Beyond Physical Reality
The Buddha said "all of life is suffering." Why? It doesn't seem so in the West where we have Priuses, Starbucks, Ross and Walmart. Have you really come to a place where you understand that statement?
The reason the Buddha concluded that "all of life is suffering" is because he began exploring higher and higher layers of understanding of the reality we call life. The process of enlightenment is completely mental. Yes, the physical body is involved in the work of transformation, but the entire transformation is about your consciousness. The process is a many-tiered journey of encountering and integrating more and more information about your environment. It is a process of maturation, and it is painful. It is a process of moving from a condition of being simple and naive in one's understanding of one's environment to being empowered and aware of the many forces and agendas at play.
Many Interrelated Dimensions Mean Many Interrelated Agendas
The reason the Buddha stated that "all of life is suffering" is because the Buddha discovered that we are not free beings alone on this planet at the top of the food chain. When he pushed his awareness into the astral (4th dimension), and purified his body to the point in which his vehicle was functioning optimally, he was able to perceive beyond 3D. When he did this, he was able to perceive a host of other sentient life forms that exist in 4D, 5D, and beyond that are able to influence our lives.
The Lower Dimensions are Negative / Predatory
He was able to perceive discarnate beings that live in 4D that are not human and never occupy human bodies, those that were human and died and have become earthbound, and worse - those that are more advanced than us and see us as a food source. He realized that humans are not on the top of the food chain, that we were not created by an all-loving big bearded father guy in the sky, but rather that we were created as a genetically engineered experiment by advanced civilizations that farm us on the planet in order to consume our energy as food, much the way we genetically modify and farm cattle, chickens and grain for our own consumption.
He discovered that our history as we've been told it is not true; that human settlements with advanced, complex societies and technologies have existed on this planet over and over again, being wiped out by a global catastrophe and "harvested" every 20,000 years when the planets come into a specific alignment, one that we are currently approaching again in the year 2012. He learned that these interdimensional E.T. farmers have been visiting our planet for a long time, that drawings and records of them appear in religious literature and on cave-wall drawings, that there are secret societies on our planet that know this information and much more, and keep it hidden from the masses, even participating in alliances with the farmers and making sacrifices of human lives through natural disasters and wars to feed them in exchange for technology and information.
The Buddha learned that there are all sorts of dramas at play, in many realms beyond our own, from political and religious leaders to secret brotherhoods to alien agendas to outright genetic manipulation and enslavement.
The Higher Dimensions are Positive / Mutually Respectful
And then he went even further, and pushed beyond the vibrational rate of the astral/4th dimension and its "low-vibration" dramas, and he discovered the dramas of advanced non-human races that exist in 5D, and 6D and 7D, and he connected with benevolent teachers and beings that have dropped the physicality of material 3D bodies and exist in higher-vibrational light bodies, beyond the reach of the farming agendas of the 4D beings. He learned about soul groups and incarnating lineages and immortality.
And the Buddha kept pushing and pushing and pushing his awareness of what was going on in the universe around him and integrating the information he discovered and based upon all of this, he concluded that human life as we know it is enslavement and suffering, and that is why he sought to escape the entire system of birth, death and rebirth in 3D.
The Spiritual Practices are Specifically Targeted to Deal with the Challenges of Transcending This Reality
The reason why Buddhism teaches practices of meditation that include stilling the emotions and thoughts are so that 4D entities cannot feed on your mental and emotional energy. The reason Indian yogis did yoga and practiced vegetarianism was to cleanse their organs and bodies of 4D energetic parasites. The reason Buddhist adepts practiced celibacy is so that 4D entities could not feed on their sexual energy, because the sexual energy is pure life force energy (jing). Now go farther - discover the energy body's circuitry and learn the higher meditations of the Buddhist Tibetan monks and the Taoist adepts published in Mantak Chia's books and discover how to harness your life force sexual energy, run it through your circuits, and give birth to a spiritual body that will carry you beyond 3D, beyond 4D into 5D and beyond. But still - all of these dimensions mentioned are within the reality depicted in the Buddhist mandalas and thangkas - all of these heaven and hell realms, present here in our immediate reality, need to be ultimately transcended. That is the very clear message of the Buddha.
The Real Buddhism is Not Being Taught Freely
How can I say that the Buddha discovered all of these things? Because the story of the Buddha is a story about a human going through layers of enlightenment, and:
- enlightenment is a process;
- regardless of the means, everyone goes through the same process and learns the same things;
- the process is one of expanding one's awareness of reality to penetrate rings upon rings of truth about the nature of reality;
- because reality is complex and extends far beyond our human bodies and 5 senses, we are capable of extending our awareness far beyond our human bodies and 5 senses;
- as we do so, we gain skill in interacting with expanded functions of reality; and,
- there is no known limit.
Now, is that what they've been teaching you in Dharma school? Just what are you practicing for if you have no idea what you are doing and why all this has been done in the past?
This isn't the Buddhism that is currently taught - the Buddhism that is currently taught in the West is some mish-mosh of leftover Christian "be good / do good" rhetoric that is little different than the church services you were subjected to as a child. There's nothing radical in there to change your lifestyle much; in the West they've sold it to us so well it can be easily fit in between feeding the kids and going to the office. We sit on cushions and say mantras like "may all creatures be free of suffering" without even knowing what that means, go to workshops and listen to Lamas from Tibet who never even touch on energy-body meditation techniques like the microcosmic orbit.
The mandalas and beings in the Tibetan paintings and statues are not abstract scholarly depictions of metaphoric ideas - they are pertinent visual educational tools depicting real dimensions of existence and actual sexual intercourse. The skills of lucid dreaming, astral travel, shamanism, exorcism, and an understanding of the power of sexual energy coupled with techniques for energetic alchemy are the true practices of transformation and evolution behind Buddhism. They aren't archaic "tantric" historic primitive artifacts for academic study, they are concrete practices in use today by lineages who are still able to transmit and utilize the old knowledge that's quickly being erased from our current "sheeple" society. What is required is for you to break out of the fog, come to life, and make "waking up" and "getting out" REAL for you, NOW.
Becoming enlightened is the way of the shaman, not the way of the masses.
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