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Crazy Wisdom is a Mind that has entered into such stability and maturity within itself that it no longer moves. With the actual contemplative practice with the Crazy Wisdom Deity, there is an increase in the amount and continuity of the Light by making all reality—internal and external—part of the ongoing understanding and application of the Teachings. Therefore, Crazy Wisdom can be defined as a Mind that understands itself so completely that it does not allow any obscurations to cover its natural radiance of Innate Awareness, the State of Eternal Presence.
What is the True Nature of the Divine or the Divine Mind? The True Nature of The Divine can be observed as a Totality in the Form of a Kosmos (Gk) which is a Divinely alive and existing order throughout the Universe. From the point of view of the Mind of humankind, it is the nature of the ’ Mind as such’ as discovered in its true Divinity.
“Splendors” or “Spheres” of the Amesha Spentas of Zoroaster and were translated into Aramaic and Hebrew as the four Archangels plus the Cherubim, Seraphim and the Supreme Mind itself. These Divine Bounteous Immortals are the five Divine Minds in the Integral philosophical nomenclature.
The object of these Integral Methods is to make concentration, visualization, meditation, contemplation, and ecstasies possible under all conditions of human behavior and life endeavors. The Supreme Goal of life (according to Plato, followed by Plotinus) was to make life itself the highest contemplation—that is, to spiritualize our entire life in all the possible states: being awake, dreaming, in deep sleep, or contemplating.
In the Integral Philosophical presentation of the Jester, the first premise is that our entire life is one of suffering, practically and exclusively because we do not know the origin of that suffering. We live in the desperate situation of trying to escape from this absurd circumstance.
Thus, the first premise is that we do not know, or we are ignorant of, the actual causes of our suffering and the veritable truth that, in fact, we cause our own suffering by reacting to our phenomenal appearances as if they were true reality. We just need to realize that in principle we are the victim and also the executioner, or put another way that we are the turkey, the cook, and the patron who gorges on the meal.
The simplicity and directness of the Kamakura Masters is in itself chilling and has the effect of a katana (Jpn) just over your head.
To be present and aware of the Essence of the Mind was to enter into the State of Kung and to realize the Totality of the Mind. In this method, the student was not to stray from Kung and was not to pollute the Divine Mind by falling into Teh (Jpn) or the discriminative mind of qualities of thoughts and conceptualization.
This separation of Minds can be attained in the Integral Method using (1) the Kath State movements to generate the energy of inner fire; (2) Pneumorhythm exercises to combine breathing with systematic concentration, and (3) the multi–faceted Kinerhythm Meditation. Kinerhythm provides a division of attention between the reality of the slow movement and the clarity of the mind that observes, experiences and understands. This brings a clear division of these three aspects of the mind, and this actual reality can trigger the entry into an indefinite contemplation that dissolves in infinite space.
In Integral Philosophy the Protoanalytical Theory that deals with a complete structure of the human psyche—with all the innate mechanisms that actually produce karmic desires, attachments and projections—is precisely described in two series of nine Spheres (see page 31), which become interlocked by the process of Enlightenment in the ninth Sphere of the first series.
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A Commentary on Crazy Wisdom by Oscar Ichazo presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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