I AND TAO

‘’Chuang Tzu ‘s ontology establishes Tao as the ineffable and inexhaustible cosmic principle which is the progenitor of existential multiplicity and equality, thus generating a universe where all constituents of reality are distinct and interactive, yet hierarchically undifferentiated.

The religious quest is the task of restoring equality to a world rendered existentially unequal by the intellectual habits of objectification and utilization.’’

 

 

(From the same book, of the author of ‘’I and Thou’’ Martin Buber)

THELEMA

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

 

 

Frater Perdurabo (Aleister Crowley 1875-1947)

THE ELECT

To see the elect most joyfully refreshed

With every good thing and celestial manna,

And as an honest recompense rewarded

With riches, while the others, at the last,

Will be stripped bare. So reason has it that,

These labours once concluded, at this point

Each man shall have what’s due to him by fate.

Such was the bargain. How praiseworthy he

Who shall have persevered even to the end!

 

 

(from ALEISTER CROWLEY’s, ‘MAGICK, BOOK 4’)

The Issue at Hand (Genjokoan)

The term genjokoan seems to appear first in ninth-century China and is often used in Japanese Soto Zen to refer to present being as the topic of meditation or the issue of Zen. Gen means ‘manifestation’ or ‘present’, jo means ‘become’. Genjo means actuality- being as is, at hand, or accomplished, as of an accomplished fact. Koan is a common Zen word which is often left untranslated...

 

  

(Shobogenzo: Zen Essays by Dogen)

‘TERROR, TERROR’

The (reported) last words of Hakyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi.

 

KAHNU

Emptiness is filled by the nature of mind,

Don’t be saddened by detachment from the clusters,

How can you say Kahnu is not there?

Day by day he penetrates the triple world.

The ignorant one is distressed on seeing

the perishing of what is seen,

But how can a broken wave

make the ocean run dry?

Being ignorant people do not look closely-

They do not see the cream there within the milk.

No one who leaves the world comes back here,

Kahnu the yogi revels in such an existence.

 

 

(THE ECSTASY OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Teachings of Natural Tantra, by Thomas Cleary)