NO-PLACE TO STAND

Tilopa to Naropa ...

2009-11-07T07:14:00.000-08:00

Let go of the past.

Let go of the future.

Let go of the present.

Do not analyze.

Do not meditate.

Just be.

THOMAS GOSPEL - LOGION 13

2009-07-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

According: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gth_pat_rob.htm
Jesus said to his disciples: “Compare me, and tell me whom I am like.”(2) Simon Peter said to him: “You are like a just messenger.”(3) Matthew said to him: “You are like an (especially) wise philosopher.”(4) Thomas said to him:“Teacher, my mouth will not bear at all to say whom you are like.”(5) Jesus said: “I am not your teacher. For you have drunk, you havebecome intoxicated at the bubbling spring that I have measured out.”(6) And he took him, (and) withdrew, (and) he said three words to him.(7) But when Thomas came back to his companions, they asked him:“What did Jesus say to you?”(8) Thomas said to them: “If I tell you one of the words he said to me,you will pick up stones and throw them at me,and fire will come out of the stones (and) burn you up.”

If we take saying 108 of the GOSPEL of THOMAS apart we could get an idea of the three missing sayings of logion 13 :

(1) “He who will drink from my mouth will become like me”; YOU ARE ME
(2) “I myself shall become he”; I AM YOU
(3) “and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him”: ALL IS REVEALED TO YOU

Any of these three sayings would be enough to enrage the other apostles for they would feel excluded. And if they deified Jesus they would accuse THOMAS of BLASPHEMY. It also challenges THOMAS to let go of the idea 'teacher' and to identify as the SOURCE only.
This message can still be found today. For instance http://urbangurucafe.com/ or www.thenaturalstate.org/

I cover myself in mourning because the World is Faithless.

2009-07-04T05:56:00.000-07:00

Painting by BRUEGEL called "the misanthropist"

By separating himself from a 'faithless world' his world grows colder.
"It's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder" - the Beatles

Silentium Est Aureum

2008-08-18T12:08:00.000-07:00

The final particle is the Whole

2008-07-13T04:30:00.000-07:00

Quantumphysicists are looking for the fundamental building blocks with wich they mean objects that are simple and structureless -- not made of anything smaller.

If it's fundamental it must be the most familiar of all 'things'. It is the awareness that cannot be denied if you ask yourself "Who is looking?", "Who is hearing?" , On what do these sounds register, the sounds that you hear right Here, right Now. On what do these letters now register as you are reading these words? Non-conceptual awareness 'itself', non-conceptual means you cannot think 'It', you cannot feel 'It', you cannot see 'It', because 'it' is what's doing the seeing, the feeling, hearing, you are 'It'. It is so obvious we overlook 'It'. 'It' is the last place (really no-place) we'll ever look. But start there and 'It' will proof 'itself'.

(66) Jesus said, "Show me the stone which the builders have rejected. That one is the cornerstone."

JESUS TEACHES JUDAS ABOUT COSMOLOGY: THE SPIRIT AND THE SELF-GENERATED

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/judastxt.pdf
Jesus said, “Come, that I may teach you about secrets no person has ever seen. For there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extent no generation of angels has seen, in which there is a great invisible Spirit, which no eye of an angel has ever seen, no thought of the heart has ever comprehended, and it was never called by any name.

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"There is no proof for this however. Because It is the proof of Everything"

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"I Bow to That without wich no experience is possible."

There is no who,why or where.

2008-07-13T02:50:00.000-07:00

The seeker is the sought, the catcher is the caught.

No thing and every thing all for nought.

Shed no tears, there are no years.

You will not be missed, you do not exist.

The universe does not care.

There is no who, why, or where.
– Adi Sankara (sanskrit translation)

Non-locality, the final Copernican Revolution

2008-07-13T01:55:00.000-07:00

All things by immortal power,

Near or far,

Hiddenly To each other are.

That thou canst not stir a flower

Without troubling of a star.

The Mistress of Vision- Francis Thompson

http://www.templeton.org/humble_approach_initiative/nonlocality/

"If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you"

The realisation that you find yourself everywhere and Now-here is the real Copernican Revolution that blows you wide open.

This mutual 'entanglement' of You and All is total and beyond any imaginary separation the mind can come up with. It's only 'beyond' for a mind that thinks it is real as a separate entity in fact It's Reality itself.

