barida_obreoy
15-Sep-2003, 09:37 PM
ManMad Philosophy
The enlightenment
It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the isness of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning having freedom in its primary sense - not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.
Morally
Teaches us not look backward once the course is decided upon.
Philosophically
Treats life and death indifferently.
The Abiding stage (letting go itself from itself)
The point where the mind stops to abide - the attachments to an object - the stop of the flow - not to get your attention arrested. To transcend the dualistic comprehension of the situation.
ManMad is not just the method of concentration or meditation, it is "being" it is an "experience" a way that is 'not a way'.
Sometimes it may becomes a concentration, and sometimes meditation, but there is no fixed form of ManMad. The root of ManMad is a state of being "A State of perception and nothing else - that is a state of being".
ManMad is the Awareness of pure being (beyond subject and object), an immediate grasp of being in its "Thusness" and "Suchness" - ( not particularized reality).
Mind is the ultimate reality which is aware of self and is not the seat of our empirical consciousness - by "being" mind instead of "having" mind ("no mind and no mind"; "no form and no form").
To think that this insight is a subjective experience "attainable" by some kind of process of mentally purification is to doom oneself to error and absurdity - "mirror-wiping Zen."
It is not a technique of introversion by which one seeks to exclude matter and the external world, to eliminate distracting thoughts, to sit in silence emptying the mind of images, and to concentrate on the purity of one's own spiritual essence. Zen is not a mysticism of "introversion" and "withdrawal." It is not "acquired contemplation."
The process of maturing does not mean to become the captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in the innermost selves.
ManMad's aggressive mental training is not a mere philosophical contemplation on the effervescence of life or a frozen type of mold, but an entrance into the realm of non relativity and it is real.
Learning to Exist in the Now
Living generally means living in imitation and therefore in fear. The individual is of first importance not the system, ManMad system. Be self aware rather than a repetitious robot, Inwardly freedom, rather than a mechanical efficiency to present a possible direction nothing more. Books teachers parents, the society around us, all tell us what to think, but not how to think. What is the point of being educated, of learning to read and write , if you are just going to carry on like a machine? After all, it is merely the root to function from.
ManMad's fitting in with one's opponent, but there is no path, no self and no goal. When there is a way, there in lies the limitation, and when there is circumference, it traps and if it traps it rottens; and if it rottens it is lifeless. Man is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that when he stops growing. Systematic methods and tradition make the mind a slave - you are no longer an individual, but merely a product. your mind is the result of a thousand yesterdays.
Not conviction, not method, but perception is the way of truth. It is a state of effortless awareness, pliable awareness, choiceless awareness.
ManMad should be on the alert to meet the interchangeability of the opposites. But as soon as his mind "stops" with either of them, it loses its own fluidity. A ManMad should keep his mind always in the state of emptiness so that his freedom in action will never be obstructed.
He is because he thinks he is - positive or negative.
True Seeing
True seeing in the sense of choice less awareness, leads to new discovery, and discovery is one of the means to uncovering our potentiality. However, when these same eyes are used in observing or discovering other people's faults, we are quick with readily equipped condemnation. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know your self takes a life time.
A Good Mind
Not being tense but ready,
Not thinking but not dreaming ,
Not being set but flexible (Neutral)
In any action you must be sincere and honest. To change with change is changeless state. Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don't.
Your mental attitude determines what you make of it, as stepping stone or stumbling block. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
ManMad's 1st Law
"Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody, it is there when the mind is very quiet listening timelessly to every thing".
1. The absence of a system of stereotyped techniques.
2. The "fitting-in" spirit.
_Technical skill is to be subordinate to the psychic training, which will finally raise the practitioner even to the level of high spirituality. He is no more himself. He moves as a kind of automaton. He has given himself up to an influence out side his everyday consciousness, which is no other than his own deeply buried unconscious, whose presence he was never hitherto aware of.
To bring the mind into sharp focus and to make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is every where, the mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought process, and even ordinary thought itself.
Three components
1. Absence of thought is the doctrine : and it means not to be carried away by thought in the process of thought - not to be defiled by external objects - to be in thought yet devoid of thought.
2."Absence of stereotyped technique" as the substance in order to be total and free.
3. Nonattachment as the foundation.
_All lines and movements are the function.
