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This is an excerpt from the commentary on The Jewel Ship, the elucidation by Longchenpa exposing the sudden approach for those who are so able to follow this path of immediate acquiescence. A parallel teaching of direct participation with the creative is the taoist work, The Secret of the Golden Flower. This notes the benefit of, and ultimate need to transcend every teaching tradition in order to "sublimate oneself spiritually and physically to enter the tao in reality". Commentary by Kennard Lipman "This text attempts to reawaken primordial experience prior to all spiritual traditions, drawing on the teachings found within buddhism. But, just as a raft is no longer needed after crossing to the other shore, any authentic spiritual tradition is self-transcending. This other shore is, after all, nothing other than our actual human existence. By stimulating a spiritual awakening within ourselves, and understanding that we must seek this awareness in our day-to-day existence, we will transcend tradition." … "Only by self-knowledge can we understand the unity of all religions. Such a unity (which remains vague at this point) can never be expressed in a doctrine. Many people, wary of traditional religions, think they can deconstruct, deduce, or distill the essence of this unity, possibly through the aid of psychology or philosophy. But a true spiritual teaching is not a creation of someone's mind, not even a master's. It is a revelation, a manifestation, and this gets expressed in an interaction…" "Once people know that their own inner awareness is the goal, they can begin to implement their self-knowledge. That is, when you know your absolute and relative situations, you can go ahead with the concrete task of becoming certain about your natural state by learning how to work with the difficulties of your relative situation." "…We are not trying to create anything new; there is no idea of making progress in the sense of bettering ourselves. Indeed, from the point of view of total completeness, such an outlook is an obstacle; it is the outlook of the gradual path where work is done in stages." [in this tradition], "…an individual who has realized this reality must directly introduce you to your natural state." "…the introduction to the natural state could be compared to a light being suddenly turned on to reveal our entire being— both its absolute and relative aspects. With the light on we can clearly see our natural state and how it manifests, as well as the temporary obstacles to its total manifestation. We gain a concrete knowledge of our personality, physical demeanor, emotional makeup, and intelligence. But turning on the light does not automatically eliminate the obstacles inherent in out relative condition: our health; childhood development; unproductive patterns of thought; feeling, and behavior; financial status and position in society; whatever we think we are and do. If not attended to, all these can create obstacles in any phase of the path. This knowledge differs from the intellectual or philosophical knowledge usually associated with the philosophy of a teaching or school. …" …pages 58~59, from You are the Eyes of the World. This from the book by Longchenpa, You Are the Eyes of the World, translated by Kennard Lipman and Merrill Peterson with introduction by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. 2000. Now if I could write like a teacher, I would— but even though I'm not a teacher, I know what I want to say to you all. In this tradition, direct teacher to student transmission of the natural state is the rule; even so, the natural state itself, is not dependent on this or any teaching. The parallel taoist teachings maintain that one see essence on one's own~ then seek a teacher. It is the natural state of human being— one's inherent state. But this not tao. Its source is tao. Additionally, there is that which is beyond tao. After seeing essence and solidifying the achievement, one must still empty openness, sublimate oneself physically and spiritually, take the forward step with hands open and enter the tao in reality— which is none other than this very existence. There is no other time, place or mind … But what is it? I sincerely urge anyone with a head on their shoulders to find out once and for all for themselves. Just this alone is the imperative that I hope anyone who reads this commentary takes away with them. ed note: Rrrrrr~ typos, "t" and "…"; credit Kennard Lipman for the commentary text

Thunder is a path It fills the sky And shakes the earth But the light that flashes on the other side of your eyes Is singular and has no location You can imagine light any way you like But it's still your imagination; When you cease to be You see the light as I am Unchanging And no longer have a need to agree ed note: add word "unchanging"

Look for the print of the mind. Either by reason or practice One enters the path. Turning from illusion back to reality; The oneness of mortal and sage; Unmoved even by scripture One enters by reason. Entry by practice refers to the four truths: Suffering injustice, adapting to conditions, Seeking nothing and practicing the Dharma. Having a body is suffering by karma Those unmoved even by joy spontaneously follow the Path To seek nothing is bliss by detachment Finally, since all natures are pure All appearances are empty And free of the impurity of self. Bodhidharma was born in southern India and arrived in China around 475. He is acknowledged as the founder of all existent Chan (Zen) lineages. There are four short sermons attributed to him by some accounts. He had two awakened disciples— only one ever taught.

