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“Those whom people fear
Cannot but also fear others.”
-
Laozi, Chapter 20, Daodejing. Making This
Life Significant. A Philosophical Translation by Roger T. Ames and David L.
Hall (The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, U.S., 2003), p.105. Usually
translated ‘that which all people fear is, indeed, to be feared.’
How To Grasp The Bird’s Tail If You
Don’t Speak Chinese by Jane Schorre. Calligraphy by
Margaret Chang
(Texas, U.S.: Arts of China Seminars, 1997).
p.77-78. [‘Strike the tiger’ (left
and right): Da Hu].
If we are thinking of Tiger as a
metaphor for our Taiji energy, what a multitude of uses for it are presented to
us by the word da! But we can also
think of Tiger as symbolic of the situations we deal with in life, and Zhuangzi
has a Tiger tale that is pertinent here:
When Yan He was appointed tutor to
the crown prince, son of the Duke of Wei, he sought advice from Ju Boyu, a
minister of the state. ‘The prince is a cruel man, depraved and murderous. If I
let him follow his violent nature the country may be endangered. If I try to
curb it, I may be endangered. He is able to see the faults of others, but he
cannot see his own faults. How shall I deal with a man like this?’
‘Good question!’ said Ju Boyu. ‘Be
cautious and aware. You must not try to improve him but to improve yourself. Be
flexible and in tune with him, but keep your own centre. Follow him but do not
allow yourself to be pulled off balance or you will be overthrown and
destroyed. Harmonise with him but do not be pulled into his evil ways or you
will be criticised and condemned. If he wants to be childish, erratic or
reckless, be childish, erratic or reckless with him. Know his nature, and you
can lead him to where you want him to be.’
Then Ju Boyu went on to say: ‘You
need to know how the tiger trainer accomplishes his job. He never gives the
tiger a live animal to eat so it will not develop its instinct for killing. He
never even gives it a whole dead animal to eat so it will not develop its
instinct for tearing apart. He is constantly aware of the tiger’s appetite and
sensitive to its ferocious nature. Though tigers are very different from men,
they can be controlled and trained to be gentle by understanding tiger nature
and going along with it. Only those who go against it can be harmed.’
p.78. It is a way of handling
situations with no aggression, violence or opposition. It is a way of overcoming
by yielding.
Taiji Dui Lian (two-man combat form). I learned this but it's difficult to practice without a partner
Kung Fu For Girls. Self-defence for
divas by Simon Harrison (Ebury Press, London, U.K., 2003).
p.4. You can’t change the attitude
of muggers, rapists and murderers by being outrages at their behaviour. You
must change your own. Know what makes you vulnerable to attack. Showing fear or
being overtly nervous. Looking lost, wearing restrictive clothing, not paying
attention and displaying expensive techno treats like minidisk players and
mobiles are sometimes too much of a temptation for our crooked little friends.
On the street be prepared and cultivate a preventative attitude.
p.12. This is the dangerous bloke.
Great waves of greed and desire slosh about inside his head, overpowering all
sense of reason and human dignity. He is a menace. But, as he hurtles towards
you, he suffers two major disadvantages. By assuming you are weak and therefore
an easy target, it increases your element of surprise, making it a cinch for
you to deck him. Not only will he not be expecting you to fight back, but this
klutz is oblivious to the fact that he is literally oozing weak points. [Harrison
provides examples of weak spots: ears, eyes, nose, chin, throat and neck, body,
groin, knees, shins and feet].
Above All Don't Wobble,
Chapter 7 by Osho
(22 January 1976, Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Rajneesh Foundation, Pune, India,
1976). p.94-95.
And never let your hate decide
anything. Knowing well there is hate, always let love decide. I'm not saying
suppress, no; but never let it decide. Let it be there, let it have a secondary
place. Accept it, but never let it be decisive.
Neglect
it and it dies of its own accord. Pay more attention to love, and just let love
decide. Sooner or later, love will take possession of your whole being, and
there will be no place left for hate.
There
is an anecdote about one mystic woman's life, Rabiya-el-Adavia. She was a
Mohammedan mystic and one of the greatest women ever. In the Koran there is a
sentence saying hate the devil and love God. Rabiya crossed it out, corrected
the Koran - which no Mohammedan can even think of; it would be a sacrilege.
