The art of the sword consists not in vying for victory, nor in testing strength;
it consists in your not seeing me and my not seeing you.
The swordsman does not see "this' or "that"
and yet knows well what's what.
He now has no sword, no body. But this does not mean
that all has vanished into a state of nothingness,
for there is most decidedly a something
that is moving, acting, and thinking.
The main point is to forget yourself as well as your opponenent
and to let the myo work itself out.
--- D. T. Suzuki
Saturday, October 30, 2010
no room here
Myo is a Japanese word signifying a mode of activity which comes directly out of one's inmost self without being intercepted by the dichotomous intellect.
The act is so direct and immediate that intellection finds no room here to insert itself and cut it to pieces.
Freedom, creativity, and myo are synonymous.
--- from 'Zen and Japanese Culture' by D.T. Suzuki
The act is so direct and immediate that intellection finds no room here to insert itself and cut it to pieces.
Freedom, creativity, and myo are synonymous.
--- from 'Zen and Japanese Culture' by D.T. Suzuki
Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
it takes two to tango
Because everything is, in essence, oneness,
all reference points in the appearance
are false.
--- Sailor Bob
all reference points in the appearance
are false.
--- Sailor Bob
The pointer is
that Awareness, or Subjectivity is ALL-including,
and thereby,
is the dissolving of all objectivity,
as such.
and thereby,
is the dissolving of all objectivity,
as such.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
this knowing which we are
"Non-dual Truth" is this knowing which we are,
not any knowledge that we can claim to possess.
not any knowledge that we can claim to possess.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Truth cannot be possessed
There is no PERSON that "contains" this universal consciousness.
--- Robert Wolfe
Because Truth cannot be possessed, the I-possessor...is a role we simply stop playing...Reality is already ALL. --- William Samuel
--- Robert Wolfe
Because Truth cannot be possessed, the I-possessor...is a role we simply stop playing...Reality is already ALL. --- William Samuel
Saturday, October 16, 2010
One-Only-Reality
One-Only-Reality "loves" (knows and is aware of) Itself.
That Love in action is this Awareness-we-are.
--- William Samuel
That Love in action is this Awareness-we-are.
--- William Samuel
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Isness being Itself
The One Identity am I;
and there is no other "I"
but Isness being Itself!
--- William Samuel
and there is no other "I"
but Isness being Itself!
--- William Samuel
Monday, October 11, 2010
suffer > L ferre (to bear), sub (under)
The "human organism" is naturally, functionally "self-referencing."
This is necessary for survival and is not, in itself, the "delivery system" for suffering.
It is the mistaken sense that this organism has the additional ability to somehow STAND APART from itself - to create its thoughts, feelings, and actions - that puts it in position for carrying the burdens of guilt and shame when things don't go as planned (or of pride and conceit when they do).
This "mistaken sense" is chimerical, and may be exposed as such, in the "all -inclusiveness" of present awareness.
This is necessary for survival and is not, in itself, the "delivery system" for suffering.
It is the mistaken sense that this organism has the additional ability to somehow STAND APART from itself - to create its thoughts, feelings, and actions - that puts it in position for carrying the burdens of guilt and shame when things don't go as planned (or of pride and conceit when they do).
This "mistaken sense" is chimerical, and may be exposed as such, in the "all -inclusiveness" of present awareness.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
a rather special kind of noticing
The kind
wherein
there is nobody to notice
that
there is nothing to be noticed.
--- Wei Wu Wei
wherein
there is nobody to notice
that
there is nothing to be noticed.
--- Wei Wu Wei
Friday, October 1, 2010
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