I pieced most of this from Bodhidharma's Bloodstream Sermon…❤ To find a buddha, all you have to do is see your nature. Your nature is the buddha. And the buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. The truth is, there's nothing to find. But to reach such an understanding you need a teacher and you need to struggle to make yourself understand. The matter of life and death is monumental. Don't suffer them in vain. It's true, you have the buddha-nature. But without the help of a teacher, you'll never know it. Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. If, though, by the conjunction of conditions, someone understands what the Buddha meant, that person doesn't need a teacher. Such a person has a natural awareness superior to anything taught. But, unless you're so blessed, study hard, and by means of instruction you'll understand. Whoever sees his nature is a buddha; whoever doesn't is a mortal. But if you can find your buddha-nature apart from your mortal nature, where is it? Our mortal nature is our buddha-nature. Beyond this nature there's no buddha. Once you recognize your moving, miraculously aware nature, yours is the mind of all buddhas. Buddhas of the past and future only talk about transmitting the mind. They teach nothing else. If someone understands this teaching, even if he's illiterate he's a buddha. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a buddha even if you break your body into atoms. (hahahahhahaa— suuuucha DOM!!❤) Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Once you see your mind, you see these things for what they truly are. To go from mortal to buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness and accept what life brings. Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. They can't be restrained by karma or overcome by devils. Once mortals see their nature, all attachments end. Awareness isn't hidden. But you can only find it right now. It's only now. If you really want to find the way, don't hold on to anything. Tao-yuan's biography of Bodhidharma is included in his Transmission of the Lamp, which was finished in 1002. He recounts that Bodhidharma is said to have died in 528, poisoned by a jealous monk. It reports that three years later an official met Bodhidharma walking in the mountains of central Asia. He was carrying a single sandal, hanging from a staff, and told the official he was returning to India. Eventually, Bodhidharma's tomb on Bear Ear Mountain was opened, and all that was found was a single sandal. I've been reading from Red Pine's translation of The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, North Point Press, 1987; Fifth printing, 1996.

Jeff, you say preset path. So, no. We are fundamentally not in agreement. You say Preset path of the wave. Absolutely not. The path is not preset and the path is not of the wave. How can you believe we are in agreement? You have yet to recognize the path, and now you're entertaining nonsense about residing in clear light? WTF? Confucius said, "If I give one corner and the other cannot come back with the other three, I don't talk to them anymore." If you can't see the wave, how will you dance with the wave, love the wave, seduce the wave, tease the wave~ and if that's the case, who'd want your ass anyway? This is not about comfortable philosophical ideas, Jeff. All you can ever hope to arrive at is nonpsychological awareness. All else follows naturally. When all things act in concert, that includes you. I challenge you to master the 16th chapter.

Nameless state Causeless trouble So near to heart. Yet the learned, sensing ungraspability Don't notice the familiar breeze Because intellect can have no part in causelessness As losing is relative to the tactile sense. Unable to conceive of reality conceptually Sense/intellect only has recourse to "loss"; grasping's pair. Reality is ungraspability naturally so. If you're lost here What could you change To make it look just like your habitual state? Isn't it already so? Do you "study" tao? Who knows this? Matching tao to your mentality is error. What matches potential is not thinking function. Simply do not choose; Stillness and clarity Arriving of itself Is the root of spontaneity Which is selflessness evolving Without beginning even in everyday ordinary situations. This is also the basic discovery in terms of absolute realization and entry into your own mystery of selfless nonoriginated ever-enlightening being. When you are lost, stop. If you go on changing places with things Just because you know where you don't want (it) to be Where will you end up in the end?

Dang if i said that?!!❤❤ I love it!! haha!!❤ But the wonder of it all is that it is true …so true my eyes turn bleu— thank you sso much for finding that gem, stimpy! ed note: do quote thing less like an amateur.

