sadhu amuses tibetan monks in bodhgaya ~o~

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A: Al l re l ig ions,even Hindu ism and Buddh ism, are false. They assume too muc h about real i ty. Howcan we p rove, with empir ical evidence, the existence of Bod hisat tvas, or Mok sha, or Nirvana, or

Brahman? We can' t. The best phi losophy in the wor ld is simp ly not kno wing. Anything else assum es

too much.

B: Empir icalevidence emp ir ical evidence, what wil l that get you? Em pir ical truth s.. We are seeking totranscend th e truth wh ich m eisers like you want and seek the INFINITE.

A: For you to ascer ta in that there is a truth to be transcended in the f i rstplace would const i tute theneed to provide for yoursel f evidence that such a truth exists. You came to this not ion of a truth to be

transcended via insight or s ensory percept ion or exper ience, r ight? These are all methods of

studying the wor ld throu gh one's percept ions in order to ver i fy "know ledge" or "t ruth" . I 'm not a

meiser, I'm just b eing honest w ith my sel f .

My friend, it's very simple. Ask yourself: Where does the certainty that my words make sense come from? To

assume you exist, is to assume an essence which is the primordial principle for you and everything else to

exist. It's the rational mind, which is created, by empirical experience, out of metaphors that provide a

pragmatic worldview, that comes to an understanding of thisand all great religions provide a metaphoricaltool to bring the dividing rational mind back to unity.

You are your own unique empirical evidence. You walk your own path, by your own insights. But just as youlearned a metaphorical language from your parents to address the right meaning to an apple when you

seeone, you can learn a metaphorical language about reality itself and by that address meaning to it.There have been great masters, which over and over again have come to the same conclusions: beauty,

harmony, love, genius, nature, divinity and holiness. Your rationality keeps you locked in in it's own patterns.

Read Spinoza.

I think you will agree with me that your rational mind did not exist when you were born? It's been build up by

experience. The upshot is that this rational mind is the key to become consciousness of itself, but that thisrational mind comes forth out of something that is not rational. The rational mind separates reality and that

creates an 'I' that 'thinks' it exists.

So for the 'I' that comes forth out of the rational mind to truly understand itself it has to overcome the

restrictions of the thing that brought this 'I' into existence by separating the oneness of reality: the rational

mind. That's what is mend by that truth is transcendental. It's transcendentalto the rational mind, it's just aninner harmonic truth for one that has been able to use the rational mind as a means instead of an end. It's

the sense of deep natural harmony that indicates its truthfactor. Tao, Boeddha, Jezus, Maya, Nature, Genius,

Beauty are true masters my friend

A: Tel l ing me to do this and that and speaking of m etaphors and the l ike doesn' t prove anything. How

do we know anything isor isn ' t?Remember: all is but ametaphor. Science is developed a certain way to grasp reality and make effective useof some of its causal relations. There are many more causal relations that are not 'materialistic' and therefore

ungraspable by natural science. It's only the mind itself that can come to an understanding of it. The mind is

the scientific tool pur sang.

To understand what I try to say I think you have to let go of your way of thinking about religion/spiritual

teachings. Don't blame a master for being poorly represented by people that come afterwards and did not

get the real meaning of what was said by the master. Religion in it's pure form was always mend as a tool for

the individual to be in harmony with the universal rules of life/nature, but over time has been hijacked by

(sincere) ignorance andwill for power. it's up to yourself to find true masters who teach wisdom on how themind makes up its own reality. Masters don't tell you what to do, unless you become a student. If you are

interested try to find some text on the relationship between master and student.Tibetan Buddhism has most

beautiful story's onthis.The way the rational mind works is by using metaphors. An apple is a metaphor, a scientific theory is a

metaphor, etc. The harmonic coherence of all metaphors of the rational mind is the thing that brings your

reality into existence. That is what creates your worldview, its the program by which you make sense of the

world. If you use only metaphors that explain reality in, for example, a certain materialistic, deterministic way

than you don't have to really think about soul, magic, transcendence, beauty, genius, creation, wonder and

addressing meaning. Then you arejust an spectator of things happening before your very eyes. There arealso people who realize that they are fully responsible for the reality they perceive because there is nothing


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else but themselves that is perceiving their reality. They understand that they are the filter that brings their

reality into existence and therefore they understand that's it's all about that filter. For these people an urge

comes forth to understand how they make up their reality and how to deal with that it the most responsible

way. And it's in this domain that religion/spirituality has done its explorations.

