taurus

from my friend:

Dr. Christopher Hyatt. A book called Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation and Other Devices...

Here's a great excerpt from chapter 2 of the Hyatt book:

TO KNOW ENLIGHTENMENT
NOT TO JUST KNOW OF IT

A ZEN STATEMENT

You must give up the thing most precious to you.
You must give up the thing which you love so dearly,
the thing that you hold on to
-you must give it up-
-you must give it up.-

There can be no half-way measures in "finding"
ENLIGHTENMENT.
It is not hiding anywhere.
It is HERE and NOW.

You must see that you are frightened,
that something is at STAKE all the time--
even in your dreams -- something is at stake,
ALL THE TIME.

Everything which shocks you,
disrupts you, disturbs you can be your friend.
Everything which allows you to sleep,
to be complacent
hinders you.

To become in Accordance with your
TRUE POTENTIAL,
you must be in Discordance with yourself.

YOU ARE AT STAKE ALL THE TIME
AND YOU LOOK FOR FOOD WHICH FEEDS YOU

Anything which delays your end --
feeds you.
You digest this diet overabundant with FAT.
You are insatiable,
and require constant FAT to keep you going.
You use more energy and power maintaining
THE ILLUSION
of your insatiable dream than Living.
You will even STRUT to death's window.

But to Know the DEATHLESS ONE --
you -- the strutter -- must die.
You must go on a diet -- then
Starve to DEATH.

You must stop finding yourself in misery,
in cranial pride,
-- and historic stupidity.

You must stop strutting around like a
fattened COW.

You must stop bowing down to your mistakes.
You must stop your idol worshipping.
You must surrender your misery.

You must stop acting surprised when
something bad happens to you

FOR -- it is the same old thing.
You must stop reacting to things
as you always HAVE.
You must stop proving your story.
You must stop extending the past
into the present and future.
You must stop defending your stupidity,
-- YOUR SLEEP.
You must stop defending
YOUR MISERY.

YOU MUST WAKE UP

You even fosake your health to feed this Monster.
He drinks your blood,
this friend of yours.
You will sacrifice anything and everything to feed him.

Everyone and everything is food for you.
How people treat you (good-bad) is food for you.
You are so weak yet He is so strong.
Why do you prefer the insatiable one to HIM?

You oppose -- you conform -- all is food for you.
You agree -- you disagree -- all is food for you.
You render opinions on this and that,
and spout authorities to back you up
-- all is food for you.
You are surrounded by friends or alone --
all is food for you.
You are naked or adorned --
all is food for you.

SOMETHING IS ALWAYS
AT STAKE
SOMETYHING IS ALWAYS ON THE LINE.

You strut around
proud of the misery
you have caused yourself.
You will do anything to preserve the misery.
You will fight,
you will sneer,
you will accuse,
you will blame, nothing can satiate
you will steal, millions can not
you will hide, fame can not
-- all to preserve fear! love can not
REMEMBER power can not
THERE IS ALWAYS friends can not
SOMETHING ONLY HIM.
AT STAKE.
THAT SOMETHING IS YOU.

AFTER YOU HAVE IT ALL THEN WHAT?

victories feed you
your failures feed you
Your past feeds you
your ideas feed you

if your friends allow you to be complacent,
accept or llike you that is food for you.
If they hate you, that is food for you.

WHY ARE YOU SO HUNGRY?

Does death not even inspire your appetite?
Do you know death?
Or do you just have snapshots of it?
You act like you are immune from it,
that it just happens all around you
-- but not to you.
Not even your own death can shudder you
move you from your -- feeding frenzy.

WHAT FOOD IS NEXT?

Misery is food,
and you can find plenty of that.
You are never at a loss for that.

You never learn
because MISERY is food
You repeat the same mistake,
the same mistake,
the same misery
over and over.

Worst of all
you do it with pride.
with your sneer of superiority,
WITH A SENSE OF NEWNESS,
with a sense of uniqueness,
with a sense of choice,
or with a sense of helplessness.

Yet, it is the same mistake,
the same misery.

You do not even dare find a NEW MISTAKE
A NEW MISERY

since that might wake you up from your
FEEDING FRENZY