Idle Fascinations, Petty Irritations, and Satori

To those who have not experienced the Transformation, and to those who have been caught by surprise, it may seem that satori will solve their personal problems. This is not the case.

Satori does not banish the animal mind. Satori floods the animal mind with light. The ancient parable of the "Ten Bulls" gives us an historical recognition of the shock of the new, and the Hindu tales of the "Magic Carpet" and the "Wish Fulfilling Gem" are all about the fruition of self discovery.

Meditation is not about discipline. Meditation is a discipline necessary to the cultivation of a silent mind, and a silent mind is necessary to the awakening of Awareness.

Idle fascinations and petty irritations have their roots in the archetype laden labyrinth of the unconscious mind. They are elements of a preconscious animal existence that cloaks its self in a personality, and suspects no "self" higher than its immediate personal experience.  This is utterly natural and it is not for the "Enlightened" to criticize the behavior of the unenlightened.

The difficulty of those who have by hook or by crook entered the startling realm of light to accept that this realm of light to which they have entered finds them still in the sway of the primitive impulse can be discouraging, and at worst this leads to an affectation of elitism that dissolves into retrograde

Do not resent your humanity. Befriend your humanity. It is the magic carpet. It is the magic gem. The urge to elitism is in fact the sway of your humanity, and a dodge back into the shade.



Meditate.

God Help Us

From the dawn of time the occasional enlightened being has pointed out that the ordinary individual lives in a dream. This dream world of illusion is the natural state of any animal. In this state Transcendental Awareness is wholly absorbed in the animal mind and suspects no potential state of existence other than the one in which it finds its self. The mind of this creature exists in a state of innocence, but its innocence is that of a lunatic. In pastoral times this is relatively harmless.

Enlightenment emerges naturally from the cocoon of animal mind by a spontaneous process of evolution: it always has, and it always will. The problem is that the proliferation of human progeny and the exponential advances of technology have created situation where the freewheeling animal mind of man will be the end of us all. By the time the obvious becomes apparent to the hopelessly occluded those left of us will be looking out on a planet ravaged beyond repair. Spiritual infants are soiling the nest without restraint, and are rather pleased with themselves.

The answers are simple, but the animal mind is complex.


God help us.

Exceptional Individuals

The world of humanity is one created by exceptional individuals and inhabited by ordinary individuals. Unfortunately a significant number of power possessing exceptional individuals are sociopaths, and the ordinary individual just wants relative peace and comfort. The cumulative predatory instincts of exceptional sociopaths eventually culminate in the collapse of civilizations.

There is, however, a class of exceptional beings that tends to jealously guard its anonymity: the Enlightened. 

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man must speak with caution.