THIRTY MINUTES TO ENLIGHTENMENT
1. The De-mystification of Zen
A definitive Guide to the realization of Nirvana
A Post Cultural Zen Encounter
CHAPTER CONTENTS
1. THE TAO
2. ZEN
3. ENLIGHTENMENT AND SATORI
4. NIRVANA
5. THE CAUSE OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT
6. THE EGO AND SUPEREGO
7. SENSUAL PERCEPTION
8. LOVE AND HATE
9. THE CENTERED MIND
10. FREEDOM FROM DESIRE
11. THE BOOK OF GENESIS
12 THE CHRIST SPIRIT WITHIN
13. THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
14. THE AQUARIAN AGE AND BIBLICAL MILENIUM
15. PERFECTLESSNESS
16. THEREFORE
17. IN CONCLUSION
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ONE
THE TAO
The Chinese word 'Tao' is used in an attempt to identify by name that nameless energy substance we call physical and non-physical reality, in all of it's manifestations, both known and unknown.
That which we call the tao exists with or without our experiential perception, affirmation or negation of it and exists aside from any conceptual vocabulary describing it.
Separated mentally from it we call it the tao, eden or reality,
reunited with it there is no need.
The way to being psychologically and one with the tao can be known and stated,
the tao can only be experienced.
The way for the mind to be once again at one with the tao is not difficult,
only our lack of desire for the truth concerning the cause of human suffering and conflict and how to eliminate that cause keeps us from it.
Those who know the way point directly to the truth of the matter and do so namelessly.
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TWO
ZEN
It must first be understood that zen is a means to psychological transformation and not a religion.
Zen is the teaching that identifies and eliminates the gateless gates that psychologically exist between the schizophrenic, cultural/existential mind and a state of mind called nirvana.
Zen does not represent nirvana, nor the tao, but represents the means to be at one with those ends. Zen is the method of travel, nirvana is the destination.
Zen consists of two parts, they are 'enlightenment' and 'satori', enlightenment being the necessary ingredient for the realization of satori.
If there is no enlightenment there can be no satori and consequently no nirvana.
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THREE
ENLIGHTENMENT AND SATORI
The word enlightenment as used in this text is to know of human suffering and conflict, to know its cause and how to eliminate that cause from the mind.
The word satori, as used, is the consequence of this enlightenment and is our affirmative commitment to eliminate from the mind the cause of confusion, conflict and insanity once known and the relative time necessary to do so.
If the reason
for committing ourselves to eliminating the cause of suffering from the mind is out of compassion for our own suffering or our own gains we will experience a pseudo satori, which is pretentious and no satori at all.
If the reason
for our committment is out of compassion for all suffering of which our own suffering is but a part and for no personal gains, our satori is.
Eliminating the cause of suffering and conflict from the mind is accomplished the same way we would eliminate and unwanted habitual activity.
When the habitual judgemental response occurs we must discipline ourselves to correct that response through realizing it's illusionary nature each time it happens
In time there will be no habit to correct.
It must be understood by all who are involved in zen that satori is a private matter and must remain so.
Satori must never be bragged about to or demanded of others.Your satori or lack of it is no one's business.
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FOUR
NIRVANA
Nirvana is a state of mind free of the causes of human suffering and conflict, the consequence of enlightenment and satori and is the mind at one with the tao.
Nirvana is mind unencumbered by evaluation, comparison and discrimination. This non-judgemental mind is one of sensual experience of and spontaneous participation in the tao.
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FIVE
THE CAUSE OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT
The cause of human suffering and conflict is our commitment to the illusions we call values, morals and ethics.
Values, morals and ethics do not exist outside of our cultural/existential minds. They do not exist in reality and are therefore a figment of our culturally and existentially indoctrinated imagination. We believe or think values exist when in fact they do not. This describes the schizophrenic mind. The schizophrenic mind is separated from reality and centered in the unreality of what psychologists call fantasy, believing this fantasy to be real. Cultural/existential humanity exists entirely within the framework of illusionary values, morals and ethics and therefore is absolutely schizophrenic.
We are either affirmatively committed to the existence of values, morals and ethics or we are not.
If we are we are schizophrenic and consequently insane.
If we are not then confusion, conflict and insanity are not a part of our psychological nature.
The word 'insane' is used to describe the personal and social actions of the schizophrenic personality.
There can be no guilt or repression without the values of right and wrong, good or bad having been applied.
Conflict cannot occur when the illusionary values of right and wrong having been eliminated
leaves nothing to offend or defend.
