In regards to your Deathless State of Being and the Unity of Buddhism and SufismĀ (Google it, deathlessness)
Sufism (Mysticism) is not a religion, itās a mystical reality and all āholyā books are to be read mystically. Natural mystics. All is sacred or nothing is sacred, or all is both sacred and not sacred. At the core of uncertainty is certainty, but one must reach to the depths of the depths of uncertainty, of the unknown. One must walk out amongst the edge, the lip, of madness. Madness, ignorance, and sanity, all come from the same one source, location, space, place. Traceless, placeless, nothingness, emptiness yet essence full of suchness.Ā
The Allah they know, and the Allah Mystics know are but two entirely different God. Aside from the fact that Allah translates to God from Arabic to English.Ā The Quran incorporates the Bible within it.Ā
The Bible and Quran are One Book, with three different testaments, testimonies.
2.Ā New Testament (which contradicts the Old, including here Torah as well when referring to the Bible/Old Testament)
3. The Third Testament: The Quran.Ā
Call them Revisions, or addendums if you may, or corrections in the course of consciousness to redirect itself to a higher state of discovery and being, self-exploration. We are, after all, consciousness coming out of our infancy. What is hide-and-seek, god hiding from itself with all these gurus and avatars, but a childrenās game? The hide and seek infancy is ending, we are consciousness coming out of our infancy.Ā
Matthew 18:3
King James Bible
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The essence of Islam isĀ surrender/submission; effacement of the ego. Thatās The Sufi Way, Sufism- The Path of Divine Love. No such thing as sin, rules, damnation, guilt, judgement, hell, just following and polishing the Heart and finding Oneās Self, yet Sufism is to go beyond even The Self, into No-Self, Selflessness. All these Gurus are still obsessed with The Self. We are still obsessed with Our-Self, ourselves.
Sufism is the āreligionā of divine love. Rare it is, as it is, for humans to fully grasp what detachment, surrender, and loving-kindness to mean; itās even rarer that any humans fully comprehend love and the mystery of what love truly is, or rather, can be. Is not love also pain? The loss of a loved one, a mother losing her child too soon, grief, heartbreak, and so on, are still all Love.
Sufism and Buddhism go hand in hand. Praising the Same Emptiness/Nothingness.Ā
This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness
Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence:
This place made from our love for that emptiness!
Yet somehow comes emptiness,
this existence goes.
Praise to that happening, over and over!
For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness.
Then one swoop, one swing of the arm,
that work is over.
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope,
free of mountainous wanting.
The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.
These words Iām saying so much begin to lose meaning:
Existence, emptiness, mountain, straw:
Words and what they try to say swept
out the window, down the slant of the roof.
Add an I at the beginning and a B at the end of Islam and what does it spell? Hislamb. His-Lamb. The ego-mind, the mind itself, is the sacrificial lamb. Surrender the ego-mind. All is One God. I prefer to semantically say that all is The One Universal Mind, or The One Universal Consciousness. Even those concepts must be surrendered, let go of,Ā ātranscendedā. Oh, how words have been abused, used, and misused, bastardised, have lost so much true meaning and power/impact.
Letās say that God is light and darkness, day and night. Break on through to the other side. Better to be blind/blinded by the light than by the darkness. Wisdom (letās refer to as light) is might, freedom, peace, love, joy, etc. Ignorance (letās refer to as darkness) is suffering, pain, confusion, conflict, endless cycle of pleasure and pain, etc.Ā
Yet, to be blind is to be blind. You can not swim to shore within a shoreless ocean.Ā
Open your third-eye (your minds eye) and see the one true surreal reality. Illuminate your minds eye, paradoxically by polishing the mirror of your heart, effacing the ego. Illuminated minds shine brighter, gain better karma (blessings), more hope, joy, love, etc. Donāt be left in the dark. Donāt keep your third eye closed, blind. You donāt need eyes to see, you need vision.
Either way,Ā āGodā is both theĀ darkness and light. Yet, where? How? Where is time? Where is the mind? where is all the content coming from and how? How did darkness or light come to be?Ā
Questions and answers. What are they? More of the intellect and mind. Thought can not understand what is beyond thought, itās futile to try. Seek and ye shall find, that youāve been living your whole life with your third eye blind; in the world of your own imagination and from Tool 46&2 (google 48 chromosomes)
Iāve been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what couldāve been.
