you can not take hold of IT,
nor can you get rid of IT,
in not being able to get IT you get IT,
when you are silent IT speaks,
when you speak IT is silent…
This reminds me of the story told by Alan Watts of the disiples of a Buddhist teacher who entered the wilderness to remove desire from within. They spent many weeks meditating, chanting, praying to remove desire. They threw it out, jumped on it, discarded it, until they were satisfied desire no longer resided within.
On their return , they knelt before their master where he said … but you have simply desired not to desire.
Great Tao teachings
@indiestubbs: uhum… yes it’s exactly as u say… it’s truly the same with the most fanatic followers of any religion… god knows when they’ll finally get to know that, that which they are fighting for and are naming as their biggest enemy resides in themselves, deep within themselves… but ego as u’d said before too… is so much improved in fooling us with many advanced tactics, and here too, in order to fool this idea and not face and see the truth within, it creates and names a self-made enemy outside of itself, and projects the hatred and confliction of his unconscious with his conscious and all the bad things that he blindly does, to another person or nation or country and makes it its most hated enemy… and god knows what happens if two of these ignorant persons, groups, nations find each other… u know what I mean huh…? if they find each other, they are each other’s both best friend and best enemy at the same time… one feeds the other… and the fight (game?) goes on… they never grow up…
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IT is IT…
you can not take hold of IT,
nor can you get rid of IT,
in not being able to get IT you get IT,
when you are silent IT speaks,
when you speak IT is silent…
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To be or not to be…
Comment by Negar — December 21, 2008 @ 1:16 am
@Negar: IT’s about mostly not being… not being as opposed to the spirit of the nature…
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — December 21, 2008 @ 9:41 am
This reminds me of the story told by Alan Watts of the disiples of a Buddhist teacher who entered the wilderness to remove desire from within. They spent many weeks meditating, chanting, praying to remove desire. They threw it out, jumped on it, discarded it, until they were satisfied desire no longer resided within.
On their return , they knelt before their master where he said … but you have simply desired not to desire.
Great Tao teachings
Comment by indiestubbs — July 10, 2009 @ 4:35 am
@indiestubbs: uhum… yes it’s exactly as u say… it’s truly the same with the most fanatic followers of any religion… god knows when they’ll finally get to know that, that which they are fighting for and are naming as their biggest enemy resides in themselves, deep within themselves… but ego as u’d said before too… is so much improved in fooling us with many advanced tactics, and here too, in order to fool this idea and not face and see the truth within, it creates and names a self-made enemy outside of itself, and projects the hatred and confliction of his unconscious with his conscious and all the bad things that he blindly does, to another person or nation or country and makes it its most hated enemy… and god knows what happens if two of these ignorant persons, groups, nations find each other… u know what I mean huh…?
if they find each other, they are each other’s both best friend and best enemy at the same time… one feeds the other… and the fight (game?) goes on… they never grow up…
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — July 13, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
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