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The world is becoming a sadhana, and my sadhanas are becoming the world, as phenomenon arise as objects of concentration and my mind gathers insights of clarity and emptiness through them.
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Once the vajra yoga practitioner realizes the external world is a ‘blessing’—an ecstatic enhancement and not a ‘distraction’—in realizing the ‘inner mandalic world,’ Mahamudra is born.
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Someone has their moment and it appears a great success but if analyzed there’s a premixed feel to their accomplishment. It’s determined by causes and conditions that must be met, as if preordained, but at the same time of their or will. In this way there’s no accomplishment in that anyone was willing in their own account the required actions. Rather, it was non-doing or negative capability that holds two things in ‘mind’ meaning a dependent arising of multiple elements creating those action that appeared self-determined. The genius of accomplishment resides in the revelation of emptiness that is cessation. What’s ceasing is the seeming self-determination and what’s arising is the non-suffering reality, unconditioned or characterized. This is all positive by virtue of its clear an empty nature. If one becomes aware of its limitless virtue then it’s called Bodhicitta.
Then next step is to see all people and phenomena as a projection of one’s own mind. Once you experience that people, like all phenomena, are illusory, their ‘person’ from both your side and theirs, is just an ‘appearance’ same as one’s self imaged in a mirror, then you’ll be freed from a mind nagged by considerations coming from a mistaken assumption the thoughts ‘in their head’ have a basis in objective reality and are not generated from a conventionalized reality made of everyone’s thoughts. In all analyzable truth there’s no objective reality. It’s fake as fools’ gold and dull as lead. Bite the coin. Find out for yourself.
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At this time, after 74 years, if I had to make a final recommendation concerning life, it’d be this: Always be a good student, to your parents, to your teachers at all the schools you attend, to all institutions that truly represent the good, and finally to your spiritual lord and master, of whichever wisdom tradition, who transcends all the shortcomings of one’s worldly teachers.
“At 26 years old, dad seems to know…”
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“More men need to hear this!”
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“One day his [one’s father’s] silence will teach you more than his words ever could.” Uh, that means you don’t ever need to listen to him 😂 Truth is, you are your own dad. It’s called ‘consubstantiality.’ Look it up. It’s the primordial truth.
I see now just how I truly was my own first born. It took coming back to the ‘scene of the crime’ on Rajpur Road, a place and time for me of ecstatic peak experience and also deep sadness. In recovering exactly what happened, forty-five years later, I’ve earnestly attempted to repay the karmic debt for any and all negative actions created by desire, hatred, and stupidity leading to the untimely death of my first born child. (Read ‘The Pink Sands of the Ghanges,’ posted early on in this blog.) Buried in the Ganga, being returned to the Great Mother’s bhaga, he truly became, as Wordsworth intimated, the child that is father to man, especially, as I was at that time such an immature father to him.
The aftershocks of the fall of Phnom Penh, April 17th 1975, stagger the mind. As the Long Nol, American puppet government fled, carelessly leaving a paper trail documenting its multitudes of accomplices and sympathizers, tens of thousands would later be hunted down and summarily executed after their expulsion out of the city and into farming projects in the countryside. And then, those who managed to escape the hard labor, torture and murders of the Khmer Rouge, by escaping to Western supported refugee camps all along the Thai-Cambodian border were, after a year or two, rounded up by Thai soldiers and forced over the steep cliffs and mine field-studded jungles of Kompong Svay. Thirteen thousand out of forty-one perished. It was, as the arch survivors of ‘Ghost Mountains’ said, a living hell and worst than what the Khmer Rouge did to them in the camps.
10/3
“Everyone paying for everything alone…”
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“It's being sold that leaving your family behind...”
An Asian observation on this thought, formulated decades ago by a Tibetan refugee growing up in Indian, is that families ‘separate’ when they can afford to. Either financially and/or emotionally. Many more do this in India now because they can afford to. That ‘village’ of the one household you speak of often becomes a hornet’s nest or hell hole. If ‘A Room of One’s Own’ is the beginning of emotional, spiritual, and ‘political’ independence, consider the possibilities of having one’s own apartment or home. Your point has some validity, but it’s low context (referencing life outside of a limited cultural experience.) So exactly where have you lived?
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On Reckless Arrogance Of "Religious Men"
and mythology in the hands of men with missiles is a dangerous goddamn thing
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So well said. 💯 Here’s the seams, a predictive calculus, of those “robes of prophecy”: 1. Iran (Persia) must attack Israel — Ezekiel 38 requires it. 2. Damascus may be destroyed — Isaiah 17 permits it. 3. A tribulation period of 7 years begins — Daniel 9 structures it. 4. The Euphrates theater becomes the final battlefield — Revelation 16 locates it. 5. All of this culminates in divine intervention — Zechariah 14 resolves it. Once someone has internalized this sequence, every escalatory event is confirmation. It doesn’t trigger alarm — it triggers anticipation. It’s the partial believer — the political figure who doesn’t fully subscribe but who is surrounded by advisors who do and receives constant framing of events in prophetic terms and finds that the prophetic framework conveniently aligns with his political goals. Gradually this normalizes catastrophic risk because everyone around him seems unconcerned. More dangerous than outright apocalypticism, it operates below the threshold of obvious fanaticism while still systematically dismantling caution that prevents catastrophic wars. Our Constitution is based on liberal philosophy that mandates human beings are an end in themselves. This sovereignty overrides any other. This is the true basis of separation between the state and any ‘church’. Once again, one of the most humane doctrines, the US Constitution, is being systematically ‘cancelled.’
