CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

APPENDIX 3
in Buddhism by Suzuki. In it is an essay with pictures called “The Ten
Cow-Herding Pictures,” the cow being the symbol for the last reality.
After long seeking, the disciple finds the cow, which means that he gets
hold of his innermost reality. Then a most important feature, which is
not clearly worked out in yoga, is that after he has found the cow he no
longer cares for her; he sleeps and does not look after her, he just knows
she is there. That is, after he has had the highest intuition, he does not
always go on looking at it: he lets it drop into the subconscious again as
if there were nothing in it. So he lies there asleep, the sun shining in his
face; and he gets up and goes to town:
Entering the City with Bliss-Bestowing Hands. His humble cottage door
is closed and the wisest know him not. No glimpses of his inner life
are to be caught; for he goes his own way without following the steps
of the ancient sages. Carrying a gourd he goes out into the market,
leaning against a stick he comes home. He is found in company with
wine-bibbers and butchers, he and they are all converted into
Buddhas.
Bare-chested and barefooted, he comes out into the market
place;
Daubed with mud and ashes, how broadly he smiles!
There is no need for the miraculous power of the gods,
For he touches, and lo! the dead trees come into full bloom. 3
Now perhaps Dr. Jung will say something about the psychological side.
Dr. Jung: I came here really in order to answer certain questions. Of
course, I am not competent to put these things more clearly in the particular
realm of which Professor Hauer speaks, but if you have any questions
in regard to the psychological point of view, I would be glad to
answer them. I cannot imagine what is clear to you and what is not.
There is naturally great difficulty in linking up this peculiar terminology
and ideology with our psychological language and processes.
For instance, to take your question “How can Kundalini be aroused?”
It seems to you as if one already had to possess the thing one could possess
only afterward in order to awaken Kundalini.
Dr. Shaw: It is as if it were doing just what Dr. Jung says we should not
do. He always stresses so much the value of the earth, the necessity for
both the spiritual and the earthly.
Dr. Jung: Yes, but that is what the yoga says too—it is right in the body,
notintheair.
3 D. T. Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism (first series) (London, 1980), 376.
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