The positive is also part of the mind, just as negativity is, and slowly, slowly, you have to learn how not to be part of the mind. You have not only to go beyond the negative; you have to go beyond the positive too. Only with that transcendence that is beyond both does life have serenity; otherwise it is tiring, it can be very tiring. And when you are too tired you have to lean to the other pole, otherwise you will not be rejuvenated. So these are the two possibilities: one is, don't impose your positivism too much. Remain in the middle, and then you will not need the negative. The negative comes only via the positive and the positive comes only via the negative. They are partners: they do business together and you become the victim; you become a battlefield between these two polarities. So the first thing is... one alternative, the best, is to remain in the middle. Or the second thing, which is second best, is to go on moving from the positive to the negative. Then allow both, don't repress the negative; allow both. The second best is what Western psychotherapeutic groups are based on. The first is the best, but if you cannot do it, then the second. So choose. First try the first. If it is very difficult... because to be cool is very difficult; the mind likes to be hot and cold, because of the excitement. The hot is exciting and the very cold is also exciting; love is exciting and hate is exciting. Compassion has no excitement in it. It is just a cool lake, a calm lake, reflecting the whole firmament with all its beauty, but there is no excitement, not even a ripple. And the mind lives out of excitement; it is a constant search for sensation, entertainment. But you have to be aware: if the first can be done then do the first; otherwise the second is good. Then don't be worried: go on moving from one to the other. And make it easy; the movement should not be hampered, stopped, should not be done in a reluctant way. Go very easily from one to the other, just like the pendulum of the clock, with no problem; don't make a problem out of it. In the West, particularly in these fifty years, much positivism has been taught, even in the name of religion. Vincent Peale and people like that, have always been teaching the positive philosophy, not being aware at all that the more positive you make the man, the more negative his unconscious becomes. And you are creating a rift in a man; rather than helping him, you are poisoning his being. It appeals to people, but you cannot be absolutely positive.
hans-wolfgang - am Sonntag, 9. Juli 2006, 00:25
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Vorbilder… die Bewahrung vor sich selbst… Wenn man sich zu tief in irgendwelche Ideale reinsteigert, diese dann aber nicht erfüllen kann, fühlt man sich nur schlecht, darum lebe wie es gerade passt.^^ Opfer der Sehnsucht haben es nicht leicht. immer ein Ideal in der Seele, gegen das die Wirklichkeit allzu oft enttäuscht, immer auf der Suche nach einer Faszination, die so stark ist, dass es die Angst nimmt, die Langeweile vertreibt und das Vertrauen weckt aus dem Schlaf der sogenannten Realität. Every man dies, not every man really lives... und die Ideale haben sich im Laufe der Dekaden immer gewandelt......eine Grundlinie konnte man zwar finden "Ehrlichkeit, Gerechtigkeit und liebe", aber mit extremen Abzweigungen und Schattierungen......heute vertiefen und festigen sich eigentlich nur noch die Anlagen. Vorbilder begrenzen nur die Möglichkeiten. Möglichkeiten werden durch Unsicherheit beschränkt, gewisse Festlegungen, die die selbstständige Entfaltung des Charakters beeinträchtigen/bremsen, da man gewisse Möglichkeiten von "der Liste streichen muss". Wäre es nicht besser, wenn jeder von uns selbst ein Vorbild für andere wird, anstatt immer nur anderen Vorbildern hinterherzulaufen? Das Ideal ist nichts als die Wahrheit von weitem.
Hier nun einige Fakten über ein Vorbild, dem niemand gerecht werden kann: Solid Snake!
Solid Snake ist zu 1/8 Cherokee. Das hat allerdings nichts mit seinen Vorfahren zu tun, der Mann hat, als ihm in der Tundra die Vorräte ausgingen, einen Indianer gefangen und gegessen. Auf der letzten Seite des Guinness-Weltrekord-Buches steht in kleingedruckten Buchstaben, dass alle Rekorde auf diesem Planeten von Solid Snake gehalten werden. Die restlichen Angaben sind lediglich nur jene, die diesen am nächsten kamen. Die meisten Menschen haben 23 Chromosome. Solid Snake hat 72, und sie sind alle giftig. Der schnellste Weg zum Herzen eines Menschen ist Solid Snake's Faust. Solid Snake hat zwei Bewegungsarten, Laufen und Töten. Solid Snake wechselt seine Haut zwei Mal im Jahr. Solid Snake schreibt keine Bücher, die Worte fügen sich von selbst zusammen, aus Angst. Solid Snake kann Null teilen. Solid Snake's Urin verschweißt Titan. Solid Snake rasiert sich nicht, er schlägt sich selbst ins Gesicht. Das Einzige das einen Solid Snake schneiden kann ist ein Solid Snake. Solid Snake kann nicht lieben, er nimmt sich nur ne Pause vom Töten.
