No matter. That particular sharing was just a matter of timing in my
inbox. Otherwise, I don't quote much. Less maze, more zing.
KG
On 8/30/2012 5:22 AM, Bill! wrote:
Merle and Kris,
That doesn't surprise me for two reasons:
1. Sometimes I don't notice that someone is quoting someone else's post.
2. It does sound like something Kris would share.
Anyway, I liked it and thought it talked about a similar strategy used
in koan study.
...Bill!
--- In [email protected] <mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com>,
Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> bill..i believe it was kris our resident guru who pointed us to this
quote... it is perfect ..merle
>
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> Merle,
>
> Good stuff indeed! I especially liked:
>
> "The one who is seeking the truth gets into a maze, and that maze
interests him. He wants to go through it a thousand times more. It is
just like children. Their whole interest is in running about; they do
not want to see the door and go in until they are very tired. So it is
with grown-up people. They all say that they are seeking truth, but
they like the maze."
>
> This is koan study in a nutshell...Bill!
>
> --- In [email protected]
<mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com>, Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@> wrote:
> >
> > good stuff.!
> > Â
> > Â merle
> > Â
> >
> >
> >
> > Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
> >
> > Man likes complexity. He does not want to take only one
> > step; it is more interesting to look forward to millions
> > of steps. The one who is seeking the truth gets into a
> > maze, and that maze interests him. He wants to go through
> > it a thousand times more. It is just like children. Their
> > whole interest is in running about; they do not want to
> > see the door and go in until they are very tired. So it is
> > with grown-up people. They all say that they are seeking
> > truth, but they like the maze. That is why the mystics
> > made the greatest truths a mystery, to be given only to
> > the few who were ready for them, letting the others play
> > because it was the time for them to play.
> >
> > For spiritual attainment we do not need to pay a tax, it
> > is ours, it is our self, it is discovering our self,
> > finding our self. Yet what one values is what one gets
> > with difficulty. Man loves complexity so much! He makes a
> > thing big and says, 'This is valuable'. If it is simple he
> > says, 'It has no value'. That is why the ancient people,
> > knowing human nature, told a person when he said he wanted
> > spiritual attainment, 'Very well; for ten years go around
> > the temple, walk around it a hundred times in the morning
> > and in the evening. Go to the Ganges, take pitchers full
> > of water during twenty or fifty years, then you will get
> > inspiration'. That is what must be done with people who
> > will not be satisfied with a simple explanation of the
> > truth, who want complexity.
> >
> > We read in the Vadan, 'Simplicity is the living beauty.'
> > Man today has made life so complex that whatever he seeks
> > after, he wants to find in complexity. All things in life
> > which have importance, beauty and value are simple; and
> > simplest of all things is the divine truth. ... The truth
> > is not a newly invented theory, not a dogma, not an idea;
> > it is reality itself. At the back of it is the self of
> > man; therefore it is simple. But it is not simplicity that
> > man seeks, he is longing for complexity. Anything which
> > will confuse he is glad to take interest in. If it is
> > simple, he says, 'I know it already.'
> >
> > Man loves complexity and calls it knowledge. A great many
> > societies and institutions in the world which call
> > themselves occult, esoteric and psychic, and by various
> > other names, knowing that everyone is interested in
> > complexity, cover the truth. Instead of covering the truth
> > with one cover, they cover it with a thousand covers to
> > make it more interesting. ... Therefore, a mystic very
> > often appears to be simple because sincerity makes him
> > feel inclined to express the truth in simple language and
> > in simple ideas. But because people value complexity, they
> > think that what he says is too simple and that it is
> > something which they have always known, that it is nothing
> > new. However, as Solomon said, 'There is nothing new under
> > the sun.'
> >
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