Radical Middle Path
H Y D R A E X M A C H I N A An engineer's thermodynamic view at the metaphysics of beauty. On the branches of the Tree of Knowledge, the Serpent rests, coiled and calm. Magnetizing darkness emanates from his scaled body and his piercing eyes see into…
B L A S P H E M Y
It is the snake in the tree speaking, not God.
Thinking that some kind of mathematical rationality can fathom the Whole, the entirety of the All, like a watchmaker can understand and manipulate a clockwork, is blasphemous pride.
While the wondrous and perfectly timed workings of the Universe may sometimes feel like clockwork, the Universe is not limited to mechanistic properties.
Living organisms like flowers or complex systems like galaxies have mechanistic characteristics.
At the same time, they're perfectly unobstructed by the limitations of mechanistic understanding.
We're looking at the equivalent of the hierarchical differentiation between
Mind in the Brain vs.
Brain/Body/All in the Mind vs.
Mind within All here.
Which rules which? Wich is superior, which inferior?
Which is the principle, Emptiness-Wisdom, and which is the temporary phenomenon, Appearance-Form? And where do they find their life-creating unity?
(They do in their thermodynamic tantric dance.)
A biologist once told me: You need to stop asking why beautiful phenomena like the marblings on the uppermost petal of rhododendron blossoms occur. Living things appear. If their characteristics do not negate life, they stay around.
In both the biologist and the mechanical engineer example, what's being pointed at is the beauty in all natural phenomena that promote life.
What is evolutionarily useful can be beautiful.
That which is beautiful is always useful, but that which is useful is not always beautiful.
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It is the snake in the tree speaking, not God.
Thinking that some kind of mathematical rationality can fathom the Whole, the entirety of the All, like a watchmaker can understand and manipulate a clockwork, is blasphemous pride.
While the wondrous and perfectly timed workings of the Universe may sometimes feel like clockwork, the Universe is not limited to mechanistic properties.
Living organisms like flowers or complex systems like galaxies have mechanistic characteristics.
At the same time, they're perfectly unobstructed by the limitations of mechanistic understanding.
We're looking at the equivalent of the hierarchical differentiation between
Mind in the Brain vs.
Brain/Body/All in the Mind vs.
Mind within All here.
Which rules which? Wich is superior, which inferior?
Which is the principle, Emptiness-Wisdom, and which is the temporary phenomenon, Appearance-Form? And where do they find their life-creating unity?
(They do in their thermodynamic tantric dance.)
A biologist once told me: You need to stop asking why beautiful phenomena like the marblings on the uppermost petal of rhododendron blossoms occur. Living things appear. If their characteristics do not negate life, they stay around.
In both the biologist and the mechanical engineer example, what's being pointed at is the beauty in all natural phenomena that promote life.
What is evolutionarily useful can be beautiful.
That which is beautiful is always useful, but that which is useful is not always beautiful.
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B L A S P H E M Y
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It's obvious that most things we call "useful" in everyday terms are purely practical and at the same time ugly. They serve as a single-purpose tool for an increase of productivity only, often without allowing other factors to prosper along in synergy. They don't serve the Muses, they don't inspire, instead, their monomodal inflexibility may even drain us of our energy and life force if we don't have skillful conduct:
Think of train stations. Practical for transportation, yet can be incredibly filthy.
Megacities. Useful in the economical sense, but absolutely life-denying, depressing places.
Killing an animal. Useful for a healthy diet, but creating despair.
All of these serve a purpose.
(Once again, mind that these examples are ugly, and that beauty is in the all-encompassing meta layer of the perfect co-ordination of phenomena that leads to their arising. Beauty and ugliness are both contained in goodness.)
Whether what is useful is also beautiful or not also depends on how we define "useful".
Being "useful" can be an extremely good thing. The big difference in the express quality (beautiful/ugly) of "usefulness" lies in the aim to which something is being useful.
So beauty or ugliness is not only in the tool-ness itself. The purpose it serves is a determining factor as well.
An animal may be slaughtered out of sheer desire to consume its meat or with mercy and gratitude, devoting its life and flesh to the higher purpose of being healthy and strong in order to assist others. It might also include a wish of liberating the animal from an endless cycle of rebirths in the lower realms at the same time.
