I've been cursed, pardon, tagged by http://artist-entrepreneur.zaadz.com/blog

aka Leonardo de Luca...



THE RULES:



1. Link to the person's blog who tagged you.


2. Post these rules on your blog.


3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.


4. Tag seven random [?] people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.


5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.




The seven weird/random things about me:



1-This happened when I was 4, 5 or 6 (?): I am rowing on a small lake in a small boat. At the end of the lake, the current of a small river leads me to a bigger lake. I start to row again, moving away from the coast, where a tall rocky island slowly appears. I don't have memories of climbing any rock face, but I'll always remember the extraordinary feeling of being on the top of the island, lying in the grass with my head in the sun, knowing for sure that everything is ok, forever!



2- The small lake realy exists. I kept looking for years for the small river that led me once to this island... But at the age of 12, I had to admit to myself that this story probably took place in a dream! Nobody knew the lake and the island I was talking about. But 4 years ago, just above where that island should have been (if you consider where the river started in my dream...), stood in the sky a strange cloud with the shape of a heart (the picture I joined with the blog). Believe me, you don't see twice a cloud like this in your life...



3- I eat wild mushroom. I know it's not that weird, but when you consider all the people I know who didn't want to take that "risk"... By the way, I don't go pick them randomly, I really know them, personnaly, by their little names...



4- Once I read in the newspaper that the french army at the time of Napoleon was the first to use chemical weapons in Haïti against the slaves. While I was readind this, there was standing at 15 feet of me a guy who was mumbling to himself. But when he looked at me, it was like he tuned his mind to what I was reading and he started to repeat and explain what was in the article for about 15 seconds... 



5- I don't tell this quite often but if Zaadz is not a place to tell this, where is the right place?

To answer that one, we need to define what is an adult and what is a children. Not so obvious if you agree that you can still act like a child and be 40. If your a prisonner of emotionals patterns that took place in your childhood and you just don't realise it, well, doesn't matter how old you are, you're still a child. A child is often impulsive and what makes him happy won't necessarily stands on solid ground. I think a real adult is someone who understands that what makes him happy comes and goes, so his conception of happiness is related to the unknown, just when you are a kid and everything is new... It's a matter of perception, even if for real, everything is always new.... The happier at last will always be the adult who is (isn't) like a child... And the child will always be the father of the adult...

THE ANSWER. Otherwise we would have found it a long time ago... But it's not that it doesn't exist, or that it does... Whoever has been in the presence of that wisdom (or vision, or truth, or joy, or beauty...?) agree to say there's no word for THIS. Because words are a product of dualism. They're there to name things we seperate from the Whole. Night exists only because day exists. Hard to realise that this only happens in our mind... Everything that is preceived by an I is isolated by his physical, historical, psychological, whateverical point of view...

We're not (yet) programmed to see the Whole thing. But it's our goal. Someone I just read yesterday (Yvan Amar) wrote that God is wishing us to be the witness of the game the univers is playing through us, right now. He's inviting us every second to be the co-author with him of the univers. But we'll ignore most of our lives his invitation, obsessed we're all are by our I. "All through the day, I me mine , I me mine, I me mine"...

When you look deeply into religion, you can see that the relief of the I is the goal. But the I is very smart and will always find a way to bring religion on his side. That's why religion can be used the way it's used...
But like Meister Eckhart said, "water cannot wet itself, fire cannot burn itself, but the light of our spirit has the possibility, because of its unborn, unconditionnal, divine quality, to light itself..." But for that, we need to make space for that to happen. Just like the center of our eye, empty of color, allows all the color to be reflected in it...
Big stuffffff.... I could go on and on and on with that question... but I would seem not to understand what I just said in the beginning: "Words don't fit with the Question..." (My I just loves to quote Itself...)

The future is still ahead but the present is getting closer.

