When we learn to stop at nothing, we are fully awake and aware. We experience, embody both senses of the phrase simultaneously. We stop at nothing: persevere. We stop at nothing: become nothing. Motion and rest are the same. We persevere in being nothing.
We are no thing. We are not-hinged, the gateless gate.
Of course, this is no way for citizen consumer to live. We are supposed to be things, passive participants in a group consensus reality. Even the much heralded path of resistance (re-cyst-ance: becoming a cyst again) is a counterpoint to the societal point.
Stopping at nothing is a way out of the maze with the monster at the center thirsting for ever more quantities of your blood. When stopping at nothing, the maze disappears.
In Meister Eckhart's terms, we become one with the ground of being. "God's ground and my ground is the same ground." We then live in the world but we are not of the world. This is the path of the spiritual warrior. Become as nothing. Stop at nothing.
We are no thing. We are not-hinged, the gateless gate.
Of course, this is no way for citizen consumer to live. We are supposed to be things, passive participants in a group consensus reality. Even the much heralded path of resistance (re-cyst-ance: becoming a cyst again) is a counterpoint to the societal point.
Stopping at nothing is a way out of the maze with the monster at the center thirsting for ever more quantities of your blood. When stopping at nothing, the maze disappears.
In Meister Eckhart's terms, we become one with the ground of being. "God's ground and my ground is the same ground." We then live in the world but we are not of the world. This is the path of the spiritual warrior. Become as nothing. Stop at nothing.
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