Do you believe in Truth Force?

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Permalink Reply by Tomás Taylor on October 14, 2011 at 9:47pm



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Permalink Reply by V Panetta on November 1, 2011 at 9:00am

Hello Tomás

Do you believe in Truth Force?

Although I'm yet unfamiliar with Zen (a new-be), discussions on questions like that intrigue me.

Let's look at that question.  What does  "do you" imply?  The you that you are, or the you that one thinks they are?  As for "believe," to me that always suggests something which denies, suppresses, disconnects, and disempowers.  A Zen Buddhist said,

"Start knowing what you really know, and stop believing what you really don’t know.  Somebody asks you. "Is there a God?"  and you say, "Yes, God is."  Remember: Do you really know?  If you don’t know, please don’t say that you do.  Say, "I don’t know.". . . False knowing is the enemy of true knowledge.  All beliefs are false knowledge."

 

Is there a "truth force?"  Yes, but only when one can observe the reverse flow of forward moving things,...that is to say, the reality of duality.  Without understanding why Form (masculine) is Empty (feminine), and Empty is Form (the yang-yin flow of phenomena),...truth, that is, absolute truth, remains unrealized.

Buddha said the most important thing to understand is "Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasumgate, Bodhi Svaha!—." This Great Mantra is continually mistranslated,...such as, "'gone, gone' (gate, gate), 'altogether gone' (or 'gone without remnant') (paragate), 'altogether gone to the other side' (or 'gone without remnant and crossed to the other side').  However, just as Neti-Neti does not mean "Not This, Not This", ...Gate, gate does not mean "gone, gone."

Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha

—to go, to come, beyond going and coming, into complete going and coming, where enlightenment is welcomed.  In other words, through an understanding of Duality's Reality, that is, Form is Empty, and Empty is Form, a Bodhisattva realizes the reverse flow of forward-moving things, and thus can observe truth. Truth cannot be directly observed through Form alone, just as the Six Senses cannot observe Stillness.  Senses, through the sense organs, only sense vibration.  We meditate so to quiet the senses, and observe non-phenomenal reality.

 

Through understanding the Who's Who in duality, one can begin to simultaneously come as they go, and go as they come,...which cancels out the coming and going, like the sum of opposites cancel each other out, so that one uncovers the Real Self in the Now.  The Real Self is never uncovered through Form alone,..understanding the Great Feminine is necessary.

For nearly everyone, truth is not only unwanted, it would be devastating to who they believe (think) they are,...thus few people can even grasp the fragrance of an absolute truth,...for example, that There is no Present in Time.

Such a truth can be quite disturbing to New Agers who believe they are engaged in the moment.  In truth, people do not physically interact with the world that surrounds them, but merely with the world that surrounded them.  That "There is no Present in Time" is much more frightening than any imagined horror,...because realizing such a truth would end who they think they are.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy

V

 

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