deci belle

Realizing that oneself is dead meat is a fabulous place to be. No one owes you an answer.

 

When i say yer screwed, it's a compliment in the context of this thread. Its just at this time that one can see the truth. Now just jump into it completely. There's nothing to add. You don't need a teacher.

 

When yer screwed is the best time to be overwhelmed by reality. Just let it.

 

Make yer day, kid… and smile on the way down.❤

All Vous gets is a curtsie… I gets ze money, cheri~❤

 

 

 

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The critical aspect of adaption to situations is borne by the inherent pattern of the situation itself.

 

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.

 

This is why I say that one must, in fact, be ultimately vulnerable in order to carry out the subtle operation of the Great Vehicle as a Tathagata in terms of Complete Reality neither ordinary nor holy.

 

The critical juncture of Change is the ground of life and death. The alchemical term is the Aperture of the Mysterious Female.

 

Chapter 16

 

Attain the climax of emptiness,

preserve the utmost quiet:

as myriad things act in concert,

I thereby observe the return.

 

Return is the critical juncture(s) of all situations, material and immaterial.

As in all things, the celestial pattern is expressed as the function of its process.

Ego is a valid function, therein lies its value to the organism. It is not a thing. It is empty, utterly attributable to conditions.

 

All created cycles have these critical junctures: the times when the gate and door defining the aperture of the Mysterious Female occur.

 

Chapter 6

 

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.

 

Therefore, it is to be understood that it is, in fact, used. It is also to be understood that its function is the unchanging unified fabricof inconceivability (referred to as gossamer silk in some volumes of the TTC) which is subtly operated in the context of ordinary situations according to the time by those with the power to comprehend its function in order to influence events.

 

These two chapters from the Tao Te Ching do not just refer to mystical experience, as the celestial pattern permeates reality. Adepts arrive at partnership with creation, not subject to its cycles.

 

There is a chapter in the Kuei ku-Tzu called Opening and Closing. Let me clarify a few terms: heaven refers to the inner mind; earth refers to nature, the essential ground of reality; society, man, the sage, refers to a function of human potential.

 

Opening and Closing

 

Let us consider how ancient sages existed between heaven and earth. Being the leaders of others, they watched the opening and closing of yin and yang in order to direct people thereby and knew the doorway of survival and destruction. Assessing the ends and beginnings of all types, they arrived at the principles of human psychology and saw the foresigns of change therein; and kept vigil at the doorway. (italics mine)

 

Therefore the Way by which sages live in the world has always been one; while its transformations, which are endless, each has a specific purpose. Sometimes it is yin, sometimes yang, sometimes yielding, sometimes firm, sometimes open, sometimes closed, sometimes relaxed, sometimes tense. For this reason sages consistently keep watch at the doorway and carefully examine what should precede and what should follow. They assess strategies, measure capabilities, compare strengths and weaknesses of technical skills (of one's own people [self] and that of others').

 

Assessing objectively and adapting impersonally is sage activity, whether it is accomplished by generals, buddhas, or enlightening beings. In every case, it is accomplished by those whose hearts have the power to take hearts.

 

Sages are not humane; they see all people as straw dogs.

 

The Mysterious Female is not a place; it has no location. It arises naturally in the course of created karmic cycles. It is indicative of the celestial design. Those who see the opening and closing of the gate and door of the Mysterious Female are able to transcend Change while abiding in the midst of its changes. This is enlightening activity.

 

Grain by grain, one gathers the elixir.

 

Occasionally, a bum will momentarily comprehend an aspect of the phenomena of the secret of the celestial mechanism and conclude, "so what". This is what is referred to as knowing without the ability to act on knowledge. If one knows but is unable to act on that knowledge, it is the same as not knowing.

 

This refers to ordinary ignorant people whose personal power is inadequate to use energy. Using it is a matter of amassing the energy to partake of energy. This energy is the nature of the Way and its Power. The power of the Way is another name for Virtue. Virtue is the inherent quality of enlightening being. Awakening to enlightening qualities is the result of self-refinement.

 

What is refined? The human mentality.

