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We are Thusness

2026-03-07T21:40:34Z

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We are Thusness

Yet if it vanishes, it never truly exists. What is actual ...

2026-03-07T21:37:02Z

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Yet if it vanishes, it never truly exists. What is actual doesn't come or go but appears as all phenomena which appear to come and go!

How did you embed it? I was trying to figure that out lol.

2026-02-27T21:47:21Z

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How did you embed it? I was trying to figure that out lol.

Awesome, would love to hear your thoughts on it!

2026-02-27T21:46:36Z

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Awesome, would love to hear your thoughts on it!

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2026-02-27T10:31:06Z

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2026-02-27T10:11:57Z

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From a friend. The Buddha discovered precisely this… Pixels and ...

2025-09-23T19:47:27Z

From a friend.

The Buddha discovered precisely this…

Pixels and the Illusion of Meaning

What we call reality — people, things, histories, dramas — is not what it seems. At the most basic level, what exists are fluctuating formations of atoms and molecules, or, more precisely, vibrations within quantum fields. But the human mind takes these formations and superimposes names, labels, and meanings upon them.

This act of naming transforms a neutral field into a world of imagined solidity and significance. In truth, the “things” we believe we encounter are not independent entities, but mental constructions projected onto an energetic flux.

Children looking at clouds provide a clear image: one sees a dog, another sees a dragon, another a horse. The clouds themselves are only shifting formations of matter; the animals exist only in the children’s imaginations. In the same way, our minds project whole realms of meaning onto atoms and molecules.

The same occurs with perception. What we experience as a stable external world is actually the brain’s rendering: an inner 3-D mind movie, a geometric representation of incoming information.

This movie appears within our skull as sights, sounds, textures, and thoughts. But these are not “the external things themselves”; they are mental icons, stitched together by the brain for the survival and reproduction of the organism.

Every quality of experience — colors, sounds, flavors, odors, sensations, emotions, memories, and even the felt sense of self — is part of this inner movie, not evidence of an independent outer reality.

The television provides another striking analogy. When we watch a drama, we become absorbed in the characters, their struggles, their joys, their heartbreaks. We cheer for heroes, despise villains, and may even weep for losses. But if we lean in very close to the screen, the entire world of the story vanishes into nothing but tiny, fluctuating pixels of light and color.

The drama was never really “out there” in the tv, the way we imagined; it was a pattern of pixels generated on a flat surface, and our minds supplied the meaning that made it feel real.

In precisely this way, the universe itself can be considered to be pixelated in the form of vibrating energetic flux, and what we call “people” or “objects” are overlays of mental meaning we superimpise upon those patterns.

Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote about a reader deeply absorbed in a book about medieval court life. The man was fully immersed in the pageantry, the intrigues, and the drama — until he suddenly noticed that the reality of the book itself contained nothing but little black letters on the white pages.

Everything he had been experiencing was a construction generated by his mind as it translated those little black letters into a story. With that insight, the illusory mental story collapsed.

In the same way, the Buddha realized that all of the world — selves, people, objects, events, cause and effect and karma — are fictional mental constructs projected upon a real, underlying energetic field.

The objects have no intrinsic meaning apart from the mind’s act of naming and labeling.

So what remains when the names and labels fall away?

Physics may describe the flux as atoms or quantum fields, but from the enlightened perspective the substrate is Consciousness itself: an unborn, unconditioned field of unborn awareness.

This field manifests as every possible energetic formation — the textures we call “world,” the inner movies we call “mind.”

But none of these have independent existence. They are interdependent patterns in consciousness, like pixels on a television screen or little black letters on a page, while the field itself remains indescribable.

The Buddha described this recognition as Nirvana: the bliss of realizing that nothing we experience as real — the self, others, people, objects — exists outside the realm of subjective mental construction.

The unborn, unconditioned field of Consciousness is what remains when the fictions of naming and labeling dissolve.

To awaken is simply to see that all meaning is mentally superimposed, and that the ground is empty of objectively existing people, selves and “things” — yet full as pure potential, Consciousness itself.

The Final Question

So then, if our world of experience is merely mental constructions superimposed upon a field we never directly perceive, what is the body? What is the organism? What is the brain, neurons and mind that seem to impose these constructions upon the energetic field of Consciousness ?

The answer is that the body, brain, and organism themselves are nothing apart from that same field — manifestations of the field appearing as tiny biological whirlpools within the infinitely vast stream of Consciousness.

Like a swirl in a river, the body-mind is not separate from the river itself; it is the river appearing AS this temporary form.

This whirlpool of energetic activity (body,brain and mind) has the peculiar capacity to mentally construct for its own survival and reproductive purposes, a representational view of the world within its own skull.

But this story-making is no exception to the rule: it is itself part of the field’s total functioning.

Here we meet what Zen master Dōgen called Zenki (Total Function). Every factor — the body, the mind, the atmosphere, oxygen, the sun, and all environmental conditions — arises interdependently as the functioning of the totality.

There is nothing outside it, nothing foreign to it. Even the illusions of selfhood and objects are not “mistakes” smuggled in from some other order; they too are part of the functioning of the whole.

To mistake this neutral, interdependent field for a collection of real independent things, is like mistaking a coiled rope for a snake in the dark.

The rope is the real energetic body-mind formation, also merely another neutral pattern within the field.

The fictional snake is the imagined “self,” mentally projected onto that real neutral formation of body, brain and mind.

The snake (personal self) never existed. In the same way, the separate person never existed. It was only a label projected upon a very tiny whirlpool in the stream.

The illusions the brain/mind superimposes — “me,” “you,” “world,” “objects” — are no more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They exist only in the imagination, just as those childhood figures exist only in the child’s mind.

This is what the Buddha realized: that the subjective world of names and labels does not really exist in itself, but only as subjective mental constructions.

Seen in this light, the whole field — call it Buddha Nature, call it Brahman, call it quantum fields, call it consciousness — is one undivided totality. It is what Dzogchen calls the Great Perfection. Every whirlpool, every fiction, every error, every flash of imagination, and every insight is not outside this field. It is the field itself, manifesting.

There never was a Buddha seeking the truth and liberation from all suffering. That one too was just another mental construct occurring in the mind of the Buddha.. 😳

@nprofile…s8fm you should really check out critical path, I ...

2025-09-14T10:40:10Z

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erikcason (nprofile…s8fm) you should really check out critical path, I think you'd really like the work of buckminster fuller!

Buckminster fuller on wealth/ bitcoin. Bitcoin is the time/ ...

2025-09-14T10:36:55Z

Buckminster fuller on wealth/ bitcoin. Bitcoin is the time/ energy accounting solution to the world game.

Such great takes, really enjoyed that episode. Bitcoin does fix ...

2025-09-13T13:27:55Z

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Such great takes, really enjoyed that episode. Bitcoin does fix the world, it is the time/ energy accounting solution to the world game. If you've never read buckminster fuller before you should take a few minutes and look into the world game. It may help you put all the pieces together as to how bitcoin accomplishes everything we think it can/ will.

https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/world-game/

Also see: ...

2025-08-16T15:23:06Z

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Also see:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-information-theory-bit

@nprofile…uly5 @nprofile…l2z8 @nprofile…hcug listening to ...

2025-08-16T15:19:43Z

erikcason (nprofile…uly5) HODL (nprofile…l2z8) walker (nprofile…hcug) listening to the new rip. The part where you are talking about communism/ capitalism synthesis of bitcoin reminds me of the world game by buckminster fuller. The goal of the world game was to design a time/ energy accounting tool with 0 entropy that incentivizes humans to move away from self destructive habits to constructive habits that create mutual wellbeing.

You really need to look into the work of buckminster fuller to understand where this is going. Highly recommend reading his magnum opus "critical path".

Bitcoin is the world game.

Aworldgame.org

https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/world-game/

That which is causeless is beyond all ideas which appear as its ...

2025-08-16T13:48:59Z

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That which is causeless is beyond all ideas which appear as its expression though. Including the idea of creator/ created. There is just creating happening endlessly without beginning or end.

This reminds me of the cup from m"my dinner with Andre" ...

2025-08-16T13:34:28Z

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This reminds me of the cup from m"my dinner with Andre" where he is taking about how new York is the model for the new concentration camp.

I used to practice this when I was little, before I knew about ...

2025-06-25T12:18:07Z

I used to practice this when I was little, before I knew about the dharma. It's quite powerful!

Sometimes, visualize that your heart is a brilliant ball of light. As you breathe out, it radiates rays of white light in all directions, carrying your happiness to all beings. As you breathe in, their suffering, negativity and afflictions come towards you in the form of dense, black light, which is absorbed in your heart and disappears in its brilliant white light without a trace, relieving all beings of their pain and sorrow.

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in, The Heart of Compassion

From a friend. The Illusion of the Seeker and the Mirage of ...

2025-06-18T10:56:01Z

From a friend.

The Illusion of the Seeker and the Mirage of Enlightenment
In the Dzogchen view, the highest teachings do not aim at attainment, progress, or transcendence. They reveal the inherent absurdity of the very notion of seeking. The referential comment—“Enlightenment reveals there's no one to be enlightened, only the illusion of a seeker chasing its imagined escape”—is not a poetic turn of phrase, but a direct articulation of the radical, luminous clarity at the heart of Dzogchen: that the ground of being is already fully present, and the seeker is but a ripple on its surface—restless, imaginary, and unreal.

At the root of all striving lies a fundamental misidentification. The seeker imagines itself as a someone, located in time, trapped in limitation, aspiring toward some exalted future state. But as long as this structure remains intact—this idea that “I” must become awakened—the natural state remains hidden not by distance, but by misperception. The very effort to find truth is the veil obscuring it.
As Longchenpa, one of the greatest Dzogchen masters, writes:

“Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
— Longchen Rabjam, “You Are the Eyes of the World”
What bursts in this laughter is the falsehood of division—the split between seeker and sought, path and destination. When awareness sees through itself, it recognizes there never was anyone behind the seeking, only the dance of appearances occurring within the boundless expanse of presence.

In Dzogchen, this is expressed as rigpa—the self-knowing awareness that is not a function of the mind but the essence of what is. It does not arise through purification, method, or time. It is not improved or diminished by effort. In fact, every attempt to grasp it solidifies the illusion that there is a grasper. As Patrul Rinpoche writes:

“The view is to be free of all fixations. The meditation is not to meditate. The conduct is to be without effort.”
— Patrul Rinpoche, “Words of My Perfect Teacher”
This is not nihilism, nor quietism. It is the unshakable freedom of resting in what already is, prior to naming, prior to seeking. The seeker is a mirage born of attention collapsing into thought. When that contraction relaxes, what remains is not a “person” attaining awakening—but the timeless presence that was never absent.
There is no destination in Dzogchen, only recognition. No distance, only immediacy. No one behind the curtain, only the dancing of light and shadow. And yet, even this is saying too much. As the saying goes:

“To speak of the view is to obscure the view.”
So what, then, is to be done? Nothing. And that is the challenge. To do nothing—not passively, but with total presence. To stop reaching, stop resisting, stop narrating—and to see. Not as a witness, but as the luminous openness itself.

Final Reflection
The referential comment dissolves the entire edifice of becoming. There is no enlightenment for someone—because the someone is the invention. What appears to be a seeker is a function of thought, memory, and habit looping upon itself. Dzogchen reveals this not by destroying the illusion, but by laughing at its nonexistence. The chase ends not in arrival, but in the recognition that there was never anyone running, and nowhere to arrive.

Let this not be believed, but seen—directly, effortlessly, nakedly. In the absence of the one who seeks, the natural state is obvious.

From a friend: The Heart of Dzogchen Clinging Is the Root: The ...

2025-06-07T11:50:48Z

From a friend:

The Heart of Dzogchen

Clinging Is the Root: The Disappearance of Suffering in the Light of Rigpa
There is no suffering where there is no clinging. This truth, though deceptively simple, pierces to the heart of Dzogchen. The ancient masters do not point toward elaborate practices or conceptual frameworks but toward the clear seeing of what is always already so. The problem is not the world, not even the arising of thoughts or appearances—it is the subtle act of grasping, the invisible contraction around what is fleeting. It is this contraction that gives rise to the illusion of a self, and with it, the entire architecture of samsara.

Padmasambhava’s instruction, “When there is no grasping, there is no suffering,” is not a moral ideal but a direct statement of ontological fact. Suffering is not a property of experience; it is the distortion of experience by identification. The moment grasping ceases, the mirage of “me” and “mine” collapses. What remains is not emptiness in the nihilistic sense, but the luminous clarity of rigpa—spontaneous presence, unborn, unconfined, and untouched.

Longchenpa refines this with: “If you do not cling to appearances, the mind itself is naturally liberated.” Liberation, in Dzogchen, is not attained—it is unveiled. Mind does not need to be improved, purified, or transcended. Rather, it needs only to be seen as it is, prior to the movement of appropriation. In clinging, we superimpose a false solidity upon what is inherently spacious. We take dream-stuff as real and suffer accordingly.

Garab Dorje reminds us that “All appearances are your own mind, and mind itself is free from clinging.” Here lies the paradox: the world appears, yet it is not separate from the seer. The play of forms arises within awareness, not apart from it. What imprisons us is not the appearance of things, but the belief in their otherness. When mind recognizes itself, there is nothing to hold, nothing to oppose, nothing to fear.

Mipham Rinpoche writes: “Attachment is the very ignorance that conceals the natural state.” This ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the turning away from what is self-evident. It is the insistence on being someone who owns, defends, and suffers. In that defensive gesture, the mirror of awareness clouds over, and we forget the ungraspable transparency that is always here.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says, “It is not the object that binds you, but your grasping at it.” Samsara is not imposed from outside; it is manufactured moment to moment through the mechanics of craving and aversion. Liberation is not elsewhere—it is the cessation of that machinery. When grasping is seen and relaxed, even samsara is experienced as the display of wisdom.

Namkhai Norbu makes it even clearer: “Delusion arises from dualistic clinging; awareness is non-dual from the beginning.” Duality is the mind’s attempt to divide what has never been divided. The seer and the seen, the thinker and the thought, are artificial distinctions laid over the seamless fabric of being. Rigpa, self-knowing awareness, needs no effort to unify anything—it was never split.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche cuts through illusion with: “The root of samsara is the belief in a self. Cut that root.” The belief in a self is not merely psychological—it is ontological confusion. The “I” that clings is itself a fabrication. Letting go is not something it can do—for its very existence depends on not letting go. When this is seen, the self falls away on its own.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche affirms: “Rigpa has no basis for clinging, for it sees no other.” Clinging requires a division—between self and object, desire and lack. Rigpa knows no such distinctions. It does not cling because it does not separate. This is not detachment born of distance, but intimacy beyond ownership.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche gives a poetic image: “Like writing on water, thoughts and feelings vanish if not held onto.” The natural state is not opposed to thoughts—it is simply untouched by them. To not grasp is to allow the river of mind to flow without dam or defense. Nothing needs to be erased. Only the hand that holds must release.

Yeshe Tsogyal concludes: “If you are not attached, you are free—even in samsara.” The place doesn’t matter. The appearance doesn’t matter. Without clinging, samsara is nirvana—not because the world changes, but because you no longer cling to the belief that you are in it, apart from it, bound by it.

Closing Reflection:
Clinging is the act of forgetting what cannot be lost. It is the contraction of spaciousness into identity, of immediacy into concept. The Dzogchen masters are not inviting us to improve this contraction—but to see through it entirely. The natural state, rigpa, is never attained; it is what remains when the one who seeks dissolves. The cessation of clinging is not the loss of the world, but the unveiling of its true nature—empty, luminous, ungraspable, and free.

To release grasping is not an effort—it is the recognition that there was never anything to hold.

The Subtle Art of Non-Doing Resting as Awareness in Dzogchen To ...

2025-06-06T11:37:07Z

The Subtle Art of Non-Doing
Resting as Awareness in Dzogchen
To “rest as Awareness” is perhaps the most direct instruction in Dzogchen—and simultaneously the most frequently misunderstood. The phrase suggests simplicity, effortlessness, a return to what is already and always present. Yet it is precisely this simplicity that confounds the seeker’s mind, which has been trained to strive, analyze, and attain. The question, “How to rest as Awareness?” already carries within it the echo of misdirection. The deeper question is not how, but what prevents resting from being recognized as already the case?

In Dzogchen, the instruction to rest as rigpa—the pristine, self-knowing Awareness—is not a command to do something, but a gesture toward undoing. Garab Dorje’s first essential point was:

“Direct introduction to the nature of mind.”
One does not achieve rigpa, one recognizes it. Resting is not entering a state, but ceasing to seek a state. It is not merging with Awareness, but realizing that one has never been apart from it.
To rest as Awareness is not the same as resting in Awareness. The latter implies a duality—someone who rests, and something in which to rest. But Dzogchen does not permit this subtle division. Longchenpa reminds us:

“Since everything arises as the display of awareness, there is nothing to renounce or attain.”
— Longchen Rabjam, Treasury of the Dharmadhatu
How Not To:
To “try” to rest as Awareness is to grasp at a non-conceptual state with conceptual intention. The very act of reaching becomes a contraction, reinforcing the illusion of a doer. Awareness cannot be found as an object of attention because it is what allows attention. Looking for Awareness as something to see, feel, or experience will always place one in the realm of mind’s fabrication. This is the subtle trap: the search for “rest” becomes restless.

How To:
Paradoxically, the true “how” is a non-how. As the great master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche said:

“There is no need to try to rest—just do not follow the next thought.”
This negation reveals the pathless path. Awareness is not cultivated—it is uncovered by ceasing to identify with what arises within it. Let thoughts arise, let sensations move, but make no effort to become involved. When there is no involvement, Awareness stands revealed as the unchanging ground.
Insight:
Awareness is not an experience—it is what knows experience. It is not affected by rest or unrest, success or failure. As the basis (gzhi), it is spontaneously present and empty of self-nature. Thus, “resting” is not a doing but a recognition. The one who thought it could rest is itself a movement in the field. The moment that movement is seen through, what remains is effortless being.

Clarity:
To rest as Awareness is not to know about Awareness—it is to be what knows. This “knowing” is not cognitive but luminous: self-knowing, self-certifying, self-abiding. No external verification is needed. There is no teacher, no text, no technique that can give you Awareness—it is what allows for the appearance of teachers, texts, and techniques.

Honesty:
This path asks nothing of you except your illusions. It does not improve you, refine you, or awaken you. It shows you that what you sought has always been untouched, and what you took yourself to be has never truly existed. “You” cannot rest as Awareness. Only the absence of the seeker reveals what was never absent.

IN Summary
The essence of Dzogchen is neither found nor fabricated. Resting as Awareness is not a goal to be reached but a veil to be lifted. To rest as That which is aware is to stop pretending to be anything else. The “how” is undone in the seeing, and the “not how” is simply this: remain uninvolved, unmoved, uncontrived. Let the play arise; let the knowing be silent and bare. Here, rest is no longer a practice—it is what you are.

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2025-03-17T04:05:00Z

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I think it is something that has to be directly experienced. Don't trust, verify!

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2025-03-17T04:02:32Z

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2025-03-17T04:00:24Z

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2025-03-16T15:44:07Z

Conversations with grok on the nature of reality.

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2025-03-16T14:24:35Z

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2025-03-16T14:19:10Z

Empirical knowledge is always derivative of knowing awareness itself.

Shared from a friend.

Quantum Fields and Consciousness: Eliminating the Last Illusion of Classical Physics

For too long, physics has clung to the illusion of a classical world—an objective, mechanical structure in which quantum effects only appear under rare and specific conditions. This belief is absurd, because it assumes there is something other than quantum fields in which these effects might occur. But quantum field theory (QFT) already tells us, with no exceptions, that all of reality is nothing but quantum fields in excitation.

This means there is no “classical world” where a brain exists as a mechanical object and where occasional “quantum anomalies” take place. The entire brain is already a quantum system, just like everything else, and any attempt to isolate consciousness as a rare emergent phenomenon from these fields misunderstands the very nature of quantum field theory.

The Absurdity of Classical Assumptions

There is a lingering belief in many fields—neuroscience, physics, and philosophy—that classical physics is “mostly” correct, and that quantum mechanics operates only at micro-scales or in highly controlled environments. But this belief is equivalent to claiming:
• The ocean is fundamentally dry, except for occasional anomalous patches of water.
• Fire is inherently cold, except in a few rare cases where heat somehow manifests.
• Light is fundamentally dark, but under special circumstances, it illuminates itself.

The fundamental misunderstanding here is that quantum mechanics is not a secondary framework that exists within classical physics. It is the primary and only reality, and classical physics is nothing more than an approximation—a mental shorthand that never truly existed as an independent domain.

The brain is not a classical machine that happens to contain quantum processes in select locations, such as Penrose’s idea of microtubules. The entire brain, every neuron, every synapse, every process, is already a fluctuation of the quantum field. There is no other option, because there is no classical alternative.

Consciousness Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon—It Is the Quantum Field Itself

The next mistake made by many thinkers—even in quantum neuroscience—is the claim that consciousness is an emergent property of quantum field excitations, rather than seeing the obvious:
• Consciousness is not a byproduct of the quantum field, just as waves are not a byproduct of the ocean.
• Waves do not “emerge from” the ocean—they are the ocean in motion.
• Likewise, consciousness does not “emerge from” the quantum field—it is the quantum field manifesting in a certain way.

The language of emergence is a relic of classical physics. It still assumes that consciousness is a secondary effect, rather than recognizing that if there is consciousness at all, then it must already be an intrinsic quality of the quantum field itself.

What does this mean? It means that consciousness is not something produced by the brain, nor is it something that merely arises from complex neuronal interactions. If everything in the universe is already a quantum excitation, then consciousness is just another aspect of these excitations—not something separate or emergent.

The Illusion of Separation: Consciousness and Quantum Fields Are Not Two Things

Many scientists try to separate consciousness from the quantum field, as if it is a second category of reality. But this is as meaningless as trying to separate:
• Wetness from water
• Heat from fire
• Light from illumination

At no point can we experience a quantum field apart from consciousness. Every observation of the quantum field is itself a conscious act. Every phenomenon is already known, perceived, or experienced in some way. There is no such thing as a quantum field independent of experience, just as there is no such thing as a wave separate from the ocean.

This understanding leads directly back to the great insights of Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, and Daoism, all of which point to the inseparability of mind and reality:
• In Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is both the source and substance of all existence—just as the quantum field is both the foundation and manifestation of all phenomena.
• In Buddhism, Śūnyatā (emptiness) dissolves all conceptual separations—just as modern physics dissolves the separation between particles, waves, and fields.
• In Daoism, the Dao is both the origin and the nature of all things—just as consciousness and quantum fields are simply two descriptions of the same indivisible presence.

The Final Realization: There Is Only One Thing Happening

We must abandon outdated notions that assume there is:
1. A physical world made of material objects (classical physics), in which
2. Quantum effects occasionally appear, and from which
3. Consciousness somehow emerges.

This framework is entirely mistaken because it presumes separation where none exists. In reality:
• There are no classical objects—everything is a fluctuation of the quantum field.
• There are no emergent properties—everything simply is what it is at all levels.
• There is no separate consciousness—it is already an aspect of the quantum field itself.

The only conclusion left is this: Consciousness is not something produced by the quantum field. It is the quantum field.

And once this is understood, we see that modern physics, when freed from its classical assumptions, has arrived precisely at the realization of the great non-dual traditions:

Just as all pottery is nothing but clay—whether in the form of a vase, a cup, or a plate—what we call “matter” and “mind” are simply formations of a single field. There is no second thing apart from the clay; every form it takes is just clay appearing in that particular way.

Likewise, in goldsmithing, whether it is a ring, a bracelet, or a necklace, all are nothing but gold, shaped into different forms, yet never departing from being gold itself.

In Advaita Vedanta, the mistake is to see the forms (Nāma-Rūpa, name and shape) as separate from Brahman. But all phenomena are just Brahman appearing in different ways—there is no substance other than Brahman, just as there is no substance other than gold in gold ornaments or clay in pottery. In the same way, if we take quantum fields as the most fundamental understanding of reality, then what we call “objects” and “consciousness” are simply vibrational states of that one indivisible field. However, to fully integrate consciousness into this framework, we must recognize that the quantum field itself is not separate from the knowing of it.

Rather than saying “physical reality exists, and consciousness is an emergent property of it,” the truth is the opposite: physical characteristics are simply how consciousness itself is manifesting, just as light is the radiance of its source.

In Daoism, the Dao is not separate from its manifestations—all things are simply fluctuations of the Dao, moving from one state to another, yet never apart from the Dao itself.

Likewise, in Buddhism, all appearances are ultimately seen as fluctuations of Buddha-Nature, and because Buddha-nature implies cognitive awareness—the inherent knowing quality—this means that all phenomena are intrinsically consciousness.

This realization allows us to reverse the conditioning that tells us that the classical world is primary, and quantum effects (or consciousness) are secondary artifacts. Instead, what we see is that the universe itself is a field of consciousness, manifesting as what physics calls the 17 quantum fields in fluctuation.

But in truth, these fields are not separate from consciousness—they are consciousness in different vibratory modes, just as waves are nothing but the ocean in motion.

Experiences as possible modulations of Consciousness are not always appearing and known on the surface of Consciousness, like waves appearing on the surface of the ocean; but there is a depth of Consciousness where what later appears upon surface consciousness, remains in the subconscious domain of pure potential.

Yet whatever appears as any and every experience, is always just another modulation of the same Universal Field of Consciousness.

There is no “quantum field” AND “consciousness” as two distinct things. There is only one thing happening, and it is always just This!

Quantum Fields and Consciousness: Eliminating the Last Illusion of Classical Physics

For too long, physics has clung to the illusion of a classical world—an objective, mechanical structure in which quantum effects only appear under rare and specific conditions. This belief is absurd, because it assumes there is something other than quantum fields in which these effects might occur. But quantum field theory (QFT) already tells us, with no exceptions, that all of reality is nothing but quantum fields in excitation.

This means there is no “classical world” where a brain exists as a mechanical object and where occasional “quantum anomalies” take place. The entire brain is already a quantum system, just like everything else, and any attempt to isolate consciousness as a rare emergent phenomenon from these fields misunderstands the very nature of quantum field theory.

The Absurdity of Classical Assumptions

There is a lingering belief in many fields—neuroscience, physics, and philosophy—that classical physics is “mostly” correct, and that quantum mechanics operates only at micro-scales or in highly controlled environments. But this belief is equivalent to claiming:
• The ocean is fundamentally dry, except for occasional anomalous patches of water.
• Fire is inherently cold, except in a few rare cases where heat somehow manifests.
• Light is fundamentally dark, but under special circumstances, it illuminates itself.

The fundamental misunderstanding here is that quantum mechanics is not a secondary framework that exists within classical physics. It is the primary and only reality, and classical physics is nothing more than an approximation—a mental shorthand that never truly existed as an independent domain.

The brain is not a classical machine that happens to contain quantum processes in select locations, such as Penrose’s idea of microtubules. The entire brain, every neuron, every synapse, every process, is already a fluctuation of the quantum field. There is no other option, because there is no classical alternative.

Consciousness Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon—It Is the Quantum Field Itself

The next mistake made by many thinkers—even in quantum neuroscience—is the claim that consciousness is an emergent property of quantum field excitations, rather than seeing the obvious:
• Consciousness is not a byproduct of the quantum field, just as waves are not a byproduct of the ocean.
• Waves do not “emerge from” the ocean—they are the ocean in motion.
• Likewise, consciousness does not “emerge from” the quantum field—it is the quantum field manifesting in a certain way.

The language of emergence is a relic of classical physics. It still assumes that consciousness is a secondary effect, rather than recognizing that if there is consciousness at all, then it must already be an intrinsic quality of the quantum field itself.

What does this mean? It means that consciousness is not something produced by the brain, nor is it something that merely arises from complex neuronal interactions. If everything in the universe is already a quantum excitation, then consciousness is just another aspect of these excitations—not something separate or emergent.

The Illusion of Separation: Consciousness and Quantum Fields Are Not Two Things

Many scientists try to separate consciousness from the quantum field, as if it is a second category of reality. But this is as meaningless as trying to separate:
• Wetness from water
• Heat from fire
• Light from illumination

At no point can we experience a quantum field apart from consciousness. Every observation of the quantum field is itself a conscious act. Every phenomenon is already known, perceived, or experienced in some way. There is no such thing as a quantum field independent of experience, just as there is no such thing as a wave separate from the ocean.

This understanding leads directly back to the great insights of Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, and Daoism, all of which point to the inseparability of mind and reality:
• In Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is both the source and substance of all existence—just as the quantum field is both the foundation and manifestation of all phenomena.
• In Buddhism, Śūnyatā (emptiness) dissolves all conceptual separations—just as modern physics dissolves the separation between particles, waves, and fields.
• In Daoism, the Dao is both the origin and the nature of all things—just as consciousness and quantum fields are simply two descriptions of the same indivisible presence.

The Final Realization: There Is Only One Thing Happening

We must abandon outdated notions that assume there is:
1. A physical world made of material objects (classical physics), in which
2. Quantum effects occasionally appear, and from which
3. Consciousness somehow emerges.

This framework is entirely mistaken because it presumes separation where none exists. In reality:
• There are no classical objects—everything is a fluctuation of the quantum field.
• There are no emergent properties—everything simply is what it is at all levels.
• There is no separate consciousness—it is already an aspect of the quantum field itself.

The only conclusion left is this: Consciousness is not something produced by the quantum field. It is the quantum field.

And once this is understood, we see that modern physics, when freed from its classical assumptions, has arrived precisely at the realization of the great non-dual traditions:

Just as all pottery is nothing but clay—whether in the form of a vase, a cup, or a plate—what we call “matter” and “mind” are simply formations of a single field. There is no second thing apart from the clay; every form it takes is just clay appearing in that particular way.

Likewise, in goldsmithing, whether it is a ring, a bracelet, or a necklace, all are nothing but gold, shaped into different forms, yet never departing from being gold itself.

In Advaita Vedanta, the mistake is to see the forms (Nāma-Rūpa, name and shape) as separate from Brahman. But all phenomena are just Brahman appearing in different ways—there is no substance other than Brahman, just as there is no substance other than gold in gold ornaments or clay in pottery. In the same way, if we take quantum fields as the most fundamental understanding of reality, then what we call “objects” and “consciousness” are simply vibrational states of that one indivisible field. However, to fully integrate consciousness into this framework, we must recognize that the quantum field itself is not separate from the knowing of it.

Rather than saying “physical reality exists, and consciousness is an emergent property of it,” the truth is the opposite: physical characteristics are simply how consciousness itself is manifesting, just as light is the radiance of its source.

In Daoism, the Dao is not separate from its manifestations—all things are simply fluctuations of the Dao, moving from one state to another, yet never apart from the Dao itself.

Likewise, in Buddhism, all appearances are ultimately seen as fluctuations of Buddha-Nature, and because Buddha-nature implies cognitive awareness—the inherent knowing quality—this means that all phenomena are intrinsically consciousness.

This realization allows us to reverse the conditioning that tells us that the classical world is primary, and quantum effects (or consciousness) are secondary artifacts. Instead, what we see is that the universe itself is a field of consciousness, manifesting as what physics calls the 17 quantum fields in fluctuation.

But in truth, these fields are not separate from consciousness—they are consciousness in different vibratory modes, just as waves are nothing but the ocean in motion.

Experiences as possible modulations of Consciousness are not always appearing and known on the surface of Consciousness, like waves appearing on the surface of the ocean; but there is a depth of Consciousness where what later appears upon surface consciousness, remains in the subconscious domain of pure potential.

Yet whatever appears as any and every experience, is always just another modulation of the same Universal Field of Consciousness.

There is no “quantum field” AND “consciousness” as two distinct things. There is only one thing happening, and it is always just This!

I like how this shows that the nature of all apparent things is ...

2025-03-03T13:28:21Z

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I like how this shows that the nature of all apparent things is that they are compounded of other things.

GM. Embrace the chaos of change to recognize what is changeless! ...

2025-03-03T13:14:13Z

GM. Embrace the chaos of change to recognize what is changeless!

🌹”Take a look at your life. Think of the things that are so important to you Think of the things that annoy you That disturb you Think of the things that make you happy ... As long as you're dealing with things, they must change. They will never be the same. Nothing is ever the same. Everything must change.

Why should you chase after things that change? Don't you see the folly in this? You're wasting your precious life. Then you come back again and again, until you refuse to any longer get involved with this world and you become free!"

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

🌹”Finding the changeless through the changing: "This sutra says that everything is change: "HERE IS THE SPHERE OF CHANGE..." On this sutra Buddha's whole philosophy stands. Buddha says that everything is a flux, changing, non-permanent, and that one should know this. Buddha's emphasis is so much on this point. His whole standpoint is based on it. He says, "change, change, change: remember this continuously." Why? If you can remember change, detachment will happen. How can you be attached when everything is changing and impermanent.

Forms change, while the formless, aware presence in which they appear is forever changeless—and, you are That.

When you become lost in the world of forms, you forget your true formlessness.

The mind becomes hypnotized by the coming and going of the objects it perceives, all while overlooking and forgetting the underlying changeless source of consciousness in which they arise.

Remember again and again, the state of the Wise who remain untouched by the external changes, because of their absorption in the changeless Self.

Anyone who is centered on someone else - whoever that someone else is - will become frustrated in the end. Become more and more free of others.

The more attention given to the transient things of the world the less attention is given to the eternal changeless nature of one’s own spirit, resulting in less peace and more attachment to things that cannot last, further blurring the clarity needed to remain fully awake to what is real.

"If an ant can separate a grain of sugar from the heap of sand, why can't you separate your changeless nature from the changing experiences?"-OSHO

🙏💙💙

Grok is getting pretty good not gonna lie. I had it write some ...

2025-03-03T05:02:17Z

Grok is getting pretty good not gonna lie. I had it write some essays focused on comparing and finding parallels between buckminster fuller's world game, jason lowery's soft war, and bitcoin.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/82QIN85IsZT6BLdIn6WtoZDNV

There's nothing that isn't it!

2025-03-03T02:24:37Z

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There's nothing that isn't it!

Windwaker was one of my faves.

2025-03-03T02:23:14Z

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Windwaker was one of my faves.

A monk asked Chan (Zen) Master Hui Hai: Q: How may we perceive ...

2025-03-03T02:16:51Z

A monk asked Chan (Zen) Master Hui Hai:

Q: How may we perceive our own true nature?

A: That which perceives is your own true nature (Buddha Mind); without it there could be no perception!

Because bitcoin is 0 entropy money it helps all, even those who ...

2025-03-03T02:15:34Z

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Because bitcoin is 0 entropy money it helps all, even those who don't participate in the network.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-information-theory-bit

Well I'm starting to feel old, 25 years since the first ...

2025-03-03T02:08:18Z

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Well I'm starting to feel old, 25 years since the first matrix. Gotta show her the animatrix too after.

Also ask her if she thinks it is dangerous for government to have ...

2025-02-27T18:32:16Z

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Also ask her if she thinks it is dangerous for government to have these huge honeypots of information on their citizens and of she thinks freedom is possible without privacy.

Ask her if she thinks the bank secrecy act and kyc/aml is ...

2025-02-27T18:30:24Z

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Ask her if she thinks the bank secrecy act and kyc/aml is unconstitutional and a violation of our 4th amendment rights!

The lummis rugpull. Cest la vie.

2025-02-27T07:56:11Z

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The lummis rugpull. Cest la vie.

Was just thinking similarly. I think the difference is bitcoiners ...

2025-02-27T06:57:48Z

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Was just thinking similarly. I think the difference is bitcoiners see the desire for certainty that the mind has is satisfied by 21 million. To us it is the most certain thing. It is otherwise an impossible desire.

Perhaps the hardest thing for people to deal with is uncertainty. ...

2025-02-27T06:54:44Z

Perhaps the hardest thing for people to deal with is uncertainty. The mind always wants to be certain yet everything in life is uncertain when we examine it deeply. I don't know most things but I'm quite certain about 21 million bitcoin. When/if the rest of the world understands this desire for certainty that bitcoin satisfies, that's when it is a risk off asset.

Is there really a self or just a provisional appearance of the ...

2025-02-17T20:16:29Z

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Is there really a self or just a provisional appearance of the universe/ life appearing as a separate self?

If only people could see that the conditioning that they believe ...

2025-02-17T18:59:51Z

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If only people could see that the conditioning that they believe to be their self and their own thoughts is actually mental, emotional, social, and emotional programming. Then they could break the spell and never be subject to these mind control tactics again.

Can't be mind controlled if you recognize that thought and ...

2025-02-17T18:49:49Z

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Can't be mind controlled if you recognize that thought and sense perception are empty of inherent existence. Then you literally can't take thinking and perceiving very seriously.

From a friend. The Footprints and the Path: The End of Seeking ...

2025-02-17T18:43:09Z

From a friend.

