Before I can get a hold of the present
It has already become the past
What kind of a future can I ever have ?
When my glimpse of the moment just does not last !
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What is this "glimpse of the moment" ?
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The glimpse of the moment ...?
Is it ...
where the "thinker" disappears
where dispossessed thoughts pounce upon each other,
all collapsed in a heap ... between the ears ?
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Throw a pebble into a pond.
Watch the growing circle rippling through the water surface.
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There are changes in its form. These changes imply a passage of time. Without the apparent change there would be no feeling of time.
In other words, "Time = Change".
YEE KING is an oriental manual about change. It is about time, about perception and about perspectives.
In 3-dimensional space we can organise our surrounding, our home, our office to our best advantage. If we stretch our brain a little and add a 4th dimension: time, we can soon see that millions and zillions of 3-dimensional scenes can also be stringed together and arranged in different ways, just like pieces of furniture in a room. Here the room would be what we consider our existence, and the furnitures are in fact our daily life events. They too can be selected and organised in different ways, and for our great benefit if we know how.
As we flip from one page of life to the next, our memory connects all the separate images together and creates the illusion of a passage of time. By shifting our focus and altering our perspective, we can actually choose what the next page will be in our illusive existence. All the possible life scenes are already there , somewhere in the air. Just pick what we want, pull them down and put them through the personal projecting device we call "our eyes", and sit back and enjoy a great ride in our comfy chair !
The best way to know the Yee King is to experience it directly. Here is what you can do:
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* Find a quiet place. Prepare a receptive mind by thinking about a matter that is of interest to you. The more important it is to you the better result you will get out of this experiment. Write down a question about the matter, as if you are seeking opinion from a friend. (Don't limit your possibilities by asking the yes/no type of questions ).
* Use three coins of the same kind (for example 10 cent pieces). Shake the coins in your hands and let them drop. Record the number of heads that come up for the throw. Cast the coins in this manner six times. The result should look some thing like this: 1,0,2,3,1,0 ,which means 1 head for the 1st throw, no head for the 2nd , 2 heads for the 3rd, and 3 heads for the 4th throw, etc.
* At this point you can either:
1. Obtain a book on Yee King (or I Ching). Follow its instructions and work out how to construct a "hexagram" from the result of your coin throws, then read the comments that go with the relevant hexagram, or
2. Visit the following Internet web site:
There you can download some free software that would assist you in constructing and interpreting the Yee King hexagrams, the symbols of your ever-changing reality.
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is not that it's a Divine Comedy
but that
"the joke ... is on you and me"
Bill Hicks... wrote:
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"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." And we... kill those people. "We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. Thank you very much, you've been great."
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truth has nothing to do with being more actively present, being more accepting or compassionate or loving. It is the complete and utter falling away of the illusion that there is someone there that needs to be enlightened in the first place. The emphasis here is not on this occurring as a thought inside of someone head. Rather it is that in the absolute there is only the absolute.
That means there is no you, no we, no others. That is what dissipates in an implosion / explosion which starts of in mind and ends with no self.
There is only one. This one, sometimes described as the Absolute, God or Stillness, Emptiness and so on appears as everything. The appearance is not the reality, it is holy yes, but it is not the reality in the truest sense of the word. The appearance is the absolute as a limited illusory form.
We can always say that the appearance is not that, because every appearance, every experience is always mired in duality. An object there and a perceiver here. Duality is not a bad thing by the way. It should be remembered that duality is a manifestation from the absolute.
Which leads back to an earlier point. It is that seekers tendency is to possess. So they make a story up that there is thing over there called enlightenment which is non dual and there is a thing over here called me which is dual, but wants to be non-dual. A seeker wants to possess non-duality in other words, which always makes two and never ever can be one.
To discover truth then, one must begin a process of deconstruction of the self. The way to do that is to engage in self awareness, but self awareness that does not bolster the ego or better put does it with the least amount of ego bolstering as possible.
What is ego? Ego is you. It isn’t an arrogance thing as is commonly conveyed. Ego is your thoughts, your emotions, your physical sensations, your experiences. It is everything you believe in, including notions of enlightenment.
You dwindle yourself away by examining yourself and seeing the untruth of what you take yourself to be.
You as such cannot be successful at attaining enlightenment. What starts off on the path is not what ends up as enlightenment. That is why the butterfly analogy is often used. A butterfly in comparison to a caterpillar is of an entirely different order and magnitude. You cannot kill the caterpillar that you are for if you did then it will never transform into a butterfly. An analogy would be, if a caterpillar committed suicide, then it would not magically transform into a butterfly.
It is the same on this pathless path. Ego cannot kill ego, because it’s always ego doing the killing. Likewise someone else cannot kill ego for you. If something else killed the caterpillar, then the caterpillar would not become a butterfly.
What does one do then? They prepare themselves as best as they can to become a butterfly. A caterpillar takes care of itself, it eats the right food, stays out of harm’s way as best as it can and lets what must inevitability occur, occur.
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