I just reached dallas airport... i still have to wait 2 more hrs for my flight to london and since there are free internet stations around here, i figured out to write a bit about something that brought my attention on my way here...
"A knife taken up by the blade, wounds the hand: misused asceticism drags one the downward path" (in other words, lower death drive)
But what do we understand for misused asceticism?
To be sure, mere outward asceticism is of no avail, therefore if one submerges oneself in superficial austere practices either bc of some kind of imposed super ego religious idea of salvation or liberation or some other kind of mental pathology and forgets the true tapasya (inner work) some sort of unbalance must peep through the door at any point, or at least youll just get stuck in a continual mute struggle... is very easy to fall in that category...
I always make fun of the new age people talk when they say (trying to condemn austerity): "But Buddha took the middle way" ... indeed ! yet, after he took the so called middle way he still trod the earth for 45 years as a mendicant monk practicing dhutanga austerities and teaching dharma ... what he condemned actually was the extreme practice of some yogis, like sleeping on nail beds or keeping their arm up for years until it was dry, etc...
Oh oh!... an alarm ijust rung here at the airport: "An emergency has occurred, please leave the building through the closest exit door"...
As the rastaman saying goes: "Not even the dogs that piss the walls of babylon shall escape this judgement"...
i surrender! but im stepping out...
all seems to be well... be well!
"A knife taken up by the blade, wounds the hand: misused asceticism drags one the downward path" (in other words, lower death drive)
But what do we understand for misused asceticism?
To be sure, mere outward asceticism is of no avail, therefore if one submerges oneself in superficial austere practices either bc of some kind of imposed super ego religious idea of salvation or liberation or some other kind of mental pathology and forgets the true tapasya (inner work) some sort of unbalance must peep through the door at any point, or at least youll just get stuck in a continual mute struggle... is very easy to fall in that category...
I always make fun of the new age people talk when they say (trying to condemn austerity): "But Buddha took the middle way" ... indeed ! yet, after he took the so called middle way he still trod the earth for 45 years as a mendicant monk practicing dhutanga austerities and teaching dharma ... what he condemned actually was the extreme practice of some yogis, like sleeping on nail beds or keeping their arm up for years until it was dry, etc...
Oh oh!... an alarm ijust rung here at the airport: "An emergency has occurred, please leave the building through the closest exit door"...
As the rastaman saying goes: "Not even the dogs that piss the walls of babylon shall escape this judgement"...
i surrender! but im stepping out...
all seems to be well... be well!
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