Re: NDE and Charlie Brown

The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it; all we can describe is their appearance.

They were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting, they are present, and can welcome all things.

The truth that can be told is not the eternal truth.
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Masters act without doing anything and teach without saying anything.
Things arise and they let them come; things disappear and they let them go.
They have but don't possess, act but don't expect.
When their work is done, they forget it.
That is why it lasts forever.

Approach the truth and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end.
You can't know it, but you can be it.
Just realize where you come from, this is the essence of wisdom.

The truth is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds what we want.

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.

We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Other people are excited, as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care, I alone am expressionless, like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have a purpose; I don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean, I blow as aimless as the wind.

If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.


Well I hope this shows some of the things I mean. This is the way Jesus spoke and lived. Jesus was all these things yet didn't know it. "He" didn't exist, he was the truth. There was No seperation.

To me it's not about thinking, experiencing, understanding, seeking, seeing or grasping anything. Those are limits we put on ourselves. It shows we aren't it yet, because we're still seeking.

Be still because you are already it, yet don't know it. No doing required, no words to be spoken. Simply reflect it, you'll be it. Tweet