Iāve been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.
unseen deluded ego-mind; missing out on joy and bliss ever-present, missing out on your deathless state of being. You are a victim of your own mind if you are suffering.
To add to the Tool porition:
Iāve been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what couldāve been.
Iāve been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what Iāve been hiding in
Iām guiding you in. Namaste.
Gospel of Thomas (left out ofĀ āthe bibleā, in quotes because it has been stripped of its original words from all the many translations.
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
108. Jesus said, āWhoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him.ā
I will leave you with these two excerpts below, very clear indisputable state of being known by those such as Bruce Lee, Buddha, Zen Masters, etc.
āYou must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.ā
ā Bruce Lee
Mushin (ē”åæ; Japanese mushin; English translation āno mindā) is a mental state into which very highly trained martial artists are said to enter during combat.[1] They also practice this mental state during everyday activities. The term is shortened from mushin no shin (ē”åæć®åæ), a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind and is also referred to as the state of āno-mindnessā. That is, a mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything.
Mushin is achieved when a personās mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego during combat or everyday life. There is an absence of discursive thought and judgment, so the person is totally free to act and react towards an opponent without hesitation and without disturbance from such thoughts. At this point, a person relies not on what they think should be the next move, but what is their trained natural reaction or what is felt intuitively. It is not a state of relaxed, near-sleepfulness, however. The mind could be said to be working at a very high speed, but with no intention, plan or direction.
Some masters believe that mushin is the state where a person finally understands the uselessness of techniques and becomes truly free to move. In fact, those people will no longer even consider themselves as āfightersā but merely living beings moving through space.
The legendary Zen master Takuan SÅhÅ said:[2]
The mind must always be in the state of āflowing,ā for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted and it is this interruption that is injurious to the well-being of the mind. In the case of the swordsman, it means death. When the swordsman stands against his opponent, he is not to think of the opponent, nor of himself, nor of his enemyās sword movements. He just stands there with his sword which, forgetful of all technique, is ready only to follow the dictates of the subconscious. The man has effaced himself as the wielder of the sword. When he strikes, it is not the man but the sword in the hand of the manās subconscious that strikes.
However, mushin is not just a state of mind that can be achieved during combat. Many martial artists train to achieve this state of mind during kata so that a flawless execution of moves is accomplished ā that they may be achieved during combat or at any other time. Once mushin is attained through the practice or study of martial arts (although it can be accomplished through other arts or practices that refine the mind and body), the objective is to then attain this same level of complete awareness in other aspects of the practitionerās life.
O great being, listen!
We strive in meditation because we desire excellence,
but any striving precludes attainment;
excellence resides only in timeless self-sprung awareness.Ā
Timeless spontaneity, forever present, is created by no-one; it is the pure mind that like a wish-fulfilling gem is the origin of all our samsara and nirvana.ā
The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad,
she is free.
He sings with delight,
she dances with ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts,
we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
whatever will be, will be.
This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.
Ā (Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)
My face free of sorrow,
my mouth full of wine,
my clothes torn off my body.
Look what youāve done to me now.
He says, āThatās what I do.
I tear away the layers.
I melt the shame.
I reveal the unrevealed.ā
He moves too fast.
One breath, he is outside the window.
Next breath, he is inside my shirt.
I canāt think clear,
my mind is not here,
he is all I see.
NOW!
There is new life in me.
The seven heavens cannot contain him,
but he is here,
moving up my shirt.
Pop, one button here.
Pop, one button there.
This lion of God
watches over me,
I sing as he roars.
He says, āIāve got you now.
I gave you life,
I created you,
I do what I want now.ā
I am your harp,
play me easy,
play me hard, or
donāt touch my strings at all.
You know!
I think,
Iāve got YOU now.
Before I met you,
I had only one heart,
I had only one body,
I was only being.
But look at me now,
Iāve got you now.
You, you reading this, you the same universal mind that wrote this, are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the āmineā ā that is the veil.
Why ever worry about anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magiās brilliant trick, though its affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Hole.
Sweetheart, O sweetheart
You are God in Drag!
ā Hafiz
I am not the body, nor is the body mine. I am not a living being. I am consciousness. It was my thirst for living that was my bondage. 2.22
āYou are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?ā
-Written by Foad M. Heydari Ā (moderator of TheIlluminatedMinds)
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