Weblog von Hans-Wolfgang

26.09.2004 um 22:39 Uhr

two types of people

von: tao

There are two types of people in the world: one, who will find tao through relationship. He will need somebody else as a mirror, and the relationship will function as a mirror -- what the Jungians call the extrovert. And then there is another type who will find his mirror in himself; he has no need for any relationship. Not that he has to avoid relationship, not that he has to escape from relationship, but there is no necessity for relationship. He can close his eyes and find himself. He is what jungians call the introvert.

If you are the second type, you can simply close your eyes and be in yourself; there is no need for anywhere to go. Just dropping inside your own being you will come to know all that is needed to know.

I'm not saying avoid relationship -- I am never against relationship -- but relationship will not be the door to self-realisation for you. Or we can say in other words: there is one type who moves through love -- love needs the other -- and the other type moves through meditation. Meditation doesn't need the other... if you are the meditative type.

Once you know it, things become very much easier. Otherwise much energy is wasted in doing this and that... moving from this path to that path. Once you certainly know that this is how you are, then things start happening and everything falls in line.

23.09.2004 um 13:09 Uhr

remain in the middle

von: tao

Whenever it is in the middle, between any extreme or polarity, the mind disappears. Try it. Rope walking is a beautiful exercise, and one of the very subtle methods of meditation. Nothing else is needed. You can observe the rope walker yourself, how it happens.
And remember, on a rope thinking stops because you are in such danger. You cannot think. The moment you think, you will fall. A rope walker cannot think, he has to be alert every moment. The balance has to be maintained continuously. He cannot feel safe, he is not safe: he cannot feel secure, he is not secure. The danger is always there -- any moment, a slight change of balance and he will fall.... And death awaits.
If you walk on a tightrope you will come to feel two things: thinking stops because there is danger, and whenever you really come to the middle, neither left nor right, just the mid-point, a great silence descends on you such as you have not known before. And this happens in every way. The whole of life is a tightrope walk.
Tao therefore desired to remain in the middle -- neither be dominated nor be dominating, neither be a husband nor be a wife, neither be a master nor be a slave.

21.09.2004 um 22:24 Uhr

Tao der Lebenskunst

von: tao

Taoismus (Tao - Der Weg) ist keine Religion, sondern die Philosophie der Lehre des "Chi" (Lebensenergie). Tao deutet den Weg zu einer gesunden und erfüllten Lebensführung. Durch weise und praktische Erkenntnisse gelangt man zu strahlender Gesundheit in körperlichen, seelischen und geistigen Ebenen. Man erwirbt die Fähigkeit, sich selbst und andere zu lieben, zu respektieren und zu vertrauen, so dass sich Frieden mit sich selbst und der Umwelt einstellt.