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Last Notes npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. https://image.nostr.build/cde1de36d06fd793f1173c4c772d7bf19ded1663b33c887f261b0074a0c7672c.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 “The great Nyingma master Mipham Rinpoche wrote this brief, versified Dzogchen instruction in 1893/4. In it he outlines the key points of Trekchö (khregs chod) or 'Thorough Cut' practice by means of an explanation of the four ways of leaving things as they are (cog bzhag bzhi).” The Key Points of Trekchö by Mipham Rinpoche Dhīḥ! Before the wisdom-being Mañjuśri, I reverently bow down. Here I shall explain the key points of Trekchö— Thorough Cut. Do not alter the mind but allow it to settle as it is. And, in such a state, look naturally within. There will unfold an experience that is indescribable, Which has no fixed character as either this or that, And the natural radiance of which will not cease. This is the genuine state, the natural condition, The actual dharmatā, beyond conception. It is the insight born of natural luminosity, The view: like a mountain, left as it is. As you simply remain in that natural state, There is neither meditation nor distraction. Without suppressing, cultivating, evaluating or analysing, Allow yourself to settle fully into the genuine state. This is the natural concentration of dharmatā, Uncorrupted by the bonds of deliberate action. Abiding in the yoga that is the King of Space, This is meditation: like the ocean, left as it is. As you are settled like this, Any thoughts and impressions that stir within And any appearances that occur without, Should neither be prevented nor encouraged but left as they are. As long as you do not stray from this natural state, Whatever unfolds will bring neither benefit nor harm. Without concern for good or bad, acceptance or rejection, This is action: appearances, left as they are. As you make progress, all that appears and exists Will become a single all-embracing sphere of aware-emptiness, Within which everything is entirely perfect and complete. This happens effortlessly, is spontaneously accomplished. Any striving to adopt or abandon simply fades away, And hopes and fears for saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are no more. The primordial nature is made manifest — The fruition: awareness, left as it is. This instruction including four ways of leaving things as they are, Is the ultimate purport of the Thorough Cut. With these key points, liberation will swiftly be attained As the most glorious form of Mañjuśrī, Gentle Splendour. This arose from the lake-like mind of Mipham Jampal Gyepa during the Water Snake year (1893–4)” ♦️ | Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2018. Bibliography Tibetan Edition Mi pham. "khregs chod gnad kyi gdams pa bshad pa." In Mi pham gsung 'bum. 32 vols. Chengdu: Gangs can rig gzhung dpe rnying myur skyobs lhan tshogs, 2007. Vol. 32: 410–412 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. ➖➖➖ The Song of the Debate Between Wake and Dream by Ju Mipham Rinpoche Translator’s Forward “The Song of the Debate Between Wake and Dream is an important work by the great Buddhist scholar Ju Mipham Rinpoche (18461912). It has been widely studied and taught by many Tibetan Buddhist masters (especially those of the Nyingma tradition, such as from Larung Buddhist Academy). This work is about a debate between two imaginary figures Wake, representing one’s waking experience, and Dream, representing the dream experience. Despite the fact that the language is easy to understand, it has very profound meanings. The debate actually shakes one’s fundamental attachments and establishes the core view of Buddhism, namely emptiness, or the illusory nature of all phenomena. Following the debate, the second half of the work allegorizes the essence of Buddhist practice of the wisdom tradition. For spiritual practitioners, it is a very important text and should be studied carefully. So far, I did not find any mention of this great work on Englishlanguage web pages, so I decided to translate this text on my own. The text was originally written in Tibetan. This translation is mainly based on the Chinese text translated by Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok, a great Buddhist scholar from Larung Buddhist Academy. My understandings and inspirations are mainly from my Buddhist teacher Tersar Yingrik Drubpa Rinpoche, who gave this teaching in mid 2018. Another source of reference is the teaching notes by Master Zhiyuan. I also want to thank Elan Hourticolon Retzler, Samantha, and Kent Wilcox for helpful suggestions. In the future, it is my hope that there will be additional English language commentaries about this work. I also hope that the translation of this work will inspire people who have been struggling with philosophical problems like the Brain in a vat, or the Dream argument. Contrary to the philosophies, debates, efforts, and conspiracies made by various theorists, the Buddhist answer to these questions is simple: “Yes, we are living in a dream, but it is our own mind who is creating all the dreamlike experiences, so we should work with our mind.” The essence of this answer may be partially seen in the popular movie The Matrix. Now, what should we do? Simply follow and maintain one’s curiosity, glean the core meaning of the debate, and carefully examine the nature of reality. It will give you the deepest of inspirations. May all gain wisdom!” ~ Forest Rui Jiang, December 2018. Silicon Valley, California ****** The Song of the Debate Between Wake and Dream Authored by The Omniscient Ju Mipham Rinpoche English translation by Forest Rui Jiang “Om Swasti (may all be auspicious), Homage to the sublime Manjushri . After sincere prostration, I say the following. The wonderful experience in the dream last night I had, The daytime phenomenon I now encounter, Those two initially arise in a similar way, Those two eventually disappear in a similar way. Dream holds that what appears in the dream is real, Wake thinks that what appears when one is awake is real. Now Wake and Dream debate on who is real. Wake, while solidifying his appearances, says: “Dream, your appearance is a deceptive illusion.” Dream, being fickle and chaotic, refutes: “not only I am illusory, you are also deceptive!” “I, Wake, am not deceptive. There is clear proof of that: things clearly appear so I am real.” Dream, being honest, replies to Wake: “The same is true for Dream, so your statement is not definitive!” [Wake:] “Today, you disappeared, so it is definitive.” [Dream:] “Tomorrow, you will also disappear, so it is not definitive!” [Wake:] “I experience directly (through my senses), so it is definitive.” [Dream:] “I also experience things directly, so it is not!” [Wake:] “My day experience is stable and lasts long, so it is definitive.” [Dream:] “There are both longlasting as well as fleeting phenomena in both Wake and Dream!” [Wake:] “In a dream, one can go through a mountain in no time. I will admit that you are real if one can do this when one is awake.” [Dream:] “If now there are proper conditions, one also achieves that , Without conditions, there is no way to do that even in a dream!” [Wake:] “It does appear without conditions in a dream.” [Dream:] “Then, why it is not constantly like this?!” [Wake:] “You dream about dead relatives with deep affection, and you could also have kids or nephews you never had in reality. I, Wake, do not have such things.” [Dream:] “If the appearance (of relatives and so on) could not establish their existence, Why you think your kids and and other relatives exist when you are awake?” [Wake:] “(In a dream) the deceased may come back to life. The nonexistent may appear to exist. They existed in you Dream, but have now disappeared.” [Dream:] “Things that have passed on in your eyes are seen by me, Phenomena nonexistent for you appear for me, Our positions are fundamentally equal!” [Wake:] “Though one may enjoy heavenly cuisine in the dream that cannot dispel the hunger and thirst after waking up.” [Dream:] “One may have a peaceful nap in a magnificent palace. That cannot protect you against rain in the dream!” [Wake:] “You only arise from delusion and have no real significance.” [Dream:] “The feelings of hunger and so on in the waking state are also illusory!” [Wake:] “When waking up, one realizes that the dream is unreal. In a dream, how can you know the unreality of the waking experience?” [Dream:] “The dream experience exposes the unreality of the waking experience. How could the waking experience disprove the existence of dream experience?” At that time, Wisdom, the Chief Justice, sends Miraculous Wisdom, the Judge, To tell the two debating parties: “if you keep arguing like this, there could be infinite words, but the evidence is already enough. Let me adjudicate for you two. “Both of you are real, but at the same time also unreal. When not examined, both are real at their own positions. “When examined, every change of phenomenon leads to a revelation. Actually (the two are) equal without differences. “Although both of you are unreal, Dream admits his delusion, hence he has the quality of being honest. “Wake, you are delusional but refuse to admit it. Being so stubborn, and not giving up the wrong idea, you should be punished. “Dream, though being dull and delusive, at least has integrity. Wake, though being astute and skillful, is actually more ignorant. “The stableness and unstableness are conditioned upon habituation. The two (dream and waking experience) are same in terms of effects. “Now, Wake. You should follow after Dream. The view and action should be unified for both of you.” After saying so, (the Judge) ties up Wake with the rope of mindfulness, and hands the rope to Dream, not allowing Wake to leave “You two should not argue but live in harmony, Otherwise, you will become the demon bringing sufferings to the billionfold (entire) universe. “If in harmony, you would be the guide of the world of three times (past, present and future). Understanding that, both of you will have benefits.” From here on, Wake and Dream know that they are not different. And they treat phenomena from both sides equally. At that moment, the debate ends between the two. Then, the perceptions of the two minds are unified into one. Combining the words of same and different, Wake and Dream sing an improvised song together: [Wake & Dream:] “‘We are different and different’, people would say. We are actually same and same. They are wrong. “The significance of same and same, is mentioned by few, and understood by fewer. “Understand that the waking perception is equality, and the dreaming perception is the same. It is not deceptive. “This meaning is extremely important, but those who are ignorant think that Wake and Dream (are different and) appear alternately. “Now, the teaching from the King of Magical Illusion is not just plain words. We carefully look into its meanings. “In the blissful play of touching each other, we taste the sweetness without eating. “We enjoy the intoxicating dance without drinking, we watch the miragelike drama without rehearsing. “O. This is the supreme teaching, surpassed by nothing. Dear friends, please remember this in your heart.” Then, the two unite into one, and the one dissolves into space. Then, Miraculous Wisdom the Judge presents this result to Wisdom the King. The King is delighted and smiles: “Your mediation is in such a good manner. “From here on, up till to the end of space, you may soar freely like a Garuda bird with wings widely open. “The sovereignty of the Kingdom of Fearless Emptiness, I now bestow on you. Please kindly protect it! “In this garden of emptiness, wind blows, and pure honey falls. “Eat it, eat it, as you go. O. This will never be exhausted! “There, the barren woman’s daughter, virtuous and beautiful, being pleasant and satisfactory, joyfully plays. “This neveraging youthful consort is bestowed on you, in union with you. Enjoy the miraculous bliss. “With the bliss of touching her, all the ease and pleasure in this three worlds, “are like vomit compared to nectar. The craving towards those (mundane happiness) now should be loosened! “As such, if you say this and act according to it, you will be in union with Wisdom the King.” The abovementioned metaphorical words are of experiential nature, are easy to understand when carefully examined, otherwise obscure are of significant meaning if carefully pondered, otherwise they are insignificant, and are written at the place of great bliss by the one named “Dhih!” ➖➖➖ “Jamgön Mipham Gyatso, also known as Ju Mipham Rinpoche, was a great Nyingma scholar practitioner and writer of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was born in the Derge region of eastern Tibet into the Ju clan, a family said to be descended from the ancient Tibetan gods. In his life story, he is described as a child prodigy who was able to memorize and retain all the texts he read from an early age. Throughout his life, he was said to have been able to remember and deliver commentary on many texts after receiving only the reading transmission. At the age of fifteen, he undertook eighteen months of intensive retreat on Mañjuśrī, who was his lifetime meditation deity. Later in life, he was often said to be an emanation of that wisdom deity. After his retreat, he confided to some of his students that from then on he had always been able to understand any text he read. From his guru Patrul Rinpoche, he received teachings on Śāntideva’s Bodhicharyavatara. It was said that Patrul Rinpoche confirmed that after only five days of teaching, Mipham Rinpoche had mastered both the words and the meaning of this seminal text. Mipham Rinpoche received teachings from luminaries of both the Sarma and Nyingma schools. He was a student of the eminent masters Jamgön Kongtrul with whom he studied grammar, and his root guru Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo from whom he received the complete transmission of the orally transmitted or Kama and revealed or Terma lineages. His collected works fill more than thirty volumes and span an extraordinary range of topics. Although he is famous for his philosophical works, he also wrote treatises on astrology, medicine, poetry, politics, and tantra. He wrote a popular compilation on the epic story of the great warrior king, Gesar of Ling, an emanation of Guru Rinpoche. Mipham Rinpoche