Hurling oneself on the pyre. The Phoenix flies into the Unknown.

by jacksokol ~ April 11, 2008

Today’s message is somewhat cryptic. Occasionally I find myself beset by information that I don’t fully understand.

Today I am doing Alchemy. We have two ideas, Fire and the Unknown, if we mix them properly we understand the metaphor of the Phoenix. Let’s just hope we don’t blow up the lab!

One of the great things that Krishnamurti could do in his talks, was to move people.

He would challenge them to go beyond themselves, to go into the Unknown.

What is this Unknown? Is it a place we can choose to go, or is it something familiar or something we can get familiar with?

Not really. It is never familiar. It is not a comfortable place. But it is a place of discovery where we feel very much alive!

Now, I am not sure if we can live in such a place all of the time. It is possible. I have known some beings who were intelligent enough to arrange their lives in such a way as to be present, to be fully conscious as much as possible.

Fire in the traditional sense, tends to consume something to fuel itself.

Our inner fire is partially stoked by work with negative emotions, and bad habits and working with our resistance to change.

All views, personal or otherwise that hold some form of duality will inherently generate conflict, a kind of conflict that can lead to suffering.

However if we have the ability to engage what the Tibetans call Rigpa, or non-dualistic awareness then we can engage another kind of fire.

This is something “other”. Then the activities of suffering, can be the fuel or material for our transformational fire.

Are we willing to hurl ourselves on the pyre and burn Phoenix-like?

Has anyone else discovered the Attention I speak about?

We discover it when we willingly step off into the Unknown, like “the Fool” (metaphorically speaking of course!)