Holy Scriptures and the Profoundly Gifted

Lol Bhagwan once said most holy scriptures were created by mediocre people, highly intelligent but not profoundly intelligent people, take a look at how badly they are written; indeed, if you look, for instance, into the Old Testament, apart from its many psychopathological contents, it´s convoluted, I also find strange the Kabbalah and the I Ching. Someone profoundly gifted would invent something like Zen Budddhism, write something like the Zhuangzi or the Zarathustra or live his life the way Bayazid Bastami lived his life; eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. It is rather not about organising society but adressing the good core in the individual, cleanse, purify and strenghten the soul of those who possess one, elevate it into the spheres to teach an example. Bhagwan also said that in order to transcend this “obnoxious” humanity one will need to be so extreme that humanity will deem him insane. He also said that when he started as a spiritual teacher he started with a great hope for humanity; now, at an old age, he only has hope left for a very small minority out of humans. Well, mankind, per definition, cannot reach the level of its great men however. Sloterdijk called Bhagwan the Wittgenstein of religion. For the sake of personal interest I´d like to know what the Wittgenstein of Wittgenstein would be. Or the overman of the overman. Emily Dickinson was so intelligent and had such a large circuit and depth that when I try to introject her and make her mine like I try to do with all things of interest that cross my way, i have to squinny my eyes. I admire her.

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Worte Bhagwans

… Jenseits der vierten Stufe des universalen Verstandes gibt es noch die fünfte Stufe, die letzte, wenn du sogar über den universalen Verstand hinausgehst. Denn auch nur zu denken, dass es der universale Verstand ist, ist denken. Gewisse Ideen vom Individuum und vom Universum bleiben noch in dir zurück. Du bist dir noch bewusst, dass du bist eins bist mit dem Ganzen, aber du bist und du bist eins mit dem Ganzen. Die Einheit ist noch nicht total, sie ist nicht vollendet, sie ist nicht endgültig. Wenn die Einheit wirklich endgültig ist, dann gibt es nicht Individuelles, nichts Universales. Das ist der fünfte Verstand: Christusverstand … Du bist zum ersten Mal ein Sein, Werden gibt es nicht mehr. Der Mensch ist über sich hinausgegangen, die Brücke gibt es nicht mehr … Alles ist vergangen, der Alptraum ist zu Ende.

Der Mensch ist ein Werden. Mit dem Entstehen des fünften Verstandes, des Buddhaverstandes, des Christusverstandes, wird der Mensch zu einem Sein. Dann ist der Mensch nicht mehr Mensch, da der Mensch nicht mehr Verstand ist. Dann ist der Mensch Gott. Und nur das kann erfüllend sein, sonst nichts. Und gib dich nicht zufrieden mit etwas Geringerem!

… Im Osten haben die Menschen sehr, sehr fragmentarische Egos, und sie halten es für leicht, sich hinzugeben … Ein Fingerschnippen, und sie sind bereit, sich hinzugeben – aber ihre Hingabe geht nie sehr tief … Genau das Gegenteil ist im Westen der Fall. Die Leute, die aus dem Westen kommen, haben sehr starke und entwickelte Egos … Der bloße Gedanke an Hingabe wirkt abstoßend, erniedrigend auf sie. Aber das Paradox ist, dass wenn sich ein westlicher Mensch, Mann oder Frau, hingibt, die Hingabe wirklich tief geht …

… Und es gibt Mondsüchtige, die immer nur nach dem Weitentferntem, dem Entlegenen suchen, und sie bewegen sich immer nur in der Einbildung. Große Dichter, einbildungsstarke Menschen – ihr ganzes Ego ist ins Werden verstrickt. Einer ist da, der Gott werden will – der Mystiker…

… Ein Buddha ist einer, der in die Erfahrungen des Lebens, ins Feuer des Lebens, in die Hölle des Lebens eingetaucht ist und sein Ego zu seiner höchsten Möglichkeit, zum äußersten Höchstmaß ausgereift hat. Und genau in dem Moment fällt das Ego und verschwindet.

Es gibt sieben Türen. Wenn das Ego vollkommen ist, sind all diese sieben Türen durchschritten worden. Danach fällt das reife Ego ganz von allein. Das Kind ist vor diesen sieben Egos, und der Buddha ist hinter diesen sieben Egos. Es ist ein vollendeter Kreis.

