
Posted by gar on 11/5/2009, 11:28 am, in reply to "Re: The Door to Apophatic Mysticism"
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: So the question is, rat, how do you open the
: door to Apophatic Mysticism?
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: in peace,
: gar
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: Gar...
: this is very interesting question...
: i hope rat will give some informations..
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: what does mean "mystic for you"?
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: for me
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: mystic is defined as a -right next to -
: access to "god"
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: the chinese character le is explaining how
: we get access to le:
: below you have the character mu = tree -
: symbolizing a power of life --- developping
: balanced --- using branches going towards
: all directions -
: above centered you have the character bai2
: - the picture of a sun - symbolizing
: light...
: above left and right you have the character
: yao depicting silkworm spinning / cocoons
: - symbolizing the power of life - using
: polarized energy for harmonizing...
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: practizing this - using polarized energy -
: as it is elaborated in daodejing and yijing
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: you - wu // yin - yang // opposing
: complementing phenomena - living using both
: wings - we can harmonize to zile - a
: condition of right next access - direct
: access - to dao4 - zi ran - nature
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: thus we can say
: the experience of zile is independent of a
: mystic experience...
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Greetings ren ying,
"what does mean "mystic for you"?
Mystic seems to mean that one has access to the "Wu state". But how to get there is the question.
It seems that our brains function in a narrow state of perception and has to be changed in some way as to allow for altered consciousness.
Any practice that produces connectedness, oneness, might devolep into Dr. Wang's 'actualization of oneness' or rat's apophatic mysticism.
I do think the leap to the zile state, is a mystic event not a "Yu event". But because Yu and Wu are co-producing zile then zile seems to manifest itself in altered states of mind.
By saying this, a mind in harmony might just be an altered mind.
in peace,
gar
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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