The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2008-07-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

Christianity is a continuation and an amalgamation of the official roman religion called Mithraism and other competing religions :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras
http://www.truthbeknown.com/christ.htm

Does it matter of whom the gospel of Thomas speaks? He knew Himself as name-less, form-less , gender-less , age-less,...
The misinterpretation of his sayings very probably started already from the very beginning with his disciples. Most ignorant of the true non-dual meaning the priests have built there Cathedrals on the shaky foundations of their treassured misinterpretations.

102. Jesus said:
"Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger: the dog neither eats nor lets the cattle eat." "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so."

Do you want to know if the historical Jesus really existed? Even better:

"Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

Dark Matter and the Churning of the Milky Ocean

2008-07-12T08:12:00.000-07:00

Churning the Milky Ocean

The churning of the Ocean of Milk was an elaborate process. Mount Mandaranchal was used as churning rod and Vasuki, the King of Serpents, became the churning rope. The gods held the tail of the snake while the demons (Asuras) held the head end of the snake and they pulled on it alternately causing the mountain to rotate which in turn churned the ocean. However, once the mountain was placed on the ocean, it began to sink. Vishnu in his second incarnation, in the form of a turtle Kurma, came to their rescue and supported the mountain on his shell back.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudra_manthan

Dark matter

For every kg of material made up from atoms like the ones we have in our bodies, or which make up the stars, there are up to 20kg of something completely different, whose principal quality is that it has never been actually observed directly by scientists.
Which is why they call it dark matter. But they know it is there because its effect on the movements of galaxies can be weighed. It has been noted that the names "dark matter" and "dark energy" serve mainly as expressions of human ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with terra incognita.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

If 96% of the Universe is Terra Incognita, then maybe a story about the churning of the Ocean of Milk is just as valid as a Cosmology?

"The Universe does not exist out of
Atoms, It exists out of Stories"

Not only that wich we know or think we know does not exist as we think it does (and our ideas about it are constantly changing), but also that which knows is totally beyond comprehension. That wich is aware-ING and this words, 'atoms', energy and so on...are not two 'things'. It's the Unknowable Knowing the Unknowable. It's the Tao manifested and non-manifested, Being and Nothingness in a cosmic dance.

Or maybe God likes a cappuccino?

http://godsmirrors.blogspot.com/2005/09/god-speaking-through-cappuccino.html

NO SEE-er, ONLY SEEING is already the case for YOU !

2008-07-07T11:55:00.000-07:00

"Behead yourself ! Dissolve your whole body into vision : Become Seeing, Seeing, Seeing ! -Rumi-

http://www.headless.org/

TURN-AROUND but don't look for something, The eye cannot see itself.

2008-07-07T04:04:00.000-07:00

83. Jesus said,
"Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html

To me these saying is also a comment on portraying the 'Heavenly Father' in the form of an ancient icon for instance. Suppose the speaker was watching such an icon, being face to face to it or better being Face to no-Face to it. Then the saying translates as follows:

People are aware of images, but the light of Awareness that's seeing is hidden in the representation of Awareness as the Father. It will be disclosed but the Image of Awareness cannot be seen because It is what's doing the seeing. This logion is so compact and yet says it all. Not only the message is pure non-dualism it is also very beautifull like a Möbius figure, it goes round and turns the known 180° . It goes like this IMAGE(light hidden by image)-turn-around-LIGHT(image hidden by light). He was known for these turn-arounds. Maybe that's the meaning of 'Metanoia' To me this logion also says that the 'image' is It too. It is not to be found in the graven images, but in the light 'as wich' and 'in wich' it appears. So in that sense you find it just as much in the graven images as in what you find if you split wood or lift up a stone. Beauty and Truth bubling up intertwined directly from the source!! You have to jump into it , to understand it. Strange to think that 'somebody' spoke this 'out of this world' words 2000 years ago. Who could understand him? I can understand why the catholic church could never grasp this. "Alone the 'Alone' can enter the bridalchamber." Do you agree about the meaning or do you have another translation? Do you see it as beautifull too.?

Wat je zou kunnen vertalen als:
Voorstellingen zijn zichtbaar voor mensen, maar het licht van 'Gewaarzijn' dat ze ziet is verhuld in de voorstelling ervan. Het zal onthuld worden, maar het 'Gewaarzijn' ontsnapt aan elke voorstelling waarvan het het licht zelf is.

Juist door de alomtegenwoordigheid lijkt het verborgen:
5. Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you."

"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

De symmetrie van gezegde 83 doet me denken aan volgende uitspraak van Meister Eckhart:

For whoever seeks God (consciousness) in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way.But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is... He (consciousness) is Life itself.~ Meister Eckhart ~(13th century)

Ik zie in logion 83 een overeenkomst met het gezegde ‘the eye cannot see itself’ en in betekenis zegt het niet naar de vinger te zien (de beeltenis van de Vader) maar te zien naar waar verwezen wordt (het licht dat aan elke objectivering ontsnapt).

