Hulking, slinking or crawling: Moves on the Path

What defines your crazy train?  Which neuroplastical tracks do our perceptual frenetic locomotives take? Dashing from one thrill or "obligation" stop to the next,  will we run out of fuel because the conductor pushes us too far, or not enough?"

In this multiverse, lets split ourselves first into being both the conductor and the train itself. The spiral spiral track we ride determined by environment and hereditary weather on the chronological tracks of existence can be daunting. But seeking knowledge and fun organically sees the ride smoothly and swims through the severest of sensations. There have been certain "rules" "norms" and "values" instilled and imposed on us by other conductors, some of them in groups which have caressed our paths in different directions. Without their basic imposed culture, we would have flown off the tracks long ago and never again touch the rails.

We are indeed indebted to those who keep us on the fresh, untrammeled paths of living. Yet when other have affected us to "be" in certain ways, or forcefully impose their will on the liberty of our actions.

Whatever the cause, continually traveling paths that evoke the rusting-rain of anger, delusion and greed - frequently grinding our wheels over the same behaviors- make some habit stations incredibly harder to alter. Yet the opposite is also true when we mindfully guide our mass of grey matter in accordance to the multiple possible intelligences we have (body, linguistic, existential, naturalistic, inter and intra personal, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic and spatial. Why don't our conductors practice riding routes more skillfully, is it that they've been trick by their "self" and society or simply not taught the 'right' things to master their elements? Slinking, wide slippery graceful, samurai steps, with couthe cowboy confidence and charisma, thats the smooth criminal course I care to cavort.

Meditation or yoga which is one of those 'right' activities to mastering the mind-body dualities, attaining peace of mind, etc. can make the ride pass more smoothly. Considering that a number of studies have linked meditation practice to functionally changing the physical structures of the brain in areas of attention, anxiety, depression and fear, we are given pause to think. Or not thinking, depending on whether or not the thought will release dopamine, seratonin or the stress-induced cortisol. 

                                              If this is your conductor, find a new conductor immediately!

What is your conductor shoveling into your train's furnace? What emotions are you allowing to drive you? Has your conductor been duped into filling the furnace with poisonous mental fuels that will only drive your mind crazy?  Most of the time our conductor is blinded by a number of silly chemicals that makes our train swerve erratically. His or her  spectacles are two fingers wide, far-sided and near-sided, and he loses his temper  when he doesn't think the train is going fast enough or that the people are not 'happy' or any number of things go 'wrong.' These thoughts of course are often very short-sighted or pegged for illusory long-term goals. These passengers on your mind train that are constantly after desires or any sandtraps of suffering cannot be missed, they stick out like swore thumbs on the train, complaining that their seat is uncomfortable or the landscapes are too bland. Other people, the sunshiners are enjoying the scenery, relishing in the curves of the mountain passes and the sway of buffalo grass in the flatlands. There is no duality between "good" or "bad" thoughts yet know which thoughts guide you on your path and which roll you off a cliff of false consciousness.

What is masculine, what is feminine? What is gay or straight?, what is the right way to 'behave' ? Which taboos should be heeded? Question everything you emphasize with respect to your conductor's time. The ride won't last forever, so make each twist and bend unforgettable.

