[K-list] Chaos AND Order - Yet Another Koan?

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CHAOS AND ORDER - YET ANOTHER KOAN?

 

Dear Wim.

>I am so glad that you picked up on the Heart Chakra. (Primary Lotus and

>Secondary Lotus)

<...>

>In my practice I have slowly moved away from the Sanskrit nomenclature of

>the various chakra energies in the chest area but am linking the blades or

>petals as you describe them with our inner organs. What you say in the

>following quote correlates well with the work I do with my clients.

>

>> one of the 6 *habits* which develops one of the 6

>> *conscious*, *Yang-blades* of the Heart Lotus Anahata.

>> The other 6 feminine *Yin-blades* unfolds during sleep

>

>2 lungs

>heart

>pancreas

>liver

>thymus

>esophagus

>bronchial tube

>

 

I was refering to the "6 virtues of Initiation" as the habits necessary to

develope 6 of the 12 "blades" of the Hearth lotus:

 

1) Consistent, logically thinking and OBJECTIVITY

2) Consistent Actions (Will)

3) The ability of Compassion

4) Positive attitude

5) Open-mindedness (Bhakti)

6) Emotional balance

 

6 of these "blades" (or rather flows of energy) can be opened by conscious

means by adopting these habits. The other 6 energy-tubes opens during sleep.

 

The organs you are mentioning do all have an uttermost importance in Kriya

Yoga - such as I experience it. Different organs are connected with

different emotions, and there are Yin (-) and Yang (+) organs, establishing

polarities which must be balanced.

>> We should not forget fractal geometry, the *chaos theory* in mathematics.

>In

>> fact, two different exact sciences, physics and mathematics, talks about

>> *uncertainty* (possibility).

>

>It is so important for everyone to get a good grounding in fractal

geometry,

>chaos theory and complex number algebra. When my son grew up I was so

>enmeshed and involved in the discovery of all that, that it became second -

>no first - nature to him. A fantastic kid now.

>(Roger Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and

>the Laws of Physics" is not a bad introduction at all to these topics, if

>somewhat obtuse initially if all this is new to you.)

>Quote from Martin Gardner about that book:

>>>>A brilliant and controversial scientific argument on the nature of the

>mind, its relation to the laws of physics, and why computers may prove

>unable to duplicate its workings. "It is a book that I believe will become

a

>classic...Penrose is one of an increasingly large band of physicists who

>think Einstein was not being stubborn or muddle-headed when he said his

>'little finger' told him that quantum mechanics is incomplete. To support

>this contention, Penrose takes you on a dazzling tour that covers such

>topics as complex numbers, Turing machines, complexity theory, the

>bewildering paradoxes of quantum mechanics, formal systems, Gdel

>undecidability, phrase spaces, Hilbert spaces, black holes, white holes,

>Hawking radiation, entropy, the structure of the brain, and scores of other

>topics at the heart of current speculations"-->>>>

>

 

I've been pondering about the subject of *chaos*, *uncertainty* for some

days now, and a NEW paradox arise...

 

To begin with, the word fractal can be explained by a simple example. How

long is the Western Coast of US? If we consult maps and dictionaries, we

will find N miles. Ok. But is the map detailed enough? No. Do the map count

every single curve and bending WITHIN a coast. No. If we add these, the

coast gets longer. Each curve and bending, in turn, have further windings

and curves within, down to the smallest stone. And within each stone, we

find further minor curves, etc. until the length of the coast reaches

INFINITY.

 

Any map is a simplification of reality. A raindrop doesn't fall from A to B

in a straight line, but in order to grasp it with our linear mind, we must

simplify it. Fractal geometry operates by splitting a dimension into

fractions, that is, that a line from A to B consists of smaller lines, which

again can be divided further etc.

 

When we say that the world is infinite complex, it is due to our attempts to

understand it with our linear, Euclidian thinking process.... We try to

understand a world where everything happens simultaniously with a linear

process of thinking.

