When Prophecies Dawn
The so-called science fiction genre has elements of prophetic vision to it. We now live in a post 1984 world with surveillance devices embedded into our homes in 4K video definition. We each have our on line robot-clone-PC-hype-avatars on “social” media and fakery is prevalent. Artificial is the buzz-word of the day. Artificial is the new real.
Death Bardo and the Afterlife
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.”
Genesis, xxviii, 12 – KJV
Fighting the Wrong Battles
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Depending on the circumstance, you should be hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
Morihei Ueshiba
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Gang aft agley
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Robert Burns
Modelling Expansion of Consciousness
Any attempt to model phenomena so that an awareness or consciousness might assimilate or comprehend it, is just a model. It is a narration or a modelling of an underlying reality. It is not reality itself. People are lazy with language which imbues a false sense of reality and an inviolate accuracy on the model of choice. The model is mistaken for the reality. It is deemed explicitly real by usage.
Out of Touch With Modern Reality
“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."
"The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Are Appearance and Reputation Important?
All appearance is delusion.
If you view all appearance as nonappearance,
Then that view is your true nature.
Do not become attached to any thoughts that arise in the mind.
Being Avant Garde
“In 1632, Galileo published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which defended heliocentrism while describing geocentrists as "simpletons". Responding to mounting controversy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", sentencing him to house arrest. At this point, heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to abstain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas after the trial.”
What is a Bodhisattva?
bodhisattva, in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening (bodhi)—hence, an individual on the path to becoming a Buddha.
Power and Equanimity
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
How Much is Enough – Dissatisfaction
In Japanese Buddhism, the Hungry Ghosts are considered to have two variants: the gaki and the jikininki. Gaki (餓鬼) are the spirits of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object.
Bodhisattva Vow and Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
Like a blind man fumbling in garbage
Happens to find a rare and precious gem,
Likewise I have discovered
The jewel of the precious Bodhi-mind.
Buddhist Nihilism and Controlled Folly
I have no control over who might read the blog nor what they may make of it. The only thing I have responsibility for is my own folly. It is up to me if I express that folly in an impeccable manner or not.
Philosophical cul-de-sacs and Controlled Folly
The attempts at mapping the cosmic microwave background are to “hear” the echo of left over energy from the utterance of the primordial and cosmogenic AUM, the first vibration or “word” that stimulated the current universe into manifestation. Scientists are listening to the universe chanting mantra.
Are You Important – A Big Cheese?
Many people behave as if the entire universe revolves around their lower posterior sphincter. They feel very important and entitled. They think that the universe should submit to all their petty wants, ambitions and desires.
Being a big cheese is not Buddha-nature…you cannot be a big cheese and a Buddha.
Ploy Fatigue
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium...
The Logic of Fate
The role of the Moirai was to ensure that every being, mortal and divine, lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe. For mortals, this destiny spanned their entire lives and was represented as a thread spun from a spindle.
Self Diagnosed Omniscience
If you don’t like the message you get given you can always pay for another one.