Hier nun einige Fakten über ein Vorbild, dem niemand gerecht werden kann: Solid Snake!
Solid Snake ist zu 1/8 Cherokee. Das hat allerdings nichts mit seinen Vorfahren zu tun, der Mann hat, als ihm in der Tundra die Vorräte ausgingen, einen Indianer gefangen und gegessen. Auf der letzten Seite des Guinness-Weltrekord-Buches steht in kleingedruckten Buchstaben, dass alle Rekorde auf diesem Planeten von Solid Snake gehalten werden. Die restlichen Angaben sind lediglich nur jene, die diesen am nächsten kamen. Die meisten Menschen haben 23 Chromosome. Solid Snake hat 72, und sie sind alle giftig. Der schnellste Weg zum Herzen eines Menschen ist Solid Snake's Faust. Solid Snake hat zwei Bewegungsarten, Laufen und Töten. Solid Snake wechselt seine Haut zwei Mal im Jahr. Solid Snake schreibt keine Bücher, die Worte fügen sich von selbst zusammen, aus Angst. Solid Snake kann Null teilen. Solid Snake's Urin verschweißt Titan. Solid Snake rasiert sich nicht, er schlägt sich selbst ins Gesicht. Das Einzige das einen Solid Snake schneiden kann ist ein Solid Snake. Solid Snake kann nicht lieben, er nimmt sich nur ne Pause vom Töten.
hans-wolfgang - am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006, 22:27
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For centuries man has been told all kinds of life-negative things. Even to torture your body has been a spiritual discipline. Up to now science has been accidental. People have stumbled upon some discoveries, inventions. Even discoveries were made for which they were not looking, but just groping in the dark with no sense of direction. And obviously the politicians of the world -- who liked more and more destructive power in their hands -- immediately got the idea to enslave scientists. Now every scientist is a slave to some nation, to some government and he functions only for purposes which are anti-life, destructive. The more destructive things he can find, the more he is praised by the governments, the more he is avoided. Creative science will consciously avoid anything that destroys life and will seek and search only for that which enhances life. Science is only a part of human reality. The most fundamental thing will be creating methods, techniques, ways of raising human consciousness, and certainly, this consciousness cannot be against the body; this consciousness is residing in the body. They cannot be seen as inimical to each other; in every way, they are supportive. You walk, you eat, you drink and all these things indicate that you are a body and consciousness as an organic whole. You cannot torture the body and raise your consciousness. The body has to be loved -- you have to be a great friend. It is your home, you have to clean it of all junk, and you have to remember that it is in your service continuously, day in, day out. Even when you are asleep, your body is continuously working for you digesting, changing your food into blood, taking out the dead cells from the body, bringing new oxygen, fresh oxygen into the body -- and you are fast asleep! It is doing everything for your survival, for your life, although you are so ungrateful that you have never even thanked your body. On the contrary, your religions have been teaching you to torture it: the body is your enemy and you have to get free from the body, its attachments. You are more than the body and there is no need to have any attachment. But love is not an attachment, compassion is not an attachment. Love and compassion are absolutely needed for your body and its nourishment. And the better body you have, the more is the possibility for growing consciousness. It is an organic unity.
