If you do something, make sure that you do it to be the best. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter what people say about it. If you do something with your best efforts and become the best in it, you'll know all knowledge about that specific thing to be some lame crap.
And that was my life for 10 years. I was a high-class hooker. Call me a courtesan, call girl, escort, whatever you want. But basically I was a hooker. Just very well paid.' She looks at her ring, an enormous pear-shaped diamond, and adjusts it. 'Very well paid.
Why? Did you think that this was impossible!!!?? Shame on you!
She earned £10,000 a night - at her peak £20,000, and £40,000 for a weekend. ('No one earns that money now,' she says. 'Prices have gone down in the last five years. Changing times.')
This is a 100% true story. This girl just did it right. So many hot girls get into prostitution and ruin their lives. Sure it's not the best job at all. It's not even the easiest. But what happens to the girl is her responsibility. The problem and the solution is the profession. Look at the lifestyle of the one's who made prostitution their solution.
What makes a £10,000-£20,000 girl? 'Looks and training. We were professionals. We'd need to be funny, a laugh, party all night. Or cool and clever, discreet and well-mannered. You could never be fazed by power or mega money - or what you were asked to do.' She says the top girls are 'healthy' - they go to the gym. 'They don't do drugs, smoke or drink. Sometimes you're up all night, you need to look after yourself.' The top 10 are 'champion racehorses'. Others are 'more hard-wearing'.
Did anybody thought of this as a possibility or an opportunity? I'm pretty sure that only few in a million did. The ones who went to the top doing their best in what they can perform well and excel others becomes the anomaly. The definition loses its ability to define what he/she is at a certain point. That when you conquer the filed. It doesn't matter what your field is. You can do this with anything if you have enough passion for it.
She's been to Barneys in New York and to Paris to shop. The first time she was bought clothes by a client, it was £7,000 dresses in Prada and four pairs of shoes. 'He kept saying, "Are you sure that's enough, don't you want anything else?"' She's also been given gadgets - the latest Mac, iPads, iPhones - and handbags ('a lot of handbags').
Cool, right...? But most of the prostitutes do't end up here. They just come to make a living. Some even degrades the profession. No matter what your profession is there is over 90% probability that there could be something better and even noble. But you why should you degrade your profession. If you don't like your job, ditch it! If you keep doing your job, give you maximum effort to it.
Maybe I'll marry a rich man,' she says. 'If not, I'll start my own business.' Does she think she'll ever fall in love? Have children? Have a normal life? 'Maybe. I hope.' She shrugs. 'It's hard to think about it. Right now, I just want to make money.
Have a clear definition of what you do. Love what you do or ditch what you do. Always perform at your best and be tactical. Don't let the definitions about your work/profession cloud your vision. When you do you best and become the best, those definitions won't mean a thing. They don't have any absolute value. So stop thinking and do it at your best and give all you got before expanding your own horizons.
Are you sure that you have the right image about the today's technological capabilities? Do you think that science fictions are over-zealous? Do you think of them as "stuff that is never gonna happen" or "stuff that's not gonna happen in this century"? You'll have to think again..........
Try Ancient Aliens documentaries. Those episodes will make you re-think your opinion even on technological capabilities of ancient times. The truth is the world can offer more marvels than you think. Just think about the advancing of technology during WWI, WWII and cold war.
We are actually seeing aged technologies as modern stuff. Think about the "Advance Military Weapons". Most of them are at least 20-30 years old. You are not even seeing most of the today's real technological capabilities. The truth is G.I. Joe can be very much realistic than you think. You must always think so many times before assuming that something is too much or impossible for modern technological capabilities. The over-estimations can be more accurate than the general accepted idea. Fictions can provide better insight into future than the methodical and crappy predictions.
You can also check this and this about to get some insight on the role of humans in the future society.
The videos are based on the information available to the public. When you have a lot of great marvels going around, would you release the good stuff to the public?? What we know about the real capabilities is not that different from what we know about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain from the Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes .
Think about your life. Think about your future. What would happen to you? Take few hours if you need. Just figure out how you would spend your life. Think about where your path would take you to. Think to the edge. Think about college. Think about job. Think about your happiness and relaxation. Think about everything you will have and everything you wouldn't have. Make a list of everything about your future. Look at it. Prepare another list that shows the cost. Think about your effort and psychological commitment required to achieve all the things in the list. Then look at some people you admire. It maybe Buddha, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scarlet Johanson, Steven Spielberg, Mark Wahlberg, Dan Brown, J.K. Rolling. Then make your list of a fantasy life.
