Zen and the
Art of Lost and Found
On Appreciating
Deeper Processes
The Process:
This
process has us involved with a quieter undercurrent of examining the value of
stepping outside of ourselves and our beliefs and their related support systems
and re-perceiving some of the problems we are facing or have faced. Have you noticed … yet?
Many of
us today make a simple mistake in logic.
The
assumption is: the world is merely a projection of “my mind”, then
it follows logically … that whatever is in “my mind” is projected out and
manifested in the world before me …
This is said by some to be a Higher Power at work(?)
But … and
this but is large … but … in actual fact this is
confusion at work. It is the confusion
of the mind with the body … Confusion is said to be a defence strategy…
it prevents the observer from seeing the obvious… the obvious we don’t want to
see or can’t face.
The life
drama or our circumstance … the stuff that swirls all around us … personally
… is not just a projection of our simple, segregated, separate mind or single
brain … it is a composite of All in the cosmic sense … it is a composite
of opportunity… it is there for us to grasp or avoid … whichever it is
that you choose to do with it.
For us to
believe that we as an individual created all this … alone … that one would be
… and actually is … a form of arrogance not ignorance … Egotistical
arrogance.
Spiritually
speaking … our minds are of the
Creator … this means, loosely translated, that our true mind or true self
is a part of God and a part of Love … but not in a secular sense.
If we
equate our true mind/self with our (body’s) brain and our bodily wants and
desires then the next jump in logic is to the assumption … of … whatever it is
that we think we want is indeed a fact and that is closely followed by facts
become necessities … we actually believe that … and thus it
follows that once we believe it … then … we actually know it is so and
consequently then can act on it … comfortably.
It
follows that our mind’s power can and will be used to justify the manipulation
of life’s circumstance for the purpose of the acquisition of those things that
the body and the brain thinks we so desperately need … EGO is in there
someplace … those things that we hang-on to just for our supposed sanity
… our wants and desires … understanding this spiritual hic–up can
be profound.
It should
be noted that Christ sought no benefit or advantage for his body … the effects
of his miracles was simple … they were designed to set those that were touched
into action … on the road of a spiritual journey … not the road of favourable
treatment and acquisitions.
So …
Neil Douglas-Tubb
Zen and the Art of Lost and Found
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