METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, part V

METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, part V - by Guenther Zuehlsdorf, translation from the original German edition into Portuguese by Huberto Rohden and translated into English by Flavio de Mello.

 

 

 

 

Buddha, one of the great enlightened beings, called Truth the "Essence of Life", which is plenitude - and at the same time, emptiness. It is emptiness because Truths require us to annihilate our values - or pseudo-values - hitherto maintained, and to abandon the way of fixed rules, since words, depending on its limited and misrepresented character, nothing can enunciate on the Reality; rather, the incessant and imaginative activity of the intellect, determined by the mirages of time and space - the so-called empirical reality - always hides the genuine Reality. On the other hand, Truth is plenitude, because consists in having the consciousness of the true nature of man, which is revealed only by silence and intuition.

 

 

Above all regulations, Buddha stated the supreme imperative: "Man, become what you are".

 

 

Another great enlightened being, Lao-Tse, teaches in enigmatic aphorisms, that Tao, the Reality, cannot be achieved through learning. "To know that we know nothing, this is the ultimate goal... We shall renounce our scholarship - and we will be free of any concern".

 

 

To see the essential Reality, it is not necessary to wander here and there, in the midst of many things and occupations, which muddy our vision and weary our mind. The reason for our existence is revealed without even looking out of the window nor in going out of the door.

 

 

The path that leads us to the sources of life is the admittance to our inner selves. The encounter with the Tao is the encounter with our Self.

 

 

The gradual trans valuation of all values is a hallmark of our mystical realization; expresses the acquisition of new patterns of life. Does not matter that we take or not attitude in the face of modern conceptions, while we do not overcome the old routine of current science, which considers the world of senses as the total Reality. The true mystic does not confuse the thinking faculty with the intuitive power. To decide if this is higher than that, or vice versa, that is a matter of experience, to permeate into the depths of our true nature.

 

 

 

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