You can always evolve and if you are smart enough, you
do evolve yourself. But if you don’t truly stabilize it you might fall back.
This is something that many had talked to me about. Read this previous article on slickr-flikr for some great
insight.
When you figure out the great things to do and add
them to your lifestyle, you become awesome. But the source might be still left
and it might wake up if your mentality gets shaken. Even if you delete a file,
it can still be recovered. You have to fill it completely in zeroes. Forcing
yourself to do something is filling the space with random number. It’s not
effective.
Trace the fundamental source of all problems and look
at it in a visionary eye. You’ll always find a certain inclination as the
source. If you don’t, then you haven’t looked deep enough. Then vomit that
source. Look at it in every direction. Take fear of failure for an example. It
happens because of your inclination to certain results/goal/ideals or something
similar. Take out that inclination/bond and explore it in all ways. Take your
time and make sure that you fully understand all aspects.
Then you have 3 question types. First question its
permanence. All thoughts change. Nothing is static. Those goal or ideals aren’t
eternal. Those feelings only last when we think (delude) that they exist. When
you realize this, you’ll stop repairing your withering inclinations.
Then ask yourself whether it’s bringing you happiness
or joy. Is it exciting to live with bonds, fears, self-humiliation and
sufferings? Look deeper-go deeper. Keep asking yourself this question until you
get sick of your bondage.
Then ask whether those inclinations are your identity.
Do your fears tell who you are? Does your money tell who you are? Do your
failures tell who you are? Do your inclinations tell you who you are? Are you
anything other than who you think you are? Then why stick with those things.
This realization will actually make all sources of
your sufferings and flaws non-existent. All your flaws will be gone like a
candle that was blown. When you realize a mirage for what it is, the existence of
the mirage doesn’t affect you at all. Nothing would happen to you because of
the mirage. You wouldn’t even have to try to figure out whether it’s right to
cling onto it or not. You’d simply be free and enlightened.
even the
word to describe it. Well, words can never truly describe anything other than a
word. It’s all correlations without correleta. Realizing this make you calm. When
you know that you don’t really have to give a f@<k about a single thing, you
stop interacting with things. Interactions are the source of all suffering. To
be more accurate, it’s the inclination towards the interactions. T.S. Eliot
said “you are the music while the music lasts”. That’s pretty true for almost every
single one including the ones from Human 2.0
When
you lessen your interactions and inclination in both quality and quantity, you’ll
start feeling that you have transcended the ways of the world. You’ll feel like
at least you have partially transcended happiness along with all the miseries
in the world. You’ll feel so invincible like a void or at least like the wind.
You’ll feel much closer to a godlike existence simply by being nobody.
Yep,
that’s all you need to become; nothing. Nothing can hurt or affect “nothing”. The
entire world’s power would be begging at your feet asking your acknowledgement
at least as a piece of dust. Now that’s dominance and I know it through my own
experiences.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Read part
1 and part
2. Enjoy yourself to the fullest. Transform yourself beyond all
definitions. We were only 13m away from their feet when they
knocked down each other. What else would you expect? I was blown away the exact
moment my fists touched that bitch’s (I mean Trinity’s) eyelashes. When I hit
the trembling ground I didn’t hit with the mere 54kg of my physical weight. I’m
not eh only one fighting. There is a whole lot going on this beleaguered
heaven. Everything is correlated. Destiny is a dynamic experience. And on the
top of that it’s-F**K- I just escaped from this. I’m not gonna accept it. I’m
gonna hit this bitch and break her limbs.
I
got up and hit her really hard. But after few kicks and punches, my offensivity
was going down. The very sight of her motivated face reflected my actions. The
seven 46m mechas fighting around us was constantly reminding me of the
universal connection of everything. There are no isolated systems. Everything
is correlated; causing the whole and caused by the whole. This didn’t make my
body go numb. But my mind certainly became numb.
A
giant foot which came between us separated us. A spaceship came and started
using its Railcannons. I was surrounded by destruction. It all looked like a
curse of god. But I knew hell a lot more than what meets the eye. I ran saving
myself from the Railgun ammo and the giant feet of the mechas. I was becoming
more and more of what I intended to create in the first place. A GZ-1593 model
mecha crumbled at my feet, completely destroyed. I could see the struggle of
the pilot to survive. I saw his agony. Not just that; I saw everything. I was
looking at all the stats around me. I had this finely detailed report of the
chaos around me. It was all so clear and heart penetrating. But it made me
realize that ignorance is bliss.