It's man's original nature - in its ordinary process, thought moves forward without a halt, past, present and future thoughts continue as an unbroken stream. 'Absence' means freedom from duality and all defilements. 'Thought' means thought of Thusness and self nature. True Thusness is the substance of thought and thought is the function of true Thusness.
To Meditate means to realize the imperturbability of one's original nature. Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. there will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. True Thusness is without defiling thought; it can be known through conception and thought. There is no thought except that of the true Thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible. The mind is originally without activity; the way is always without thought.
By knowledge is meant knowing the emptiness and tranquility of the mind. Insight means realizing hat one's original nature is not created. Being empty means having no appearance, having no style or form to let opponent work on. Being tranquil means not having been created in its Thusness - not being created means not having any illusions or delusions.
Separation
It is inexpressible because as soon as one tries to express is itself a thing, which means that by so doing one remains in the state of being linked with things. Have no mind that selects or rejects. To be without deliberate mind is to have no thoughts.
There is no need to exert oneself in special cultivation outside the daily round of living. There is no difference between such enlightenment and what is ordinarily termed knowledge, for in the latter a contrast exists between the knower and the known, whereas in the former there can be no such contrast.
Meditation
A simple mind surely is one that functions, that thinks, and feels, without a motive. Where there is a motive there must be a way, a method, and a system of discipline. The motive is brought about by the desire for an end, for a goal, and to achieve that goal there must be away, etc. meditation is a freeing of the mind from all motives.
Acceptance denial and conviction prevent understanding - let your mind and speaker's mind move together in understanding, with sensitivity then there is a possibility of real communion with each other. To understand, surely, there must be a state of choice less, awareness in which there is no sense of comparison or condemnation, no waiting for a further development of the thing we are talking about in order to agree or disagree - don't start from a conclusion above all.
ManMad's 2nd Law
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability, the truth is out side of all fixed patterns".
The Three faults
1. The invention of an empirical self that observe itself
2. Viewing one's thought as a kind of object or possession, situating it in a separate, isolated "part of itself" - "I have" a mind.
3. The striving to wipe the mirror
This clinging and possessive ego-consciousness, seeking to affirm itself in "Liberation," craftily tries to outwit reality by rejecting the thoughts it "possesses" and emptying the mirror of the mind, which it also "possesses"-emptiness itself is regarded as a possession and an "attainment." There is no enlightenment to be attained and no subject to attain it.
Zen is not "attained" by mirror-wiping meditation, but by "self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now." We do not "come", we "are". Don't strive to become, but "be".
The void (or the unconscious) may be said to have two aspects:
1. It simply is what it is.
2. It is realized, it is aware of itself, and to speak improperly, this awareness is "in us", or better, we are "in it."
It is to see things as they are and not to become attached to any thing - to be unconscious to be innocent of the working of a relative (empirical) mind - when there is no abiding of thought anywhere on anything - this is being unbound. This not abiding anywhere is the root of our life.
Prajna is not self-realization, but realization pure and simple, beyond subject and object. To see where there is no something (object) - this is true seeing; the seeing is the result of having nothing to stand on. It is simply "pure seeing," beyond subject and object, and therefore "no seeing." Zen Liberates the mind from servitude to imagined spiritual states as "objects," which too easily become hypostatized and turn into idols that obsess and delude the seeker.
Pure seeing "Non seeing" and no mind are not renunciations but fulfillment. The seeing that is without subject or object is "pure seeing".
The direct awareness in which is formed "truth that makes us free" - not the truth as an object of knowledge only, but the truth lived and experienced in concrete existential awareness.
There exists, in the world, systems that are mechanical, classical, "no soul". The intelligent people feel that such systems... are" frames "that can kill the life of freedom of expression by their too rigid limitation. They feel that such practices are merely "doing" and not " being". Instead of promoting inward experience, the routines and workouts are imitative repetition, a mere product. Furthermore, these people feel that an ideology is a mere projection of hope. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
We are always in the process of becoming and nothing is fixed. have no rigid system in you and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open your self and flow at once with the total flowing now. Fluidity and emptiness are convertible forms.
True observation begins when devoid of a set patterns and freedom of expressions occurs when one is beyond system!
