There is something that is so simple that it cannot be analyzed. It cannot be taken apart for the parts to be compared. It might separate itself into everything that can be imagined but it remains itself at a place or point beyond its qualities and creations. Religion is an attempt at explaining it or creating a medium of access to it. Metaphysics is a science which can grant some insight into conditions and positions and paths that might be taken. Religion has metaphysics in it.

For some few there are understandings possible concerning occult operations and the determinant of one’s direction and conclusion in this field are the result of the degree of virtue in the one who inquires. One might say this is the key entire and a key one would be foolish to journey without. Virtue is no easy thing to accomplish in these times. Despite appearances, this is a dark age.

I have a large collection of texts from every religion and science mentioned here and some that have not been but are adjuncts of those mentioned. My collection is small compared to what has been and is available. There are larger collections in many places and in the Vatican there is a much larger collection still. In temples and libraries across the world there are collections of texts that no one could read in an ordinary lifetime and I speak of just one of any religion or area of metaphysics… or the realm of what is occult. The information concerning all of these subjects that is contained in this simple thing dwarfs the manifest collection of texts in this and any world the way the Sun dwarfs a microbe.

This simple thing from which emerges the vast complexity of existence is a living, conscious thing. It knows right where you are this very minute, where you have been and where you are headed. It knows what you are thinking. It knows of things within you that you have no awareness of. When you approach it, it recedes. It continues to recede as you approach and that is ‘the path’. Though you think that you are charting a course or studying a mystery you are actually being led. In the process of this, phenomena appear to draw the mind away from the focus upon the thing under consideration. The leading and the projection are both actions of this simple thing.

Though it appears one is approaching something external, something internal is actually approaching. Even when moving within, the thing they pursue is moving behind them in pursuit of itself. Many souls have pondered these things and most have spent some moments contemplating the nature of their existence. In most cases they have given more thought to what they plan on eating and accomplishing than they do upon that upon which their existence hinges. They spend their brief hours repeating the cycle of appetites. If you had access to time lapse photography of a life you would see an interesting loop. Something would uncurl and then curl up again.

Even if one had the most brilliant mind one could not uncover the secret of the texts concerning the single thing that is the object and question of all religious, metaphysical and occult pursuit. The secret that wraps itself in and hides behind the words is guarded by agencies that are projections of this simple thing. Comprehension is not possible unless it is granted. It would therefore seem wise to seek the necessary permissions first. Some have found many curious potencies and possibilities in their inquiries into this simple thing. Unfortunately for most, the result of the information discovered results in bondage or destruction because the necessary virtue or protection was not there.

All power and all knowledge of the application and control of power exist within this simple thing and only this simple thing can safely practice any of it. There are those who have reached the heights of what is possible for a human being but they have done so by permission and it was accomplished by this simple thing, not by them. There has never been a human being who has achieved anything on their own. They have done it through the agency of the power of the simple thing. They have done good, or evil or anything that they have done by some agency of the power of this simple thing.

As you read these words this simple thing is aware of all that you think concerning this or anything. As you read any words, or watch, or touch, or hear or smell or taste anything it is aware of you doing so.

Books are here for a reason. Everything is here for a reason, no matter how trivial the thing may be. It is all the result of an act of creation; directly from this simple thing or through any of the agencies expressing the power of this simple thing and that includes you.

There is what you know… and that determines exactly where you are right now. I should more properly have said, “What you think you know.” There is a reason why the name Adam translates into “namer of things”.

No one who has sincerely pursued this simple thing has been left wanting. Throughout history and throughout the world of today, there are and have been many brilliant minds and deep thinkers who have filled the void with words. They rarely found that simple thing. What they found was what reputation they have as someone wise in a subject they did not, or do not, fully comprehend. Time and time again this simple thing has confounded these august personages by selecting those who do not know what they know, who sometimes could not read or write and who expressed themselves in the simplest terms and transformed the world.

Since this power is the source of all power it is not possible for anything to harm the ones about which I speak. Tales are told of trials and executions and the like. One would be much profited by realizing that the world lies. Not a single tale told about any of these souls is true in the manner in which it is given by the agency of words. There is a great deal more and less to all of it.

One has only to pursue this simple thing within them and to do so with surrender, humility and awe and they will understand much that they do not understand now. It comes down to what is important to anyone. What is the value of anything achieved in a life that will end and leave the consciousness of the life without the possession of any thing but what it is in itself? What is the good of any wealth or temporary power or position; any award, any favor, any appearance when it will soon be gone? What gift could possible match the capacity to love? What is there in life that can compete with the possibility of eternity? What is this thing that deceives us through an entire life and leaves us so perplexed at its end? What joy could possibly exceed the possession of a natural generosity to all things? What possession could grant a security as great as the security of divine protection?