There can be no psychological neurosis or psychosis when the fears associated of the loss or gain of that which is valued are eliminated.
There can be no anxiety without the anticipation or expectation concerning future success or failure.
There can be no frustration without a desired goal being thwarted.
The illusionary concepts of values, morals and ethics exist so that we may judge, separate and divide, then pit one side against the other.This enables the persons involved to feel either superior or inferior as the case may be. This is the underlying motivation for all cultural/existentential activity.
Due to the divisive and conflicting nature of duality cultural/exisitential humanity can be described as being not only sociopathic (anti-social) in its attitude and response to humankind but also psychopathic (aggressively anti-social) much of the time.
Since confusion, conflict and insanity are the consequence of our commitment to values, morals and ethics and peace exists when there is no confusion conflict or insanity present it can be concluded that peace is the consequence of having no values, no morals and no ethics
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If values, morals and ethics are direct cause of human suffering and conflict and do not exist in tao/eden/reality and if peace and sanity are to be realized then we must refuse to take part in their use.
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SIX
THE EGO AND SUPEREGO
The ego is defined as a primary state of mind at one with reality having no conscious and is consciously aware of "I AM" and "IT IS".
The superego is a secondary state of mind not existing at birth, originating at the moment of affirmative commitment to comparative judgement and only then after intensive cultural/existentail indoctrination. This pressure creates egoconscience which is mind becoming aware of "I AM more or less than" and "IT IS more or less than".
The ego perceives reality as it is the super ego places values, morals and ethics on on that perception.
The superego is the psychological judge, jury and keeper of the prison of the cultural/existential mind. The cultural and existential mind are both rooted in superego function as stated by their values, morals and ethics. Their different functions being; the cultural mind speaks of "our" values, the existential mind speaks of "my" values.
The post cultural reality centered mind speaks of NO VALUES.
Zen as represented as enlightenment and satori. is in direct opposition to the fantastical dictatorial control super ego has over the mind of the individual and over the cultural pattern.
Zen, as presented, is the mortal enemy of the culturally indoctrinated superego.
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SEVEN
SENSUAL PERCEPTION
Our senses are perceiving reality with mindless perfection.
Do not miss the sensual excitement by placing comparative judgement in the path of this non-dualistic experience.
See with your eyes not with your dualistic mind's eye.
When our illusionary dualistic mind enters, we no longer see things as they are but as the culturally indoctrinated, prejudicial mind's eye would like them to be.
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EIGHT
LOVE AND HATE
Love and hate are emotional, mental/verbal responses to valuableness.
First we value then we love or hate accordingly.
In the absence of value there can be no love or hate.
NO ANXIETY, FRUSTRATION OR ANGER BECAUSE OF IT.
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NINE
THE CENTERED MIND
Being neither for this nor against that the Buddha/Christ/Reality minds absolutely centered and since it's no longer innocent to the cause of human suffering it cannot be taken from that center.
The illusionary dualistic mind, which make judgements for this and against that is absolutely off center at all times.
Since the cultural mind is off center the body, consequently is off center. Due to stress created by neurosis, psychosis, guilt, repression, anxiety,frustration and depression which are the by products of our value, moral and ethical system.
As the non-centered mind centers, stress is eliminated thereby balancing the body and the need for stress management.
Therefore do not be concerned with balancing the body be concerned with centering the mind. By centering the mind, biological and mental tranquility will follow.
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TEN
FREEDOM FROM DESIRE
We cannot have freedom from the cultural/existential mind without desiring it, although, paradoxically, the act of desiring freedom will keep us from being free.
First we value then we desire that which we value.
To eliminate desire we must eliminate from the mind the need to value.
If we desire to be free from the prison of the cultural/existential mind we must not place any importance on the means or the end, for to value the means (zen) or the end (nirvana) is to further imprison ourselves hopelessly in desire.
Zen, by eliminating values, consequently eliminates desire.
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ELEVEN
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
The message in the "book of genesis" as the key to individual and social salvation.
It states, "Do as you will in the garden of eden, but do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". If we do eat and thereby possess the knowledge of good and evil we will consequently psychologically separate ourselves from eden, to suffer and cause suffering to others until we realize the error we have made.
Once this is realized we must refuse to take part in it thereby experiencing eden once again.
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TWELVE
THE CHRIST SPIRIT WITHIN
The "second coming of Christ" is ourselves as non dualistic, non judgemental, reality centered minds.