12/3
The number set ‘524323’ popped into my mind quite vividly after reciting two mala rounds of the Parashodani Sarva Durgati dharani. These numbers then instructed me to apply them to one hundred squares of numbers 1 - 100, that have a progressively random patterning, the first one starting in the 1 to 10 order and then becoming increasing more out of order (e.g.: 1, 3, 2, 4…) until true randomness is achieved. There would be one hundred of these squares, with the number above, ‘524323’ determining which squares in the succession of 1 to 100 would be picked. For example, the first one might be either 5 or 52, but of course not 524, as there is only a hundred squares. The second might be 24, then 3, or 32, and so forth. So this is how we obtain as many as 13 squares out of the one hundred. Those 13 squares of one hundred numbers would then be parsed through the rules of Buddhist / Indic Numerology. For instance, the significance of their being 13 of these 100 numbers squares evokes the following: “Hinduism: The 13th day of the lunar fortnight (Trayodashi) is dedicated to Lord Shiva and is considered highly auspicious for new beginnings. Buddhism: It is often associated with the 13 levels of enlightenment or the transition from one cycle of existence to a higher spiritual state. Vibrational Value: In numerology, 13 (1+3) reduces to 4, the number of Rahu, which represents breaking through old patterns to create a new foundation.” Of course, many more elaborate and sophisticated meanings, or even predictive uses can be generated. The idea is to start thinking about numbers in their transcendental functionality as my experience of the core number set—524323–above led to glimpsing all phenomena reducible to sets of numbers. Given that I’d been reciting the Parashodani Sarva Durgati dharani, and the numerical set ‘524323’ was aurally ‘hallucinated’ after visualizing a ball of golden white light, this mathematical reduction of all phenomena (which I’ve previously experienced under the influence of hallucinogenics as purely geometric forms) is a progressively purifying (conventional reality ‘destroying’) approach to experiencing the ultimacy of the primordial Buddha Vajradhara.
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Physicist David Bohm…had contact with both Einstein and J. Khrishnamurti
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When asked, “Do you think the desire to compete is a weakness?” Bohm answered, “No, it’s a mistake.” Spiritual merit ‘mistakenly’ provokes envy among Dharma siblings, and so the Buddha taught the blessings of mudita, the rejoicing in others’ merit, found in the Abhidharma. William Blake also understood that inescapable envy arose from meritorious acts and saw it as a competitive engine driving, at times, excellence in creative expression. Truth is, where there’s ego there’s envy—and four other cognitive and emotive obstacles—in realizing the five primordial Buddhas of Wisdom. Important, and ironic, to this posting is neither of Bohm’s mentors, Einstein and J Krishnamurti, probably knew the right method how to transform envy into All Accomplishing Wisdom. But the Dalai Lama, sitting next to him, did. Perhaps this explains the presumptive Cheshire look on His Holiness’s face.
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“Where is the Support [for monastic Vajrayana sangha in the West?]”
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In the West, absorption into the sensorium, individuation, the cultivation of a sensibility that distinguishes one’s precious self for its own sake, is everything. Peak moments, rising above others, securing one’s immortality in the body you were born into. This is what many live for, but then confusion and bewilderment eventually overtake most as life spoils at some point. Or at the moment of death they feel lost and anguished. Having not attempted to awake, they don’t become aware beyond the limits of self and body. So they swoon and are then reborn into one of the six realms and repeat the same futile egoistic ascent and decent, cycling and recycling until ultimate dread inspires renunciation. It’s then the ‘real thing’ of enlightenment, the precious reason we were born, takes hold. If it’s strong enough, they will find the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. May it be so for all brings.
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“YOU CANNOT TOLERATE [Great Bliss]”
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At Somanath Jyotri, on the Arabian Sea, if one connects with Shiva there, bliss will obtain for several hours. And trust me, you don’t die except maybe in the ‘Big Night’ sense of having tasted the ultimate nectar.
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The evolution of Buddhist tantra out of early sutric mantric, agamic, and advanced Mahayana lay and monastic practices, is testimony to the effective implementation of the Sugatas’ salvic path; with the Guyasamaja father line furthering a widening of ‘subtle’ and vajra body realization and utilization supporting the doctrines of Shunyata, nonduality, the unity of emptiness, clarity producing of Great Bliss, Mahamudra, kor de yor med (no differentiation of samsara and nirvana), and so forth; the Mahavairocana cycle of Sarvavid harnessing Dharmadhatu repair and purifying the prospects of all bad destinies; the STTS, and later the Chakrasamvara and Hevajra tantras, explained by the Vajrapañjara and Saṃpuṭatantras with their Vajrasattva anchoring purifying the practitioner's attachment to deity, celestial mansion, and so forth; and the Yogini tantras’ direct conveyance of Great Bliss from antinomic practices that originated with Chausath (64) Yogini temples, dating from the 9th-13th centuries, were ancient Tantric centers dedicated to the evocation of powerful goddesses, often in circular, open-air structures, with the first of these temples, at Khajaraho, notably square.
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