Note to all concerned: I hereby change my soul name (the name which best represents this felt flow of mystery, imagery, energy) from Zen Baptist to Wu Chi Ku. The Z. B. name has become too rigid of confinement, a soul prison. "Wu" and "Ku" mean empty and empty is the only way to continue opening to the felt flow that is. "Chi" means energy or life force. Wu Chi Ku is imaged as a sphere with no surface whose center is everywhere. The soul is freely forming. -- If this does not concern you, be on your way.
Monday, December 5, 2016
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Going Soul-ar
Restoration of soul: "Do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewal of your mind." (Romans 12:2)
What is the world but the imagery produced by the party lines of a consumer society? The verse above is revolutionary. Do not be conformed to this imagery though bathed in it, though washed in the ongoing blather of its continuous churning.
Con-formed means to be formed by the con, to adjust our shape to the shape that is called for by those who seek profit from our conformation. Do not be con-formed.
Instead, use soul power. Move from being a fossil to soul-ar. We can trust the core of our being, of our soul. At our core is light and truth and goodness. We toss away the conformation and allow our light to shine through continuous transformation, through moving with a continuous renewal, an eternal opening of our heart-mind.
How do we do this? Through attention. Whatever we attend to, we become. Want to continue attending to the world? Fine, but put it in your peripheral vision. For transformation of our soul and of the world soul, we already know what to give attention to. If you have lost touch with that, sit quietly, listen, and open. Or, my preference, go outside and walk around. Solvitur Ambulando! It is solved by walking around.
What is the world but the imagery produced by the party lines of a consumer society? The verse above is revolutionary. Do not be conformed to this imagery though bathed in it, though washed in the ongoing blather of its continuous churning.
Con-formed means to be formed by the con, to adjust our shape to the shape that is called for by those who seek profit from our conformation. Do not be con-formed.
Instead, use soul power. Move from being a fossil to soul-ar. We can trust the core of our being, of our soul. At our core is light and truth and goodness. We toss away the conformation and allow our light to shine through continuous transformation, through moving with a continuous renewal, an eternal opening of our heart-mind.
How do we do this? Through attention. Whatever we attend to, we become. Want to continue attending to the world? Fine, but put it in your peripheral vision. For transformation of our soul and of the world soul, we already know what to give attention to. If you have lost touch with that, sit quietly, listen, and open. Or, my preference, go outside and walk around. Solvitur Ambulando! It is solved by walking around.
Friday, December 2, 2016
As a Zen Baptist
As a Zen Baptist, my relationship with Jesus is direct, immediate, open, with little or no doctrinal interference. The parables of Jesus are regarded as koans, problems to be solved, not on any intellectual or emotional level, but in the realm of paradox. The parables "solve" themselves deep within, exploding and imploding, creating transformations of consciousness not to be predicted or foreseen. Jesus is the Zen Master refusing to rigidly instruct, even casting you away as a student or rather allowing you to cast yourself away if you insist on superficiality or concretized judgment. Jesus is a warrior of spirit, THE Warrior of Spirit, who teaches by example: compassion, strong stance, crucifixion on the cross of time and space, going to the wilderness for contemplation and meditation and demon wrestling but always coming back to face it all again one more time. Jesus, my Teacher, my Sensei, the one who loves me with a fierce love of deep understanding and the willingness to take me back into the dojo, the training hall, the arena of Now, when I fall. He looks at me with stern eyes of compassion and says, "George, here we go again!"
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