These high-tech weapons
of destruction people have built through such an effort, the reasons and
motivation behind each soldier’s struggle, all the stats about the ammo, guns,
mechas……I could just see all of it. I saw trinity coming at me. A Railcannon bullet
pierced the ground 34cm away from her and the impact threw her off the ground.
She almost got stepped on by a 115m heavy artillery mecha; you know the ones
from FKR-3000 series that are like a copper-red walking fortress. I didn’t know
whether I should be happy or sad or what. There was this weight of the whole
universe making my legs go numb.
Every
single action which means an interaction with the universe has an eternal
effect on everything. Just come on……everything. Just…plz, someone make me a
dumb bitch. A soldier in a massive Exoskeleton came running at me firing his
plasma gun. He was vaguely aiming at the 2 Exos behind me. I barely dodged his
plasma balls. These Exos too use a lot of melee weapons. I must say that they
are new age knights with guns and I slowly understanding why.
Through
our evolution, everything became more and more subtle. Our bodies became
weaker, but we became the most destructive. Thousands if not hundred thousand
war epics happening in front of my senses at various levels spoke of our
evolution better than anything. Everything is getting mixed into our daily
lives. The leaders, the economy, the war… there has been such a lot happening
around me. Through our evolution, better and wicked ways were created. The real
war, the real economy is invisible. The multicolored mechas running havoc is
just fan servicing wrapped around my senses.
A
Railcannon killed one of the Exos as collateral damage. What a gun it was! It
was the massive shotgun version of the Railgun. The ammo was a complexly
magnetized metal. When propelled, an electric current is sent through the ammo
which screws around the stabilized system of electro magnets. The huge ammo
dissects into multiple parts and acts as a hundred smaller Railguns. It’s an
idea ripped off from the cluster bombs.
That’s
just some trivia. There are specific kinds of wave generators commonly referred
to as “Deprams”. They are used to mess with the brain functions of the
soldiers. It’s a very trendy gadget of the times. Every mecha has at least a
weak one constantly working against the opponents. This isn’t even 2% of the
madness and atrocities I can see. All of this is haunting me. Our real war is
not what we see. The real war is a psychological one. We don’t want the
physical world to be torn apart. Therefore everything is incorporated into our
lives. Our great depression is our lives itself. Our demons lies in the waves
around us…as information; bits, qubits, brainwaves……all just our own creations.
I
barely dodged her punch. I ran and stepped on a Exoskeleton and jumped back.
She did the same. We kicked each other onto the ground. An Exoskeleton fell on
Trinity’s legs. She had her armor. But on her expression I could see that it
hurt a bit. I managed to get up. This was a good opening. I knew she is pissed.
I knew that odds were stacked against me. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings
again. She was in the fight for entertainment; But not anymore. I was
desperate. There were only 700-800ms to take a decision. I did what I had to
do. I charged at her.
She
grabbed the 32kg mini-Railgun from the Exo-suited soldier and fired at me. The
recoil made the gun hit her chin. I had already observed the stats about this
SHANGRU-42 (rapid-fire) version she used. I managed to jump away, but onto a
big brawl beside me. The Railgun ammo went so closely by my eyes that I felt
like I was hit with a flash bang. I have never been hit with a one before. But
I had observed more than sufficient data to simulate the experience.
With
my eyes tightly closed I observed the world like never before. I was picking up
every wave and was observing the world almost like from a 6th sense.
But I know it wasn’t any stereotypical 6th sense. It’s something I
had proposed to call direct perception. Though I had my eyes closed I observed
Trinity standing up and coming at me with a piece of metal on her hands. One
Exo knelt with a hard hit it received. I had fallen in between two fighters
fighting with Vibrahammers. The heads of the hammers vibrate in a self-adjusted
dynamic frequency that adjusts with the composition of the opponent to
breakdown the opponent.