The so called "anti-christ" in none other that Christianity itself, as expressed through its commitment to illusionary values, morals and ethics and any practitioner thereof.
Christians by virtue of their commitment to illusionary values, morals and ethics, which are the cause of all human suffering and conflict, are either innocently or knowingly doing the work of the "satanistic" superego mind.
Belief in Christ is irrelevant it only blinds us to the truth of the matter which is that we are to be the
Christ which in essence we already are.
Free the Christ mind imprisoned by the "satanistic" superego mind.
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THIRTEEN
THE ZEN TEACHINGS OF GAUTAMA SIDDARTHA BUDDHA
( The so called four noble truths )
1. To know that cultural/existential humanity suffers and to understand the nature of that suffering. Suffering is defined as confusion, conflict and insanity which is neurosis, psychosis, guilt, repression, anxiety, frustration, depression and the biological stress created by them.
2. To know its cause.
The cause of human suffering is our affirmative commitment to illusionary duality, which is belief in good and bad, right and wrong, ugly and beautiful, great and inferior, etc.
3. To know of it ending.
The end of suffering and conflict is called nirvana which is mind at one with the tao/eden/reality which is mind free from the need of comparative judgement and the confusion/conflict created by them.
4. To know the way thereto.
To know that cultural humanity suffers. To know the cause of that suffering and thereby vigorously commiting ourselves to eliminate from the mind that cause.
Buddhism as represented by its commitment to illusionary duality is anti-Buddha mind.
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FOURTEEN
THE "AQUARIAN AGE" AND THE "BIBLICAL MILENIUM"
The term "Aquarian Age" is used by some to signify a time of absolute coexistence with self, others and nature.
The term "Milenium" is defined as an age of peace during which the "Christ Mind" is to inhabit the earth.
The definitions for Aquarian Age and Melenium are in essence the same.
When the non dualistic Buddha/Christ/Reality mind is realized, the Aquarian Age and the Milenium will be realized and not before.
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FIFTEEN
PERFECT/LESS/NESS
The perfect non dual mind is neither perfect nor imperfect.
The perfect mind is perfectly indifferent, being neither for or against.
This mind is neither proud nor humble, pure or impure.
The perfect mind has nothing to gain and nothing to lose, needs nothing added, nothing subtracted.
In reality not a thing is more or less than perfect.
The Buddha mind and the Christ mind are perfect mind centered in reality, nothing more nothing less.
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SIXTEEN
THEREFORE
As the foregoing facts are fully understood we are enlightened.
If we affirmatively and aggressively commit ourselves to this knowledge we have experienced satori. Satori is the time spent from the moment of our commitment to the elimination of all values, morals and ethics from the mind.
Consequently we are on the path to a mind at one with eden, which is the mind of a
Christ.
Consequently we are on the path at one with the tao, which is the mind of a Buddha.
Consequently we are on the path to a mind at one with reality, free of schizophrenic illusions and the confusion, conflict and insanity created by them.
All three minds described, being one and the same mind.
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SEVENTEEN
IN CONCLUSION
THE WAY TO INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL SANITY IS NOT DIFFICULT.
ONLY OUR LACK OF DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE CAUSE OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND CONFLICT AND HOW TO ELIMINATE THAT CAUSE FROM THE MIND KEEPS US FROM IT.
THERE IS BUT ONE PATH, ALL OTHERS LEAD TO FURTHER CONFUSION CONFLICT AND INSANITY.
WE MUST ELIMINATE FROM THE MIND THE CULTURALLY AND EXISTENTIALLY INDOCTRINATED, ILLUSIONARY CONCEPTS OF GOOD AND BAD, RIGHT AND WRONG, UGLY AND BEAUTIFUL, GREAT AND INFERIOR, ETC.
WE MUST ELIMINATE FROM THE MIND ALL VALUE, MORAL AND ETHICAL JUDGEMENTS.
IN TIME OUR ENTIRE BEING WILL BE AT ONE WITH REALITY.
THE NEED WILL NO LONGER EXIST TO DIFFERENTIATE JUDGEMENTALLY BETWEEN THIS AND THAT.
VALUES, MORALS AND ETHICS DO NOT EXIST IN THE TAO/EDEN/REALITY, SO REFUSE TO TAKE PART IN THEIR USE.
FOLLOW THIS PATH AND YOU WLAK IN ABSOLUTE PEACE, THE SEEDS OF CONFUSION, CONFLICT AND INSANITY HAVING BEEN ELIMINATED.