wu wu tao stories

8/8/2019 Wu Wu Tao Stories

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2/19

"Where Zen and Buddhism will say the truth, enlightenment,

and so on can be reached through dedicated meditation and

practice, a Tao master may sip some wine, fart, and go to sleep."


3/19

The person of Tao

The 'real' person, the person of Tao - truly a Tao master - Is someoneyou have met and had no idea of their views, wants, needs, likes or

dislikes.

Religion never came up in conversation, they were good to you but

never made out they were being good. They were calm and collected

but never felt the need to tell you how easy going they were. They

fitted in and blended with the crowd without any loss of

individuality. They were good at all things that came their way, did

there best and had no bashfulness over their poor performance or ego

over their greater achievements. They shone with an inner brightness

and radiated a deep seated warmth but wore no label, no jewels, no

robe, no dog collar, no stripes on their arms, no marks of distinction.

Fitting in and getting along they were solid and dependable - you

could miss them for a day or a year and be greeted the same on

meeting again. Always fit for a good laugh and a joke, they could be

told your inner woes and neither give you advice or break your trust.

If you asked for advice on life they'd tell you something about death,

if you asked for advice on colours they'd play you a song, if you

wanted fine food they'd make you some tea. On every occasion

meeting your needs in the most simplistic, unassuming yet well

chosen responses.

They appeared in your life without you noticing them, anddisappeared softly without a trace. They were your greatest masters

and never asked for thanks. You probably owe them your heartfelt

gratitude but their reward is that you treated them like a completely

normal person.


4/19

As you'll get from the intro to most books on the Tao, the word was abit of a fluff, an "ah, bugger it". The idea being that you can't name

this " ".

As you'll get from reading further into the intro or from chapter 2,

labels delimit and form apparent separation and opposition. It

reminds you that these seeming separations are only in language andthe true reality has no separation.

I was playing with the idea of the infinite today while staring into the

middle distance, over some trees and into the sky and was reminded

of a point made well in the Hua Hu Ching 'the tiny parts are not tiny

and the vast universe not vast' - this same situation where it is ourmini mind breaking things into manageable bits and then being

convinced that they have reality.

The core error being that you see your self as real, so from this

perspective the universe is vast and the bits tiny - but this separationis fallacy.

Scientists have "nasty infinity" they have an infinity they can handle,

but then a nasty infinity they can't - dualistic infinities, funny. We'll

skip getting into that pointless mind game and go with infinity being

the same thing no matter which direction you look, small or big, we

can do this as we have read the Hua Hu Ching recently, meditated,farted, and reminded ourselves, unlike the scientists, that this dual

big/small is based of a fake reference point.

So there is the infinite, 'a-happening'. It is not infinitely big as in vast

beyond measure, and it is not made of infinitely small bits. no no no,

it is an infinite a-happening. The trees budding, coming forth, the

wind blowing, my beating heart and metabolizing cells are this

infinite a-happening.

Not old, no beginning, as there is no true point of reference to basethose ideas from. Just Thus.

And for the meditative, take note, nature is alive, always in flow. You

may have been searching for an inner stillness, trying to kill the

rampant mind, and the universe is ultimately at rest, but your efforts

to realize inner calm have a greater goal and that is to trulycomprehend the real action.

As when you have either stilled OR you have embraced the vastness

(opposite routes to the same place) then you have removed the fake

point of reference and just left the whole action.

When you have stepped back from 'all things based from this

viewpoint', then you are left apperseeing that you are this.

The seeing and the seen are not separate AT ALL. This a-seeing is

the universe and - you're it.


5/19

The wave who wanted to be the ocean

The big wave who wanted to be as vast as the ocean - eventually

gave up trying to get bigger and bigger - it dropped down, forgot

itself and became.

Only an ego searches for enlightenment as an ego is the only thing

that is not enlightened. The only fake in reality is this idea of self.

When ego finds what it selfishly seeks it finds the absence of ego.

