The path of the fool, the crazy monk, and the sly man

[skippy]

Approaching the electric fence surrounding crazy wisdom

Chogyam Trungpa
9 august 1974, Boulder CO.
Journey without a goal, the tantric wisdom of the buddha


Source: Watch on Vimeo

[skippy]

Despite the little interest in this thread, I'm happy to have found some Fools, here, in this place, but also in the world at large..
Many, many more than the 10 Fools required, to save this place ..
Yes, agreed, we mess up once in a while. Well, in fact, we mess up most of the times.. But, so what?
This is our place, and we will continu to mess up, till the end of times, if we decide to do so..
Don't worry for us, we can handle our sh!t best ourselves..
But do know, we are human, man. Human..
There's blood running through our veins. Blood you know? Not some sort of artificial transparant kind of silicone..
We're made of the same stuff as the universe, and we are carrying the whole ****, so to speak, within us.
But you now what, humans beings, never walk alone...
Even in the face of the abyss, we walk hand in hand.
We walk with the universe, and the earth is our witness ...
Agreed, we don't handle earth, with a lot of love,
But, eventually, we will get there..
We will get there..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-gHDnUFlTUs

[dan33]

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
WONDERFUL. YOU ARE A POET!
Thanks, Skippy.

[dan33]

The Tarot Card 0 embraces all. Each card added to the Mad the result is equal as the oposite card.
Le Mat-Fool-0 is the Jocker.

Add 1 (MAGICIAN - Mercury - Consciousness) + 2 (Priestess - Luna - Subconscious) = 3 (Empress. - Venus Creativity)

...and Carl Sagan would put it ....like this (Googleplex end video)

+ =

[PurpleLama]

Ah, Redneck ET Jesus flies a ufo that looks like an old 80s Camero. Is that not foolish enough to save the day?

[skippy]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Ah, Redneck ET Jesus flies a ufo that looks like an old 80s Camero. Is that not foolish enough to save the day?

And hence the birth of crazy wisdom .. Thank you sir! Let's move on.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NjfqQNaZq_Q

"We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it."
Chogyam Trungpa

[dan33]

Mirror, Mirror...

[skippy]

Posted by dan33 (here)
The Tarot Card 0 embraces all.

The state of mind of the Fool is crazy wisdom. It embraces all, the entire universe. It's the beginning and the end at the same time. It's a path without a goal. It's the all there is, available right on the spot. Chögyam Trungpa describes "crazy wisdom" as an innocent state of mind that has the quality of early morning—fresh, sparkling, and completely awake.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xtHPUThgdyI

[skippy]

Let's move on with the path of the sly man by Gurdjeff

From a Conversation with Trungpa Rinpoche about Two Spiritual Icons of the Early 20th Century, by Steve Roth:

Steve Roth: "What about Gurdjieff?"
Trungpa Rinpoche: "Oh, he's fantastic, amazing, almost total crazy wisdom."

"Rely not on the teacher/person, but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on experience. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
--The Buddha

“In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him… Accept nothing you cannot verify for yourself.”
--G.I. Gurdjieff

[skippy]

But who was this Sly man named Gurdjieff? George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was an influential spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff developed a method for doing so, calling his discipline "The Work". Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness is also called (originally) the "Fourth Way" or the "Way of the Sly Man". The title of his third series of writings, "Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'", expresses the essence of his teachings. His complete series of books is entitled "All and Everything". Some sayings of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff:

1. It is better to be temporarily selfish than never to be just.

2. Only he can be impartial who is able to put himself into the position of others.

3. One of the strongest motives for the wish to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment.

4. The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

5. Here there are neither English nor Russians, Jews nor Christians, but only those following one aim, to be able to be.

6. Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West and then seek.

7. Remember yourself always and everywhere.

8. Blessed is he who hath a soul, blessed is he who hath none, woe and sorrow to him who hath it in conception.

9. Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

10. There is only one kind of magic and this is ‘doing.’

11. All energy spent on conscious work is an investment; that spent mechanically is lost forever.

12. We must destroy our buffers. Children have none; therefore we must become like little children.

13. We attract forces according to our being.

14. Do not be affected by externals. In themselves they are harmless; it is we who allow ourselves to be hurt by them.

15. We never reach the limits of our strength.

16. If we do what we like doing, we are immediately rewarded by the pleasure of doing it. If we do what we don’t like doing the reward must come later. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

17. Man is a symbol of the laws of creation; in him there is evolution, involution, struggle, progress and retrogression, struggle between positive and negative, active and passive, yes and no, good and evil.

18. Men have their minds and women their feelings more highly developed. Either alone can give nothing. Think what you feel and feel what you think. Fusion of the two produces another force.

19. We are sheep kept to provide wool for our masters who feed us and keep us as slaves of illusion. But we have a chance of escape and our masters are anxious to help us, but we like being sheep. It is comfortable.

20. He who can love can be; he who can be can do; he who can do is.

21. Sincerity is the key to self-knowledge and to be sincere with oneself brings great suffering.

22. Sleep is very comfortable, but waking is very bitter.

23. You should forget about morality. Conversations about morality are simply empty talk. Your aim is inner morality. External morality is different everywhere.

24. You should understand, and establish it as a firm rule, not to pay attention to other people’s opinions. You must be free of people surrounding you, and when you are free inside you will be free of them.

25. To be just at the moment of action is a hundred times more valuable than to be just afterwards.

26. To gain anything real, long practice is necessary. Try to accomplish very small things first.

27. To ‘Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world.

28. Until a man uncovers himself he cannot see.

29. Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

30. Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it

31. It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

32. What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

33. Life is real only then, when "I am".

[skippy]

[skippy]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aTL4qIIxg8A

[dan33]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_q8MIb0k0

"Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him.

Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years‘ worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

Scattered throughout the obscure equations in his notebooks are these modular functions, which are among the strangest ever found...

In the work of Ramanujan, [i.e. the modular functions,] the number 24 (8 x 3) appears repeatedly. This is an example of what mathematicians call magic numbers, which continually appear where we least expect them, for reasons that no one understands.

Miraculously, Ramanujan‘s function also appears in string theory... In string theory, each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of the string...

When the Ramanujan function is generalized, the number 24 is replaced by the number 8. Thus, the critical number for the superstring is 8 + 2, or 10. This is the origin of the tenth dimension.

The string vibrates in ten dimensions because it requires these generalized Ramanujan functions (based on the number 8) in order to remain self-consistent. In other words, physicists have not the slightest understanding of why ten and 26 dimensions are singled out as the dimension of the string.

[Now read the next sentence carefully, and remember that this is being spoken by a highly regarded mainstream scientific authority figure:]

It‘s as though there is some kind of deep numerology being manifested in these functions that no one understands...

In the final analysis, the origin of the ten-dimensional theory is as mysterious as Ramanujan himself. When asked by audiences why nature might exist in ten dimensions, physicists are forced to answer, “We don‘t know. ” [emphasis added]"
THE SHIFT OF THE AGES. CHAPTER 5: SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS FOR AN OCTAVE OF DIMENSIONS by David Wilcock.

[skippy]

Moving on friends.. Take care!

[Mare]

Blooming 'eck Skippy you've left! What a shame I was enjoying this thread. Good luck mate.

[Gardener]

A little sad here Skippy, hugs bro, I dearly valued the energy you contributed and hope you return to us sometime

x

[dan33]

Good Night , Skippy. See you on the morning. Hughs!

[Wind]

Already missing Skippy!

[dan33]

Already missing Skippy too!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_agtNKbgSfI