After doing all the above you should feel whether there is something off with the way you are handling things in your life. you'll guarantee yourself whether you are going to end up being like one of the people you look up to or not. If you follow the "Path to a Successful Life" would you ever get the things in your wishlist? Would you ever live like the people who you look up to? Should you re-think your future strategies? Aren't most of the people going off the track? Ask yourself about the things that made the legends become legends. Ask yourself about the differences between the way they lived and the way that you are living. Just think about people like Steve Jobs who never had a degree and Steven Spielberg who didn't had a degree when he did his greatest movies. They did something right that you are doing wrong. Ask yourself "what?" More than 99% of the population are just average scum who'd just be completely forgotten 10-20 years after their deaths. Nobody would even know that they existed except for few about few hundreds out of the 7 000 000 000++
So shouldn't you be not doing the exact things that are done to get a good and successful life to actually live an awesome life???
I’m gonna ask you a question. What if I’m………not
gonna ask you that question. Is that a problem? For some scum, not having a
problem is a problem. The first Matrix movie says that humans understand and
accept reality through pain. Thus we become slaves of pain. We work hard to get
into pains called jobs so that we won’t be hurt so much. People feel
comfortable when they know that they paid a price to get their comforts such as
a 100,000 dollar car.
This
is hilarious to me. Remember what I said about funerals.
Yep, it’s all so pathetic. People go tagging various emotions on various things
and suffer because of it. Why can’t you be happy when your dog dies. You don’t
need a reason to be happy. There is no
real absolute meaning in anything in our lives. We can do what we please. Only
thing you have to care about is causality. You do whatever you want and face
the outcome. That’s it about life.
You
don’t have to be sad because your mom died! Seriously, you suck if you do. If you
are happy because you mommy didn’t die out of her heart attack; still you suck.
If none of those things affect you and you are happy cuz you like being happy;
then you rock. If humans understand the world through pain and dealing with
pain in a zillion ways, what would you be when you completely ignore the
problems and feel what you want to feel? That is dominance.
That is the feeling of godhood. That is one of the things those pathetic drug
addicts search in their miserable habits.
So
what if I don’t ask you that question? Would it affect you? The questions are
not there to affect you. If you do change when you face a question; you suck. A
question is about self-exploration and self-centeredness. So are the so called
problems of life. They are about exploring yourself. You
have the answers. You don’t need to pray or scavenge for your answers. Explore
yourself and understand you experience of reality. Just observe and you’d know
the true nature of everything you call “real”. You make it real: just as you do
with a dream.
Haven’t
you woken up being scared or with teary eyes after a dream? That’s how people
under suffering and dealing with pain looks like to me. Taking care of lives
problems are exactly the same as getting affected and all hyped up because of
some dream. SO what is a dream? Isn’t it a delusion or something? Then why the
f@<k would you react in any way. If there are no problems, it means you have
nothing to do. Even engaging in a hobby is a small scale suffering. I mean don’t
your hands hurt when you play a lot of games? Doesn’t your neck hurt while
reading lot of books? Then being at rest should be one heaven of bliss, right? Just
think about 24/7
meditation.
So
do you really need that question I was gonna ask? Do you need a task to complete?
Come on just chill. Be cool. Be awesome. Stop understanding and defining your
life using pain and sufferings. Stop being affected by anything. Do the things
you think that matter really matters? Be what you wanna be when you wanna be.
decide who you are. Don’t be decided who you are through the random stuff that
happen in your life such as losing a limb or death of parents or something. Be happy.
Always be happy. Be happy as a decision; not as a petty reaction.
Why
do you scream: “That’s what should happen to those scum” ???
The
rich is getting richer
The
poor is getting poorer.
And…what?
Can’t you just pick a side or leave both the sides???
The
world is going in a bad direction.
There
is no way we can fix it.
So….
what’s the point of talking about what you can’t do anything about; except for
talking+thinking???
The
world is full of problems.
It’s
like a mountain sized tangled cotton ball.
Who
the f@<k asked you to untangle it???
I’m
bored of this shit. So I’ll ask your opinion about these data and reactions to
those data.
Stuff happens. But aren’t you the one who interpret
them and perceive them into their assigned values??? Don’t the problems you
embrace into your consciousness indicate how f@<ked up you are from the
inside??? Do the problems exist beyond your thought that they exist??? Why the
f@<k are you clinging onto that thought then??? Can’t you just realize that
the world getting f@<ked up or not is none of your f@<king concerns???
