The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, “Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.” And so it starts.

The  announcer of the adventure… is often dark, loathly, or terrifying, judged evil by the world; yet if one could follow, the way would be opened through the walls of day into the dark where the jewels glow.

The call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness and find the jewel, the center that’s impossible to find when you’re socially engaged. You are thrown off-center, and when you feel off- center, it’s time to go. This is the departure when the hero feels something has been lost and goes to find it. You are to cross the threshold into new life. It’s a dangerous adventure, because you are moving out of the sphere of the knowledge of you and your community.

The first step, detachment or withdrawal, consists in a radical transfer of emphasis from the external to the internal world, macro- to microcosm, a retreat from the desperations of the waste land to the peace of the everlasting realm that is within. But this realm, as we know from psychoanalysis, is precisely the infantile unconscious. It is the realm that we enter in sleep. We carry it within ourselves forever. All the ogres and secret helpers of our nursery are there, all the magic of childhood. And more important, all the life-potentialities that we never managed to bring to adult realization, those other portions of ourself, are there; for such golden seeds do not die.

“I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”

― Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper power within ourselves comes when life seems most challenging.

In An individuals life,this is really a great mystical experience that he no longer identifies himself with history of his carnal body but with the consciousness rather than with the vehicle which carries consciousness. The bondage of vehicle is nothing to do with the bondage of the consciousness .you are free in bondage.
Mythologically ,the shackles fall without leaving your wrists.
This the condition Of what in Buddhist traditional Known as Bodhisattva, the One whose being sattva is illustration.He Knows that in the world, in the field of bondage, the eternal power plays.
And so,you have a formula, joyfully participation in the sarrowfull world.

The vision quest :

The radio station WOB, Wisdom of the Buddha, is broadcasting all the time. But you’ve got to have a receiving set. And until you have the receiving set, well, you’re not getting the message.” You can’t teach Buddhism. You can’t teach illumination. You can give different clues to how to get it. But if a person isn’t willing to paddle his own canoe he’s not going to get across the river.

Some people are just unable to experience the radiance, but they can listen to a lecture. I think it was Oscar Wilde who said if an Ameri- can was given a chance to choose between going to heaven and hearing a lecture about it, he’d go to the lecture. And so if you’re unable to experience heaven you can take a lecture about it. And maybe that will save you.

Just like Jesus said_Kingdom of father spreading on the earth continuously but people don’t see it .

There is conflict inside the human, which always takes place throughout the life of human.It does not matter who the man is.
That’s right. You’ve got the same body, with the same organs and energies, that Cro-Magnon man had thirty thousand years ago. Living a human life in New York City or living a human life in the caves, you go through the same stages of childhood, coming to sexual maturity, transformation of the dependency of childhood into the responsibility of manhood or womanhood, marriage, then failure of the body, gradual loss of its powers, and death. You have the same body, the same bodily experiences, and so you respond to the same images. For example, a constant image is that of the conflict of the eagle and the serpent. The serpent bound to the earth, the eagle in spiritual flight-isn’t that conflict something we all experience? And then, when the two amalgamate, we get a wonderful dragon, a serpent with wings. All over the earth people recognize these images. Whether I’m reading Polynesian or Iroquois or Egyptian myths, the images are the same, and they are talking about the same problems.Thats the “real problem.

Some other ordinary Dragons: eg.

Ohh I couldn’t be a writer. (dragon within your)

Ohh what will happen if I don’t complete the boss targets (Dragon is your boss).

The Bodhisattva Manjushri is shown with a sword known as “the sword of discrimination.” Discrimination has to do with discriminating between the mortal and the eternal. The mortal is that which you see. When you see yourself in the mirror, that is the mortal. The eternal is that which you are. So, discri inating in your life between the eternal and the mortal is the essence of this figure.

The sword is usually

a benevolent instrument

which clears the way.

When you are desiring things and fearing things, that’s mortality. The three temptations of the Buddha -desire, fear, and duty-are what hold you in the field of time. When you put the hermetic seal around your- self and, by discriminating between the mortal and the enduring, you find that still place within yourself that does not change, that’s when you’ve achieved nirvana. That still point is the firmly burning flame that is not rippled by any wind.

When you find that burning flame within yourself, action becomes facilitated in athletics, in playing a m sical piece on the piano, or in performance of any kind.. If you can hold to that still place within yourself while engaged in the field, your performance will be masterly. That’s what the Samurai does. And the real athlete.

Watch a professional marathon runner: he is not concerned with his showing the way somebody who is running his first race is. You win, you lose, you run the race. The race is what counts, not the winning or the losing. Running the marathon is itself the event.Everybody wins.

Whether you win or place is a secondary matter.This is the participation without engagement.

But if you loose that still point ,you are in the world.If for example, you go into the race , thinking you are going to have win,and you are concerned that you don’t have the capacity to do so.then you won’t be participating in the marathon.

Nietzsche says one must act with only three-quarters of one’s power. That’s the discrimination.

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

Where are you between two thoughts? If you iden- tify yourself with certain actions, certain achievements and failures, those are thoughts. That’s you in the field of time and experience. Where are you otherwise?

If it weren’t difficult to get to that still point, there wouldn’t have to be so much talk about it and all this sitting in postures trying to get there. And then, when you get up from the posture, you are right back where you were. So, you go back to the posture to see if you can get there again. It’s not easy; yet, it’s very easy. It’s like riding a bicycle: you keep falling off until how to ride, and then you can’t fall off. you know

It’s a perspective problem. Running through the field of time is this energy which is the one energy that is putting itself into all these forms. By identifying with that one energy, you are at the same time indentified with the forms coming and going. If you see the two modes-involvement and the still point within you, samsara and nirvana-as separate from each other, you are in a dualistic position. But when you realize that the two are one, you can hold to your still point while engaging.

It’s the same world experienced in two different

ways. You can experience both ways at once. Sri Ramkrishna was devoted to the Goddess Kali. Kali, the word means “black” and also “time,” is that black abyss of mystery out of which all things come and back into which they go. That’s Kali. Her principle image is that of dancing in the burning ground, the place pposites, beyond twoness. He where corpses are burned. This is dissolution. She is dancing on the body of her god, Shiva, her husband. Your god is the final obstacle to get past.

Any idea, any concept, any name, is a final obstacle. The one preached in the church in any religion is the final obstacle. The only Western teacher I have found who gets it is Meister Eckhart, who says, “The ultimate leave-taking is the leaving of God for God.” All of our religions hang onto the image. None has god. The still point is going past the god. Goethe says, gone past its “Everything temporal is but a symbol.”110 Nietzsche says, “Everything eternal is but a metaphor.” They are saying the same thing. “Everything” includes God, heaven, hell, the whole works. So as long as you are living to get to heaven, you won’t find that still place.

One has to go beyond the pairs of opposites to find the real source.