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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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"what is happenning?"


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Re: Koan [Re: redgreenvines]
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I wrote this one in my Eastern Religion class last week...

When you are something
you are nothing
When you understand everything
you are nothing
When you see nothing
you are something with everything

You are. Be.

See that these are not. Neither are those. Be still. Let your mind be. Exist.


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"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - The trip of a Life Time.

Indra's Net - There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe. The horizontal threads are in space. The vertical threads in time. At every crossing of threads there is an individual. And every individual is a crystal bead. The great light of absolute being illuminates and penetrates every crystal being, And every crystal being reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, But also every reflection of every reflection throughout the universe.

-cK

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Re: Koan [Re: ck10n3]
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Here is an excellent one.

It is the 8th case from "The Gateless Gate" or Mumonkan and it allows for a little bit of logical thinking as opposed to the other completely non-sensical Koans from the hekiganroku, or the shoyuroku.

Without further adieu: 

Master Getten said to a monk: "Keichu made a cart whose wheels had a hundred spokes.  Take both front and rear parts away and remove the axle: then what will it be?

Mumon's Commentary:
If you can immediately see through this, your eye will be like a shooting star and your spirituality like lightning.

Mumon's Poem:
When the vividly working wheel turns
even an expert is lost.
Four directions, above and below:
south, north, east, and west.


Have fun :smile:

:heart: Peace :heart:

:hippie:

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Re: Koan [Re: Quoiyaien]
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No koan is non-sensical. Maybe it's not the koan, but the reader (no offense, please) EDIT: What i mean is, on one level, yes, some are paradoxical, but a sign of psychological maturity is the ability to comprehend paradox.


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Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That the dear She might take some pleasure of my pain: Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.

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Re: Koan [Re: Arioch1]
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It is not the clay that makes the pot useful
but the emptiness it surrounds.


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Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect
GODDESSES
Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud
GODS.

~Casil



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jonathanseagull said:
No koan is non-sensical.  Maybe it's not the koan, but the reader (no offense, please)  EDIT:  What i mean is, on one level, yes, some are paradoxical, but a sign of psychological maturity is the ability to comprehend paradox. 



All koan are non-sensical.  That is the very nature of the koan.  What I mean by non-sensical is that with most koan, you cannot think about it to understand.  Understanding comes only from thinking the koan itself.  With this particular one, it allows some degree of logical thinking to understand, therefore making it a great "wedge".

:heart: Peace :heart:

:hippie:

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Arioch1 said:
Hi,

Anyone that can give me a Koan to meditate upon while trippin?


"once I wasn't, now I am, soon I will again be not, WTF is that about?" :tongue:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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