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castenada

Stay thirsty my friends

The anthill and the masters

I shot a hot silver slug of mental perspicacity at a silo and was surprised to see grain pour out the side like magma flow at pompeii. All the tiny ant citizenry on the ground were covered in an instant. Those not crushed to death by the tyranny of golden edibles realigned with valor to rebuild the colony. Atom the ant, a young adult by ant standards was not too keen on the way things had been run by his predecessors. He thought they were rather daft when it came to the myths the 'master' ants relayed to the population about the meaning of life, purpose and pursuit of happiness. The "expert" ants worked with the master ants to justify their rule of the magistracy on the basis of superior acumen over the less mentally observant ants. They concentrated all the power and comfortable living at the top of ant-society and relegated the rest to the bidding of the colony which they overworked for greater riches. Atom was being groomed for this society, of which he wanted no part of but the recent natural disasters gave him the chance to change everything. In the old times the ant experts advised invading neighboring hills to expand their resources. This seemed to get the ants embroiled in more trouble than ever. When Atom crawled out of the grain that day he had a blurry hazy amalgamation of ideas as new waves of sunlight washed over his abdomen. He knew he had to move in the direction of his dreams. The other survivor ants regurgitated the platitudes and maxims of the old regime. Yet Atom remained calm and his silence reverberated, speaking volumes over the cacophony of vapid ants with their bold illusions and false consciousness. He proclaimed to them humbly, "Our armies whether they be of ants fighting other ants or masses attached to ideas about what the "experts" tell them is true, have been misled. Wake up my fellow ants! The master ants were greedy to their own ends and did not pus us foremost in their self-centered plans for glory.

Our allegiance to them, our armies can be reduced and abolished only in opposition to the will, but never by the will of the ant magistracy. If we're gonna start an antopia we might as well make the cornerstone inquisitiveness. We should have listened to the experts sure, but we should not have always been so dependent on them to tell us the answer to everything because we've stopped listening to our own hearts and common sense. The egoism of individual ants have blinded us all into living lives that are stressful and unproductive to the caring of our own hill by attacking other hills that are not directly concerned with us. By neglecting the livelihood of our own hill, it has never reached its full potential. We are the power to change our circumstances first we must alter our egos to forge the highest hill" There was much consensus amongst the workers who cheered. I would like to say this tale has a happy ending, but months into Atom's administration, the old greedy egoic forces marshaled against him, with slander and pincers, they crushed his most loyal supporters and were able to remold the minds of the ants, devolving them back to the ways of the old regime. But the embers have been lit of this fire and those treasured ants who remember Atom's benevolence shall strive to re-attain what has been lost. They know the masters are but ants and subject to folly, a folly only they can prevent from manifesting into tyranny.

The fire can only grow brighter.

Cosmotrippin to the beat of the apocalypse

             Lets take a page out of the Lankavatara Sutra for a moment- "Since beginingless time the mind-system has perceived multiplicities of forms, conditions, and ideas which the thinking mind has discriminated and the empirical mind has experienced, grasped, and clung to.  From this perceiving, experiencing, etc., habit-energy has risen that, by its accumulation, has in turn conditioned the illusions of existence and non-existence, and individuality and generality, and has thus perpetuated the dream-state of false-imagination." So lets begin at a beginning- a relatively clean slate!

Here is the freedom and spontaneity of potentiality that comes with the attainment and patient acceptance of the truths of egolessness and imagelessness.

 Here is perfect solitude, undisturbed by any gradation or continuous succession, radiant with the potency and freedom of its self-nature which is the self-nature of Noble Wisdom — blissfully peaceful, with the serenity of Perfect Love

                                                                   

There is an inconceivable transformation-death (acintya-parinama-cyuti) — a realization of Oneness with the universalized mind of Tathagatahood by which the false-imagination of the particularized individual personality is transcended.

                                                                                                      

 There is no recession from this realization.

        

                                                          

    Just as the earth supports all beings in the world, so do the Tathagatas support all beings in the Transcendental World of No-form 

Consciousness on Angelic Steroids

               So what does it mean when men with long beards, living thousands of years ago, sitting still in Himalyan caves happen upon a notion of enlightenment. Is it to archaic for our pluralistic western scientism, or were they on to some deep inner-transformation, perhaps the key to mind evolution itself that revealed more truly the nature of reality? we'll have to "get there" to find out I suppose. Then again, the notion that we have to get there in the first place is inherently inimical to Zen, as we already are here and perfect now. We already have this inner-Buddha nature or Christ consciousness, we just need to uncover it from the dirt of attachment, hatred, delusion and false-imagining that have enveloped us. The cessation of the self, a regaining of that childlike innocence, abiding in a natural brightly shining womb of original pureness is open to us now. 

