halfsatori: tao

Showing posts with label tao. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya

While the buzz of the day is focused on inbound crystal energy and transmutation of human nature, I've unfolded the Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya for the systematic cultivation of luminosity, ascending to the crown of awareness. The Sanskrit word "Maitreya" means "Benevolent", and the word "Buddha" means "Awakened-One". Much like the Sun and Moon in our sky, such concepts are universal and unbound by the particulars of faith and culture. The carrying intention is to illustrate the dance of the universals of awareness, independent of narrow and superstitious belief.

If you can count to 16 and grasp the binary principle (ON/OFF = 1/0), you can contemplate on the celestial appearances of Crystal Maitreya in a cardinal wheel of sixteen permutations over A) Primal Reality, B) Causal Worlds, and C) Phenomenal Worlds. This is the stuff of legends; and these are the spheres of archetypal awareness explored by sages and saints since the days of the Sun and Moon over Earth under Heaven. The patterns of nature are the source and the unifier of beliefs; therefore, seek to uncover natural and straight human truths in this elementary mandala.

Whatever your particular religious or scientific symbols may be, we all live in a world shaped (or created) by an interplay of [+] Prime Energy / Awareness and [-] Root Matrix / Patterns. When active and luminous [+] Dynamis (Yang) meets supporting and [-] Neutralis (Yin) in a self-sustaining [±] Balance Intermix in the 2^1 = [2x] Primal Reality, the multiplying 2^2 = [4x] Causal Worlds and 2^3 = [8x] Phenomenal Worlds come into being. These domains of awareness are a repository of patterns revealing the foundational unity in mysticism, spirituality and religion.

The path leading away from chaos and conflict is a path of sharing and universalization. Conflicts are a particular world of languages, while awakening is the universal stuff of experience. When pure awareness shines on the canvas of prime patterns, the world transforms from a fragmented and unpredictable field of anarchy into a symmetric display of complementary patterns. As all composites in the world follow the same elementary laws of physics, and as inner awareness and the phenomenal world are inherently married, the wisdom embedded in patterns is versatile and universal.

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

I've given 16 illustrative names to the 16 archetypes, a play of characters with three anagram series on three levels. The peak of the physical and phenomenal realm is "Maitreya Sananda". Again, "Maitreya" means "Benevolent", and "Sananda" means "with Son". These are the three layers of descending luminosity — A) Primal Reality: [+] Maitreya, "Benevolent"; B) Causal Worlds: [++] Maitreya Buddha, "Benevolent Enlightenment"; and C) Phenomenal Worlds: [+++] Maitreya Sananda, "Son of Benevolent".

Then, in order of derivative emergence — [+] Maitreya is Benevolence, [++] Maitreya Buddha is the Awakening of Benevolence, and [+++] Maitreya Sananda is the Beloved Child of Benevolence. Maitreya — "Pure Awareness", "Luminous Energy", "God Is Balance", "Conscious Spirit": Harmonize your parallel perspectives; seek the unifying pattern in the echoes of the shadow; and immerse yourself in the luminous wisdom of primal energy!

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

≡ Intellect [Sphere of Awareness]: Primal Reality — 4x Maitreya ≡

Here is the primal world of pure energy and symmetric patterns; their interplay in a luminous wheel of reflections; and the undivided resolution following their embrace in silence. These are the original seeds and root spheres of universal being, experienced as the primal domains of luminous wisdom and ominous tranquility; their primal dance in unity; and their final sphere of absolution. When contemplating, make these spheres the entirety of your unified awareness.

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

≡ Heart [Sphere of Experience]: Causal Worlds — 4x Maitreya Buddha ≡

Here is the causal world of quaternary influences and orientations; four fundamental forces governing the attitudes and objects of the phenomenal world; four cardinal beacons on the path of ascending awareness. These are the subtle spheres of composite existence, experienced as the cardinal domains of introverted, observant, interactive and universalized orientation. When contemplating, make these spheres your extrovert and introvert hemispheres, the principal fields of emotion and intellect, and observe their interplay and resolution.