A
well-tuned hit sends waves through the machine. Nerves of the pilot stimulate
and suffer great pain apart from the brain damage. All out nuclear war is more
of a cute fantasy battle compared to this (invisible) war of the war. I wanted
to shut my senses from the happenings around me. My semi-divinity was becoming
my greatest horror (yeah, I’ve got bigger horrors). There were so much acts of
sorrow, fear, desperation, vengeance, valor, suffering and lamenting………all rooted on ignorance (bliss). I
was crying looking at this yellow-black machine. Its Nano-engineered metal was
getting beaten hard. As the broken machine fell on me, I crawled away thinking
about myself retrospectively. Wasn’t I desperate! Wasn’t I scared! Am I not
being the same kind of pathetic function of a massive battle?
Trinity
cam in her shaking legs and attacked me and I countered. The victor of the
previous battle I mentioned attacked another opponent while jumping into the
air an got shattered in a way that is almost identical to getting vaporized by
a Tri-Zeta AAA Railgun ammo which was intended for a 145m tall emerald and gold
colored Heraclitus 9z mecha fired by a white and aqua blue 167m tall
Neo-Genesis prototype mecha which has a hybrid design of an assault mecha and a
fortress mecha and piloted by 6 ace pilots. And of course the ammo went through
3 skyscrapers of architectural excellence before piercing the ground with a shockwave.
I
saw what was gonna happen 890ms before it happened. I jumped into a nearby
crater of 5.45m depth. This must be the cliché she was mentioning. The impact
shook the whole ground and tore it apart. The walls of the crater blasted and
came at me. I was thrown into the air by the shockwave which went below my feet
and sank to the ground by shuttered soil beneath me while getting buried in a
pile of random stuff mixed with rich soil. What a city it was! The soil was the
best soil I had ever known. This place is not merely a utopia. My knowledge
should be capable of leading that New York civilization into something like
this. But I was incapable of harvesting my knowledge. I became unable to give
and cause enough reason to make such a hyper-utopia exist. I lost its Raison
d'être.
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:
You need a one of your own. If you don’t already
in need of a one you’ll be in need of one very soon if you keep reading my blog
and bake your noodle. There is a limit to most of the philosopher’s range. Most
of these so called philosophers are very much mediocre. You’ll soon be better
than them. Generally a philosophy is like a tribe. Tribes have a small reach. There
are very few who have even had a glimpse of enlightenment. Many big names will
have few nice quotes and points. But that’ll be it.
You
don’t become a philosopher by reading philosophy. You can’t learn philosophy. To
me philosophy and Quantum Mechanics are one and the same. It’s all about understanding
the nature of things. You can’t properly understand a maze by being inside of
it. You have to transcend it and look at it from an all seeing POV. Then only you
can understand it. When you do it on your own you’ll see many philosophers to
be flawed in their revelations. Philosophy isn’t something worthy of much
attention. What you should focus on his creating one of your own.
I
stumbled upon Heraclitus:
The Fire and the Flux article and felt sorry for this philosopher. He had
picked a right path and had walked it in a completely wrong way. Try reading it
and find out how far you can go better than this childish philosopher.
You have to do your best to destroy the very
ideologies of yourself. Then only you can remove all boundaries and restrictions.
A philosophy leads the way to enlightenment and freedom. A philosophy is an aid
to let go of everything that limits you; not another thing to hold onto.
True
enlightenment comes from self-realization. Build your philosophy through your
own realizations. Truth is truth, but it can be seen in many different ways. You’ll
even discover many ways of seeing it. You’ll stumble upon philosophy. Bake the
noodle on them and re-invent them for yourself, fix their flaws and ditch the
bullshit ideologies of the dumb people who became popular in the same way the
politicians did. Don’t go after philosophy. Through your visionary thinking,
you’ll be creating your own one.
You can always evolve and if you are smart enough, you
do evolve yourself. But if you don’t truly stabilize it you might fall back.
This is something that many had talked to me about. Read this previous article on slickr-flikr for some great
insight.
Trace the fundamental source of all problems and look
at it in a visionary eye. You’ll always find a certain inclination as the
source. If you don’t, then you haven’t looked deep enough. Then vomit that
source. Look at it in every direction. Take fear of failure for an example. It
happens because of your inclination to certain results/goal/ideals or something
similar. Take out that inclination/bond and explore it in all ways. Take your
time and make sure that you fully understand all aspects.
Then ask yourself whether it’s bringing you happiness
or joy. Is it exciting to live with bonds, fears, self-humiliation and
sufferings? Look deeper-go deeper. Keep asking yourself this question until you
get sick of your bondage.
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