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Sonntag, 7. juni 2009 7 07 /06 /2009 00:54

There is nothing that does not enter its space.

Self cultivation is to become pure and be like a baby. By letting go, it all gets done; the world is won by those who let it go! But when you try and try, the world is then beyond the winning. Everything goes according to fate. Don't try to go against fate. If you are the One, you are the One. Many don't follow this instruction. The world's softest thing penetrates quickly the world's hardest thing. There is nothing that does not enter its space. It is because of knowing inaction's usefulness a religion without words; for inaction's usefulness, there are a rare few who really know it. Fame and body, which is dearer? Body and wealth, which is worth more? Attain and death, which is illness? Great love for passion will incur great loss; hoarding will incur immense death. Therefore being contented is no shame; knowing the limitation to stop is not dangerous but close, and it can be eternal. Great perfection yet it seems imperfect, incomplete; its uses are not impaired. The great filling up is like pouring in rushes, its uses not poor. Great straight line seems to bend. Great skill seems like clumsiness, great speech seems like stammering. Stillness wins over weariness, cold wins over heat. Quiet and stillness will upright the world. When the world has Tao, coach horses fertilise the fields. When the world has no Tao, war horses breed in the parks. Calamity is not greater than not contented; fault is not greater than desire to attain. Therefore learn to be contented, you will always be contented. Without going out, you can know the world. Without prying beyond the window, you can see heavenly Tao. The further you go, the less you know Tao. So the Sage does not go out and knows Tao at home, not looking he understands, in inaction he achieves success.

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Samstag, 23. mai 2009 6 23 /05 /2009 01:34

What are you seeking?

To look is one thing, to study is diametrically opposite. If one says to you 'Go and see the rose flowers in the garden', and rather than going to the garden you go to the library and you study about the rose flowers -- that is study. About and about, around and around it moves; it never touches the real point. Enough of the words. Enough of the theories, dogmas. Enough of the doctrines. And this is a great moment in the life of an enquirer. Everybody has to pass through words because we have been trained for words. Everybody has to pass through theories; we have been given theories from our very childhood. We have been brought up according to prejudices, doctrines, churches, schools. Somebody is a Christian and somebody is a Mohammedan and somebody is a Hindu, and we have been brought up, conditioned. So the moment you start asking 'What is truth?' your mind starts supplying words; it knows the answers. Those answers are all false, those answers are all borrowed, but it gives you beautiful answers. They satisfy you for a while, and if your enquiry is not great, they may satisfy you forever. Only a great enquirer sees the point that words are meaningless. Language is not the door towards reality, but silence. The inner talk must cease, only then will you have clarity. Only then reality reveals itself to you. You go on chattering inside, and your mind goes on functioning, constantly, obsessively, like a maniac. And the mind is a maniac: it goes on creating new words, new combinations, new theories; it goes on speculating. It is a great inventor as far as theories are concerned and it does not allow you even a single interval, a gap, to look at what is there. The inner talk must cease... then suddenly there is no barrier; there never has been. The Zen monks say: From the very beginning the truth is unhidden, the truth is in front of you. What are you seeking? Whereare you running? But your eyes are closed through prejudices.

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Samstag, 2. mai 2009 6 02 /05 /2009 16:18

Does the Ying-yang suggest that good has some evil in it and vice versa?

There is no god, there's no devil. It's just you as you are and there is nothing else. Don't look for it because you will not find it. The idea of good and evil is what creates an internal division which is likely to "blind" people and keep them from looking at the big picture.

