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The July 2010 issue of Amigo is available at
http://www.ods.nl/am1gos/am1gos11/index.html?zc_muildier-us.html~mainFrame
It features an extract from Dutch Treat: 18 SlamSatS, by Zil Chezero. This issue features part of that article in Amigo.
Dutch Treat is an e-book published by Nonduality Publications, a part of The Nonduality Highlights and Nonduality.com world.
Mule launched
The story of me and Zil Chezero
By Robbert
Bloemendaal
Published in the new issue of the internet magazine
‘Amigo’
Fragments of the article:
This is
going to be a rather strange story. It kicks off with a deal with
Zil: I’m only allowed to talk about myself, not about any
other person for whom I work or have worked . So I’m not
going to elaborate on the how and where I met Deirdre Delder.
Suffice it to say, she has written a story about her encounter
with a phenomenon that calls itself Zil Chezero. In her account
she points out how her encounter led to four sessions
encompassing a total of eighteen ‘SlamSatS’, which is
the name Zil Chezero has given to a mixture of ‘slamming’
and ‘Satsangs’. Quite appropriate, as I have been able
to establish.
(…)
To
convey some of my enthusiasm about Zil’s view on matter, I
want to start with a short sketch of his approach. Part of it is
the way which Zil sees himself. I am not allowed to talk about
Zil, but naturally I may cite him where he talks about himself in
the book. Right at the beginning, Zil presents himself as a
‘mule’.
(Questioner) So, you are a mule?
(Zil) No, Zil is.
I’m awareness before it becomes aware of itself as
such. As soon as that happens, it turns into a mule. Called Zil
Chezero.
(…)
Zil is
merciless to egos, the recordings make clear. But in the
meanwhile I have found out that these eighteen SlamSatS time and
again prove to address matters that are crucial for ‘neti-neti’
in all its appearances. What is more, I cannot remember when I
did not think ‘hey, this too he has
smashed to pieces’. Because that is the enlightening part
– to misuse this phrase here - of his approach: he really
tears down everything and you even comprehend why it can’t
be any different than that. And slowly but surely I also
connected with the enormous love that is behind all of that.
Considering his style, this is not obvious.
(…)
Maybe
that is the crux of Zil’s approach: he does not sell you any
hope. But travelling through the SlamSatS, this seems less and
less necessary. To illustrate this:
(Zil) We
play the ‘kick ass by mule’ game. Here’s a mule in
full view that can see the totally hopeless situation it’s
in concerning this game. Hopeless in the sense of not being able
to convey any real working wisdom to another mule here, just
because it’s totally impossible to change anything about the
total mulishness of both mules – all mules - and the
world they live in. It’s this hopelessness I’m
enforcing on you.
The
sense is that is has no sense! Sense is for mules, realization is
not. How does that make you feel, mulewise?
(…)
Concerning
Satsangs that are written out, it hits me that on the moment
supreme the questioner either
understands it no more, or starts talking
about something else completely, or is
interrupted by another questioner… All understandable, but
fatal reactions by egos that get a hard time. The results are
endless half-hearted conversations with a tiny pearl on every
five pages, which we have had to swallow in countless books over
the years. Perhaps it is the frontal approach by Zil that makes
escape impossible, maybe it’s the atmosphere of total
surrender with the (small) group of people that chose to talk
with him, maybe both. In any case the SlamSatS go on where the
majority steadily lets go. For me this has been an important
reason to let the SlamSatS land in a book.
For the whole article go to
http://www.ods.nl/am1gos/am1gos11/index.html?zc_muildier-us.html~mainFrame
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