There is many a Fata Morgana on the trackless sands. Beautiful women are draped like cobwebs in leather booths; across the globe they dine and dance in the exclusive clubs of the world. Powerful men and women work their magic upon each other. Their fountain pens execute death warrants upon the population of the world. Their greatest pleasure is in the exclusivity of their position. It could be said that the chief joy is that they possess what you do not. It has no value unless it is denied to someone else.

They do not have this simple thing and the time will come that they will yearn for this more than for anything they have had or ever desired. The time to find that simple thing is always now and the possibility exists for as long as you are here. There is no injury you have done until this moment that cannot be undone by this simple thing. The gift of forgiveness is beyond anyone’s capacity to understand. It is best to just accept that it is so. It’s a very simple thing.

I Need More Light

Hallelujah....the wife just walked into the room to find out why I am up out of my chair and dancing around my desk.

As the Union soldiers said to the surviving Confederates at the stone wall at Gettysburg, come on over to the side of the Lord.

Step into the light that shines away all darkness. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin 1 John 1:7.

You can't make such music and continue to work for the other side....or else you're a sham.

Jack

One might also ask how one could do it and be a sham.

Truth doesn't have sides, only the people with opinions about it have sides.

If there is only one light I could hardly be talking about any other.

Remember what God said to Saul on the road to Damascus?

"Is that bright enough for ya?"

Of course Paul sort of paraphrased it.

Okay, I'll buy a pound of that.

Jack

What a shock it must have been for Saul of Tarsus. Trumped by God and learning that he really didn't have all the answers after all.

It was for me.

Jack

and in some different words...

"I, the supreme source ["All-Creating King"], am the sole maker, and no other agent exists in the world. The nature of phenomena is created through me .The very manifestation of existence itself depends on me.I am self-arising wisdom that has existed from the beginning. I am the supreme source of everything, pure and total consciousness."

"As my nature is unhindered and all-pervading, it is the celestial abode of wisdom and luminous space: therein abides only self-arising wisdom. As I am the substance whence everything arises, the five great elements, the three worlds [i.e. the worlds of Desire, Form, and Formlessness] and the six classes of beings [hell-denizens, ghosts, animals, humans, Titans, and gods] are only my body, my voice, and my mind. "

"I myself create my own nature. The root of all phenomena is pure and total consciousness, the source. All that appears is my nature. All that manifests is my magical display. All sounds and words express only my meaning."

"I am the core of all that exists. I am the seed of all that exists. I am the foundation of all that exists. I am the root of existence. I am 'the core', because I contain all phenomena. I am 'the seed', because I give birth to everything. I am 'the cause', because all comes forth from me. I am 'the trunk', because the ramificationsof every event sprout from me. I am 'the foundation', because all abides in me. I am called 'the root', because I am everything"

In the Kulayarāja Tantra, Samantabhadra tells of how HE, the All-Creating King, is the essence of all things, beings and all Buddhas and that to know HIM, the Awakened Mind, is to attain the essence of Reality:

"I am the existential ground (gnas chen) of all Buddhas" and "... the root of all things is nothing else but one Self ... I am the place in which all existing things abide."

For a being to recognise their own Bodhicitta or Samantabhadra Buddha (eternally existent) is to be liberated.

Because sentient beings and all other phenomena arise because of Bodhicitta or the Mind of Perfect Purity, Samantabhadra refers to them in his teaching as his "children". Samantabhadra Buddha states:

"Oh all you sentient beings of this threefold world [i.e. the entire universe, both visible and invisible]! Because I, the All-Creating Sovereign, have created you, you are My children and equal to Me. Because you are not second to Me, I am present in you. Oh all you sentient beings of this threefold world, if I were not, you would be non-existent.Because all things do not exist outside of Me, I firmly declare that I am all - the All-Creating One."

Samantabhadra also insists: " ... everything is Me, the All-Creating Sovereign, mind of perfect purity ... I am the cause of all things. I am the stem of all things. I am the ground of all things. I am the root of all things ... There is no other Buddha besides Me, the All-Creating One."

It is entitled The All-Creating King.

This is what it teaches: all things spring from the Awakened Mind (bodhicitta), which is called Samantabhadra Buddha.

"Samantabhadra" means "All-Good" (we remember that one of the definitions of God earlier in this study stated that God is "all good").

This Samantabhadra Buddha is the source of all Buddhas and all beings.

Apart from Samantabhadra Buddha, nothing truly exists, since all depends on Buddha, but Buddha depends on nothing.

This Primaeval Buddha is called "Adi-Buddha" (Primordial Buddha) elsewhere in Buddhism, and is sometimes named Vairochana or Vajrasattva.