Realizing itself as nothing but an idea, it renders itself Extinguished.

What reality finds when it is rid of ego is that ..

You can not become what you already are.

My dogs best jacket

I asked my dog what she'd like to do for her birthday and she said

she had nothing to wear and no money but wanted to have a nice run

by the river and chew a stick or two.

I thought this was a great idea.

I asked my friend and she said her boyfriend had exams, they had

just moved house, work was stressful and she may not get home in

time to even have a rest before her birthday was out.

I thought "and you, human, are the smart one?"


6/19

1, 2, 365, grab life by the balls and live it.

After 3,650 days a new born baby is a 10 year old child. 10 years!

3,000 is hardly a big number and days as a kid fly by.

After 36,500 you're a 100 years old. Or more likely you're dust.

30,000 is not a big number!

What did you do today?

I saw a sad old woman today.

Reality views the world through a trillion pairs of eyes and no matter

how good bad or mediocre the view, the being therein morns the

thought of its own death.

It is the same Tao looking through every pair of eyes and so can not

die as was never born. But it still 'feels' attached to each of its bodies

as if it were the last, only or most important.

Missing from its narrowed off view that it is the I behind every set ofeyes!


7/19

Harmonious tapestry

Reality in time is a flamboyant exploration of an eternal timelessmoment.

It could be seen in one but is wiggled out by a trillion I that each

follow a unique path.

You believe "I am unawakened" because you believe in "I".

This I is just seeing what it is like to be this I. The only way to know

each unique perspective is to live it out. To see any one I as better or

worse is to fall in love with a flower so much that you chop of its

ugly root to save it.

You think you have a choice, a say in this or that? It may be fun topretend you do but to believe you do, you will suffer.

As screaming left right or stop on a roller-coaster is ineffective on

the speed and destination.

Behind every thing is the true canvas of reality, behind every act it is

ever present. A tapestry telling a tale is a thread. A screen showing

the movie is still glass. A ripple on a lake will pass.

Nothing is

Time, formed by the mind, as.

The mind can not see all of space, it carves.

Bit by bit, looks at a section, stores, moves on.

That is time.

Like a bird and its jerky head, catches a frame, fills its perception,moves on. Sequentially mapping the void in bits it can manage.

Were you able to see the whole void of space in one, there would be

no need for time, no time - only complete understanding.

In bits the picture is incomplete and leads to misinterpretation.

The worst bit is the point of reference, the ego.

Only the ego can seek, suffer.

Only an ego can be spoken of, laughed at.Only an ego can care.

When you step back.

That's it.

All there.

Is.


8/19

tick and a tock

It is really the speed we take information that forms our complete

understanding and happiness or our loss of way and suffering.

Nothing to negate

No meditatorNo meditation

No where to meditate

Nothing to meditate on

No one who could meditate

No thing to be meditated

No thing to meditate it

No seeing, no source, no seen, no end; a cycle of no linear nature and

no dual nature. No Om. No ommer, no omming, no noer, no knower,

no known and no.


9/19

A note from self to ego

So you think you are analytical - I think you are staring at the wall.

So you think you are spiritual - I think you speak mumbo-jumbo.

So you think you are religious - I think you have a closed off mind.

So you think you are happy - I say stop thinking and you will be.

So you think I have it all worked out - I know for sure you can't.

And this is why I exist in bliss,

knowing the only certainty,

is this.

Original face

Drop the desire for enlightenment and then you are "not-I" and youregain your original face.

Anyone seeking enlightenment is of course not enlightened. Nor

could anyone ever be enlightened, as on enlightenment, there is no I.

"I seeking enlightenment" is bound.

"Enlightened" is no-I, free.

So drop the idea you could ever achieve, as that achiever is not even

possibly real. Drop the idea of an achieving entity so there is no

longer a desirer; and then you reach the non-I, and there is

enlightenment...


10/19

What to do in killing I?

