[AdvaitaToZen] 100 Foot Pole

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Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain

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> Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5@> wrote:

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> > On Oct 20, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Insight wrote:

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> > > " A one hundred foot pole has no place to rest,

> > > except, at the base. Why climb at all?, " asked the teacher.

> > >

> > > But how about the view? asked the monk.

> > >

> > > " Once you come down, the memory of the view,

> > > is not the view, "

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> > > J: It was not his philosophical training or his ascetic or

> > > moral austerities that finally brought Buddha to his

> > > experience of enlightenment. Buddha attained it only

> > > when he gave up all these superficial practices

> > > which hang around the externalities of our existence.

> > > Intellectualization or moralization or conceptualization

> > > are only needed to realize their own limitations. The

> > > koan exercise aims at bringing all this intimately home

> > > to us. - Suzuki, Fromm, De Martino

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> > P: The scariest thing to realize is that we are the endless

> > machinations of thought. Thoughts that vanish constantly

> > and leave only a faint trail in memory. With that ghostly

> > activity we have identified, and we have made it solid.

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> > It's very hard not to identify, to give up living

> > within walls of smoke which offer no protection at all.

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> > To accept that true nature is ineffable, and that any

> > attempt to identify with it will turn it into another thought

> > is one the hardest thing to do.

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> > To be, is not to be.

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> It is even harder to realize that 'we' are nothing other then the

> attempt to realize our own imagined limitation.

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> Smoke............all the way down.

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> toombaru

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and turtles (or crocs if that's your real photo;-) all the way up;-)