A desk workspace can be designed to only fulfill the singular purpose of "maximum productivity", or it can be designed to inspire creative processes.
Eventually, the ideal solution is a blend of the two, because playfulness increases effectivity, and because synthesis of different sources of sensory input and using a variety of channels for motoric output enhance the expression of integrated intelligence.
The questions that must be asked are these:
To what avail is an action committed to? Why are the elements of a creation designed the way they are? What is the array of possible purposes?
Is it to the benefit of all? Is it to the benefit of few? Of self only?
Is it to the detriment of many?
T H E E N D T O B E G A I N E D
D E T E R M I N E S
T H E Q U A L I T Y
O F T H E M E A N S .
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It's obvious that most things we call "useful" in everyday terms are purely practical and at the same time ugly. They serve as a single-purpose tool for an increase of productivity only, often without allowing other factors to prosper along in synergy. They don't serve the Muses, they don't inspire, instead, their monomodal inflexibility may even drain us of our energy and life force if we don't have skillful conduct:
Think of train stations. Practical for transportation, yet can be incredibly filthy.
Megacities. Useful in the economical sense, but absolutely life-denying, depressing places.
Killing an animal. Useful for a healthy diet, but creating despair.
All of these serve a purpose.
(Once again, mind that these examples are ugly, and that beauty is in the all-encompassing meta layer of the perfect co-ordination of phenomena that leads to their arising. Beauty and ugliness are both contained in goodness.)
Whether what is useful is also beautiful or not also depends on how we define "useful".
Being "useful" can be an extremely good thing. The big difference in the express quality (beautiful/ugly) of "usefulness" lies in the aim to which something is being useful.
So beauty or ugliness is not only in the tool-ness itself. The purpose it serves is a determining factor as well.
An animal may be slaughtered out of sheer desire to consume its meat or with mercy and gratitude, devoting its life and flesh to the higher purpose of being healthy and strong in order to assist others. It might also include a wish of liberating the animal from an endless cycle of rebirths in the lower realms at the same time.
A desk workspace can be designed to only fulfill the singular purpose of "maximum productivity", or it can be designed to inspire creative processes.
Eventually, the ideal solution is a blend of the two, because playfulness increases effectivity, and because synthesis of different sources of sensory input and using a variety of channels for motoric output enhance the expression of integrated intelligence.
The questions that must be asked are these:
To what avail is an action committed to? Why are the elements of a creation designed the way they are? What is the array of possible purposes?
Is it to the benefit of all? Is it to the benefit of few? Of self only?
Is it to the detriment of many?
T H E E N D T O B E G A I N E D
D E T E R M I N E S
T H E Q U A L I T Y
O F T H E M E A N S .
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P R O V A T I O B O N I
In ancient Greek, Beauty is "Ομορφιά"
— Fullness of Form.
Ugliness is "Ασχήμια"
— Absence of Shape.
The absence of good, also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack, of good.
Ugliness is the absence, the negation of Beauty.
It does not have any substance of its own.
Image: Paolo Girardi
In ancient Greek, Beauty is "Ομορφιά"
— Fullness of Form.
Ugliness is "Ασχήμια"
— Absence of Shape.
The absence of good, also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack, of good.
Ugliness is the absence, the negation of Beauty.
It does not have any substance of its own.
Image: Paolo Girardi
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Radical Middle Path
The unobstructed Path flows, because the state of Stagnation devoid of Obstacles and Fixation loses stagnancy. >> Stagnation is not inherently exsistent. It only arises dependently with the Fixation on Obstacles.
Looking back at this equation, we can conclude:
The beauty of free flowing, unhindered growth can be discovered when the obscurations of stagnation and fixation are shattered with ruthless determination.
C U T T H R O U G H
W I T H O U T
M E R C Y
The beauty of free flowing, unhindered growth can be discovered when the obscurations of stagnation and fixation are shattered with ruthless determination.
C U T T H R O U G H
W I T H O U T
M E R C Y
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Radical Middle Path
P R O V A T I O B O N I In ancient Greek, Beauty is "Ομορφιά" — Fullness of Form. Ugliness is "Ασχήμια" — Absence of Shape. The absence of good, also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike…
In the same way, the good can only shine if the evil is shattered,
and the beautiful can only grace our senses if the ugly is recognized as inherently empty.
and the beautiful can only grace our senses if the ugly is recognized as inherently empty.
