..续本文上一页hypnotise me if I was molested so that I can fix it, which is a classic crude technical move, ignoring who you are. It”s like your BMW somebody took in and wants to fix.
But soul is also necessary because without it, without that point of view, the spirit tends to start making rules a lot, I”ve noticed. If you notice as a spiritual community gets older, it gets a lot more rules and those rules usually don”t seem like they”re going to help anything. There”s a lot more control. What happens is that there”s not enough love sometimes in the spirit. The spirit has an equanimity--I live or I die; that”s fine. Things can rush in to fill the vacuum. Power interests rush in. You find the gurus got armed guards by now. It”s not enough just to condemn the guru or to side with the guru. I think we have to go beyond those two, neither the blame nor praise. I think we have to understand that there”s a great process that goes on inside us as well as somebody like Rajneesh, or whoever your favorite guru villain of spiritual community is. Trungpa is a good example. I think that we have to acknowledge that these people often have very genuine, very powerful spiritual experiences and got taken over by them in some way. Didn”t have enough ballast to hold them and that we”re like that, too, and that we need to have both. We need to have our wings and we need to have our feet.
The moral comes out of the soul dimension, of attentively cultivating the soul dimension. If we cultivate the spirit and we do our zazen, we absolutely have to do that. If we do it with any grace and intelligence, it starts to allow a spaciousness and awareness of space in our lives and then we can do the soul work well. So I see that the spirit work, in a way, is primary. We have to build the superstructure before we build the foundations. I”m not sure that”s true, but it”s an idea I”m playing with at the moment. Spirit”s idea of morality is to set down rules and say, "Don”t sleep with a menstruating woman." A classic spirit statement from how many cultures. What you”ll find about spirit morality is that the position of women will gradually start to suffer. There will be a rejection of the soul domain, which tends to get projected onto women, who actually don”t necessarily carry that domain more than men, but since men are rejecting that they”re going to project that onto women and so might start excluding them. We find examples of this all over the place. One of the senior students of my first Tibetan teacher told me, "In order to be enlightened you have to be reborn as a man if you”re a woman." I thought I was pretty dumb, but I knew that wasn”t right. I knew I didn”t know anything, but I knew that this wasn”t one of the things I could add to my list of knowledge. It”s a very classic spirit move there. Very often women will be the vehicles, the exclusion of women, too, of course. Somebody banned Mayumi Oda”s goddesses with naked breasts (she has a very feminine interpretation of buddhist iconography) from one of the zendos because it wasn”t appropriate for a zendo to be selling pictures of naked ladies, which is a classic spirit move against the soul. The moral comes out of the soul because the soul is always questioning itself and it really doesn”t know and it”s kind of foolish. It feels partial a lot of the time and so there”s that misty quality that”s so prized in zen. I think the images of mist and fog are characteristic of the virtue of not knowing, of uncertainty, that when we”re uncertain, we can be very near to what is true. We can be very near to the gifts of life because we don”t already know and we haven”t shut things out with our knowledge. When we”re uncertain, we”re uncertain about a decision and maybe we worry about it and obsess about it some and we don”t thi…
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