A GODHEAD EXPERIENCE

It is impossible to describe the experience accurately. I felt the point of consciousness that was myself growing wider, surrounded by waves of light. It grew wider and wider, spreading outward while the body, normally the immediate object of its perception, appeared to have receded into the distance until I became entirely unconscious of it.

I was no longer myself, or to be more accurate, no longer as I knew myself to be, a small point of awareness confined in a body, but instead was a vast circle of consciousness in which the body was but a point, bathed in light and in a state of exaltation and happiness impossible to describe.

After some time, the duration of which I could not judge, the circle began to narrow down. I became suddenly aware of the noises in the street, felt again my arms and legs and head, and once more became my narrow self in touch with body and surroundings.

( From the book "Living with Kundalini, the Autobiogaphy of Gopi Krishna")

Captain Beefheart RIP

Δημιουργός τεχνητών παραισθήσεων

Πτυχιούχος του εφήμερου

Πωλητής του κενού

Ιππότης δικής του έμπνευσης

Ασκητής σε τάγμα φλου

Αστρολόγος στο έλεος του ζωδίου του

Τυχοδιώκτης στα ίχνη του άλλου του Εαυτού.

PHALLOS PROTOS

"Time was first reckoned by lunations, and every important ceremony took place at a certain phase of the moon; the solstices and equinoxes not being exactly determined but approximated to the nearest new or full moon. The number seven acquired peculiar sanctity, because the king died at the seventh full moon after the shortest day. Even when, after careful astronomical observation, the solar year proved to have 364 days, with a few hours left over, it had to be divided into months - that is, moon cycles- rather than into fractions of the solar cycle.These months later became what the English-speaking still calls 'common-law months', each of twenty eight days; which was a sacred number, in the sense that the moon could be worshipped as a woman, whose menstrual cycle is normally twenty-eight days, and that this is also the true period of the moon's revolutions in terms of the sun."

(Except for the title, the quote was taken from Robert Graves' book "The Greek Myths")

Emptiness

Dimitri's question: " You said something about the negative side of Enlightenment or the negative approach of many people to it. What does this mean exactly?"

The Guru's answer: "As you know the goal in Zen is Emptiness. Can you experience it? Sure you can. Does it bring you instant joy? Not necessarily."

"When the going gets tough, write a poem..."

This body is the Bodhi-tree;

The soul is like the mirror bright;

Take heed to keep it always clean,

And let no dust collect upon it.

Με αυτό το ποιήμα, ένας μοναχός, υψηλόβαθμο στέλεχος μοναστηριού του Ζεν και πρώτος υποψήφιος για τη θέση του έκτου Πατριάρχη του Ζέν Βουδισμού στην Κίνα νόμισε ότι συμπύκνωσε την ουσία της πίστης του. Το παρουσίασε λοιπόν στον πέμπτο Πατριάρχη Gunin (Hung-jen, πέθανε το 675) και εκείνος περίμενε υπομονετικά από τους άλλους μοναχούς μια απάντηση. Εδώ εμφανίζεται ο Yeno (σύμφωνα με την παράδοση από τα μαγειρεία του μονασtηριού) και ο νεαρός μοναχός-μάγειρας κάνει τη δική του πρόταση για την αληθινή εκφραση του Ζεν:

The Bodhi (True Wisdom) is not like the tree;

The mirror bright is nowhere shining:

As there is nothing from the first,

Where does the dust itself collect?

Ο Yeno (Hui-neng, 638 -713) στέφθηκε ο έκτος Πατριάρχης του Ζεν στην Κίνα.

(Τα ποιήματα και τα ονόματα στα Αγγλικά, από το βιβλίο του D.T. Suzuki " An Introduction to Zen Buddhism")

"The fourth of the Ten Ox Herding pictures: CATCHING THE OX"

" We must now hold and embrace the Ox, sustain our perception of True Nature with such disciplines as total compassion, perfect nonviolence, unwavering truthfulness."

From Lex Hixon's book " COMING HOME - The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions.''
Chapter: Zen Ox-Herding

"Personifications of Archetypes": The Brotherhood of St. John

In the year 1917 I became conscious of invisible influences and often received prophetic utterances from them. Many times I was warned: "Hold fast to harmony; chaos is about to fall over the earth." I didn't know what this meant then, but today it is evident. Chaos is everywhere.I first saw and conversed with our elder Brother, John, on February 22nd, 1929, which was a fulfillment of a prophecy given to me in 1921, that when the time was ripe John would speak through my voice. This experience is recorded in "The Tower of Light", in which truth is given about the great spiritual Brotherhood of St. John, now coming into material manifestation.I accepted what I had been told, but I heard nothing more consciously about it until another elder Brother "came down from the hills" and spoke about Love and Brotherhood.Then on the evening of June 14th, 1934, John spoke again in the following words.