The world is your Disneyland.
Do not f@<k with it. Do not get f@<ked because of it.
Think
you have some kind of a pain. Pinch yourself if you want to. Now try to
understand the pain. Acknowledge the pain instead of running away from it.
Focus on your pain. What happens? You should notice that your pain is
disappearing. Why? The more you go to the center of the pain, the less pain you
feel. Maybe you should go to the center of your sufferings instead of going out
to find some comfort. What is pain anyway? Physical pain is a mere
communication mechanism. It’s a way of making yourself notice that your body is
in trouble. When you notice and accept the fact, the pain is no more. Pain is
just some data.
When you grasp it well you wouldn’t really react; would you?
What
are your problems? Aren’t they just phenomena that communicate that you are not
doing the right thing? To do the right thing don’t you have to completely
accept your sufferings? I don’t mean some pathetic crap like surrendering. I
simply mean shouldn't you accept the fact that you are letting yourself get
f@<ed up? First of all go to the very center of suffering. I mean is there
any other place to fully understand the sufferings (eve the trivial ones) other
than the exploration of the very existence of sufferings? When you know the
causes of your suffering you also know the absence of those causes will make
the sufferings cease to exist. Do not overcomplicate things and bury the
fundamental reasons for our sufferings even deeper. Shouldn't you just uncover
the reasons>>accept them for what they are and make the cease to exist?
I tried doing some SPEEDRuns and kept ending up
with long articles. I just keep finding more and more to write. What would
happen if you keep reading something while thinking about it? You may discover
many things that aren’t even on the article. That’s why
you really need to bake your noodle about everything. I wrote this post on marketing after seeing a post on Seth’s
blog. The post just said “Marketing used to be what you say. But now
marketing is what you do.”
I
saw way beyond the meaning of those words. I felt that that tiny post isn’t a proper
insight about marketing. So I made this post. I made it up because I saw beyond
those 2 little sentences. If you look at everything in a visionary way you’ll
come up with great revelation just by seeing a simple sentence or even a word
or symbol. If you think about that Seth’s post, you may come up with a lot of
great insight. Understanding is not enough. First you have to comprehend, but
you also have to bake the noodle about what you understand.
I
do provide a lot of insight. But that’s not all of it. Sometimes I just write a
few words as a topic and end up with a 500++ words post effortlessly. All you
have to do is getting into the habit of thinking about what you get to realize.
That’s the main point about being visionary. You become visionary by thinking
about something. It’s about understanding a hell a lot more that what it
actually is. Sometimes you may know about an idea even better than the creators
of the idea. After that point, you own the idea. Bill Gates was the first to
come up with the tablet PC. But Steve Jobs is the one who really owned it. I started
the track; you keep going ahead. It’ll save me a lot of time and effort.
Theories are not really theories. They are
commentaries and interpretations. The real theories are quite simple. A teenager
can understand them. What’s necessary is wisdom. Intelligence can help. But it’s
a mere catalyst. IQ doesn’t count when you realize the truth. IQ only helps, it
never does the thing. Wisdom is seeing through appearances. Wisdom is seeing everything
in its fundamental level.
Intelligence
is like a commentary or an interpretation. It’s like dealing with everything as
chemicals, metals, molecules, energy, liquids, solids……… and etc. wisdom is
dealing with everything as quanta. Wisdom cannot me memorized or measured in
conventional ways. Wisdom cannot be even thought. But knowledge and intelligence
can be. That’s why those mere catalysts are so much revered. People talk much
about good stuff. But rarely pays any attention to great marvels. Just think
about how much people talk about some BMW or a Benz and how much they talk
about a limited edition like Lamborghini
Veneno Roadster.
THERE IS NO TEACHING IN PHYSICS
As I have grown older, I have come more and
more to the conclusion that there is no teaching
In physics, there is only inspiration to
learn. ... The teacher may stimulate the mind of the student...
But the journey to that goal must be made by
the student himself.
W. F. G. Swann, ‘‘The Teaching of Physics,’’
Am. J. Phys. 19~3!, 182–187 ~1951!
Think what would happen if the schooling system
was based on this. True there are so many wired equations and stuff in Quantum
Mechanics. But those things are just commentaries. Yep, that’s what they are. Each
one of those complex equations and stuff are either instruments (tools for
calculation) or some commentary. When I learn QM many times I feel like they
are trying to prove and axiom or over-complicating something because some guys
can’t digest simplicity.
[W]e cannot think of any object
apart from the
possibility of its connection with
other things.
Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 2.0121.
If everything that we call
‘‘being’’ and ‘‘nonbeing’’
only to track down, so far as it
is possible, relations
between the manifold aspects of
our experience.
Bohr2
I. WHAT QUANTUM MECHANICS IS
TRYING TO
TELL US
I would like to describe an attitude toward
quantum mechanics
which, whether or not it clarifies the
interpretational
problems that continue to plague the subject,
at least sets
them in a rather different perspective. This
point of view
alters somewhat the language used to address
these issues—a
glossary is provided in Appendix C—and it may
offer a less
perplexing basis for teaching quantum
mechanics or explaining
it to nonspecialists. It is based on one
fundamental insight,
perhaps best introduced by an analogy.
My complete answer to the late 19th century
question
‘‘what is electrodynamics trying to tell us’’
would simply be
this:
Fields in empty space have
physical reality; the
medium that supports them does
not.
Having thus removed the mystery from
electrodynamics, let
me immediately do the same for quantum
mechanics:
Correlations have physical
reality; that which
they correlate does not.
The first proposition probably sounded as
bizarre to most late
19th century physicists as the second sounds
to us today; I
expect that the second will sound as boringly
obvious to late
21st century physicists as the first sounds to
us today.
And that’s all there is to it. The rest is
commentary.
If you like you can read the commentary fromhere. But the commentary is not really necessary. Commentary is just a mode of
communication. It’s like words. Knowing all the equations is like knowing the
word and grammar. It helps but to compulsory to be enlightened. Don’t ditch the
equations. But understand that they are just some guy’s explanation. I
developed a theory which I called “Perception Theory” at that time, all on my
own while I was just 15. It say quite the same thing what Quantum Information
Theory says. Actually QIT only grasps about 60% of what my theory grasped at
that time. I didn’t even use a single equation in developing the theory (which
made it loose the calculation aspects of it). Now the thing is almost no one
would get a single thing (even a wise one) if I don’t personally coach him/her
for an hour or two at least.
Trust
me, those equations and crappy interpretations worth a lot; but not for your
personal understanding. You can live even without knowing a single word. But
knowing words can help you a real lot. Don’t get hooked up in to the so called
theories. They are not theories most of the time. They are just different
peoples interpretations. The only proper way to teach something is by being
heuristic. You’ll have to re-interpret everything for yourself. Having a PhD
or not is none of the concerns. Most of the PhD holders are just a bunch of
parrots. Most of them (or their entitlements) don’t worth a shit.
Just walk your own path. Not knowing your way
around someone else’s interpretation or commentary doesn’t prove your
inability. Knowing your way around them certainly proves your ability. But that
ability is just a bonus for yourself; it’s not something compulsory for your transcendence.
I just saw this pic and started typing. Being in
a good mood is a decision. Good job if you have already figured that out. If you
have, most likely you have already taken that decision. Most people don’t take
this kind of a decision because they feel like they have to pay something to
get something. Equivalent exchange is one of the most wicked creations and craziest
delusions of human kind (Human 1.0 to be precise).
There
is no price for anything other than what it replaces. The only
price you will ever pay for anything is a negative one. But you need to
know to extract what you need. It’s simple. But you have trained your life to
make sure you avoid it at all cost. That’s how pathetic this Human 1.0 is. You
can decide yourself to feel anything. It doesn’t matter whether is happiness or
some other thing you want to feel. You can feel it at your will. But many
people search for outside influences to take decisions. When generally taken,
human existence is a mere phenomenon just as an ameba.
Take
over your consciousness. Actually you already have control and you are using
that control to make sure that you are controlled by outside forces. This article by Osho will help a lot to deal with
all this. Ignorance is the source of all problems and also the only fundamental
source. When you are fully enlightened, you don’t perceive any problems. If there
is anything that someone would see as a problem, you’ll be seeing
the answer in the very problem.
Human
kind is plagued in psycho-illnesses. I’m not talking about the stuff that you think
that needs to be shown to a psychiatrist. I’m just saying if you can find or
even imagine anything that is more ecstatic and free than your current state,
you are ill. Many names have been used to describe this total cure such as
enlightenment or nirvana. Total cure is all about letting
go. When you let go of everything that can be defined, you transcend
everything.
All
you have to do is give up that delusion that you have to pay a price. You simply
decide to be felt awesome. You can decide your way into anything. Check some of
my previous tips
& tricks if you are new. Read more about Psycho-Engineering.
It’s something it’s my re-invention of self-designing which means to be your
own personal god. You don’t have to give a f@<k about the world. Just be god
for yourself.