            It's deceptively simple yet gradually attainable, as Ken Wilber says, the task is to transform "higher states into permanent traits." Jim Carey discusses this higher-state as "being thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom from myself and my problems. I saw I was bigger than what I do, I was everything and everyone. I was no longer a fragment of the universe, I was the universe. and ever since that day, I've been trying to get back there. It comes and it goes, its like riding a wave, sometimes I'm on, sometimes I'm off, but at least I know where I want to go, and I want to take as many people with me as I possibly can because the feeling is amazing!"

Once we swim in these streams, we understand what transpersonal psychologist Stanislav Grof meant when he said, "Spiritual intelligence acquired in the process of experiential self-exploration has the power to override the scientistic worldview of materialistic science while effectively acting as a remedy to counteract the dogmas of organized religions." Only then, is Our intrinsic, effulgent  indwelling potency for becoming a Buddha, A Christ, a Wayshower realized.

Jim Carey Vid:

Butterfly Roundup Faceshark!

 How many butterflys and best friends does it take for your 17 muscles to flex into a  half-moon of pink gums and pearly whites?

 to throw your arms up in the air without a care, or cross your arms and your heart.

 Or let the wind take your color, flapping and swooning in the wind's caress on forty feet of wooden board

 jutting out into the azure waters of people and possibility, the flashes of silver fins and pearly whites are nothing what they seem

On this dazzling roundup of swimming smiles, whirring in the frenetic light of just another night.

The First Principle - What's your perceptual framework for meaning?

Once a novice asked a Zen master, “Master, what is the first principle?” Without hesitation, the master replied, "If I were to tell you, it would become the second principle.” The first principle cannot be said. The most important thing cannot be said, and that which can be said will not be the first principle. The moment truth is uttered it becomes a lie; the very utterance is a falsification. So all the scriptures of all the religions contain the second principle, not the first principle. They contain lies, not the truth, because the truth cannot be contained by any word whatsoever, the truth can only be experienced. The truth can be lived, but there is no way to say it.
Osho Rajneesh, an Indian mystic affirms that silence is the only door, the only approach to the heart of the first principle. The primordial state of our being can only be reached when we "get out of our head,"  ending the tyranny of habitual thought that causes are monkey minds to grab on vine after the other. 


Thinking is secondary, existence precedes thinking. First you are and then you start thinking, on average 80,000 a day. Osho calls thinking a shadow activity that follows you, unable to exist without you, yet you cannot exist without it. To quote Osho, "Through thinking you can know secondary things, not the primary things. The most fundamental is not available to thinking; the most fundamental is available to silence. Silence means a state of consciousness where no thought interferes. The first principle is not far away, it is not distant. Never think for a single moment that you are missing it because it is very far away. It is the closest thing to you. It is the obvious thing. It surrounds you.  It surrounds you just like the ocean surrounds a fish. You are in it. You are born in it and born out of it. You live in it, you breathe in it, and one day you disappear in it. It is not far away, not that you have to travel to it. It is there. It is already there around you, within and without. It is your very existence, that first principle. All the enlightened people have passed through a very strange experience: They cannot remain silent because now they know something which they would like to share, but when they try to share they find that it is not the same when you say it; it is something else. The real thing is left behind, only the word reaches the other person"

The moment we divide reality, it becomes the second principle. AS Osho says, "The second is a shadow; the first is the original. Zen has made one of the greatest leaps of human consciousness when it says that the world is God and there is no other God. The creation is the creator, there is no other creator. The very creativity is divine. It is not like a painter who is different from his painting. It is like a dancer who is one with his dance. God is one with his existence. God is his existence. In fact, to say "God is" is tautological, it is a repetition, because "God" means the same thing that "is" means. God is isness. All that is divine."  