 

 

 

 

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Merciiii, Monsieur P❤

 

Oh, I got a sheet of paper from a former merchant marine (brit) and a who's who (on account of a li'l 50's pop-chart tune) that has a whole list of what the nature of shit is according to different sects from taoism (shit happens) to… dangs, I can't find it~ it listed about thirty or so religions including Dianetics and Jehova's Witness.

 

Here's some… Existentialism: What is shit anyway? Free Masonry: Our shit's a secret!

 

haha!!

 

Well it isn't just that shit happens, it is the fact that shit is IT. It's all the same shit. People wanna pick and choose their way through it and this is the nature of discrimination.

 

I don't just live with it. Thems stinkin piles is the stuff of wonderous nature, mr P. An' pickin' an choosin' ain't goona findya what's its essence is in terms of the potential that has never issued forth from the primal pooper!

 

I originally wanted to title this thread "Situations". There is simply nothing else to work with.

 

My multifarious expositions and sassy posts concern a critical aspect of transcendent adaption to situations as the shit that eliminates the residue of doing by virtue of nondoing. It LOOKS like shit until the light is turned around. I've been on film sets my whole life. Trust the Gaffer!! The DP will let the Director know when it time to roll.

 

 

 

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hahahhahahhahhahahhahahhahahhahhahahhahahhahahhahha!! I guess yer screwed kid.

Hi Ryan,

 

Where does the idea of oneself being "meant" come from?

 

You don't have to be meant in any way, shape or form. You already are.

 

Right now, it's you, through and through.

 

It's just right now. This meant business is another dead-end. You will get along fine without it.

There are those whose virtue enables the activation of the dharma-eye expressing the inevitable without resorting to personalistic inner-vision, which is like hiring a rocket-ship to visit your navel— obviously much will go unnoticed from such a hazy perspective relative to the distance of ego-consciousness.

 

Because reality is perpetually resultant within the delusional sensory perception of those bound by changes without their knowledge, formal illusion of the three times and psychological aspects is called ignorance.

 

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.

 

Turning the light around is working with what is the same.

 

Those who are familiar with working directly with essence, know the meaning of the alchemical saying, "Work with what is the same". Sameness is the basis of reality of one flavor.

 

Another saying is "Don't use what is seen, use what is unseen". The unrefined elixir is gathered from what isn't used, so taoists only use the essence.

 

The inevitable defining situations is the pattern of reality inherent in the situation itself from its inception, its incipient point of perpetual light issuing forth from the pivot of awareness of enlightening beings no different than the ineffable essence of the situation itself.

 

The fact of the matter is that there is absolutely no difference between form and essential nature. The working definition of enlightening being is seeing this. Ignorance is defined by not seeing this.

 

Nothing is outside of oneself. Nothing is not oneself. One simply rides the pattern of inevitability in the course of adaption to conditions, advancing and withdrawing the fire according to the time.

 

For those who see the sameness constituting Complete Reality, nothing much ever happens, really. They know nothing has ever, or will ever violate the cusp of going on the verge of action in perpetuity. Those who have the eye seeing nothing know there is nothing comprising the great mass of fire blazing in your skull.

 

Because situations are empty from beginning to end throughout the course of kalpas without beginning, enlightening beings haver never strayed from the inevitable constituting situations. Throughout the totality of evolutionary status, one has never moved from the inevitable result without beginning.

 

East Mountain walks on water.

 

 

 

 

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yawn… vision-boy trying to arrive at a consensus, hmmmmm? Perhaps this one could actually develop some cojones and stand on his own fins before attempting to make a beachhead and conquer ultima thule?

 

Wasn't it two weeks ago you weren't even sure what constituted grasping? Now you're discriminating what's real zen?

 

Learn to breath air first, dear.

The ways of nature are your own eyballs. Nature isn't out there somewhere separate.

 

It's not a matter of petting flea-infested vermin.

 

Saints who don't frighten animals or even ride them are just going through a phase— or not.

 

How many eyeballs to snakes and fishes have? The point is that reality is a pattern that is evidence of the nameless.

 

As such, one would do well to wake up and smell the flowers and learn from everything and nothing without discriminating between self and other in the process.

 

As for the OP, I wouldn't even bother asking. I would ask the original poster to drop the dependence on authority to resist.