Scripts are, but the truly conscious individual would overcome these scripts...it's a matter of awareness. According to the Tao Te Ching, the existence of one implies the existence of the other. You cannot define something as "good" if there is no "evil". The book talks about that when they talk about the days when there was no loyalty, or trust, or anything like that. Those things were not thought of because they were inherent qualities of human beings. But when deceit and "evil" was "created', then those things became relevant. Basically, they only exist when "evil" exists. When you have no "evil", then you also don't have any "good". All things are neutral -- it is how we perceive it that defines it in a dualistic perspective. Such is the essence of the Tao. The Tao is the unity of the opposites, and thus, in the Tao, there is no "good" or "evil", there just IS. Lao Tsu taught that the wisest approach was a way of ‘non-action’ ("Wuwei"or "wu wei") – not inaction but rather a harmonisation of one’s personal will with the natural harmony and justice of Nature. ‘The World is ruled by letting things take their natural course. It cannot be ruled by going against nature or arrogance.’ (Tao Te Ching; Verse 48). It also means that the individual should do things natural to Tao and appropriate to do in his circumstances, thus serving as an instrument of the Law rather than doing the things as individuals. That is why no one should take any credit for things done. Nature is stabilized by order, and humans along with all other natural phenomena exist within nature. Attempting to force one's own path is arrogant, futile and self-destructive. It should be noted that in Taoism the complemental part of "non-action" ("Wu wei") is "non-left-undone" ("Wu bu wei"). Taoism should be viewed as advocating the harmonization of "passivity" and "activity/creativity" instead of just being passive. In other words through stillness and receptivity natural intuition guides us in knowing when to act and when not to act.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6388513071012286349&ei=X1r8SfCrFoL62wLnyZ3KBQ&q=

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Mittwoch, 22. april 2009 3 22 /04 /2009 16:34

change this whole situation

A meditator has to live his life in such a way that everything goes on growing, expanding, without any limit. Your love, your joy, your silence, your life -- everything should be allowed to grow. And it can happen only if you allow the same to others.

But what we have been doing for thousands of years is just the opposite: we encroach on each other's territory, we destroy the space of everybody in the name of love, in the name of friendship. We use beautiful words to hide ugly realities.

If you really love a person you will allow all the space possible to the person; you will never encroach on his or her freedom. That is the only indication of your love, not those stupid love letters that you write! Any fool can do that -- a computer can do far better than you do! A computer can write love letters, there is no problem in it. Your love can be proved only by one thing: how much freedom you are giving to the other -- even the freedom to love others; that is the only indication of your love.

She was very nearsighted and very pretty, but too vain to wear glasses on her honeymoon and unable to wear contact lenses. When she returned from her honeymoon, her mother immediately got in touch with the oculist. "You must see my daughter at once," she pleaded. "It is an emergency!"

"There is nothing to be excited about," he reassured her. "She is nearsighted, that's all."

"That's all?" repeated the mother. "Why, this young man she has got with her is not the same one she went on her honeymoon with!"

If we could give without even thinking to whom it reaches.... Because to whomever it reaches, is part of the same existence as we are part of -- it reaches to us.

People worshiping dead, stone statues -- what kind of humanity have we created -- just because somebody has said that "This statue is the statue of God."

Nobody has seen God. No photographer has even taken a single photograph. How have these sculptors managed to make these statues? Just pure imagination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O10HUmDoaZM

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Samstag, 31. januar 2009 6 31 /01 /2009 01:41

Sieg durch Nichtaggression

Sun Tzu lebte in Nordchina, um dieselbe Zeit wie Konfuzius, und war ein glänzender Militärstratege. In China einfach als „das Sun Tzu“ bekannt, bietet „Die Kunst des Krieges“ Gedanken und Ratschläge, wie man in schwierigen Zeiten überleben und Erfolg haben kann. Lange Zeit wurde das Sun Tzu mündlich weitergegeben, bevor es zunächst auf Bambusstäbe geschrieben und später zum Buch gebunden wurde.

Nicht die einzige militärische Abhandlung jener Ära, erlangte „Die Kunst des Krieges“ schnell den Ruf, der bedeutendste Text seiner Art zu sein. Die Verfasser einer ausgezeichneten neueren Übersetzung behaupten, andere militärische Bücher dieser Zeit seien simple Kriegsführungshandbücher gewesen, während „Die Kunst des Krieges“ Wissen als Mittel zum Sieg in den Vordergrund rückt und sich als hauptsächliche Waffe auf das Kraftpotenzial verlässt, das in der Welt der Natur und der Menschen bereits angelegt ist. Diese Betonung personengebundener Aspekte wie Wissen, Charakter, Einklang mit dem Tao (das dem Universum zugrunde liegende, alldurchdringende Prinzip) ist der Grund, warum es noch heute Aktualität und Gültigkeit besitzt. „Die Kunst des Krieges“ interpretiert Konflikte auf eine Weise, die dem instinktgetriebenen Kämpfe-um-dein-Leben-Ansatz überlegen ist.

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There is nothing that does not enter its space.

What are you seeking?

Does the Ying-yang suggest that good has some evil in it and vice versa?

change this whole situation

Sieg durch Nichtaggression

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