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Sunday, October 16, 2011

On the Mind of the Sage named Kripto Wang Yang Ming the mighty:)


Lead me from dreaming to waking.
Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace -
The Upanishads
*note* Wang Yang Ming was formidable...look at his eyebrows...very enlarged,indeed..

quote"Wang Yangming (王陽明, 1472–1529) was a Ming Chinese idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Zhu Xi. He was known as Yangming Xiansheng or Yangming Zi (both mean "Brilliant Master Yangming") in literary circles.Out of Cheng-Zhu's Neo-Confucianism that was mainstream at the time, Wang Yangming developed the idea of innate knowing, arguing that every person knows from birth the difference between good and evil. Such knowledge is intuitive and not rational. These revolutionizing ideas of Wang Yangming would later inspire prominent Japanese thinkers like Motoori Norinaga, who argued that because of the Shinto deities, Japanese people alone had the intuitive ability to distinguish good and evil without complex rationalization. His school of thought (Ōyōmei-gaku in Japanese, Ō stands for the surname "Wang", yōmei stands for "Yangming", gaku means "school of learning") also greatly influenced the Japanese samurai ethic.
Knowledge as action

Wang's rejection of the investigation of knowledge comes from the fact that at the time the traditional view of Chinese thought was that once one gained knowledge, one had a duty to put that knowledge into action. This presupposed two possibilities:

That one can have knowledge without/prior to corresponding action.
That one can know what is the proper action, but still fail to act.

Wang rejected both of these which allowed him to develop his philosophy of action. Wang believed that only through simultaneous action could one gain knowledge and denied all other ways of gaining it. To him, there was no way to use knowledge after gaining it because he believed that knowledge and action were unified as one. Any knowledge that had been gained then put into action was considered delusion or false.
Mind and the world

He held that objects do not exist entirely apart from the mind because the mind shapes them. He believed that it is not the world that shapes the mind, but the mind that gives reason to the world. Therefore, the mind alone is the source of all reason. He understood this to be an inner light, an innate moral goodness and understanding of what is good. This is similar to the thinking of the Greek philosopher Socrates, who argued that knowledge is virtue.

In order to eliminate selfish desires that cloud the mind’s understanding of goodness, one can practice his type of meditation often called "tranquil repose" or "sitting still" (jingzuo 靜坐). This is similar to the practice of Chan (Zen) meditation in Buddhism."
Anyway..I'll post a nice text from him...for the grasshoppers might gain wisdom...taken from Peter Y. Chou's site on http://www.wisdomportal.com/Home.html
_added by danny-


The student asked: “A sage's response to changing conditions
is unlimited. Does he have to study beforehand?”

The Sage replied: “How can he study everything? The mind of the sage
is like a clear mirror. Since it is all clarity, it responds to all stimuli as
they come and reflects everything. There is no such case as a previous
image still remaining in the present reflection or a yet-to-be-reflected
image already existing there. Scholars of later generations propagate
such a doctrine, and therefore they have greatly violated the teachings
of the Sage. Duke Chou instituted ceremonies and established musical
systems to provide the world with a culture. These are things that all
sages are capable of doing. Why didn't Yao and Shun do all of them
instead of leaving them to Duke Chou? Confucius edited and transmitted
the Six Classics as guidance for ten thousand generations. This is also a
thing that any sage can do. Why didn't Duke Chou do it instead of leaving
it for Confucius? From these we know that a sage does a thing when the time
comes. The only fear is that the mirror is not clear, not that it is incapable
of reflecting a thing as it comes. The study of changing conditions and events
is to be done at the time of response. However, a student must be engaged in
brightening up the mirror. He should worry only about his mind's not being
clear, and not about the inability to respond to all changing conditions.”
— Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529),
Instructions for Practical Living (1518), Part I.21
Translated by Wing-tsit Chan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1963
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There is no work to do, much less someone to seek.


The true and constant must respond to phenomena;


Responding to phenomena, you must be unconfused.


When unconfused, the nature will stabilize by itself;


When the nature stabilizes, energy returns by itself.


When energy returns, the elixir crystallizes by itself;


Within the pot, the trigrams of heaven and earth are joined.


Yīn and yáng arise, alternating over and over again;


Every transformation comes like a clap of thunder.


White clouds form and come to assemble at the peak;


The sweet nectar sprinkles down Mount Sumeru.


Swallow for yourself this wine of immortality;


You wander so freely—who is able to know you?


Sit and listen to the tune played without strings;


Clearly understand the mechanism of creation.


It comes entirely from these twenty lines;


A true ladder going straight to Heaven.-Daoist text
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To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !." - Tamil Poem-
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Unless you know the emptiness and bliss inside yourself..you'll be a robot forced by the same emptiness and bliss trying to know itself..by pain..inside your self also..trust me!..said the mahayogi!
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*note* http://kriptodanny.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-it-feels-like-to-have-sahasrara.html people ask me all the time in emails...saying,,You mighty mahayogi,loved in the 3 realms,worshiped in 10..celebrated in the 18th also..can you explain me how it feels to have your sahasrara top head opened?"
And,due to my superior wisdom muscles..I explain this..
No..grasshoppers from heaven..even If I explained you,you'd take that explaining(the results) and make it a religion..first,and foremost be aware that the more I'll explain,the more you'll try to imitate..and therefore not practice,but imagine it.
THIS is the real stuff..but unless you cultivate it in meditation..what's the point of me,the mighty one..explaining you?
Therefore..grasshoppers..I'll try to keep my explaining to a minimum ..to spare you from the disease of imitating the advanced stages,using your mind..this is paramount to understand,if you want to progress in spirituality..is an inner transformation..not some watching the mind using the mind.
Grasshoppers from heaven..I tell you this only one time..
THIS IS ABOVE THE MIND...is the source of it..see?
And being the source..it activates the mind as manifestation.
Beware to watch your mind in the end..and you'll KNOW it by itself,as I know the back of my kripto hairy hands..trust me!!
Thus spokenth the mahayogi,in front of the bewildered grasshoppers from heaven:)
-added by danny-
ps..it feels like a rain shower,coming from the top of your head..and goes down on your left/right channels(hands) ..after that..if you trust it..(as in keeping your attention on the bliss within generated) it will dissolve the mind in a pure clarity of heaven..then in a pure light..then in a pure bliss,if you manage to follow it to the bottom of your feet..at that point,watch your mind...that is the time to catch the kripto inside you,and become one with him,as he is pure awareness and bliss..enough of explaining..now go practice,grasshoppers from heaven..kisses:)