The Footprints and the Path: The End of Seeking

For as long as humans have existed, we have sought to understand the true nature of reality. The greatest scientists, philosophers, and mystics have all asked the same question:

What is this? What is all of this? What is the truth of existence?

And so, the search begins. The physicist looks outward, analyzing the universe, breaking it down into ever-smaller components, hoping to find the fundamental substance of existence. The seeker looks inward, meditating, questioning, deconstructing the self, hoping to find the essence of being.

Both are footsteps on the same path. And yet, no matter how deep the analysis, no matter how profound the meditation, the final answer remains elusive.

Why?

Because they are looking in the wrong direction.

The Search for the One Who Walks

Imagine a person walking along a path. Behind them, footprints appear in the dirt.

At first, they are fascinated by these footprints. What are they? Where do they come from? What do they mean? They analyze their shape, their depth, their structure. They study how different surfaces create different impressions, how the weight shifts from step to step.

And then one day, in a moment of stillness, they casually glance over their shoulder—and realize that the footprints were following them the whole time.

They were the one leaving the footprints.

And in that instant, the mystery collapses.

This is exactly what happens when we search for the ultimate nature of reality.
• Physicists study the universe, breaking it down into matter, then atoms, then quantum fields, then information.
• They trace the footprints deeper and deeper, each time believing they are close to finding the truth.
• But what they don’t realize is that the footprints are just the traces of something deeper—their own presence observing.

The moment they turn around and look directly at the one who is asking the question, they realize:

The answer was never in the footprints. The answer was the one walking.

The Trap of Looking for Reality in Its Own Appearances

This is why science, no matter how advanced, will never reach the final answer.
• A quantum physicist may say, “Reality is quantum fields.” But that is just how reality appears when looked at through that lens.
• A neuroscientist may say, “Consciousness is brain activity.” But that is just how consciousness appears when examined through neuroscience.
• A philosopher may say, “The universe is information.” But that is just another way of interpreting what cannot be grasped.

In each case, they are looking at footprints, not the walker.

But what if they stopped analyzing the footprints and turned their attention to what was making them?

The One Who Seeks is What is Being Sought

This is the realization that ends all seeking.
• The scientist searching for the ultimate nature of reality is already the ultimate reality.
• The seeker searching for the truth is already the truth.
• The footprints were never separate from the walker—they were the path unfolding as movement.

But here’s the subtle part:

Not only were you the one leaving the footprints…
Not only was the search leading back to yourself…
But the walker and the path were never separate to begin with.

In other words:
• There was never a scientist studying a universe—there was only the universe appearing as a scientist.
• There was never a seeker looking for truth—there was only truth appearing as a seeker.
• There was never a duality—just the seamless, self-knowing presence appearing as everything.

The footprints and the path were never two.

The Final Realization: There Was Never a Journey

At the moment of realization, something collapses.

There was never a path. There was never a journey.
There was never a separate one walking.

And now, the whole story—the whole illusion of seeking—is seen for what it is.

Like a wave searching for water…
Like a light searching for brightness…
Like space looking for empty openness…

The answer was never “out there.”

What you were seeking was never separate from what you are.

And that is the end of the search.

You don't have to do anything with your mind, just let it ...

2025-02-16T14:24:47Z

You don't have to do anything with your mind,
just let it naturally rest in it's essential nature.
Your own mind, unagitated, is reality.
Meditate on this without distraction.

Know the Truth beyond all opposites.
Thoughts are like bubbles that form and dissolve in clear water.
Thoughts are not distinct from the absolute Reality,
so relax, there is no need to be critical.

Whatever arises, whatever occurs,
simply don't cling to it, but immediately let it go.
What you see, hear, and touch are your own mind.
There is nothing but mind.

Mind transcends birth and death.
The essence of mind is pure Consciousness that never leaves reality,
even though it experiences the things of the senses.
In the equanimity of the Absolute, there is nothing to renounce or attain.

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Vajradhara Niguma

Vajradhara Niguma (born 1025) is the full Tibetan name of the Indian yogini Vimalashri

It's a very good direct pointing out instruction!

2025-02-15T16:49:44Z

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It's a very good direct pointing out instruction!

Amazing debate between @nprofile…89xw and fictitious capital! ...

2025-02-15T16:48:27Z

Amazing debate between gladstein (nprofile…89xw) and fictitious capital! Highly recommend listening to this one.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ImJSn7Kx47Rt8DlRgGNu8?si=UHKTwS6jRxWhAq4qsev45A

I am plenty bullshit 🤣

2025-02-13T15:02:02Z

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I am plenty bullshit 🤣

https://youtu.be/pY2j2Cx0qQ8?si=jbN2mUcHHypHajfB

2025-02-13T14:59:36Z

https://youtu.be/pY2j2Cx0qQ8?si=jbN2mUcHHypHajfB

She really thinks she is above us and should be able to decide ...

2025-02-08T05:34:23Z

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She really thinks she is above us and should be able to decide everything for us. She should be relegated to being a HOA tyrant.

We are all in basic consensus on a few rules.

2025-02-08T02:11:25Z

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We are all in basic consensus on a few rules.

Does Jesus have to enter himself to enter heaven though? ...

2025-02-08T02:02:00Z

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Does Jesus have to enter himself to enter heaven though?

Ideas about continuity or significance are how it is appearing ...

2025-02-08T01:55:14Z

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Ideas about continuity or significance are how it is appearing when the idea comes up. So while the appearances come and go, what does not come or go could be said to be significant. Consciousness is how it appears, aware of being aware.

“Since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a ...

2025-02-07T14:23:20Z

“Since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer, only a naked manifest awareness is present.”

“It always was and always will be. It is unchanging, whereas mind and consciousness are changing and evolving all the time. They exist in time and are conditioned, but the Natural State is like space; it does not change.

Discursive thoughts pass through it like birds passing across the sky leaving no trace behind. Whether these thoughts are good or bad, beautiful or ugly, they do not change the Nature of the Mind and, when they dissolve, they leave no trace behind.”

~ Karma Lingpa

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Karma Lingpa (1326–1386) was the tertön (revealer) of the Bardo Thodol, the so-called "Tibetan Book of the Dead". Tradition holds that he was a reincarnation of Chokro Lü Gyeltsen, a disciple of Padmasambhava

Hey @nprofile…3tqm, perhaps this will stop the train?

2025-02-07T13:21:16Z

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Hey LynAlden (nprofile…3tqm), perhaps this will stop the train?

Bro, wtf? 🤣🤣🤣

2025-02-07T13:12:12Z

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Bro, wtf? 🤣🤣🤣

Been consolidating like a mofo.

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Been consolidating like a mofo.

When positive and negative cancel reach other out you are left ...

2025-02-05T13:48:03Z

When positive and negative cancel reach other out you are left with dharmakaya. Reality as it is before appearing as thought, sense perception, and phenomena.

In Dzogchen, you don't use thoughts.

Because thoughts make more trouble, thoughts bring more problems, and that is
ignorance.

Why?

Because if you think, you follow thoughts and that creates something, like negative thoughts for instance. So instead, you have to look at your thoughts.

Don't try to stop them.

Don't follow them, just leave them as they are.

If a thought comes, if you leave it, it just disappears;

There is no need to go against it or try to stop it.

There is no antidote to thoughts.

Just leave it as it is.

Lopon Tenzin Namdak

Down to go back to 58k if we can kill the eth and xrp hype.

2025-02-03T04:13:38Z

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Down to go back to 58k if we can kill the eth and xrp hype.

One of my favorite books. On a long timeline is think Nixon is ...

2025-02-03T01:57:10Z

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One of my favorite books. On a long timeline is think Nixon is the solution to the world game because it incentivizes humans to act in the interest of mutual wellbeing by removing entropy (in the form of loss of purchasing power) from money. Also driving humanity to abandon self destructive habit energy in favor of collaborative. Bucky called that transitioning from weaponry to livingry. Then there is the energy aspect. Since energy is the main driver of technological, productive, and sociological advancement with the halving happening every 4 years and miners needing to find cheaper more efficient sources of energy it will drive the incentive to become type 1 on the kardashev scale. I could go on and on but you've read the book, notching perfectly fits the idea of design science revolution!

Damn I'm gonna have to watch this. Super interesting!

2025-02-03T01:42:31Z

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Damn I'm gonna have to watch this. Super interesting!

When Buckminster Fuller was asked by a 12-year-old boy how he ...

2025-02-03T01:39:23Z

When Buckminster Fuller was asked by a 12-year-old boy how he would suggest solving international problems without violence, he answered:

“I always try to solve problems by some artifact, some tool or invention that makes what people are doing obsolete, so that it makes this particular kind of problem no longer relevant. My answer would be to develop a world energy grid, an electric grid where everybody is on the same grid. All of a sudden, there would be no problems anymore, no international troubles. Our new economic basis wouldn't be gold or dollars; it would be kilowatt hours.”

Shared from a friend. Contrary to accepted groupthink, ...

2025-01-27T15:50:12Z

Shared from a friend.

Contrary to accepted groupthink, neuroscientists say that the Mind and brain are not interchangeable terms. Brain is an organ; Mind is a Field. The Mind is to the body and brain, somewhat as music is to a radio. The Mind is prior to the body, before the brain and subsequent sensory interpretations ... in ontosophical Buddhism, Mind precedes all phenomena, thus Mind does not arise from phenomena.

The reality of the 'cognizant brain' has been compared to the 'tip of an iceberg,' and the brain in the sleep state to the larger mass of the iceberg under the surface. The tip of an iceberg can be likened to the physical bodies of humans ... which includes the sensory apparatus (seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, and thinking. As the 'cognizant brain' enters rest periods, the sleep state unconscious mimics the senses from memories for dream experiences.

Full-spectrum consciousness (i.e. Spiral Dynamics level 8) is the holistic awareness of the 'cognizant brain' (tip of the iceberg), unconscious mind (the ice mass under the water), and the ocean that adjoins the unconscious (which includes all other icebergs).

"If two 'icebergs' (human individuals) come together in peace and say to a mountain: 'Move!' and it will move" - Gospel of Thomas 48

Considering this water-based analogy, imagine placing some of the fresh water (like that which lies close to the iceberg) in a twenty-cube freezer tray. Let’s analyze that water. All of the water is the same. However, when the tray is frozen and reanalyzed, there will be twenty individual, distinct, intricately latticed ice crystals, each one as different from the others as a snowflake or a fingerprint.

The ocean could be likened to a superconscious field, directly inaccessible to the tip of the iceberg above the water and the 6 senses that keep it distracted. Thus a preself-Actualized unconscious may occasionally pick up gnowledge from that field, but interpret it through 'tip of the iceberg' beliefs.

The 'tip of the iceberg' says, “i think, therefore I am.” Whereas a consequence of full-spectrum consciousness is the shift from "i think" to the gnowing of When 'Am I' (thinking is, without exception, always in the past) ... thus a momentous leap from a fragmented consciousness that places knowledge on a pedestal, to the ability to recognize gnowledge.

know\no, v. knew, known, know-ing, knows; OE gecnawan, be able to; akin to L. gnovi. 1. to perceive directly through the senses; comprehend through the intellect (the 6th sense); psyche. 2. to have fixed in the intellect or memory, something as true. 3. to be acquainted with or have a practical understanding of, as through sensory experience; know how to cook. 4. to comprehend noologically; through thought/intellect.

gnow\no, v. gnew, gnown, gnow-ing, gnows; from Gk gnosis, understanding through Heart-Mind (Heart Center,associated with the butterfly shaped thymus,and has nothing to do with the heart organ/pump). 1. to understand directly through metasensory awareness (beyond the 6 senses); comprehend through the heart of essence or thymos. 2. to experience, without media-tion, something as true. 3. to be acquainted with or have gnostic understanding of, as through metasensory experience; to gnow love. 4. to comprehend ontosophically; through prajna/gnosis.

Yes ... the 'heart pump/muscle is important for physical and emotional life ... and the electromagnetic field manifested from this key organ of the circulatory system is impressive ... but it is not the Heart Center ... the place where the two triangles of the hexagram interlace ... the recognition of which only occurs through unfabricated Present awareness. The heart pump/muscle is never Present ... there is no Present in movement ... there is no Present in time.

The ideograph, or heart shape symbol, associated with love has been seriously corrupted by Object-ivists to imply the 'heart muscle,' whereas the ancient glyph of a red heart shape with unfurled wings is the Awakened Thymos (Anahata Chakra).

The Greeks learned of thymos from the Egypt, and possibly Indus Valley Civilisations of the East ... and was associated with the Life Force (Egyptians) and Heart Center/Chakra (Naga).

Identify the two secondary chakras located near the shoulder blades, and imagine a pair of wings extending (anchored) from the thymus gland (your Heart Center, typically atrophied in today's World) through those shoulder blade chakras. We all have the potential to unfurl wings from the Anahata Chakra, just as Isis, and her Sky Dancing Mother, Nut. The first female, Lilith was depicted in ancient times as having wings. Lilith (Genesis 1:27) was created ... only afterwards was wingless Eve (Genesis 2:21-23) fabricated.

Genuine intuition (inner voice) is rare because such understanding must by-pass the lower Six Senses (the organs of sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and thinking), which few people are capable of allowing while cloaked in a myriad of beliefs and diversions ... in servitude to the 'voice in the head.'

True intuition (the inner voice) is gnowledge, not knowledge ... it arises from individuality, not the personality or through sensory input. Lao Tzu said "the treasure is hidden inside your own breast." The intuitive voice is not a feeling ... 99.9% of feelings originate in the head. Eastern philosophy says that the 6 senses is one sense of feeling.

Intuition is developed by relating with what will never leave you, and from which you can never leave. Women's obsession with dogs and alpha males for their security promotes an inferior humanity ... and a World void of Peace and Higher Human Potential. The USA, with a population of 345 million , has over 90 million dogs (larger than any Country) ... while for contrast, India has a population of 1,450,000,000 million, and 10,200,000 dogs. Likewise, the USA sexual market brainwashes women to desire Alpha males ... males who are enamored with mental inertia, and thus real Spirituality, that is, not being in conflict with the in-breath and out-breath of Spirit, is improbable. "There is no fellowship with the fool" - Dhammapada

To even begin recognizing what will never leave, one must be able to recognize what will leave them ... what comes and goes. Intuition is synonymous with the 7th sense. It is always available, but that presence is for the most part smothered, obscured, and filtered by the 6 senses. The 7th level of conscious awareness is without sensory input.

Gurdjieff would develop access to intuition among his students through "stop exercises." In the middle of any activity, he would say "stop," and the student would instantly freeze, thus manifesting much stress to ego. These "stop exercises" are synonymous with the "Just Because Club" activities developed by what Claude Needham.

The egoic cognizant brain an innate desire to maintain transcendental unavailability, thus keeping sentient beings from revealing their authentic, unconditioned Self's. Where religion and science steps between us and our direct experiences, Transformational Triggers such as the "stop exercise" can precipitate for us direct ecstatic experiences. These activities bring pause to ego, beliefs and attachment to the past, and thus, being free of preconceived references, engage us, if just for a "taste", in the Present.

To reduce all the above down to one word ... it is Present. There is no Present within the cognizant brain ... nor can the Present be uncovered through meditation. "The location of the truth of the Great Perfection is the unfabricated Present; not a hair of which can be forced into relaxation through meditation." Jigme Lingpa

The 'inner voice' is not actually a voice as the 'voice in the head,' but always a gnowing that emerges from Stillness, not knowledge. All knowledge springs up from the past. Intuitive gnowledge comes in a flash ... usually a momentary flicker during the transitional state between "awake" and sleep which are often accessed by creative people ... however, if we are distracted by the 6 senses, these are more as hallucinations than intuitive insights ... it's impossible to think, see, taste, touch, smell or hear in the Present.

“Phenomenally, we can know no Present, as it must be in the ‘past’ before our senses can complete the process of recording it, leaving only a suppositional past and future; noumenally, there is no question of ‘past’ or ‘future,’ but only a presence that knows neither ‘time’ nor ‘space.’ ” - Wei Wu Wei.

Another access to the Absolute Present, although very rare, is through elevated state of Heart Consciousness beyond the Simulation that can occur between two people ... which is called Karmamudra ... and brings clear insight into the nature of reality through the harmonious two-way flow of energy ... unfolding two beyond One. True non-duality is beyond One.

“Those who think of mind in terms of One or Many casts away the light and enters delusion” - Saraha

It's a matter of breaking free from conditioning first by ...

2025-01-26T20:02:45Z

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It's a matter of breaking free from conditioning first by seeing that the individual and their world view is shaped through mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning. First they have to see it, then recognize that this is not the self. The conditioning is just habit energy taken to be a self.

Really appreciate your philosophical viewpoints! It's so ...

2025-01-26T16:28:58Z

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Really appreciate your philosophical viewpoints! It's so important that people learn for themselves what really matters in life for them and I think most will come to find a they get rich that it's not really the things that they wanted but the freedom.

Very inspiring!

Such inspiring words, I do think that this percentage of ...

2025-01-26T16:23:14Z

Such inspiring words, I do think that this percentage of individuals with integrity and ethics that motivate their actions in the interest of mutual wellbeing will grow. Since human beings are a result of the collective mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning that makes up the sense of self and the world when incentives change "human nature can change. In fact i don't really think human nature exists outside of biological imperative, it's more like habit energy passed on from one generation to the next, one individual to the next. Of course these habits are not easily broken so we call them human nature because we often don't see the underlying structures that drive action in body, speech, and mind.

As we transition to 0 entropy money and the incentive is to move away from lying, cheating, exploiting, and stealing to get ahead to one of truthfulness, goodness, and cooperation i think we see that habit energy that drives human action transforming what we thought was just human nature.

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GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.
(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

Such inspiring words, I do think that this percentage of ...

2025-01-26T16:19:56Z

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Such inspiring words, I do think that this percentage of individuals with integrity and ethics that motivate their actions in the interest of mutual wellbeing will grow. Since human beings are a result of the collective mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning that makes up the sense of self and the world when incentives change "human nature can change. In fact i don't really think human nature exists outside of biological imperative, it's more like habit energy passed on from one generation to the next, one individual to the next.

As we transition to 0 entropy money and the incentive is to move away from lying, cheating, exploiting, and stealing to get ahead to one of truthfulness, goodness, and cooperation i think we see that habit energy that drives human action transforming what we thought was just human nature.

Wow this was so good, I see things pretty similarly lyn.

2025-01-26T15:35:59Z

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Wow this was so good, I see things pretty similarly lyn.

The yellow eyes stay on because everyone should aim to have the ...

2025-01-26T07:47:21Z

The yellow eyes stay on because everyone should aim to have the level of integrity and conviction that yellow has.

Na he just smoked a really fat blunt.

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Na he just smoked a really fat blunt.

Just wanna say, I finished watching this and it's such a ...

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Just wanna say, I finished watching this and it's such a legendary episode! Thanks.

https://youtu.be/8lyLw5V2rQ4?si=N5BxtR1LrX4_gIph

I demand it has all shitcoins. The government should get totally ...

2025-01-26T03:49:16Z

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I demand it has all shitcoins. The government should get totally rekt

Sat nam!

2025-01-26T02:25:38Z

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Sat nam!

There are many contributing factors but the speed of information ...

2025-01-26T02:23:50Z

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There are many contributing factors but the speed of information and the resulting information overload has a large effect on individual psychology. We are afterall a result of mental, emotional, social, and environmental conditioning that shapes the sense of self and world.

Well that is until one can break free of their conditioning by recognition of what doesn't come or go in the midst of coming and going. 😉

We need all types, every point of view, and node in the network ...

2025-01-26T02:18:49Z

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We need all types, every point of view, and node in the network contributes to protecting the network and human liberty.

Nostr event nevent1qqsdl8asdqxst5qj9epc49lw7329s42nhkg32rv7jmlcmks6cnq6tngzypa3qtw97s6t6xlq9agqpwtftnh3tn4kvev4t2qascqflas0gtg9jcf78u2

2025-01-26T02:16:33Z

"Crypto" is the new quantitative easing.

Also, will it be a podcast we can listen to? Might be helpful in ...

2025-01-24T14:40:58Z

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Also, will it be a podcast we can listen to? Might be helpful in general for people that are black pilled and feeling hopeless.

I'd really love to see her out that energy into building the ...

2025-01-24T14:38:49Z

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I'd really love to see her out that energy into building the world she wants to see. Yes it's good that she informs us admit this stuff but try more to provide actionable things we can do so that people don't get demoralized.

I chose to focus on what is going right and putting my energy ...

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I chose to focus on what is going right and putting my energy into the world i want to see.

Yea I listen to her but every time I do it's like a big ...

2025-01-24T14:35:55Z

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Yea I listen to her but every time I do it's like a big demoralizing black pill.

Well the first 30 some thousand ledgers (xrp blocks) are missing. ...

2025-01-24T14:33:41Z

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Well the first 30 some thousand ledgers (xrp blocks) are missing. "Lost". Totally not suspicious in any way lol.

Oh also the first week of missing blocks, nothing suspicious ...

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Oh also the first week of missing blocks, nothing suspicious there.

They will find that ripple is completely centralized through the ...

2025-01-24T06:08:39Z

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They will find that ripple is completely centralized through the unl and the 35 nodes that run the network and reject it. At least if they don't get bribed into pumping garlicmouse's bags.

Found this, gave me goosebumps. I am just an instrument for life ...

2025-01-24T06:05:30Z

Found this, gave me goosebumps. I am just an instrument for life to live its will through, this guy said it incredibly well.

"WHEN THE MASTER, Christ Jesus(Aka Buddha, Atman or Krishna) says, “I can of my own self do nothing, the Father within me doeth the works,” when Paul says, “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me”—they are revealing the Fourth Dimension of life in which you do not live “by bread alone,” nor by personal will, effort or even personal wisdom.

There comes a point in your experience when you are not solely you— but in which you are conscious of a Presence within. This point of transition comes when the Presence becomes real within you and takes over your life. From the moment of this transitional experience you do not again take any anxious thought for your life because there is always this IT—this Christ—
or divine Presence, and IT brings to you the harmonies of your daily experience.

In this transitional experience you pass from being merely a human being, thinking your own thoughts, planning your own life, arranging your own affairs to a place in Consciousness where you really and truly “feel” this inner Presence, and you then live as if you had stepped aside a little— say two or three inches to the side of yourself—and are watching your life
being lived for you.

If you, at that moment, are in the business world, you will find business coming to you that you were not personally responsible for—that is, you had made no personal effort to secure. If you are an author or composer, you will find ideas flowing, such ideas as you have never dreamed of, flowing to you from within—and you will know that you are not creating
them, but they are given you by an inner Grace.

If you are in Spiritual Work, the Healing or Teaching Ministry, you will find patients and students being led to you, and all will be spiritually healed and led by the Spirit. Thereby you would understand that “I live—yet not I, but Christ liveth my life. The Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” At this point you become the instrument for the operation and activity of divine Consciousness. When the Master says, “The Father within doeth the works” you will understand that He means that He—of His own powers, His own knowledge, wisdom or strength—does nothing, but rather that the activity of Truth in His Consciousness performs the miracles of healing, comforting and feeding the multitudes.

You, therefore, become the vehicle through which Life lives itself. You become the Messenger carrying the divine Message. You will know that you are now no longer living your life but that the Presence and Power is living it and you are its instrument, mode of expression or avenue of Its activity and of course you will now understand why the Master could say, “I and the Father are one but the Father is greater than I.” This is not duality or separation. This is not going back to the belief of God and man, since we have learned that God manifests Itself as individual you and me, but rather this reveals that I, God, being the infinite universal divine Principle in Life, appear as individual you and me so that truly, “I and the Father are one.” The Inner manifests and expresses Itself as the outer individual."

The Fourth Dimension of Life
Collected Essays of Joel S. Goldsmith

Honestly though, Facebook is a ghost town now. They have lost a ...

2025-01-22T00:31:10Z

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Honestly though, Facebook is a ghost town now. They have lost a ton of users in my observation.

🎯 #nevent1q…czln

2025-01-20T12:48:10Z

🎯

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nevent1q…czln
If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t “need” to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!
We are so early.

Song of Realizing the Way Yung-chia (d. 713) Haven’t you met ...

2025-01-05T23:00:47Z

Song of Realizing the Way
Yung-chia (d. 713)
Haven’t you met someone seasoned in the Way of Ease, a person with nothing to do and nothing to master, who neither rejects thought nor seeks truth?
The real nature of ignorance is buddha-nature itself. The empty, illusory body is the very body of the Dharma. When the Dharma-body is realized, there’s nothing at all. The original nature of all things is innately Buddha.
Elements of the self come and go like clouds, without purpose. Greed, hate, and delusion appear and disappear like ocean foam.
When you reach the heart of reality, you find neither self nor other, and even the worst kind of karma dissolves at once. The instant you awaken to the Ch’an of the Tathagata, all practices and means of liberation are perfected at once.
In life’s dream, passing from heaven to hell, each realm seems real. But with awakening, the whole cosmos is completely empty.
Dust builds up on a mind-mirror not cleaned. With one decisive stroke now, lay the glass bare! Who is it that has no thought? Who is it that’s unborn? It’s as if really not born, yet not unborn either.
Going straight to the root is the hallmark of the Buddha; picking up leaves and collecting branches is no use at all. Most people don’t know the pearl that answers all wishes, the great pearl found in the treasurehouse of the Tathagata.
Don’t seek the true and don’t reject the false; realize the emptiness and formlessness of both. The mind-mirror shines brilliantly, without obstruction, its light reaching worlds as countless as sands of the Ganges.
I reveal the bliss-bestowing pearl to you now, and all who take this to heart will come to accord: When you see clearly, there’s nothing at all; there are no people, there are no Buddhas.
The myriad worlds are like so much foam on the sea, old worthies and great sages merely flashes of lightning.
Yung-chia (d. 713)
excerpted from: The Roaring Stream; A New Zen Reader edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker.

“Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh is known in the annals of Ch’an as the Master Who Spent One Night with the Ancestor. The Ancestor in question is Hui-neng. The famous Song of Realizing the Way alludes to this legendary meeting of minds.
Though the author of the poem refers to himself as a mountain monk and sings the praises of hermit life, the Yung-chia of record was hardly a reclusive or obscure figure. He attracted enough notice during his lifetime to draw numerous disciples, and after his death, the imperial court honored him with the title Master of Formlessness.
Along with traces of Taoism, the Song of Realizing the Way contains numerous references to the teachings, metaphors, and mythology of Indian Buddhism. All the same, it is unmistakably a Ch’an poem, laying out many of the school’s central themes, including the futility of conceptual study as a means to true understanding, the necessity of realization, its suddenness and availability to all, and the nature and importance of emptiness and not-knowing.”
taken from: The Roaring Stream; A New Zen Reader edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker.
The journal excerpt is from the longer original poem to convey the flavor and depth of the writing. Through writing such as this we come to love the way of the sages. Through our pure intent and commitment we follow the way of the sages.
With gratitude,
Elana, Scribe for Daily Zen (dailyzen.com)
Taken from: On The Way: The Daily Zen Journal
February 22, 1999

Assuming John nash is satoshi, in his writings about inflation in ...

2024-10-20T11:54:01Z

Assuming John nash is satoshi, in his writings about inflation in ideal money, he talked about having a "completely steady constant rate of inflation." I think just to bootstrap the network but it's not clear in his words. It is clear in bitcoin though since he chose to cap supply at 21 million. He was concerned about it not circulating but also recognized the need for good money to be desirable to hoard. Money In the process of monetization (if you game it out) first is a store of value because it fits the 7 properties of good money.

I want to hold this thing because it had properties of money and increasing my bargaining power in the future. I am going to hoard it until people demand to be paid in this ideal money for their goods/ services. The incentive at the beginning for me as someone with information asymmetry is to collect as much as possible and not let it go. It becomes a medium of exchange when people demand that I give up some of my superior money for their goods and services if I really want what they have.

There are steps in the monetization process and while the lines can be blurred like for example someone with information asymmetry has fully adopted bitcoin as unit of account, store of value, even if not using it as medium of exchange yet.

It's incredibly wrong, I think it shows that their priorities ...

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It's incredibly wrong, I think it shows that their priorities are not the people but looting the people and distracting them just enough so they don't realize they are being robbed.

All things are your own mind. Seeing objects as external is a ...

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All things are your own mind.

Seeing objects as external is a mistaken concept;
Like a dream, they are empty of concreteness.

This mind, as well, is a mere movement of attention That has no self-nature, being merely
a gust of wind.

Empty of identity, like space.
All things, like space, are equal.

When speaking of ‘Mahamudra’
It is not an entity that can be shown.

There the mind’s suchness Is itself the
state of Mahamudra.

It is neither something to be corrected
nor transformed, But when anyone sees and realizes its nature All that appears and exists
is Mahamudra, The great all-encompassing Dharmakaya.

Naturally and without contriving, allowed
simply to be,This unimagined Dharmakaya,
Letting it be without seeking is the
meditation training.

But to meditate while seeking is deluded mind.
Just as with space and a magical display,
While neither cultivating nor not cultivating
How can you be separate and not separate!?!

This is a yogi’s understanding.

All good deeds and harmful actions
Dissolve by simply knowing this nature.

The emotions are the great wisdom.
Like a jungle fire, they are the yogi’s helpers.

How can there be staying or going?

What meditation is there by fleeing to a hermitage?

Without understanding this, all possible means
Never bring more than temporary liberation.

When understanding this nature, what is there
to bind you?

While being undistracted from its continuity,
There is neither a composed nor an uncomposed state to be cultivated or corrected with a remedy.

It is not made out of anything
Experience self-liberated is dharmadhatu.

Thinking self-liberated is great wisdom,
Non-dual equality is dharmakaya.

Like the continuous flow of a great river,
Whatever you do is meaningful,
This is the eternal awakened state,
The great bliss, leaving no place for samasara.

All things are empty of their own identities.
This concept fixed on emptiness has dissolved
in itself.

Free of concept, holding nothing in mind,
Is in itself the path of the Buddhas.

For the most fortunate ones, I have made these concise words of heartfelt advice.

Through this, may every single sentient being
Be established in Mahamudra.

Naropa's Summary of Mahamudra.

Metameza Ushi

Non-Duality in Bon Dzogchen Here are some quotes from a Dzogchen ...

2024-09-25T18:52:08Z

Non-Duality in Bon Dzogchen

Here are some quotes from a Dzogchen teaching by Lama Tenzin Namdak from his commentary on the “Seven Mirrors of Dzogchen”:

“The Natural State is always integrated with your consciousness. It has never been away from your consciousness, never, ever.”

“Just rest in Self-Nature, for a little while. Soon after, a thought will appear. It will come clearly. Everybody must have experience with this. When you look towards the thoughts which appear spontaneously without any planning, when you see a thought come up, look towards that thought.”

“Where is it coming from? Do this carefully. Don't create anything, don't think anything, don't follow what you have learnt or heard previously. Don't follow anything. Just at that present moment look how the thought appears. You can see the thought itself clearly, whatever comes, but don't create any ideas about where it is coming from - from the heart or the brain or something. It just comes spontaneously, you can't find a source at all.”

“Yet even though you don't find any source, you can still see the thought clearly. At that moment, think: 'Where is the source?' Check this. If you don't create any [ideas about the source], you will never find anything at all. If you create something, then you can say it comes from your brain or from your heart or many other things.”

“But shortly, directly, if you look towards the source, you won't find anything at all. It appears spontaneously, and you can only see the thought itself. When you see a thought come, just check where it is coming from and you will never find (the source]. So then the presence which remains is an unspeakable state. It is clear.”

“It is not possible to think it is like this or like that or something. It is neither 'empty' nor is it anything material. Don't think the brain is the source, nor the heart; nothing. There is just an unspeakable state.”

“If you check where the thought is coming from, it is not possible to find anything at all, neither externally nor internally. Nothing. The thought merely arises. Where is it? It is not possible to find where it comes from. What remains is an unspeakable state, clear and calm. That is Nature. There is no outside, no inside, nothing.”

“From this state, a thought appears and it is seen clearly. Who sees it? When you are looking at a thought, when you are thinking, who sees the thought? When you look: no-one. There is nothing special which exists as a watcher, nothing which sees the thought. There is nothing special, unless you create something.”

“If you just remain in that State, there is nothing special at all which can be explained. So at that time, when you see a thought, if you look to where it comes from, you can't see anything special. Afterwards, the presence which remains is an unspeakable state. That means you are not unconscious, nor are you in a deep sleep. Your presence is clear. You can see things, but you don't distinguish between things at all. You are like a mirror which takes reflections. You can see and hear everything…”

“This State looks like water in the ocean. When you look at the ocean, waves are coming and coming and shaking the water, but no matter what happens, if you look in the water, you can see reflections. Whatever you see - both reflections and waves, whatever movements there are - everything is water. Nothing is far removed from the water. That is the example.”

“In the same way, whatever arises from Nature and appears as spontaneous visions or thoughts - thoughts are also visions; any kind of emotion or thoughts, good or bad, are called visions, everything is like waves or reflections in water.”

“No matter what appears in the water, it is all wet, and in the same way, whatever visions or thoughts, good or bad [arise from Nature], they are all forms of the Unspeakable State.”

“It is very, very important to know this. Whatever appears from this Nature, whatever thoughts come - it doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, sad, but everything appears from this Nature.”

“Nature is 'taking the form' of happiness or suffering, all kinds of consciousnesses and perceptions, everything.”

“That is real, not just made or created by visualization; there is no need to change anything, no need to think anything. There is no excuse; that is real Nature. You can follow this and trust it, it is real Nature.”

“The thoughts and perceptions which appear from Nature are just like waves in water. They are Empty Forrns, there is no reality, nothing exists inherently at all. Therefore we always say that everything is just like an illusion. Nothing trustable exists anywhere, not at all. This is reality. This is the real Nature. It is essential to understand this.

First of all you need to know what Nature itself is, and how visions arise. Visions are not far from Nature itself. Whatever visions appear, they are all Empty Forms. That is called 'illusion.' We think that our life, that all the phenomena of existence are concrete and real, [we point to] this and that.”

“The thoughts which come from Nature are like reflections. If you look back towards who sees them, you yourself do not exist separately from the thought, not at all. The thought and yourself - everything - is liberated back to Nature at the same time. This State is called the Natural State.”

“Who sees the thought which comes up at that time? It sees itself. Like a mirror. Reflections come, they are reflected in the mirror, they shine there, but the glass doesn't catch them or recognize them or do anything. In the same way, this Nature doesn't recognize anything, it just sees all the thoughts. That is Nature.”

“Don't say you don't know Nature or you haven't seen it; it is always together with you - it is your Nature, the Nature of yourself, no separation.”

“At that time, it looks as though you are watching Nature or the thought, but if you look carefully, where is 'you'? Where is the watcher?”

That is a mistake [if you think there is some duality]; you are integrated with Nature, together with your thought. There is no separation between you and the thought.”

“At the same time as the thought itself is liberated back to the unspeakable state, you are completely in that State; there is no separation.”

“You think and feel as though you are separate, as though the thought is like an object, but that is a mistake. Don't follow this. At the same time, the thought and the 'watcher' are liberated back to Nature together; there is no separation into 'you' or 'thought' or 'Nature.' All together, they go back to the unspeakable state.”

“After this, there is no consciousness, no person, nothing exists separately, so who sees this State, this Nature? It sees itself.”

“That is special. It cannot be compared with any other Schools at all. People often try to compare this with the Madhyamaka view, but it is not possible to do so. This is special. Itself sees itself.”

“That is called Awareness, Self-Awareness. When we speak about Nature we say it is empty, but that is only in order to give it some name; this Emptiness cannot be compared with any other understanding of emptiness, not at all. This is very special.”

“Actually, it is not possible to give it a name or explain it - it is utterly beyond thought, beyond words. We only use these names temporarily in texts or Teachings, to try to lead students and make them understand, but the main thing is that when you look there, the unspeakable state is the Unspeakable State. It can see
itself.”

“It can be seen, but who sees it? It sees itself. What does it see? It sees itself. We call this Nature and Awareness.”

“Awareness (rigpa) is Nature, Nature is Awareness; there is no separation. Not at all. Therefore Clarity is Awareness, Awareness is Clarity and Empty Nature, together. Purity, Clarity, Unity - everything is in there. The whole thing is in there.”

“In order to speak about this State, we say [it has the qualities of] Emptiness, Clarity, Unification and Perfection.”

“We explain several aspects. But Nature itself is an indescribable State. Sometimes we say it is empty, pure and clear.”

“The Purity aspect is called kadag. The Clarity aspect is called rigpa. The aspect of Unification is called nyime, non-dual, inseparable.”

“This Nature is special in that it is perfected. What does this mean? It means that good things, bad things, everything appears spontaneously from this Nature.”

“Nature doesn't do anything special, it doesn't create anything. But this Nature has power, and so pure, impure, good, bad - anything can appear from it.”

“So that is what we call lhundrub or spontaneously perfected. What arises from Nature depends on the person, [whether they are] following after the visions or remaining in the State.”

“So we explain that this real Nature has Clarity, Unification and Perfection. We mainly explain [these aspects]. So here we can say that the Nature aspect is dharmakaya.”

“The Clarity aspect is sambhogakaya (rigpa) and the vision aspect of Perfection is nirmanakaya.”

“Buddha has Body, Speech and Mind, and also the visible miraculous manifestations of tulku. Many names can be given, but the main thing is for everybody to try to have their own experience. That is worthwhile. Don't say: 'Oh, I don't believe this' or something. This is Nature! You can't choose whether you believe it or not, you see, it is Nature, your Nature. You can't deny that!”

“At that time, people quite often have the thought or feeling; 'I am looking at the thought.' When you have this kind of sensation, immediately look back towards who is watching the thought. Just as you look at the thought, it disappears and there is an unspeakable state, so in the same way, look back to the 'owner' [of the thought] or the subject which is the watcher. “

“This will equally disappear into the Natural State at the same time. Both subject and object are equally liberated back to Nature. This is Nature.”

“Afterwards, there is no subject, no object, no separation, no differences at all, they are both equally the Unspeakable State. That is the Basic Nature.”

“Keep in this State for as long as you can. After a while a thought will arise spontaneously; you can see it clearly. This thought has come. At that time, you must neither reject it, nor follow it. Just leave it as a shining reflection in the mirror. You don't need to do anything, just leave it, and it will be liberated and disappear soon afterwards. It liberates into the Nature which is also the Base (Zhi) from which the thought appeared.”

“This State looks like water in the ocean. When you look at the ocean, waves are coming and coming and shaking the water, but no matter what happens, if you look in the water, you can see reflections. Whatever you see - both reflections and waves, whatever movements there are - everything is water. Nothing is far removed from the water.”

“That is the example. In the same way, whatever arises from one’s Self-Nature and appears as spontaneous visions or thoughts - thoughts are also visions; any kind of emotion or thoughts, good or bad, are called visions - everything is like waves or reflections in water. No matter what appears in the water, it is all wet, and in the same way, whatever visions or thoughts, good or bad [arise from Self-Nature], they are all forms of the Unspeakable State.”

Sounds like Australia needs a revolution.

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Sounds like Australia needs a revolution.

Since bitcoin is perfect time/energy accounting with 0 entropy in ...

2024-09-12T03:11:34Z

Since bitcoin is perfect time/energy accounting with 0 entropy in the monetary system, it accurately represents the collective productive, energetic, and technological capacity of humanity. As bucky said real wealth has no entropy because you can't learn less information always improves.

Found this article recently, and it's a masterpiece.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-information-theory-bit

Yet the ultimate recognition of dzogchen is so simple. It's ...

2024-09-01T18:15:15Z

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Yet the ultimate recognition of dzogchen is so simple. It's just that pesky problem of the imaginary self identity trying to be a "doer" of practice. Practice happens with simply relaxing with thusness!

https://www.lionsroar.com/you-are-the-great-perfection/

Yea I think it's just a matter of time until censorship ...

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Yea I think it's just a matter of time until censorship increases. Idk hope many people will move over until they are personally impacted. I still spend most my time on x because it has the network effects and the largest market of different points of view.

Id like for nostr to steal that network though.

"Form is emptiness; emptiness is form." Heart Sutra In ...

2024-09-01T18:02:26Z

"Form is emptiness; emptiness is form." Heart Sutra

In the Heart Sutra, the teaching "Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form. All dharmas are empty." points to the inseparability of all phenomena and their inherent emptiness. This statement isn’t merely a philosophical concept; it’s an invitation to see beyond the surface of reality and to recognize the fundamental nature of existence.
The Buddha's teachings guide us to dispel the illusions born from ignorance—the mistaken belief in a separate, enduring self and the solid reality of things. This ignorance is the root of suffering (dukkha), as it leads us to cling to impermanent forms, seeking security and happiness where none can be truly found.
However, the purpose of these teachings is not to replace one illusion with another, or to simply construct a more pleasant dream. Instead, the teachings aim to awaken us to the truth that all phenomena, whether we perceive them as physical forms or abstract ideas, are empty of inherent existence. This emptiness doesn’t mean nothingness but rather points to the interdependent, ever-changing nature of reality.
To see form as emptiness is to understand that what we grasp onto—our bodies, possessions, thoughts, and identities—are not the solid, permanent entities we believe them to be. They are transient, arising and dissolving within the vast expanse of emptiness, which is their true nature.
Conversely, recognizing emptiness as form reminds us that this emptiness is not a void but the very substance of all that exists. Form and emptiness are not two separate realities but are intertwined aspects of the same truth. In seeing this, we come to understand that liberation is not about escaping the world of form but about seeing through its illusory solidity and understanding it as it truly is.
As the Buddha taught, the path to liberation lies in the direct perception of this truth, which dissolves the illusions that cause suffering. The goal is not to create a better illusion but to awaken from all illusions entirely. This awakening leads to a life of wisdom and compassion, where we engage with the world from a place of clarity and peace, fully aware of the empty nature of all phenomena, yet deeply connected to the flow of life.
As the Diamond Sutra reminds us: "All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow, like dew or a flash of lightning. Thus should we view all that is conditioned." This teaching encourages us to cultivate insight into the nature of reality, seeing through the illusions that bind us and awakening to the true, interconnected nature of all things.
In this way, the Buddha's teachings guide us not to construct better illusions but to free ourselves from all illusions, leading us to the ultimate realization of the true nature of self and reality.

On letting go, something you can't do. It happens without ...

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On letting go, something you can't do. It happens without your effort.

let everything be
To enter the natural state, one must release the need to control, to strive, or to achieve. It is about surrendering the illusion of effort and settling into a state of clear, open awareness. This state is not something complicated or distant; in fact, it is profoundly simple. It requires no complex practice, no grasping, no pushing, no struggle.
Just sit, and allow everything to be exactly as it is. Do not resist, do not chase, do not change. The mind, so accustomed to striving and seeking, believes that something must be done to reach peace. Yet the paradox is that peace is already here; it is the natural state that exists when we stop interfering with the present moment.
In this letting go, there is a vividness—a clear seeing that arises not from effort but from the cessation of effort. The mind, left to its own devices, constantly searches, judges, and controls, mistaking this activity for wisdom. But true clarity, true understanding, comes when we cease to try to understand and simply are.
This is the essence of the practice: to sit and allow, to let go of the habitual grasping for control, and to recognize that everything is already as it needs to be. In this way, we return to the simplicity and openness of our natural state, where the true nature of reality—free from the distortions of desire and aversion—can be seen with clarity.
So, sit down, let everything be, and discover that the very simplicity you seek is already present, quietly waiting beneath the noise of your striving.

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are ...

2024-08-30T10:36:18Z

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Thanks for answering. Do you see a pathway to possibly create ...

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Thanks for answering. Do you see a pathway to possibly create unruggable ecash?

How much would covenants help fedi?

@nprofile…tqc6 do you know if it's possible to use fedi for ...

2024-08-19T12:00:31Z

Jeff Booth (nprofile…tqc6) do you know if it's possible to use fedi for transaction aggregation where you can share a utxo between hundreds of people opening a lightning channel at once? Could you make it so that the mint collects many lightning channel opens and closes together into one onchain transaction and the guardians of a fedi approve that a few times a day? I'm trying to imagine how we can get un-ruggable ecash and if we build wallets that automatically sweep to individuals lightning channels and if fedi can act as a layer for shared utxos.

“The great Nyingma master Mipham Rinpoche wrote this brief, ...

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“The great Nyingma master Mipham Rinpoche wrote this brief, versified Dzogchen instruction in 1893/4. In it he outlines the key points of Trekchö (khregs chod) or 'Thorough Cut' practice by means of an explanation of the four ways of leaving things as they are (cog bzhag bzhi).”

The Key Points of Trekchö
by Mipham Rinpoche

Dhīḥ! Before the wisdom-being Mañjuśri,
I reverently bow down.
Here I shall explain the key points of Trekchö—
Thorough Cut.

Do not alter the mind but allow it to settle as it is.
And, in such a state, look naturally within.
There will unfold an experience that is indescribable,
Which has no fixed character as either this or that,
And the natural radiance of which will not cease.
This is the genuine state, the natural condition,
The actual dharmatā, beyond conception.
It is the insight born of natural luminosity,
The view: like a mountain, left as it is.

As you simply remain in that natural state,
There is neither meditation nor distraction.
Without suppressing, cultivating, evaluating or analysing,
Allow yourself to settle fully into the genuine state.
This is the natural concentration of dharmatā,
Uncorrupted by the bonds of deliberate action.
Abiding in the yoga that is the King of Space,
This is meditation: like the ocean, left as it is.

As you are settled like this,
Any thoughts and impressions that stir within
And any appearances that occur without,
Should neither be prevented
nor encouraged but left as they are.
As long as you do not stray from this natural state,
Whatever unfolds will bring neither benefit nor harm.
Without concern for good or bad,
acceptance or rejection,
This is action: appearances, left as they are.

As you make progress, all that appears and exists
Will become a single all-embracing sphere
of aware-emptiness,
Within which everything is entirely perfect and complete.
This happens effortlessly,
is spontaneously accomplished.
Any striving to adopt or abandon simply fades away,
And hopes and fears for saṃsāra
and nirvāṇa are no more.
The primordial nature is made manifest —
The fruition: awareness, left as it is.

This instruction including four ways
of leaving things as they are,
Is the ultimate purport of the Thorough Cut.
With these key points, liberation will swiftly be attained
As the most glorious form of Mañjuśrī, Gentle Splendour.

This arose from the lake-like mind of Mipham Jampal Gyepa during the Water Snake year (1893–4)”

♦️

| Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2018.

Bibliography
Tibetan Edition
Mi pham. "khregs chod gnad kyi gdams pa bshad pa." In Mi pham gsung 'bum. 32 vols. Chengdu: Gangs can rig gzhung dpe rnying myur skyobs lhan tshogs, 2007. Vol. 32: 410–412

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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The Song of the Debate Between Wake and Dream by Ju Mipham Rinpoche

Translator’s Forward

“The Song of the Debate Between Wake and Dream is an important work by the great Buddhist scholar Ju Mipham Rinpoche (18461912). It has been widely studied and taught by many Tibetan Buddhist masters (especially those of the Nyingma tradition, such as from Larung Buddhist Academy). This work is about a debate between two imaginary figures Wake, representing one’s waking experience, and Dream, representing the dream experience. Despite the fact that the language is easy to understand, it has very profound meanings. The debate actually shakes one’s fundamental attachments and establishes the core view of Buddhism, namely emptiness, or the illusory nature of all phenomena. Following the debate, the second half of the work allegorizes the essence of Buddhist practice of the wisdom tradition. For spiritual practitioners, it is a very important text and should be studied carefully.

So far, I did not find any mention of this great work on Englishlanguage web pages, so I decided to translate this text on my own. The text was originally written in Tibetan. This translation is mainly based on the Chinese text translated by Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok, a great Buddhist scholar from Larung Buddhist Academy. My understandings and inspirations are mainly from my Buddhist teacher Tersar Yingrik Drubpa Rinpoche, who gave this teaching in mid 2018. Another source of reference is the teaching notes by Master Zhiyuan. I also want to thank Elan Hourticolon Retzler, Samantha, and Kent Wilcox for helpful suggestions. In the future, it is my hope that there will be additional English language commentaries about this work.

I also hope that the translation of this work will inspire people who have been struggling with philosophical problems like the Brain in a vat, or the Dream argument. Contrary to the philosophies, debates, efforts, and conspiracies made by various theorists, the Buddhist answer to these questions is simple: “Yes, we are living in a dream, but it is our own mind who is creating all the dreamlike experiences, so we should work with our mind.” The essence of this answer may be partially seen in the popular movie The Matrix.

Now, what should we do? Simply follow and maintain one’s curiosity, glean the core meaning of the debate, and carefully examine the nature of reality. It will give you the deepest of inspirations.

May all gain wisdom!”

