The true master understands that enlightenment is not the end, but the means. What they really offer the world is their own confusion. Prematurely publicizing themselves, intent upon reaching some spiritual climax, they constantly sacrifice the truth and deviate from the Tao. Overly clever, too "sensitive" to live in the real world, they surround themselves with selfish pleasures and bestow their grandiose teachings upon the unwary.
HUA CHING NI AGE FULL
The world is full of half-enlightened masters. This one hit home pretty well these days! Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not. Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction. What benefit in conforming your behavior to someone's conventions? It violates your nature and dissipates your energy. "What good is it to spend your life accumulating material things? It isn't in keeping with the Tao. I find some translations, such as certain versions of the Tao Te Ching to be impenetrable.Īnyone want to share a favourite chapter of the Hua Hu Ching?
Rev.I've been reading a chapter or two of the Hua Hu Ching in my daily practice and find Walker's translation quite good (is there another translation available?). This entry was posted in Black Lives Matter, Democracy, Diversity, Hua Hu Ching, humanitarian, Lao Tzu, Suffragette and tagged Black Lives Matter, Diversity, Dr. *- Lao Tzu/ Hua Hu Ching – translated and elucidated by Hua-Ching Ni Through our journey towards accepting that we are all just playing hide and seek, may your bond with those around you be motivated by love so that you can celebrate your current form without attachment. This doesn’t just go for this nation but for the world, not just for democracy but the heart of our humanity. William Barber said, “When we love the Jewish child, and the Palestinian child…when we love the Muslim and the Christian and the Hindu and the Buddhist and those who have no faith, but they love this nation…we are reviving the heart of our democracy.” But I agree with President Obama when he says, “Reject cynicism, reject fear, to summon what’s best in us.” We collectively oppress ourselves because some of our disguises seem to give us a decided advantage. We are all heading towards releasing this current form, still we cling to it as if that is all there is. The actress Elaine Stritch said she wasn’t old, she was getting older… and that we are all going that way. Women, men, Black, White, Hispanic, Gay, Transgender, Disabled… Despite the current political climate, which is acting as a lightning rod to our basest reactions, I still believe we are right on the cusp of recognizing that being attached to form only causes our suffering to increase. Once again, the fourteenth century mystic poet raised the roof of our molecular structure so that we were able to bond beyond seeming separation.
They saw our CD: My Friend Hafiz before we played and asked if that was their Hafiz. Not only were there friends present that strengthen our Judaic-Celtic connection but there was a beautiful Iranian Islamic couple who were huge fans of Hafiz. On our way back east, Julia and I played a house concert in Kent Ohio. All divine, subtle beings, all enlightened beings are one with (them.) What happiness one experiences in that state of consciousness!”* (One) is not the isolated individual (they) thought (themselves) to be. In order to perceive the integral reality of the universe, it is necessary to transcend the mental process of separation and fragmentation.” Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Teh Ching and Hua Hu Ching said, “The confrontational nature of duality is merely an illusory product of the mind. It is another call for us to look beyond our current form and become aware of the stream running through everything that is. More than a hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, that we even need to have a movement called “Black Lives Matter” is beyond disgraceful. While we were visiting Julia’s sister in Iowa, we all watched the president host a televised Town Hall meeting to address racial tension.
That women should have been pushed to the point of violent social protest to gain the right to vote, especially at a time when they were slaving away in factories, could have been enough to wake us up. It is astounding how much we have suffered and still struggle to go beyond form.
HUA CHING NI AGE MOVIE
Last week we watched the movie Suffragette . “The shell of a book can be burned…but no one can damage the subtle truth that is beyond any form. “I can see you are me in disguise.”- The Levins
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