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New Book: "Pop!"
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?
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt47
When the quest only defines sadness?
Breathe deeply thrice,
And realise this moment suffice.
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt46
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt45
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt44
Heaven and hell are only experienced by us in life. You could have been a mother of a bomb victim or a young father in Africa of a family all with AIDS. You could be miserable because you care about something someone said, even though their intentions, reasoning, your comprehension, mood and more stood between them and you, you chose to occupy a negative created by your interpretation, you chose! You could be an old man by a lake fishing, wearing ancient clothes, and a huge contented grin. You could have used your brain, looks, physique or a skill to make money. Your bank balance could have over 8 digits. You could be anyone and you are just that to someone. Let us act as one and feed the world first, then form an economy afterwards and stop acting with individual importance, no matter how small or controlled it seems, it’s there. Yes you have desire; you want to be who you want to be. So do. The world is made entirely of great people who will live together joyously when they are free from influence which places them at odds with others. The actual guys in the armies fighting for fabricated (you know better than to deny this) reasons are guys who eat drink and think about sex and want to be happy. That’s the guys on both sides, they don’t really care which group of oil barons gets a particular contract, even if they don’t go to the same church. Why do we show allegiance in war when we would never kill a child, to a country who enforce tax and law on us including laws not to kill? Like we need telling! Why accept the reasoning? Why are these soldiers killing each other for men who wouldn’t even enter a fist fight themselves but do so want control of a certain flow of cash? Those ones who stand above us and decide there will is best. Leaders, are acting with an unchecked lust of result, they have decided that their thoughts are, in the main, correct and just and that countries and people of the world or small companies and people of the world can depend on their perception and desire over their own free will and wishes. They occupy these roles because we service them, by voting or not, we let them in, respect their claim of control, accept their reasoning and any action even when children die and millions starve. While we know that the majority of people interested in power mean well, they cannot bring about anything coherent or lasting, will make mistakes, and will be biased. This is not due to the minority affecting them, but by the impossibility of building static rules for a dynamic. Although anyone with the desire for rule should be filtered wisely if for no other reason than this desire, we are to believe that the best ones get the job. Even so the best intentions to rule without complete adaptability will fail some people by overly benefiting others and as people vie for a position in this fabricated divide we instantly develop a vast canyon of separation. The flow will absorb interference and unwittingly our actions will have effect, perhaps never connected or seen for years. But if you are still missing the evidence all around you…!
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt43
Yan and Yin realised Nirvana a few years later. They experienced a similar offering from nature and with Te’s guidance they knew there was no better way.
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All live in the Garden of Eden now. They will all die a natural death and meditate to the one they are so aware of, painlessly, with joy, as and when that natural part of the ripple occurs. The escape they all found was that ability to reach the state away from the pain of attachment and not following ideals set and perceived by others but realising everything has its own nature. Everything is at its correct point at any given time because it can only be that way. Whether sprouting, budding, flowering, cross-pollinating, going to seed or wilting, you will always have your root in nature.
*(Not quite. there are 47 parts.)
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt42
Yin and Yan lived out their years in harmony with nature. They spoke to Te using a meditation technique. Yan learnt much of science. With age he grew more spiritual, after all he had had some experience of religion now! And science, his life’s love, did hold answers that people in his mindset needed. One day there would be one answer for all, it would account for conciseness. Yan learnt that his own viewpoints were not entirely without merit. Just, maybe, needed, some of the words changing, and some new ones adding in their place!
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt41
Without saying too much Te explained that without the constraints applied to the few billion people all over planet earth, escaping the constraints of Maya to reveal Nirvana was the natural way for a human to enjoy bliss and exit life as we know it. Enlightenment was there for all of man until a few thousand years of progressively more ‘modern’ thinking. The pollution of the mind and the constant battle between the polarity of right and wrong were leaving most souls in an endless loop of existence. Many people were not aware that escape from the extremes perceived in life was to view their own apparent relativity to them and their merely conceptual boundaries then escape.