It is indeed true that the veil between the material and the spiritual worlds is growing thinner and many mortals will move forward into the realm of the Spirit as naturally as they move from one room into another. You must understand that vibration is the law of nature and that like attracts like, so where no harmony existed on earth, the souls will not meet in the realm of Spirit.The lines of vibration are clearly drawn in the invisible world. In the outer chaotic sphere the people force issues and so cause discord, but in the spiritual world the law of attraction will carry each to his own place where he will find harmony because he is with his own kind.This is the vibratory law. Should one be cruel and intolerant, he will enter a plane where all are of the same nature - this is purgatory. But it is what he has earned by his actions in the material world. So you see that both heaven and hell are created by the people themselves on earth. It behooves the people to watch their action and clear their thoughts. It is through the heart that heaven is made, and not through intellectual theories.
I am John.






Little by little the fundamental truths set forth in the Sano Tarot revelation will be understood and accepted by all whose consciousness is awake. With this understanding man will be able to lift himself out of the grave in which he has buried himself and know what life really is. You see, realization is greater than knowledge, which is of the mind. Blessed are those who can realize their spiritual heritage. They shall indeed walk and talk with the gods. If you could see the great record sheet on which the thoughts and personal desires of the people are held like insects in a net, you would make it your chief work to create clear ideals and drive them into manifestation. Alas! few people have the power to create a thought and hold it until it materializes.There is an open path before every aspiring soul. Is it possible that after all that is known about the Law of Balance I must come and point the way? Already the wings of the people who are seeking the truth and not just escape from the trials of life are showing. They have nothing to fear. I bid them move forward.
I, Judah, have spoken.



( Excerpts from Nancy Fullwood's book "Behold We Come!")

MOY

Στα άδυτα του Ζέντο φέρνω στο φώς

ένα έξυπνο μωρό και το πλάθω βράχο

το όνομα του το λέω κύκλο

κι αλωνίζω το σύμπαν μ'αυτόν σκορπώντας κραυγές

από τον σιωπηλό τρόπο μου.

Μετατρέπομαι σε άνθρωπο και κενό

πάνω στον αφαλό μου ξαπλώνω

καθισμένος σταυροπόδι

σε όλους τους κόσμους

που γυρεύουν το όρος Μερού.

But is this language scientific?

"It is very scientific, very urgently so! You play around with these facts and you get your fingers burned in a hurry; I have this friend who knows all the language of Alice Bailey, everything, except that by now he is a schizophrenic psychotic: 'Ooooh there are these creatures that are coming from another planet just to get me'. You see, he has lost the sanity that we would expect in nature anyway. ''

Το Δέντρο της Γνώσης

Είμαι το Δέντρο. Το νερό τρέφει τα γόνατά μου κι ο κορμός μου ακούει ήσυχος.

Ακολουθώ τον άνεμο μέσα στα κλαδιά μου. Τον ακίνητο άνεμο.

Δεν ξέρω τι θα φέρει : ύπνο, πόνο, χιλιάδες μαλακά σύννεφα, κελαηδιστά όρνεα, όντα χρωματιστά;

Δεν ξέρω το πώς και το γιατί.

Στα διαλείματα με ξυπνάει το φως.

Έρχεται και φεύγει όπως τ' άλλα.

¨Οπως τα ερπετά που μουδιάζουν τις ρίζες μου, τα μαλακά σύννεφα που κοιμούνται στα κλαδιά μου

κι όλα τα όντα που λαμπουνε στα φύλλα μου χρωματιστά.

Και όπως ο άνεμος που στέκεται ακίνητος δυναμώνει,

γίνομαι ύπνος και πόνος, κελαηδιστά όρνεα, σύννεφα μαλακά. Κι είμαι το δέντρο ξανά.

CHURCHIANITY

What about Christianity! First they steal from every religion in the area, then they make a historical figure out of the story of Jesus and since then they have been cashing in on guilt, sin and shame. That's a great system, it's as good as Communism.

Τουλάχιστον 10.000 ετών

Νύχτα και μέρα χτενίζω το μαλλιά τής Ντάρμα

οι δέκα χιλιάδες όψεις της

υπόσχεση

το άυπνο σώμα της

χρονόμετρο

απ'το σωστό στο λάθος

νύχτα και μέρα εκπνέουν φως

κι εγώ τις αντιγράφω.