The invisible man

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THE MOST INSANEST IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF INSANITY?

 

- OR some calming words about my detachments to Wim Borsboom?

 

Several years ago, about 20 in fact, I had several experiences of entering

the Delta state of consciousness - not during meditation, but in the middle

of the daily life - walking in the middle of crowds of people. Suddendly,

there were no ego, no references. I walked through a crowd; everyone was me,

and none was me - no "Magne" existed. When I looked at things around me, it

was not *me* looking at objects - I WAS the objects.

 

The mineral kingdom doesn't have any *ego* - no center of reference;

therefore it's possible for electrons to perform teleportation.

 

However, it was not only the taoist Chuang Tzu's who couldn't differensiate

between himself and the butterfly. His contemporary Lieh Tzu, who according

to Chuang Tzu was famous for his ability to RIDE ON THE WIND, told these

story about his time as a disciple of Lao Shang:

 

*After 9 years, my mind gave free reins to it's own reflections, and my

mouth allowed freedom to every kind of speach. About right and wrong, gain

and loss, I had no knowledge, neither about myself nor others... Inner mind

and outer objects had mixed with each other into a unity. After that

incident, there were no distinction between eye and ear, nose and mouth -

everything was the same. My mind was frozen, my body in dissolution. I was

completly unaware of what my body rested on, or what was beneath my feets. I

was carried away the one way and the other way by the wind, like dry chaff

and blades falling from a three and scattered before the wind. In fact, I

didn't know whether it was the wind riding on me, or me riding on the

wind....................*

 

(Lieh Tzu, Chapter 2)

 

To recite the prajnaparmita hridaya sutra -

 

"Here, Oh Sariputra, is form not different from emptiness.

Form is excactly emptiness.

Emptiness is excactly form."

 

- I can tell you how one mystic locally explained for me these passage,

without saying a single word ! He put his hand deeply in the snow. A hole

appeared in the snow. And I saw how emptiness (the hole) WAS form (the shape

of the hole).

 

But since emptiness is impossible without non-emptiness (due to the

relativism and dualism involved in the word), Nagarjuna wrote - in the most

provoking treatise in the history of Buddhism that -

 

"It can not be called empty,

or not empty,

or both empty and not empty,

or neither empty nor not empty;

but in order to talk about it, we call it empty."

 

(Mulamadhyamika Karika 22,11)

 

I know perfectly well how madhyamika have been interpreted in various ways.

In China it's called San-lun Tsung. They reduced Buddhas four noble truthts

to the *two truths*. Several controversies occured with schools like Pen-wu,

Hsin-wu, Chih Tun et., until finally Seng-chao (383-414) cut through. But -

they needed the Genius of Chi-i (515-576), to solve the paradoxes with the

evolving steps of the 4 truths -> the 2 truths -> the one truth -> no truth.

And Chi-i founded the T'ien-tai school, named after the T'ien-tai mountains

in Southern China where it's main learning seat were. T'ien-t'ai was Chinas

attempt to unite every branch of buddhism and resolve the paradoxes. And

they considered the *Sutra of the White Lotus* as their main text.

 

I have attached pictures from the T'ien-t'ai mountains beneath.

 

Since Delta IS the realm of emptiness and no differensiations nor dualism;

maybe we can refer to our awake state (Beta) as the state of names and forms

(nama-rupa) which makes attempts to capture us in the ghosts of PINK

conventions. We can call Beta the form. And when these two brainwaves exists

simultaniously we are in a state where form IS emptiness; moreover - since

there ain't ANYTHING there, it makes sense when Buddha said that he

*achieved nothing* through his Enlightenment.

 

Even more - due to the limitations of our language, we can say that my

experiences mentioned initially was something *I* never could have

experienced - since there no *ego* there!

 

 

* * * * * * *

 

The invisible man is one of the oldest meditations. It is part of the

Kundalini Kriya Yoga tradition, where it is called "Chaaya Upasana" or the

"Disciple of the Shadow". It is used in several forms and traditions. It is

still practised in some buddhist monastries in Tibet.

 

It's about how you sometimes just disappear.

While sitting in the garden, you can simply feel that you disappear.

Imagine how the world would look like when you have left it, when you are no

longer here, when you have been completly transparent. Just try it a few

seconds. At home, imagine that you are not there. Stop a second; you are not

there - and the world continues. When you realize more and more that the

world manage to rule itself without you, you can be familiar with a more

unknown side of yourself - neglected through lifetimes. Open these door.

Become the door.

 

Sit under a three or close to a roaring waterfall. It may blow softly, and

the blades of the threes may rustle...... You feel the wind or the air from

the waterfall; let it stream through you. Close your eyes, and while the

wind moves to the top of the three and the blades rustle or the waterfall

roars, then you feel like a three or the fall yourself, completly open, and

the wind doesn't pass by, it blows through you.

 

Further - when walking through a building with many people, try to walk

through the building without making any eye contact with anyone. Do not look

at anyone in their face. This is one way - of many, to expand it into the

outer life.

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Dear Magne:

 

You wrote:

> When you realize more and more that the

> world manages to rule itself without you,

> you can be familiar with a more

> unknown side of yourself -

> neglected through lifetimes.

 

yes

known and not neglected

unknown and unseen

 

Love,

Wim