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14.09.2005 um 22:08 Uhr

Der Stab des Hermes

von: tao

Caduceus oder der Stab des Hermes ist das Insignum der Ärzte der Antike gewesen. Die Beschreibung des "Baum der Erkenntnis" und des "Lebensbaumes" beinhaltet die gleiche symbolhafte Energiebedeutung. Der aufrechte Stab, die Wirbelsäule, ist der direkte Weg der feinsten universellen Energie, welche die zentrale Ausstattung und Teilung des Gehirns in sich trägt. Die einzelnen Wirbelkörper der Wirbelsäule symbolisieren die Ringe des Lebensbaumes der alten Eingeweihten.
Die beiden Schlangen repräsentieren das geistige Prinzip in seinem dualen Aspekt:
- der feurige Odem der Sonne als positiven, männlichen Pol. Dies ist die vitale aktive Energie der rechten Körperseite des Menschen. Die Chinesen nennen diese Kraft "Yang".
- die kühlende Energie des Mondes der Natur, als negativen, weiblichen Pol. Dies ist die passive, assimilierende Energie der linken Körperseite des Menschen. Die Chinesen nennen diese Kraft "Yin"
Die beiden Lebensströme überkreuzen sich in jeder ovalen Anordnung, Höhlung des menschlichen Körpers und wechseln dort ihre Polarität. Auf diese Art fließen sie ständig in- und auseinander und produzieren sich abwechselnd als die Flüsse ihrer Kraftbewegung von positiv und negativ.
In diesem Symbol ist die Kraft aller Weisheit gewählt. Diese Energie läßt sich im Zentrum des Bewußtseins erfahren, im dritten Auge, wo sich die auf- und absteigenden Lebensströme vereinen. Von dem dritten Auge abwärts kann der Mensch seine Energien für den physischen Gebrauch lenken und aufwärts für den spirituellen Nutzsinn im Leben. Die vier Elemente bilden die Lebensgrundlagen für alles, was atmet, sich bewegt und lebt auf Erden. Das ist der Grund, weshalb der Mensch von der äußeren universellen Versorgung und dem Austausch von Wärme, Luft, Wasser und Nahrung als den vier Energieflüssen geistiger Energie für das Leben abhängig ist. Diese Energie ist der geheime Faktor aller festen Substanzen, in der Feuchtigkeit, der Flüssigkeiten, im Sauerstoff der Luft und in der Wärme der Hitzewellen. Der menschliche Prozess des Atems entfacht das Leben, aktiviert die Energieflüsse und trägt das gesamte einheitliche Wesen durch die Kraft des Zusammenziehens und des Ausdehnens. Betrachten wir den Lebensbaum des Caduceus, der noch heute als das Symbol der Ärzte benutzt wird, können sich uns die Geheimnisse des Menschsein offenbaren. Drei Arten von Bäumen sind im Menschen angelegt. Der Baum des Lebens, der Baum der Nahrung und der Baum der Erkenntnis. Diese drei Bäume wirken als Qualitäten des Geistes in seiner feinstofflichen Energie im Körper. Sie fließen über das Gehirn und das Nervensystem.