My understanding looks back. The words are a talisman void of meaning, therefore there is no depth; only descriptions to gauge one's own experience. Seeing reality validates the ancients, just look back yourself. I don't have any explanations because there is nothing to clear up. Only stillness can arrive at the clarity inherent in the situation you find yourself. Choice is found in the inevitable. Anything else is arbitrary action. Jeff said: Only the present path on the wave. Presence is impersonal; it is not the wave that dictates adaption. It's up to you. Real practice is seeing through phenomena without denying characteristics. If this is solidly your practice, then you are in the position to take over creation. No one knows. You don't change anything, so you aren't changed yourself. Something inexplicable… you just pass through the situation at a critical juncture. This is endless transformations. Let self go, take the forward step, hands open in innocence; other finds this irresistible and goes along with you. Here's the trick. Creation wants your ass. Make creation lick its chops, sugar. You don't sit on it, but you don't bend over either. You know what the world wants, but instead~ you give it what it needs.❤

This thread is a response to thelerner's painful concerns over the state of the Articles section that he titled in the moderation section as "I fought the poets and the poets won". His concern was articulated with honesty and sincerity and an utter lack of self-reflection. Nice title though! So, how old were you in 1966, thelerner? hahahaa!!❤ Who had that AM hit "I Fought the Law and the Law Won"?!! It is a clean-toned surf/texas-pop inspired song. I like it a lot!! Serene Blue saw fit to bump some old anglo-egyptian threads to bury the trash going down here lately… but I also haven't ever seen any work from SB that stands on its own in the articles section, hmmmmmm. What troubles me about thelerner's dis-ease is that it seems he wants to be entertained in a certain way and doesn't like it when an "article" is expressed in terms coined as "poetic license". As if Chuantzi used anything less to express the unspeakable. Really, mr lerner— your pain seems pretty cheap to me, seeing that you haven't gone to the effort to write a "proper" article in some time (if ever) yourself. Also, you didn't bother to see how I was doing… is this about you, dear? It's ok, though, I had a good laugh at that thread in the moderation section and evidently that hosed your idea to (once again) suite the articles section to your liking. That was pretty shitty of you old boy. I describe enlightening being in terms of the classics of taoism and buddhism in the most part, but I have a vocabulary rooted in the schools of Hermeticism and Gnostic teachings as well as shamanic wizardry. I see the classics' source— I don't see the classics as the source. This being at odds with the utter conceit of Chi Dragon's signature …"Study the true meanings of the Tao Te Ching by doing its translation into English." In academic circles the correct response to this is "balderdash and poppycock". For those of you who are new to this forum, thelerner did this exact same thing to another poet. Remember that, dear? There was once a contributor to the articles section by the name of blissmusic who wrote beautiful works based on meditative states habituated to the purpose of comfort. Blissmusic also sold CDs… perhaps some bums resented this. I'm sure others know more about it than I do. Even though blissmusic's poetry was lovely, his fabrication of meditative states for the purpose of comfort was utterly escapist and habitually turned an effective but temporary expedient into a pastime amounting to recreational inebriation. It's not a baaad thing, but this type of "practice" is simply not up to the rigors of everyday ordinary life— therefore it is ineffective and a waste of time. In the end it helps no one. It showed in real life inasmuch as when the moderators put all of blissmusic's work in one thread, his presence utterly ceased. That's what I call not being up to the rigors of everyday ordinary life. Another thing about blissmusic's schtic was that he never had anything to do with anybody; never made comments; never varied his posts; rarely ever responded to comments, except to ask those interested to PM him to obtain the CDs he recorded of his music. That's ok too, but perhaps others know more about that than I do. In closing I'd like to re-iterate a disclaimer I made after Marblehead derailed my first try to write the song with commentary of "End Game". My second attempt to write the "End Game" thread was subsequently pissed on thoroughly by et. That disclaimer asked those with the wherewithal to post relevant commentary to do so, otherwise desist. Sinfest's post above is the lowest of the low. This kind of sarcastic post-pissing is pathologically passive-aggressive and so cheap— dang you lazy bastard! ahhahahhahahhahaaaa!!!❤

