Thanks, Jack! The near end of this video triggered a deeper connection with the koan I'm currently working on! Imagine me minding my business, clipping my nails, listening to a little Jack Haubner lol then BAM a sudden realization.
One of my all time favorites The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis is my go to spiritual despair novel. I do like most of what I've read of Nathaniel West as well... Excellent video(s)...
This video reminded me to the novel of Luigi Pirandello: One, none and hundred thousand. It deals more with the identity/personality that we take for granted and imagine that every single person we encounter also shares that experience of our persona. So when he realizes is not the case he goes insane and acts in the most unpredictable way. It has that fiction-nonfiction taste you mentioned. I'll will check Miss Lonelyhearts, thank you!
The self destruction option is along the corridor and is far from glamourous. Thanks for this talk. Saw the film 'Perfect days' last weekend and wondered if you will be doing a review of it ?
You reminded me what this book was called I had read it maybe 6 years ago and it left my memory. What about the second story? Or maybe just my edition included the other story. I remember it reminded me of the beat guys from the 60s. Love it thanks.
My edition just has Miss Lonelyhearts. His other book, I think Day of the Locusts, I read decades ago but am thinking about picking it up again. Then again...maybe I'll cool off first. This book was like a red hot poker in both my eyeballs straight through to my brain!!
“…you can see the back of thier super red throats- see thier tongues drying out as they’re giving you these monologues…” 😂 ALL Right Already- I’m buying yer damn book 😂 (pls never stop sharing about what you’re reading- it’s becoming my fave section of the Interwebs 😍)
The 'dark night of the soul' and the liberation of kenosis, occurs when the fixated entrenched mind utilizes doubt to doubt itself, the entire constructed compendium of one's thoughts...all of small mind, even the utility of doubt is surrendered Again: The totallity of one's thoughts, whatever value system, what constitutes one's ultimately self-referential opinionation, that myriad of assessments, judgments and justifications of 'reality', all of one's contextual echo chamber is confronted as if it was now an objectified wall of utter non-sense. Every word of it, all those thoughts compounded into one's conceptual edifice of 'this is me', that wall of subjectivity and objectivity...collapses. AND HERE YOU ARE quite capable of recognizing the wisdom within the addage: "A thought is the thought of the thoughtless." There's tremendous Peace suffused within the timelessness of All This...Spiritual dispair was a general carelessness of one's exhausting self-absorption. Kenosis is the pheonix-bird that emerges from the ashheap, now presently aware, when suddenly the cumbersome ego-centricity is relinquished for a Sensibility of 'things as they are'.. Oneness is but a spaciousness... That very simple immediacy is by far the purity of 'just so' and 'suchness'. Note: 'the accusation' is a worthwhile notion.
A little follow up...I literally ran into a man in late June, or early July who had no nose...I was shocked but found a way to help him. But I was also rattled which undermined a chance meeting with an old friend. (Readiness is All)
Full disclosure . . . it's, um, dated in a lot of ways, I was just looking through it and read some stuff that is really challenging. BUT the book takes zero prisoners and is struggling towards a transcendent perspective that it actually achieves through the godperfect prose in spots.
@@zenconfidential25whoa buddy, I just got back from ordering this at the local library. I'm only 3 minutes into your video. Please warn me if there are spoilers. I'm reading "The stranger" while waiting for my order of "Single White Monk" to arrive
Question : can zazen exhaust us and allow for connection with the world, in the absence of any dramatic kensho? Is it possible to be free of suffering by simple regular sitting?
Absolutely. Kensho schmensho. Seriously. If you sit angling for kensho you're like a mother who does good things for her children only cos she's angling for love, affection, and attention for herself. Sit selflessly and forget kensho/satori/enlightement and all the other carrots. You'll get strong this way. Stronger than kensho!!
Thanks, Jack! The near end of this video triggered a deeper connection with the koan I'm currently working on! Imagine me minding my business, clipping my nails, listening to a little Jack Haubner lol then BAM a sudden realization.
Wow! You are a great book reviewer also😊 I love your teachings! Greetings from Amsterdam Netherlands
Wow, thank you! That's very kind. And greetings to you from Vienna Austria!!
One of my all time favorites The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis is my go to spiritual despair novel. I do like most of what I've read of Nathaniel West as well... Excellent video(s)...
Never read the book but the movie had a profound impact on me way back when, thank you! Gonna check it out.
