what the circumstances, there must be conflict.
-
My being
This being
BEING
ENDS THE
Human capacity
For disorder
Spontaneously immediately
Absolutely
-
Where is the platform that is escape?
The relentlessness that is action would have to put away “the platform”.
-
Action is life showing what is.
-
Can there be the immediate end of continuation?
-
Not a single step away from what is shown as “me”… the image… the what will be
-
Awareness is the marriage… is the togetherness
-
“I” can’t do anything about “the shown”, but if there is no step away, what happens?
-
I finally accepted that we are already in love, already married.
-
The nature of human gathering…
-
People coming together…
-
Is it possible to be an authority, as in the one who knows and the one who doesn’t?
-
is it possible that there be a human gathering which sets everybody free?
-
cont’d … already divine universal dancers.
-
Awareness is the most poignant thing. It has to generate action.
-
Me and all the things “I’m gonna do”, is a fictitious swirling.
-
Life is impersonal. Within that impersonality would be order.
-
Simply see… complete inaction.
-
Only the seen. The seen is enough. The seen is “the best that you can do”
The seen is love.
The seen is pure.
The seen has nothing to do with “what I want.”
Thursday, March 09, 2006
journal...
Compassion is the only thing that could create – therefore that which is – the created … what gets in the way of compassion right now? Resistence to the created.
Can this awareness move itself free of any sense of the past?
I walk, “feeling called” to speak with someone. It strikes me that he is tring to speak from an image… the only option is to play along… you are the authority, I am the one who is lost. I got in to the exchange apparently because I couldn’t face my own situation, In the conversation, I feel angry, I think, “because I am being used”. Communication doesn’t seem to be happening. I need to question the premise of his speech, but he doesn’t seem interested.
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The attached clusters can’t do anything about life. So… no images … not of sitting, drinking tea, “living” here, or there.
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this “problem” comes bearing its own solution.
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all pictures must die in this problem…. “with a person” “without a person.”
What is the root that keeps pictures alive?
Time/thought
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I’ve been “getting into trouble” in the kitchen it seems. The smokey pernicious one has found a place to hide in “my teas”, “my cooking”
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the vows and commitments are lists of possible symptoms that death will take
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understanding and therefore ending the root of disorder/death involves action… if this were to take place, there is action … not I have an idea of what order is and I’m gonna act it out.
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can life be totally involved right here, right now…?
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*concepts might help us express a response, but can they help us generate a response? No so surely we must understand?
-
Just see… keep seeing… what happens there?
-
*Life, at essence, is not a problem – here it is … and like a flower, its truth would bear ceaseless solution.
-
your career… to live compassionately… is your birthright and living compassionately is the only place ecstasy could exist… accept life now – let grace heal your synapses – in so doing you won’t have a choice but to help, indeed “force”, others to live from the compassion in them.
-
clumsiness? I left the water running … should I apologize? When would apology be important?… helpful? Ever? … point is, … in understanding, there is no choice. [nothing to forgive]
-
*Is there one gesture that could end sorrow? Could I be a being of impersonal action? My awareness IS my marriage with my lover –
Can I let go completely, right here, right now… no… awareness is already let go. Can “I” do anything about “this”? Am I fully this?
-
Compassion is “my” birthright. In understanding, what to do is choiceless. Seeing is “what to do”:
-
There is no comfortable zone now… compassion, while being universally comfortable, would have no time to register comfort or not… comfort requires a past.
-
Can consciousness JUST BURN
Nothing can stop a life of compassion
A compassionate life
You might nnot like the way it looks,
But within the way it looks
Is a compassionate life
The only bliss
-
*
If a liver cell does it’s job
The body goes on living
That which it was a part of goes on
If the body does its job?…
The human community would go on living.
That which it was a part of goes on
If the human community would do its job?…
[The universe?]
-
Just burn … be & see
-
Renunciation:
- life creates what happens, not me
- you give up the process… not things…
- life decides what you give or receive
-
If there were no hoping for something else, then pain would be jumped on spontaneously, impersonally… all energy would go into ceaseless solution of the challenge of life in relationship.
-
Everything is known
that step away from the known as me is a consumptive sickness
what is happening where there is only the known? The seen? The experienced?
-
Be the central human … “belonging” to nothing… already totally immersed in the field of action
-
The human has to jam out in relationship. Life needs me to be fully active… Demands It!
If there is understanding, there is instantaneous action.
-
Life has you at the forefront of activity and demands that you participate. It is not a question of resources or capacity.-
-
How do you fight?
Forcing others to face the truth in themselves.
How?
BE THE TRUTH
How?
See the actual root of nonfact in yourself
What’s the root of nonfact in me?
-
The vows are symptoms of the step away.
Awareness itself has not stepped away.
