A useful story that will help elucidate this podcast is the Zen story of the full vs the empty cup. A Zen student with a fresh, inquisitive mind met with his new Zen Master in a tea shop. The Master asked the student what he knew about Zen as he began slowly pouring him a cup of tea. The student began to reel off pages and pages of scripture and aphorisms that he had read and memorized about Zen and it's philosophy. The Master filled the tea cup to overflowing and the tea began to spill on the table and the floor. The student said surprisingly "what are you doing, the tea is getting everywhere!" to which the Master replied "how can I tell you anything about Zen if your cup is already full?"
This is a great story showing how the accumulation of knowledge can hold one back just as it can help bring one forward in processes of self initiation. The context of the cup as discussed here, though, is from the Kabbalistic perspective and how this cup or grail is outlined on the Hermetic Tree of Life. The "invisible sephirah" of Daath exists within the opening of the cup, an area called 'The Abyss' which separates the immortal Supernal Triad (the first 3 spheres representing the original Trinity) from the mortal and "perishable" triads below it. Daath is translated as Knowledge, and just as knowledge can take one to great heights one may also become trapped in it's intricate webbing which in essence disallows one coming to Unity within the 'All Inclusive' sphere of Binah, the 'Great Mother,' Babylon, the 3rd sephirah on the Tree of Life.
This is a great story showing how the accumulation of knowledge can hold one back just as it can help bring one forward in processes of self initiation. The context of the cup as discussed here, though, is from the Kabbalistic perspective and how this cup or grail is outlined on the Hermetic Tree of Life. The "invisible sephirah" of Daath exists within the opening of the cup, an area called 'The Abyss' which separates the immortal Supernal Triad (the first 3 spheres representing the original Trinity) from the mortal and "perishable" triads below it. Daath is translated as Knowledge, and just as knowledge can take one to great heights one may also become trapped in it's intricate webbing which in essence disallows one coming to Unity within the 'All Inclusive' sphere of Binah, the 'Great Mother,' Babylon, the 3rd sephirah on the Tree of Life.
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http://objectionism.com/
Steve Ashe - The Qabalah Codex - a basic introduction to the Tree of Life
Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe
Santos Bonacci's youtube page
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