Myth, legends, fairytales, are also examples of these explorations of the connection between the 'I' and

reality, and these are efforts of making these 'insights' comprehensible for the public. Don't let yourself be

infected by the negative image that has been brought forward by some lost individuals. Just try to understand

and by that experience the meaning of these systems. There is a lot of soft bullshit around, you have to havethe will to really understand and learn than, you will find good things. It depends on your capability to judge

what isbeing shown. To answer your question: You are your own unique tool to connect yourself with lifewhatever way. You are the only one that is consciousness of yourself. So ask yourself: how did I become

consciousness of myself? For me that is by my rational mind. So I asked myself how is myrational mindbeen made up? By the language I've learned and the experiences/things I have learned in the past. Those

are the things my rational mind knows and therefore uses to address meaning that evoke sensations and

sensations that evoke meaning. Then I concluded that my rational minds runs a principles that I might not

even be aware of because my rational mind is not able to reflect on those principles because they arethevery looking glass itself out of which this type of consciousness comes forth. With your glasses you cannot

look at those same glasses. But without them you cannot even see. So you need a different way to

understand the working of the glasses. So how did those glasses came into existence? By experience right?

So then you can get into a train of thought that the glasses construct reality as it is perceived, but at thesame time that those glasses come forth out of the same reality it creates.

Thenthe question about truth gets a little but different then generally it is being put. Everything youexperience is true. It's as simple as that. You are the only one addressing meaning to your experiences.

Science and commerce have supplied humanity with metaphors that deal with reality ina certain way. Theyare 'true' in the sense that they 'work', they deal with certain principles of reality in an effective way. They

bring forth certain glasses with certain perspectives. The ones to reign humanity are very simple and bring

forth a one-sided, closed, superficial, soulless and uninspired connection to reality. Religion used to provide

for the more deeper and spiritual connections to reality, but infection of the pure teachings by ignorance and

selfishness and the significant results of science and the aggressive ways commerce infiltrates the human

mind have cut loose humanity of a very real natural human condition. Humanity lost it metaphors for

addressing a deeper meaning to life itself.

Humanity wears certain glasses that locks humanity in in itsown patterns of addressing meaning to life. Themetaphors of those glasses work at a certain degree but then lack further effect.

This is because they fail in establishing the 'circle of life', meaning: they fail to explain the connectionof theglasses creating reality and reality bringing forth those same glasses. It creates a closed-loop mind frame

that lacks proper attention for this principle. Those metaphors simple place reality outside the perceiver.

You seem to demand a certain truth to be proven first to be followed. In the case of understanding the

working of the glasses it works the other way around. As a certain rational frame of mind brings forth a

certain perspective on life, you maybe can go along in the idea that thorough thinking about this paradoxical

connection that creates consciousnessbrings forth ideas about the metaphors (or principles) that pay themost sincere tribute to this connection.

It is by understanding that the rational mind can get itself to adjust its attitude towards life by trying to give

meaning to reality in a different way that is not yet confirmed by experience. You have not yet experienced

the effect of those metaphors becauselife has not provided you with those metaphors yet (which is very

commonnowadays..). You only use the metaphors that you understand and believe till so far and thosedetermine which aspect of reality you are capable of of perceiving. And what you are capable of of perceiving

determines what you are capable of of creating. If you can't see certain colors, you can't use them for your

life's painting, it is as simple as that.

The magic of consciousness is that it can become consciousness of it's own principles of how it makes up

reality. You could say that quantum physics has hit rock bottom on this idea. For me that is the beauty of it

all, that science itself must come to the same conclusions masters have come upon for thousands of years.

So basically I'm saying that the truth of metaphors is a matter of thorough understanding of consciousness.

The question should not be whether the metaphors are true in the sense that they bringforth a certain realitythat 'works' for you, but whether you believe them to pay the most sincere tribute to the creative principles ofconsciousness itself.


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And what I'm also saying is that instead of 'tasting' reality and then know for sure that reality has a certain

taste, thetrue magic of life is about having vision on how consciousness creates a reality that has taste andthen use that particular consciousness about the creative rules of consciousness to bring forth a certain

reality that has a certain taste.

All master say that there is an end-state to understanding this principle, which is enlightenment. This simply

means that the rational mind has been cleared from its ignorance and that the separated ego that was

identifying itself with this ignorance is transformed into a self that is in complete harmonywith its ownessence and the essence of reality itself, which are one and the same: that endless, eternal, undividedemptiness that is filled with unconditioned potential.

