This is an excerpt from something I was reading last night:
"A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living"
By Joseph Campbell
page 119 , 120 ( the Formula...smiles )
"the function of the orthodox community is to torture the mystic to death ( his goal) "
"You wear the outer garment of the law , behave as anyone else, and wear the inner garment of the mystic way. Jesus said that when you pray you should go into your own room and close the door. When you go out, brush your hair. Don't let them know. Otherwise you will be a kook, something phony. So that has to do with not letting people know where you are. But then comes the second problem, how do you live with these people? ...You know that they are all ( as you, as God ). And you live with that aspect of their nature. And perhaps in your art, you can let them know that they are ( as God ).
And that is the revelation then. And that brings us to the final formula of the Bodhisattava way, the way of the one who is grounded in eternity and moving in the field of time. The field of time is the field of sorrow. "All life is sorrowful." And it is. If you try to correct the sorrows, all you do is shift them somewhere else. Life is sorrowful. How do you live with that? You realize the eternal within yourself. You disengage and yet reengage. You --- and here's the beautiful formula --- "PARTICPATE WITH JOY IN THE SORROWS OF THE WORLD" .
You play the game. It hurts. But you know that you have found the place that is transcendent of injury and fulfillments. You are there, and that is it."
~~~light opera~~~