 

That's a dead-end.

mmmmm-k…❤

They might mind when my six white horses dooz poops and raise some dusts!! haha!!

 

I got some nice welcomes there and a passive aggressive pass from chrisd…

 

Their student-teachers need the practice~ hehe. I got an email (not just a PM), from some one saying I can't respond to questions…

 

eh… God knows I don't need the practice!

 

Hhahhahhahahhahhaa!!! evidently I poked vision-boy a good one!! hahahaa!! Ya can't see shit TI!! hahahaaa!! A fcukin waiter? I wait, yup— damn right… waitin ta die in front of this 100 kilo full-dress Panavision cAmeRa!! Wanna tip— (º )( º)?

 

yer can'ts has juss ONE!! ahhahhahaa!!

 

 

 

 

 

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dogson wrote:

beyond anything, is that Taoism is about harmony with nature - with the actual natural world, and with our inner nature as beings, and discovering how deep that goes.

 

Please go as far as you dare with just this. Do not listen to anyone. You understand precisely what this is about. Trust yourself.

 

There is nothing in your question that even touches on entertaining intellectual pursuits. This is a profound approach. May you leave us in the mists of your own wonder.❤

I lifted this from a thread I re-posted two years ago… perhaps it is appropriate here.

 

If you have read it recently, don't tell anyone.❤

 

 

 

People need to see that the realization of enlightened mind is independent of sudden illumination.

 

The nonoccurrence of illusion in one's own unborn awareness due to psychological nonpartiality of orientation in adapting to ordinary circumstances is all there is to enlightening being; this is buddhahood itself— one needn't wait for sudden enlightenment to walk in the footsteps of prior illuminates.

Sudden enlightenment is just a result of true harmony with complete reality. Complete reality has no need of enlightenment. Just be completely real, void of bias or inclination and the circumstantial result of impersonal awareness gone, gone, beyond gone …gone beyond— will come of its own accord.

This is working with the basic sane energy one was born with to see essence in the midst of mundanity directly in order to turn the killing energy of created cycles into a sea of jewels. The very bedrock will transport itself and oneself along with it, if one is authentically immovable in the essential quality of earth. What is required is stillness within one's own breadth of heart. Compassion isn't good or bad, just impersonally accepting and responding precisely according to circumstances.

One may be entitled to basic sanity, but accomplishing complete reality is a matter of matching circumstances in terms of essential nature which leaves nothing to be desired within or without one's own power of receptivity. Acquiescence is a matter of freedom, not submission to externals.

Tao is complete, yet creation is sexual. One who's lexicon is the Virtue of the Way uses essence to seek feeling. It is not the fault of the way or enlightening beings if all essence garners is insanity. Enlightening being expects nothing, so what is the norm for worldly beings does not affect enlightened virtue, which is to adapt to conditions as a matter of course.

This is not beyond one's own everyday ordinary aware being; it has never been so, nor will it ever be so.

That's wonderful, karuna!!❤

I'm not provoked.❤

Divining dragons from snakes is ok too!

Hello, Clarity!!❤

Truthful words are not beautiful.

Beautiful words are not truthful.

 

Troll ?

 

These are the words of a provisional teaching.

 

Adepts do not see in terms of the relative.

 

The provisional teaching addresses the need to be aware of being bound by convention, then seeing THAT as nothing other than a cultural or societal relativity. In this sense, whether anything is categorized at all is not even the point of the phrase (if it is analyzed in other than the most shallow sense).

 

Analysis of the Tao Te Ching at all is a fine place to start though.

 

I consider the Classic by Lao Tzu a manual for becoming a wizard, and my analysis is commensurate with that approach.

 

 

 

But then, if CloudHands was referring to my OP… hehe, well those words were not necessarily designed to appear beautiful!! Some might consider them effective— at least I would hope so.

 

Others without access to the Dharma-eye are most likely to view my OP as something to resist…❤

 

 

 

 

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I say that those who see their nature are able to lose without exercising knowledge, therefore they lose whether they know it or not.

 

When one opens to the Virtue of Receptivity, there is abiding in not-knowing inasmuch as one doesn't see in terms of the relative. Seeing the relative isn't oneself going along with it. This is the unconventional in terms of ordinary psychology.

