http://www.blogigo.de/tao Taoistische Alternativen für eine konfuzianische Welt de tao tao Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0100 daily 1 If you have already concluded, your conclusion will become a barrier. It will not allow you inquiry – your conclusion will become a blindfold. It will not allow you to see the truth – your investment will be in the conclusion. You will distort reality to fit your conclusion. That’s what has been done up to now. The man of tao is not a Hindu, is not a Mohammedan, is not a Christian, is not a communist. The man of tao does not know all these ’isms’. The  man of tao  is simply an opening, a window to reality. He allows reality as it is. He does not project his own mind upon it. He does not use reality as a screen. His eyes area vailable; they  are not full of ideas. The man of tao does not live out of belief, he simply lives. And remember, only those who can simply live, without belief, come to know what truth is.  The believer or the disbeliever never come to know what truth is. Their beliefs are too heavy on their minds. They are surrounded too much by their belief systems.... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/you-will-never-know-what-life-is/185/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/you-will-never-know-what-life-is/185/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} If you can´t be with the one you love, love the one you are with. Each love affair is an open window to Tao, but don´t get stuck on the frame. The diamond thunderbolt. It is a sudden experience, with no preparation, no rehearsal, no discipline, no path. Suddenly you open your eyes as if a thunderbolt has hit you and the sleep of millions of years is broken. In that awakening you know the mystery of... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:22:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Love-takes-you-beyond-good-and-evil./184/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Love-takes-you-beyond-good-and-evil./184/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} A dream girl after all is a dream girl. You cannot find a woman on the earth comparable, as beautiful as your girl in the dream. It is your creation. It does not perspire, it does not need to use deodorants, it has no menstrual period. Nobody has ever heard that a girl in a dream was having her period. The girl in your dream never says, "Not today, I am suffering from a headache." She is always willing, more... Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:01:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/a-loss-to-the-owner/183/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/a-loss-to-the-owner/183/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}     It is good to be in the world: that is the message of the Upanishads. The Upanishadic seers were not ascetic. Of course they renounced many things, but the renunciation came not through effort, it came through understanding, it came through meditation. They renounced the ego because they saw that it is just a manufactured entity by the mind. It has no reality, no substance in it; it is... Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:39:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Of-course-they-renounced-many-things/182/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Of-course-they-renounced-many-things/182/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}     Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people -- people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of -- and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will... Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:01:38 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/higher-than-matter-and-mind/181/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/higher-than-matter-and-mind/181/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; ... Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:32:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Into-the-disinterested-depths-of-Tao/180/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Into-the-disinterested-depths-of-Tao/180/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}     Nicht alles zu begreifen steht dem kleinen Geiste an, weil diese winz´ge Waage solche Last nicht tragen kann. Hier verstehe ich nicht nur jedermanns kleinen Geist (schließlich nutzen wir ja nur eine verschwindend kleine Prozentzahl unseres geistig tatsächlich vorhandenen Potentials), sondern auch den... Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:36:15 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Selbstkontrolle-ueber-das-Unterbewusstsein/179/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Selbstkontrolle-ueber-das-Unterbewusstsein/179/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Der Geist des chinesisch-taoistischen Wuwei evoziert eine dezidierte Gegenutopie zur futuristischen Technik- und Fortschrittseuphorie: „Nicht handeln; wie das weiße Wasser schwach und folgsam sein“, lautet ein Zitat aus dem Tao Te King. Schwach sein, ertragen, sich fügen hieße der reine Weg. ... Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:53:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/eine-didaktisch-griffige-Loesung/177/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/eine-didaktisch-griffige-Loesung/177/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}   Als Eugen Herrigel bei seinem japanischen Zen-Meister die Kunst des Bogenschießens lernte und nach Jahren noch nicht „richtig“ schoss, fand der Lehrer eine scheinbar unverständliche Begründung: „Die rechte Kunst“, rief der Meister aus, „ist absichtslos! Je hartnäckiger Sie dabei bleiben, das Abschießen des Pfeils erlernen zu wollen, damit Sie das Ziel ganz sicher treffen, umso... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:15:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/nach-Jahren-endlich-ein-wirklicher-Schuss/176/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/nach-Jahren-endlich-ein-wirklicher-Schuss/176/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}   In the night of March 21, 1953, while still a student at the University of Saugar, Osho attained complete enlightenment. He describes the event: „That night another reality opened ist door, another dimension became available. Suddenly it was there – the other reality, the separate reality, the really real, or whatsoever you want to call it. Call it God, call it truth, call... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:55:11 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/I-became-nonexistential/175/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/I-became-nonexistential/175/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}     Ist ein geliebter Mensch fern von uns, wächst unsere Zuneigung zu ihm. Liebe bedeutet, auch gönnen zu können. Wer seinen Partner im Käfig hält, wird ihn beim ersten Türöffnen verlieren. Jemand wollte den Sand nicht verlieren, weil er so kostbar war. Er presste ihn ganz fest in seine Hand. Der Sand rieselte durch die Finger und war nicht aufzuhalten.... Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:55:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/fest-in-deiner-Hand/174/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/fest-in-deiner-Hand/174/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Lernen beginnt und endet damit, dass Lernende erfahren: Sie lernen. Wir leben in einem vollkommenen Universum. Alles, was geschieht, hat einen tieferen Sinn und soll uns etwas lehren oder uns aufwachen lassen. Wenn wir unsere Verantwortung vergessen, bewusst zu sein und auf unsere Gedanken zu achten, werden wir in unserem Leben sicher viele Schwierigkeiten verursachen. ... Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:55:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Die-Verantwortung-bewusst-zu-sein/173/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Die-Verantwortung-bewusst-zu-sein/173/ Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}   Friede ist eine Qualität, die zuallererst unserem eigenen Herzen entspringt und von dort genährt wird. Wie die großen spirituellen Lehrer schon immer gelehrt haben, ist eine friedvolle Gesellschaft eine Gesellschaft, in der die Individuen gelernt haben, auf ihre Gedanken zu achten, so dass sie inneren Frieden in ihrem Geist und Herzen tragen. Frieden und Liebe entspringen derselben inneren Quelle. Wenn wir zu... Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:48:18 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/zu-einer-friedvollen-Gesellschaft/172/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/zu-einer-friedvollen-Gesellschaft/172/ Two carvings of labyrinths in Rocky Valley, between Boscastle and Tintagel in north Cornwall, have been the subject of much discussion over the years, their origins variously ascribed to the Bronze Age, the early Christian period and even the 18th century. When an earth mysteries enthusiast visited the site, he took digital photographs of the two labyrinths. On returning home, he downloaded the photographs onto his computer and noticed a third carving above the two previously known rock-cut patterns. The hitherto unnoticed labyrinth is much fainter than the other two, leading to suggestions that the two bolder images were re-cut over existing carvings in relatively modern times. An alternative suggestion is that the two known labyrinths were copied from the much older, worn carving. All three labyrinths appear to be classic ‘Cretan’ in style, with seven-fold paths and left-handed entrances, although the ‘new’ carving is indistinct and its details somewhat difficult to establish. The... Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:15:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/the-known-labyrinths-were-copied-from-the-much/171/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/the-known-labyrinths-were-copied-from-the-much/171/   The taoistic approach towards life is that of laughter. And laughter contains love, laughter contains joy and laughter contains gratitude. Laughter contains a tremendous thankfulness towards Tao. When you are really in deep belly laughter, your ego disappears. It happens very rarely in any other activity, but in laughter it is bound to happen. If the laughter is total the ego cannot exist; nothing kills the ego like laughter. That's why all egoists are serious. Ego can exist only in seriousness; ego lives, feeds on seriousness. And serious people are dangerous people. We have to destroy all kinds of seriousness in the world. Temples should be full of laughter and song and dance and celebration. That's how trees are, stars are, rivers are, oceans are. The whole existence, except man, is in a nonserious state; only man seems to be very serious. No child is born serious, remember, but we destroy the innocence of the child. We destroy his qualities of wonder and awe, we destroy... Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:26:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/destroy-everything-that-beautiful-and-valuable/170/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/destroy-everything-that-beautiful-and-valuable/170/ The indian government was trying to impose prohibition on the whole of the country -- and eighty percent of  the cabinet ministers were drunkards! And the Prime Minister himself, Morarji Desai, was worse than all of them -- he was drinking his own urine! I would rather drink wine. If one has to choose between wine and urine, wine seems to be far more aesthetic -- and it is far more vegetarian, too! Urine seems to be an animal food. And just think of the whole passage it comes along, the long journey it takes... now the second step after that is not very far away! When Indira became Prime Minister, she was not moving into the Prime Minister's house, she took two months to move in. She was changing all the tiles in the bathrooms because... who knows what he was doing inside the bathroom? And the whole house was being almost renovated. Everything had to be cleaned, all the utensils had to be removed. Who knows what he was doing? And in his bathrooms all that was found were different kinds of... Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:39:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Who-knows-what-he-was-doing/169/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Who-knows-what-he-was-doing/169/   Nearly everybody believes in UFOs, including especially the debunkers. Everybody believes that some people report UFOs, to start with, and only then does the argument begin. Some want to file all the reports in the hoax file, some in hallucination, some in Alien Spaceship, some in electromagnetic oddity, some in paranormal, some in time-machines from the future, some in sundogs, some in Famous Lost Weather Balloons, etc., etc. Very few have the sophistication to think that some flying whangdoodles belong in one category and others in two or three other categories. Only the Totally Damned, i.e., agnostics and post-modernists, file some of them in - Unidentified. I find it humorous that so few of us will accept that some Unidentified gizmos must get filed in Unidentified for now and maybe for a long time, maybe forever... I always try to formulate my sentences in terms of probability and often include the percentage of belief I give to an idea - about 0.0000001 % to the Virgin... Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:39:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Very-few-have-the-sophistication/168/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Very-few-have-the-sophistication/168/ WHAT IS THE GREATEST THING YOU CAN EXPERIENCE? IT IS THE HOUR OF THE GREAT CONTEMPT. THE HOUR IN WHICH EVEN YOUR HAPPINESS GROWS LOATHSOME TO YOU, AND YOUR REASON AND YOUR VIRTUE ALSO. THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: `WHAT GOOD IS MY HAPPINESS? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE. BUT MY HAPPINESS SHOULD JUSTIFY EXISTENCE ITSELF!' THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: `WHAT GOOD IS MY REASON? DOES IT LONG FOR KNOWLEDGE AS THE LION FOR ITS FOOD? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE!' THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: `WHAT GOOD IS MY VIRTUE? IT HAS NOT YET DRIVEN ME MAD! HOW TIRED I AM OF MY GOOD AND MY EVIL! IT IS ALL POVERTY AND DIRT AND MISERABLE EASE!.... THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY, `WHAT GOOD IS MY PITY? IS NOT PITY THE CROSS UPON WHICH HE WHO LOVES MAN IS NAILED? BUT MY PITY IS NO CRUCIFIXION!' HAVE YOU EVER SPOKEN THUS? HAVE YOU EVER CRIED THUS? AH, THAT I HAD HEARD YOU CRYING THUS! IT IS NOT YOUR SIN, BUT YOUR MODERATION THAT CRIES TO HEAVEN,... Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:40:58 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/WHAT-IS-THE-GREATEST-THING-YOU-CAN-EXPERIENCE/167/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/WHAT-IS-THE-GREATEST-THING-YOU-CAN-EXPERIENCE/167/ Concentration is not meditation. They are totally different things, in fact, diametrically opposite. In concentration you narrow your consciousness to one point; in meditation you open up your consciousness to all directions. For example, when you listen to the sounds... a bird starts calling, a child cries, and a thousand and one things are happening -- you have to be just open to all, with no choice. Concentration is a choice; meditation is a choiceless awareness. If you concentrate then you will just concentrate on the sound of this bird and   you will not allow any other sound to interfere. You narrow down your mind completely so that everything else is excluded, and you are only focussed on one sound. Then it is concentration. But concentration is a kind of tension; it is unnatural, and it will tire you, it will exhaust you. You will be distracted again and again. And when you are distracted, you will feel miserable because you are failing, you are not up to the mark, you have not been able to... Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:49:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/a-bird-starts-calling/166/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/a-bird-starts-calling/166/ Zarathustra has many original insights. Just a single, original insight could have made him one of the greatest men that has ever lived, but he has so many, about each and everything. His vision is not of the ordinary. Perhaps that is the reason why people have forgotten him. He has been giving tremendous insights and truths, but they have passed over people's heads. It seems very easy to understand when Jesus says: "Love your neighbor as yourself." There is nothing original in it. Buddha has said it, Mahavira has said it. There is not anything that you cannot understand. With Zarathustra, you have to be very silent, remembering that you are encountering an utterly unique person who speaks to the depths of your very being, of which you are not aware. He is not a moral teacher in the usual sense; he is a perfect master. He is not interested in the trivia; his interest is in transforming you into a new man. The world is too burdened with the small man. He wants the whole of humanity to have... Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:46:45 +0200 http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Love-your-neighbor-as-yourself/165/ http://www.blogigo.de/tao/Love-your-neighbor-as-yourself/165/