Reality
is a subjective experience. Try some hardcore Buddhism or Quantum Mechanics (try this
first). You’ll figure out a lot on your own. Actually that is what’s necessary.
Telling the truth doesn’t consume
much time, but convincing it does. I found a 30 page pdf and as
described by the writer, he has 10 words of truth. The rest is just some
commentary. You feel what you decide to feel. That’s 7 words and that’s enough to make your life 100%
ecstatic. You’ll live happy and awesome up to a point that the whole society
around you will be shaken and distressed. This is a firsthand experience.
There
is no path to happiness or anything. You simply be awesome. It’s a decision. You
don’t have to ask the society like the OS of the computer you are using. You
simply decide your way into awesomeness. Realize this simple fact. It’s over
your very eyes. But you won’t see it if you are looking for some path. You only
need to realize the things you can just simply see. Be happy. Be cool and never
try to live a happy life.
On this post I’m leaving everything on your
hand. Think of this as a self-test. I stumbled upon this Heart Sutra and I
found a great meaning beneath those words. Throughout years I’ve been able to
understand and resonate with the core of this sutra. I’m talking about what’s
meant; not what’s written. Words are always absolutely meaningless lies. I mean
always. But does anything you know have a value or meaning other than what you
think it has. If so, couldn’t reality be just a dichotomy? A kid deludes him/herself
a boogieman and suffers because of it. When boogieman comes into the dreams,
it’s bad. When he doesn’t, it’s good. What would happiness mean without
suffering? What would warmth mean without the coldness? Suffering and bliss are
nothing more than different intensities of the same thing. Your liberation
shouldn’t be from suffering; but from both suffering and ecstasy. Getting a
small injury is better in relative to losing a limb. But an injury is also a
misery.
When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practised the deep
Prajnaparamita, he saw that the five skandhas were empty; thus he overcame all
ills and suffering.
"O Sariputra! Form does not differ from the void, and the
void does not differ from the form. Form is the void, and the void is form. The
same is true for feelings, conceptions, impulses and consciousness.
O Sariputra, the characteristics of the void is not created,
not annihilated, not impure, not pure, not increasing, not decreasing.
Therefore, in the void there are no forms and no feelings,
conceptions, impulses and no consciousness: there is no eye, ear, nose, tongue,
body or mind; there is no form, sound, smell, taste, touch or idea; no eye
elements, until we come to no elements of consciousness; no ignorance and also
no ending of ignorance, until we come to no old age and death; and no ending of
old age and death.
Also, there is no truth of suffering, of the cause of
suffering, of the cessation of suffering or of the path. There is no wisdom,
and there is no attainment whatsoever. Because there is nothing to be attained,
a Bodhisattva relying on Prajnaparamita has no obstruction in his heart.
Because there is no obstruction he has no fear, and he passes far beyond all
confused imagination and reaches Ultimate Nirvana.
All Buddhas in the past, present and future have attained
Supreme Enlightenment by relying on the Prajnaparamita. Therefore we know that
the Prajnaparamita is the great magic Mantra, the great Mantra of illumination,
it is the supreme Mantra, the unequaled Mantra which can truly wipe out all
suffering without fail."
Therefore, he uttered the Prajnaparamita mantra, by saying:
"Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasemgate Bodhi-svaha!"
Sariputra is the one Buddha appointed as the wisest sentient
being in the contemporary time (when Buddha is excluded from the ranking). It’s
okay even if you don’t get a single thing. I also found a commentary here. I recommend not using it unless you are not familiar with the
words. What is necessary is your own personal realization. Other people’s
commentaries don’t really matter and sometimes they become your greatest
obstruction.
Clear your mind. Be the devil’s
advocate and question everything. Breakdown every single
idea, concept, definition, belief you find in your path. The truth is the
truth. Lies can be anything, but truth remains the same. The truth cannot be
hidden. Don’t look away calling it’s too bright. Do not focus on the words. The
sutra itself is a vague enigma. If you see
through it right, you’ll find your illumination. If you
grab the snake from a wrong place: you are utterly f@<ked up. Don’t bake the noodle unless you feel that
you are ready. Transcendence means losing all limits. Everything
that is defined is limited in the very act of defining. You’ll lose all that is
defined; including yourself. If you are not transcendent being, losing yourself
is what makes you a one.