-
Me is the distortion which acts as the basis for all disorder in consciousness.
-
What is this smokey, dull, I’m tough guy?
When outside and adopted that “okay, I’ll play along thing and began to engage “the work” that “they” had chosen, and was stung by a bee. It was pissed. Usually I can hang wit da bees. Shouldn’t have to piss off the sisters.
-
when are we gonna need this?
You’re not, you’re gonna need the mind that can handle things like this.
-
encourage no reaction
through no reaction
-
Can this awareness move itself free of any sense of the past?
I walk, “feeling called” to speak with someone. It strikes me that he is tring to speak from an image… the only option is to play along… you are the authority, I am the one who is lost. I got in to the exchange apparently because I couldn’t face my own situation, In the conversation, I feel angry, I think, “because I am being used”. Communication doesn’t seem to be happening. I need to question the premise of his speech, but he doesn’t seem interested.
-
The attached clusters can’t do anything about life. So… no images … not of sitting, drinking tea, “living” here, or there.
-
this “problem” comes bearing its own solution.
-
all pictures must die in this problem…. “with a person” “without a person.”
What is the root that keeps pictures alive?
Time/thought
-
I’ve been “getting into trouble” in the kitchen it seems. The smokey pernicious one has found a place to hide in “my teas”, “my cooking”
-
the vows and commitments are lists of possible symptoms that death will take
-
understanding and therefore ending the root of disorder/death involves action… if this were to take place, there is action … not I have an idea of what order is and I’m gonna act it out.
-
can life be totally involved right here, right now…?
-
*concepts might help us express a response, but can they help us generate a response? No so surely we must understand?
-
Just see… keep seeing… what happens there?
-
*Life, at essence, is not a problem – here it is … and like a flower, its truth would bear ceaseless solution.
-
your career… to live compassionately… is your birthright and living compassionately is the only place ecstasy could exist… accept life now – let grace heal your synapses – in so doing you won’t have a choice but to help, indeed “force”, others to live from the compassion in them.
-
clumsiness? I left the water running … should I apologize? When would apology be important?… helpful? Ever? … point is, … in understanding, there is no choice. [nothing to forgive]
-
*Is there one gesture that could end sorrow? Could I be a being of impersonal action? My awareness IS my marriage with my lover –
Can I let go completely, right here, right now… no… awareness is already let go. Can “I” do anything about “this”? Am I fully this?
-
Compassion is “my” birthright. In understanding, what to do is choiceless. Seeing is “what to do”:
-
There is no comfortable zone now… compassion, while being universally comfortable, would have no time to register comfort or not… comfort requires a past.
-
Can consciousness JUST BURN
Nothing can stop a life of compassion
A compassionate life
You might nnot like the way it looks,
But within the way it looks
Is a compassionate life
The only bliss
-
*
If a liver cell does it’s job
The body goes on living
That which it was a part of goes on
If the body does its job?…
The human community would go on living.
That which it was a part of goes on
If the human community would do its job?…
[The universe?]
-
Just burn … be & see
-
Renunciation:
- life creates what happens, not me
- you give up the process… not things…
- life decides what you give or receive
-
If there were no hoping for something else, then pain would be jumped on spontaneously, impersonally… all energy would go into ceaseless solution of the challenge of life in relationship.
-
Everything is known
that step away from the known as me is a consumptive sickness
what is happening where there is only the known? The seen? The experienced?
-
Be the central human … “belonging” to nothing… already totally immersed in the field of action
-
The human has to jam out in relationship. Life needs me to be fully active… Demands It!
If there is understanding, there is instantaneous action.
-
Life has you at the forefront of activity and demands that you participate. It is not a question of resources or capacity.-
-
How do you fight?
Forcing others to face the truth in themselves.
How?
BE THE TRUTH
How?
See the actual root of nonfact in yourself
What’s the root of nonfact in me?
-
The vows are symptoms of the step away.
Awareness itself has not stepped away.
-
Me is the distortion which acts as the basis for all disorder in consciousness.
-
What is this smokey, dull, I’m tough guy?
When outside and adopted that “okay, I’ll play along thing and began to engage “the work” that “they” had chosen, and was stung by a bee. It was pissed. Usually I can hang wit da bees. Shouldn’t have to piss off the sisters.
-
when are we gonna need this?
You’re not, you’re gonna need the mind that can handle things like this.
-
encourage no reaction
through no reaction
-
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
here is a recent letter that speaks well...
Todd! I am loving life, and at the same time, the challenge of generating true, gracefull communication (generating truly ordered life-action in community) has continued to burn... of course... it has continued to jam me up against situations in which there seems to be hypocrisy - within and without...in which people continue to be caught up in a sense of separation and conceptual conclusion... "me and my beliefs", "me and my experiences", "me and what i am doing, not doing, to be creative." - all of it creating furthur conflict...
conflict and the process of conflict is not understood - the origin of conflict is taking up activities by which it thinks it ends conflict.
