ZEN: The animated Alan Watts (cartoon)

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Alan Watts; Gábor Hényel; Krishnamurti

Buddha FGS Dong Zen Temple CNY Lantern and Flora Festival (Jimmy Chuah/flickr.com)

(GH) "All In One" - animated Alan Watts by the creators and animators of "Southpark"

The Principles of Parents to Children
(Spiritual Buzz)

Let us embark on "a pilgrimage of inquiry from which there is no return."

The mind that has really gone into all this, that has entered upon a pilgrimage of inquiry from which there is no return, that is inquiring not only now, during this hour, but from day to day -- such a mind [heart] will have discovered a state of creation which is all existence. 

 

It starts with preschool then the first grade.

It is what we call truth or "God." For that creation to take place, there must be complete aloneness, an aloneness in which there is no attachment, no companionship, either of words or thoughts or memories. It is a total denial of everything which the mind has invented for its own security.

 

The complete aloneness, in which there is no fear, has its own extraordinary beauty. 

A god with nothing else to do

It is a state of love because it is not the aloneness of reaction; it is a total negation, which is not the opposite of the positive. And I think it is only in that state of creation that the mind is truly "religious."

Such a mind needs no meditation: it is itself the eternal [a Hindu/Christian concept rather than, ultimately, a Buddhist one although the idea has seeped into Mahayana Buddhism and Zen]. Such a mind is no longer seeking -- not that it is satisfied, but it is no longer seeking because there is nothing to seek. It is a total thing, limitless, immeasurable, unnameable. 

 

- Jiddu Krishnamurti (the Chosen One, groomed to be the new World Teacher, as selected by Madame Blavatsky, the great Buddhist Colonel Olcott, C.W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant and other Buddhism-loving Theosophists)

Dwelling apart -- free and liberated (sutra)

Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Maurice O'C. Walshe, (Migajalena Sutta, SN 35.63)

Forest meditation under an umbrella-mosquito net, a Thai crot (withfriendship.com)

 

The Buddha with avian fighting naga (Sharko333/flickr)

[In Savatthi, Ven. Migajāla asked the Buddha:] "'Dwelling apart,' it is said, venerable sir, 'dwelling apart': How far, venerable sir, does one dwell apart, and to what extent does one dwell with another?"
 
"There are, Migajala, objects cognizable by the [sensitive tissue in the] eye -- attractive, pleasing, endearing, agreeable, enticing, lust-inspiring.

"And if a meditator relishes them, welcomes them, persists in clinging to them -- then due to this relishing, welcoming, and persistent clinging, delight arises. And from delight infatuation arises.

"Infatuation brings bondage, and a meditator who is trapped in the bondage of delight is called 'one who dwells with another.'

"There are sounds cognizable by [the sensitive tissue in] the ear... fragrances cognizable by [the sensitive tissue in] the nose... tastes cognizable by the tongue... sensations cognizable by the body... phenomena cognizable by the heart/mind... and a meditator who is trapped in the bondage of delight is called 'one who dwells with another.'

 

Museum Buddha, Chauncey McCormick Gallery (Mark Kamermans/pomax/flickr.com)

  

"And a meditator so dwelling, Migajala, even though one may frequent jungle glades and remote forest-dwellings -- free from noise, [in sweet solitude] with little disturbance, far from the madding crowd, undisturbed by others, well fitted for seclusion [of mind and body] -- still one is termed 'one who dwells with another.'
 
"Why is this? Craving is the other one has not left behind, and therefore one is called 'one who dwells with another.'

"But, Migajala, there are objects cognizable by the eye...

• ear...
• nose...
• tongue...
• body...

mind -- attractive, pleasing, endearing, agreeable, enticing, lust-inspiring. And if a meditator does not relish them, does not welcome them, does not persist in clinging to them then -- due to not relishing them, not welcoming them, and not persisting in clinging to them, delight fades away, and without delight there is no infatuation.

"Without infatuation, no bondage is generated. And the meditator who is freed from the bondage of delight is called 'one who dwells apart [i.e., dwelling free of attachment, without craving].'
 

The madding crowd (triggerandfreewheel.com)

"And a meditator so dwelling, Migajala, even though one may live near a place crowded with monastics, lay-followers, rulers and royal ministers, and the followers of other spiritual teachers -- still one is termed 'one who dwells apart [free of attachment, without craving].'

"Why is this so? Craving is the other one has left behind. And therefore one is called one who dwells apart [free of attachment, without craving]."