Wayshowers United

The first move is to communicate my message, which is also your message, with an open soul who has passion, understanding and listening skill to comprehend it. If you feel this communication deeply, forward it to the one person who you can most deeply relate to.

Life for the seeker is defined by a quest to illuminate the truth and live in accordance with it. This challenge has eradicated much ignorance for the seeker, but provides more questions than answers.

What is wrong with the world? We are. What is right with the world? We are.

It is incumbent upon the compassionate and wise to transform our way of living for the betterment of all beings. The society we are a party of is lost. It has been owned and enslaved to a distorted ideology that has obscured the moral path of humanity under a veil of dim light. As we grow closer to comprehending the ultimate nature of reality, we must counteract the forces of fear and all its inertia to universal harmony by empowering all sentient beings to live in the light of freedom and love.

“The Game” begins when the player realizes the consequences of the end game: Scarcity, poverty, depression and the fascist control of the few over the rights of the many. The Game initiates when there is a realization that the biggest lie, the grandest theft, was the willingly enslavement of civilizations to a corruption beyond the scope of comprehension. The power that is held by the elites is based on the giving up of each individual’s sacred labors and the fruits thereof. When the injustices of the fiat money system are discovered understood or felt, there is a realization that money does not come from a building, a government, or from a so-called powerful or rich person, but from the value of each individual’s labor and the moment there is an agreement that abundance is a natural and sovereign right of everyone on the planet to have what is created by their effort and to be free of enslavement by those who would use their will over another. The idea of freedom and prosperity comes into the mind of that will and wish for power to create their own destiny, for better or worse.

As long as you breathe and want something, you are a player. This is a game and we want to win. The question is the first thing that comes into your mind: “What do I want?” Then another, "what do I have?"

Then you have begun the Game because you are thinking for yourself and seeing what you want and what you have. You have now become a player. You are now free to find others to begin the game with. You cannot play alone and you are not alone. In this game you are only in control of your wants and your needs but you are in total control of what you have and what you want.

The second move of the game, the first being sharing your message with one other person, is to awake to being a wayshower: the joyous, strong, devoted, wise loving soul, free from fear that is your pure essence. You pray this night, this day this morning to be the best you can be, to find in yourself the willing heart to see with the eyes of a new being. 

In this prayer, you change the evolution of your being through the power of your conscious awareness to manifest your light, your very being in accord with the energies being evoked and being received to become enlightened receptacles.

With the first move, you create inspiration for a new day where you are building the new world on new foundations with other wayshowers who are guided to walk this path by the teachings of light. They see this truth and feel this oneness, which is the binding love that brings us together.

The evolutionary breakthrough to new conscious awareness is achieved and lived by those wayshowers on the leading edge who are on the quest and accept this destiny given to them by the teachers of light. Awakened Wayshowers bring forth the future vision of reality. You are a wayshower in the first circle of the leading edge, a member, friend and co-creator of the righteous game.

As equals, our third move is to bring forth evolutionary ideas and transformational formulas to other circles. Our first community of wayshowers is a matrix point with an allegiance whose strong synergistic appreciation and multilateral communications has the power to change the world.

Our circular operational association within the Game is tasked with the enhancement of the right brain, the intuitive elements of the mind to increase telepathy and connect to the holographic planetary system. Through the method of attunement to congenial thoughts within the mental body and then the entrainment (brain synchronization) to consensual feelings with the emotional body, the alignment with the physical and non-physical worlds are completed.

Our primary objective is to coalesce, dilating the circle in ever-expanding communicative outreach to connect all beings in an overarching framework of love. The path across the bridge of this life is through honesty, sincerity and balance.

The mega powers corrupting the world are all in the same world you are in and they rely on one crucial thing: the people of the world, the constituency. This is where power resides and this is the public power that can bring about the evolution we believe is possible. You know the secret. We must work to bring together a movement with congenial spirits who have been through the same realizations and understand the importance of creating the constructive circle to end suffering and win the game.

See how far the Rabbit Hole really goes.