It is not to remove this "I"

It is not to work on the "I"

It is to recognize the true reality

and that is absent of any "I"

To work on the "I", to improve, or fix,

To aim to remove the "I" or prove it unreal,are to re-enforce the "I" which is to enforce an illusion.

To recognize the true nature of reality will kill any idea of "I"

Job done.

Fixing the self

As long as you work on the self you are working on an illusion, an

idea.

The self has no reality so all work on the self is trying to clean yourreflection from a mirror.

The more you try, the more you re-enforce the very illusion you are

out to drop.


11/19

The opposite enlightenment

Enlightenment is just so, not dual, and so has no opposite.

"Clearly factually false" says the thinker. "The opposite of

enlightenment is un-enlightenment"

No.

Enlightenment has no opposite as it contains no opposites, or even

notions. It is, just.

This is why it hmmmmm

it is not even

hmmmmm

omm

.

.

.

Here we sit with not one idea,

no-thought and your life are one kind;

The solid reality that you can touch,

is one with the ungraspable mind.

Don't hold back

It's all just one flowing thing, if you get hung up on any aspect youare trying to grab a tree branch to stop your raft. You may slow it,

you may fall, but more importantly you will miss what is coming.

And almost without fail, good follows bad. Hanging on to the bad

amplifies it, yet the coming good washes it away with no effort.


12/19

Inside and outside of happiness

Happiness and sadness are felt inside. People look for it outside.

Look within and you can never be without.

What we call not knowing is true knowing

What we call not knowing is true knowing, the empty thought is notattached to any one thing so has it all. Draw a concept, focus at all

and you miss so much.

The "vastness" of space and time and the 10,000 things are, like us,

the mind - and our knowing that is emptiness.

Our term emptiness is further example that English is not a language

suited to spiritual truth. But when it is seen, it is truly grasped.

Named, it is not.

Empty mind is whole mind.


13/19

What time is it where you are?

NOW!

Now, it is always now, here is now, there is now, now is now...

Know it all

Think you know the universe and it will give you something to proveyou don't.

Talk of knowing and it will trip you up.

Admit you don't know and you bathe in bliss.

Say you know nothing and you know it all.


14/19

Lost in ideas

We are always in touch with the ultimate reality - we have to be.

We touch it in meditation but we are never free from it ever - how?

In normal conciousness we are in ultimate reality but we make a

concept or idea of it.

We then attach to the idea not the ultimate.

Ooops!

In the ultimate reality there is no 'happy' 'sad'

they are ideas, silly ideas.

I is just an idea

Imagine a radar that emitted from the core of your brain, it wouldsay;

I

Skull

Objects

Walls

then it may rescan and hit more detail

I (who is thirsty)

Tea cup

Computer Monitor

KeyboardWall

Painting

..and on, picking up all the detail around you and always begining

with I

As the first point of recognition is this "I" it is given lots of validity,

it seems always present.

But I is an idea. Your name was the first lie you were ever told, and

probably that was by your trusted parents, it separated you. Societyand life reaffirm the idea of I all the time and one is seen as quite odd

for looking into this phenomenon or questioning it.

But where is I?


15/19

My cells are working alone, I have no say over my beating heart,nothing much of me is me. I even say "my body" as if body were

something I had, so where is the I that has that body?

We say 'mmmn, maybe there, somewhere in here in my head or chest

or I don't know. I don't know'. I should know! as it is it being asked

and if you ask where a TV is, well it is there. Ask where I am toanother person and they'll point at your body (or call the men in

white to take you away) - but ask yourself where I is and you'll have

to say it is the body or some vague area inside your body.

Taking away all that is automated and trying to find an I in there, you

won't. I is an idea.

You are infinite, you can't remove the air, you can't remove Earth,

the galaxy or your head, they are all bits of you.

I is an idea and that feeling of I as separate to the world is 1) entirelyrequired for sane living and 2) the basis of all suffering (and

pleasure) - don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a bad thing but

beware when bad stuff happens and you get all "oh I this, I that" -

that I does not even exist.

Idea.

