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Avoid Stress, Become Nobody
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The Zen Rowboat
There's a classic Zen teaching story about a monk who was rowing across a river, when another boat appeared headed straight at him. He hailed the errant craft to turn, but to no avail, as it rapidly approached on a collision course. With growing urgency, the monk shouted at the careless boater, with the same lack of results, and finally started angrily insulting the man. Suddenly, as the threatening boat was about to smash his, he was surprised to realize that nobody was in it! At that moment, he achieved enlightenment.
If you assume that the great insight of our heretofore-hapless traveler came from perceiving the folly of berating phantoms, you are half-correct. The complete breakthrough was in realizing that he himself was like a boat without a rower. Not only is there no-one to get angry at, there's also no-one to get angry.
Selfless Essence
Virtually all the world's great religions commend the virtues of humility and warn of the dangers of egotism. The idea is to keep the "small" self in perspective with the greater Self. But Buddhism's unique contribution is its startling conclusion that at the heart of everything - including the "self" itself - is no thing. In terms of theoretical physics, it's as if we split the atom and the quarks and unraveled the minutest remaining components of matter, and found.. absolutely nothing. This great insight - the very absence of ultimate, abiding identity - is called anata (Pali: "no self.")
It is natural to question this counter-intuitive assertion. After all, if I'm nobody, then who's thinking all these weighty thoughts? This is similar to the philosophical/religious conundrum, who created the creator? The answer is there is no answer, because the question erroneously assumes causality. Similarly, we hold the unexamined assumption that a particular experience implies a particular experiencer, a 'fact" that non-dual traditions refute. The ability to limit and then identify with experience is merely one of many tricks the mind can play. All the while it's the pure, invisible, awake potentiality of emptiness (Sanskrit: shunyata ) which engenders the infinite multitude of appearances and experiences, like the countless waves and ripples of the ocean. As the Heart Sutra says, form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Don't Take It Personally.
In the popular new age book, The Four Agreements® by Don Jose Luis, the second reliable maxim to live by is Don't Take Anything Personally. This can be a very effective coping mantra in stressful encounters of all kinds. Says Luis,
"Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."
Although modern Western psychology upholds the importance of a healthy ego, there is widespread understanding that too much self-importance is dangerous. Type "A" personality, for example, marked by competitiveness and hostility, is at high risk for early heart attack. In biofeedback relaxation training, subjects learn to adopt a uniquely refreshing attitude of not trying and not caring about outcomes. Such surrender is anathema to the control-craving persona, but successful relaxation requires it. In the simplest terms, it's the ego which reacts to stress, while emptying one's self of self is intrinsically healing. |
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Lonny Brown,
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Lonny J. Brown, HHC is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Lonny Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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