Another
mystic once came to stay with Rabiya. He asked for a copy of the Koran for his
morning prayers, and Rabiya gave him her own copy. When he came across the
correction he was mad. He said, 'Who has destroyed your Koran. Haven't you
looked inside it? Somebody has corrected it! This is not possible; Mohammed's
word cannot be corrected!'
Mohammedans
believe Mohammed is the last prophet. They call him the seal of the prophets:
now there is no longer a possibility of any new prophecy, he is the last of the
prophets. There have been others before him, but there will be no more after
him - the last message from God has arrived.
Rabiya
said, 'Nobody has corrected it. It is me. I corrected it because it became
impossible to tolerate that passage. I love God, and I love Him so much that in
the beginning the hate for the devil continued to hang around like a shadow,
just on the fringe. But as my love grew, as it became more and more intense,
just like intense sunlight, the shadow disappeared.
'In
my whole being there is no possibility of hating. Even if the devil comes I
will have to offer my love, because I cannot offer anything else...there is
nothing left. How can you see through the eyes of love if someone is a devil?
He will be a god to me, because only God exists for love. So I had to correct
the sentence, because it became intolerable; it didn't fit with my experience.
I followed the Koran in loving God, but then I have to correct it in not hating
the devil.'
Just
let it hang around you - not only about meditation, but about anything. Mind
always has the opposite hidden behind it. You love the same person you hate.
You respect the same person that you rebel against.
“Live, Laugh, Love!!! Never HATE!!!
Appreciate !!!” (On someone’s MySpace profile).
“Violence is a product of fear.” - Donnie Darko (directed by Richard Kelly,
2001).
“The roots of all goodness lie in
the soil of appreciation for goodness.” - The Dalai Lama.
“When you think everything is
someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realise that everything
springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to
violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and
understanding.” - The Dalai Lama.
Retrospective
inserts.
“For
many years you have hidden from yourself. You stand behind the door looking through
the crack at your life, being afraid to fully immerse yourself into life. You
do not come here to sit on the sideline, to stand in the bleachers, to hide
behind doors. You come into this life to experience it 100%, to open up every
inch of you that has been closed, to feel into the fullness of time, to
let the raw passions, the juices of life flow through you.
You are afraid of what your heart
and your soul asks you to do. Your humanness says to walk up to that person and
say hello yet your knees shake, as fear becomes your new best friend. Why are
you so afraid to walk forward and introduce yourself to the very love of your
life?
The very vibration of the word
AFRAID is a 10/10/10 energy a #30 in fullness. ‘Afraid’ asks to be cleared in
the year 2010 (#30). Using the vibration of conversion which is an expression
of the energy of the #10 send love into all you fear, all you are afraid
of, what goes bump in the night in your soul. Dilute the fear fields with
the soft rains of love. If you feel fear in any thought/from walking in the
snow/ice/to living or dying/stop, take a deep breath and send love into that
fear.
Everything in you screams that you
hate your life, your job, your relationship, and yet you do not take one step
toward changing your experience? It is a time of loving where you are planted.
From that point of loving, from that centre of your universe, move forth fully
into what your heart desires. Otherwise you will be stuck in a sea of mud with
the very energy of hate keeping you bound to the person place or thing.
Life is not your jailer. Earth is
not a prison. It is but a grand amusement park and you are afraid to ride the
rides so you stay in the shallow end of the park. Most times you are afraid to
ingest the sweetness life has to offer. Afraid of what is good, waiting on the
other shoe to drop. You stand still, paralysed with fear like a deer in the
headlights, afraid to move forward, afraid to move backward. Your life shows
that.”
– The Pleiadians (‘You Are Being Called
into a Point of Light,’ channelled through Gillian MacBeth-Louthan, 26
January 2010, www.thequantumawakening.com).
“When you
meet anyone remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see
yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you
will think of yourself. To everyone you meet today, say silently:
You are the one Self
with me,
United with our
Creator in this Self.
I honour you because
of what I am
And what He is, Who
loves us both as one.”
– A Course in Miracles (The Foundation for Inner Peace, CA., U.S., 1976).
"Good humour is a tonic
for mind and body.
It is the best antidote
for anxiety and depression.
It is a business asset.
It attracts and keeps friends.
It lightens human burdens.
It is the direct route to serenity
and contentment."
‑ Greenville Kleisser.
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