Tools for the Seeker
You're committed to uncovering the truth: you've been seeking it for years. You’ve read scores of books, ranging from New Age to Science, willing to consider ideas and sift through all the information that's out there. What is it you’ve been looking for? Perhaps only recently you have realized what it is you are truly seeking—the quickest way out of the false reality that’s all around you.
We’re reaching the end of the Kali Yuga, a major change in the cycles of creation and destruction, and if you’re tuned in to what’s happening all around you, you can see there’s no time left for slow-paced evolution. You’re down to the crunch. You’ve seen the Al Gore movie. You’ve traveled around the world enough to see the true condition of the planet: overpopulated, polluted on all levels, rainforests being bulldozed, rapid disappearance of species. Mass culture is moving along in a stoned haze, oblivious and distracted. Even so-called ‘spiritual’ groups all around you are blindly following old rhetoric and dogma without making any real progress. Everybody from science to the underworld is talking Armageddon and expecting the worst. You feel an urgency to survive the changes happening all around you. You want to understand what's going on, and you want to be prepared.
This site isn’t about spending hours on a meditation cushion staring at the wall. It isn’t about getting a Ph.D. in Religious Studies or spending a lifetime earning your credentials as a genuine bonafide Master. Why? Because enlightenment is not about accumulating status achievements in order to convince yourself you're accomplishing something, and it isn't about competing with everyone else to achieve a position of power or a great salary or a name for yourself in academic publishing. It's not about doing the same thing that everyone else is doing in order to fit in and play the part. Arguing over scripture and dogma, or focusing on mimicking what you think an Enlightened Master would act like is not enlightenment.
Enlightenment is one thing only: waking up to the true reality of your condition. That's it.
You may think you know what that is, but the odds are you don't. The world is made up of 6 billion people who think they know what's going on day to day and maybe 50 who actually do. Buzz-phrases like "no-mind" and "be in the now" and "don't do, just be" sell lots of books but they do not enlighten anyone. Most religious teachers are not enlightened, they are just making a living perpetuating mentally abstracted catch phrases no-one truly understands. The Buddha was not a Buddhist. He was not going to a meditation group or lighting incense to himself or writing down scriptures or agonizing over sutras. Humans have almost effectively erased any truth that existed in his example, by creating a religious monument that overshadows the true practices leading to enlightenment. In the East Buddhism has become a dead ritual to a deified icon, and in the West, it's a tangled complexity of abstract culture-philosophy-religion you can buy and pretend to "get". In both cases, the religion of Buddhism is serving instead as a numbing distraction from doing the real work of waking up.
The stories of Buddha and Tara are mythologized ideas of empassioned human individuals who were persistent in their searching to find out what is really going on behind all the entertainments life has to offer. Each story describes a person who threw him/herself out there and was willing to seek out any teacher, try any practice, and walk away from all of them when they realized that by following the popular cultural beliefs, they weren't getting any closer to the truth. Enlightenment is not a philosophical abstraction, and it has nothing to do with religion or culture. To enlighten yourself, you must be willing to interrogate your reality and your mental beliefs and burn away all the b.s. you thought was true under the fire of your merciless scrutiny. That's what this figure called the Buddha did. He was relentless in his search for understanding and escape from this life, which he considered a prison. Tara challenged the social belief of the warrior male caste that women were not capable of achieving enlightenment because of their position in society and their inherited psycho-physical weaknesses. These are the only keys you need to carry with you from the stories in order to follow their examples. You need to have enough huevos to break with cultural norms, liberate yourself from a sense of obligation to others, question your leaders and supercede your religious teachers.
If you are that kind of person, then this site is for you.
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