 

Seeing loss as loss or otherwise being otherwise as enlightening observation is up to oneself alone. This is because in seeing reality as is, one has no attachment to reality. How much less is one's attachment to illusion?

 

Illusion is one's own subjectivity. Not being subjective is called objectivity in terms of factual observation. This is selflessness in terms of the nonpsychological. Since one doesn't know in terms of acute observation beyond appearances and has no attachment to outcomes in terms of adaption, it isn't a matter of one not knowing illusion— it in fact doesn't exist.

"When beings climax in power, they wane;

this is being unguided.

The unguided die early.”

 

They die before they even know it; they die before their time.

This is the result of habitual clinging to thoughts unawares.

 

This is in terms of a cycle of yin and yang— not just a far-off glimmer of one's mortality. This is going along with creation and experiencing birth and death in terms of following thought unawares. This is going along with the energy of situations as if they exist— as if oneself exists.

 

This is being a subject bound by mundanity.

 

The teachings of all the authentic traditions make it perfectly clear that one is not to be satisfied with bondage to this.

 

The secret of all the authentic traditions is emancipation from this.

 

Seeing reality as is enables one to recognize potential in the midst of the polluted. There is no where else to find potential. Potential is unrefined elixir. Seeing it is recognizing the real in the midst of the false. Seeing this is gathering this.

 

In terms of the created cycles of yin and yang, where one's life hangs in the balance and most ignoramuses act as if the next breath was guaranteed, one should have a constant subtlety of observation over one's mind at all times in order to recognize the arising of yang. When yang peaks, yin's influence arrives and one should immediately withdraw the fire and store the unrefined elixir nonpsychologically. When the killing energy of the natural yin convergence culminates, one should maintain the subtle concentration and not act prematurely.

 

This is guidance for those who are able to work with essence.

 

 

 

BD seems to be one of those… there is nothing to say about it❤ heeheehee!!

 

 

 

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ahhahaha!!❤

Oh manitou❤❤ Suuuch a lovely note to see that you have left for me and the bums who will also read it!!

 

 

manitou wrote:

Once Enlightenment or Total Awareness or the I Am Consciousness has been achieved, it then becomes a question of living the further ramifications of this, understanding what this really means. I'm with you, Deci - it's a starting point. Once the starting point has been crossed, it becomes a question of merging our daily lives in with what we know to be true - that We Are.

 

 

 

 

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It is not seen.

 

There is no method of enlightenment.

 

One does not do this; not only does one not do this; it is not done. The accomplishment of the world-honored is not self.

 

There is no analysis. Comprehension of cessation is not comprehended— much less by oneself. Thought is Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate. Just this bodhi svaha.

 

Cessation itself is awareness of selfless knowledge.

 

There is nothing whatsoever for you to get all excited about.

 

Stop splashing, fishy.

Thank you, Brian!

 

 

Though no one knows the reality, in spite of appearances, one, in fact, has transcended the world.

 

What I mean by this is that people have no way of knowing by appearances that one's own spontaneous adaption to situations is transcendent activity.

 

It isn't a big deal that one doesn't go along with creation— it's just a fact. Immortalists steal potential and take over creation unbeknownst to anyone. The classics aren't really about philosophically interpretive discussion. They are codebooks for one's own entry into the inconceivable.

 

I only mention these things on this forum— in terms of direct experience. This subject isn't really Buddhism or Taoism at all. This mystery is something that people have discovered about their inherent aware nature and these well-known traditions are a venue for keeping the knowledge alive. It is paradoxical that there are really very few people penetrating the source of these teachings who also are not attached to the traditions themselves.

 

One's own mind not being buddhism or taoism is a wonderous affair. Though the writings of the classics by enlightened teachers should be an aid to one's own discovery of inherent transcendent Unity, usually people arrive at an adherence to scriptural associations that become inapplicable in the context of ordinary everyday situations outside of rote practice.

 

Subtle observation of mind, one's own mind, in the context of actual situations in light of powerful penetration and absorption of intense, far-reaching profound study of the classics keyed to the nature of awareness itself beyond any codifications is the way to not only see through to the source of the purpose of the authentic traditions, but to see through creation itself and become its equal.