Commentary from CC: The Coldness of Infinity

THE POWER OF SILENCE is an intellectual review of the thoughts ofthe shamans of ancient Mexico. In their most abstract guise. As Iworked alone on the book, I was contaminated by the mood of thosemen, by their desire to know more in a quasi-rational way. Florindaexplained that in the end, those shamans had become extremely coldand detached. Nothing warm existed for them anymore. They were setin their quest; their coldness as men was an effort to match thecoldness of infinity. They had succeeded in changing their humaneyes to match the cold eyes of the unknown.

Commentary on The Power of Silence(Inner Silence)THE WHEEL OF TIMECarlos Castaneda

Nature of Projection

-- "The entity placed in the body is a projection designed as the carrier of projections. It inhabits the body-construct as a mind-entity that can know and do. It brings with it constructions of threats that would attack or negate its knowing and doing. The goal of projection is to protect an imagined entity taken as self by forming protections to ensure imagined continuity.

-- "The therapy of no-thingness can have no aim that involves a new state for a separable being called the client. ... Such a therapy is nothing other than the opening that is the present as is, which is an opening to and of potential, and the discovery that one's being is this ever-new potentiality as actuality. Problems drop here simply because there is no place for an assumption of a problem-carrying entity."

“I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination.”
-- William Blake, Jerusalem: To the Christians

Your New Age
Is neither new
Nor will it last an age.

You ride a pendulum
On a clock wound
To run for eternity.

Your despair has
Today turned to hope.
Tomorrow it will
Turn back again.

The walls of oppression
You tear down here
Will be rebuilt
There.

The meek shall
Inherit the earth
Then the clever ones
Will take it back from them.

The torture chamber
Will empty
And refill.

A disease will
Be conquered
And a new one will
Appear to take its place.

This strikes you
As a bleak vision
But Ram Tzu knows this...

It is your hope for a better future
That keeps you in chains today.

- Ram Tzu

Tim Mulligan

Well, I've spent the last four months reading about nondualism (Advaita
Vedanta). I had determined that this was my last stop in a spiritual
journey that really started when I was only nine years old and reading
about the "occult" in the public library in Springfield, New Jersey.
Since then, I've gone from Roman Catholicism, to Schopenhauer, to
Buddhism, to Taoism, to Krishnamurti, to scientistic atheism, to the
Baha'i Faith, to the Gurdjieff work, to Jung, and then, finally, to
nondualism.

I've spent hours at nondual Web sites. I've read _Consciousness Speaks_
by Ramesh Balsekar, _No Way: for the Spiritually Advanced_ by Ram Tzu
(Wayne Liquorman), _Relaxing into Clear Seeing_ by Arjuna Nick Ardagh,
_Awareness_ by Fr. Anthony de Mello, _The Perennial Philosophy_ by
Aldous Huxley, _The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller_, a bunch of
Krishnamurti stuff (again), some Meister Eckhart, _Collision with the
Infinite_ by Suzanne Segal (see my scathing review at Amazon.com). I've
come to the following, tentative conclusions.

The "Source" is the supposedly the source of all manifestation. This
"Source" is the source of the torture/mutilation murders of children.
This "Source" is the source of spinal bifida. This "Source" is the
source of migraine headaches. This "Source" was the source of Hitler
and his holocaust, as well as every other episode of genocide through
history.

In short, this "Source" is supremely indifferent to what is harmful to
us and what is not-and yes, that's from our point of view. Petty, aren't we?

I no longer pine to "realize I am the Source," or however you might
characterize it: enlightenment, divine union, etc. I've decided to be
as profoundly indifferent to this "Source" as it is to us. I am totally
apathetic about this "Source". To me, it is as practically
consequential, although perhaps as necessary, as quarks or hydrogen.
Maybe it's there. Who cares. "It" certainly doesn't.
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So I've come to rest as a non-scientistic, apathetic agnostic. And if
anyone tells me this means I'm ripe for enlightenment, I'll scream.

Tim Mulligan

Never the spirit was born; The spirit shall cease to be never;

Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!

Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever;

Death hath not touched it at all, Dead though the house of it seems.


-The Bhagavad Gita

"I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, "All right then, I'll GO to hell." -- Huckleberry Finn

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

~ Frederico Garcia Lorca ~

In 2002, the "dominant concept" was presented as "jutaijutsu", with material from Takagi Yoshin ryu (a samurai jujutsu system from the 1600s) as the primary vehicle. People, and there were a lot of them, who adopted an "omote" or external focus on learning the kata and waza missed everything, as what it was "about" was conceptual: A couple of the key points in "the meaning of jutaijutsu" as Soke was presenting it are:1) Nothing you do should require any more physical "effort" than it takes to merely move your body through empty space without a training partner or opponent;2) Your partner/opponent should not be able to sense/feel/interpret what you're doing until it's too late (if at all!).

Some Western psychologists say that we should not repress our anger but express it - that we should practice anger! However, we must make an important distinction here between mental problems that should be expressed and those that should not. Sometimes you may be truly wronged and it is right for you to express your grievance instead of letting it fester inside you. But you should not express it with anger. If you foster disturbing negative minds such as anger they will become a part of your personality; each time you express anger it becomes easier to express it again. Progress in mental development... depends on controlling the mind. - The Dalai Lama, from His Holiness' Commentary on "The Eight Verses Of Thought Transformation,", translated by Alex Berzin, published by Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre.