Icelandic Dharma

We are under media blackout.  Iceland has staged a peaceful revolution.  The Icelandic people nationalized their biggest banks, forced their whole government to resign, arrested perpetrators, banned the implicated parties, devalued their currency, and rewrote the constitution.  This is the world's greatest national success story and spells the end of the War of Terror and demise of Reptilian fascism.  If we were to describe this revolution, we might call it republican socialism.  Critics will certainly point out the colossal failures of republican socialism (U.S.S.R) , to which I would reply the USSR was no more republican than the USA is now.  the USA is not a republic but an empire, and the USSR was not a republic but an empire also.  The USA is Imperial Capitalism, and the USSR was Imperial Communism.  What a bummer.

I posit that  a real democratic, capitalist, socialist republic would look a lot like Iceland these days.

Lets make a documentary that reveals how to transform the world.  Lets document the process by which a republic holds manipulative, constitution-violating oligarchs accountable for their crimes against humanity, and - more importantly - how these republics move forward into peace, prosperity, and an age of global cooperation.  I'm pretty sure that by documenting it we can popularize the theme, and viralize it, so to speak.

Because the victory of the republic over empire is equivalent to the victory of the Gaian commons over the Lords of Materialism,

 victory of the laws of karma over the laws of physics, the victory of the Kingdom of Heaven over the empire of mammon, the age of Shambhala taking the place of the Kali Yuga.

Then we'll go to Uruguay and get Irie.

Inhale, exhale, rejoice, repeat

Language pits man against nature.

Preconceptual mind is nondual, yet when recognized ("re-cognized") the cognitive function must categorize, differentiate, and memorize, leading to concepts and their consequent dualities.

The nondual state may be perceived as a nonspatial state, or a nonlinguistic state, or a non-ego  state.  Good luck describing it, I sure can't.  It is orderless, uncategorical, evolving, and empty.

The subject/object dualism inherent within linguistic syntax is recapitulated in cognitive thought.  This dualism  predisposes man's interpretations of sense data as bipolar phenomena with either a subjective or objective bias.  I am 'in here' and nature is 'out there'.   'I' therefore necessarily exists. This is ignorance, and suffering.

The sensory phenomena is interpreted cognitively and cognition is dualistic.  This means that sensory phenomena tends to be experienced by a distinct, separate 'me' which is consequently doomed to suffer a paranoid and putative existence.  We believe ourselves to exist, which gets in the way of being.

Language is a map.  The actual territory is inexpressible.

Dualism is the split of self into self and other, and language is syntactically dualistic.  So the very act of thinking is suffering!   Language itself led man's evolving thought patterns into a negative feedback loop - a closed loop - in which he was trapped, syntactically separated from his own inherent infinity by his perpetually evaluating mind.

This is the wasteland of the 20th century cogito:  I think therefore I am, so my very being is trapped in the prison of my own thoughts.  In order to be, we must follow the demands of our thoughts, unstable as they are.  Such a perspective has nearly destroyed the world.

The modern western meditation - surfing, skiing, climbing, biking, running, paragliding, kitesurfing, skateboarding, dancing, takes man out of his thoughts into his body, suspending the dualistic, discursive, and ultimately insatiable mind.  It is here man finds peace from his demons, for all thoughts beget unanswerable questions regarding assumptions behind the geometry and syntax of thinking, as well as the existence of the thinker.  And if you could follow that one your head probably hurts and you need to talk a walk in the woods now.

So take a deep breath and let it out and keep doing that for the rest of your life, and pay more attention to your breathing than your thoughts, because Descartes was dead wrong and yoga scientifically proves it.  Even when you are paying attention to your thoughts, pay attention to your breath even more.  You will notice that better breathing leads to better thoughts.  This is the revelation of somato-psychology, wherein the cogito is turned on its head: I think therefore I am is out of date.

I think because I am.

keep breathing

Snowden for President

mind is anatomical.  As long as we remain in samsara we remain tied to geometric, "thinking," mind.

bodhisattvahood is ignorance.  Remaining in samsara out of compassion for all sentient beings is a form of ignorance, and this path is deliberately chosen by many many bodhisattvas throughout time.

i don't want a legal government i want a moral one.  Humanity is not content with a legal government and will not rest until resting within a moral one.

The holy roman empire is babylon.  Lending money at interest is usury; a Ponzi scheme.  This was forbidden by early followers of Christ per his example and remains forbidden in the books of the Vatican to this day, as well as forbidden in Islam.  What happened?

In a word:  Zionism.  Zionism (at its worst) is the political strategy of lending money at interest.  Money isn't the root of all evil, but usury might be, at least according to Christ.  False "Zionism" is the ideology of usury, plain and simple.  Judaic people inherited usurious "Zionism" from the Babylonions during their Babylonian Captivity, believe it or not.  this is why Zionism is actually not the agenda of Zion at all, but the agenda of Babylon.  The Zionist agenda is not merely to hold land physically in the middle east - the Zionist agenda is to replace Islamic, interest-free banking backed by a republic with usurious, privately owned Zionist-Babylonian banking throughout the middle east, enforcing a global Ponzi scheme whereby the wealth of the world is amassed by the families of the banking elite.  

What are the intentions of the money makers, the money printers and the money lenders?  I don't trust them.  Their intentions seem impure.

The Holy Roman Republic is Zion.  The empire is usurious, but the kingdom of heaven is not.  The Republic prints interest-free money, money printed not as debt but as a lien on assets.  in this case, hemp assets, represented by hemp currency.  Printed interest free by a national treasury beholden to the public good.

Zion is not Zionism.  Zion is the public good, and Zionism is class warfare.  All -isms are dualistic, and to be abandoned.  We don't need none of your -ism schism. 
Israel and America have both been co-opted by Zionists, temporarily.  Which is ok, once they leave it behind to manifest the Kingdom of Zion.
A peaceful jihad on usury would look a lot like Bob Marley's crusade against Babylon.

Wage Jihad on babylon, comrades.  Peacefully.

Down with usury.  Down with the Federal Reserve.

Wage Jihad on Babylon, comrades.  Peacefully.

Edward Snowden for president.

the moneymakers make the rules.

what are the priorities of the money-printers?

Lending money at interest is a ponzi scheme.

Give unto Caesar what is Caesars

and give God what is Gods

let the empire sink under its fiat paper debt

let God have the gold and silver

and the hemp.  And the trees and the waters and the woods.


and precious gems and semiprecious stones

give it away to God.

Jesus Christ amen.

science of yoga

Nibbana is my father and samsara is my mother.

My father is eternal and my mother is change.

In yearning for the eternal, man looks down on the ever-changing feminine.

In yearning for the ever-changing feminine, man neglects the eternal.

The seeming duality of eternity and transience is the paradox of reality.  Monasticism embraces eternity and rejects transience, while worldliness embraces the transient and rejects eternity. 

We must embrace the middle way - a balance between the masculine eternity of consciousness and the feminine transience of form.   Mind and matter must relate, and they do.

Nibbana and samsara have children - us.  Mind and matter relate within the body.  This relationship heals through awareness of respiration, believe it or not.  This is the science of yoga.

Mind and matter, emptiness and form, nibbana and samsara, yang and yin, male and female.  These polar opposites need resolution, and that resolution comes about through the interpenetration of opposites - yoga.

the karma of the Christ

Why doesn't anyone talk about the karmic repercussions of Christ's death?

 Jesus' sacrifice represents a transmutation of the world's bad karma into good karma, for even as we killed him, he forgave us.  He bore no ill will, and neutralized a critical mass of bad karma.  This act of karmic benevolence may be the reason we are still here.  Our own karma may have been leading to the end of the world on Dec. 21 2012, for all we know.

The Golden Age may have arrived nailed to a cross, I hope posterity remembers that...

of course, its not likely.  Christians aren't even allowed to know about karma, let alone discuss it.  Which is tragic, because the real purpose of Christ's death and resurrection may be only explained via the workings of karma.  Its especially awkward now that quantum physicists are starting to acknowledge that the perspective of the observer does indeed change the state of that being observed.

the law of karma in essence states that 'you get what you give.'  If you send out negativity, you get negativity.  if you send out positivity, you get positivity.  This is often inverted to an imperative statement:  "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  Treat people like you would want to be treated, because what you put out into the world is what you get back from the world.  Jesus poured out mercy and compassion to  a world that showed him none, and as a consequence, he absorbed an enormous amount of bad karma and gave only loving-kindness in return.  He ate the bad karma of the world, so to speak.  Not all of it, of course - we still have a job to do - but enough to keep the planet from being consumed by flood, fire, asteroid, and solar flare.  In other words, the mercy of Christ (and ultimately God?) prevented calamity and allowed the peaceful birth of the fifth age.  We are now living in the aftermath of God's judgment, and He was merciful.  Thanks God!

This is just a theory of course.  But the teaching of the Buddha is scientific and empirically observable, which means that karma and reincarnation are scientific and empirically observable.  Jesus openly spoke of the workings of karma and reincarnation, but Christians banned such vocabulary from our lexicon for 2000 years.

So a lot of people are going to get very uncomfortable.

There's a quote from John Wesley: "If I preach a sermon and I'm not run out of town I wonder if I really preached the Gospel."  The Gospel of Christ overturned the power structure of the society,
existentially threatened the very existence of the ruling class, and gave us a view of reality far different from the view provided by our worldly masters.  A good sermon should do no less, right?

Jesus mentions reincarnation explicitly in chapter 17 of Matthew:  "But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist."

So... if Elijah came back as John the Baptist, that's reincarnation, isn't it?  A rose by any other name...  John was asked if he was indeed Elijah come again and refuted it, which means that he wasn't personally aware of reincarnation either, just like all the rest of us.  I guess he wasn't as enlightened as Christ, which makes sense, actually.  At any rate, John's refutation of his 'Elijah-ness'  merely expresses what we all know already - reincarnation isn't something we have a personal recollection of. 

But the Buddha knew about it, and so did Rishis of India, and so did the yoga adepts, and so did the indigenous shamans, and so did Jesus.  It's right there in the New Testament, we're just not allowed to talk about it.

Bummer.

Then there's the question of the third eye.  In Matthew 6:22 it reads:
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light."

How does one's eye become single?  That sounds pretty open to interpretation, and there have been lots over the millennia.  But we need to keep in mind that 21st century science is painting a picture of reality as essentially mind-made, and the science which gives us access to this reality is the science of meditation.  And the science of meditation really does reveal an inner eye that closely correlates with the pituitary gland and/or the pineal gland.  In fact, the pineal gland is now known to contain rods and cones just like our eyes!  The pineal gland produces and releases a chemical known as DMT at birth, death, and near-death experiences, and the meditating traditions of Asia assert that DMT releases can be cultivated through deep meditation.  it is even referred to as 'awakening the light body' in esoteric texts. 

So there is a real possibility that Jesus was referring to meditation:  Be still and know that I Am God.  In 'light' of all the available data, this seems to be one of the most likely meanings behind such an overtly esoteric statement.

Karma, the third eye, reincarnation, meditation... who was this Jesus, anyway?  Sounds like he was teaching a bunch of Asian hippie garbage (which is starting to get verified scientifically).  Just the sort of thing the Church needs to put a stop to, right?  Remember, Jesus was killed by a ruling class comprising of bankers and priests.  Think they might have had anything to lose?

Freedom Flight

God plays dice

and we are the gambling angels

riding and flying and dying

we ride the Wheel of Fate

yet

we are Free

we are the Freedom Flyers

please God 

believe

we want to 

go 

High and 

Be

Higher...

Dharma is samatha

Samatha is empirical science revealing the causality of consciousness. 

We live in a materialistic culture where the institutions of authority, be they economic, political, military, or religious, are being exposed as vulnerable, fragile, and in danger of collapse.

The dawning of samatha practice in the West is directly correlated to the demise of materialism. 

The dawning of an empirical spiritual science and the decay of materialism are directly correlated.

We are watching the pendulum swing, from a world made out of matter to a world made out of spirit, thoughts, and holograms. 

Ultimately, samatha practice will lead to a burgeoning science of consciousness.  This will usher in the demise of materialist ideology.  A world made out of matter will no longer be scientifically tenable, and the yoga of thought control will be understood to manifest realities, and harnessed for political purposes.  Not by the yogis themselves, but by the authorities.  Who will, of necessity, ultimately end up being powerful yogis and yoginis themselves, ushering in the long awaited and much talked about "Age of Merit" wherein anonymous agents are 'promoted' according to their capacity to create realities much appreciated by their customers, clients, competitors, relations, and peers.

How'm I doing?

We cannot have a healthy and vibrant  science of consciousness while maintaining a healthy and vibrant materialist ideology.  Materialism (mammon?  immorality?) is on the way out in this spectacular paradigm shift in consciousness.  The path of dharma will become clear as the way out of suffering, and a world of suffering people will embrace the dharma.

We are entering the Spirit World, welcome, welcome.  Welcome everyone to the spirit world, the world of energy, spirit, symbols, thoughts and words, a world of sentient beings and vibrations and colors and sounds and landscapes and archetypes. 

And in this world, the buddha is still the Buddha and the teaching of the Buddha remains the dhamma, but in this world Christ is King, and love rules.

Can I get an amen?

The gospel of dharma

Consciousness precedes matter
spiritual law precedes physical law
dharma is antecedent-(a priori) to karma (a posteriori)

wholesome thought
wholesome speech
wholesome action

this is true protection.

Thinking is suffering.

Focus on the object of meditation. 
Focus on the physical, surface sensation of respiration.
The surface of the nostrils, the surface of the upper lip.
Go on, do it.
Dwell in anapanasati. 

This is the Dharma Lion roar-

the roar of Universal Responsibility:

the responsibility we all have for each other and for all sentient beings and for all of Nature.

The goal of life is to serve humanity and all life and all nature and all sentient beings and all vibrations in the spirit of unconditional love-
the purpose of life is service.  This is the path of dharma.
For more, go to www.dhamma.org

shanti
shanti
shanti