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Approaching the Transcendent
by James Shammas (Age: 44)
copyright 06-19-2006


Age Rating: 18 to 127


Perhaps the concept of one's spiritual development as a path or a journey is itself worn and trite, often leading only to discouragement and yet more delusion and frustration. I must continually remind myself that all concepts are inherently empty and therefore limited; they can never replace personal experience as a source of happiness and freedom. Zen buddhists, unlike their more rigid and scholastic counterparts, assert that true enlightenment can occur now, not near the end of a lifetime, nor necessarily in the next. In the world of non-duality-- in the enlightened state of wisdom-- nirvana remains a concept, along with samsara or the state of delusion and suffering. All are concepts. The "Heart Sutra" intentionally refutes its own credo and language, asserting blissfully that there is no suffering, and so no end of suffering; there is no death since there is no birth; one's goal and the path to the goal are the same; the means is the end; one sits in meditation not to "become" enlightened, but because one is already enlightened; it is a demonstration of the enlightened state, not unlike an honest hug, a helping hand, the creation or the appreciation of a work of art. These pathless states exist and can be glimpsed-- even sustained if one is open and flexible. This is the work of the modern poet.

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05-18-06 7 to 127 Dove
03-12-06 10 to 127 Shakespeare's Wood
07-29-05 10 to 127 The Red Moon
05-28-06 10 to 127 Finnegans Wake
09-12-06 10 to 127 The Buddha Beckons Beckett
08-05-05 13 to 127 You Ask, What is Life?
08-12-05 18 to 127 You Ask, What is Life?, #2 (The reality Show)
04-23-06 10 to 127 Shikan-taza (Just Sitting)
09-05-05 10 to 127 The Cardinal
06-12-05 7 to 127 Birdsong
11-13-05 7 to 127 Comment on the Diamond Sutra
05-30-05 4 to 127 The Fence
05-31-05 7 to 127 More Haiku
03-28-05 10 to 127 Threshold
06-19-05 10 to 127 Spaces
03-29-05 4 to 127 Listening
05-16-05 10 to 127 On The Matter of Form
Warning -- This book has different age-ratings for different chapters. Some readers will be able to read only part of this book and will see chapters as missing. Readers, please contact the author to see if they can release chapters to a younger audience.
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