A balanced life necessarely means for me a big part of unknow that will remain unknown untill I overcome it so I get a new perspective that will bring me to a next step. The wheel has to turn always. And for that, you need to look for unbalance. Otherwise, there's no movement, or just illusion of movement, and your evolution is stopped. Just look how you walk. If you really look at the movement of walking, you'll find that what push you from the back to the front is unbalance..! That is a really simple explanation of a more (or even less...!) subtle principle that my friend and teacher Leonardo de Luca calls the 3-1 portal. He explains this in his book The Artist-Entrepreneur, 13 modes of flirting with darkness. And he's a Zaadster too... (go check my friend wall). But to make it simple, balanced life has to be unbalanced! C'est la vie....

1-The zocalo of Mexico city.
Immediately after I started to walk into the square, I felt that this place was sacred since a long long time. I wasn't surprised to learn that the cathedral was built on an ancient aztec temple (or pyramid). I also felt that I already knew that place.

2-The forests and the mountains.

3-There's also a place I went 3 years ago but I can't tell you where it was. I guess it was Home...

Voilà!
Jeff

I think the bodhisattva way is the best anwser for this question.
You make the wish that you won't go to heaven until any living creature reaches liberation.
That "strategy" prevent your ego to imagine that goal. It's important to do so 'cause you cannot enter in heaven with your ego... The beauty of the plan is that when you really work for the liberation of all living creature, you have many chances to erase your ego and enter into paradise, even if you wish not to go there... That's how you don't get attach to detachment!

But to be effective, your wish has to be totally pure and honest. And the only way you can check that is with your actions... actions that will transform you and will eventually, if you work hard enough, give you the shape of that well-known camel for who it's easier to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter in heaven... (if he's attach to its bank account, doesn't matter if you're rich, it's what you do with your money that counts...).

When you get to face yourself when there's nothing left but your soul, and you really realise that what you did to other people, you did it to you (we're ONE by the way...), the doors of heaven won't open if you didn't diseappear in the support of others all your life through. And when they don't open, you get stuck (again) with yourself and have no choice to come back and try again...

Even tough I really think that this is one of the way it works, I still find it hard to act the right way. But I'm getting better. Hope you do too!
Bye
JF

My nickname refers to the head as the center of intellectuallism in opposition of the heart as the center of... what isn't intellectualism!

But before I go further, as you might have already read, english is not my 1st language, so it will may be difficult for me to tell you exactly what I'll try to mean, but I'll try...

An author I discovered this summer, Douglas Harding (the 3rd way, The Headless Way) made me realise how we don't look at the world as we think we are. Do you really feel that someone inside your head (you!) is looking at what stands before himself through two little holes?
Douglas shows you with very simple exercises that you are not where (what, who) you think you are!
Never in all the spiritual books I read, the concept of vacuity and emptiness was so simply explained..! It was a very concrete revelation. Douglas insists (and demonstrates) on how we perpetuate a big, very big misunderstanding about (what we think is) ourselves...
Sentences like "Blessed those who are poor in spirit"(Jesus) or "To find the the way, you have to lose your head (Lao-Tzeu) really take all their meaning...

But meaning means that there is a seperation between the thinker and what is thought. That separation = not living the moment. And that necessarily means a distance, a process in which time is involved... and perceived by the mind (the head), doesn't matter if it takes a few seconds or many days.... Let's take a short cut: more there is time, less there is love.

The Nomanhead is not ruled by time because he leaves behind all what he learned from what society, family, himself told him what to think. He can totally embrace the moment. Not being ruled by time (your historical, social, logical... past) allows to live in the moment. And a moment that is not ruled by time = eternity. Eternity isn't a present that always last but a lack of time perception where the "action" of "being" meet at the same intersection... By the way, even if my nickname is Nomanhead, you can tell that I still think a lot...
I guess that's enough for tonight... We'll have to talk about dualism and the problem with words...
All you Zaadzters, i invite you to show your disagree or your agree with this. I wrote that blog quite fast and I must admit i'm not rationnaly sure about everything... certainly a good sign... ( :
And go check the web site of my friend Leonardo de Luca. He's a very good teacher!
Good night, bonne nuit!
JF