13.09.2005 um 01:16 Uhr

the secret of the great legal experts

von: tao

I shall tell you the secret of the great legal experts of the world. If you have the law in your favor, be very polite to the judge, be very polite to the court, just put your case in simple legal form. The law is in your favor -- there is no need to do anything else. But if you are suspicious, you don't know whether the law is in your favor or not and you are sitting on the fence -- the camel can sit on either side -- then don't go alone. Let your secretary and your assistant carry big books of law -- as big as possible. Make a great impression in the court, `Here comes a great expert;' and quote so fast that even the judge cannot catch what you are talking about. Talking fast and not giving a chance to anybody else, and quoting... and don't be worried whether you are quoting from right books or wrong books, or whether you are just quoting from the page you are opening before you. Nothing matters! You simply create the impression of a great expert, on the tip of whose tongue all the books are just ready. You need not even look at the book to find the page. Quote pages, quote paragraphs; say `on the seventeenth line, on the ninety-seventh page,' but don't give anybody a chance to see -- you go on ahead. Before they can see the ninety-seventh page, you have moved so fast that they have to look at other pages. By the time they are looking at other pages, you have gone far ahead. Create such a cyclone of words that the judge is overwhelmed and completely forgets what the case is. And if you are certain that you are going to be defeated, that the law is absolutely and clearly against you, don't be worried! Go with dignity, and shout as loudly as you can. And as you are shouting, and the whole court is resounding with your shouts, go on hitting the table, throwing the books. You are going to be defeated anyway, so create as much nuisance as possible, because sense is not in your favor -- only nonsense can be in your favor! Make the judge afraid; throw books in such a way that they simply pass by the side of the judge. Don't be worried about contempt of the court or anything, don't listen. Victory is going to be yours -- victory at all costs. Just watch the situation. If the law is favorable, then be logical. If the law is fifty-fifty, then create as much jargon and scholarship as possible. If the law is one hundred percent against you and defeat is absolutely certain, you have nothing to lose; then jump and shout and make the court almost a wrestling ground. Make the judge feel that somehow the case has to be finished. No more hearings, no postponement, today it has to be fixed because this man can hit, he is throwing books this way and that way... at the most, contempt of court -- who cares? In contempt of court, if you are taken out of the court -- go shouting! And when you are brought in, come in shouting. Even if you are taken out by the armed guards three times in a single day for contempt of court, go out shouting, come in shouting. But make the judge feel that you are not the person to accept defeat. Murder may happen, but defeat is not possible. You may commit suicide then and there, but defeat cannot be accepted.

01.09.2005 um 12:23 Uhr

A sage doesn't know what is good or what is bad

von: tao

Jesus says, "Unless you become like children, you cannot enter into my kingdom of God." Unless you become like children... this is the purity of taoism.

Lao Tsu says, "One inch of division, and heaven and hell are set apart." No-division is the mind of the sage -- no division at all! A sage doesn't know what is good or what is bad. He is like children but unlike them also, because he has known this division. He has passed through this division and transcended it; he has gone beyond it. He has known darkness and light, but now he has gone beyond it. Now he sees darkness as part of light and light as part of darkness, now there is no division. Light and darkness have both become one -- degrees of one phenomenon. Now he sees everything as degrees of one; howsoever polar opposite they are, they are not two. Life and death, love and hate, good and bad, everything is part of one phenomenon, one energy. The difference is only of degrees, and they can never be divided. It cannot be demarked, that "From this point there is division." There is no division.

What is good? What is bad? From where can you define them and demark them as separate? They are always one. They are only different degrees of the same thing. Once this is known and felt, your mind becomes again pure. This is the purity meant by taoism. So taoistic purity is innocence, not goodness.

But innocence can be ignorant -- then it is of no use. It has to be lost, you have to be thrown out of it; otherwise you cannot mature. Giving up knowledge and transcendence of knowledge are both part of maturing, part of being really adult. So go through it, but do not remain there. Move! Go on moving! A day comes when you are beyond it.

That is why taoistic purity is difficult to understand and can be misunderstood. It is delicate! So to recognize a taoistic sage is virtually impossible. Ordinary saints and sages can be recognized because they follow you -- your standards, your definitions, your morality. A taoistic sage is even difficult to recognize because he transcends all divisions. So really, in the whole history of human growth we know nothing about taoistic sages. Nothing is mentioned or recorded about them because it is so difficult to recognize them.

Confucius went to Lao Tsu. Lao Tsu's mind is that of a taoistic awakened sage. Confucius is representative of our mind, he is the arch-representative. He continually thinks in terms of good and bad, of what should be done and what should not be done. He is a legalist -- the greatest legalist ever born. He went to see Lao Tsu, and he asked Lao Tsu, "What is good? What ought one to do? What is bad? Define it clearly."

Lao Tsu said, "Definitions create a mess, because defining means dividing: this is this, and that is that." You divide and say A is A and B is B... you have divided.