Yes, only surfing is closest, Jeff. Enlightening beings, immortals, buddhas, ignoramouses surf the same oceanic flow. The degree of proficiency is the only difference. Presence is universal. Those with heavy karma are less proficient in accumulating "wave-time" because they don't see waves— only opportunities to gratify themselves. Some surf better, some are only capable of drowning in vicious circles of passion, greed, hope and fear. It is very clumsy to speak of gaining experience this way, as there is no doing. It is a matter of seeing it in action. The 16th chapter of the TTC expresses this wonderfully, do you feel the same way? The enlightened do not do favors, nor do they "help" the tao. Enlightening being is the oceanic quality itself. "Surfing" is effortless unity with the substance of reality's function. "Wave" is the alternating respiration of creative energy. If one actually did something to effect or affect potential, it would not be selfless. Selflessness is not a moral imperative; selflessness is killing buddhas as they appear. Here, "killing" is forgetting discriminating consciousness in the midst of ordinary events. One simply abides in the time, naturally plucking cubic centimeters of chance as requirements evolve. The working definition of enlightening being is wuwei; non-action moving from within stillness. This is spontaneity without bias or inclination. Seeing essence destroys the compulsion to act. One then hovers in stillness perfused in the Virtue of the Receptive. That's mumbo-jumbo for selfless adaption in ordinary affairs. One responds, that's all. This is the meaning of the non-action of enlightening beings. It is a matter of being full or empty, really. One refines one's intimacy in the celestial design and awaits the timing. "Catching" waves is a matter of seeing, recognizing, seizing potential by being aware. Emptiness beckons fulfillment. Emptiness is empty of habit energy. When polluted yin is refined away, pure yang arrives. Selflessness is really a matter of awareness uncontaminated by psychological content. Activation of awareness without dwelling on anything is enlightenment in action. Neither ordinary or holy, the cool breeze in the moonlight chills pine needles and rock-roots without distinguishing high or low; the crane alights from its nest. When the Celestial timing arrives, selfless awareness responds. Able to advance or withdraw according to the timing of the situation, one preserves the celestial while refining the pure out of the polluted. If not for the polluted, there would be no way to find the pure. To get gold, one refines ore. Preserving is acting or not according to the time. Refining is sealing this potential away, not letting so much as a spark leak unawares. This is not entertaining intellectualism; not letting externals in nor allowing feelings or thoughts out. ed note: italicize the Chan line and add the comment afterwards

That would go without saying, which, in your case, is also redundant.❤

The human mentality's working definition is attachment, which is habitually accustomed to leaning on …what ever is handy. We do it all the time in ordinary events, especially while driving; here dependent psychologies become painfully obvious. When discussing reality, or of functioning enlightening being where a past and future "vanishing point" ceases to exist, the description of immediate acquiescence defies reason. It comes down to independence long accustomed to non-attachment which is the result of pristine self-knowledge independent of reason. Adapting to conditions in a state of perennial flowering, there is no opportunity or reason for any kind of projecting of oneself. This is how the world gets by, but not enlightening beings. One seems to go along; and in fact, does. But taking phenomena at full face value without personally investing, speculating in imaginary outcomes, the momentum of karmic energy just speeds away of itself— it is unnecessary for one to employ the avoidance strategies of those practicing renunciation. Difficult and painful living is to be relished personally~ in fact, I recommend it highly!! I feel most comfortable when I'm up against a wall. It is absolutely the best place to find oneself in; right on the razor's edge. In the difficult and painful life, life and death is always up to oneself, and no one knows the outcome. The Art of War states that in order to survive, one must find the ground of death. Sudden realization is actually the moment of discovering death for oneself. So finding the ground of death, one realizes life. The Art of War is an essential part of the taoist canon for a reason. On a ground of death one is geared for struggle without consideration for outcome, simply letting the spirit flow freely— this is living beyond conceptual bounds as a matter of course— a subject necessarily beyond the ken of recreational philosophers and rationalists. Those who seek comfort are dead meat regardless of the situation because complacency is already a state of habitual sleep seeking sleep. These people might as well be dead simply because it is not only possible but easy to see, to know, everything about them— hardly the definition of the freedom and independence of one capable of fluidity adapting to the currency of ever-changing conditions. The Art of War also states that victory depends on the enemy. One cannot manufacture the conditions necessary for winning and keeping the life one's affair with Power. One's affair with Power is enlightening being itself. In terms of enlightening being, the enemy is the conditional world, but one is not a separate reality. Suchness is the efflorescent fusion of Nirvana and Samsara without end. This is endless transformation, long life and eternal vision. One simply dances with the world on its terms transcendently in order to meet its potential in the heart of one's own selfless adaption (which is the working definition of alchemy). The world makes no sense— how could meeting its potential make sense? It's a mystery. This is the freedom of enlightening being beyond convention. The celestial design is inconceivable function. Since function is not dependent on existing, there is no thing. There is not even knowing this. When one knows this, one has never acted. Never acting functions beyond the realm of karma. This is true freedom spontaneously according with the stringless tune of high antiquity. How could ordinary people have any part in this inconceivability? How could they not? Gradual and sudden are one without depending on time or location. Buddhas and ignoramuses have just this mind. Mind has no preference, neither for comfort nor for difficulty~ reality, always on the brink; there has never been such a one having done. What is ever-unfolding is Samsaric energy. Enlightening being surfs this without seeking or avoiding the brink which itself has no location. This is an event having no beginning, I say "end game" because outcome has no basis in reality. There is no outcome is the same as there is no done. It is imperative to see this to make it one's own. This is how the knowledge is kept alive.