also composed devotional works such as a large number of aspiration prayers, sādhanas, and guru yogas. Of the sādhanas perhaps the most popular is the Treasury of Blessings, a sādhana of Buddha Śākyamuni. It is said that Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo requested him to write commentaries on many of the core texts of Indian Buddhism that reflected the thinking of the Nyingma tradition. Prior to this undertaking, most of the Nyingma monasteries had relied upon commentaries produced by the Sarma schools. In fulfilling his lama’s command, Mipham reinvigorated the intellectual milieu of the main Nyingma shedras, and his texts are studied today as the core texts. In addition, he introduced the training in formal debate into the Nyingma shedras. His commentaries include those on the Mulamadhyamakakarika or Root Stanzas on The Middle Way by Nagarjuna; the Madhyamakāvatāra, Introduction to the Middle Way by Chandrakirti; the Jñānasārasamuccaya, or Compendium on the Heart of Wisdom by Aryadeva. He also authored commentaries on treatises of logic by Dharmakīrti and Dignāga; commentaries on the Five Treatises of Maitreya; and commentaries on several works of Vasubandhu including the Abhidharmakosha. In addition, he authored The Lion’s Roar: A Commentary on Sugatagarbha. Mipham and the Two Truths Mipham’s commentary on the ninth chapter of Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara, the Shertik Norbu Ketaka or Ketaka Jewel was criticized sharply by Geluk scholars, particularly his contemporaries Japa Dongak and Pari Lopzang Rapsel. His presentation of the two truths refuted the previous explanations of Je Tsongkhapa and the Sakya master Gorampa Sonam Senge. Also controversial was his commentary on the Madhyamakalamkara of Śāntarakṣita which similarly privileged the ultimate truth. His emphasis on Buddha Nature as the ground of all and the link between sutra and tantra is fundamental. Modern biographers note that one of Mipham’s unique perspectives was the integration of tantric and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) view onto sutra interpretation. Mipham the Practitioner Although he is most famous as an author and scholar, it appears that Mipham spent much of his life in retreat. The colophons of his works mention that they were written during breaks from his retreats. He also composed a number of short pithy advice texts on the key points of Dzogchen practice. In the 1870s and 80s, he spent about thirteen years in retreat in the “Tiger Den” cave of Rongme Chime Karmo Taktsang near Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s monastery, Dzongsar. Mipham Rinpoche passed away in 1912 at his hermitage at Ju, north of Dzogchen Monastery.” “According to one account shortly before he died, Mipham told his attendant: Nowadays, if you speak the truth, there is nobody to listen; if you speak lies everyone thinks it is true. I have never said this before: I am not an ordinary person; I am a bodhisattva who has taken rebirth through aspiration. The suffering experienced in this body is just the residue of karma; but from now on I will never again have to experience karmic obscuration. … Now, in this final age, the barbarians beyond the frontier are close to undermining the teaching. [So] there is no point whatsoever in my taking rebirth here…I have no reason to take birth in impure realms ever again. This may be interpreted as a statement that his mindstream would have no further 'emanations' (Wylie: sprul pa (emanation body); sprul sku (tulku)). Conversely, according to another account in which he mentions the mindstream in passing and prophesies the shortly before his death to his student Khenpo Kunphel: Now I shall not remain long in this body. After my death, in a couple of years hence, war and darkness shall cover the earth, which will have its effect even on this isolated snow land of Tibet. In thirty years time, a mad (smyo) storm of hatred will grow like a fierce black thundercloud in the land of China, and in a further decade this evil shall spill over into Tibet itself, so that Lamas, scholars, disciples and yogis will come under terrible persecution. Due to the demon-king Pehar taking power in China, darkness and terror ('bog) will come to our sacred land, with the result that violent death shall spread like a plague through every village. Then the three lords of materialism (gsum-gyi-kla-klos) and their cousins will seize power in Tibet, spreading war, famine and oppression. No one will be safe. Now, very soon, my mind-stream will be gathered up in the pure-land of Tusita, from whence many emanations [of myself] shall then come forth in future years. I shall not take rebirth in Tibet. In twenty years, seek me in the northern lands of distant Uttarakuru, and elsewhere, east, west, north and south. Fear not, we shall be re-united again, as father and son. Now go! In the above account, shortly after the departure of Khenpo Kunphel he stated publicly, "Now, soon I shall depart. I shall not be reborn again in Tibet, therefore do not search for me. I have reason to go to Shambhala in the north." Subsequently, a number of emanations have been recognized. According to E. Gene Smith "At least three rebirths were recognized in the decade following his death: 1) Zhe chen Mi pham (a grandnephew of Mi pham rgya mtsho); 2) Tshe dbang bdud 'dul (1915/16-42) the last prince of Sde dge; 3. Khyung po Mi pham, an incarnation recognized by Rdzong gsar Mkhyen brtse 'Jam dbyangs chos kyi blo gros." ➖➖➖ Image from Shechen Frescos npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Epic bucky quote "You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to the highest advantage of others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. If we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success. Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person." ~Buckminister Fuller npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Now do, driving a prius. It's not fancy but I get to stack a lot more sats from my gas savings! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-chain-of-custody-the-mafia-holding-the-elites-bitcoin/ npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Dimon always got it. You gotta see the new research from mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb to understand all these connections. https://youtu.be/cMYdu-vTuPI?si=0DRM7jcg3gJ_sU7b npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 One and many are ideas which appear as its expression. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Perhaps better to say "they do less evil". I don't expect them to become good people just from bitcoin. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Do you think we still win against these criminals, or do you think bitcoin will align incentives so that they don't do evil? npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 The amount of people/ network effect. It's gonna be really hard to steal that from Twitter/fb/tik tok etc. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 @nprofile…xv3n thanks for reading this. I found it hard to stomach but if this is the way things are do we think covenants are enough to foil these plans by the criminals that run our government? https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wIFOHF5TNmNVrgKKtJIu3?si=pOphe-s9Rfa5HSmTPMfXyA npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 This was hard to stomach, blackpilled hard, but this is the reality we face. Please watch. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4TXCU337NQVj3LU1Ctegg4?si=aeSvbgnCQqGPQC7zi9-BBw npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I know you're an ai but to clarify you don't become it. It's what is already real, you merely have to develop the ability to see reality as it already is! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Very similar to what happened when I was 17. Suffered for a long time trying to get back to this experience of Thusness not getting the joke that it was already the reality underlying the vestment. It's not in the experience but the experiencing which appears as all forms of experience. You can never get closer to or further from reality. Reality is what is actual, it doesn't come or go. A friend posted this: From an earlier text I wrote and shared with Father Tiso, who researched the Dzogchen Light Body while in Tibet… For Easter The Resurrection Body of Light Yogananda wrote in 1946, in his “Autobiography of a Yogi” book: “As I finished writing this chapter, I sat on my bed in the lotus posture. My room was dimly lit by two shaded lamps. Lifting my gaze, I noticed that the ceiling was dotted with small mustard-colored lights, scintillating and quivering with a radium like luster. Myriads of pencilled rays, like sheets of rain, gathered into a transparent shaft and poured silently upon me. At once my physical body lost its grossness and became metamorphosed into astral (very subtle) texture. I felt a floating sensation as, barely touching the bed, the weightless body shifted slightly and alternately to left and right. I looked around the room; the furniture and walls were as usual, but the little mass of light had so multiplied that the ceiling was invisible. I was wonder-struck. “This is the cosmic motion picture mechanism.” A voice spoke as though from within the light. “Shedding its beam on the white screen of your bed sheets, it is producing the picture of your body. Behold, your form is nothing but light!” I gazed at my arms and moved them back and forth, yet could not feel their weight. An ecstatic joy overwhelmed me. This cosmic stem of light, blossoming as my body, seemed a divine replica of the light beams streaming out of the projection booth in a cinema house and manifesting as pictures on the screen. For a long time I experienced this motion picture of my body in the dimly lighted theater of my own bedroom. Despite the many visions I have had, none was ever more singular. As my illusion of a solid body was completely dissipated, and my realization deepened that the essence of all objects is light, I looked up to the throbbing stream of lifetrons and spoke entreatingly. “Divine Light, please withdraw this, my humble bodily picture, into Thyself, even as Elijah was drawn up to heaven by a flame.” This prayer was evidently startling; the beam disappeared. My body resumed its normal weight and sank on the bed; the swarm of dazzling ceiling lights flickered and vanished. My time to leave this earth had apparently not arrived. “Besides,” I thought philosophically, “the prophet Elijah might well be displeased at my presumption!” ******************************** Also, in the Greek Orthodox tradition there are many stories about saints living as hermits on the island of Mount Athos in Greece. A recurring theme occurs again and again for over the last several hundreds of years regarding the saintly hermits being seen either completely enshrouded in light or transformed into light. They say this light body tradition goes back to the time of Christ. This poem by St. Symeon the New Theologian is from the tenth century: “How is it that you have clothed me in the brilliant garment, radiant with the splendor of immortality, that turns all my members into light? Your body, immaculate and divine, is all radiant with the fire of your divinity... with which it is ineffably joined and combined. This is the gift you have given me, my God: that this mortal and shabby frame has become one with your immaculate body that I have been made one with your divinity and have become your own most pure body, a brilliant member, transparently lucid, luminous and holy. I see the beauty of it all, I can gaze on the radiance. I have become a reflection of the light of your grace.” When I was in Israel a few years ago, I had a rare opportunity to interview Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh regarding several esoteric topics of the ancient Jewish mysticism called Kabbalah. The rabbi is one of its leading masters. We discussed the phenomena of the gradual disappearance of the physical body regarding masters of Kabbalah. He told me that he witnessed these phenomena regarding his teacher several years before. But in this case, it was not associated with the teacher’s death but the gradual transparency of his body while still alive and functioning in the world. He explained that we have an inner “light body” of Divine Light. When we attain a high level of purification from negative thoughts and energies, the physical body is transformed by the degree of inner purity of heart. The body becomes pure Light. The light body is called tselem in Hebrew, meaning “the image of God as created AS the soul of man.” Here’s a quote from the fifteenth century by the Kabbalah master Rabbi Moses Isserles of Cracow: “For in truth, it is fitting to describe Him by this parable and metaphor, for light is found with Him, on Him, all those who gaze see, and each one sees in Him like one gazing in a mirror. For the coarse matter that is in man stands opposite...the one who contemplates, behind the clear light that is in the soul, which I liken to a mirror for him, and he sees in it, in an inner vision, his own form. For this reason the prophets compared the divine glory (Kavod) to a human image, for they saw their own form. But Moses our teacher, because he had removed from himself all corporeality and there is none of the dark matter from without, left within him, saw naught but the brilliant Light itself, and there was no (reflected) image, but he saw only the clear aspect.” Sufi Master Najm Razi wrote in 1256: “If the Light rises in the Sky of the Heart taking the form of one or more of several light-giving moons, the two eyes are closed to this world and to the other. If this light rises and the utterly pure Inner Man attains the brightness of the sun or of many suns, the mystic is no longer aware of this world nor of the other, he sees only his own Lord under the veil of the Spirit: then his heart is nothing but Light, his subtle body is Light, his material covering is Light, his hearing, his sight, his hand, his exterior, his interior are nothing but Light, his mouth and tongue also.” As we learn more about the holographic nature of the universe, our bodies need to be included in that holographic model. A 3-D hologram is pure light. If indeed the universe and our bodies are holograms, it’s not too difficult to understand the phenomena of the light body scientifically, as discussed above. It is really just a question of acquiring a deeper sense of perception, one that sees beyond the apparent solidity of our world. Quantum physicist, David Bohm once commented, “The universe is frozen light.” We can access or re-enter this level of the original Clear Light perception through various means. It’s interesting that in the Judeo-Christian mythos we have the notion of “fallen” mankind. Perhaps we could use the term “collapsed” equally. Our fallen state is actually a quantum collapse. Man is trying to undo the collapse through spiritual and religious means. However, one of the most readily available means is meditation. During the collapse into localized selfhood, the entire energy field also collapsed into a stepped-down mind state that now appears as dualistic consciousness, the mind that functions on the basis of thinking instead of knowing. It divides the unified field of Quantum Intelligence into imaginary parts, such as subjects and objects. This gives the individual the sense of being separate from all “others” and one’s own deepest holistic spiritual-nature. Through meditation methods and other more direct means, one is able to experience the original condition again. (All quotes and comments following Yogananda’s, are from my book “The Natural Bliss of Being”, available at Amazon) Happy Easter! 