The important point, however, is that this Buddha represents the Ultimate Source of all things, whether of the past, present or future. Without Samantabhadra Buddha - the all-good, universal Mind of Awake-ness - nothing can exist.

Here are some quotes from the All-Creating King Tantra, in which Samantabhadra speaks directly to the listener:

"I, the supreme source ["All-Creating King"], am the sole maker, and no other agent exists in the world. The nature of phenomena is created through me .The very manifestation of existence itself depends on me.I am self-arising wisdom that has existed from the beginning. I am the supreme source of everything, pure and total consciousness."

"As my nature is unhindered and all-pervading, it is the celestial abode of wisdom and luminous space: therein abides only self-arising wisdom. As I am the substance whence everything arises, the five great elements, the three worlds [i.e. the worlds of Desire, Form, and Formlessness] and the six classes of beings [hell-denizens, ghosts, animals, humans, Titans, and gods] are only my body, my voice, and my mind. "

"I myself create my own nature. The root of all phenomena is pure and total consciousness, the source. All that appears is my nature. All that manifests is my magical display. All sounds and words express only my meaning."

"I am the core of all that exists. I am the seed of all that exists. I am the foundation of all that exists. I am the root of existence. I am 'the core', because I contain all phenomena. I am 'the seed', because I give birth to everything. I am 'the cause', because all comes forth from me. I am 'the trunk', because the ramificationsof every event sprout from me. I am 'the foundation', because all abides in me. I am called 'the root', because I am everything"

(Translation of "The All-Creating King", published as The Supreme Source, tr. by Adriano Clemente and Andrew Lukianowicz, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York 1999, pp. 137-141, 157).

This amazing "theos-en-pan" ("God-in-all"), divine declaration establishes a number of important points.

Firstly, the Absolute Reality is Universal Mind or Consciousness.

Secondly, that Consciousness generates all things, from ordinary creatures, people and animals to the highest Buddhic beings.

Thirdly, that Consciousness is able to communicate with its creation (that is precisely what it is doing here) - there is a potential relationship between Creator and Created.

Fourthly, this Supreme Source is in some senses a personal being, however transcendent (it speaks of possessing universal body, speech and mind, and of "my nature", etc.).

Fifthly, it was never created but has existed from the very beginning.

Finally, everything enshrines this All-Making King's very own Nature within itself - nothing is cut off from "God", the essence of the intelligent Totality.

simplest thing in the world except... I need more light.

That means, my dear Polo, that you will have your work cut out for you

To need more light is a sign that more light is coming...and it has become intoxicating to you, hence your "desire" energy, one of the three poisons that keeps us away from that all encompassing light, and being filled with more light, is somehow, getting in the way. The three poisons that keeps us from being totally submerged and surrendered to that ALL-LUMINOUS LIGHT (aka God, aka Samantabhadra) is basically desire, anger and ignorance.

I didn't say anything about desiring more light, despite the fact that I was making a pun on the post. I need more light; perhaps best explained in the inability to read in the dark. Of course the lights always there. It might even be the brilliance of the light that makes the darkness blinding. If it were all settled and perfect at all times then it would be. It would be in the mind of every creature and there would be no pain and struggle even if it's an illusion to begin with there would be no illusion of it. Therefore striving has a place in the whole as does every other thing. It's fine to declare things to be so but like the famous quote about the demons of the deep, Will the become so on your say so?

Anyway, I don't debate this sort of thing for reasons outlined in the post. If desire were bad and striving wrong then there would be no reason to walk a path or to seek to begin with so I'm going back to whatever it was I was doing before I started doing this even though they're the same thing.

... just so long as you remember what to do if you should happen to meet the Buddha along the road.

kill him. (grin). Like I say, things aren't what they seem and the same can be said about the sentence this is appearing in.

I'd use him for a door stop...what else?

Jack

we already know yet have forgotten...they are reminding us. We make it much harder than it has to be. I read something interesting the other day...when we are in the spiritual world we look back at our past life and say, "why did I make that so hard? The next trip I make will be much easier because I will remember what I need to know." Then we get here [again] and are dumb as dirt making life hard as hell [again], searching and looking all over for the answers [again] to life's many foibles. Hopefully we will eventually "get it" [as Christ did] and becoming true sons or daughters of God, stopping this vicious cycle of birth and rebirth.* Sigh...I ain't even close.

BTW, interesting that JD judges you by the things you believe/read yet his own sacred text says of him..."having a form of Godly devotion but proving false to it's powers," hence making him a sham. ha ha As the world turns...

SG

*And no, folks, being spirits in the spiritual world does not automatically makes us all knowing and all intelligent...we are still learning and still striving to gain our full potential though we are perfect...as perfect as we can be. ;)

me

Well I'll be dipped in shit. Don't tell me you believe in reincarnation.

Jack