Yes, Jeff— the gnostic tradition is this way absolutely, and the regional parallels of Hermeticism and the wisdom attributed to the Horus tradition in the Egyptian schools as Apech has posted in this section are also very close. Actually, when I asked Apech to provide a bit of this pithy Egyptian scripture it sounded very Chan-like in its delivery and tone. This must be why the "End Game" thread caused so much unforseen problems for people conceiving of an eternalist or nihilist vanishing point. In terms of immediate acquiescence; taoist Virtue of the Receptive; Dzogchen; chan Suchness …the result continually flowering right now is the nexus of practice, without past or future— well described in the tale of the butcher describing his craft to the king in the inner chapters of Chuantzu.

Hahahahhahahhahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahhah❤

Oh, good news! Thank you for that source, Cat— the copy I had been reading was borrowed and I returned it two days ago! I'll put it on my "extra cash" wish-list too! haha!!

I hope this to be my last addition to references of the kun byed rgyal po (You Are the Eyes of the World), included in this thread. it appears on page 86, at the end of Appendix A, which documents the ancients' efforts refuting scholarly philosophers' and rationalists' attempts to discredit the source of authorship of this text in the 13th and 14th centuries. This is a wonderful proclamation: The Supreme Organizing Principle in the Universe, the State of Pure and Total Presence, having grasped the unoriginated, self-generating primordial awareness, did not say anything. hahahaahahaa!!❤❤

Unity, openness The heart's desire Silent island In a sea of jewels. Unity, Openness, the Heart's Desire; Silent Island, Sea of Jewels Unity, openness is "everything, empty". The heart's desire is "nothing isolated". The shining mind is the "silent island". The flowing wheel is the"sea of jewels". Not craving admits no separation, so selfless impersonal awareness can swallow potential completely whole within oneself. This is called taking over creative evolution and is the meaning of "reversal", whereby the world is used to refine, not gratify, the self. As the dissolution function is the substance of the flowing wheel, you are able to contain this killing energy in silent stillness because stillness isn't really still when it is used to take over potential in order to reverse the light to shine it back on its source. The secret of "everything, empty" is in "before". Afterwards, nothing is isolated so you keep potential sealed by not following habitual mental and emotional patterns. "Everything, empty" involves "effort" which is contained in the meaning of the third hexagram, Difficulty. The secret of "nothing isolated" is "after". Where before there was effort, afterwards there is innocence. Darkness, the fourth hexagram, shows how raw potential is refined through stopping in danger. Effort coming first, detachment following later, is fortunate. Mixing up the order is the ordinary flow of delusional conditioning. This is disaster, the aftermath of folly, arrogance and greed. Doing "before", and only then allowing "after", is the effective method for reversing the light of created energy cycles. When the evolutionary process is applied correctly, it becomes the basis for refinement of the true self, outside the matrix of time. It is a natural process. Oblivion is ignorant darkness, whereas awareness of hidden potential is true darkness. This must be kept tightly sealed, not letting in any light (thoughts). Inside Darkness, there is truly nothing we can know. It is like climbing into an unknowable realm where everything is empty. Actually, what is "done" is non-doing, because the self being refined is a mystery. Any willful, arbitrary actions at this time destroy all that has gone before, so this phase relies on unceasing correctness. This is expressed by the sixth line of the forty-sixth hexagram, Rising: "If you can be correct, rising up into empty darkness is possible." This refers to completing one cycle of energy (consciousness) refinement. Silent still darkness is just the light itself, shining back on the source of awareness. Innocence is the silent stillness of nondiscursive observation~is this not hidden light? When "nothing isolated" has no attachment to "nothing isolated" it becomes "everything empty". This "everything empty", "nothing isolated", "before" and "after" all arrive at the result beyond time because sameness is like having no beginning. Where there is no beginning there is no such mind. Isn't this the same as Bankei's "Unborn Mind"? Not one, other, neither, nor both, this realm is none other than the impersonal living awareness inherent in the shining mind, manifesting by virtue of reversing the light in one's own body in every-day ordinary situations. How is it possible for one to turn the flow of killing dissolution into a sea of jewels without first refining the self in order to meet the energy of created situations by your own skillful means within selfless potential? One simply refines the self of habitual patterns of thought and complacency, gets rid of selfish motives and ideas of one's own abilities and wears down the psychological momentum of the personality until it completely ceases. One uses one's ordinary existence to accomplish this. ed note: didn't like the "alchemy" tag; unsuccessful in getting rid of it…

