Daily Cup of Tao

Life's deep questions

2013-04-01T14:51:00.002+11:00

Answers to life's deepest questions on the new blog Why How Deep.

New Taoist Philosophy Short Book: "Pop!"

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Introduction: Buy The Book

In the stream bubbles appear one new one a second and as we watch old ones pop every second, pop, pop, pop. These bubbles represent humans coming into the world by birth and leaving by death, each second is this swirl of bubbles, pop, pop, pop, pop, and one day that pop will be you!

The thought of a death a second is not such a nice one as to dwell on it and so we do not, the thought though of the ongoing mass game of Russian Roulette where your number is guaranteed to come up at some unknown time should force a smart adjustment in perspective and awakening to the moment and living, now.

You do not spend your time sitting mourning each and every pop, considered though the thought of your own popping may be of some concern. Will you pop out of the blue unprepared or will you feel your pop coming? Part of your concern over your pop is sadness and loss you'll leave behind in others.

Each moment a pop, pop, pop, each moment people suffering that. Aren't you though, the stream?

So why the world? Why life? Love!

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I make this dream world of mind for love.

Don't fight over it. Don't fight others, don't fight yourself,

We are here in my dream for love.

You are me.

Say I.

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That marks the end of this blog. No more Daily Cups of Tao will be served here. Thanks for coming, Bye.

Never forget

2010-11-29T12:00:00.004+11:00

You are the supreme reality.

You are Tao.

Tao unknowable by manifestation

2010-11-28T12:00:00.014+11:00

What else can give rise to reality unless it is itself beyond any measurable quality?

This is how Tao is the root of the universe.

Your path i to I

2010-11-27T12:00:00.002+11:00

All wisdom and all answers are within you. In the end it is you who decides that something fits or does not. At times things may not appear to fit and may appear false, at times the opposite, and in both cases the situation can flip: seemingly useless becomes perfect wisdom, perfect ideas can also crumble.

Around the time your body was born, it was given a name. You know you can change your name, you are not the name. You are also not the body. That was a construct. You are the self alone. I am. The mind is the tool you used for most of your life. On seeing it limited as it is you took to looking behind the veil and looking with no mind brought about its own issues.

Now you have seen yourself. A body in space and a mind in time are your instruments. Life is your ocean. Conciousness is your space and Awareness is your universe self.

The space between zero and one

2010-11-26T12:00:00.002+11:00

Life flows in the space between zero and one.

Zero is void and one is the totality and these are the same.

life flows within this potential.

Substance to illusion

2010-11-25T12:00:00.000+11:00

Subject - Sub is under the projection.

Object - Ob is in opposition or relation to the projection.

Let us take the projection as the mind. Subject is under the influence of the mind. and Objects are relative things appearing to the mind.

To move beyond the projection then would be to see ourself as the light. That which is pure and untainted. Instead of focusing on the projection and giving substance to the illusion.

Here is to death

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Life, the stream. The people, the bubbles.

Pop! goes one. And the stream still flows.

Die back to one

2010-11-23T12:00:00.007+11:00

Of course this is all a dream with no dreamer. (The one you thought to be dreamer is in the dream too.)

In death I wake, back to the light.

Original Face

2010-11-22T12:00:00.010+11:00

Drop the desire for enlightenment and then you are "not-I" and you regain 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...

non-dual truth

2010-11-21T12:00:00.000+11:00

If anything has an opposite, then it is a product of the mind. All then, all you can see, hear, touch, imagine, is false. There is no self, no world, no universe.

At your root, before this birth, as you are deep asleep, in every moment of your life, is an undeniable element that sits before even the notion of I.

This is truth.

Human being-ing

2010-11-20T12:00:00.001+11:00

I am a human being-ing. It is easy to read being without seeing the be-ing, the ing.

And what is that be-ing but the pure magic sought by all who seek.

This being has no time as it always is, from here to there don't make sense when it always is. This is the being at the root of all, at the root of you. Human.

You are not you are

2010-11-19T12:00:00.003+11:00

Step outside of your mind. What you are is perfection. What you are not is perfectible.

Who are you again? Be sure to identify with the true self, not the constructed false one. Then you will realize your inherent perfection without a second of effort.

Liberation

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You do not become a liberated being, but liberated from being a being.

Get this straight

2010-11-17T12:00:00.002+11:00

You produce reality, you do not experience reality.

discount to see the best in the world

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At many times the language used will appear to say you must discount the world. This is both necessary and unfortunate. It is necessary as language is limited and there is a desire to encourage the seeker to go beyond the mind, it is often necessary to seem to discount the world.

It is unfortunate however as the world is just this, it is a wonder and a delight, your playground; so it is unfortunate that the seeker is asked to discount it at times, but as said, necessary.

All false has root in the true. False comes and goes and changes, so is false, truth is ever the same. So the world, seen as is, is a delight and even though it fits the definition of the false due to its transience, it is rooted in truth. When it is seen from truth, it is magical.

So the efforts to discount it have high value.

from self conciousness to self knowledge

2010-11-15T12:00:00.002+11:00

'I am' is the intensified self conciousness. Run to its climax, self conciousness ends in self knowledge.

This trick is deliberately and necessarily beyond the mind and logic.

When self conciousness has become so intense and self knowledge is born, the inner 'i' self is burned and replaced with the true 'I'. This is unable to be self concious and it is not an intense spot in a person, it is an infinite I, absent of space, place, time, idea.

Always on offer, always just here

2010-11-14T12:00:00.001+11:00

The self is always enlightened and always offering enlightenment to the false non-I ego-i.

The ego-i is unable to grasp the gift though as there is no false i, only the idea of one.

enlightenment not gained

2010-11-13T12:00:00.007+11:00

You don't attain truth, you unattain false.

Bit by bit, one by one, cast the false aside.

What is left is.

Reroot refocus reconfigure

2010-11-12T12:00:00.019+11:00

When doubt or pain arise, alter focus.

When war and death seem widespread, broaden your horizons.

Never in the infinite is one matter so important that it deserves attention.

Attention only on the root of attention can bring you to touch the supreme self of birthless, deathless, timeless, bliss.

The mind then is unable to cast a false world of suffering, and so your universe reconfigures.

suffering

2010-11-11T12:00:00.007+11:00

Suffering, stress, and hatred are man made human disease, terminal in nature.

your creation shines bright

2010-11-10T12:00:00.008+11:00

You made the universe from your ideas.

It is your creation.

Why is it full of problems?

Well, it is not, but your universe contains problems because they are in your mind.

It will take time to be absent of problems in mind, but when you are, so too, your universe will shine perfectly.

embraced

2010-11-09T12:00:00.007+11:00

The cup does not intimately know air, yet the air intimately knows the cup, not one area of the cup is untouched.

Air takes the form of every vessel it sits in or surrounds, yet is still air, not form.

The air is in the shape of the cup but is not a cup.

What use though is the cup with no space for air?

Awareness knows all. Nothing can point to awareness but awareness.

arresting

2010-11-08T12:00:00.003+11:00

The mind is made of thoughts.

So how to unmake it?