Adequate form requires individuality rather than imitative repetitiousness, brevity rather than bulkiness, clarity rather than obscurity, simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form
The enlightenment
It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the isness of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning having freedom in its primary sense - not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.
Morally
Teaches us not look backward once the course is decided upon.
Philosophically
Treats life and death indifferently.
The Abiding stage (letting go itself from itself)
The point where the mind stops to abide - the attachments to an object - the stop of the flow - not to get your attention arrested. To transcend the dualistic comprehension of the situation.
ManMad is not just the method of concentration or meditation, it is "being" it is an "experience" a way that is 'not a way'.
Sometimes it may becomes a concentration, and sometimes meditation, but there is no fixed form of ManMad. The root of ManMad is a state of being "A State of perception and nothing else - that is a state of being".
ManMad is the Awareness of pure being (beyond subject and object), an immediate grasp of being in its "Thusness" and "Suchness" - ( not particularized reality).
Mind is the ultimate reality which is aware of self and is not the seat of our empirical consciousness - by "being" mind instead of "having" mind ("no mind and no mind"; "no form and no form").
To think that this insight is a subjective experience "attainable" by some kind of process of mentally purification is to doom oneself to error and absurdity - "mirror-wiping Zen."
It is not a technique of introversion by which one seeks to exclude matter and the external world, to eliminate distracting thoughts, to sit in silence emptying the mind of images, and to concentrate on the purity of one's own spiritual essence. Zen is not a mysticism of "introversion" and "withdrawal." It is not "acquired contemplation."
The process of maturing does not mean to become the captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in the innermost selves.
ManMad's aggressive mental training is not a mere philosophical contemplation on the effervescence of life or a frozen type of mold, but an entrance into the realm of non relativity and it is real.
Learning to Exist in the Now
Living generally means living in imitation and therefore in fear. The individual is of first importance not the system, ManMad system. Be self aware rather than a repetitious robot, Inwardly freedom, rather than a mechanical efficiency to present a possible direction nothing more. Books teachers parents, the society around us, all tell us what to think, but not how to think. What is the point of being educated, of learning to read and write , if you are just going to carry on like a machine? After all, it is merely the root to function from.
ManMad's fitting in with one's opponent, but there is no path, no self and no goal. When there is a way, there in lies the limitation, and when there is circumference, it traps and if it traps it rottens; and if it rottens it is lifeless. Man is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that when he stops growing. Systematic methods and tradition make the mind a slave - you are no longer an individual, but merely a product. your mind is the result of a thousand yesterdays.
Not conviction, not method, but perception is the way of truth. It is a state of effortless awareness, pliable awareness, choiceless awareness.
ManMad should be on the alert to meet the interchangeability of the opposites. But as soon as his mind "stops" with either of them, it loses its own fluidity. A ManMad should keep his mind always in the state of emptiness so that his freedom in action will never be obstructed.
He is because he thinks he is - positive or negative.
True Seeing
True seeing in the sense of choice less awareness, leads to new discovery, and discovery is one of the means to uncovering our potentiality. However, when these same eyes are used in observing or discovering other people's faults, we are quick with readily equipped condemnation. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know your self takes a life time.
A Good Mind
Not being tense but ready,
Not thinking but not dreaming ,
Not being set but flexible (Neutral)
In any action you must be sincere and honest. To change with change is changeless state. Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don't.
Your mental attitude determines what you make of it, as stepping stone or stumbling block. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
ManMad's 1st Law
"Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody, it is there when the mind is very quiet listening timelessly to every thing".
1. The absence of a system of stereotyped techniques.
2. The "fitting-in" spirit.
_Technical skill is to be subordinate to the psychic training, which will finally raise the practitioner even to the level of high spirituality. He is no more himself. He moves as a kind of automaton. He has given himself up to an influence out side his everyday consciousness, which is no other than his own deeply buried unconscious, whose presence he was never hitherto aware of.
To bring the mind into sharp focus and to make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is every where, the mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought process, and even ordinary thought itself.
Three components
1. Absence of thought is the doctrine : and it means not to be carried away by thought in the process of thought - not to be defiled by external objects - to be in thought yet devoid of thought.
2."Absence of stereotyped technique" as the substance in order to be total and free.
3. Nonattachment as the foundation.
_All lines and movements are the function.
