A Zen Story:
Just before the Zen Master, Ninakawa, passed away another Zen master, Ikkyu, visited him. "Shall I lead you on?" Ikkyu asked.
Ninakawa replied, "I came here alone and I go alone. What help could you be to me?"
Ikkyu answered, "If you think you really came and you are really going, if you think that you come and go, that is your delusion. Let me show you the path on which there is no coming and no going."
With his words Ikkyu had revealed the path so clearly that Ninakawa smiled, and without saying a single word, nodded and passed away.
It was decided to send a monkey and a politician to the moon. Their instructions on what to do after landing were sealed into pockets in their suits. As soon as they had touched down on the lunar landscape, the monkey opened his set of instructions.
It read:Check all fuel tanks.
Check computer and re-program the same.
Take samples of rock, sand and air.
Check oxyen levels and density.
Check landing craft for damage
Check stabilizers and anti-gravity devices.
Then send radio message down to earth reporting position.
Then the politician opened his sealed instructions. It said in big letters: FEED THE MONKEY!!!
Jesus says "When you are facing God He will give you not because you have done this or you have done that-not because of your worth-but because He has so much, He is burdened, He is burdened like a cloud full of rain. It has to rain not because the earth is worthy. Have you not watched the clouds come? and they rain on all kinds of soil. They rain on stones, rocks, they rain on fertile soil; they rain also on wastelands where nothing grows and nothing will ever grow."
And the Master laughed... and the mountains must have laughed with him, and the trees. It is said that around that monastery, still, after thousands of years, sometimes that laughter is heard. He laughed and said, "You fool! Before enlightenment I used to chop wood, I used to carry water. Now water is carried, wood is chopped. I am not the doer; that is the difference.
The old pond
Frog jumps in
The sound of water
I Recall a young man who was applying for admission to one of the most exclusive country clubs in Newport. The rather reserved, unimpressive-looking young man was notified that he must play a round of golf with the club officers as a prerequisite to his acceptance.
On the appointed afternoon he met them on the first tee equipped with a hockey stick, a croquet mallet and a billiard cue. The officers looked him over incredulously but nevertheless proceeded to tee off. To their dismay the young man coolly drove off 275 yards with the hockey stick, gracefully arched his second shot to the green with the croquet mallet and sank a twenty-foot putt with a billiard cue.
After soundly drubbing the baffled officers with a subpar 68, the applicant retired with them to the club bar. There he ordered a Scotch and soda, and when it arrived he mixed the drink himself by tossing the contents of the shot glass over his shoulder into the waiting soda behind him on the bar. This further display of the young mans incredible physical coordination was too much for the officers of the club.
"You are miraculous!" they exclaimed. "What is the story behind these fantastic talents of yours?"
"All my life," the man explained, "physical activity of any sort has been child's play for me. To overcome the boredom that has resulted from my monotonous mastery of everything, I try to do almost everything the most difficulw way possible. Thus I play tennis with a ping-pong paddle, ping-pong with a tennis racket, and so on."
"Wait a minute," unterrupted one of the club officers. "If it is true, as you say, that you do everything physical in the most difficult manner possible, I have one question..."
"I know," Said the young man, smiling. "Everyone asks me the same thing, and I don't mind telling you - standing up, in a hammock."
Krishna said, "Okay"
And then it happened, one of the most beautiful stories that has ever happened between a Master and a dicuple: Krishna became huge and Krishna became infinite and worlds started rotating within him, and Arjuna was frightened. Krishna had millions of hands and all the stars and all the planets within him. And life and death within him, all polarities meeting and merging in him. It was a chaos. Arjuna thought he must be going mad. He closed his eyes in fear, and he cried and shouted, "Come back! Come back to your ordinary form with two hands. Be my old friend again. This is too much!"
Krishna came back and he said, "I knew it. You are not yet ready to have the taste of totality." Totality will frighten you. Its sheer vastness is such, it is going to frighten you out of your wits. It is abysmal, and you will start disappearing into it like a soap-bubble. It is so vast that you will lose all orientation of who you are.
That's what happened to Arjuna. And he said, "Yes, I was feeling as if I was going to die, or as if I was going to be mad, or as if I had already gone mad. Thank you for coming back to your original form."
And Krishna said, "This is not my original form. That was my original form."
In the personal bodily existence of the individual they are represented by two other polarities, anima and animus. All during the life of the individual these two are in conflict, each striving for mastery.
If the life-energy flows downward, that is, without let or hindrance into the outer world, the anima is victorious over the animus; no golden flower is developed
If the life-energy is led through the 'backward-flowing' process, that is, conserved, and made to 'rise' instead of allowed to dissipate, the animus has been victorious.
The Golden Flower is waiting at the highest peak of your being. In the yoga map it is called sahasrar, one-thousand-petalled lotus. It is the seventh-chakra- in your head. the lowest is the sex chakra, muladhar, and the highest is the seventh chakra, sahasrar. From the lowest chakra, energy moves down-ward, creates new life. If the energy is conserved, helped to move upwards, it reaches one day to the sahasrar- and the Golden Flower blooms.
Just as the green sap moves in a tree, man is also a tree. And this is not a new symbol that I am using- of man as a tree- it is one of the most ancient symbols. It has been used in the Jewish mystical schools: it is called the Tree of Life. Just as Buddhism has reached to its crescendo in Zen, and Islam in Sufism, Judaism has reached its ultimate peaks in the Kabbala.
AlbertKLloyd said:Well, as a DMT user, but one who can only speak for themselves, I can't say that DMT caused me to travel "deep" in any way.
I do not understand what you are talking about frequency, for me DMT just changes the filters of perception in a way that is predictable when it comes down to neurochemistry.
I do not advocate it being a spirit molecule, or involving deities or dimensions. It may well involve those things, but that simply has not been my experience.
In my case at least, you very well may travel "deeper".
AlbertKLloyd said:Dropping names of crackpots isn't going to help someone so susceptible to the influence of people.