Where's the Bull?

The Gust
The wind whistles within me.
I am naked. Master of nothing, master of no one, not even master of my own convictions,
I am my face in the wind, against the wind, and I am the wind that strikes my face. Eduardo Galeano

Strong Love

Here's How

Seek no profit for your ego-maniac self.
It's not necessary and it becomes a burden and a liability.
You profit despite your actions. You are alive! It's priceless.
Honour the Infinite.
Don't try to become valuable. You do not need to polish up anything.
You will want to polish all your mistakes and failings. Eat these crows. They nourish humility.
Study your errors. They are spiritual crows cawing for you.
When you love strongly you are useful to everyone without complaint.
Bad or good will not matter.
Love out of fear, obligation, duty, responsibility is love, however it is weak love.
Every stress strengthens your love.
Strong love is not offended.
Be vigilant with yourself and offer continual devotion in all that you do to the immeasurable Lover.
Know yourself through silent, solitary self-reflection.
Spend time there. And you rule over your wobbly self.
Don't roam around and neglect your time.
Sharpen your flint.
Seek and strike it against your self.
Do not waste the spark.
Strengthen your love.

The God Particle

Higgs Boson
The God Particle

The Tight Spot. Kausika the brahmana, who is now roasting in Hell, set his heart upon Virtue and in all his life never told a lie, even in jest. Once, having seen their helpless victim run past him and hide, Kausika, sitting there where the rivers meet, answered the thieves, "That way."  

The Deliverance. So be as the swan, who drinks from milk and water mixed together, whichever one he choose, leaving the other behind. William S. Buck, the Mahabharata

When we are not bound by duty and obligation to any worldly thing we are free to choose the Divine. This truth is the truth of Christ’s tight spot in his agony in the garden. It is the truth of Siddhartha Gautama when he rose one night and left his wife and child. It is the spiritual dilemma of Kausika, the Brahman. The act and more precisely the sovereignty to act is in fact a telltale sign of liberation and the intimacy with the truth.

 

Driven by patterns and blindness with no beginning,

             Humans follow the rounds of birth, old age, illness and death.

It requires intimate knowledge of truth to be able to be free and to voluntarily choose between the milk and water. It is not merely intellectual facts or methods of knowledge that one can memorize or learn but a transcendent recognition and intimate knowledge.

Duty, obligation and responsibility although basically harmless are human concoctions that cannot help us discern between the absolute and the relative or in more common terms between heaven and hell. It requires divine knowledge, transcendent knowing.

 

Both Christ and Siddhartha both exemplify this transcendence and capacity to choose. Christ could have chosen to run but he doesn’t. Siddhartha could have chosen to stay in the palace with his wife and newborn son, but he doesn’t. Both are sovereigns, both hold to a transcendent authority.

 

When we are tied and bound to our compulsions, driven and blind we are not aware of the fundamental and supreme element. In the hands of a spiritual master our compulsions tattle on us until we no longer betray the Sovereign within.

 

Not to Believe, Not to Act

Seeing the Beloved

The 10,000 Idiots

Hafiz

It is always a danger
to aspirants on the Path
When they begin to believe and act
As if the ten thousand idiots
Who so long ruled and lived inside
Have all packed their bags
And skipped town
Or
Died

It is not to believe or act for or against the 10,000 idiots. It is not to push  or pull any one idiot in the crowd that assaults your mind. It requires vision. When the 10,000 compulsions no longer rule, you are clear on the Source.

In order to see the relative in the middle of the absolute or the absolute in the middle of the relative your spirit must be free from any concept. In order to see hell in the middle of heaven or heaven in the middle of hell you must be free.

Filling a silver bowl with snow; hiding a heron in the moonlight. When you array them they're not the same. When you mix them you know where they are. In order to be able to discern, you need to intimately see the Beloved. It is not a matter of a belief or an act. It is a matter of a transcendent spark.



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His main teaching: watch in yourself, do not search out side, maintain you spirit free from any concept.
Liang-Chieh de Tung-shan (807-869), named also Tung-Shan ou Dongshan Liangjie


 

Love, Get Real

Mother Clings to Her Dead Baby

When your mind is free from all clinging and thinks of neither good nor evil, you should be careful not to sink into a sheer emptiness and stick to a deathlike stillness; you should rather try to broaden your learning and increase your knowledge, that you may become aware of your own mind and thoroughly comprehend the essential teaching of all the Enlightened Ones; you should cultivate a spirit of congenial harmony in your fellowship with others and free yourself of the cramping idea of the “self” and “other” until you attain complete enlightenment and realize your true nature which is immutable. Hui Neng

I love dogs. I love their nature, their constant sniffing out life and curious energy for “what’s happening” around them. They know how to get along with one another without wordy reproof or written law. They use yawns, bowing, averting their eyes and exposing the soft underbelly to signal what they are sensing.   They share, plot and plan and play wildly with the simplest of stuff. They learn and let go of mistakes and never hold a grudge. They teach each other. And they are great companions. It’s all we need to know about them, to care for them to let them sleep with us, eat with us and rest on our couches and chairs.

Ordinary life is Buddha life, it does not happen somewhere else, someplace different than everyday life. It is in the ordinary, everyday stuff of life that our mind clings, divides and sinks into miseries of all kinds. We can act like dead sticks and freeze our bodies and minds in attempt to “look like the still, stone images” of Buddha, but this is not the awakened mind, this is the imitation mind.











Noble Birth

Noble Birth

The Noble birth is a transcendent one. It requires maturity and development much like a physical birth. There is attraction, intercourse and development. Review the pictures again. See if you are able to see the love affair of the man who is confused and lost. Something catches his eye and he goes after it. He gets a better look and begins to run toward it. He captures it and joins it in training. They join together and are at ease. He plays his flute happily, the Ox is joyful and gladly carries his weight.

Consider for yourself this love affair of a Noble Birth. What do you see?

Please read Chapter 6 if you are reading the book.



Come, See

Small Black Stones

There are still these little stones. They need to be eaten. In order to swallow them, you need to soften them in your mouth and mind. These are your secret ill-wishes. They are harbingers of harm. They come before the harm arises as a warning to you to soften and eat them.

When others feel safe around you, you are eating these little ones. When others feel calm in your presence, these chips of hate, resentment, jealousy, anger, pride, shame, loss, covetousness are digesting into smaller and smaller bits. When no enmity trails after you or flares up in your presence, you convert the harm around you.

You must soften and eat them. There is no other way. Do not pretend to eat them. It is childish. Come, sit down and see for yourself the small black stones, begin to soften them and swallow them one tiny rock at a time.

Do not act pious or free or holy. Do not imitate another.