 

There's another paradox here, however. That the world is chaotic, filled

with *uncertainty* (possibility), as Heisenberg postulated, has been known

by mystics for centuries. For what other reasons are Zen-paintings and

Zen-art filled with these amazing *chaotic*, spontanious creativity, without

stright lines?

 

However, at the same time, ORDER is refered to by both physicians and

mystics. There's an amazing order in the periodic table, in the subnuclear

world. There's even symmetry on the quark level. God, The Divine, is often

refered to as law and order. One of the greatest wonders in all creation is

the systematic, orderly organization in all things. In both the greater and

the lesser creations we are awed by the interrelating interdependency of all

working together harmoniously and rhythmically. The magnificience of such

precision, orderliness and intelligent management baffles the mind. And

order is the divine attribute in the solar plexus Chakra, when it functions

properly.

 

One of the latest theories in physics is the *shoe lace* theory, introduced

by Geoffrey Chew. Instead of searching for the smallest particle, elementary

building bricks, these theory postulates that the *particles* only can exist

through an inner connection with it's environment. Everything exists as a

web, where everything is interconnected, where processes rather than

particles are interconnected. This is an attempt to explain the particles

called Hadrons.

 

Again, we find parallels in mystical doctrines.

 

Mandukya Upanishad states:

 

"Like a Spider spinning its web and redraw it again,

.... in the same way does the Universe emanate from

the eternal ONE."

 

And in the Buddhist Avatamsaka Sutra, we find the same idea about how *the

sharp contures of individuality becomes foggy, and the feeling of beeing

limited no longer imprisons us.* Avatamsaka talkes about a dynamic

interrelations through Space and Time.

 

Avatamsaka Sutra is one of the written remains from the now long forgotten

kingdoms in a forgotten indo-aric civilisation in Central Asia. In the years

418-421 AD, Buddhabhadra translated it into Chinese on 60 fascimiles and 34

chapters; Sikshananda translated it into Chinese 699 AD on 81 fascimiles and

40 chapters and Prajna translated it into Chinese in the years 796-798 AD on

40 fascimiles - entitled TA-FANG KUANG-FO HUA-YEN CHING, based on lost

originals from the now lost Kingdom of Khotan in Central Asia. 168-188 AD,

Lokakshema translated a fragment of it with the title FO SHUO T’U-SHA CHING

(Sutra from Heaven), Chih-chi’en translated another fragment 222-228 AD with

the title FO SHUO P’U-SA PEN-YEH CHING (Sutra about Buddhas earliest

deeds)and An Fa-hsien translated yet another piece 220-264 AD entitled FO

SHUO LO MO CHIEH CHING (Sutra about entering Dharmadhatu).

 

Avatamsaka has never been translated into english, as far as I know. It's

pity, because Avatamsaka is in accordance with the *show lace* theory.

 

The last part called Gandavyuha, consists of a tale about a young person

starting a pilegrimage in the search for the Truth. These tale give a higly

living description of his mystical experience of the Universe. During his

trip, he comes to a adorned Tower, shining in Light:

 

"The Tower is as large as Heaven itself. It's ground is buildt up with every

kind of jewels. And within the tower, there exist an infinite amount of

palaces, balconies, windows, stairs, banisters and corridors, made of the

seven precious stones.... And within these Tower, which is so large and so

beautifull decorated, there are hundreds of thousands of... towers, each one

adorned in the same way as the main Tower and as large as Heaven itself. And

all these Towers, so many that they are uncountable, doesn't interfere with

each others; each one of them have a separate existence in perfect harmony

with all the others; nothing prevents a Tower to unite with some or all of

the other towers; here exists a perfect Union and perfect ORDER. Sudhana,

the young pilgrim, sees himself in all the towers as well as in every single

tower, which everyone of them exists in one tower and each of them contains

all the others..........."

 

Sounds familiar? Every cell of our body has a copy of the whole body.

So - without these comparisions with science, in order to rediscover

similarities, Avatamsaka would probably end up in obscurity, considered as a

fairy tail only, something *made-up* from a past culture *inferior* to our

own.

 

Blessings from Norway