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The Bodhi-Child as the User of Conditions

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Vajragoni

When the illusion of authorship falls away, a new question quietly dissolves as well: Who is it that uses the means? What remains is not passivity, and not a formless abstraction removed from the world, but a mode of functioning that the tradition of the Unborn may rightly call the activity of the Bodhi-child. The Bodhi-child is not a stage in time, nor a symbolic identity adopted by the practitioner. It is the natural flowering of recognition when the Ground begins to move without obstruction through the field of conditions. It is awakening appearing as responsiveness. If the earlier chapters have revealed that all forms are the self-arising display of the Ground, and that no separate author can be found behind them, this chapter reveals how those forms are taken up in compassionate activity without reintroducing the illusion of a user. read more

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He who fights with Monsters

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Vajragoni


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Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the often misunderstood and misquoted philosophers of all time, yet his genius shines on in the great abyss of contemporary mediocrity. Towards the end the syphilis kicked in and he was driven to madness but the testament he left behind will continue to be a bright beacon beckoning those few souls who desire to rise above the ignorant wasteland of the human malaise. One particular statement stands most vividly in mind: “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster”…Yet, the question needs to be asked, just who are the monsters and those who one considers as being friendly? Usually a friend is one who will continue to accept you despite all your foibles no matter what the cost, and an enemy is one who seeks to permanently wreck you into oblivion. And yet the opposite can also be the case. Friendships can be very fragile, especially in this age of the social beast where one phrase can obliterate an otherwise eternal pact of kinship. And a purported enemy can actually “wake-one” up from the present dangerous path one may be embracing, challenging and breaking the façade and in so doing creates a more stronger “you.” So just who is the real monster? read more

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A Phantom Elephant

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Vajragoni
  1. If such errors were granted, it would not be possible to talk about the non-existence of self-substance; as the nature of reality is erroneously understood, there is something perceived where there is really no self-substance; all is indeed non-existent.

When the Lanka uses the term substance, it does not denote the stuff that makes up the apparent base of the material world. It has more significant value as an esoteric-metaphor reflecting the unconditioned Mind. The real-stuff of the Mind-set is an imageless substance. This is why Huang Po once warned not to utilize the Mind-set to conceptualize, in essence being encased in formal-ideations, but rather to stay perpetually-present to the Substance of the One and Undivided Unborn Buddha Mind. As the Zennist eloquently writes: read more

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Bodhisattva of Thorough Discernment

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Vajragoni

The Bodhisattva of Thorough Discernment arose from his seat in the sacred assembly, bowed and then prostrated himself at the feet of the Tathagata and then circumambulated about him three times to the right. He then knelt down and with hands clasped in a manner depicting sublime devotion, invoked the Blessed One. read more

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