13 Oct Way Of Way 18
Love your self with your soul, not with your self. Otherwise, you might fuck your self....
12 Oct Way Of Way 38
Stress is a selfish state of mind. Stress happens when the self takes control of the mind. The remedy is freeing the mind from the self. The etymology of the word "mind" is "memory". Remembering what the universe is can free us from the shackles of stress. The etymology of the word "universe" literally means "turned into one". All things are temporarily things in the now, but eternally one thing: the universe. Who we are is a self. What we are is the universe. When we only perceive being a self, we suffer selfish states such as stress. Remembering we are the universe, we have no stress. Feeling great and being stressed are mutually exclusive states of mind. When we feel great, we cannot be stressed. When we are grateful, we are "great-full" with no space for stress. We are grateful when we remember we are lucky. However stressful our circumstances, we are lucky they are not worse. The word "hap" means luck. The root of happiness is remembering we are lucky. When we are happy, we cannot be stressed. Life is a play. For the actors in the play, it's a tragedy; good times, bad times, meaningful relationships here and there, but everyone dies at the end. For the audience, it's a comedy; watching actors take their roles seriously, though it's only a play. When we identify as the self, we are the actors. The audience is Gods. When we remember we are Gods, we are also the audience. As Homer once said, near the home of the Gods, Mount Olympus, there is a deafening sound of the Gods laughing. The Gods are laughing at us. When we die, we leave the play and join our fellow Gods in the audience. Remembering we are both the actors and the Gods, we can laugh at our selves. When laughing, we are not stressed. Much stress is a function of things from the past. These things are karma: our intentions, actions and consequences of past lives. Karma affects how we experience the now. Our past lives are not lives we had before this life. Our past lives are passed days of our life. Each day is not a day in a life but a life in a day. We accumulate much karma over our passed lives. The people we were in passed lives are illusions. Our memories of them are just a dream; yet, the self tells us otherwise. When we don't believe the self-stories about the past, we remember we are only the person we are right now. Karma of the past is passed and we cannot be stressed in the now. The self has many faces or emotions, like stress. The self's emotions control our mind. To escape the self we need to calm the self with unconditional love. Unconditional love comes only from the soul. When we love unconditionally, we are the soul. The soul is never stressed....
11 Oct Way Of Way 24
Loving those who dislike you shows them the way to disliking no one....
10 Oct Way Of Way 53
A meal is judged twice. At the sitting and at the shitting....
09 Oct Kotodama 57
No know is know no. When we realize we don't know anything we come to know nothing, the essence of the Everything....
07 Oct Kotodama 13
As the mind cannot sense, the sense it makes of our senses is nonsense....
05 Oct Way Of Way 40
Pantheism is a religion without religion. Organized religions are identity groups typically defined by institutionalized characteristics: belief systems, sacred texts, rituals, moral codes, communal practices, symbols and anecdotes. As each organized religious group perceives itself different from other groups, religious identity groups (as well as secular identity groups) are inherently dualistic Pantheism dispels with duality. Pantheism is the view that while every thing seems unique, all there is is one everchanging thing: God. Oneness with God is a transcendental experience that dissolves the illusionary and dualistic boundaries that differentiate organized religion and secular groups generally. Oneness is a direct connection to the divine; much like mystical experiences in organized religions (Sufism, Kabballah, tantra, and Zen meditation) but without the institutional structures framing it. The state of oneness is characterized by the transition from individual consciousness to divine consciousness; from the view that every thing is finite in space and time (having a beginning and end) to the view that all there is is the everchanging and eternal Everything, God. In the mystical state of oneness, one loves every thing; though one may not necessarily like every thing from the perspective of their individual consciousness. When one loves every thing, one feels every thing loves them. The reciprocal connection of love engenders a transcendental peace, a peace beyond understanding. Pantheists appreciate organized religions and secular beliefs as different expressions of God; but often view as funny the rituals, dogmas, and hierarchies of organized religions and secular life (non-pantheists) as they obscure the fundamental truth that every thing is sacred. Those who are non-pantheists often don't appreciate a pantheist's perspective. People who take their religious and secular beliefs seriously are put off by those who are laughing at them, though simultaneously loving them....
05 Oct Way Of Way 41
“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.” -- Lao Tzu In each body resides a self. But the self is many selves, as each emotional states is a unique self. The selves are like the grains of sand in a muddy pond, the mind. They preclude us from seeing what's within the pond and reflections without the pond. To see clearly within and without, the selves need to settle at pond's bottom. This allows the many selves to turn into one. This is the purpose of meditation....
03 Oct Koan 125
“He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak.” -- Lao Tzu Words emanate light. Sentences reflect light and cast shadows. He who speaks reflects light and casts shadows, but does not know the light. He who knows does not speak as speaking separates him from the light. He who speaks does not know what's said is rarely what's heard. He who knows does not speak, for speaking is futile. He who speaks describes what he sees and hears, not what he smells. Yet, the nose knows. He who knows does not speak as smells defy clear description. He who speaks is an actor in the play of life. He who know is the audience. For actors, the play is a tragedy; as every actor inevitably is scripted out of the play and dies. For the audience, the play is a comedy. The audience is the Gods. The Gods are forever laughing at the actors taking their selves seriously. The actors often forget they too are Gods. He who laughs cannot speak. The Gods do not speak, they can only laugh. He who speaks is in the now. He cannot grasp the now, as a hand cannot grasp itself. He who knows does not speak as the now can only be known by observing. He who speaks describes that which his mind creates; what his foveal vision carves out of peripheral vision. He who knows does not speak, as peripheral vision defies specific description. He who speaks creates a photo of the now. He who knows does not speak, for the now is an eternal motion picture. He who speaks does not know, as descriptions are empty; the now that's described is now no longer. What's described are illusions. He who knows the now does not speak, as the essence of the now is nothing. He who speaks describes things that were and are now no longer. He who knows does not speak as there are no things. All there is is an everchanging flow. He who speaks is a dot in a painting. He who knows does not speak, for a painting is an infinite number of interdependent dots. He who speaks does not know as attempting to describe the now supplants the now. He who knows does not speak as descriptions are distractions from the now. A speaker's words are like the finite and precise space inside a square. The endless and everchanging now is like the imprecise space inside a circle. He who knows does not speak, for a circle cannot be squared....