The Way of Transformation (499 hits)
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Submitted by Da Steve <dasteve.at.dont.email.me.com> (View user info) at 2003-08-06 20:34:59 EDT
About eight years ago I was struggling to try and clean the mess that was life. A friend gave me this quote on a piece of paper. It took me a while to realize its full meaning. Whenever things become difficult, I will stare up at my wall (that is were it now resides) and read it. I haven't had to for quite some time.
The Way of Transformation
from the Book "The way of Transformation" by Karlfried Graf von Durchheim
The man who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world and will not as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a " raft that leads to the far shore". Only to the extant that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. Thus, the aim of practice is not to develop a attitude which allows a man to acquire a state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever trouble him. On the contrary, practice should teach him to let himself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered- that is to say, it should enable him to dare to let go his futile hankering after harmony, surcease from pain, and a comfortable life in order that he may discover, in doing battle with the forces that oppose him, that which awaits him beyond the world of opposites. The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life, and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world. When this is possible, meditation itself becomes the means by which we accept and welcome the demons which arise from the unconscious - a process very different from the practice of concentration on some object as a protection against such forces. Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable. The more a man learns wholeheartedly to confront the world that threatens him with the isolation, the more are the depths of the Ground of Being revealed and the the possibilities of new life and Becoming opened.
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Submitted by dasteve (user info) at 2003-08-07 12:34:45 EDT (#)
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No its not about gangrape. You should have read it AFTER you masturbated.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-08-07 05:36:52 EDT (#)
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hmmm
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2003-08-06 23:01:40 EDT (#)
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Excellent words....
Submitted by Nator (user info) at 2003-08-06 21:00:01 EDT (#)
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This story is about gangrape, right?
Submitted by phucket (user info) at 2003-08-06 20:39:05 EDT (#)
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i made it about half way through, then a puddle of mud song got stuck in my head...i bet it was s good ending.