The Master who was still learning

The first student entered the room of the master and sat.

The master said to him; "You may clean all of the dust from your

head but you will still be left with a broom."

The student thought he had understood the teaching, stood, bowedand left.

The second student entered the room of the master and sat.

The master said; "You may clean all the dust from your mirror but

what about the dirty cloth?"The student said; "There is no cloth."

The master said; "Then what of the mirror?"

The student replied; "That is your mirror not mine." He stood up and

left.

At this the master became truly enlightened.

[For those confused by this story see the cloth or brush as the

'method'. So once the work is done the method still remains. It takes

a true master to have neither dust or broom]


16/19

Here Now

We are never not Here Now. We are absolutely always from birth,through every action, to death, Here Now.

We are never in the past or the future, they are unreal, just ideas, but

our minds insist in wandering off into the unreal.

We choose to avoid reality, this here now and go off to a side step, a

distraction, thinking a thought that takes a past or future idea, plays

with it; a false thought based on a false notion - and choose to

deliberately avoid the very thing we seek.

And the seeking itself is like stepping forward to achieve standing

still, an impossible method.

Crazy as it seems we are the barrier to finding ourself. There is no

one who can be awakened, no one to be enlightened. When "One" is

found then by definition there is no other, especially no you. No

seeker.

A method to finding now is to look out from your solar plexus or

heart. Don't use eyes or ears as they are filtered by the mini mind that

is trained and has the nature to form time and analyse. It does this as

it is too weak to comprehend the "Now", the "One" so it splits,

measures, analyses and gets lost in its own fallacies.

"The eyes do not look, they absorb. The mind is responsible for

looking; its failure here is the splitting of one of the sensory inputs

into values, good and bad. These only exist due to the mind itself

here is the illusion."

instead ...

"Your empty mind,

is your full life;

The impenetrable solid reality,

is the ungraspable mind."

Our mind is useless, our language contaminated with rules that split

the mind. Drop it all and then you are left with "Aaaaaaaa!" Here

Now! it was there all along, Bliss!


17/19

Stream of Wisdom

There has been a stream of wisdom passing down the ages and at

every turn man has attempted to collect the water into a container so

that he can wrap his mind around it. Those containers don't flow,

they stagnate, the flow continues in the stream. Let go of your

stagnation and let it back into the stream to flow.

Cartwheels

You are essential. You exist in your role, because you are part of thewhole;

And so exist forever.


18/19

It is outside of knowing,and is simply right there;

so obvious it is,

too simple to bear.

Know by not knowing, Wu know,

See by not seeing, Wu see;Only in admitting knowing is dual,

can you be without trying to be.

It is all that is and is not,

no concept or attempt to be got;

We can only grasp nothing is there,as a clock can not tick on a tock.

Right there when you are within,

unapparent when you try to hold on;

Do not let another attempt to explain,their moving lips is admission its gone.

Though we are part of Tao,

we can act as the worst kind of fake;

Seeing your breath does not help the wind,

let a swamp in your mind be a lake.

Our viewpoints are relative see?

Tao has no intention just play;

Extremes in our mind are waves on the lake,

and just our nature sway.

Should you be high or low,

you will always remain in Tao;

There is no need to hold on either way,

as if going up hill and not down.

Where there is nothing in mind,the greatest power is there to see;

Where we find nothing we are truly at one,

one and nothing have equality.

Like a ripe fruit decays,

to continue new life;We see a seed is not birth,

and no one ever really dies.

Here we sit with not one idea,

no-thought and your life are one kind;

The solid reality that you can touch,is one with the ungraspable mind.

Nothing has to go,

just give everything up;

Bound to nothing,you have a full cup.

To have destination,

makes the journey too tough;

Be going nowhere,

here is more than enough.

Free people require no leader,

and Tao has nothing to lose;

A leader makes fear to interfere with here,

people you know what to choose.

Now just simplify your mind and self,

that's all there is so just sit;

Be balance and unknowing flow,

Natures truth is here that's it.


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