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  6. Posted

    It takes balls to reply in this thread! Pfff... :P

     

    Evidently the twinky who started it… doesn't have any~

     

    Ti's a little fishy anyway— and I told him so right before I started ignoring him over a week ago.

     

    As for manipulation, what's motivating him to go down this route should be simple enough to deduce.

     

    I sent you back, Tibetan Ice. Is that what you're hung up on?

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  10. Posted · Edited by deci belle

    There is just no knowing beforehand. So "full-blown clairvoyance" is like a fascination with clouds. It is simply more ephemeral phenomena. Big whoop (if one's intent is being through with the world).

     

    So to transcend myriad karmic cycles isn't a matter of knowing knowledge. It is all just one's own virtue developed in the course of self-refinement that partakes of virtue's natural resonance in potential, the immaterial essence of creation. One, in fact, does not enter into doing. This is freedom from karmic evolution. Abiding in subtle observation and maintenance of clarification of one's basis in Complete Reality, all thing are as they are: open, untrammeled, void of cause; a pristine result ever present in perpetuity.

     

    As for arriving at the cessation of fascination with states of mundane and transmundane characteristics… one simply stops.

     

     

     

     

    ed note: change "causes" to "cause" in penultimate paragraph

  12. Posted · Edited by deci belle

    Whew~ and that, folks, was a situation.

     

     

     

    The pattern of inevitability is the basis of enlightening activity's transcendent function whereby its responsitivity has no dependence on conditions. This is because selfless response springs from the essential nature of the situation itself, not admitting one's own power.

     

    The situation, being bound by karmic evolution, is a mass of fire with nothing for one's nonpsychological awareness to discriminate outside the inherent potential of the aware energy constituting the formal. This is a way to describe the operation of turning the light around.

     

    The basis of situations is itself the means to develop one's ability to transcend situations; one by one.

     

    It's kinda like feeling lucky— lucky to be alive, in that it just turns out that way, again.

     

    There is just no knowing beforehand. So "full-blown clairvoyance" is like a fascination with clouds. It is simply more ephemeral phenomena. Big whoop (if one's intent is being through with the world).

     

    Since there is nothing to know anyway, one simply has to find the gumption to arrive at the heart of immediacy by a constant mindfulness of perpetual clarification of personal and impersonal views. Arising is accompanied by observation, and keeping a constant unbroken subtle continuity of attention to the coming and going of potential in terms of the situation, is turning the light around and following it back to its source to rest in the highest good.

     

     

    Attain the climax of emptiness,

    preserve the utmost quiet:

    as myriad things act in concert,

    I thereby observe the return.

     

    The only difference between watching over the aperture of the Mysterious Female and not watching is …watching.

     

    So subtle observation of the incipience of movement (or not) of mind is paramount to developing the capacity for transcending the movement of time(s). The mechanism is in the eyes. It is simply a matter of seeing.

     

    Coming and going isn't in things; it is in that which has no coming and going. Sensing potential is the nature of seeing.

     

    Seeing's correlate is potential. These are the substance and function of Complete Reality. In terms of the unattributable, these are its knowledge; formlessly, selflessly without beginning or remainder. This is the heart of subtle operation.

     

     

    The valley spirit not dying

    is called the Mysterious Female.

    The opening of the Mysterious Female

    is called the root of heaven and earth.

    Continuous, on the brink of existence,

    to put it into practice its use is not forced.

     

    It takes situations to illustrate the course of adaption which is simply a matter of seeing knowledge. In seeing knowledge, there is nothing else to do except take the bumps and spills of sensory and psychological awareness by virtue of having a body. Jesus wasn't any different (ouch!!).

     

    There is a term used in alchemy: the body outside the body. First of all, the body outside the body is a function, not a thing. Secondly, it is more of one not having a body at all than it is having another body outside of one's material body (not that the double isn't able to be conjured). It is.

     

    There have been all kinds of cultivation throughout the ages conjuring up this body outside the body.

     

    The highest teachings are pure simplicity itself.

     

    Whether the situation is in terms of the microcosmic, macrocosmic, or cosmic, there is no thing.

     

    Arrive at this no thing in all situations, times, places, events and people and the homeland of nothing whatsoever is yours forever. Do you suppose there would be so much to do there?

