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Back in McDonalds, coffee in hand. Well, I have a Blook (explanation elsewhere) that consists of various notes gathered over the past few years in my cyber-notebook. In some sort of order, but not much of one. I love various quotes jumbling against each other, random correspondences, unlikely support for one thing found in another unlikely spot. I suppose, part of the Pure Land way of hakarai (no-calculation) where things are made to become so of themselves beyond the calculating of our minds, its "logic" and its conditioned machinations.
"For the earth brings forth fruits of herself" as the Good Book says.
Anyway, I waffle. This morning a couple of cybernotes from a section on Jung popped out.
The first:-
Viewed in a broader context of Western intellectual history, Nietzsche at the end of the 19th century proclaims the death of God while Jung in Liber Novus presents the rebirth of God at the beginning of the 20th century.
(Ha ha......how's "Liber Novus" for an arcane reference........)
The second:-
With the Red Book identifying the individuation process as the royal road to rediscovering soul and “God,” Jung revises the traditional Christian teaching of imitatio Christi. Simply being a devout Christian does not suffice anymore. Instead, the new form of spirituality requires searching for the inner Christ, who stands for the sacrifice and willingness needed to take one’s own life into one’s own hands while staying faithful to one’s essence and one’s love. As opposed to remaining in an infantile attitude of imitation, the individual is asked to find a place for Christ in his heart and then follow his independent path during a process of personal growth, living his own life just as Christ lived his.
The second quote supports the first. At least as I see it and understand it. I think we have to get away from historical events happening outside of us, disputing them, "believing" in them (or not) Trying to justify ourselves because we "believe" and have opened the gate. The one gate. The only gate. The Narrow Gate.
As I see it, there is no gate. We are within, we are accepted, purely by having been born. This is Grace. To be realised not appropriated by our choices and decisions.
This relates to Universalism. That what comes to one will come to all. All to do, at a fundamental level, with our reality as Persons. A reality far different from Individualism. Yes, we are individuals, but first of all we are persons. Persons can only be in relationship, in inter-being, with other persons. Ultimately, only in relationship with all other persons. Forgetting "afterlife" (ultimate restoration of all things) this holds NOW. In opening to others now, those of other ways, of other cultures, of other times, we surely find Christ......or Buddha......or Tao. Or maybe just our true selves. No one can be left out.
Anyway, as I delved in my Notebook, a few more quotes from the Jung Section. Food for thought, for pondering, in between cracking another few levels of Soda Candy Crush Saga...
All the greatest and most important problems are fundamentally unsolvable. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away – an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
There is a trend away from Logos—the pure intellect that analyzes, judges, and divides—to Eros, which relates and connects, and brings the realization of our interconnectedness and interdependence. This shift touches our depths, opening us to larger dimensions, to the ineffable mystery of life and death, and leading us onto spiritual transformation
The spirit of this time would like to hear of use and value. I also thought this way, and my humanity still thinks this way. But that other spirit forces me nevertheless to speak, beyond justification, use, and meaning.
(This last from "The Red Book", C G Jung)
Last:-
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
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