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“Tolerance is a poor word to describe that spirit of active co-operation and mutual appreciation with which an illumined mind may be expected to respond. The world tolerance carries with it a ring of condescending pity; a mere enduring of mistaken notions in other creeds. Normally one tolerates only when one is unable to eliminate that object tolerated. Or one does so as one tolerates as nuisance; an irritating insect but not worth the bother of chasing out of the window. Such an empty and and formal reaction can hardly be the fruit of so rich an experience as Enlightenment.”

— P.J. Saher, Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought: The Psycho-Cybernetics of Comparative Ideas in Religion and Philosophy

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“So, a sage adheres to the tranquil Tao and their pursuit remains soft and weak, adapts to the situation to cope with changes, and always remains behind and never vies to be the first. By remaining soft, weak, tranquil, leisurely and peaceful, they can attack the big and strong and defeat the firm and stable, and no one is able to defeat them.”

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The Huáinánzǐ 淮南子(The Masters/Philosophers of Huainan) 2nd-century BCE

Book One; Searching out the Tao

“There’s a Buddhist formula of the Bodhisattva for the one who has illumination but who determines to remain in the world: all life is sorrowful. So the Bodhisattva participates with joy in the sorrows of the world. This is the crucified one. The Crucifixion is not something that should not have happened; that’s something that must happen. It’s an important concept.”

— Joseph Campbell, An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms

“I only wish to be rich in enlightenment though personally poor, generous with virtue though emotionally aloof.”

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Master Foyan, The Basis of Awareness

Instant Zen; Waking Up in the Present

translated by Thomas Cleary

“I only wish to be rich in enlightenment though personally poor, generous with virtue though emotionally aloof.”

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Master Foyan, The Basis of Awareness

Instant Zen; Waking Up in the Present

translated by Thomas Cleary

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Zen Enlightenment and Zen Work

When it comes to worldly situations, by which ordinary people get suffocated, those who have attained Zen get through them all by being empty. Thus everything is their own gateway to liberation.

Zen Master Yuanwu

Zen Essence, The Science of Freedom translated and edited by Thomas Cleary

Liberation

People have been used by mind’s conceptual consciousness since before they can remember, flowing in the waves of birth and death, unable to be independent. If they want to leave birth and death to be joyfully alive, they must cut through decisively, stopping the course of mind’s conceptual consciousness.

Zen Master Dahui (1089–1163)

Zen Essence, The Science of Freedom translated and edited by Thomas Cleary

Q & A with Hani

Q: “Do you believe in aliens?”

A: There is enough evidence for me to be convinced on UFOs and aliens. The recorded history of sages performing rituals to come in contact with heavenly beings is quite common. I can post some of my favourite Taoist meditations on this.

Q: “What does modernshxmxn mean?”

A: To share knowledge of the ancient science of shamanism to tackle the issues facing humanity today. I replaced the a’s with x’s to symbolize the unnameable force that rules this science.

Q: “How old are you?’

A: I am 32 years old.

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”

— R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise (via modernshxmxn)

Okinawan Uta. The Women Shamans of Okinawa

“No matter what, I resolved to bring light into the world. I have a strong will. I went through so much pain, that I have no tears to cry. That’s how I have become who I am today.”

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Jiang Weiqiao (Master Yinshi)

Born in the 1870s, Jiang Weigiao was a sickly child from the beginning. In his teenage years, he became increasingly unable to lead a normal life, neither Western nor traditional Chinese medicine could help him. His condition only improved when he found an ancient text on inner alchemy, ie., traditional Taoist meditation and longevity techniques, and started to follow its instructions. However as soon as he felt a letter better, he stopped the exercises and soon fell back into one weakness or infection after the next.

At the age of twenty-two, he caught the tuberculosis which had killed his brother. Then he finally set out to heal himself seriously, left his wife and child to be taken care of by the family and established himself a little meditation hut in the backyard. Within a year, a strict regimen including exercises, breathing, walks, meditations, and specific diets not only restored his health but brought him to spiritual dimensions unthought of.