hans-wolfgang - am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006, 02:35
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Mohammedans have killed thousands of people, burned thousands of cities, raped thousands of women, and forced people to become Mohammedans at the point of the sword. In the fourteen hundred years they have been on the earth they have been just a curse! But they are a religion. All these religions don't have any religious quality. The religious quality comes through meditation, and meditation has nothing to do with organization. It is something... you have to go inwards; organization is something outside you. You need not go to a church to be religious, or to a synagogue to be religious. You have to go inside yourself. That makes one a mystic, a scientist of one's own interiority. And only the few people who are doing this inner search are truly religious. All the religions should be stopped from being given tax-exempt status. They have done only murders, rapes; they are criminals. It is only a meditative person who becomes silent, serene, centred, reaches to his innermost core. From there arises the fragrance of truth, love, compassion. He will not be a Christian, he will not be a Jew. He will be only a mystic, one who has known his own mystery. The way of religiousness is not an organization, it is an individual inquiry. The very word "leader" is ugly. It is political. Laws are for man; man is not for laws. Jesus is not religious, is not meditative -- and the whole of Christianity goes down the drain. Mohammed is not meditative, is not a religious person -- and the whole of Mohammedanism is nothing but a political strategy, a lust for power. These are the people who have created all the poverty in the world. These are the people who are still teaching against birth control. That means more poor people, and more clients for them to convert to Catholicism, to Christianity. Their interest is not in the sufferings of the poor, in the sufferings of the orphans. Their interest is in more orphans, more Catholics. Now there are six hundred million Catholics in the world; naturally, the pope becomes one of the greatest powers. Otherwise, he is just a German; nothing less, nothing more. It is a politics of numbers. That's why you should not ever get interested in organizations. The moment you become organized, you become interested in numbers. Only one thing remains: it is your journey inwards, which is the essence of religiousness. And this is not out of any ego, it is simply out of a humble experience of truth. And truth is going to be victorious.
hans-wolfgang - am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006, 22:56
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One great philosopher, Maulingaputta, had come to Buddha, and he was asking great philosophical questions. Buddha listened -- he was very famous, he was well-known all over the country. He had not come alone, he had come with five hundred of his own disciples. They were sitting behind him. Buddha listened patiently. For one hour he was asking this question and that -- very complicated questions, complex questions, subtle questions. Then he said, "I have asked so many questions, but you have not answered." Buddha said, "My way of answering is that you will have to wait for two years with me. These are the questions you have asked of many people. Have you asked them or not before asking me?" Maulingaputta said, "That's true. I have asked Mahavira and he immediately answered. I have asked Sanjay Vilethiputta" -- he was another famous teacher of those days- "and he immediately answered. I have asked Ajit Keshkambli" -- he was a very sceptical philosopher "and he was very much interested in my questions. And I have asked so many others. We have been travelling all over the country." Buddha said, "You have asked so many people and they have all answered, but have you got the answers? If you have got the answers, then why waste my time?" Maulingaputta said, "They have answered, but I have not got the answers yet. My questions remain the same untouched. Their answers have not satisfied me." Then Buddha said, "I can also answer right now as they have answered -- it will not satisfy you either. Now you have to decide. If you really are interested then risk two years' time and sit silently by my side." Before Maulingaputta said, "Yes, I am ready to wait", one of Buddha's great disciples, Manjushri, started laughing. Maulingaputta said, "Why is this man laughing like mad?" Buddha said, "He is not mad -- he is my first disciple who has become enlightened. And I know why he is laughing -- you can ask him yourself." Maulingaputta asked Manjushri, "Why are you laughing?" He said, "I am laughing because this Gautam Buddha is tricky! He tricked me the same way. Listening to what he is saying to you I remembered my own journey to him. Twenty years have passed; suddenly I remembered -- I had completely forgotten -- that these were my questions too. It is as if history is repeating itself. And it is strange that I came with five hundred disciples of my own just as you have come, and I asked Buddha and the same reply was given to me: 'Wait for two years.' I waited for two years, and I am laughing! I would like to say this to you as a warning: if you want to ask this man, ask right now, because after two years you will not ask and he will not answer." Buddha said, "I will be ready to answer, but if you yourself refuse to ask, what can I do? My promise will stand -- I am a man of my word." And it happened the same way that Manjushri had predicted. Two years passed. Maulingaputta had completely forgotten, because who remembers time when one is with a man like Buddha? Two years passed. Maulingaputta had forgotten, but Buddha reminded him. Suddenly one day he said, "Maulingaputta, two years have passed. It is time now that you should ask your questions. And I am ready to answer." And Maulingaputta laughed. Buddha said, "You are laughing like mad! What has happened? Do you remember Manjushri's laughter that day?" Maulingaputta said, "My questions have fallen. I have nothing to ask. I have become utterly silent. You have not answered and yet you have answered."
hans-wolfgang - am Sonntag, 25. Juni 2006, 01:36
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