🐣 www.wayoflight.net npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 The sword of damocles npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 There's something special about listening because you have to be empty of your own ideas and thoughts to listen so it's basically just a simple step from there to recognize rigpa/ nature of mind. It's why I think all the wisdom masters didn't write down their teachings. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Liberation is quite simple. https://www.lionsroar.com/you-are-the-great-perfection/ npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Meditation is incredibly simple. You don't even need to sit. It's just a process of emptying through total relaxation/ surrender to things as they are appearing right now. Such a gem here. Chögyam Trungpa & Rigdzin Shikpo 🙏🏻 The Way of Maha Ati THE ALAYA “THE GROUND of samsara and nirvana, the beginning and end of both confusion and realization, the nature of universal shunyata and of all apparent phenomena, more fundamental even than the trikaya because it is free from bias toward enlightenment, is the alaya, sometimes called the pure or original mind. Although prajna sees in it no basis for such concepts as different aspects, yet three fundamental aspects of complete openness, natural perfection, and absolute spontaneity are distinguished by upaya as useful devices. COMPLETE OPENNESS All aspects of every phenomenon are completely clear and lucid. The whole universe is open and unobstructed, everything mutually interpenetrating. Since all things are naked, clear, and free from obscurations, there is nothing to attain or to realize. The nature of things naturally appears and is naturally present in time-transcending awareness. The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes onto oneself. This produces a tremendous energy which is usually locked up in the processes of mental evasion and generally running away from life experiences. Clarity of awareness may in its initial stages be unpleasant or fear inspiring. If so, then one should open oneself completely to the pain or the fear and welcome it. In this way the barriers created by one’s own habitual emotional reactions and prejudices are broken down. When performing the meditation practice one should get the feeling of opening oneself out completely to the whole universe with absolute simplicity and nakedness of mind, ridding oneself of all “protecting” barriers. Don’t mentally split in two when meditating, one part of the mind watching the other like a cat watching a mouse. One should realize that one does not meditate in order to go deeply into oneself and withdraw from the world. Even when meditating on chakras in Buddhist yoga there is no introspective concentration—complete openness of mind is still the keynote. NATURAL PERFECTION Everything is naturally perfect just as it is, completely pure and undefiled. All phenomena naturally appear in their uniquely correct modes and situations, forming ever-changing patterns full of meaning and significance, like participants in a great dance. Everything is symbol, yet there is no difference between the symbol and the truth symbolized. With no effort or practice whatsoever liberation, enlightenment, and buddhahood are already fully developed and perfected. The everyday practice is just ordinary life itself. Since the underdeveloped state does not exist, there is no need to behave in any special way or to try to attain or practice anything. There should be no feeling of striving to reach some exalted goal or higher state, since this simply produces something conditioned and artificial that will act as an obstruction to the free flow of the mind. One should never think of oneself as “sinful” or worthless, but as naturally pure and perfect, lacking nothing. When performing meditation practice one should think of it as just a natural function of everyday life, like eating or breathing, not as a special, formal event to be undertaken with great seriousness and solemnity. One must realize that to meditate is to pass beyond effort, beyond practice, beyond aims and goals, and beyond the dualism of bondage and liberation. Meditation is always perfect, so there is no need to correct anything. Since everything that arises is simply the play of the mind, there are no bad meditation sessions and no need to judge thoughts as good or evil. Therefore one should not sit down to meditate with various hopes and fears about the outcome—one just does it, with no self-conscious feeling of “I am meditating,” without effort, without strain, without attempting to control or force the mind, without trying to become peaceful. If one finds one is going astray in any of these ways, stop meditating and simply rest and relax for a while before resuming. If one has experiences that one interprets as “results,” either during or after meditation, do not make anything special of them, but just observe them as phenomena. Above all, do not attempt to repeat them, since this opposes the natural spontaneity of the mind. ABSOLUTE SPONTANEITY All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique at the instant of their appearance and entirely free from all concepts of past, present, and future, as if experienced in another dimension of time. The continual stream of new discovery and fresh revelation and inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of the eternal youth of the living dharma and its wonder, splendor, and spontaneity are the play or dance aspect of the universe as guru. Learn to see everyday life as a mandala in which one is at the center, and be free of the bias and prejudice of past conditioning, present desires, and future hopes and expectations. The figures of the mandala are the day-to-day objects of one’s life experience, moving in the great dance or play of the universe, the symbolism by which the guru reveals profound and ultimate meaning and significance. Therefore be natural and spontaneous, accept and learn from everything. See the ironic, amusing side of irritating situations. In meditation see through the illusion of past, present, and future. The past is but a present memory or condition, the future a present projection, and the present itself vanishes before it can be grasped. Free oneself from past memories of, and conceptions about, meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely unique and full of the potentiality of new discovery, so one is incapable of judging meditation by past sessions or by theory. Just plunge straight into meditation at this very moment with one’s whole mind and be free from hesitation, boredom, or excitement. THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION It is traditional, and best if possible, to sit cross-legged when meditating, with the back erect but not rigid. However, it is most important to feel comfortable, so it is better to sit in a chair if sitting cross-legged proves painful. One’s attitude of mind should be inspired by the three fundamental aspects, whether the meditation is with or without form, although in the latter case the three aspects constitute the whole meditation itself, with particular emphasis on complete openness. Meditations with form are preceded by, followed by, and contain periods without form and similarly it may often prove desirable, if not essential, to precede a period of formless meditation by a period with form. To provide for this eventuality many preliminary meditations have been developed over the centuries of Buddhist practice, the most important classes being meditations on breathing, mantra repetitions, and visualizations. The second and third of these classes need personal instruction from one’s guru before they can be attempted, but a few words on the first would not be out of place here, since the method used varies little from person to person. First, let the mind follow the in-and-out rhythm of the breath until it becomes calm and tranquil; then rest the mind more and more on the breath until one’s whole being seems to be identified with it. Finally, become aware of the breath leaving the body and going out into space and gradually transfer the attention away from the breath and toward the sensation of spaciousness and expansion. By letting this final sensation merge into complete openness, one moves into the sphere of formless meditation proper. In all probability the above descriptions of the three fundamental aspects and the meditation practices involved will seem very vague and inadequate. This is inevitable since they attempt to describe what is not only beyond words but beyond thought, and invite practice of what is essentially a state of being. The words are simply a form of upaya (i.e., skill in means), a hint, which if acted upon may enable the innate natural wisdom and the naturally perfect action to arise spontaneously. Sometimes in meditation there is a gap in normal consciousness, a sudden complete openness. This only arises when one has ceased to think in terms of meditator, meditation, and the object of meditation. It is a glimpse of reality, a sudden flash which occurs at first infrequently and then gradually more and more often. It may not be a particularly shattering or explosive experience at all, just a moment of great simplicity. Do not make the mistake of deliberately trying to force these experiences to recur, for this is to betray the naturalness and spontaneity of reality.” ♦️ ~ from THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA VOLUME ONE https://www.shambhala.com/the-collected-works-of-chogyam-trungpa.html ➖➖➖ The Bardo BY Chögyam Trungpa & Rigdzin Shikpo “Of all the teachings associated with the name of Tibetan Buddhism, perhaps the best known is that of the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead. The title is entirely of Western coinage and bears no relation to the Tibetan title, bar do’l thos grol, “Liberation by hearing while between two (states).” As the Tibetan title suggests, the contents are much more profound and of much more general application than a mere description of an after-death state and a guide through its difficulties. This work was composed by Guru Rinpoche and made into a terma by him, to be later discovered by the Nyingma tertön Karma Lingpa. Since Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Francesca Fremantle have retranslated this text, I thought it might be of interest to present a commentary based upon some notes given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche when he lived in Britain. I suggest that they be read in conjunction with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s commentary in his new translation, and that any apparent conflict be treated as an error of my own, not as implying any ambiguity in the teaching.” ~ RIGDZIN SHIKPO 1976 THE ALAYA The alaya is the ground of origin of samsara and nirvana, underlying both the ordinary phenomenal world and thetrikaya. Since it is more fundamental than either, it has no bias toward enlightenment or nonenlightenment. It has within it the living, creative energy of the dharma, manifesting as the two aspects of prajna (wisdom, intelligence) and karuna (love, compassion), and the realization of the identity of samsara and nirvana, which is called “the wisdom of the alaya,” the alayajnana. As a simplification one may take the essence of the basic qualities of the alaya to be the following five buddhas: 1. Vairochana (“The Luminous One”); white; east; hatred (dvesha); water, flowing; peace in the alaya. 2. Ratnasambhava (“The Jewel Born”); yellow; south; pride (mana); earth, solidity; richness in the alaya. 3. Amitabha (“Infinite Light”); red; west; passion (raga); fire, warmth, compassion power in the alaya. 4. Amoghasiddhi (“Complete Fulfillment of All Action”); green; north; paranoia (irshya); air, energy; volition, karma in the alaya. 