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

≡ Body [Sphere of Manifestation]: Phenomenal Worlds — 8x Maitreya Sananda ≡

Here is the phenomenal world of principal states and transitions; eight archetypal situations of the triune human Body-Heart-Intellect; an eightfold path of the twenty-four elders from the darkness of nescient birth to the luminous crown of ascension. These are the manifesting energetic spheres of existence, reflected as the journey of the embodied human self. When contemplating, make these spheres and states of consciousness one with your Body, Heart and Mind, and reflect on the course of your experience across the refined archetypes of embodied awareness.

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

The straight eightfold path of ascension, from the receptive Dust of Earth to the luminous Light of Heaven, is a cognitive lifecycle that passes through the cardinal and ordinal stations of human awareness, cultivating the Intellect, Heart and Body from the dawn of awakening to the illuminating fields of infinite balance. The three worlds — Primal, Causal and Phenomenal — move in parallel from East to West and South to North (on the flowchart). Here are the locations of the sixteen stations for conscious exploration:

[---|--+|-+-|-++||+--|+-+|++-|+++||--|-+|+-|++||-|+|±|∞]

[8x] Phenomenal World: 1. South -► 2. South-East -► 3. East -► 4. North-East |-► 5. South-West -► 6. West -► 7. North-West -► 8. North
[4x] Causal World: 1. South -► 2. East |-► 3. West -► 4. North
[4x] Primal Reality: 1. Below -► 2. Above |-► 3. Middle -► 4. Beyond

[∞|±|+|-||++|+-|-+|--||+++|++-|+-+|+--||-++|-+-|--+|---]

This series encodes the basic pattern for cultivating a celestial rainbow body at the inner Himalayas. Symmetric contemplation of balanced archetypes hastens the process of conscious integration, increasing the saturation of celestial rays of awareness that equalize, rejuvenate, transform and crystallize the patterns of the mind. To resolve the anxiety of the human situation, turn your neural network into a harmonic spectrum of crystal streams. Optimized awareness by means of meditative neuroplasticity — a process tested by time and proven throughout the history!

A sample implementation of the systemic Wisdom Flow mandala for archetypal contemplation.

Contemplate on these archetypes by means of receptive internalization; reflect on the practical matrix of systematic balance; and awaken the luminous spirit of enlightenment in your thoughts. Then construct the Crystal Mandala in your heart and enter; embark on the epic journey of Seven Heavens and behold the Kingdom of God within; and fulfill your dormant human potential by unveiling the pinnacle of conscious luminosity! This is the heart of the Crystal Maitreya; and the essence of the spiritual quest I've come to know and experience over the years. Bodhisvaha!

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

— High-Resolution Images | All-in-One ZIP (24 MB) | Facebook Album —

Saturday, March 19, 2011

≡ Message from the Man in the Moon ≡

≡ Message from the Man in the Moon ≡

People throughout the ages have seen faces and bodies of people and animals on the Moon. For all the imaginative ink-blot tests I've taken over the years, I can't seem to seamlessly tune in with the assembly of beings spotted in the spots. Here's what I glean from the Moon at the end of the day: the Moon is essentially a face of perennial balance.

The face of the Man in the Moon has a balanced divide of deep lunar "seas" and elevated areas. There are two craters: [-] Copernicus on the dark side and [+] Tycho on the bright side. At the bottom, you have the round mouth of Mare Crisium or "Sea of Crises", shouting for a [∞0] time-out and a sense of [±] balance and reconciliation amidst our escalating contrasts and conflicts.

Then, follow the Man in the Moon and seek a healthy way of balance between the extremes of black and white, death and life, deprivation and excess, left and right, self and others, women and men, society and environment, and whatever other bones of contention are tearing our planet apart at its seams. Moon is a planet representing primal logos and cyclic order in the human world. Let's follow the Moon and reflect in introspection on its perennial message.

