Ha!

Boundless wind and moon -the eye within eyes,

Inexhaustible heaven and earth -the light beyond light,

The willow dark, the flower bright -ten thousand houses:

Knock at any door -there's one who will respond.

(THE BLUE CLIFF RECORD)

The Politics of Illusion

"The third wave of democratization and contemporary anxieties about the future of liberal democracy and how both the Left and Right entertain fantasies about the abolition of government. 

 How, as well, contemporary developing countries represent the fulfillment of these fantasies but how we take institutions for granted, which in fact have no idea where they come from!"

(THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER  by Francis Fukuyama, 2011)

Lila or god's play

"I am a hidden Treasure that I yearn to be known, so I create creatures to learn to know myself."

A Sufi parable

The hero with a thousand faces

 
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder (x): fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won (y): the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man (z).

Joseph Campbell

The concept of the Collective Unconscious

"There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the form of images filled with content, but at first, as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

When a situation occurs which corresponds to a given archetype, that archetype becomes activated and compulsively appears, which, like an instinctual drive, gains its way against all reason and will, or else produces a conflict of pathological dimensions, that is to say, a neurosis."

(From Jung's book, THE ARCHETYPES AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS)

MAHA ATI

5. Taming the Bull

      Once caught, the taming of the bull is achieved by the precision of meditative panoramic awareness and the sharp whip of transcendental knowledge. The Bodhisattva has accomplished the transcendent acts (paramitas) - not dwelling on anything.

(Yet another view of the "taming" by Chogyam the Kusulu)

SUMMER MONDAY

A solar eclipse in America,

a small rain in Kolonaki. 

(As above, so below)