Do you know me? Really? What do you know about
me? You know the stuff I’ve posted. But is that me? What am I? What are you? Are
you your memories? ideologies? Body? what are you? Can you really get to know
me through this blog? Do you think I even mean the stuff I talk about? What if I’m
just posting these to see how you react and laugh at you? What if these stuff
are just fantasies? How would you deal with all this? You know, this could just
be a random occurrence in the net……just a small distortion. A bunch of monkeys
messing with keyboards can very easily type the whole Britannica encyclopedia. So
is this a big deal?
Anyway…does any of the above hold any
importance??? I’m kind of having a headache: does it matter to you? I f@<ked
my mom along with my GF: does it matter to you?
Keanu Reeves couldn’t got a
speeding ticket yesterday: does it matter? Your country sucked at the Olympics:
does it matter??????????????????
Just be self-centered. That’s all you have to do.
You don’t have to watch the news. Do you even think those stuff shown on CNN
are true? Maybe they are and maybe they are not? But should you be concerned
about that? All you have to think about is how things affect you. Just keep
your conscious along with you instead of some random place among celebrities or
a crisis or whatever.
What’s on this blog is none of your concern. Your concern should be
about using the blog for your benefit. Words can never tell truth. Only lies
can be told. You will only find truth by seeing true lies. Why I do this is or
what I’m doing generally is nothing for you to be concerned of. Your concern is your
transformation: your evolution and ultimately; your transcendence.
Where would you find
your illumination? How would you find it? How do you become an enlightened
person? What makes you non-enlightened? Here is the end of T. S. Eliot’s Little
Gidding:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
The original intentions of Eliot or the interpretations of the poem
don’t matter. Focus on what truly matters.
Bake your noodle and try to find something that resonates with the words. Just forget
everything you know about literature and focus on the words. What does it say
about enlightenment? It doesn’t directly say anything at all. But do you find
this to be an allegorical representation of finding enlightenment?
I mean
what makes you non-enlightened? What is the fundamental reason for your very existence?
Do you have any absolute proof about your existence or sentience or whatever
other than the thought that you exist?
It is too clear and so it is hard to see.
A dunce once searched for a fire with a
lighted lantern.
Had he known what fire was,
He could have cooked his rice much sooner.
- Joshu Washes the Bowl, The Gateless Gate #7 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones,
p. 176
Translated by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki
Do you have any
proof to say that you are not enlightened other than your thought of it? Just
think about everything in a fundamental level. Why do you think that the answer
wouldn’t be found in the very definition of your existence? Why do you think
that the answers are “out there”?? What if you are overlooking the answer in
the very attempt to search it? If all you are doing in your life is complicating
things, would the answer to all enigmas be the simplest thing that is the very
first thing to be overlooked?
Let me tell
you a story. One day, Hong Ren (Hung-jen), the fifth patriarch, called his
disciples together and instructed them: "Each of you write a verse and
bring it to me. I will read your verses, and if there is one who is awakened to
the cardinal meaning, I will give him the robe and the Dharma and make him the
Sixth Patriarch. Hurry, Hurry!"
The first
among them, Shen Xiu (Shen-hsiu), took on the task of composing a verse. He
wrote on the middle wall of the south hall.
The body is the tree of enlightenment
The mind is like a clear mirror
One must polish it constantly and
earnestly
One must not let any dust set on it.
Hui Neng, a
young monk, heard about the verse and immediately realized that it did not
express enlightenment. He formulated a new verse and had it posted on the wall
of the west hall.
From the beginning enlightenment has
no tree
And the bright mirror has no stand
Buddha-nature is always pure
Where could dust set in?
Hui
Neng was appointed as the sixth patriarch after this. Now you can bake your
noodle to understand the delusion and the illumination. The first verse
represents the madness of the educated society and the over complication and the
hazardous methodologies. The second represents the true path of enlightenment
or to be more accurate: the pathlessness of enlightenment.
Understanding
on Quantum Mechanics can also help you to grasp this well apart from your own
spiritual comprehension. Quantum
information theory and Ithaca Interpretation will help a lot. Here is also
a final teaser. Proper understanding of this line can lead you to total enlightenment:
If you do something, make sure that you do it to be the best. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter what people say about it. If you do something with your best efforts and become the best in it, you'll know all knowledge about that specific thing to be some lame crap.
She's been to Barneys in New York and to Paris to shop. The first time she was bought clothes by a client, it was £7,000 dresses in Prada and four pairs of shoes. 'He kept saying, "Are you sure that's enough, don't you want anything else?"' She's also been given gadgets - the latest Mac, iPads, iPhones - and handbags ('a lot of handbags').
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