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The evil is naturally aggressive.
It's an absence of Goodness.
The dumb is naturally loud.
It's an absence of Wisdom.
The ugly is naturally glaring.
It's the absence of Shaped-ness.
Get your hammer and chisel ready.
The stone must be hewn.
Build your fortress and ready your swords.
That which you drive out will return sevenfold.
Prepare to fight.
Image: Woman I by Willem de Kooning
It's an absence of Goodness.
The dumb is naturally loud.
It's an absence of Wisdom.
The ugly is naturally glaring.
It's the absence of Shaped-ness.
Get your hammer and chisel ready.
The stone must be hewn.
Build your fortress and ready your swords.
That which you drive out will return sevenfold.
Prepare to fight.
Image: Woman I by Willem de Kooning
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Forwarded from Maitridatta
"In India the guru of the Seven Tathagatas, Manjushri holds upwards the Sword of wisdom which completely severs the Enemy(Ignorance). In other words, there is absolutely no sentient being that cannot be reached by that blade. The one who begins to study the martial conduct, if he is solely and wholeheartedly devoted to the worthy deva Arya Marici, he becomes capable of accomplishing mysterious proficiencies."
Sonten-no Kinsei(Prohibitions of the Worthy Devas)
Sonten-no Kinsei(Prohibitions of the Worthy Devas)
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G R A D U A L R E S H A P I N G
There is not yet strength-in-numbers when it comes to enlightened leaders who possess the mind that goes through crises unscathed; fortified, even.
What they have is strength-in-quality.
We're in the generation stage of that new kind of human - a demographic who hold the most precious of motivations and who are developing exceptional powers of both supreme and mundane nature. They're the ones with the potential ability to actually turn the tables. That's by far not a majority, and it might remain this way for a while.
It is necessary to spread awareness of what's wrong with the system and how to make it right by using whatever strength-in-numbers we have available. Because when any one of our people actually ends up in a power position, they will need all the support they can get. Spread ideas, share thoughts, refine understanding, build the potential for change.
But don't expect it. Don't force it. Let it happen when it will.
The strength-in-numbers alone is not what will shift the current system. While that has its own interdependent role in large scale, eon term developments, majority votes are seldom what gets results, and you know it. Majority action does.
The aim is to find those who are naturally built different, and teach them to be untouchable. They'll be the ones both surfing the system and flying under the radar, and then gradually climbing the ladder to a secret - sacred - place. All that is so much less flashy than what "we're back" sounds like.
It's an extremely quiet process.
t h e c h a n g e
i s i n
t h e g a p . . .
We can only learn to live through crises by means of living through crises.
Those who persist are more likely to keep persisting.
Those who have potential and decide not to sink their teeth into living well for both Self and Other need some tough love.
L I V E ( l o v e )
W I T H F O R C E
There is not yet strength-in-numbers when it comes to enlightened leaders who possess the mind that goes through crises unscathed; fortified, even.
What they have is strength-in-quality.
We're in the generation stage of that new kind of human - a demographic who hold the most precious of motivations and who are developing exceptional powers of both supreme and mundane nature. They're the ones with the potential ability to actually turn the tables. That's by far not a majority, and it might remain this way for a while.
It is necessary to spread awareness of what's wrong with the system and how to make it right by using whatever strength-in-numbers we have available. Because when any one of our people actually ends up in a power position, they will need all the support they can get. Spread ideas, share thoughts, refine understanding, build the potential for change.
But don't expect it. Don't force it. Let it happen when it will.
The strength-in-numbers alone is not what will shift the current system. While that has its own interdependent role in large scale, eon term developments, majority votes are seldom what gets results, and you know it. Majority action does.
The aim is to find those who are naturally built different, and teach them to be untouchable. They'll be the ones both surfing the system and flying under the radar, and then gradually climbing the ladder to a secret - sacred - place. All that is so much less flashy than what "we're back" sounds like.
It's an extremely quiet process.
t h e c h a n g e
i s i n
t h e g a p . . .
We can only learn to live through crises by means of living through crises.
Those who persist are more likely to keep persisting.
Those who have potential and decide not to sink their teeth into living well for both Self and Other need some tough love.
L I V E ( l o v e )
W I T H F O R C E
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