Morbid Tao: An Esoteric Note on Life in the Simulated Reality Matrix
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Originally posted on FB in 2018
A bit of irony: I had to prove to FB that I wasn't a robot.
This might seem like a strange juxtaposition between a song and a text, but the meaning should be clear to those at my level of - what?, maybe warfare, then again, maybe not. Nemesis or teacher? I struggle with this question every single day, as I trudge through my ordeals and meet with myriad illusions.
Anyway, I juxtaposed the song by Morbid Angel with the Taoist text of the Qingjing Jing. What's obvious to me won't be obvious to most. But, then, I didn't post it for the majority, just for the one or few who might benefit from it.
Originally posted on FB in 2018
A bit of irony: I had to prove to FB that I wasn't a robot.
This might seem like a strange juxtaposition between a song and a text, but the meaning should be clear to those at my level of - what?, maybe warfare, then again, maybe not. Nemesis or teacher? I struggle with this question every single day, as I trudge through my ordeals and meet with myriad illusions.
Anyway, I juxtaposed the song by Morbid Angel with the Taoist text of the Qingjing Jing. What's obvious to me won't be obvious to most. But, then, I didn't post it for the majority, just for the one or few who might benefit from it.
"The text first describes the nature of the Tao as divided into Yin and Yang, clear and turbid (qing 清 and zhuo 濁), moving and quiescent (dong 動 and jing 靜), and stresses the importance of the mind in the creation of desires and worldly entanglements. It recommends the practice of observation to counteract this, i.e., the observation of other beings, the self, and the mind, which results in the realization that none of these really exists. The practitioner has reached the observation of emptiness (kongguan 空觀). The latter part of the work reverses direction and outlines the decline from pure spirit to falling into hell: spirit (shen 神) develops consciousness or mind (xin 心), and mind develops greed and attachment toward the myriad beings. Greed then leads to involvement, illusory imagining, and erroneous ways, which trap beings in the chain of rebirth, and they sink deeper into the quagmire of desire, causes them to fall into hell. (2007:801)."
The emphasis on the next passage should be on heaven and earth as the alchemists viewed them:
"Lâo the Master said, The Great Tao has no bodily form, but It produced and nourishes heaven and earth. The Great Tâo has no passions, but It causes the sun and moon to revolve as they do. The Great Tâo has no name, but It effects the growth and maintenance of all things. I do not know its name, but I make an effort, and call It the Tâo.
Now, the Tao (shows itself in two forms); the Pure and the Turbid, and has (the two conditions of) Motion and Rest. Heaven is pure and earth is turbid; heaven moves and earth is at rest. The masculine is pure and the feminine is turbid; the masculine moves and the feminine is still. The radical (Purity) descended, and the (turbid) issue flowed abroad; and thus all things were produced. The pure is the source of the turbid, and motion is the foundation of rest. If man could always be pure and still, heaven and earth would both revert (to non-existence). (tr. Legge 1891:249-250)"|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingjing_Jing
For those interested in reading further, I suggest the following, all of which are worth reading, including The Classic of Purity: https://archive.org/details/SBE40TaoismPart2/page/n13. The Classic of Purity begins on page 247. I also recommend reading The Full Understanding of Life, page 11.
The emphasis on the next passage should be on heaven and earth as the alchemists viewed them:
"Lâo the Master said, The Great Tao has no bodily form, but It produced and nourishes heaven and earth. The Great Tâo has no passions, but It causes the sun and moon to revolve as they do. The Great Tâo has no name, but It effects the growth and maintenance of all things. I do not know its name, but I make an effort, and call It the Tâo.
Now, the Tao (shows itself in two forms); the Pure and the Turbid, and has (the two conditions of) Motion and Rest. Heaven is pure and earth is turbid; heaven moves and earth is at rest. The masculine is pure and the feminine is turbid; the masculine moves and the feminine is still. The radical (Purity) descended, and the (turbid) issue flowed abroad; and thus all things were produced. The pure is the source of the turbid, and motion is the foundation of rest. If man could always be pure and still, heaven and earth would both revert (to non-existence). (tr. Legge 1891:249-250)"|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingjing_Jing
For those interested in reading further, I suggest the following, all of which are worth reading, including The Classic of Purity: https://archive.org/details/SBE40TaoismPart2/page/n13. The Classic of Purity begins on page 247. I also recommend reading The Full Understanding of Life, page 11.
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