The passage you sent me speaks volumes to my current challenges... It seems that everywhere i have been, and in every relationship, there has been a great momentum of dogma...at the yoga centre, there was "spiritual dogma...", people attatched to beliefs about the nature of life. when i moved away from the centre, there was "cultural dogma..." politics, adherence to the power of "the state", the "economy", how things are "supposed to be" between people, etc ... at the shambala retreat, it was back to "spiritual dogma..." "my practice", ideas about meditation, etc. And now, in the common parlance about this place and it's "teachers", it seems obvious to me that it is yet another "pursuit of all-inclusive truths or utopias." It seems like yet another "obsession", another "flight from reality." People put forth that they are "on the trail to truth" , "becoming angels," "serving a holy teacher," etc. My "friends" and "family" seem generally uninterested or unable to make a genuine inquiry into the possibility of relations which are free of conflict.
So what am i doing here? haven't i learned? is it that i don't have the strength to generate something truly new?
navigating these waters has been excruciating...and at the same time i have seen grace at work in the process... even if someone is caught in an obsession, we all still have to live in reality, so it has seemed there is space there...even if someone is a "nationalist", a "buddhist", an "individualist," there is nothing stopping me from finding out what it means to love.
my principle situation is a burning demand for truly responsible, creative action . Inherent in this demand is an awareness which spontaneously shows that any step away from the "burn" as "me" is the origin of fear - therefore conflict, disorder and inaction. Most intelligent people seem to see this verbally, they call it selfishness, but their minds don't seem to be able to stay there. The next step always seems to be, "okay, so I"M NOT GONNA STEP AWAY. Here's what I"M GONNA DO ABOUT SELFISHNESS" I don't know if you can see the error there. So then there is just this separate entity acting out what it thinks it means to "not step away." As much as i love chogyam trungpa and much buddhist poetry, it still strikes me that this is what the buddhist world is doing, and chogyam's earnest work still seems to slide into the realm of dogma..."spiritual teachers", "enlightened ones" and all the rest of it.
so i continue to hear the nature of your struggle... at the same time, what is the root of agression? Truly? Is it possible to see the actual root and therefore be done with it immediately? It strikes me that that is the challenge, not "i know what the root is and this is what i'm doing about it." n'est ce pas? Do you see the difference?
conflict and the process of conflict is not understood - the origin of conflict is taking up activities by which it thinks it ends conflict.
The passage you sent me speaks volumes to my current challenges... It seems that everywhere i have been, and in every relationship, there has been a great momentum of dogma...at the yoga centre, there was "spiritual dogma...", people attatched to beliefs about the nature of life. when i moved away from the centre, there was "cultural dogma..." politics, adherence to the power of "the state", the "economy", how things are "supposed to be" between people, etc ... at the shambala retreat, it was back to "spiritual dogma..." "my practice", ideas about meditation, etc. And now, in the common parlance about this place and it's "teachers", it seems obvious to me that it is yet another "pursuit of all-inclusive truths or utopias." It seems like yet another "obsession", another "flight from reality." People put forth that they are "on the trail to truth" , "becoming angels," "serving a holy teacher," etc. My "friends" and "family" seem generally uninterested or unable to make a genuine inquiry into the possibility of relations which are free of conflict.
So what am i doing here? haven't i learned? is it that i don't have the strength to generate something truly new?
navigating these waters has been excruciating...and at the same time i have seen grace at work in the process... even if someone is caught in an obsession, we all still have to live in reality, so it has seemed there is space there...even if someone is a "nationalist", a "buddhist", an "individualist," there is nothing stopping me from finding out what it means to love.
my principle situation is a burning demand for truly responsible, creative action . Inherent in this demand is an awareness which spontaneously shows that any step away from the "burn" as "me" is the origin of fear - therefore conflict, disorder and inaction. Most intelligent people seem to see this verbally, they call it selfishness, but their minds don't seem to be able to stay there. The next step always seems to be, "okay, so I"M NOT GONNA STEP AWAY. Here's what I"M GONNA DO ABOUT SELFISHNESS" I don't know if you can see the error there. So then there is just this separate entity acting out what it thinks it means to "not step away." As much as i love chogyam trungpa and much buddhist poetry, it still strikes me that this is what the buddhist world is doing, and chogyam's earnest work still seems to slide into the realm of dogma..."spiritual teachers", "enlightened ones" and all the rest of it.
so i continue to hear the nature of your struggle... at the same time, what is the root of agression? Truly? Is it possible to see the actual root and therefore be done with it immediately? It strikes me that that is the challenge, not "i know what the root is and this is what i'm doing about it." n'est ce pas? Do you see the difference?
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