Came across this crazy book today, I wasn't looking. Did you finish Baloney Dan, what do you think? Anyway, it was a deconstruction of non-duality and Buddhism from a pan-mystic. He is a brutally honest non-dual Buddhist. I like him. He's fairly known in the Buddhist world I gather, shrug. I adopted a lot of practical Zen and Taoist teaching in the beginning through my friend Joy, they are required skills in my opinion to learn to use your intuition and silence mind. This book is making waves I can see, it's good, but dense ironically. He is waaaaaayyyy into Buddhism, lovely. Covers most everything I have found in non-dualism and learned with way more Buddhism than I needed.
http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki/Main/MCTB
He is interesting.
http://integrateddaniel.info
He puts a lot of value in what one can achieve through disciplined progressive practice. He knows what he speaks of and has some senses of the lowest common denominator we were chatting about. He values meditation, so do I, but I have never gone to their heights with it, not sure about it all in the end when you are in this state of mind, whatever got you here. Agreed, the discipline is needed, patience and focus. Whatever works for you. It's true vices and habits just fall away overnight. Fun. That only shows how fragile the illusion we built is.
"Spirituality that ignores or covers up our inevitable dark or undesirable sides is doomed to be bitten and burned by them."
True dat Mr. Crowley, you Beast.
"In short, the non-duality models are the only models of awakening that hold up without apology, qualification or exception."
He is dense, but he gets it.
You would like talking to him Dan much more than me. He's smart. I'm a raw unknown. I am fresh out of the dream. I don't know much. I am not serious enough for Govt work. I think its a joke. Seems I may know just enough to die as a Human Being. I certainly feel no special purpose. This is a process just happening, I'm clueless. I'm just widdled away more and more, bit by bit, but I am living a beautiful life. I practice what I preach and I apply what I learn. I am not melting away as I learn to accept things as they are. I still struggle with my temperamental ego children inside my head and always will, but they are enjoying the equal time and new state of mind. I feel like everyone has room to spread out now inside.
While I am a smartass with you, I'm good with people. I have the touch. I am not so good at meeting people where they are all the time, getting better. I tend to flash in their face, this is where Zen helps. You can help me here please. I defer to your aged decrepit wisdom.
Consciousness plus intent produces magick. There is
All of the mystical paths and these Eastern religions seem to boil down to the same thing and they have been around a lot longer than most other systems. They acknowledge us as vibrating multidimensional emanations from All mind.
"Balanced and strong understanding of both emptiness and compassion is vital for understanding the Middle Way and for benefiting others, and this point is found in all the Buddhist traditions of which I am aware. " You have to master the relative and ultimate. That's true! And you can do that on your own or on a path, as the author notes.
I am not Buddhist, but I guess I'm an Arahat by his definition, I have no path. I just keep finding things describing my experience like a narrator. I'm not too original. It's fascinating and intoxicating right now. Help is all around us, wherever you seriously look.
That's encouraging isn't it?
It takes skill to live with this awareness in the dream. I am learning. I have been pummeled, more melting and dissolving. Be patient with me, this is hard for me, and has been the hardest and easiest thing I ever did and let happen.
I was a true a believer and now slowly, seeing things as they are, I just have given myself to the process. I didn't really have a choice.
Amazing, I have spoken of this next point of MTCB, "the attainment of arahatship is the final understanding that the whole process is simply happening by itself, so whatever progress occurs towards buddhahood and living well in the world, however defined, is from that point on completely natural and inevitable."
Wow, that awareness came to me. I spontaneously realized that and wrote about it for a year.
Now, I would say there is no Buddhahood, but maybe the Buddha and Christ patterns, for example, are archetypes the void just "does" and these patterns are resetting the rest because they have stayed for so long. When you step out of woo woo land it's hard to talk about all this. Baloney helped me a lot there.
That has what the last few weeks have been for me Dan, if it correlates for you. The reason I share this is because I have no choice. So stop calling me names or cuss me out, shrug, sticks and stones. I don't care ultimately, but I do relatively.
I have a lot to learn about how to live in the world relatively with ultimate awareness. I'm lucky I found Lao who showed me his way to live well in the world. I learned and applied it and life is good and humbles me in its simple beauty every morning. I live by a mountain and I ask for its strength and calm everyday.
This is the hardest thing I have ever done and it has just happened. I was presented an insight that unraveled me. I have a lifetime of integration to do maybe, I dunno what it all means to be aware like this and die. No one can tell us what happens when that happens. It all just happens naturally, which is why it seems so foolish to take anything too seriously.
It's very simple once you are relatively free of conditioned mind, you can't ever get free of it totally. So its a détente I guess.
Lost in a fractal accepting my hope was the refugeless refuge. All hope lost now, something told me to not go this way, but then I knew I would go all the way. I tried to stop this. For 42 years I kept it at bay, that fucking itch. These are the same feelings and experiences in me all along, but now I am seeing them as they really are. I am in a sea of sensations and all the sensations I call "me" are just part of what is unfolding. Just a cell in a body moving into a higher vibrational state, where I would guess this all continues in a closer to real way, but not as me.
I settled with seeing things as they are in the eternal moment, you seem to see a little beyond the moment Dan. As you have said, non-duality is the best foil we have to measure these thoughts against.
“In the seeing just the seen, in the hearing just the heard, in the thinking just the thought."
Sprinkle in a little compassion, calm, disciplined coherent mind and that's pretty much what your selling, no? Because this is the BPW. Of course it is, we are here in it as it is, the only reality for us.
Instinctively I found this path. I'm sorry, it's amazing to me. I'm still integrating this crazy new Baloney stuff. He torpedoed me and I knew he was right.
As I was reading Baloney the voice said, you don't quite have it, this guy does. I love the book, it has left me buzzing more than most anything I have read this last year. It just feels pretty close to our only way to navigate.
Dan, there is much I will learn. I have to confess I have taken you half seriously. I have been moved by the metaphysics/philosophy/physics but I have no connection to your other side with the Circus.
I am using Nis as a foil and I don't understand it against him, explain it?
Here we are being happened in the happening.
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