This success beyond his wildest expectations led Jiang to write up and publish an account of his methods. However, he never simply copied the ancient texts and concepts but strictly reported only his experiences, interpreting them in the scientific-technological terms current in his day. His various writings, of which the book here cited is the first, soon inspired others to follow his example. Traditional health exercises were unearthed and modified to cure everything, from the common cold to cancer. Over several decades, the movement mushroomed and grew into what is known as Qigong today. It is still flourishing.

via The Taoist Experience: An Anthology, edited by Livia Kohn

“What seems natural is to think that a warrior who can hold his own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty tyrants with impunity. But that’s not necessarily so. What destroyed the superb warriors of ancient times was to rely on that assumption. Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.”

— Don Juan Matus, The Teachings of Don Juan (via modernshxmxn)

“Objective criticism, particularly self-criticism, is an ancient tradition in Buddhism. It would not be too much to say critical insight was one of the mainstays of the original schools of Buddhism. One of the strengths of the authentic projection of Zen Buddhism was its impersonal pursuit of the liberating effects of this practice. Applied to social, political, psychological, and deep contemplative experiences over the centuries, this method endowed Buddhism with profound understanding of human nature.”

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Translators Introduction

Zens Lessons, The Art of Leadership translated by Thomas Cleary

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Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body

edited and translated by Thomas Cleary

The ancient meditation techniques of Taoism encompass a wide range of practices—with an aim toward cultivating a healthy body as well as an enlightened mind. These selections from classic texts of Taoist meditation represent the entire range of techniques—from sitting meditation practices to internal alchemy. Most of the texts appear here in English for the first time. Selections are taken from the following classics: • Anthology on Cultivation of Realization:A document from 1739 (Ming Dynasty) that emphasizes development of the natural, social, and spiritual elements in human life. • Treatise on Sitting Forgetting:A Tang Dynasty text that sets meditation practice in terms familiar to Confucians and Buddhists. • Sayings of Taoist Master Danyang:Wisdom of the Taoist wizard and representative of the Complete Reality School. • Secret Writings on the Mechanism of Nature:An anthology taken from one hundred sixty-three Taoist sources, including ancient classics and works on meditation and spiritual alchemy, along with admonitions and teachings of the great Taoist luminaries. • Zhang Sanfeng’s Taiji Alchemy Secrets:A treatise on the inner mediation practices that are the proper foundation of the martial art Taiji. • Secret Records of Understanding the Way:A rare and remarkable collection of talks by an anonymous Taoist master of the later Qing dynasty (1644_1911). Traditional teachings with a sometimes strikingly modern bent.

via google-books.

I will be releasing my favourite excerpts from this collection of work. Stay tuned to modernshxmxn.tumblr.com

Your treasure

My teacher said to me, “The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don’t need to seek outside.”

— Zen Master Dazhu

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From Thomas Cleary’s edited and translated work of Ancient Chinese Zen Masters, Zen Essence; The Science of Freedom.

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“Profit is something that has no virtue yet attracts people. It makes people hot without fire. It has no authority yet gets people to labor willingly. It has no affections yet makes people never forget it for a moment. It causes students of the Way to ruin their character once they have seen it; it causes administrators to twist the law once they have seen it. Since ancient times human hearts and laws of nations have often been spoiled by profit.”

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Anonymous Taoist (late Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Secret Records of Understanding the Way,

Thomas Cleary translated and edited, Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body.

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“An integral part of Taoist prehistory, the humanitarian element of Taoism—illustrated in historical times by the protest of the Lady of the Supreme Basis—is represented in the tales of Taoist women as antedating the humanistic teachings of the dynastic heroes of pro-Confucianism. One of the ancient Taoist Immortals, a princess of the Shang/Yin dynasty (1766-1123 B.C.E.), a slave society notorious for materialism, cruelty, and disregard for human life, is said to have appeared in the world over a period of two centuries, during which she collected plants to sell to dyers, and used the money to help “orphans and widows, the poor and the sick.””

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Thomas Cleary, Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women (via modernshxmxn)

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