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt40
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt39
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt38
Yin spent hours gazing into the tree tops. She did not want to interfere with Te but expected at some time that he would come down, at least out of curiosity. Without warning Te swung to a near by tree, then another and down - but quickly out of view. With no better ideas Yin called Yan and asked him if he would join her in thought.
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt37
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Real books on Taoism
There may be a few modern writers who can hit Tao on the head but very few I know of. Thankfully one such person came to the attention of The Rambling Taoist and now several written pieces have been published. I carry one complete book The Book of Chen Jen and that is free for you to get a hold of. The Rambling Taoist also publishes books in sections for example The Simple Way The Life & Teachings of Zhouzi which is being serialized now. To get to an index of that book and others go here - look in the left navigation bar under the name Scott Bradley.
What Scott has is the ability to write new stories in the classical way with great depth, meaning and importantly, humour!
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt36
The conversation at breakfast that day was just a little different than normal as it veered to the past and the day with the lizard. Both had allowed their differences on that matter to pass over, it had not been mentioned.
‘Maybe that is natures way?’ said Yin
‘This was our way of finding out…’
‘It was Yan, but I feel like I have allowed my emotions to get in the way, we have now lost not only the answers, but our Te’ Yin looked intensely sad.
Yan reached out to Yin and as he did he saw something in the corner of his eye. He made sure what he was seeing was what he thought it was then he gently pushed Yin’s head to the direction he was looking. Both could feel flushes of joy in their system.
In the tree tops a figure, much more man like than they remembered, was looking down at them. A familiar pose, he was holding an apple. Te had been using the treetops to watch over his parents for most of the time they had not known his whereabouts. He had learnt much of the life they chose to live; it was a different as can be to his.
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt35
Later as Yan walked back up the beach he was met with a familiar view, the beach was as nice as can be, the shelter, table and garden he had made blended with nature perfectly and Yin was in a yoga pose looking out in the other direction towards the aqua marine and her beloved. Yin had second thoughts on that night two years ago, she never did find Te and they had seen him few times since.
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt34
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt33
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt32
‘The visible galaxy…’ he said ‘...is a fraction of ‘The One’ we find in the mind of Religion, yet for a perceiver contained two opposing forces in a basic sense, the initial division perceivable and unperceivable. Therefore matter and doesn’t matter. The sub forces which manifest as matter are vastly more comprehensible than the One, especially the minority apparent to our senses. These help us see change and from this the illusion of polarity; being or non being, instead of just now; life and death, instead of part of the ongoing flow- with no start stop mechanism!; good and bad or right and wrong instead of appropriate, and so on. In fact any situation where you visualise an extreme instead of a relative natural position in flux somewhere between these conceptual poles. Or you follow an ideal not set by you but defined by an elaborate set of other peoples’ principals.
But that is actually everything you know, think or say! Because nothing you have is uniquely yours, so be mindful of your every act. Why do you sit like that? What opinion can you have over any situation if either first hand or from memory, let alone from another’s and conveyed with the restriction of words and comprehension? You could certainly not describe a painting over the telephone and expect a perfect copy. You could certainly not describe your emotion exactly; even the process of doing would quickly send you through several variations in emotion. So why take someone’s view on anything? Or even respect your own opinion you formed on a different day, in a different mood? Is it convenience or lack or awareness? How with this inaccuracy in communication, even in our own heads, do we explain science, space, conciseness and being? We invent a language of exactness! And this to explain the most infinitely dynamic of all things!’
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Waterfall Awake Nature Pt31
‘He is a savage’ Yin sobbed.
‘It was protection instinct.’
This was to be a long argument. Neither wanted to loose, both knew Yin was right. Yan’s main ideal that he was standing up for was that ‘…this was the whole idea, to see how Te’s life panned out… it couldn’t all be rosy.’
That night Yin slipped away.
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