Daniel

Medvedov

WHAT DO WE NEED
ZEN Teachings from a Cloud

WIEN 2011

For the Self, what all others may call spirit, we need silence. For the Energy, what all others may call soul, we need to breath well, in a natural and spontaneous way. For the body, for everybody call body what we are taking for granted that it is the body, we need stretching. For the person, a delicate category that everybody seems to know, we need action in non- action and non-action in action. Self, Energy, Body, and Person are four different entities in one. Two more, each one one of a kind, is the Consciousness and the Intellect.
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 Consciousness and Intellect operate, respectively, with the Soul and with the Self. The dynamism of Consciousness is projected in us by the Intuition, a direct mail from the universal principles archives, with which we are constantly in touch and from which we receive knowledge and information about what the sages of all times were doing. On the other hand, the Intellect operates by Reason, the Golden Measure of all things. Then we have on the table six different entities: Consciousness, Intellect, Self, Soul, Body and the Person. We are this entire package of six ones entities taken together.
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 The wise men of the past have thought in a kind of a logical model to transmit this knowledge to the future generations of seekers. This logical model is the die, one of the most ancient tools of wisdom. One die is a wonderful metaphor of what we are. Everybody in the world is capable to understand that a point is the number one, and that two points are the representation of the number two. So, the same occurs with the three, the four, the five and the six points. Each one represents an entity:
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 is the Consciousness
2 is the Soul 3 is the Body 4 is he Person 5 is the Self 6 is the Intellect

Then, whenever you look at a die, you would see your own cosmic and ontological dimension. Throw it on a plane surface: the number you see at the top is the Reality: it is this what it is taken in account right now! Reality is always winning! Or, lets say, that what is always winning is Reality itself! Under it, below, there is the secret counterpart of Reality the Mystery. From all other sides, everybody might see a certain number, but this number is only an opinion, it is a perspective, an image that, actually, is not real!
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 Every opposite side is complementary one to the other, and both added, sum always seven:

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This is like the Truth: always present but at the same time, absent it is not shown! Take carefully the die as an important tool of our secret composition. Use it . . . Contemplate it . . . There is something to learn every time when it is thrown on the table!
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 It is strange enough not to have on that list the common word called mind. There is no mind in our Self. The Self has no Mind. We all, we do not have mind at all . . . Mind is a kind of a cosmic archive and at the same time is a power. Mind could easily influence us with other ones thoughts, penetrate us with other ones desires, pushes us to operate with other ones intentions. So, be aware of the Mind! Try to think not! Try to separate your own thoughts, if any, from the other ones thoughts! Try to discern if a desire comes from inside, or from outside.
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Try to understand if an intention comes from your inner Self, and decline all intention coming from outside! The Mind is a kind of a memory, it is the Universal Memory of all what was thought, felt and done since men were been able to think, to feel and to make and operate with things. What things really are? A good question! Things are of three kinds: 1. Beings 2. Facts 3. Objects
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Then, when we are involved with things, those ones might easily be facts, or beings, or even objects. We are accustomed to manipulate things, like a juggler who is throwing in the air multiple balls. But, sadly enough, it is the Mind, which then is manipulating us, like a child playing with soap bubbles! Be alert! Do not pay attention at the other ones thoughts! Be considerate with other feelings but do not take it in your account! Be careful with your own deeds, and dearly surpass the other ones actions.
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A person who is clear, calm, steady and alert is like a mountain where everybody has to come, and where everybody finds a spring of clear water to drink when thirsty. Be a source of silent music and with it, all your words shall become poetry. Be confident that everything is written down and in this secret text we are all called to write and sign our own story . . . Return to yourself . . . Remain in the middle . . . And from that inner center project yourself beyond the infinite and afterwards, return, one more time, to your middle . . . Become indestructible by unifying your beginning with your end . . .
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