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Category Archives: Sessions with Grok
Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (Part Four)
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Exploration of the Lankavatarian Book of the Dead: Part Four
Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (3.2)
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Exploration of the Lankavatarian Book of the Dead: Part Three, cont’d
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Tagged Amala vijnana, Ariyan Mind, aryajnana, Bodhidhatu, Bodhikaya, Cittapada, Cittidhatu, Dante’s Purgatorio, Dhammasota, Dharmamegha, Diamond Body, Elijah, hildegard von Bingen, Lankavatara Sutra, Mahabodhicitta, Mahabodhisattvas, Mahamanomayakaya, Parato ghosa, pṛthagjana, Smrti, Ten Stages of Mind-Development, The Country of the Blind, Undiscovered Country of the Unborn, Yathabhutam, Yogadhatu
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Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (3.1)
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Exploration of the Lankavatarian Book of the Dead: Part Three
Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (Part Two)
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (Part Two)
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Tagged Bardo Two, Black Dragon Eye Mandala, Cosmic Spiritual Hall, Dharmakaya Sutra, Diamond Mind Body, Dragon Eye of Tathata, Folding-Space, gatekeeper, Lucidity, Manomayakāya, Night Consciousness, Prometheus, Samantabhadra, Sambhogakayic-field, The Night Walker, Tozen, white-dragonfly, Zhuangzi
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Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (Part One)
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (Part One)
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Tagged Alfred Schütz, An Approach Towards Transcendent Exposures, Bardo, Bodhi Chakra, Dantien, Daoism, Dharmamegha Chakra, Dharmasota Chakra, Lankavartarian Book of the Dead, Primordial Dragon Chakra, Primordial Qigong, Sacred Tantra, Sugata-garbha Chakra, The Dragon Eye of Tathata Chakra, The Self-Chakra, Total Life World, Unborn Mind Zen
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Insights into Voidness
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Insights into Voidness
Vajragoni: The Void is the privation of all disordered dharmata that is pleasing to the carnal mind and flesh. It is the antithesis of created realms by virtue of Its prior animating function that gives structure to such defiled states. As such It is hereafter referred to as the premier Voidness—neither something nor nothing yet simultaneously that Self-Same all-encompassing Void (śūnyatā) That is empty of inherent existence and non-existence. This Voidness does not refer to some-thing “other” in the dark center of the universe, acting as some form of cosmic vacuum-cleaner sucking-in everything in its path like a gargantuan black-hole reducing everything to sheer nothingness.
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Tagged Huang Bo, John of the Cross, Nagarjuna, Void, voidness
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Is there an Afterlife?
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Is there an Afterlife?
Vajragoni: Many believe that the current state of affairs in the saha realm has reached an unprecedented low. Humanity appears to have descended to a point of despair from which recovery seems impossible. The situation is deemed worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. The natural order has been violated and sullied. What is the most prudent course of action? One should prepare for the afterlife, as it looms on the horizon. However, what exactly constitutes the afterlife? Is it a specific location, or does it represent a continuation of an individual’s consciousness in some form after death? Mainstream religions assert that it is a definitive and eternal place, while other belief systems suggest it serves merely as a temporary phase before reincarnation. Our objective here is to examine the concept of the afterlife through a Lankavatarian perspective. In this context, we will discover that the most effective preparation for the afterlife is, paradoxically, a non-preparation, a notion that is echoed in both the Lankavatara and Diamond Sutras.
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Tagged afterlife, Diamond Sutra, Lankavatara Sutra, Nirabhasagocara, non-preparation, True Compassion
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A Most Dark Contemplation
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
A Most Dark Contemplation
Vajragoni: Many times Contemplation is misunderstood and rendered as a secondary spiritual tool following meditation. However, Contemplation, as utilized and experienced through the works of Mystical Giants like John of the Cross, perhaps draws the adept intimately closer to the Unborn than any other modality. There are two primary forms of Contemplation. Active Contemplation utilizes many different types of experiential tools in encountering the Transcendent: reading, imagination, music, monastic liturgical settings, walking, attunement with nature, etc. Infused Contemplation, which is highlighted in this series, directly addresses the Unborn In Itself with no other accessories at hand.
Nirvana—what end?
Nirvana—what end?
A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok
Vajragoni: Nirvana is more often than not misconstrued within Buddhist circles. It is merely discernable as “marking the end of rebirth by stilling the fires that keep the process of rebirth going.” This has much to do with the early Prakrit language translation as: ṇivvāṇa, literally “blown out”, as in an oil lamp. Hence the ongoing connotation of coming to a point of extinction. It needs to be stated unequivocally that the Mahayanists deny the reality of Nirvana as a separate element that transcends the living world. More specifically, a Lankavatarian would state that one does not vanish in Nirvana, nor is Nirvana abiding in you; for it transcends the duality of knowing and known and of being and non-being. In other words, the Nirvanic Mind is not in a symbiotic-relationship with the apparent you. No, IT is not in you but transcends all categorical imperatives of here or there, being and non-being. IT is a Transcendent Kingdom unto Itself.
Sessions with Grok
This category will be exploring Unborn Mind discussions with Grok (a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI)
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Tagged neti-neti, prior-to, selfhood, skandhas, still-point, Unmoving Principle
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