Guest guest Posted February 17, 2000 Report Share Posted February 17, 2000 At 08:48 PM 2/17/00 +0200, you wrote: >J M de la Rouviere <moller > >Well said Dan. Cannot agree more. Very well put. > >There is a saying in Zen called Zen-sickness. This is when someone has >intergrated the teaching to the point of very clear and even insightful >understanding and then start acting in a 'free' way, as if the action is >based on the freedom of the non-dual condition. This is very easy to fall >into. Thought can project anything -even its own demise as central >headquarters - and then experience this projection as not of itself. This >is psuedo freedom. Just another projection. > >I get the impression that there are rather many of these projections doing >the round and sincerely believing they are 'it'. As such it is just another >form of identification with thought. > >My sense is that when identification with thought as an entire living >condition has been transcended, no more falling back into the fragmented >vision of the thought-condition, in any respect, is possible. > >Thought and conditioning may still arise, but in such freedom they have >lost their reality factor, so that they can be seen, recognised and >intelligently used by the free condition as and when necessary. The free >condition of being is not without intelligence. It stands truly free to >make use of all or any human potential for its functioning and is in no way >directed, given order or implied in any way by the condition of >thought-reality which is the functional reality of the dualistic state. > >Your brother in the Dharma, > >Moller Yes. Thanks for sharing these observations, Moller. Making the Unknown seem more known that it is, is to familiarize what can't be made familiar. Thought can never bring It into thought's sphere, thought can only surrender the apparent center of its sphere entirely. There's no substitute. To really "drop everything" isn't easy at all. The past has a huge momentum, built up over millenia of habit-formation, culture, and neural processing. I think this is why the Christian Biblical text refers to "overcoming the world". I'm wary of words that make It sound easy, just a matter of learning the right language and way to speak. Love, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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