I guess I could sum up the description of this path of immediate acquiescence as the sudden approach not only leading to and continuing the living practice and teaching of the knowledge of "the indestructible core of reality, a primordial awareness of the hidden dimension of the mind of all awakened beings", but also to re-iterate, that enlightenment itself is the beginning of the endless; the true entry into the inconceivable. The gradual leading to the sudden is a finite road. So when I have often referred to the secret or knowledge of its operations, or admonished some of the bed-rock participants on this forum that they simply do not have a grasp of the issue to make a competent statement in the context of the subject of some of my threads, they must accept that, believe that, and trust that. It is not a put-down. It is an admonishment. Enlightenment is entry-level experience. With enlightenment, there is the basic vision and intimate impersonal realization of the natural mind. Without the objectivity this experience provides, there is no way to evolve enlightening beings. Enlightenment is not buddhahood. All it means (if one has stumbled onto the realization oneself without help from another's transmission), is that one has already been functioning en par with the efflorescence of self-perpetuating pure and total presence of the creative energy of the universe, so one has already entered the mystery by which sudden realization is but a spontaneous sympathetic harmonic resonation in reality. No different than when you wake up in the morning. Seeing the light is when you stop dreaming and open your eyes. What could be more natural? I have often said the secret is an open secret; its just that you are asleep, dreaming this life~ and have yet to awaken and open your eyes. To humor the blind is most lacking in compassion. You can always trust me to exercise ruthless compassion— I will not mislead anyone in this regard.

hi stimpy~ mmwwaaa!! I wanted to add a little more that seemed appropriate from pages 60 and 61 of You Are the Eyes of the World. "Once you have experienced this vision of reality, you can proceed to become certain about it by learning how to relax into it. But in attempting this you encounter all the obstacles that you have to just let be…" "The path is not intellectual knowledge about buddhism, nor is it knowledge about the mind; it is not about Tibetan or Chinese or any other culture or way of thinking, nor is it knowledge about how to do various religious practices. These kinds of objective knowledge are only aids. The path calls for recognizing what you are right now…". "Such analytical knowledge is quite different from knowing the full depth and breadth of how your very own passions operate, such that these passions become a real issue for you. Here also, there is a difference between just 'feeling' that the issues buddhism [and recreational taoist philosophy] talks about should be an issue for oneself, and existentially feeling the whole weight of an issue, being caught up in it, at an impasse, in an intolerable situation, where one's hand is forced. If this is not happening, involvement will just be self-indoctrination in the buddhist issues of selflessness and openness [or the taoist issues of wu-whatever]. But the path really unfolds when these issues become genuinely real for you…" I say if your practice is isn't perennially up against a wall with nowhere to go, then what you have isn't practice.❤

