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Be the Good Doctor

October 3, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

If you watched the Good Doctor TV show, this is a talk for you. If you plan on watching it, this is a talk for you. If you didn’t know about it and want to watch it, this is a talk for you.

We’re looking at the new TV show the Good Doctor as an extended metaphor for being outside of culture, or not having an enculturated Ego. The Good Doctor, since he has no Ego filter, no conflict with reality, is able to tap into the medical potential field to enable him to perform surgical miracles. (Perhaps Ben Carson was an idiot savant, until the got a an ego and wanted to be a savior).

Bot secular and religious culture seeks the authentic man, the natural man, the Son of Man, the free man, the western man, the Mac Man, the whole man, the Forest Gump man, the Action man, the super man, the original man, the savior man. Even Trump sold himself as the true man, and people bought his product because we are so hungry for the role model that will activate our potential that has been blocked by the tape loop of culture.

Disconnected from our True Self, we tape loop in culture like a fetus unable to get born. Floating anxiety grows as we know there is a birth canal but we can’t find it. There are two Cherubim guarding the gate. Anxiety grows and we try to release it by pointing out the latest single cause for the anxiety, that has no single cause. We try demonizing the cause—the immigrants, the terrorist, the blacks, the gays, and so the demons keep changing forms—but we cannot find the cause because we are the cause, we who have been indoctrinated since birth into culture as a artificial knowledge field whose only intent so self survival. Whatever happens in this field is to support and maintain the field. The colony will survive with any means. Culture has no morality.

There are a few traditions paths out of culture. They are called the pathless paths or the dateless gates. Buddhism, Zen and the non-dual traditions are all Exit Signs to the Womb of Culture. Those who feel the anxiety most intensely are going to become yogis or mass shooters. To be born again is to be born out of culture, yet unlike the infant, the yogi (to make that a general term for a being who intentionally want to be reborn outside of culture womb) is a creative act, not a passive one. The yogi participates and activate his birth by finding the role models from beings you are outside of culture and transmitting back into culture as culture. It is only by using the language of culture can we find the opening to the womb. The language of culture that liberates us from culture is the language of metaphor, myth and art.

Filed Under: Ideas Can Create A New World Tagged With: Action man, Forest Gump, free man, Joesph Campbell, Mac Man, metaphor, savior man., Son of Man, super man original man, The Good Doctor, true self, western man, whole man

Jesus as Metaphor, as Art

June 15, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Jesus for me is not a who, what, when or where…not a thing in space time, a person in the past of a god in heaven. No thing whatsoever…..yet he is a thing. Jesus is a metaphor…and as metaphor a mediate between subjective I and Jesus as an It. In the Metaphor the is a sacrament itself, a Eucharist, if you will, is really Alchemy or Spiritual Art.

In the Metaphor of Christ, I and IT, I and Jesus are both One and Not One. Both Subjective ONE and Objective Two. The Metaphor, like a battery, contains and hold the polarity of Jesus and I. The Metaphor by containing the polarity of opposite generate tremendous energy, energy that is available for self realization and the Creative leap that is the source of evolution of consciousness.

We can experience the aesthetic of the metaphor in art (Jesus is art) when you are reading a poem, or, better, singing a song as the poet is singing it. You are speaking the words of the poet not after he write them down, that’s objective, but AS the poet is singing it. You and the poet are One, yet two.

Hamilton the musical is such a metaphor, for when you listen to the sound track, you are Hamilton singing his life as he sings it…through the poet of course, who is Hamilton the metaphor. The historical Hamilton, the person Hamilton is the vehicle or the past conditions out of which the Creative union of you and Hamilton happens, not as a cause but spontaneously.

The power of the metaphor or Art happens spontaneously as a gestalt. BAM…I SEE. So in this way I frame Jesus not as merely something historical, a thing either human or divide or both. Je Suis Jesus when the power of the Metaphor grabs you and you are suddenly at one with the whole universe, as its center…as the Son of God…yet at the same time, you are just this historical you.

There is nothing wrong with believing Jesus is an IT, a man or a god or both. But here is the irony, the enigma; If Jesus is human and Jesus is God and God and human are incompatible beings, the Jesus is a metaphor the unites the dissonance, the incompatible frames of reference in his own being. Jesus is not god; Jesus is god. That is the structure of a metaphor.

Now here is the alchemy. If I am human…I am I, so as human I can be god or complete, through Jesus…as metaphor and not as a thing. As a thing, a god/man, Jesus is just something to believe in, like believing in a unicorn. Belief does not liberate me from my own division between man and god, it just gives membership in a church system of belief. Unity through belief is the transubstantiation of man and god through Christ…which is a creative spontaneous event that actually transforms your live into a entirely new way of being in the world, and Buddha calls this the cessation of suffering or the resurrection from the cross of suffering where I am separated from god….when separation ends, suffering ends. All resistance to the world ends.

This this mediation of Jesus through the power of Metaphor is a magical event, one that happens spontaneously when one exhausts all beliefs and strategies. A belief is a strategy to end surfing in the future. When all beliefs and strategies end, one surrenders to the Cross….and in that surrender the Metaphor kicks in…Je Suit Jesus! For one is doing Jesus as Jesus is doing it right now! Jesus and I are one means I am doing the surrender of Jesus right now. Jesus didn’t die for me in the Past…Jesus is myself dying for myself right now. This metaphor compresses time past and future into the Now…BAM…the mind is no longer divided by thought and time and belief.

