Post Vajrayana in Kampuchea

The father of the Middle Way Philosophy, Nagarjuna, analyzed reality from a four-point analysis (a tetra lemma ) which ultimately suggested things are not as they seem—nor are they otherwise. Also, in his much debated Second Chapter of the Mulamadhyamakakarika, which refutes motion, he states, in karika eighteen: “That motion just is the mover itself/ Is not correct./ Nor is it correct that/ They are completely different.”  Chandrakirti in his grammatical analysis of Nagarjuna’s refutation of motion, posited an equally challenging, illustrative conundrum concerning a ‘motionless’ mover as being on “a road that is being traveled on, that is being traveled on,” which linguistically ‘moves’ motion to a nonphysical plane. Nagarjuna’s refutation of motion concludes with: “Neither an entity nor a non-entity/ Moves in any of the three ways./ So motion, mover/ And route are non-existent.”  If that’s not enough of the rug being pulled out from under an ingrained sense of there ha...

‘First things first,’ is especially true in Vajrayana, as confirmed by my root teacher, Kunga Tenpei Nyima Dorje Chang, in his book, The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception: “There must also be the right approach in transmitting the teaching. For example, first things should come first and last things last. We start out with the preliminary teaching and advance through the teaching in its proper order, rather than inverting the order or omitting or adding teachings where they don't belong. This is the responsibility of both the teacher and the student.” * So the first step in ‘walking through walls’ is  entering Vajrayana’s graduated esoteric path, upon which one burns the seeds of one’s negative karmic actions of body, speech, and mind, the source of our deluded vision creating the ‘appearance’ of substantive walls. For those who like pujas, this can methodically be done through confession, purification, and literally tossing one’s bad seeds into a homa fire. It can also be ea...