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Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
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A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.
I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.
The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.
Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.
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The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.