This logion is so compact yet says it all. Not only the message is pure non-dualism it is also very beautifull like a Möbius figure, it goes round and turns the known 180° . It goes like this

IMAGE(light hidden by image)

-turn-around-

LIGHT(image hidden by light).

He was known for these turn-arounds. Maybe that's the meaning of 'Metanoia'

Such messages cannot be understood, until they are; they have no relation to anything known to man! Beauty and truth intertwined bubbling up from the Source itself.

1st part:

It is not to be found in the graven images, but in the light 'as wich' and 'in wich' they appear. So in that sense you find it just as much in the graven images as in what you find if you split wood or lift up a stone.
2nth part:

Awareness itself cannot be represented, it is in a sense 'hidden' because it is the 'light' wich sees and that cannot be objectified !

Or in other words:

Imagine yourself 'face to no-face' with an ancient icon of the Heavenly Father personifying the 'Light': Then logion 83 translates as: All images (even those representing God) appear as reflections that are in and of the mirror of immediate Seeing. Everything is contained in the light of immediate SEEING. SEEING is happening, IT cannot be located.

Een vinger die wijst naar de maan door Vince Flamini.

2008-07-07T02:05:00.000-07:00

Just Rest: Drop It All and Take a Walk - A Response to a Reader

Als je geen plek hebt om op te staan, waar ga je dan staan?

2008-07-07T01:25:00.000-07:00

Een koan die je op die tocht kunt meenemen is de fundamentele koan zoals geformuleerd door de twintigste-eeuwse Japanse Zenmeester Hisamatsu. Het is de levensvraag waarmee iedereen geconfronteerd wordt bij het wegvallen van alle zekerheden die smelten in het vuur van de ware aandacht:

"If you have no place to stand, where will you stand?"

En ieder zal daarop zijn eigen antwoord in zijn eigen leven tot uitdrukking moeten brengen. Dat was zo in de tijd van Bodhidharma en dat zal ook voor de generaties na ons zo zijn."
Jos Stollman, http://www.thomasevangelie.nl/zen/geschiedenis.htm

IK BEN het AL

2008-07-06T14:37:00.000-07:00

De mens leeft in het 'horizontale' van de tijd, verleden, heden en toekomst, zijn leven in het relatieve, de 'dagelijkse strijd' om jezelf waar te maken. Maar waar is de grootsheid van de creatie gebleven? "Is dit nu alles?"

We missen het verticale dat het horizontale doorsnijdt.
Het zicht op het oneindige in het tijdelijke.

De 'stad' staat symbool voor het dag-dagelijkse leven, met al zijn voordelen en nadelen, met cariere en ambitie en winst en verlies en ...
de 'Hemel' staat voor het oneindige dat de 'conditio sine qua non' is voor ons bestaan, on-eindig, on-vatbaar, pure rauwe creatie,..

de hele mens vertegenwoordigd beide 'kanten'; Hij weet zich gesteund, geruggesteund door de oneindige On-grond die alles doordringt.

"Life,
Heart beating, eyes seeing,The universe is alive."

Though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me

2008-07-06T12:44:00.000-07:00

Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled, ..."

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"Alles was macht, alles. Ik hoor het.

Ik weet het schreeuwen,

het kuilen meten voor de medemens, het luidkeels

slapen gaan. was het, is het nog?"

-Armando-

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Jesus said : "Therefore I say, if he is undivided, he will be filled with light, but if he is divided, he will be filled with darkness."

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As Eckhart Tolle say's..."don't let a mad world tell you that successis anything other than a successful present moment. There is alwaysonly this one step, so give it your fullest attention."

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Zenmeester FOYAN zei het zo

2008-07-06T12:08:00.000-07:00

"Zoek terug tot in je eigen manier van zien-denk terug tot aan de geest die denkt. Wie is het?"

Deze vraag aan jezelf gesteld, met grote intensiteit, is als een pijl die je tussen de ogen treft en het onmogelijk maakt je ware gelaat nog te ontkennen. Het antwoord is een levend antwoord dat nog nooit in een enkel boek is neergeschreven geweest. Dat is het goede nieuws, je hebt niemands antwoorden nodig, gedaan met tweedehandse kennis. Je hebt alleen de juiste vraag nodig en uiteindelijk zelfs dat niet; Het is nu al vol-ledig aanwezig, vóór elke gedachte erover.