It's man's original nature - in its ordinary process, thought moves forward without a halt, past, present and future thoughts continue as an unbroken stream. 'Absence' means freedom from duality and all defilements. 'Thought' means thought of Thusness and self nature. True Thusness is the substance of thought and thought is the function of true Thusness.
To Meditate means to realize the imperturbability of one's original nature. Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. there will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. True Thusness is without defiling thought; it can be known through conception and thought. There is no thought except that of the true Thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible. The mind is originally without activity; the way is always without thought.
By knowledge is meant knowing the emptiness and tranquility of the mind. Insight means realizing hat one's original nature is not created. Being empty means having no appearance, having no style or form to let opponent work on. Being tranquil means not having been created in its Thusness - not being created means not having any illusions or delusions.
Separation
It is inexpressible because as soon as one tries to express is itself a thing, which means that by so doing one remains in the state of being linked with things. Have no mind that selects or rejects. To be without deliberate mind is to have no thoughts.
There is no need to exert oneself in special cultivation outside the daily round of living. There is no difference between such enlightenment and what is ordinarily termed knowledge, for in the latter a contrast exists between the knower and the known, whereas in the former there can be no such contrast.
Meditation
A simple mind surely is one that functions, that thinks, and feels, without a motive. Where there is a motive there must be a way, a method, and a system of discipline. The motive is brought about by the desire for an end, for a goal, and to achieve that goal there must be away, etc. meditation is a freeing of the mind from all motives.
Acceptance denial and conviction prevent understanding - let your mind and speaker's mind move together in understanding, with sensitivity then there is a possibility of real communion with each other. To understand, surely, there must be a state of choice less, awareness in which there is no sense of comparison or condemnation, no waiting for a further development of the thing we are talking about in order to agree or disagree - don't start from a conclusion above all.
ManMad's 2nd Law
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability, the truth is out side of all fixed patterns".
The Three faults
1. The invention of an empirical self that observe itself
2. Viewing one's thought as a kind of object or possession, situating it in a separate, isolated "part of itself" - "I have" a mind.
3. The striving to wipe the mirror
This clinging and possessive ego-consciousness, seeking to affirm itself in "Liberation," craftily tries to outwit reality by rejecting the thoughts it "possesses" and emptying the mirror of the mind, which it also "possesses"-emptiness itself is regarded as a possession and an "attainment." There is no enlightenment to be attained and no subject to attain it.
Zen is not "attained" by mirror-wiping meditation, but by "self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now." We do not "come", we "are". Don't strive to become, but "be".
The void (or the unconscious) may be said to have two aspects:
1. It simply is what it is.
2. It is realized, it is aware of itself, and to speak improperly, this awareness is "in us", or better, we are "in it."
It is to see things as they are and not to become attached to any thing - to be unconscious to be innocent of the working of a relative (empirical) mind - when there is no abiding of thought anywhere on anything - this is being unbound. This not abiding anywhere is the root of our life.
Prajna is not self-realization, but realization pure and simple, beyond subject and object. To see where there is no something (object) - this is true seeing; the seeing is the result of having nothing to stand on. It is simply "pure seeing," beyond subject and object, and therefore "no seeing." Zen Liberates the mind from servitude to imagined spiritual states as "objects," which too easily become hypostatized and turn into idols that obsess and delude the seeker.
Pure seeing "Non seeing" and no mind are not renunciations but fulfillment. The seeing that is without subject or object is "pure seeing".
The direct awareness in which is formed "truth that makes us free" - not the truth as an object of knowledge only, but the truth lived and experienced in concrete existential awareness.
There exists, in the world, systems that are mechanical, classical, "no soul". The intelligent people feel that such systems... are" frames "that can kill the life of freedom of expression by their too rigid limitation. They feel that such practices are merely "doing" and not " being". Instead of promoting inward experience, the routines and workouts are imitative repetition, a mere product. Furthermore, these people feel that an ideology is a mere projection of hope. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
We are always in the process of becoming and nothing is fixed. have no rigid system in you and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open your self and flow at once with the total flowing now. Fluidity and emptiness are convertible forms.
True observation begins when devoid of a set patterns and freedom of expressions occurs when one is beyond system!
Adequate form requires individuality rather than imitative repetitiousness, brevity rather than bulkiness, clarity rather than obscurity, simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form