Filed Under: ZEN FITS Tagged With: alchemy, Jesus as art, liberation, metaphor, transubstantiation

Je Suis Hamilton

June 14, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Reflecting on this now. I listening to it on a road trip that lasted from Outer Banks to Virginia, and just remembering that brings it all back. But what stands out is the through the rap and perspective the play is alchemy in that it takes the historical story (the objective story) and through the magic of the rap as 1st person, also make the play subjective, so that you feel you are Hamilton. The metaphor is I am Hamilton; I am not Hamilton. By holding these to contradiction together as One art, the play becomes an energy generating power play that is transformative. This is the true healing of the wound of separation…through art as metaphor.

Metaphor in art creates a transcending unity that includes both 3rd person (IT) and first person (I am). This is why Joseph Campbell kept saying religion and myth are metaphor. When Jesus is seen as metaphor the 3rd person (Jesus is a historical IT) and the 1st person I am are held together as a tension that is energy generative and creative….this energy is available for the break through or realization, the energy a rocket ship needs to break free of earth gravity.

The gravity of earth (metaphor) is that everything comes in pairs of opposites and through our survival logic we have to choose from one of the two. But healing of the wound of separation of the two that can’t be One comes through the alchemical power of Metaphor that holds two contradictory but mutually dependent reality or view together. The two incompatible views or realties are 1st person and 3rd person. I am that I am is first person. Everything is an IT is third person. The metaphor transcends duality and creates a mediator the unites the two opposing points of view. So the metaphor is Hamilton is: I am Hamilton (I feel the life of Hamilton as my own life) and I am not Hamilton because he existed in another time and place. The metaphor is ambiguous;; the two that is One. You are the ONE that is both first and third person…that is both I AM as the creator of the universe, and I as an IT that is created by the universe. I am creator/created….and that is liberation from the gravity of earth.

Filed Under: The Zen of Movies Tagged With: Eucharist, Jesus Christ, Joseph Campbell, metaphor, Musical Hamilton

Hamilton as Metaphor that heals

June 13, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Reflecting on the musical Hamilton now. I listening to it on a road trip that lasted from Outer Banks to Virginia, and just remembering that brings it all back. But what stands out is the through the rap and perspective the play is alchemy in that it takes the historical story (the objective story) and through the magic of the rap as 1st person, also make the play subjective, so that you feel you are Hamilton. The metaphor is I am Hamilton; I am not Hamilton. By holding these to contradiction together as One art, the play becomes an energy generating power play that is transformative. This is the true healing of the wound of separation…through art as metaphor.

Metaphor in art creates a transcending unity that includes both 3rd person (IT) and first person (I am). This is why Joseph Campbell kept saying religion and myth are metaphor. When Jesus is seen as metaphor the 3rd person (Jesus is a historical IT) and the 1st person I am are held together as a tension that is energy generative and creative….this energy is available for the break through or realization, the energy a rocket ship needs to break free of earth gravity.

The gravity of earth (metaphor) is that everything comes in pairs of opposites and through our survival logic we have to choose from one of the two. But healing of the wound of separation of the two that can’t be One comes through the alchemical power of Metaphor that holds two contradictory but mutually dependent reality or view together. The two incompatible views or realties are 1st person and 3rd person. I am that I am is first person. Everything is an IT is third person. The metaphor transcends duality and creates a mediator the unites the two opposing points of view. So the metaphor is Hamilton is: I am Hamilton (I feel the life of Hamilton as my own life) and I am not Hamilton because he existed in another time and place. The metaphor is ambiguous;; the two that is One. You are the ONE that is both first and third person…that is both I AM as the creator of the universe, and I as an IT that is created by the universe. I am creator/created….and that is liberation from the gravity of earth.

Filed Under: ZEN FITS Tagged With: earth's gravity, Hamilton, Jesus Christ, liberation, metaphor, rocket ship

Christ as metaphor

April 7, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Christ as mediator ends up with Christ being a false center or Idol when Christ is the bridge between me and God. Why can’t I know the Father first hand? And knowing Father first hand means not being second to the Father as a thing separate from another thing. But discovering identity with the Source —Jesus said I and the Father are One—became heresy in the church because the church wants to be the mediator in the negotiation. The middle man can be the Church as in Catholicism or Jesus as in Protestantism. Either way I need a lawyer.

The problem rises in understanding when we only look at the Bible and its teachings through the objective view of reality, through the Third Person, where Jesus and the teachings are about IT. But this is just so much information and is not personally transforming. You can change the information in the mind, beliefs, etc, but the mind is never changed in its view of realtiy or being in reality by information.

When the Teaching is viewed from First Person, everything shifts. First Person is really Gnosticism, or knowledge of God as idenity. This is a metaphorical way of engaging the teaching. Je Suis Christ.

The teaching suddenly is My voice, my teaching, and I am seeing myself and world through the eyes of Christ as Christ, yet I an not Christ. The metaphor is This is That; This is not That.

The subjective view or First Person is I AM…as center. And when I and Christ are one center, then the teaching becomes alive because the teaching and I are one. I speak the world of Jesus as he is speaking therm. Time collapses in First Person. Time only exists in Third Person when everything is a IT in time.

The Transcendent Way—and this way is not just in Christianity—is when the First Person and the Third Person are contained by a new way of being in the world that is a living metaphor. I am That (First Person): I am not That (Third Person.) One has to suspend logic in order to contain this ambiguity. This is Zen.

Filed Under: ZEN FITS Tagged With: Christ, metaphor, Zen

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