Transmutation

SPEAKING OF ... FISHING ?

JUST BE - or NOT

A student came to his master:

"I want to experience being a spiritual being - how do I do that ?"

"What do you mean ? Do you want to experience, be or both ?"

At that moment, the student was enlightened.

THE NOVICE and THE MASTER

A man was searching for a guru.

Everytime he would ask the same question:

"Are you a true master ?"

The gurus would reply "Yes, I am. Let me guide you"

And the man would continue his search.

He had almost given up his search, when one day a teacher thought a while about his question, and then replied:

"I am a master ... novice"

The student then knew he had found someone who would provide him good guidance.

THE REBEL WITHOUT A MUG

A student was learning about the tea-ceremony.

"I can enjoy my tea from a cracked mug as well as from a finely crafted cup." said the student.

"That may be so," the teacher replied. "However, the tea-ceremony is attention to detail and poise. Thus disciplining your mind".


"I believe, it is what is INside, that counts -!" the student retorted.

The teacher said:

"My dear friend. Your words are a vehicle of your thoughts, are they not -?"

The student agreed.

"Then I must tell you, that your awareness is that of a cracked mug".

A SINGLE QUESTION

A student met with his guru.

The student had great news.

"I have broken free of the limiting snares of monogamous partnership !" he enthused.

"How so ?" the guru asked.

"I must be free - to realize my true nature, be at one with Duality !"

The guru replied:

"How can you be at one with duality, when you can't even be at one with an other human being -?"

ROCK ON

A young man went to see a guru.

"I want to make things happen! please teach me- !" he asked.

The guru looked at him for a little while, then picked up a handfull of small rocks, and threw them in the students face.

The young man was quite shocked, and cried out:

"What the hell did you do THAT for-?!"

"There. A thing just happened" replied the guru.

At that moment the student was enlightened.

ABSOLUTELY YOURS

DID YOU EVER EXPERIENCE A MOMENT SO INTIMATE AND sparkling and forceful, that you felt almost homesick for the moment that had not yet passed -?

SURRENDERING TO THE NOW, means ENDing the CHASE for Nowness. "But..But..BUT..My CRAVINGS is what makes me feel ALIVE and..HUMAN-! HUMAN cravings-!" No. Your cravings is what makes you WANT. Awareness of your wants, thoughts on wants and CHOICES of which want to want MORE and thus pursue...Is what makes you human. Because you ARE AWARE that every moment. Is different...from NOW. Much like not focusing on "trying to have an orgasm"..and then *WHOOSH* You have one...or three...or.. Magic. Does life then, become MAGICally more easy -? Absolutelely -NOt.

IT IS JUST SIMPLER. More balanced. More serene. Blissful, even. BALANCE occurs, when NOWness is recognized as always present. SERENETY occurs, when the present is recognized as transparent. BLISS occurs, when transparency is realized as the INfinite spaciousness.
Just that. A vast infinity of space. Emptiness within Form. If this realization does not kindle just the slightest translucent sparkle of humbleness towards your mere existence.

NOthing Will.

GET LOST OR GET REAL

LETTING GO, MEANS SURRENDERING TO SPACIOUSNESS.
It does not mean to let go of MINDFULLNESS. Never let go of TRUTH. Have compassion AND passion. But let go of what ECLIPSES enlightenment.
Surrendering, means BEING a humble servant to the BASIC life energy. To DANCE, rather than trying to conquer. BALANCE, rather than letting yourself go and be "swept away" by the moments passing by. CHOOSE, rather than trying to have it "all" at ONCE. Within balance, infinite spaciousness reveals itself as true awareness.

WE LIKE TO GET LOST IN A "MOMENT", precisely because it makes our EGO feel transparent. Being "swept away" allows us to "loose" ourselves in the PRESENT. So we chase these moments. We CRAVE them, to feed our inherent appetite for "being in the NOW". However, the spaciousness and bliss we may experience from such a moment, does not come from the moment itself. Moments pass. Spaciousness is always present.

IN MOMENTS. Out of moments.

THE POISON OF SHUNYATA

Once a novice student of the Dharma was walking along the road.

He did not believe he needed a guru, as he had realized emptiness all by himself.

A beautiful rose was growing on a bush.

The student looked at it, then pulled out all its petals and stamped ferousiously on the remains.

A bird, singing in a cherrytree, was silenced by a small rock, hurled from his hand with admirable precision.

He passed a pond, with crystal-clear water and colorful Koi swiming beneath the lotuses.

The student took a small bottle from his bag and emptied it's entire content into the stillness.
The water then went milky white before the fish all floated to the surface.

An old woman had been watching this peculiar behavior, and asked the young man:

"Why are you destroying these expressions of beauty, do you not find the splendor of nature worth admirering-?"

The young man looked at her, and overbearingly replied:

"All things are impermanent by nature. Do you not think it is better to let them return to their true nature as soon as possible-?"

The old woman smiled and said:

"In that case, my dear friend, why don't you go and jump off that tall cliff over there, and realize your OWN true nature-?"