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#1) Tenets I (ideally) try to hold:
-Accept Reality, reject no thing/seek no thing -Do not act on impulse; delay gratification; follow desires but do not cross the line -Avoid creating new karmic dramas -Dwell in equanimity-do non-doing (allow spontaneous activity to operate as often as possible...neither express nor repress, but allow Nature to move) -Keep the Dharma Eye open-Know nothing (See directly - leave mind empty of fabrications, but full of the Suchness of the moment)-Train within, train without (and see no difference between the two in the end) -All is Mind (I definitely hold tight to the 'All is Mind' school and not only is this a Buddhist belief, but also has been verified by western science - one of the dominant theories in Harvard is that every thing we experience as a percept is in fact occurring within the mind, which is no surprise to Buddhists of course)...thus, there is nothing that is not 'me,' and seeing every thing as any thing but Self is erroneous. -no death, no end...endless sea of energy, consciousness, and bliss (Satchitananda)-Consciousness is a series of awake, aware energies of perception (through the watcher) -Focus is like a flashlight (attenuation model) -Reality is This (Suchness) and cannot be commented on with accuracy -Delimit the boundaries of causation - i.e. find the causeless
#2) Theoretical models:
Three minds: 1) WisdomMind, Godmind, Groupmind, Goodmind, Taomind, SuperSoul, 100th monkey effect, Universal Mind, Oversoul, Overmind, etc. 2) Emotional Mind (female, right, intuitive, Gestalt, etc.) 3) Intellectual Mind (male, left, analytic, categorical, etc.)
then....there are the middle and lower dan tiens (lower corresponding to the enteric nervous system, middle corresponding to...?) The action of non-action (receiving through surrender of the small self) allows the wisdom to flow from the mind (eye) of God to the seats of intellect and feeling (spirit). Kundalini has something significant to do with this. In fact, Kundalini may actually be the GroupMind - the source of makyos, Mara, demons, angels, and all archetypes of humanity.
#3) Practices:
Basically, what is known as Shikantaza in Zen, is this:
#1: Limit all outgoing nervous system impulses (efferent signals) - relax the body architecture, as in Savasana...let the body breathe itself
#2:Allow all spontaneous movements without interrupting the process (as in Kriya, Kripalu, Siddha, etc. Yogas...I think this is the same as Wu Wei
#3: Maintain full awareness and just observe without interfering. This is called having a fully open Dharma Eye in Buddhism (Dharma Eye -"The spiritual eye that not only penetrates the true reality of all things but also discriminates all things. Bodhisattvas who have realized the no birth of dharmas ascend to the first ground and acquire the pure dharma-eye, with which they continue to help sentient beings according to their natures and preferences")
In the above practice, one allows awareness to flow effortlessly from object to object, neither choosing a path, nor not-choosing (i.e. interfering with the roving of the Dharma Eye). If ones own Shakti is impure, however, you may led down the roads of absolution, which involves the Shakti bringing you to your own dark parts and exacerbating their ego-dross. Be careful! Don't let yourself cross the line and do anything karmically dis-advantageous. Enjoy the sights of your own ego dross, like Shiva riding his own Shakti-snake, but if it comes to the point of causing suffering for others, then delimit this.
This technique is pretty much the best way to chill out and open mind to 'immediate presence.'
There are other techniques I use besides this one if you like, involving holding focal points at the Thalamus area, or the heart area. I can explain about these if you are interested.
My goal is to enter reality directly without perceiving - if one notes that one is perceiving, then one is in duality - it takes a perceiver to perceive. Direct mergence with the Tao reduces the difference between self/other until there is only the Tao. This is called killing the self, and is likened to killing the Buddha. In order to commit this psychological suicide, I quote Deci Belle: "Perfection is easy for those with no preference. Accept the inevitable at all times without hesitation."
Maintaining this equanimity, neither for nor against, one can still take action through non-action. This is not passive! If someone comes at you with a knife, by doing non-doing, the knife will be thwarted, the attacker nullified, by the Tao itself. When there is 'No One' there, there is still the Tao. By opening to this presence, one becomes full of it, and empty of the self. Thus one is now the Self. See the difference? Little self, big Self. Mind of God, mind of human. The mergence of self/Self is this (from my Taoist mentor Deci Belle): Buddhas step forward to become humans, humans step backwards to become Buddhas. This is the mergence of duality. Same shining mind (always was), but the mind becomes empty of self, yet full of Self. Emptiness and Fullness are the same thing. Little self holds on to ideas. Big Self is moment by moment and does no such thing. This is in fact the development of true Gongfu. Bruce Lee wrote of this in the Tao of Jeet Kun Do.
Next comes the trinity:
Sat Chit Ananda (Being Consciousness Bliss): The seer, the seen, and the act of seeing become one.
Energy, matter, and consciousness become one. They always were of course.
Is there two or is there three? Maybe there is four! ;) Time is the fourth pillar. To say that time is a concept is true, yet it is also not true. Existence is change, so thus Time is the changing of matter/energy/consciousness in the Space, thus the time/space continuum. This is the four dimensional universe.
These are the Four Pillars of Zen.
Time=Space=Energy=Matter (time is the space in which change occurs - the melting of the 3 attributes into endless form illusion bliss)
as far as extra dimensions, I am still exploring that. 
Know your dimensions! - directly perceive their use/worth/function/place/etc.
Cosmos/Body/Mind/Spirit
The Cosmos exists and includes the Time/Space continuum and contains all things; The Body exists within the Cosmos; the Mind exists within the Body; the Spirit exists within the Mind.
Basically it's like a Russian nested doll.
Whatever the biggest doll is, is the container of us all...if there 12 or 13 dimensions, then it pretty intricate, and is probably hard to see from the plane we are in here. I imagine when our body gets dissimilated, that we can then go explore those other dimensions more concretely. I am having enough fun with the four I know for now...
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p.s. You specialists out there! please correct me! I am a maverick, jack-of-all-trades, Sufi, so I have many errors of misperception...I request as much correction as you are inspired to commit. Help me clean my mirror and I will do the same for you. I aim for spotless perception, with no dust. |