~ Forest Rui Jiang, December 2018. Silicon Valley, California

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The Song of the Debate Between Wake and Dream

Authored by The Omniscient Ju Mipham Rinpoche
English translation by Forest Rui Jiang

“Om Swasti (may all be auspicious),

Homage to the sublime Manjushri .
After sincere prostration, I say the following.
The wonderful experience in the dream last night I had,
The daytime phenomenon I now encounter,
Those two initially arise in a similar way,
Those two eventually disappear in a similar way.

Dream holds that what appears in the dream is real,
Wake thinks that what appears
when one is awake is real.
Now Wake and Dream debate on who is real.

Wake, while solidifying his appearances, says:
“Dream, your appearance is a deceptive illusion.”

Dream, being fickle and chaotic, refutes:
“not only I am illusory, you are also deceptive!”

“I, Wake, am not deceptive. There is clear proof of that:
things clearly appear so I am real.”

Dream, being honest, replies to Wake:
“The same is true for Dream, so your statement is not definitive!”

[Wake:] “Today, you disappeared, so it is definitive.”
[Dream:] “Tomorrow, you will also disappear, so it is not definitive!”

[Wake:] “I experience directly (through my senses), so it is definitive.”
[Dream:] “I also experience things directly, so it is not!”

[Wake:] “My day experience is stable and lasts long, so it is definitive.”
[Dream:] “There are both longlasting as well as fleeting phenomena in both Wake and Dream!”

[Wake:] “In a dream, one can go through a mountain in no time.
I will admit that you are real if one can do this when one is awake.”

[Dream:] “If now there are proper conditions, one also achieves that ,
Without conditions, there is no way to do that even in a dream!”

[Wake:] “It does appear without conditions in a dream.”
[Dream:] “Then, why it is not constantly like this?!”

[Wake:] “You dream about dead relatives with deep affection,
and you could also have kids or nephews you never had in reality.

I, Wake, do not have such things.”
[Dream:] “If the appearance (of relatives and so on) could not establish their existence,

Why you think your kids and and other relatives exist when you are awake?”
[Wake:] “(In a dream) the deceased
may come back to life.
The nonexistent may appear to exist.
They existed in you Dream, but have now disappeared.”

[Dream:] “Things that have passed on
in your eyes are seen by me,
Phenomena nonexistent for you appear for me,
Our positions are fundamentally equal!”

[Wake:] “Though one may enjoy heavenly cuisine in the dream
that cannot dispel the hunger and thirst after waking up.”

[Dream:] “One may have a peaceful nap in a magnificent palace.
That cannot protect you against rain in the dream!”

[Wake:] “You only arise from delusion and have no real significance.”
[Dream:] “The feelings of hunger and so on in the waking state are also illusory!”

[Wake:] “When waking up, one realizes that the dream is unreal.
In a dream, how can you know the unreality of the waking experience?”

[Dream:] “The dream experience exposes
the unreality of the waking experience.
How could the waking experience disprove
the existence of dream experience?”

At that time, Wisdom, the Chief Justice,
sends Miraculous Wisdom, the Judge,

To tell the two debating parties:
“if you keep arguing like this,
there could be infinite words, but the evidence is already enough.
Let me adjudicate for you two.

“Both of you are real, but at the same time also unreal.
When not examined, both are real at their own positions.

“When examined, every change of phenomenon
leads to a revelation.
Actually (the two are) equal without differences.

“Although both of you are unreal,
Dream admits his delusion, hence he has the quality of being honest.

“Wake, you are delusional but refuse to admit it.
Being so stubborn, and not giving up the wrong idea, you should be punished.

“Dream, though being dull and delusive, at least has integrity.
Wake, though being astute and skillful, is actually more ignorant.

“The stableness and unstableness
are conditioned upon habituation.
The two (dream and waking experience)
are same in terms of effects.

“Now, Wake. You should follow after Dream.
The view and action should be unified for both of you.”

After saying so, (the Judge) ties up Wake
with the rope of mindfulness,
and hands the rope to Dream, not allowing Wake to leave

“You two should not argue but live in harmony,
Otherwise, you will become the demon bringing sufferings to the billionfold (entire) universe.

“If in harmony, you would be the guide of the world of three times (past, present and future).
Understanding that, both of you will have benefits.”

From here on, Wake and Dream know that they are not different.
And they treat phenomena from both sides equally.

At that moment, the debate ends between the two.
Then, the perceptions of the two minds are unified into one.

Combining the words of same and different,
Wake and Dream sing an improvised song together:

[Wake & Dream:] “‘We are different
and different’, people would say.
We are actually same and same. They are wrong.

“The significance of same and same,
is mentioned by few, and understood by fewer.

“Understand that the waking perception is equality,
and the dreaming perception is the same. It is not deceptive.

“This meaning is extremely important, but those who are ignorant think
that Wake and Dream (are different and) appear alternately.

“Now, the teaching from the King of Magical Illusion
is not just plain words. We carefully look into its meanings.

“In the blissful play of touching each other,
we taste the sweetness without eating.

“We enjoy the intoxicating dance without drinking,
we watch the miragelike drama without rehearsing.

“O. This is the supreme teaching, surpassed by nothing.
Dear friends, please remember this in your heart.”

Then, the two unite into one,
and the one dissolves into space.

Then, Miraculous Wisdom the Judge
presents this result to Wisdom the King.

The King is delighted and smiles:
“Your mediation is in such a good manner.

“From here on, up till to the end of space,
you may soar freely like a Garuda bird with wings widely open.

“The sovereignty of the Kingdom of Fearless Emptiness,
I now bestow on you. Please kindly protect it!

“In this garden of emptiness,
wind blows, and pure honey falls.

“Eat it, eat it, as you go.
O. This will never be exhausted!

“There, the barren woman’s daughter,
virtuous and beautiful,
being pleasant and satisfactory, joyfully plays.

“This neveraging youthful consort is bestowed on you,
in union with you. Enjoy the miraculous bliss.

“With the bliss of touching her,
all the ease and pleasure in this three worlds,

“are like vomit compared to nectar.
The craving towards those (mundane happiness) now should be loosened!

“As such, if you say this and act according to it,
you will be in union with Wisdom the King.”

The abovementioned metaphorical words are of experiential nature, are easy to understand when carefully examined, otherwise obscure are of significant meaning if carefully pondered, otherwise they are insignificant, and are written at the place of great bliss by the one named “Dhih!”

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“Jamgön Mipham Gyatso, also known as Ju Mipham Rinpoche, was a great Nyingma scholar practitioner and writer of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was born in the Derge region of eastern Tibet into the Ju clan, a family said to be descended from the ancient Tibetan gods.

In his life story, he is described as a child prodigy who was able to memorize and retain all the texts he read from an early age. Throughout his life, he was said to have been able to remember and deliver commentary on many texts after receiving only the reading transmission.

At the age of fifteen, he undertook eighteen months of intensive retreat on Mañjuśrī, who was his lifetime meditation deity. Later in life, he was often said to be an emanation of that wisdom deity. After his retreat, he confided to some of his students that from then on he had always been able to understand any text he read. From his guru Patrul Rinpoche, he received teachings on
Śāntideva’s Bodhicharyavatara.

It was said that Patrul Rinpoche confirmed that after only five days of teaching, Mipham Rinpoche had mastered both the words and the meaning of this seminal text.

Mipham Rinpoche received teachings from luminaries of both the Sarma and Nyingma schools. He was a student of the eminent masters Jamgön Kongtrul with whom he studied grammar, and his root guru Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo from whom he received the complete transmission of the orally transmitted or Kama and revealed or Terma lineages.

His collected works fill more than thirty volumes and span an extraordinary range of topics. Although he is famous for his philosophical works, he also wrote treatises on astrology, medicine, poetry, politics, and tantra. He wrote a popular compilation on the epic story of the great warrior king, Gesar of Ling, an emanation of Guru Rinpoche. Mipham Rinpoche also composed devotional works such as a large number of aspiration prayers, sādhanas, and guru yogas. Of the sādhanas perhaps the most popular is the Treasury of Blessings, a sādhana of Buddha Śākyamuni.

It is said that Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo requested him to write commentaries on many of the core texts of Indian Buddhism that reflected the thinking of the Nyingma tradition. Prior to this undertaking, most of the Nyingma monasteries had relied upon commentaries produced by the Sarma schools. In fulfilling his lama’s command, Mipham reinvigorated the intellectual milieu of the main Nyingma shedras, and his texts are studied today as the core texts. In addition, he introduced the training in formal debate into the Nyingma shedras.

His commentaries include those on the Mulamadhyamakakarika or Root Stanzas on The Middle Way by Nagarjuna; the Madhyamakāvatāra, Introduction to the Middle Way by Chandrakirti; the Jñānasārasamuccaya, or Compendium on the Heart of Wisdom by Aryadeva. He also authored commentaries on treatises of logic by Dharmakīrti and Dignāga; commentaries on the Five Treatises of Maitreya; and commentaries on several works of Vasubandhu including the Abhidharmakosha. In addition, he authored The Lion’s Roar: A Commentary on Sugatagarbha.

Mipham and the Two Truths

Mipham’s commentary on the ninth chapter of Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara, the Shertik Norbu Ketaka or Ketaka Jewel was criticized sharply by Geluk scholars, particularly his contemporaries Japa Dongak and Pari Lopzang Rapsel. His presentation of the two truths refuted the previous explanations of Je Tsongkhapa and the Sakya master Gorampa Sonam Senge. Also controversial was his commentary on the Madhyamakalamkara of Śāntarakṣita which similarly privileged the ultimate truth. His emphasis on Buddha Nature as the ground of all and the link between sutra and tantra is fundamental. Modern biographers note that one of Mipham’s unique perspectives was the integration of tantric and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) view onto sutra interpretation.

Mipham the Practitioner

Although he is most famous as an author and scholar, it appears that Mipham spent much of his life in retreat. The colophons of his works mention that they were written during breaks from his retreats. He also composed a number of short pithy advice texts on the key points of Dzogchen practice. In the 1870s and 80s, he spent about thirteen years in retreat in the “Tiger Den” cave of Rongme Chime Karmo Taktsang near Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s monastery, Dzongsar.

Mipham Rinpoche passed away in 1912 at his hermitage at Ju, north of Dzogchen Monastery.”

“According to one account shortly before he died, Mipham told his attendant:

Nowadays, if you speak the truth, there is nobody to listen; if you speak lies everyone thinks it is true. I have never said this before: I am not an ordinary person; I am a bodhisattva who has taken rebirth through aspiration. The suffering experienced in this body is just the residue of karma; but from now on I will never again have to experience karmic obscuration. … Now, in this final age, the barbarians beyond the frontier are close to undermining the teaching. [So] there is no point whatsoever in my taking rebirth here…I have no reason to take birth in impure realms ever again.

This may be interpreted as a statement that his mindstream would have no further 'emanations' (Wylie: sprul pa (emanation body); sprul sku (tulku)). Conversely, according to another account in which he mentions the mindstream in passing and prophesies the shortly before his death to his student Khenpo Kunphel:

Now I shall not remain long in this body. After my death, in a couple of years hence, war and darkness shall cover the earth, which will have its effect even on this isolated snow land of Tibet. In thirty years time, a mad (smyo) storm of hatred will grow like a fierce black thundercloud in the land of China, and in a further decade this evil shall spill over into Tibet itself, so that Lamas, scholars, disciples and yogis will come under terrible persecution. Due to the demon-king Pehar taking power in China, darkness and terror ('bog) will come to our sacred land, with the result that violent death shall spread like a plague through every village. Then the three lords of materialism (gsum-gyi-kla-klos) and their cousins will seize power in Tibet, spreading war, famine and oppression. No one will be safe. Now, very soon, my mind-stream will be gathered up in the pure-land of Tusita, from whence many emanations [of myself] shall then come forth in future years. I shall not take rebirth in Tibet. In twenty years, seek me in the northern lands of distant Uttarakuru, and elsewhere, east, west, north and south. Fear not, we shall be re-united again, as father and son. Now go!

In the above account, shortly after the departure of Khenpo Kunphel he stated publicly, "Now, soon I shall depart. I shall not be reborn again in Tibet, therefore do not search for me. I have reason to go to Shambhala in the north."

Subsequently, a number of emanations have been recognized.

According to E. Gene Smith "At least three rebirths were recognized in the decade following his death: 1) Zhe chen Mi pham (a grandnephew of Mi pham rgya mtsho); 2) Tshe dbang bdud 'dul (1915/16-42) the last prince of Sde dge; 3. Khyung po Mi pham, an incarnation recognized by Rdzong gsar Mkhyen brtse 'Jam dbyangs chos kyi blo gros."

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