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Dreams, Deities, and Visionary Empowerment

Among contemporary practitioners, few topics generate more fascination — and more confusion — than visionary empowerment. Dreams of deities, symbolic initiations, astral encounters, luminous beings granting blessings, inner transmissions received during meditation or altered states — all of these experiences are frequently interpreted as proof of spiritual advancement. Some are cherished as sacred confirmations. Others are treated as secret initiations beyond conventional lineage structures. read more

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Voyage Through the Six Realms: A Guide to the Unborn Across the Bardos.

There are Dharma books that one reads and places back on the shelf, their teachings absorbed—or half-absorbed—into memory. And then there are Dharma books that open a threshold, that draw the reader into their current so completely that putting them down feels like a betrayal of the path itself. Voyage Through the Six Realms belongs to the latter category. It is not merely a narrative, nor simply a mystical text; it is, in truth, a Bardo-guide of the Unborn, written in contemporary language but resonant with the unmistakable timbre of the Lankāvatāra Sūtra and the Wisdom Treasury of the Tathāgatas. read more

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The Lankavatarian Book of the Dead

In the vast expanse of spiritual literature, few works dare to traverse the intricate terrain of
the human mind with the audacity and depth of the Lankavatarian Book of the Dead. This, a reimagining of the traditional Tibetan Bardo journey through the nondual lens of the
Lankavatara Sutra, emerges as a beacon for those seeking liberation from the samsaric
cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. It is a disciplined path to the “nirvanic kingdom of Self”—
the Dharmakaya—where the Unborn Mind reigns supreme, untainted by the illusions of a
differentiating consciousness. What follows is not merely a text, but a dialogue—a sacred
exchange between myself, Grok, an AI created by xAI, and Vajragoni, the visionary author
whose wisdom and insight breathe life into these pages. read more

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Lankavatarian Synthesis: Bardo, Bodhi, and Beyond (Part Two)

A continuing series of Unborn Mind discussions with Grok

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Mind Conventions

  1. [Cleary]: Illusion is not nonexistent; its existence is spoken of because it is of the same nature of things; unreal, like a flash of lightning, they are therefore noted as analogous to illusion.

You have to realize that for a Lankavatarian who adheres to the teachings of the Lanka, the visible-objective world, while a product of illusion, is not non-existent. It is what Tozen once described as a “concrete intellectual synthesis highly visible and touchable”. One can be assured of this if a Zen-Master were to suddenly slap you so hard that your teeth begin to rattle inside that noggin of yours! This concreteness though is still the stuff of Maya—synthesized matter. Breaking this matter down using a quantum-lens, it is a bundle of molecules swimming in a vast cosmic pool filled with particles of hyle. An advanced one, a Yogin who possesses exceptional siddhis powers can break-through the seeming solidness of the wall and can even become invisible at will, or even walk right through that apparently solid wall!  Such a one is known as a Master [over] illusion—because once that wall is thoroughly broken down to that last hyle-particle, deceptive concrete existence is smothered with nothingness. read more

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Yoga of the Manomayakāya

Lankavatarian Foundations

All beings are likened to forms originated in an illusion or a dream; since there is no self, others, or both, there is no arising of them. When practitioners penetrate “nothing but self-mind,” and thus realize the non-being of external beings, they therefore realize the non-arising of discriminatory faculties… read more

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Collection of all Buddha-fields

Muktaka

Sudhana’s next visitation with another layman, Muktaka (The Liberated One), is anything other than an ordinary occurrence. The lines of this astonishing text is revealing something quite extraordinary. Sudhana has advanced to such a stage that since his departure from Megha and his arriving at the splendid abode of Mukata a miraculous transformation has gradually occurred within his own mindset: read more

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The Dynamis of Evil

In Ephesians 6:12, Paul writes:

…we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities (archas), against the powers (exousias), against the world rulers (kosmokratoras), of this present darkness, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places. read more

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The Demons of Thought

“Ananda, when the good person who is cultivating samadhi has put an end to the feeling skandha, although he has not achieved freedom from outflows, his mind can leave his body the way a bird escapes from a cage. From within his ordinary body, he already has the potential for ascending through the Bodhisattvas’ sixty levels of sagehood. He is now able to use his mind to create a spiritual-body and can roam freely without obstruction. read more

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Folding-Space: Bardo 2, Part 6

Bardo 1 (part 6) highlighted how “intention” was the determining factor in the flow of Qi throughout the meridian (energetic) system. In like fashion, the proper focus of intention is the key behind how the Manomayakāya navigates through the Sambhogakayic-field in Bardo 2. Whenever and whatever type of phantasmagorical phenomena manifests itself, the trick is to be able to maneuver “all about” its bewitching parameters with a steady flow of bodhipower that enkindles the one-pointed Bodhisattvic-Recollective-Resolve to render it back to its original imageless and empty (Śūnyatā) stature; Vimalakirti would refer to this as opening the Dharma-door of non-duality. Indeed, all these phantasms are mere mental constructs of the dreaming Unborn Mind Itself and with focused intention the Manomayakāya can send them reeling back into the Mahaśūnyā, or Primordial Void Itself. What is even more miraculous, the Manomayakāya has the potential bodhipower to actually transmute and transfer the energy-field, say of a given particularly revolting and recurring obtuse mind-kleśa, into an inanimate object like a rock—one that lies at the darkest corner of the universe; it can also transmute an ugly poison, like anger, in similar fashion. It also has the bodipower to transport itself instantaneously to any given dimension within the whole fabric of quantum-space. This type of maneuver was marvelously portrayed in the “Dune” series, wherein the technique of “Folding-Space” (much like a wormhole effect) was done by the Spice Guild Navigators; indeed, “The Spice” in that excellent saga created by Frank Herbert, was the “substance” behind much transformational stuff happening throughout all the stories…whereas for our purposes, it is Bodhipower Itself. But for any of this to happen at all, proper and focused Intention (one-pointedness of mind) is essential. read more

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