The solution to all things
Sunday, December 25th, 2011As I see the things today, as my understanding tells me….
The humanity’s problem is not solvable by doing anything, just the opposite. The well known wu-wei, not doing.
An ancient Zen teacher said, “The Way is always with people, but people themselves chase after things.”
He addressed their chase after Enlightenment, but the same is true for anything else. The constant chase for tasks to do, things to posses, places to see, superficial entertainments to enjoy and even when we think are have enough, we want to finally help the world, do something good, we start to chase “good doing” things, helping the world, to people, animals, nature and so on. The mind is still wanting more and more of anything.
From an energetic point of view, it can be visualized like this: our world is spiraling within two main forces, two opposite energies and the bigger is one side, the bigger is another – this is again the well known taoistic (and other teaching’s) principle. The point here is to understand what the real wu-wei does mean. It can’t be grasped directly by our minds as non-doing, doing of nothing, because what would it look like in the end? Lying, sitting? Can you breath, eat? The logic is, the non-doing does mean that you surrender yourself to the world of Unknown, starting with the mind. Just letting the mind function without our grasping (which is the doing) of thoughts. In this wu-wei state of mind, she (I just see the mind as her) becomes spontaneous, clear, mindfull, present, loving, compassionate, because these are her born states.
Duality is still unwinding, even with this mind, but we are not making mess in these energy waves. They just naturally flow, according to the rules of the Universe (of the God or many other names for this). The point is – if we are Doing, grasping thoughts, this is causing so called karma (action/reaction) and whatever we decide to do in this state of mind is immediately creating the opposite energy somewhere else. For example, if I decide to do a revolution, or help the children in Africa, or donate to some organization, if I do any of this because of the thought process consisting of many of my personal beliefs, ideologies, then this all is causing false solutions, and it leads immediately to creating the same problems as I am trying to solve. Because I can’t solve anything with the mind full of false beliefs, with living in my personal belief illusion. Only after dropping all beliefs, all comparisons, especially belief in my individuality, in myself, then the mind is starting to become present, to just simply see and only from this state is sprouting the real action, which is actually no-action, wu-wei, because there’s no-one who is the Doer, because you loose your sense of Ego – Ego is just another false belief, another thought process.
To achieve this original state of mind is possible by simply letting things go, dropping all, without any effort, just simply watching, observing, in other word – meditating. But be aware, there are much more techniques which are not the meditation as the gurus intended, but they are only a psychological methods for happier life – they are serving you with the happier face of the duality and sometimes they work so well, that you are satisfied with them for a long time – but the real meditation is about pure watching, pure acceptance, not about seeking the pleasant feelings – there’s pain and pleasure, so be it.
From the book – Buddhism is not what you think – by Steve Hagen (great book btw):
In every moment we step into a new situation. Usually we have a plan or agenda for it. It’s not wrong to have a plan, but it’s far more urgent that we keep our eyes open in each moment and see what’s happening now. And sometimes, since nothing’s standing still, our plan may become a hindrance, especially if we’re attached to it. And if we’re not paying attention to what’s actually going on, we ’ll not see all the possibilities
that constantly unfold.To act or not act is not the real question. For the awakened, what comes first is simply being awake—seeing what’s going on. And in seeing what’s going on in this moment, appropriate— that is, natural—action can occur.
Kuei-shan said, “Why interfere?” When we act out of seeing, we are no longer interfering with the world; instead, we are operating the way the natural world operates—out of the Whole, out of Totality.
For the awakened the primary concern is simply to see what is taking place and to act in accord with it.
This is how the awakened differ from those of us who are caught up in delusion. It’s a very subtle, quiet, and gentle point, but its implications are total. Realizing this creates a complete transformation of heart and mind.
Enlightenment is nothing more than this: to be fully present, to see the grasping nature of our own minds, and not to act out of that grasping. It’s to see ourselves not as separate, not as
lacking, not as in charge, not as weak and helpless.
And Osho:
If you are meditating for something, then you are concentrating, not meditating. Then you are still in the world – your mind is still interested in cheap things, in trivia. Then you are worldly. Even if you are meditating to attain to God, you are worldly. Even if you are meditating to attain to nirvana, you are worldly – because meditation has no goal. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don’t lead anywhere.