     

     

     

     

     

    ed note: add "is turning the light around and following it back to its source to rest in the highest good" to 5th paragraph; add colon in 10th paragraph

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  13. Posted

    …and the words by the wordsmiths perpetuate the wordsmithing~ "of the making of books, there is no end".

     

    Since cultivation is completely natural and its extraordinary effect, in terms of the material and immaterial body, spontaneous beyond explanation (by me, at least), and I must admit that I didn't learn it— not even from a book, it is most fortunate that there were also attempts by adepts to perpetuate the patterns ascribing the wonder of it all. That's what got me wondering.

     

    I can claim zero credit for the workings of energy inside the body other than a subsequent and occasional subtle guidance after the arising of a peculiar flow: how could it ever be taught?

     

    Evidently, some have seen to it.

     

    We are to be very grateful for that— or something close to it.

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  20. Posted

    All the buddha did was see his nature; nothing too special there as there have always been those who are born knowing.

     

    The ONLY reason we even hear of this one is the supposed accessibility of his teaching.

     

    Whatever.

     

    It's your own mind. There is no intermediary to speak of. Furthermore, there are no words. IT is no words.

     

    The first two lines of Master Lu's Hundred Character Tablet say:

     

    Nurturing energy, forget words and guard it.

    Conquer the mind, do nondoing.

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  21. Posted

    First of all , enlightenment is the nature of awareness. As such, all are already enlightened. If you're not already dead, your own mind is the nature of enlightenment.

     

    The only reason anybody hasn't yet realized their nature is because they have a self. It has nothing to do with being a certain kind (whatever a pandaka might be). Being is the problem. Realizing your nature is seeing that discriminatory consciousness is the cause of your existence.

     

    No mind = no self = poofs Awareness doesn't go anywhere. Endeavor to see this.

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  22. Posted · Edited by deci belle

    Baqiao said to the assembly, "If you have a staff, I'll give you the staff; if you have no staff, I'll take your staff away."

     

    Hongzhi said, "If you know, all know; if you don't know, all don't know."

     

     

    I'm not like this. I say, If you have eyes, I'll see them; if you have no eyes, I'll poke them out.

     

     

     

     

     

    ed note: typo in last line; then change last line to suit Tibetan Ice's vision of my penchant for poking eyes

  23. Posted

    Self-refinement is giving up all hope (which is basically a selfish device), and accepting the good inherent in the situation you find yourself in.

     

    Anyone can do that in benign conditions. Who can do that when one's life hangs in the balance? When the situation calls for sticking your neck out because everyone is thinking off with her head, you can just do it— but to do it with grace and power is up to you according to the time (if you possess grace and power).

     

    I've seen recreational philosophers on this forum make a show of their controlled exit accompanied by a parting shot to somehow offset the fact that everyone knows their goose is already cooked. I'm not talking about that kind of facetious act.

     

    If you know it's your head on the block, then it follows that there is a precise time for this to occur. Unless you are already resting in the highest good according to the potential inherent in the situation itself, you cannot transcend the change.

     

    You don't need to know anything to accomplish this.

     

    Right now you have no power, no virtue, no place to rest.

     

    I'd make that job number one. Find that place to rest, and come from that place in all your endeavors, including this one.

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  24. Posted

    The Art of War states that "victory depends on the enemy" in that conditions conducive to apropriate action in response to developments cannot be manufactured beforehand. One must wait. One must know what is being awaited. One must know the ground of life and death and be situated advantageously unbeknownst to anyone. The word enemy signifies the nature of the situation itself in that one's impersonal adaption depends on its parameters exclusively.

     

    Selflessness is being absorbed into the situation of other— even as other. Selflessness is not being a Mother Teresa, and it's not a matter of getting into someone else's shoes, rather, it's being no one other than what is dictated by the situation according to the time. It's being selfless.

     

    Selflessness is appropriating the nature of awareness, of reality, as one's identity in order to adapt effectively, transcendentally, in the course of actual affairs without anyone knowing, or caring— including oneself. One's selflessness is totally natural— supremely natural.

     

    This is resting in the highest good, beyond convention. No buddha can approach one here.