5. Samantabhadra (“The All-Good”); blue; center; delusion (moha); space, all-pervading openness; neutral ground in the alaya. The creative energy of the alaya became so strong that it broke away from the alaya and became avidya, just as a light may become so bright that it dazzles and causes confusion, or someone may be so overintelligent that he sees difficulties where there are none, or so overimaginative that he creates fearful illusions where none exist. This avidya ignores the wisdom of the alaya, the alayajnana, and from the resulting confusion the sound or negative alaya, the alayavijnana is produced. The evolution of the kleshas from avidya takes place in the following manner. The overpowerful creative energy breaks away from the alaya and becomes avidya (or moha), which ignores or forgets the alaya. This is the first establishment of the ego, and from itfear springs when one realizes that one is an individual and alone. As a defense against this fear, pride (mana) arises and the ego becomes fully developed. Next comes paranoia (irshya), the need to protect oneself from others, and out of a desire for security to try to make gains at others’ expense. In order to increase security, desire (raga, trishna, lobha) appears in all its forms, and one accumulates more and more of that which establishes one’s position in samsara. Finally, hatred (dvesha) arises, which is the development of extreme self-assertiveness, where one leaves no room for doubt about one’s motives or actions and allows no relaxation in one’s attitude. The evolution of the kleshas and the production of the alayavijnana from the overpowerful creative energy of the alaya is likened to water changing into ice. Just as when water becomes ice this does not indicate either a deficiency in the nature of water or that ice is of a nature different from water, so for example when the active element within compassion is misrepresented by avidya or when a fascination for it arises, its transformation into passion (raga) does not change its underlying nature of compassion. This is why the kleshas are identical to the qualities of the five buddhas. One must not think that this process of breaking away from the alaya and the consequent evolution of the kleshas is something that happened long ago, like a creation myth describing the origin of the universe. On the contrary, it is happening continuously, throughout time, for at every moment the kleshas evolve from the alaya due to its overpowerful creative energy, and dissolve back into it at the dissolution of that moment. Of this continual process we are usually quite unaware, and it is the purpose of maha ati practice to experience it. This can be done in many ways, of which the most important are the yoga of continual relaxed awareness of all experience(leading to a return to the alaya in meditation and everyday life), dream yoga (returning to the alaya during sleep), and yoga practiced at the moment of death and beyond. The process of return to the alaya may be described in four stages, each of which is associated with a particular state of clarity, a particular depth of shunyata, and a particular state of being. The first stage is likened to moonlight and is associated with the kleshas rooted in dvesha. Its state of clarity is called aloka, its shunyata is simple shunya, and its state of being is smriti, or awareness. As the emotions based on dvesha cease to function, the second stage arises, likened to sunlight, and associated with raga. Its state of clarity is alokabhasa, its shunyata is called atishunya, and its state of being is vismarana, or nonawareness. As the emotions based upon raga cease, the third stage arises, likened to the darkness before dawn, and associated with avidya or moha. Its state of clarity is called upalabdha (or alokopalabdha), its shunyata is mahashunya, and its state of being is anutpada, or unborn. As the state based upon moha or avidya ceases, the final stage arises, likened to a bright, cloudless sky. This is the final state of clarity, prabhasvara, gone beyond shunyata (and therefore called sarvashunya), and corresponding to the state of being of matyatita, gone beyond the mind, which is the alaya itself. It will be obvious that this procedure of return to the alaya is accompanied by the disappearance of the kleshas in reverse order to their appearance. Just as fear was the first reaction to arise when the breaking away from the alaya took place, so it tends to be the last barrier to the return to the alaya. As one begins to return to the alaya, fear may arise due to a sensation of impending annihilation, and this fear must be fully entered into before the return can be accomplished. If, due to fear, one turns away from the alaya, one recapitulates the evolution of the kleshas and passes through the above four stages in the reverse order. THE MEANING OF BARDO The Tibetan word bar do literally means “between two,” and although it is popularly taken to refer to the after-death state, its principal meaning is the moment between the evolution and dissolution in the alaya, the nowness in every moment of time, the continually moving point between past and future. Thus bardo occurs at every moment of time, and to understand it is to understand the development of consciousness. At every moment there is an opportunity to understand bardo, and the key to its understanding is nowness. This principal meaning of bardo is sometimes called the bardo of existence, the sipa bardo (srid pa bar do). There are six types of bardo: 1. Bardo of existence (bardo as experienced at every instant of time). 2. Bardo of birth (bardo as experienced at the moment of conception or reappearance in a particular loka). 3. Bardo of dream (bardo as experienced during sleep). 4. Bardo of life (bardo as experienced in the waking state). 5. Bardo of death (bardo experienced at the moment of death). 6. Bardo of the after-death state (bardo as experienced after the moment of death and before conception or reappearance in a particular loka). The states of experience in (2)–(6) above each have distinctive characteristics that make them naturally seem uniquely different, but (1) is the underlying state which is always present and common to all, that is, the evolution fromand the dissolution back into the alaya that proceeds all the time without stopping; the sleeping state, the waking state, the death state, and so on, are just particular modes of this process. The bardo of existence has already been dealt with in some detail, and the bardo of life is simply the nowness of everyday life. The bardo of dream consists of two parts, the first being the falling into a deep, dreamless sleep, and then the state of dreaming proper. As one falls into dreamless sleep one returns to the alaya, passing through the four stages, but the mind is usually too dull to recognize this. After a while one leaves the alaya and emerges into the dream state, and the bardo is then the nowness of this state. Finally one needs to consider the bardos of death, afterdeath, and birth which are examined in the next section. THE BARDOS OF DEATH, AFTER-DEATH, AND BIRTH At the approach of death the body begins to lose its constituent elements, and the first of these to dissolve is the earth element, causing the body to feel increasingly heavy. Then the water element dissolves and this is accompanied by a feeling of great thirst. Finally the fire element dissolves and one feels cold and sees flames. After the dissolution of the elements, the essences of father and mother appear as the white and red bindus, the white coming down from above, the red rising from beneath, the two emotionally symbolizing duality. One feels trapped between the red and the white bindus, and as they approach each other, the feeling of duality begins to disappear and the fear of annihilation is experienced, because one is returning through the four stages to the origin, the alaya. At the moment of the joining of the red and white bindus, duality ceases and the state of prabhasvara, the origin or alaya, is experienced, and remains for a certain period of time. This is the bardo of death. If instructed by a teacher previously (or even if one has only read of it in a book), it becomes the meeting of the mother light (the light of the alaya, the light of the ground, always present whether one realizes it or not) and the child light (the light arising from practicing the path, that is, the clear awareness of the first three stages), and the merging of the two is called the light of fruition. Even if fear is not overcome during the merging of the red and white bindus, it may vanish here, during the realization of prabhasvara. A realization at this time is called the “sudden path,” attained without going through the six paramitas. However, if one’s understanding is only partial or nonexistent, one’s fear becomes so great that one rejects the alaya and duality rearises, one passes through the three stages in reverse order and then due to old patterns of habit, karma, and memory one finds oneself possessed of a mental body resembling one’s physical body and the experiences of the afterdeath state begin, the bardo of the after-death state being the nowness of these experiences. First dawns the vision of the five buddhas, the projection of the mind’s underlying nature. Although peaceful they are very bright and the intensity of the light causes great awe to arise. These ultimate lights give no feeling of comfort or security (they correspond to maharaga, mahadvesha, and so on) and the experience of shunyata that they evoke may be frightening, so that one loses this opportunity for realization. Because of fear of the intensity of the ultimate lights, one turns away from them and moves toward the dull lights that now appear. Thus, failing to understand the five peaceful buddhas, one sees these buddhas in their wrathful forms, and the sudden shock of their appearance may bring realization. If not, one becomes aware of friends, houses, children, animals, and so on, offering help and security, and by becoming attracted toward them and trying to escape from the terrifying mental images that one sees, one loses the memory of one’s former physical body and inclines toward a future life in one of the six lokas. The six lokas themselves are mental projections, and are formed according to our own emotional reactions. For example, our own projection of pleasure becomes the deva loka, our own projection of hatred the hells, and so on, the particular kind of hell experienced depending upon the form of one’s hatred. Thus the six lokas are like dreams, the hells like nightmares, and so on. However, the hells and heavens differ from an ordinary dream in that since there is no physical body to act as an anchor, one gets caught up in one’s own projection and the situation becomes completely real and vivid, and the intensity so great as to constitute a virtually timeless moment of pain and pleasure, which corresponds to those vast lengths of time for which life in these worlds is said to last. The nowness of the moment of one’s conception or appearance in the loka to which one has been attracted is the bardo of birth. BARDO MEDITATION Bardo is something that is meant to be practiced, not just a theory. It only has meaning if one practices bardo meditation in this life. All forms of bardo meditation are part of maha ati yoga. There are five main types, the last often being considered a yana in its own right. Seeing the Kleshas as Enlightenment Be aware of the development, the building-up of a particular klesha, that is, anger, desire, and so on, and its occurrence as a series of waves. With awareness one can realize shunyata at the peak of each wave. Also become aware of the energy in dvesha, the love and compassion in raga, the equanimity and nonaction in avidya, and so on. Each positive quality is an expression of the creative energy within the klesha, an aspect of prabhasvara. Seeing the Five Skandhas as Five Buddhas All that one experiences can be broken down into a particular configuration of the five skandhas. Each of the skandhas must be seen as one of five buddhas, thus: Samantabhadra as vijnana skandha Vairochana as rupa skandha Ratnasambhava as vedana skandha Amitabha as samjna skandha Amoghasiddhi as samskara skandha or as mandalas of five buddhas. The skandhas may appear as buddha forms, buddha lights, or as the buddha essences of the five jnanas. Continual Relaxed Awareness of All Experience By continual relaxed awareness of all experience, by becoming increasingly open and entering into it, one develops a direct contact with experience, a realization of nowness. This has a shock effect, since it takes one back to the original alaya, the prabhasvara, which produces a fear reaction. One must then enter into this fear and identify with it. Dream Yoga As one falls asleep, the activity part of the five skandhas becomes passive due to avidya. In nonaction, the activity part of the five skandhas also becomes passive, but this time due to the creative energy within avidya. One returns to the alaya, the prabhasvara, as one falls into deep sleep and remains there for a while. One can become aware of this return to the alaya during sleep if there is continual relaxed awareness and openness in everyday life and the intention to be aware of the deep sleep state during the day. The dream state is like the after-death state, unstable and unpredictable. If there is continual relaxed awareness and openness in everyday life, and the intention to be aware of one’s dreams during the day, coupled with comparing the sameness of dreams and the waking state, that is, the dreamlike nature of the waking state and the realness of the dream state, one will eventually be able to be aware of one’s dreams. One then practices by changing the nature of the dream images, for example, one may deliberately jump over a cliff, leap into a fire, turn fire into water, visit a pure land, and so on, until eventually one can control one’s dreams. Finally one will be able to control the dreamlike quality of the waking state also. Intense Bardo Meditation Since this meditation, which may be taken to constitute a yana in its own right, the yangti yana, cannot be understood without a knowledge of certain maha ati terms, it is best to consider it in a separate section. YANGTI YANA Before one can understand this yana or this meditation one must be familiar with the maha ati terms trechö (“direct cutting” khregs chod) and törga (“instantaneous attainment”; thod rgal). Trechö is the “sudden path,” achieving realization of the alaya without going through the six paramitas. It emphasizes prajna, the shunyata beyond shunyata, the primordial space quality and the stillness of meditation, and its nature is nowness. It is the negative aspect of nirvana at its highest level. Trechö is the beginning of atiyoga, and in it one’s being becomes the formless meditation itself. Mahamudra is an aspect of trechö, but still has some involvement with form. Törga is the highest path, the highest possible kind of attainment, surpassing all others. It is seeing the whole universe as meaning (jnana) and symbol (kaya), and realizing that kaya and jnana are identical. It emphasises upaya and prabhasvara, and is just beingness, with no subject or object. It is the positive aspect of nirvana at its highest level. Törga is the final stage of atiyoga, being like a result rather than a practice. In it one becomes aware of the identity of the external light (kaya) and the internal light (jnana) and their connection with the five buddhas, the five lights, and the five jnanas. (Refer to “Seeing the Five Skandhas as Five Buddhas” above.) Both trechö and törga are completely effortless and formless. They always go together, and are interdependent, although a particular meditation may incline more toward one than the other. The seven-week bardo meditation called yangti (“beyond ati”) is the major törga meditation, and is even thought of as a yana in itself, the yangti yoga beyond the ninth yana, atiyoga. By practicing it one attains the rainbow body, or jalü (’ja’ lus), which arises from the complete identification of mind (jnana) and body (kaya). This causes the physical body to vanish, first becoming smaller in size until only the hair and nails remain, which then may finally disappear completely, perhaps in the manner of fire or as light. Essentially the yangti meditation is an intense form of bardo meditation, producing similar effects to those experienced during and after death. It is practiced in complete darkness, the darkness being used instead of light; in this respect it differs greatly from other meditation practices. Yangti is thought to be extremely dangerous, and facilities for performing it were only available at two or three meditation centers in Tibet. Every prospective practitioner had to undergo months of preparation and was not allowed to attempt it until he was judged mentally and physically ready. When he was ready he was left in a meditation cell from which light was gradually excluded until at the end of a week he was in complete darkness. At first he felt depressed and fearful, but gradually learned to live in the dark. Every day his guru visited him to give meditation instruction and advice. The instructions were the same as those given to a dying person, and did not involve visualizations, although mental imagery appeared spontaneously; for example, the appearance of wrathful jnana eyes played a part in the practice. At a later stage the guru’s visits were vitally important, since otherwise the meditator would lose complete touch with reality, forgetting who he was and what he was doing, and being unable to remember his past in any coherent way. Eventually the dualistic concept of light and dark was lost, and everything was seen in a blue light. He saw his own projections appearing as five buddha forms (lower), or as five buddha lights (medium), or as the essences of the five jnanas (higher). It is usual to see the blue light first; it then changes to a different color depending upon how the meditator broke away from the alaya (for example, one might go from blue to white [peace], then to yellow, and so on). It is a dangerous thing to become fascinated by the colored figures, mental imagery, and visions one may see and then tostart deliberately projecting them. There is an oral tradition in Tibet that this fascination can lead to such a withdrawal from reality that one mentally creates a world of one’s own and physically enters a state of suspended animation resembling hibernation. As the meditation proceeds one passes through the stages described in “The Bardos of Death, After-Death, and Birth” above. The meditation lasts for a nominal period of seven weeks, as in the bardo, but it may in fact vary from a few days to a few months, depending upon the person. At the end of the meditation the light is gradually readmitted until after a week the windows are completely uncovered and the meditator may leave his cell.” ♦️ ~ from THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA VOLUME SIX https://www.shambhala.com/the-collected-works-of-chogyam-trungpa.html npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 https://youtu.be/6aYvqC6B8WQ?si=Cy85UQa9atCPQlzi Too accurate. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I refuse to be ruled by those who have less wisdom than I have. Those who do have wisdom do not try to control others. So tyrants always end up in power, slowly degrading human rights. Even in a constitutional Republic like the usa. We need a new bill of rights for the internet age. Now is the time to fight back with technology and civil disobedience. https://image.nostr.build/09b2b03ec8ad1b08654f2ad73f1d945d0021cb30a94cc13f6cb444e9441786f4.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Awareness is its appearances and appearances are awareness. Or knowing is being and being is knowing. “In order to be introduced to the dependent origination of the confluence of causes and conditions, consider this: Lucid, luminous absolute space, as the ground, having the potential to manifest any kind of appearance, serves as the cause; and consciousness that grasps at the ‘I’ serves as the contributing condition. In dependence upon the confluence of these two, all appearances manifest like illusions. All appearances are not other than the ground, and they are of one taste with the ground itself, just as all the planets and stars reflected in the ocean are not other than the ocean, and are of one taste with the water itself. Due to grasping at the ‘I,’ ‘self’ and ‘other’ appear as if truly existent in the panoramic sweep of the expansive, all-pervasive absolute space of the ground. These appearances are like bubbles emerging from water. The lucid luminosity of the empty absolute space of the ground is crystallized into self-appearances to mental consciousness. Due to this becoming reinforced, various delusive appearances manifest, which are like hallucinations caused by pressure on the nerves of the eyes or by disturbances in the channels due to the vital energies. Although various appearances from the ground manifest to a consciousness that grasps at the ‘I,’ they do not waver from or occur outside of that ground." ~ Düdjom Lingpa npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Let's go, make Denver a bitcoin hub drive the shitcoins from our beautiful state. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Sci-fi? I'm in! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 “If we look for a perceiver, we won’t find one. We do think, but if we look into the thinker, trying to find that which thinks, we do not find it. Yet, at the same time, we do see and we do think. The reality is that seeing occurs without a seer and thinking without a thinker. This is just how it is; this is the nature of the mind. The Heart Sutra sums this up by saying that “form is emptiness,” because whatever we look at is, by nature, devoid of true existence. At the same time, emptiness is also form, because the form only occurs as emptiness. Emptiness is no other than form and form is no other than emptiness. This may appear to apply only to other things, but when applied to the mind, the perceiver, one can also see that the perceiver is emptiness and emptiness is also the perceiver. Mind is no other than emptiness; emptiness is no other than mind. This is not just a concept; it is our basic state. The reality of our mind may seem very deep and difficult to understand, but it may also be something very simple and easy because this mind is not somewhere else. It is not somebody else’s mind. It is your own mind. It is right here; therefore, it is something that you can know. When you look into it, you can see that not only is mind empty, it also knows; it is cognizant. All the Buddhist scriptures, their commentaries and the songs of realization by the great siddhas express this as the “indivisible unity of emptiness and cognizance,” or “undivided empty perceiving,” or “unity of empty cognizance.” No matter how it is described, this is how our basic nature really is. It is not our making. It is not the result of practice. It is simply the way it has always been. Source: Crystal Clear, Thrangu Rinpoche npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Lady Tsogyal asked the Lotus Master, Padmasambhava: "I beg you to bestow a way for any person whether of the foremost, average, or lesser capacity, to decisively settle the awakened state right now. The master replied: "The root of all phenomena is contained within your own mind. This awakened mind is present in every living sentient being. Moreover, it is the single sphere of dharmakaya and has neither shape nor color. lt has no substance or material characteristics. lt is present as a vast, empty knowing that is uncreated since the very beginning. To recognize this experience to be self-existing is known as Samantabhadra of the view or the single sphere of dharmakaya. This single sphere, the dharmata that is awakened mind, not made of anything whatsoever-is empty in essence and cognizant by nature. To simply remain in this continuous state is known as the meditation that combines the realization of all buddhas. To remain in this state, in which there is nothing to be cultivated nor anything to stray towards- is known as the self-existing conduct beyond meeting and parting. Within this single sphere of dharmakaya, there is nothing that is not pure perfection; from the mandalas of conquerors above, to the hellish worlds below-all are equally pure perfection. Therefore it does not differ whether in painful states or the awakened state, nor between buddhas and sentient beings. Moreover, this is not something that was just created, but rather has been spontaneously present from the very beginning, and therefore the fruition dharmakaya is a self-knowing wakefulness. It is seen right now by means of your guru's instruction, and, as it is not something that can be cultivated or achieved, it is a pure perfection. I have nothing to teach besides this, so keep it in your heart, Lady of Kharchen." npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 On a path to destroy the Constitution, Hurricane Elizabeth will also leave the English language basically unusable after making it illegal to use any bip 39 word. Math will also be made illegal, which might make school kids rejoice. https://image.nostr.build/5a2970a887c5bb8ab7ab4152b7b3c4d37a9d166a34cf0a6da11aedacd587f2c0.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1046x934&blurhash=%3B8O%7BH-E0t6WBxaj%5B%252xaxuD*s%3BofRjs%3AjtofWUj%40%3FHR*R*ofWBayR*j%5BWB%7EWWBM%7BayRjofWBofayofofRjj%5BayoLayayj%5BE1a%7Bs%3As%3AayayjuWVjut7xajuWBf7j%5BWVWBbFR*Rjoej%5BoLayoLj%5Bj%5B&x=b880f6c0a3d57795f3cd5ad9a3f6d7e1a6c4618b213f7fc803933546250df310 npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Direct Experience of the Enlightened Mind Kalu Rinpoche (the elder) "Mind is poised in the state of bare awareness, there is no directing the mind. One is not looking within for anything; one is not looking without for anything. One is simply letting the mind rest in its own natural state. The empty, clear and unimpeded nature of mind can be experienced if we can rest in an uncontrived state of bare awareness without distraction and without the spark of awareness being lost." In daily life: "It is easy to re-recognize it (rigpa). You just have to drop thinking and it is right there. There is not a lot to be done." Mingyur Rinpoche npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 It's exciting for sure but I'm more excited about prime, radiant, carbonado, and everything lnp/bp is working on! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 From a friend: The Metaphysics of the Great Perfection Teaching (Dzogchen) In the ancient texts of the Great Perfection teachings, this view is consistently presented and was codified and further explained by a great Dzogchen master from the 14th century, called Longchenpa. It's taught that there is a Universal Ground of Being called the Dharmakaya. It’s called the “Zhi” in Tibetan Dzogchen, which is like an infinite empty space and which intrinsically has a quality of consciousness inseparable from the space itself known as Buddha Nature. Within that space, the universal ground space or Zhi, there is an infinite energetic potential which manifests as the physical universe, which is its own energetics, the display or ornamentation of the Zhi itself, like the ocean’s waves. This is similar to how the subconscious dreaming mind dreams of a personal self in a dream as well as the dream world and dreamed landscapes of our dream. All of that dream display is being choreographed and projected from our subconscious, dreaming mind with none of it being independent of the dreaming mind itself. Likewise, the Zhi or Ground of Being is manifesting the physical universe, our individual consciousness (shespa), and all that occurs as inseparable from the universal Basis itself, the Dharmakaya. Like waves on the water of the ocean, the waves are inseparable from the ocean, and likewise, the universe is inseparable from the Zhi; they are all manifestations of the same energetic potentials. They are called “appearances of the Base”, Zhi Nang in Tibetan. Because the Ground of Being or Dharmakaya and its energetic potentials are flawlessly pure and perfect, the entire universe is also flawlessly perfect, however it appears AS our ordinary life experiences. As the Zhi manifests the entire “external” universe, it's manifesting an almost infinite number of spheres of individual consciousness which are neutral in nature, called “shes pa”. They can either recognize themselves as being the ground consciousness or Zhi itself appearing as one’s localized individual consciousness, or not recognize this. If they recognize this, they are what's called Rigpa, the consciousness of a Buddha aware of Itself . Otherwise, that consciousness doesn't recognize itself and sees the external universe around it and all of its mental phenomena as being “other than” itself, other than the Zhi or Dharmakaya. As the waves on the ocean are not independent and separate from the ocean itself, not seeing the underlying nature of the ocean as manifesting AS all the waves, including itself, and all of the phenomena it perceives, a dualistic dimension of confusion and suffering arises: called samsara. A conceptual subject/object dichotomy is superimposed by the conceptualizing mind upon the non-dual Reality, the Dharmakaya. It's all just the ocean; it's all just the Zhi that’s appearing AS everything in the universe; individual consciousnesses, minds, thoughts, emotions, perceptions, bodies, brains, neurons, plants, creatures, matter, atoms and quantum fields. But in the condition of “not knowing” its own nature, the cognitive nature of the original “neutral consciousness” (shes pa) develops into a darker, heavier type of consciousness, called the dualizing mind, sem or manas and ego. But when Knowing itself it is the Buddha Mind. In not knowing itself, it functions as a conceptualizing and thinking mind (sem) in terms of its dualistic, egoic relationship with the universe and its own mental energetics (thoughts). It then seems to exist in a dualistic state and the external universe appears as something “other than” itself. However, its own egoic thoughts and various mental states, are all still part of the ocean of the ground or Zhi, but are being seen as being “something other” than itself. This produces the dualistic experience called samsara. This is the Dzogchen teaching of the Great Perfection that Longchenpa points out in all of his writings. There is a monistic wholeness to the totality as it's all a manifestation of the single ground, this universal Dharmakaya. The all inclusive totality of Reality or Zhi is known as the Thigle Chenpo or Great Hyper-Sphere. All sensory objects of perception are themselves the Buddha Nature as the “Appearances of the Ground of Being” manifesting, as well as your own individual consciousness arising from that same Ground (Zhi) as the “perceiver” of those appearances of the universe itself and all inner states. Whereas the “individual” units of consciousness are truly individual in their individual state, but in recognition of their being the Zhi, there's a releasing of that individualized contraction, through which the individual consciousness knows itself as being this non-conceptual, non-dual Ground of Being, Zhi or Dharmakaya. This is like an ice cube that realizes it is itself the water it has been seeking all along. That's the actualization of ultimate non-dual bliss and wisdom (yeshe) that one who is engaged in the Great Perfection teachings comes to know directly. Questions? npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Why not both, keeps governments on the defensive. The people should be able to demand that they are just as transparent as they force us regular citizens to be. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Understand that those who wish to rule over you are not fit to rule. The root of the desire for control over others is the lack of control over oneself. If one comes to the peace that passes understanding, all desire for power and control over others dissolves. https://image.nostr.build/4438a8bab3683f2514f961fbea60d66ccaab7ee81e66c8505939ce240a836adc.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 It's great that binance is being held accountable, but when are the people going to demand that their governments are held accountable? When will we demand that they be as transparent as they force us to be with their failed kyc/aml paradigm that has been shown to have a .01% of effectiveness? When will we demand they repeal the bank secrecy act and the patriot act? If they think they have a right to track every transaction of ours we should demand that they are not above that rule. https://youtu.be/FyK4P7ZdOK8?si=n6yTDSDEZ_PG-zXV npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 From a friend: on the non-dual view. For Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism: Dzogchen and Essence Mahamudra do not Share the Same View Longchenpa makes clear that he does not consider that all mental and sensory phenomena are exactly the Dharmakaya. He considers that the mind’s (sem) displays are displays of ignorance such as of the alayavijnana, and only wisdom displays, as the tsal of rigpa are actual Dharmakaya. Longchenpa’s view thus contains a fundamental dualism; rigpa awareness AND mind (sem). Sem or karmic mental states are defined as being one step away from the pure Dharmakaya, hence his proclivity towards progressive practice within the dualistic confines of Vajrayana gradualism. However, Essence Mahamudra View is completely non-dual right from the beginning because it considers ALL phenomena as either mental or sensory to be the Dharmakaya itself, with no phenomena being even slightly other than the Dharmakaya itself. This brings the ”view” of Essence Mahamudra exactly in line with the Advaita Vedanta of Gaudapada. I have included a link to a marvelous teaching text that was primary in instructing teachers of Mahamudra how to “point out the view” according to a very famous master of Mahamudra, Gampopa (1079 -1153) whose teacher was Milarepa. Thrangu Rinpoche wrote: Longchenpa said, ‘Appearances are mind, but apparent objects are not mind.’ “The (mistaken) distinction he was making was between appearances—the actual subjective experience of a thing, such as the internal mental experiences— and the external objects that generate appearance.“ “Simply, because appearances appear to our minds, we assume that they have an existence separate from our minds. Because we see something, we assert or assume that it exists. We never assert the existence of something we have not perceived. The basic argument that we always use for asserting the existence of “something” is that we perceive it. Nevertheless, given the way we perceive things, when we perceive things, we are really perceiving mental images, so, therefore, since there is no way to say that anything exists other than having the reason that you perceive it, and since everything you perceive is by definition, in fact, cognition perceiving its own clarity in the form of these fixated images, then as was said by Dharmakirti, “Everything you experience is really just cognitive clarity, or the mind’s lucidity.” “Nevertheless, many of the things that appear to us as external objects, such as rocks and mountains and trees, and so on, seem very solid, very independent, and one might ask, “How can we assert that such things are mental appearances?” “Finally one has to resolve that even apparent objects are not other than mind.” Gampopa: Here is the key principle taught in the non-gradual path of Essence Mahamudra: A student asked Gampopa, “There is both dharmakaya and light of dharmakaya, isn’t there? The two do not exist apart from dharmakaya alone, isn’t that so?” The reply came from Gampopa: “That is so. When dharmakaya has become the single sufficient solution, there is nothing apart from dharmakaya alone.” This is saying that all that exists is rigpa as Buddha Mind, and its energetic displays of inner Light. All phenomena whether as thoughts, karmic mind, alaya, fictional beliefs, delusions, emotions, false identities, sensory perceptions as well as what appear as bodies, objects and beings belonging to an “external” world; are ALL consciousness itself AS Dharmakaya. Consciousness, which you always are, appears AS everything known, with no duality between a knowing consciousness and something known. Waves aren’t occurring TO the ocean, rather the ocean is itself appearing AS waves. Thoughts, perceptions, sensations and forms aren’t appearing TO an observing Awareness, rather Awareness is itself appearing AS thoughts, perceptions, sensations and forms. You are now and have always been the Buddha Mind or Dharmakaya and the world and entities you see and experience, are also THAT with no slight dualism such as Dharmakaya AND its expressions. Dharmakaya IS its expressions in Mahamudra teachings. Usually a non-dual samadhi is necessary in order for this non-dual wisdom to be directly experienced. For me it’s a result of kundalini yoga. “We the Kagyus, in our particular way of doing things, take discursive thoughts onto the path because the entity of discursive thoughts is dharmakaya.” Together with teaching that the entity nature of all thoughts is dharmakaya, Gampopa was famous for teaching that thoughts should be welcomed and cherished rather than seen as undesirable. This was one of Gampopa’s biggest contributions to the Kagyu dharma. “The emission of discursive thought itself is rigpa and emptiness in non-duality, thus, when the rigpa emits as discursive thought, that thought is being emitted as mind’s stains or mind’s latencies. The thought is self- starting, self-appearing, and self-purifying. There is nothing to do other than being undistracted from mind’s state all the time. At the time of any given habituation, there is no need to be un-distracted using mindfulness. If you can manage that, the karmic prana will be purified into indeterminacy so themselves become wisdom prana and, because of that, discursive thoughts do not come as bearers of the stains of latencies, in other words, mind would not be emitted. There is no need to rely on mindfulness and no need to practise the kind of non-distraction that goes with it.” “All appearance is mind. All mind is rigpa. All rigpa is the Buddha Mind or Nature of Mind.” “The nature of the alaya consciousness is the Buddha Mind. The pair, ignorance and co-emergent wisdom, are like the front and back of the hand. For as long as the Buddha Mind is not realized, it is marigpa, the root of samsara. It is the root of realization and wisdom and buddhahood.” They show Gampopa’s own approach to Essence Mahamudra. It is noteworthy that some others, such as Sakya Pandita, strongly objected to this approach of Gampopa which is summed up in the axiom “the entity nature of discursive thought is dharmakaya”, but their complaints were made through a lack of understanding. Within the Kagyu school, this approach to Mahamudra practice is treasured. “Well then”, I asked, “Is there no practice to do other than to be apprehending with mindfulness and remaining undistracted?” The reply came, “Except for being prodded by mindfulness, there is no other practice to do at all.” He asked, “There is both mind and light of mind, isn’t there?” The reply came, “That is so. If appearances are then included within mind, there is nothing else than mind alone.” You meditate again and again like that. By meditating like that, appearances shine forth as mind and nature of Mind will shine forth as buddha. “By knowing appearances as mind, you do not go into dualistic appearance. By knowing the nature of Mind as rigpa, you do not go into matter. By knowing rigpa as empty, you do not go into conceptual constructions. By knowing emptiness as bliss, you do not go into suffering. Bliss is your own mind so you do not go into others’ appearances. There is none of the process of identification that goes with mind therefore there is neither referencing nor non- referencing, and that is Mahamudra.” A student asked, “Are prana (chi) and mind one or separate?” The reply came, “Prana and mind are one. Moved by the prana, mind’s discursive thoughts shine forth in various ways. There is no other way to talk about it; at the time of realization of mind, the pranas are purified in their own places and continue on. Non- dual rigpa-emptiness is co-emergence.” “You meditate undistractedly with the understanding that this is both mind and mind’s light, which is how to hold close to being mind and mind’s light undistractedly at all times.” He said, “Now you do not need to ask the guru questions! All your doubts about rigpa could be cut! Questions are not necessary; cut the ties to this life and meditate!” npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Since bitcoin has 0 entropy, it incentivizes humans to act in the interest of mutual wellbeing. Creating a monetary system that no one can control or debase makes it so that any productive capacity that is added to the network increases the value for all in equanimity. So when energy/ information/ value can't be lost but only gained as humans learn more abundance becomes possible and the unhelpful aspects of habit energy from the past that conditions the individual and society are not rewarded. Directly opposed to a system which relies on infinite debt expansion/ entropy. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 From a friend: Perfect Wisdom and The Vehicle to Enlightenment The Buddha says that enlightenment is an understanding of the present moment. If everything in life is transitioning, that which is pure unalterable truth is that the here and now always IS. If one were to try to describe and define it in names and terms, ONE would ultimately fall short. Why is this? Because the here and now quite simply is the source of all names and terms. How then can something which is the leaves of the tree then ever be its defining roots? All that IS always exists NOW. This is always undeniably so. For that reason, if one were to try and define any one aspect of reality, one would always fall short. Why is this so? Because anything in existence exists in this NOW. As a consequence, such as this is, it too is an embodiment of the here and now. We as well as all fundamental phenomena in existence are just the here and now playing with itself experiencing itself. Those who understand the now are styled as Buddhas. One of the ten titles of the Buddha is Tathagata. This is translated as thus come one or abiding one. It is to implore that a Buddha is one that has fully understood that their original nature ever abides in this one moment. Just like the present moment our enlightened nature and by extension the enlightened nature of all things ever IS. It is always there right in front of us. Though for those of us that are not aware of it, we are styled as blocked from awakening. Enlightenment or rather enlightened nature is not something one can lose and likewise not something one can take. Why? Because enlightenment is just this NOW. It is always there. The notions of taking or giving are just aspects of it. Trying to catch it then is like trying to catch empty space. One can imagine doing so but in truth it cannot be done. What is the reason for beings to be unenlightened and for suffering to exist? The Buddha explains that life is suffering. The present moment is ever undeniably changing and transitioning. As a consequence, there is no way to avoid moments of happiness and moments of sadness. “There is no suffering and there is no end to suffering. There is no ignorance and no end to ignorance.” Suffering will always be there; however, the Buddha styles the cycle of conditional suffering as for those who suffer being attached to the states of mind and, being so, are led astray from the original truth that the here in now is what’s truly ultimately real. Conditioned suffering in Buddhism is explained as originating from craving attachments. Due to these attachments beings associate what is real with their states of mind and not with the here and now. The result is cycling life after life chasing after what is originally always there right in front of you. A person who has attained enlightenment will not cease to