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Recieved: 2001/12/07 15:26
Subject: [K-list] The smell of one bird crapping
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2001/12/07 15:26, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
Perhaps the greatest guide to an understanding of what like is
like living in the fully awakened state can be found by reading the
Tao.
However - a word of caution - most of the versions of this
currently available from your local "New Age" bookstore are merely
re-translations or interpretation of what someone thinks someone
else has said -
in other words, they make no reference back to the original -
being in fact based on the first English translations which were
done by Jesuit missionaries in the 1800's
preconception - the translation of words into a language based on
what one thinks the words ought to be saying - to make a concept or
idea acceptable within a learned frame work.
However - there are some translations which have been written by
Taoists who learned to speak English - and these differ very
greatly from all others - not only in the words and the structure
of the sentences (or ideograms) but also in the energy behind the
words.
This is the energy which one in an awakened state can read - not
the black on white, but the meaning of the white between the black.
An even greater understanding of the Tao can be found by getting a
facsimile of the oldest Chinese versions and sleeping with this
under the pillow - allowing the essence to be absorbed whilst in a
state of "no-mind" where one is beyond the limitations of learned
beliefs and preconceptions.
Back in more recent olden times, a scribe by the name of Patenjali
is reputed to have written something which transliterates into
"when you purify yourself, you are able to enter the body of another"
This is a pretty good approximation of the principles of Shamanism.
A Shaman is one who has overcome the shame of his own humanness.
In other words - he sees no separation between himself and the
Unified Field of consciousness - thus being able to enter the body
of all things and read the vibrations contained there-in.
Discernment is the tool that the mind uses in deciding how to
separate, identify, interpret, use and understand the information
gleaned in this process.
I can walk up to a tree and place my back against the tree - merge
my mind and awareness into the energy field of the tree - and what
I see is a hologram - a kaleidoscope of everything that has
happened to the tree and the environment around the tree since the
seed first started to germinate.
What I do with this information is, of course, the evolution of
wisdom. How I translate it into some practical information and what
I do with the information.
Scientists can do much the same sort of thing by cutting down the
tree and slicing up the trunk - analysing the growth rings under a
microscope.
The History of climate change on the planet can be gleaned by
taking an ice core from the Arctic or Antarctic and examining that
core scientifically.
I don't need to do that. The history of civilisation is contained
within the genetic code of the DNA. Wisdom is what it takes to
allow the pictures to come without preconceptions - to allow one
picture to give way to the next as the kallaidescope unfolds to
present a bigger picture - rather than to freeze frame and try to
understand one picture in isolation.
This is the Book of the Human Body - my body.
Yet, as I go back further, the genes that I access are the same
genes that every man woman and child on this planet carries. 94% of
them are the same as those carried in the Great Hairy Earth Worm.
The fact that more than 90% of what I am made of can be found in
the Great Ape is the beginnings of the understanding of humility.
The awakened state opens many doorways. Being conscious of
Consciousness allows me to place my awareness anywhere within the
unified field. The absence of preconception allows me to move the
angle of that awareness and view any part of the kallaidescope from
any point of the matrix and see the relationship between the one in
separation and the whole from which it came.
== Christopher Wynter
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