The key point in this tradition is "By cultivating the dimension of your awareness that is without any discursiveness, the dimension of pure being, the final reality, is spontaneously present." This is not approached by intellectual understanding, talking, talking about, thinking, or thinking about anything (or nothing, for that matter), except that which does not think which is itself living self-refreshing pristine awareness. So those who have careers talking about words, thoughts, meanings, images and schools of wisdom habitually relegated to philosophical systems and concepts, are especially handicapped in this regard. It's not so much that the tao that can be spoken is not the tao …it's that one must actually find out what it is. Those who are contented to the safety of just knowing that it is there are complete outsiders. Even sudden enlightenment is entry-level. The path of self-refinement is finite. Whether there is gradual leading to the sudden or one takes up the sudden from the start, only entry into the inconceivable is entry at all. This becomes oneself as one enters the mystery of endless transformations wherein people become buddhas and buddhas become people. ed note: exchange 仙 for folly. Haha!! I wrote: "It's not so much that the tao can can be spoken is not the tao"!! Muss've been my inner show-girl!!

The Yellow Emperor did this for 100 days. Do you know what he did for 100 days? Do you know what was the result? Have you accomplished what he did? Do you believe that it is completely up to you? It's easy to find out. 100 days is all it took to accomplish. The mythical is reached by your body alone. The Yellow Emperor only had to stop. Do you know the secret of stopping? Those who's own mental conceits consider the mention of secrets intolerable… In terms of stopping, what's the big secret? Even if you know, can you carry it out in the midst of ordinary affairs? The mythical is reached with your body in no time at all. What's 100 days to your mind? For most of you, 100 days might as well be eternity. Eternity takes an instant to traverse; but who knows how far one goes in 100 days? The Yellow Emperor did this in 100 days. Are you up to realizing your own mythical existence. When you see it once, you see it forever.

This came about in a dream sequence I had last year. As It Becomes You The unattributable occurs blamelessly Lifetimes proceed in light of encounters Selflessness is the regality of impersonal nature There being no person; the court of no account is wordless Clearly, there is nothing to know: Wholly unborn and undying. Phantoms encountering the world Who is left out? Encountering the vertical, there is unutterable firmness Switching abodes, you take over creation: The office bustles with unreality; It is a business where nothing in due course happens. Already possessing the medicines; malady is presumed and prescribed This is the necessary step to self-refinement: Don't settle down in it and make this your career. Affirmed, you go on Following the incline of sameness Prior illuminates have tread. First awaken on your own, then see someone else It is your own regal impersonal nature Waiting on the rise. Stepping over eternity is not worth talking about As it becomes you Just wear out the shoe.

Thanks for sharing, etick❤

Sacre bleu~ I wonder what it's like to imagine that I've actually read anything et has said since his second post~ that must have been (it seems), months ago! So , how long has it been, really, mon petite bouche?❤ And to imagine et is the only one who cares enough to actually follow this thread!!! hahahhahaa!!❤❤ If I cared enough, I'd follow it too~ but since I come from the place where nothing happens, nothing says this better than Empty book Empty days Empty chair Untold ways Now, if et actually has something to share …how would he match the rich emptiness void of doubt in which I splash about? Should he keep imagining the impossible …with suuuch an insistent little mouth… speaking of??? Perhaps he is in love…❤ Do follow my threads, ma cher. They all come from an empty book which has no cultivation to better. It would be interesting if you stopped reading my posts and responded to your own obsessions here as if you were reading my words, hmmmm? Meeoowww!! Now wouldn't that be kinky?!! Heehee~ it's too bad I won't be reading it… haahahhahhahahaa!!❤

Moving right along… Assessing chaos In a single turn Ruthless compassion Does not burn Which brings us to the last stanza of this song. Where not a single word applies. So the final reality of self-refreshing pristine awareness is the solitary vision of the end game. Whereas "the Way is not far, yet it is hard to reach the end" means there is, in fact, something close which is difficult to accomplish. If one has not yet conceived the thought that such a realm is to be witnessed, much less actually made life-long efforts to actually reach the limit of the limitless, how could one presume this to be easy? ed note: add last paragraph. The quote source can be found on "The Jewel Ship" thread