This morning I had a rare Clear Light wake-up. That is, a pure awareness arising from an undisturbed, primordial consciousness, synced with the accumulation of daylight. Its single-pointedness is hard, clear, and solidly blissful. It could be that after last night’s meditation in which my mind went blank, my head bent, and over an hour passed in a seeming few minutes, that this was a post-meditation restoration of awareness within a mindful setting. After Birwapa’s yoga, much writing followed, as witnessed above, and in truth these two experiences of arising of Clear Light Primordial Wisdom and the Vajra activity of diary keeping are one—except when disturbed (not Akshobya) by ‘a little bit of thinking’ which is both the experience of samsara and the fear while dying. This kind of writing action comes not too much from one’s preferences and conventional self, but from one’s three sets of Dharma vows. At the time it seems as if someone else were present, composing effortlessly—well, almost—for the sake of promoting the welfare of others and oneself so as to purely further the Buddhist doctrine. If ever there were a concrete example, if it’s possible, for Nagarjuna’s description of beings as ‘anonymous vacuity,’ then it would be in this kind of functioning, where a hollow reed channeling of Emptiness crossbreeds into one’s experience.
8/2/25 Before my recent flight to New Delhi, I had breakfast at the Pacific Hotel in Phnom Penh, where the experience is usually relaxed and subdued. But that day was quite different. As no sooner did I sit down with my plate full of buffet favorites, then suddenly the entire room was flooded with a large Japanese group having to mix into a much smaller Anglo one. Having just come from Siem Reap, where it’s quiet and spacious, this scene suggested to me what might be creating some of the fascist tendencies in America, and much more, now that I really start to think about it. Expansionism in the face of global crowding, was one. Resource plundering of special minerals for increasingly higher consumption of war goods and higher tech lifestyles, was another. While the expulsion of foreign nationals is simply to assuage bigotry—a return to what never really was, ‘a great America’—being a dog whistle to exercise lazy, smug, and arrogant thinking, that naturally gravitates to base...
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