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UPDATE 01242017 How East and West Think in Profoundly Different Ways

Buddhas and Negative Buddhas

In the Book of Strange and Unproductive Thinking everything had to happen quickly, on the spot, according to the principle. Since my thoughts are developing and therefore changing at fast speed I would have written something down and truly think about it later, otherwise I would never write anything down. It now came to my mind that, in comparing Shakespeare and the Buddha, I wrote something about Buddhas and Negative Buddhas. The Buddha teaches us, gives us a deep impression of the Nirvana. Shakespeare (in his plays, not the sonnets), or Kafka, or Beckett give us a deep impression of the Samsara. They´re Negative Buddhas. Buddhas are the hell of writers, their prose is perfect (as can be seen for instance in the anthology of Words of Zen masters edited by Thomas Cleary or in the works of Huang-po). They´re not wasteful of words, which is something that I like. Only a perfect mind cannot be wasteful of words. Little is known about Shakespeare, yet what is known about Kafka and Beckett is that they were the noblest of human beings, holy men. A women who knew Kafka said about him, after having known him for a while, that this seemingly neurotic and dysfunctional man was the only man out of all man who thought as a man should think and who felt as a man should think. <3 Due to their high and rightly guided sensibility and sensitivity Kafka and Beckett, maybe also Shakespeare, experienced the Samsara in a profound way but offered a solution in the way the lived their life. They were reaching out their hands because they understood that existence does not reach out any hand. This is what makes the human. This is then Nirvana. Therfore they´re Buddhas as well. Beckett never spoke about his works, late in life he resumed that the intention of his works was to give an answer to the question about existence, and he was under the impression that the illustrations he provided where only superficial, with Comment c´est probably the most successful try in this fashion. According to Beckett, at the core of existence, there is nothing. Kafka gave me some irritation because in his vision existence is not devoid of meaning, not even absurd but preposterous and counterproductive. It is not rational but traumatic poetry. Dr Cornel West said Kafka is the poet of the existential catastrophy. That sounds good. I have to read Dr Cornel West. I also understood early that the meaning of writing is to illustrate what is existence. When I think of the core of existence, I see trombones, trumpets blowing inaudible yet incredibly loud. Ubi bene, ibi patria.

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Why God is Good

I am not religious yet most of the time in my life I have not been unsympathetic towards religion. In my youth I have found it curious how in a secular world people would be able to believe in God, and I like the outsider, those who run against the grain, even when I am aware that, as a matter of fact and in reality, they don´t; plus I feel the urge to protect or to console the weak. The essence of religion however is to bring the best and the noblest out of man, to teach us humility, sincerity, friendliness, carefulness, etc, and this is something I am quite fond of. Militant atheists don´t see this because militant atheists are not in a proper contact with reality. Most people are not in a proper contact with reality, because they lack awareness and/or entertain a distorted perspective because of their (intellectual) egocentrism. (And, given what we scientifically know about the universe at the moment and since we are still unaware about how quantum mechanics actually has to be interpreted, from a purely rational point of view agnosticism is the only justified position.) The person who is in a proper contact with reality will be an respecter of all faiths (including atheism, of course). At the same time such a person will be in full possession of critical thinking abilities and she will not be light on crime and on malice.
In Either/Or Kierkegaard reflects on the Upbuilding in the Thought that: against God we are always in the wrong. He praises it, that “against God we are always in the wrong”, gets enthusiastic about it, and this enthuasiasm is truely infectious. I say it makes sense to think of an instance which is morally and intellectually always superior to oneself. And therefore, that our thoughts, motives and actions are always to be judged and evaluated against the (hypothetical) judgement of such an instance (“Always act as if Epicurus is watching you” was a maxim among the adherents of Epicurus. Yet God is infinitely greater than even Epicurus.). If you behave like this, the possibility arises that you get in a proper contact with reality. This shall serve for the benefit of mankind and for the own benefit. Because being in a proper contact with reality, not being on drugs or so, is the groovy thing. Your consciousness will be elevated and uplifted, your insights will be flashy and colourful. Everything will make sense. In addition, if you are aware that against God you are always in the wrong, enthusiastically embrace it, you will be protected, by God, even if he does not exist. This is why the thought about God is good.
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