This video reminded me to the novel of Luigi Pirandello: One, none and hundred thousand. It deals more with the identity/personality that we take for granted and imagine that every single person we encounter also shares that experience of our persona. So when he realizes is not the case he goes insane and acts in the most unpredictable way. It has that fiction-nonfiction taste you mentioned. I'll will check Miss Lonelyhearts, thank you!
It's a heck of a book. Really impacted me. Thanks for the comment!
The self destruction option is along the corridor and is far from glamourous. Thanks for this talk. Saw the film 'Perfect days' last weekend and wondered if you will be doing a review of it ?
I really really wanted to do a review of it...then I didn't. But I really really need to do a review of it. It's a beautiful film.
You reminded me what this book was called I had read it maybe 6 years ago and it left my memory. What about the second story? Or maybe just my edition included the other story. I remember it reminded me of the beat guys from the 60s. Love it thanks.
My edition just has Miss Lonelyhearts. His other book, I think Day of the Locusts, I read decades ago but am thinking about picking it up again. Then again...maybe I'll cool off first. This book was like a red hot poker in both my eyeballs straight through to my brain!!
Good video man
Thank you for saying so!
“…you can see the back of thier super red throats- see thier tongues drying out as they’re giving you these monologues…”
😂 ALL Right Already- I’m buying yer damn book 😂
(pls never stop sharing about what you’re reading- it’s becoming my fave section of the Interwebs 😍)
Thank you my friend, I'm working on a new video about a new book I LOVE!!
"Revolutionary Road," by Richard Yates
thank you, I’m on it!!
The 'dark night of the soul' and the liberation of kenosis, occurs when the fixated entrenched mind utilizes doubt to doubt itself, the entire constructed compendium of one's thoughts...all of small mind, even the utility of doubt is surrendered Again: The totallity of one's thoughts, whatever value system, what constitutes one's ultimately self-referential opinionation, that myriad of assessments, judgments and justifications of 'reality', all of one's contextual echo chamber is confronted as if it was now an objectified wall of utter non-sense. Every word of it, all those thoughts compounded into one's conceptual edifice of 'this is me', that wall of subjectivity and objectivity...collapses. AND HERE YOU ARE quite capable of recognizing the wisdom within the addage: "A thought is the thought of the thoughtless." There's tremendous Peace suffused within the timelessness of All This...Spiritual dispair was a general carelessness of one's exhausting self-absorption. Kenosis is the pheonix-bird that emerges from the ashheap, now presently aware, when suddenly the cumbersome ego-centricity is relinquished for a Sensibility of 'things as they are'.. Oneness is but a spaciousness...
That very simple immediacy is by far the purity of 'just so' and 'suchness'.
Note: 'the accusation' is a worthwhile notion.
Magister Ludi by Herman Hesse features a short story after the novel...entitled "The Indian Life" is 'right there'.
I need to read it, thank you.
A little follow up...I literally ran into a man in late June, or early July who had no nose...I was shocked but found a way to help him. But I was also rattled which undermined a chance meeting with an old friend. (Readiness is All)
Instantly ordered the book... 🤣
Full disclosure . . . it's, um, dated in a lot of ways, I was just looking through it and read some stuff that is really challenging. BUT the book takes zero prisoners and is struggling towards a transcendent perspective that it actually achieves through the godperfect prose in spots.
@@zenconfidential25 Thanx for the warning! I hope after Burroughs novels and Kronenberg movies in my youth I might be able to handle this... 🤣🤣
@@zenconfidential25whoa buddy, I just got back from ordering this at the local library. I'm only 3 minutes into your video. Please warn me if there are spoilers. I'm reading "The stranger" while waiting for my order of "Single White Monk" to arrive
I understand!!
Question : can zazen exhaust us and allow for connection with the world, in the absence of any dramatic kensho? Is it possible to be free of suffering by simple regular sitting?
Absolutely. Kensho schmensho. Seriously. If you sit angling for kensho you're like a mother who does good things for her children only cos she's angling for love, affection, and attention for herself. Sit selflessly and forget kensho/satori/enlightement and all the other carrots. You'll get strong this way. Stronger than kensho!!
I am living my spiritual despair novel, will end up like miss lonelyhearts or become a buddha.
Bro! Shoot me an email and tell me about it.
Thomas Ligotti
Googling him now!