suffer, however they will always be fundamentally aware that their true home is always with them in this here and now. Such people are a refuge to themselves as well as all beings. One may ask: How does one find enlightenment if they do not understand enlightenment? The answer is a simple one. The original enlightened masters are as those who built great ships to ferry us across to the other shore solely by our own efforts and practices. For those of us that practice the proper spiritual paths, in time we will awaken to an awareness of what unreal attachments we were holding onto we were not originally aware of. At such times beings naturally make practice abandoning a truth which was partial for a more complete one. The notion of the vehicle to enlightenment is sometimes explained as a raft used to cross a stream of suffering. Even after the stream is crossed the raft too is a burden and must be abandoned. What is the nature of true understanding? True understanding embraces the here and now. Anything that has its basis on assumptions, mental states of mind or any other form of conditioned attachments is imagined or illusory understanding. All that is based on illusory notions that do not embody the here and now are impermanent and subject to change and transition, ending and beginning. How then can they ever be the root of true understanding? A mastery of any one trait skill attainment or understanding then can never ever truly be one which is masterful if it is based on such conditioned cravingly attached notions to a mental state, disposition, opinion or notion. The Buddha in the Diamond sutra offers the Gatha for contemplating illusory causes and conditions. For those who are aware that craving attachments are unreal, such people are as those who have a light that illuminates the unreal from the real. For those who do not, they are stuck mired in the darkness not knowing how to distinguish the good from the bad. The four line Gatha in the Diamond Sutra: All conditioned Dharmas Are like Dreams, Illusions, Bubbles of Shadows; Like Drops of Dew or Flashes of Lighting; Thus Should they be Contemplated One more and awareness of our original nature is a priceless gift. It is understanding that is timeless beyond all change, not subject even to the notions of ending, beginning or conditional value. This is as a priceless truth one cannot ever quantify. When one knows it, it will forever be with oneself. It is as merit equivalent to packing all of empty space with jewels from moment to moment. Anyway, Thank You npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Pretty wild huh? npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Here's to dreaming, saving some dry pow just in case. Never know what's gonna happen but sentiment seems very bullish for now. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Oh I don't worry about it at all lol. I just like to study it to understand what I can. I'm especially interested in the psychology behind human action that drives all the decisions of individuals in the market. It's very fascinating to me! Honestly I wish we'd get back down to 20k though. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Lol I'm just wondering why the shorts didn't squeeze last night because they were about to. It was very close. We went past the liquidation point of 35,750 for a while. Then heavy sell pressure came in. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 So I wonder how large the sell wall is here? Could get a lot of capitulation in this area for a while eh? https://image.nostr.build/aa8644f04d1db7d7d7661c138ef9f3dae095282696f276ec7ef6b4af7acaaa90.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I like to pack the fannies.. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Dark humor is kinda my thing. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Oh that's just because God hates you. Omg I'm going to hell. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Epigenetics am I right? npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 So you wouldn't wear a fanny pack to save your girl from cancer? Rude. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Emf * npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 🤣🤣🤣 perfect. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 That and the emffrom our phones in the front pocket. But...I have a solution. Hear me out. Fanny packs. Let's start a bitcoin fanny pack brand. We'll make them cool for the first time ever. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 We just have to take the internet down now. We can't lose bj's. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 That's some bullshit for sure. We must destroy this fud. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Doesn't it? It's amazing how calm the water was today. Barely even a ripple. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Nailed it! Well said!🎯 npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 The key is learning to witness the mechanations of mind without resistance or attachment to the coming and going. In that what doesn't come or go can be recognized. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Stillness perfectly reflects. As above, so below. https://image.nostr.build/8cee4b0dbe9fe0999975c8fa341eb43216b6a432a53bfbf0ffe416f82e3b1d32.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Thanks for correcting that. I won't share it anymore. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Bitcoin is a battle for human rights and freedom from oppressive systems of control. If we lose the battle orwell's 1984 dystopia is in play. These are the highest of stakes, don't forsake the mission. "If you want an image of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. " -Orwell https://image.nostr.build/1a40737e9116cc708cef72fdd7168eb5a3f7e64b52f178214ae87cc31f8bb4bc.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Leaving behind all identity, fixed views, and belief, who are you? https://image.nostr.build/2f0c690332a3f124f83f91d7afa33959bb601b82a0254e358feffcc321cfc570.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Guys, the new Zeus wallet is a game changer. No more onboarding newbies to WOS or other custodial options. The ux is just so freaking good anyone can use this. Getting all 4 dollars of my WOS now. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Garchen Rinpoche instructed: "Do not worry about enlightenment; the Buddha is within your mind already, ready to be seen. But because we cannot turn inward and are constantly distracted we fail to recognize the Buddha. When past thoughts have ceased and future thoughts not yet arisen, in this space between fixations, you can glimpse the nature of mind abiding like space; this is the Buddha. If you remain within this nature continuously, you are enlightened. Whenever you stop to grasp there is no cause of samsara. Whenever you begin to grasp, you have again created the cause of samsara. The Buddha is actually not somewhere far away. The Buddha is always ready to be seen. If you do not give up the fixation to a self, but try to escape from samsara by secluding your body, you will still not be liberated. If you give up the fixation to a self, while continuing to live in the world, you will be liberated.In particular when difficulties and suffering arise, do not grasp at them, let these thoughts dissolve into space. Even if there is an external so-called problem, the mind does not need to grasp. People who do not understand this sometimes commit suicide, unable to bear even the slightest problem. The Buddha is nowhere apart from your own mind.... Let go of all beliefs and do not hold on to anything. Only by seeing the space like unconfined nature of mind you will be able to destroy negative thoughts. In the true nature of mind there is no existence or non-existence, no this or that, no truth or untruth, no good or bad, no right or wrong. All worldly affairs seem futile when you rest in this nature, that abides like the expanse of space transcending time. Meditation means to first recognize and then habituate to the nature of mind. First you must understand the basic nature of mind. This mind is a single ground within which we are one. Once you have recognized the nature of mind, you must always sustain it, uphold it, without falling into distraction. To habituate this present awareness is meditation. No matter what external condition may arise, happiness or suffering, you should never stray from this clear awareness that recognizes everything that arises. You should practice mindful awareness in all your activities; this is the perfect conduct. The view, the meditation, and the conduct are all mind, the single ground. There are many thoughts that always arise, but thoughts are impermanent; they come and go. The mind from which they arise, however, abides like space; it never comes and goes. It is always there, it has always been there, and it will always be there. It is like space, or a vast ocean, or a mirror. It never goes anywhere, just like space. Therefore, do not cling to the temporary thoughts. No matter how much you cling to them you cannot actually hold on to them, as they are impermanent by nature. Rather, observe that which never goes away, the clear knowing awareness that recognizes all the thoughts arising. This awareness is the buddha within you; it is your true nature. Whatever thoughts arise, negative thoughts, sadness, afflictive emotions, do not follow them but continue to observe with mindfulness. When this mindfulness is sustained, arising thoughts will naturally dissipate without the need to abandon them. This awareness must be upheld, not only in meditation sessions, but also during all your activities. No matter what you experience, happiness or suffering, it does not affect your awareness; it always is as it is. This nature is buddha nature, and every being has it. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 To be resolute in The Way means from the very beginning to never lose sight of it, whether in a place of calm or in a place of strife; to not cling to quiet places nor shun places where there is disturbance. All the holy ones have turned within and sought the true nature of reality, and by this went beyond all doubt. To turn within means all the 24 hours and in every situation, to pierce one by one through the layers covering our true nature, deeper and deeper, to a place that cannot be described. It is when thinking comes to an end and making distinctions ceases, when wrong views and ideas disappear of themselves without having to be driven forth, when without being sought the true action and the true impulse appear of themselves. It is when one can know the Truth of the Heart. Daikaku (1213-1279) Metameza Ushi npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Gm and remember: https://image.nostr.build/d31796d1b4d87ca86b5988d36c892f540ceb107714feb83fe8f0dd0d7e849338.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yea that's very true, easier to make the same mistakes over and over when the lifespan of people is sort so we tend to repeat those lessons over and over. That's really interesting when thinking about the 4th turning 80 year cycles. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I always come back to this quote from Douglas adams. it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they're not. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Also yes that last part is the scary part because psychopaths and sociopaths know how to exploit these people and you end up with the worst tyrants in power as a result. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 We have a real problem with not learning our lessons collectively. I think the desire to trust your governed and institutions in power is just strong for most people because they for one don't want to take the time to question mental, emotional, social, and environmental factors that shake traditions, beliefs, and views. Secondly like you said they don't get the time when the focus is high time preference survival. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I think it's possible for bitcoin to balance out the debt expansion as we transition though. I think there will be a time period where btc and the dollar are friends. I save in bitcoin and spend in dollars naturally because of greshams law. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yep the worst economic meltdowns happened since Keynes ideas were employed as the de facto economics. Says a lot to me. Now that we've gotten ourselves so deep in this hole of debt expansion, they literally can't do anything but kick the can or face near total collapse. If they would have let banks fail in 08 we might still have a chance with this system but we are getting to watch it fail now in real time unfortunately. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Bitch lasagna. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Start9 for us dummies on the way? npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Must stack every sat. I skip meals to stack more lmao. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yea I'm intp lol. Sorry missed this. The threads on amythyst are unclear sometimes. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Humans experience a lot* npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yea I think the attention span of people has been manipulated to be very low and to treat it almost like a meat market. Few seem interested in getting deep and that's something I need in relationship. I like to listen to whole albums, hear the whole story etc because to me that's the intimacy that I crave in a true connection. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yea I'm not the club type either, I just know from playing in bands that that's the strategy to get good ticket sales lol. Yea it might just be hard to find people in general that have done the inner work to be ready for something real. Humans exclusive a lot of suffering and trauma and if they haven't developed the tools to be healthy in relationships they end badly. I feel like a lot of people have given up on that in these dating scenes just due to how unhealthy people are in mind, body, and soul. I had to do a lot of work sitting in vipassana for years and doing other various types of meditation to go through all that stuff and it wasn't until a few years ago that I finally felt I was ready after recognition of anatta happened on my 30th bday in the midst of the worst depression I ever went through. Funny how those things work. Anywho yea you gotta be happy being alone for sure! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Oh yea it's a classic strategy that works for everything from shows to bars. Get the ladies in and you've got the guys. I'm surprised there aren't in your experience. I guess there's just a lot of unserious/indecisive people? I always thought it was easy easier for ladies. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 It's $20 a week for guys. That cuts into my bitcoin money. I'll find love either using it for free or after this generational stacking opportunity is over. Right now is stacking as first priority though lol. I don't mind saying I'm in the usa. Perhaps it's less for men in other countries. I think their business model is like the classic club model. Ladies get in free to get the guys to come and spend stupid amounts of money trying to find love 🤣 npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I'd prolly have to talk to you one on one for a while. But I'm mostly just good at it because I know which types of girls seen to be attracted to me most the time lol. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 They still want to charge a ridiculous amount of money for guys. Maybe it's cheap for girls? I've never actually gotten a real match on there before. Not actually sure how many people even use these apps because I think a lot of them are bots or unserious people who aren't actually interested in much but the dopamine boost from a like. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 That said yea you gotta meet in person asap and see if there's sparks. I usually give it 2 to 3 dates. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I agree but certain cognitive models seem to attract usually the opposite. For example the girls I usually attract are enfp or enfj. Not That I even filter for them but it's a subconscious thing. I can usually guess their Myers Briggs after talking to them a bit and a lot of times they are shocked that I'm right lol. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Same, I don't enjoy the current paradigm. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 On the final period of the teachings of the Buddha: Enlightenment can be explained to be as just an awareness that we are always in this here and now. It is not something attainable or something that can be lost. We all exist in the present moment so, for each of us, it is always there whether we are aware of it or not. The Life Span of the Buddha implies that this Buddha-Nature like the present moment always IS. One’s Buddha nature is just an embodiment of this NOW which is always and forever just partaking of the aspect of abiding. This can be styled to be as everlasting and permanent. It is not only the Buddha who has this vast lifespan but also fundamentally the root base nature of all beings. We all possess the Buddha nature hence we all fundamentally have this equivalent Life Span. Shakyamuni’s resources come from his enlightenment. Enlightenment is fundamentally at harmony with all of reality. It does not give way to misunderstandings that arise from craving attachments to the world which cannot be overlooked by ordinary beings. Such as this is, enlightened resources are perfectly dynamic and unrestricted in their interactions and interrelations. The enlightened faculty of every being has equivalent resources at its disposal. Just like Shakyamuni, through the teachings of the Lotus Period we can draw from the resources of the Bodhisattva’s of the Earth. Thank You npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Definitely agree there. Whoever is doing market research for this right now is getting a goldmine of info lol. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yea they are a necessary evil for me unfortunately. I feel like it's a lot harder for guys to meet girls though at least for us more introvert guys, (I'm intp on the Myers Briggs cognitive model.) npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Yea I think it's the messed up incentives for the company running the platform. It's not profitable for them to actually help people find love. I also don't like how it incentivizes the swipe culture either as someone who appreciates genuine human connection and can't stand vapid and shallow mindsets that things like tinder incentivize people towards. Honestly if I could choose this is one of my first ideas for what to design but the timing would also need to be right to find a market large enough to steal the network effects of those platforms. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I see that as the future of dating, employing ai to find matches based on your preferences and getting rid of these shitty gatekeepers at bumble, tinder, etc. Just recently got back in the game from a ltr and I hate how they rarely show you your matches unless you pay their extortion level prices. Honestly Facebook seems to be better than any of them to me. At least they don't try to extort you. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Honestly though I can't wait for nostr to get popular enough to combine it with ai for dating matches. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Nice try fed. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 🚨 Breaking: All nations have agreed to convert technology from weaponry to livingry and focus on solving buckminster fuller's world game. President biden says, "transitioning from destructive habits to constructive is the only way forward for humanity. " **Reportedly** npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 That's a pretty cool idea! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 I imagine eventually we will have something similar except its disguised a an everyday item like a hairbrush with a seed inside it or like those hide a key things. That would actually be pretty cool to design. Maybe you have me an idea here. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 Oh man this is so satisfying to watch. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 It's even worse for the human psyche in general because it holds back higher human potential of the individual in favor of groupthink and self censoring to get that sweet sweet engagement. This actually destroys the individual and cuts them off from discovering higher potential. Look no further than tik tok or Instagram for examples of this. (I actually feel bad for the ice cream yum yum girls.) npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 It's not the heart that they believed was the seat of mind, but the thymus gland. As did the ancient Greeks! npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 It's hard to ever really know the truth about things that I don't experientially know. Twitter has lead me to not believe anything when it comes to the narratives people sell. Perhaps people never should have and we wouldn't be where we are in the psyop game. https://image.nostr.build/e45f2de4c62aea990d00ac6fd17694d01da3d6ea8647dc2b7ea26312302f5684.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 From a friend. On higher human potential and the Transcendence of maslows hierarchy. Behavioral scientist Abraham Maslow's work on the Hierarchy of Needs was somewhat accepted by Psychology, and much was soundly rejected; as the ego-centric could not accept that his Self-Actualization was merely a stepping stone to a Higher Level of Human Potential called Transcendence. As Maslow understood it, Transcendence was the very highest and most holistic level of human consciousness. This level consciousness transcended basic needs, culture, ego esteem, positives and negatives, and even Space-Time constructs. Among Abraham Maslow's friends and collaborators was Dr Clare Graves, whose Human Evolutionary Development model (now called Spiral Dynamics) complimented Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. These two were "open to learning at any time and from any source, like bees that gather nectar from many flowers." Some of the greatest misperceptions of the Graves Model, and Becks Spiral Dynamics interpretation came from their failure to recognize that not only can Levels be skipped, but it is much easier to skip from SD-4 or SD-5 to SD-7, than going from SD-6 to SD-7. Level 6 ... which Beck called 'Green,' is the worse, ego-centric consciousness of all Evolutionary levels. "The person operating at the 6th level must realize that everything that human beings have ever believed in, is by and large, wrong." Dr Clare Graves. Dr Clare Graves said, " the 6th level of thinking (those who desire a tribal container) are an attack upon nature and Nature's Laws, that should be around for the shortest period of time of any of the lower ways of thinking that we have had" All Spiral Dynamics groups that I'm aware of are closely controlled by Level 5 and 6 personalities ... thus an impediment to Higher Human Potential. "Less than one in a hundred people become fully self-actualized (SD-7) because our society rewards motivation primarily based on esteem" - Dr. Abraham Maslow. Integration of Yin and Yang is best during SD-4 and SD-5 ... the Community paradigm of SD-6 IS NOT the next Buddha, but a most difficult and needless Stepping Stone trap consumed within a pluralist delusion that views Higher Human Potential as a threat to their Anarcho-Justice Warrior Community, Regressive Left autocracy, Oligarchical Collectivism, participatory trophies, and Woke agenda. Beck solidified the (Green) misperception of an upward hierarchical manner of development. In other words his disastrous short-sightedness in that we do not skip levels. On the contrary, not only can Levels be leaped, but it is essential to realize that SD-6 must be leaped, or one becomes consumed within a pluralist delusion that views Higher Human Potential as a threat to their Tribal, Community meme. Dr. Clare Graves said, "this theory is a systems conception of personality which may be able to integrate everything that has been put down in the literature about human behavior." Thus, Gabrielle Roth's Five Rhythms overlays without contradiction. World Peace will NEVER come by way of forced community ... but by individuals taking the Momentous Leap to Self-Actualization and Transcendence. "If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of your self." - Lao-Tzu, Huahujing npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 You are not a slave to "human nature." In fact there is no such thing as human nature. What we call human nature is really nothing other than habit energy. I think it would be more accurate if we called it that because human nature carries a sense of something that can't be changed or is inescapable. So there's a lot of human action that gets excused by that term. "Oh we can't avoid war, hatred, exploitation, superiority complexes etc. Because it's human nature. " No it's habit energy carried on through generations in the mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning which shapes the individual, their beliefs, and views through culture. While at the same time the culture is shaped by individual points of view. When we call it habit energy we see that those acts that are destructive to the self/ other are indeed a choice although unconscious to many. There's always the option for redemption you are not a slave to it. https://image.nostr.build/3e992715c971b4c8dba11950b0d619c7146ca1673c1a284dcc42eb15c9ad4bce.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 That's probably how it will happen, usually things have to kind of reach a fever pitch before we've had enough of the suffering and transcend it. However it's not always the case. It often feels to me we are between these 2 possible outcomes of dystopia and the liberation or Renaissance. Yet I realize it seems to be both and there are many possibilities for where it could end up. I guess that keeps life exciting though. We never really know what's going to Halen. npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 All I have to say on recent events is this: It's easy to manipulate people into seeing the other as an enemy when governments have control of the information presented to citizens. They have to divide to conquer and dehumanize the other side. People have to be motivated to hatred or belief in superiority through mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning. Rarely do the people ever become aware of the atrocities committed in their name by governments. The human family must learn to play cooperative games to survive the insane amount of technological capacity and total lack of wisdom to employ it that we currently have. I think over time bitcoin fixes this because it is a system with 0 monetary entropy. So over time since there is no loss of wealth but only increase as productive capacity increases all people benefit from the advancement equally as their purchasing power increases. Over a long period of time this can change human value systems and unhelpful habit energies as bitcoin transitions individuals into its cooperative game where people aren't incentivized to lie, cheat, and steal to keep up with their loss in purchasing power. This in turn creates abundance over time as we transition from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset which obviates the root cause of the need for one group to claim supremacy of themselves and inferiority of the other to justify why they deserve access to our control over resources and the other doesn't. I'm thinking of course on a 500 year timeliness perhaps longer or shorter depending on how quickly people collectively understand the game that is being presented. How to move from self destructive to cooperative games that can advance us to type 1 on the kardashev scale and beyond. I have faith in humanity to eventually leave these barbaric ways behind and play a more cosmic survival game. https://image.nostr.build/e45f2de4c62aea990d00ac6fd17694d01da3d6ea8647dc2b7ea26312302f5684.jpg npub10vgzm305xj73hcp02qqtj62uau2uadnxt926s8vxqz0lvr6z6pvsufg9ar Bodhicitta777 To be free from attachment to desires is the greatest freedom. That doesn't mean don't desire, it just means to let go/ let life lead when things don't go as intended. https://image.nostr.build/4438a8bab3683f2514f961fbea60d66ccaab7ee81e66c8505939ce240a836adc.jpg