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This is the destiny of most sentient minds…
Desire-Thought-Function. The creation of one enables the latter, ad-infinitum. From the first to the last and from the last back to the first.
Posted in Spirituality, Tozen Teaching, Zen
Tagged Buddhadharma, Dharma, form, Karma, liberation, suffering, Tozen, Unborn, Zen
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The mind of 84,000 hooks.
This is the sole gospel of Mara, the Evil One, so pay careful attention;
Within each seed granted your self,
there is a promise of a beautiful flower.
Supplication and Vowed Fidelity
Thus have I heard. Once the Buddha was dwelling in the garden of Anāthapindada, in the Jeta Grove, near Śrāvastī. At that time, King Prasenajit and Queen Mallikā of Kosala had just had an initial realization of the Dharma. They said to each other, “Our daughter, Srīmālā, is kind, intelligent, learned, and wise. If she could see the Tathāgata, she would be quick to understand the profound Dharma and would have no doubt about it whatsoever. We should now send an eloquent messenger to her to rouse her sincere faith.”
Posted in The Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā
Tagged attainment, Buddha-land, Dharma, dharma-womb, form, King Prasenajit, Kosala, muni, Queen Mallikā, Queen Srīmālā, suffering, Ten Great Vows, Urna
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The Realm of Suchness
(Hakeda)
- THE ESSENCE ITSELF AND THE ATTRIUBUTES OF SUCHNESS, OR THE MEANING OF MAHĀ
A.The Greatness of the Essence of Suchness
[The essence of Suchness] knows no increase or decrease in ordinary men, the Hīnayānists, the bodhisattvas, or the buddhas. It was not brought into existence in the beginning nor will it cease to be at the end of time; it is eternal through and through.
Posted in The Awakening of Faith
Tagged dharmakaya, form, light, Mind, Mind-only, Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, samsara, Suchness, tathagata-garbha
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The Enlightenment Game
Aspects of Enlightenment
(Hakeda)
(1) Original Enlightenment: The essence of the Mind is free from thoughts. The characteristic of that which is free from thoughts is analogous to that of the sphere of empty space that pervades everywhere. The one [without any second, i.e., the absolute] aspect of the World of Reality (dharma-dhātu) is none other than the undifferentiated Dharmakāya, the “Essence-body” of the Tath1gata. [Since the essence of Mind is] grounded on the Dharmakāya, it is to be called the original enlightenment. Why? Because “original enlightenment” indicates [the essence of Mind (a priori )] in contradistinction to [the essence of Mind in] the process of actualization of enlightenment; the process of actualization of enlightenment is none other than [the process of integrating] the identity with the original enlightenment.
The Pure Lands
Bassui had the distinction of empowering others to see beyond their literal notions of the Buddha Pure Lands. However he would not make the attempt if the inquirers were exclusively attached to the phenomenal world and incapable of seeing beyond it. For those who were in earnest, i.e., who could see beyond phenomenal categories with the clear-light of zen, he would engage them with that clear-understanding. The following are extracted portions from his Pure-Land Dialogs.
Posted in Mud and Water: Bassui Zen
Tagged Amida, Buddha Pure Lands, form, Mind, Pure Land, Tathagata, Western Pure Land
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Notes from the Iron Stupa: Epilogue
Stupa Image from the Doog Diaries
The Black Ngagspa lost all evil intent after witnessing Schäfer’s Vajrasattvic Empowerment—indeed, it was as if the Sacred Action had suctioned-off any and all residuals of malice—and his role in the scheme of the evil Lord of Agarthi was apparently over, but for one thing…in a twisted maneuver his former Dark Lord had been witnessing these events unfold nearby—such was his astral prowess. He may have lost his novice to the Buddhaic-Light, but he found the prize! At first he was astonished how the long lost substance of the Vril had metastasized into the form of a meteorite statue—but there it was! Lying there in its aquiline prison at the apex of the Iron Stupa was the figure of a hooded monk grasping a strange weapon at his side…
Posted in Notes from the Iron Stupa
Tagged Anuyoga, Atiyoga, form, Iron Stupa, Mahāyoga, Stupa, Vajra-Dhunga, White Ngagspa
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Flight of the Phoenix
The Tibetan monk-yogin who had led the group to the cave was in actuality a ön wizard known as a ngagspa. But he was a Black Ngagspa, formed in the Dark and Forbidden Arts, and his intent upon this Nazi-financed expedition was to seek-out the Vril-ya—descendents of a purported antediluvian civilization who lived in deep subterranean caverns in the heart of Tibet—and obtain from them the all-powerful “Vril”, a mystically-charged fluid that could be shaped and harnessed to do the will of the one who controlled it. He was also a master in the art of creating manifested thought-forms known as Tulpas—he could literally fashion mind-created shapes or even a doppelganger—the exact likeness and image of any being. Being introduced to Adolf Hitler in the early 1920’s, the ngagspa taught him how to create an egregore—a collective form of tulpa that was able to fashion group-mind control, something that Hitler put to good use in forming the Nazi party and later extending and exerting its force in mesmerizing the general German populace. Sure enough, a whole nation was soon enraptured with the spell of Hitler’s Mein Kamp, which was an egregore in written-form. During the 1930’s this Black Magician also drew close to Himmler and the SS and was thereby appointed to join the present expedition in great expectations of locating and bringing back to Nazi Germany the Vril.
Posted in Notes from the Iron Stupa
Tagged Amitabha, egregore, form, ngagspa, Pandaravasini, Tulpas, Vril
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The Quest
Nearby Hitler’s bunker in late April of 1945, the advancing Russians were weaving their way through battered Berlin when they discovered in the deep cellar of an abandoned building six dead Tibetans lying together in a form of ritual circle; at the center of the circle was a Tibetan monk wearing green gloves…
Posted in Notes from the Iron Stupa
Tagged Berlin, Bon, Bonpos, Ernst Schäfer, form, phurba, sauvastika
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