It's the absolute primal principle for existence to exist. It's the connection of ego/rational consciousness to

this principle that the Buddha talks about, it's this connection Jezus talks about, it's this connection the

Veda's talk about, it's this connection Mohammed talks about, it's this connection Rumi talks about, it's this

connection Novalis talks about,it's this connection shamans are connected to for their healings, it's thisconnection the dreamspell is providing a tool for, it's this connection Sri Aurobindo is talking about, it's this

connection the artist is connected to when he finds new metaphors to grasp reality, it's this connection

science has troublegrasping because it's a matter of mind, which in the end does not matter.A master doesn't want to be followed, a master tries to pass on the understanding he has realized about

consciousness and thereby becomes a enlightening truth for the student that understands the universality

and therefore the personal meaning of the teaching.Within every system there are the ones that understand and pass on the knowledge and there are the ones

that don'tunderstand and deform the knowledge. Therefore you have to really think for yourself andexperience for yourself whether things make sense. But when you wait for science to prove 'everything', you

miss out on the most interesting domains of reality. Just dare to assume and experience the effect of the

attitude that comes along with that.Life created itself by pure genius. Just look at nature, look at the jaguar.

It's pure genius. It's that same genius that brought forth the life you are. Therational mind can be used a toolto connect yourself to that same genius. That means to be truly inspired by life.

Well, that's about it I think, for now. Like to finish with two dear friends of mine.

'He who binds himself to a joy / does the winged life destroy;

but he who kisses the moment as it flies / lives in eternity's sunrise

William Blake

Catch only what youve thrown yourself,

all is mere skill and little gain;

but when you'resuddenly the catcher of a ballthrown by an eternal partner

with accurate and measured swing

towards you, to your center,

in an arch from the great bridgebuilding of God:

why catching then becomes a power

not yours, a worlds.

R.N. Rilke

A Salute, Wouter

(Geschreven 4 augustus, na het schrijven blijkt dat de witte tovenares M.M. op de achtergrond aanwezig is

geweest.)


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A: Again, you're throwing around al l these metaphysic al concepts that " al l is but a metaphor" , etc.

Just because your spir i tual i ty al lows yo u to speak in abstract terms do esn' t mean i t is the "supreme

way to enl ightenment" -- as so m any of the Buddhist sutras sp eak of themselves. How do w e know

that enl ightenment isn ' t just wishfu l th inking? Hmm?

Amigo, have you read all I've written? You don't seem to get what I am talking about, but most of all you don'twant to get it. You keep throwing questions I already answered. where does this 'supreme way ofenlightenment' thing come from? All I've done is giving a description of how the rational mind is created outof nothing and how life magically forms a frame by which the mind filters and addresses meaning to thereality that comes forth out of that mind frame.There is nothing spiritual or metaphysical about that. All this says is that you are free to collect the mostwise metaphors about life and consciousness to assemble the mind frame that satisfies you as a conscioushuman being. You tell me: how did you become consciousness of yourself? Do you agree with this: If I fullyunderstand myself, then necessarily I must also understand the essence out of which my consciousnesscame forth in the first place?Could that be a state of mind that is non-rational? Could that be a state of mind in which thethinking/discursive mind has been silenced by the understanding it, step by step, got of itself and the primalsource out of which it magically came forth? I'm not preaching any religion or what so ever here, I'mexplaining the rational mind, it's strengths and weaknesses. And to correct you: it's my rationality that allowsme to speak in abstract terms.

What's all the paranoia by the way? Pull yourself through all these tiring trains of thoughts on certainty,objective truth and evidence. Those things come forth out of models that by definition exclude parts of reality.Scientifically very important, but not of much use in other realms of reality which the mind is also able tounderstand but which meaning will always be ungraspable by science. Giving meaning to reality is up to youand you do that by your plastic frame of mind. Enjoy

A: I don' t know w hat you mean by paranoia. Logic and senso ry exper ience is the way in which w e

perceive reali ty . However our senses may l ie to us. This m ay be an i l lus ion. In the end n othing can be

know n -- one can't even know that nothing c an be know n. To bel ieve with cer ta inty that there is such

a thing as a Buddh a, bodhisat tva, meaningor non -meaning, realms o f reali ty is to make a claimabout the numinous w or ld which m ay be false. The only sound phi losop hy is epistemological

nih i l ism/unknowing.

My friend, you are absolutely very poor in understanding what I have said. Once you have met a true master

maybe, at that farhorizon, a glimpse of a new paradigm of thinking will arise. By paranoia I mean your

skepticism about everything that makes a claim about the physical reality, let alone the non-physical reality.

You don't even understand your own way of coming to an understanding of your own philosophy. That's okay,

but restrain yourself from any debate then if this is your philosophy. Be silent.

Then truly be that ascetic world-renouncer and reject any sensory input, even hunger and push yourself tothe limit of that attitude and see for yourself if that still makes sense to you in the end. But when you fail and

act to satisfy the most basic need, like drinking when your thirsty, than admit that there are fundamental

principles of life. Question: is there such a thing as riding a bike? Is there such a thing as being inspired by a

poem? Is there such a thing as learning a language?

