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  • Taigu
    Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
    • Aug 2008
    • 2710

    Throw everything away!!!

    Somebody came up on another thread with the topic of the observer. There would be an "I" closer to the real me once you witness what takes place. This is found in modern Advaita as well as in the teachings of many New Age leading figures. Somehow we would all be going to the movies, enjoying the trailers and the film, stuffing our face with ice cream and popcorn knowing that it is not real, that this over there cannot be identified with the guy sitting.

    The observer. A spiritual myth exploited by a bunch of clever spiritual salesmen with a few goodies for all of you ranging from " this is how I became enlightened " to " how to live in the present".

    Let s make it very clear. Once reached, this simplicity conceals the treasure. There is nobody left. Nothing to grasp. Nobody to see or know. Tolle caught the tail of the ox and turned it into a sceptre. Not even good enough to get rid of flies. Good to make money. But that s not shinjin , body and mind dropped away.

    As Trungpa puts it, and I said this already, the ego wants to see its own funeral. But it cannot. No witness in Buddha land, no Buddha to see or being seen. Eyes cannot see themselves. Once realized, no traces of Buddha, no whiff of awakening.

    The stench of : "now I see" is but a toy in ignorant hands.

    Throw everything away.

    Gassho


    Taigu
    Last edited by Taigu; 05-01-2013, 12:11 AM.
  • Rich
    Member
    • Apr 2009
    • 2614

    #2
    Thx taigu.
    _/_
    Rich
    MUHYO
    無 (MU, Emptiness) and 氷 (HYO, Ice) ... Emptiness Ice ...

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    • Daitetsu
      Member
      • Oct 2012
      • 1154

      #3
      Thanks a lot, Taigu!
      "The Watcher"/"Observer" seems like an additional "layer"...

      Gassho,

      Timo
      no thing needs to be added

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      • Mp

        #4
        Thank you for this teaching Taigu.

        Gassho
        Shingen

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        • Yugen

          #5
          Deep bows Teacher.

          Yugen

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          • Kaishin
            Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 2322

            #6
            Edit: I found the reference http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...l=1#post100023
            Last edited by Kaishin; 04-30-2013, 01:12 AM.
            Thanks,
            Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
            Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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            • Kyonin
              Treeleaf Priest / Engineer
              • Oct 2010
              • 6749

              #7
              Merci.

              Gassho,

              Kyonin
              Hondō Kyōnin
              奔道 協忍

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              • Taigu
                Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
                • Aug 2008
                • 2710

                #8
                Tolle is the guy that wrote : the Power of Now" and wrote about this enlightenment experience and how he suddenly reached a wonderful state of being. The web is full of his teachings. Many You tube vids too. Check it out!
                As to the observer or witness, it is supposed to be this true you opposed to the fake you that you are all the time.

                Gassho

                Taigu

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                • Risho
                  Member
                  • May 2010
                  • 3179

                  #9
                  Thank you.

                  Gassho,

                  Risho
                  Email: risho.treeleaf@gmail.com

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                  • Shujin
                    Treeleaf Unsui
                    • Feb 2010
                    • 1096

                    #10
                    Gassho.

                    -Shujin

                    PS - My brain had a moment of complete confusion when, looking at the other thread, I believed Tolle Eckhart and Meister Eckhart to be the same person. They're only separated by about 700 years... that's not too long, right?
                    Last edited by Shujin; 04-30-2013, 01:46 AM.
                    Kyōdō Shujin 教道 守仁

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                    • Jakudo
                      Member
                      • May 2009
                      • 251

                      #11
                      "the ego wants to see its own funeral"

                      Thanks for this Taigu!
                      Gassho, Jakudo
                      Gassho, Shawn Jakudo Hinton
                      It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.
                      "Even to speak the word Buddha is dragging in the mud soaking wet; Even to say the word Zen is a total embarrassment."
                      寂道

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                      • Heishu
                        Member
                        • Sep 2012
                        • 484

                        #12
                        Gassho
                        Heishu


                        “Blessed are the flexible, for they never get bent out of shape." Author Unknown

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                        • Daitetsu
                          Member
                          • Oct 2012
                          • 1154

                          #13
                          Hi Shujin,

                          Originally posted by Shujin
                          My brain had a moment of complete confusion when, looking at the other thread, I believed Tolle Eckhart and Meister Eckhart to be the same person.
                          Actually, Eckhart is not the original forename of Tolle. His original name was Ulrich Tolle and he changed his forename into Eckhart. According to some people he did this as an allusion to Meister Eckhart.
                          Anyway, what are names?

                          Gassho,

                          Timo
                          no thing needs to be added

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                          • Genshin
                            Member
                            • Jan 2013
                            • 467

                            #14
                            Thank you Taigu.

                            Gassho,
                            Matt

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                            • Heisoku
                              Member
                              • Jun 2010
                              • 1338

                              #15
                              Gassho.
                              Heisoku 平 息
                              Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)

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