Your attitude is the one I had 10 years ago, the mistake is that your exclude yourself fromthe equation. Youare three things: you are the input to the equation, you are the output of the equation and you are the

understanding of the harmonic balance of the input/output ratio of the equation. Your attitude leaves you with

reality as a black box you will never open because it appears to you as impossible to open and see, grab

and hold its exact content. You are right: there is no exact content

But there IS a black box (reality), isn't there? And again: it will always be only you who is experiencing the

effect of the awareness of the existence of this black box. It's up to you to discover and explore the magic

rules of the interconnectiveness of the subject/perceiver and the object/perceived. It's up to you how they co-

exist and co-depend. Your closed- or openness will decide what the magicblack box has to offer. There is noinside to this box,there is only the shape of the box. Question: Did electricity exist 10.000 years ago in the

black box? Did radio waves exist 10.000 years ago in it? Do they exist now? Only by a certain (scientific)

standard this quality ofthe black box reveals itself, doesn't it? Just like fire. How many more qualities may bestill hidden in this wondrous box of high potential?But your attitude is the right attitude to start your expedition, your journeyof exploring the black box' mightymechanisms. First cut yourself loose from all input that you've unconsciously processed and out of which


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your mind frame has been created. But then let yourself be inspired by life's genius, the beauty and magic of

nature, music or art to establish a deep and personal bond with life itself and figure out the most natural laws

and ways to let this connection flourish.

'The one who knows the truth, has no business with it'. It is not about believing with certainty that Buddha

exists, it's about the meaning the metaphors he represents have for your own understanding of how your

mind frame makes up your reality. You can block that difficult path by a simple trick of the rational mind.

Reality may be an illusion of the mind, but then it is still interesting to figureout whether it is possible tocontrol that illusion and its effects by controlling your mind.

I think it wouldbe interesting for you to meditate/contemplate on understanding. What is understanding, whatdoes it mean to understand, how does it come about, is it a feeling, does all understanding ground in the

same principle, what then is this principle, what are the conditions for understanding, are there different

domains of understanding, what is the use of understanding, what is the effect of understanding, why does

understanding exist, may it be the most fundamental principle?

A: I don' t know. And nei ther do you.

Good to know, thanks. I will try to understand. But hey, let me know when that thing has happened that

changed your mind about huh? You have my email. Personally I will try to show my surroundings what theeffect is of what I think I know. Just for the sake of honest recreation itself. Let us finish this thing simply with:

to be or not to be. All the best, WS (ps: try not to be scared when reality starts working on that mind frame

you deal with on a daily basis, it's just you)

A: I didn' t real ize Buddh ists such as yoursel f , who seem to be so high and migh ty about their sense

of com passion and wisdo m, were disposed to snide sarcasm and pet ty insul ts. It 's good to kn ow th at

I can be reaff i rmed of the fact that once again rel ig ious p eople are arrogant and dow n r ight mean.

Poor thing. Can't see the good shepherd throws them stones for his own sake. I'm truly sorry. Once you

become brave and open up you will see that it was never mean at all; it was just beautiful and necessary.

Know your always welcome in this magnificent realm of beauty, magic, love and wonder. I'm glad that youhave to walk your path on your own, all I have to do is to shine my light when paths cross, which so far only

seems to blind you. I'm sorry, I'm still learning everyday ~oOo~

(off the record: Life of Pi will be in cinemas soon, maybe you can grasp its essence without all your negative

religious connotations holding you back from understanding the way mind manufactures reality and how you

could get a grip on that)

A: You kn ow, I was goin g to read the book but I th ink th at due to your comment that ship has s ai led.

I know.. you think? Man you are really entertaining the people! Thanks, keep me posted! Realize that me

being a poor subjective and ignorant wannabe teacher keeps you away from the universal light in this way.Please don't do this to me, the supreme Being will never forgive me. Please??

A: Furtherm ore, I've read Spino za. He was a very intel l igent and w ise man bu t I sim ply don 't agree

with al l of his views/=.

Is the primal essence Love?

A: Yes. i wi l l walk my ow n path. We al l do in a way. Now could yo u stop ever so subt ly sug gest ing

that you're "mo re enl ightened" than I am?

Sorry bro, I'll I have done is providing you a tool to become a masterwizard of your own reality. YOU are the

Creator. Suit yourself. And maybe you are The One already and playing with me, I would be honored by that.


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All I know is that my point of view is providing me a certain reality that is trully amazing, out of the ordinairy

and inspiring to others. Respect and Love,

sadhu amuses tibetan monks in bodhgaya ~o~

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