The Man in the Moon is looming up there, patiently spreading the soothing rays of peace and well-being for all — that is, for all who choose to open their eyes to the obvious and natural truths of balance in the sky above and the world below. For all we know, it might be a Lady in the Moon instead; or a rabbit or a dragon or a white elephant. Either way, the basic elements of harmony are screaming at us from the heavens loud and clear — time for a total ±Balance Recall!!

≈≈≈ ≡☺≡ | ≡☯≡ | ≡☻≡ ≈≈≈

♫ ≈||≡ [-] Shelter the Balance ► [±] Embrace the Balance
◄ [+] Nourish the Balance ≡||≈ ♫

♫ ≈||≡ ☯ Oṁ ☻ Śānti ☯ All-Āḥ ☺ Padme ☯ Hūṁ ♫ ≈||≡

♫ ≈||≡ Alpha Om Mani Padme Hum ¶ Shal'Om Tat Sat What
¶ I Am That Tvami Asi That I Am ≡||≈ ♫

◄ ≡ ☺ ≡ ☯ ≡ ☻ ≡ ►

[--] Lunar Introspection —

≡ "Waiting for the Moon" — Feature Album of Moon Photos ≡

≡ "Super Moon: Amazing Blaze" — Feature Album from 19/03/2011 ≡
≡ Moon Spheres of Occultation and Reflection — Ruminations ≡
≡ "Eating Straight from the Book of Life"— Lunar and Solar Balance ≡

[++] Big Picture of the Moon —

≡ Wikipedia — Moon ≡

≡ Wikipedia — Man in the Moon ≡
≡ Wikipedia — Moon in Astrology ≡
≡ Wikipedia — Matrix of Natural Logos ≡

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Signs of the Nameless Way of Balance

For the wise and sincere observer, the Nameless Way has a message at every crossroad,
announcing itself across every culture and every continent since the beginning of time.

☯ The home of every living being on Earth is the Way. The Way gives room to all living beings. Every single living being holds the way sacred. Their reverence for the Way, and their obedience to is authority, are natural and unforced. Exercise power in accordance with the Way, and people will not be violent or disruptive. If you have true knowledge, you know how to be ignorant. If you are truly strong, you have the strength to be weak.

☯ To have without possessing, to do without claiming credit, to lead without controlling ― these are the mysterious virtues of the Way. When we seek power, we lose the Way. When we lose power, we find the Way. But beware of taking pride in finding the way, for fear that you will start claiming to live by high moral standards ― and then lose the Way again. If you know when enough is enough, you know enough.

☯ Wise people hear about the Way, and try hard to follow it. Ordinary people hear about the Way, and wander on and off it. Foolish people hear about the Way, and make jokes about it. After all, if the Way were not funny, it would not be the Way. People of the Way follow the Way; they belong to the Way. Eventually by following the Way you arrive at a place of inaction; in that place nothing is done, and nothing is undone.

☯ People say that the Way's brightness looks like darkness; that advancing along the Way feels like retreating; that the Way is so soft that walking along it is hard. If you listen to the Way, it seems dull. If you taste the Way, it seems insipid. Yet you cannot get enough of it. The Way is to the world as a stream is to a valley, and a river to a sea.

☯ The Way is hidden, so it has no name. But only the Way can bring you into existence, sustain you, and fulfill you. Following the Way makes that which is, become what it should be. The Way never does anything; yet it leaves nothing undone. Through following the Way, human beings are fulfilled. If heaven deviated from the Way, it would fall apart. Through following the Way, heaven is pure.

☯ People who know the Way are observant, subtle, penetrating and wise. Their wisdom is too deep for others to fathom. To follow the Way is to be fulfilled and happy, without fulfillment. To follow the Way is to grow old, and yet constantly be young. If you follow the Way, there is nowhere for death to enter. All things that are contrary to the Way are fleeting. If you know what endures, you follow the Way, because the Way endures forever.

☯ A wise person leaves the egoistic self behind, and moves forward on the Way. A selfish ego is extraneous to human life; and by leaving it behind the wise person reaches the center of life. Why let the self go? Without letting go of the self, the soul's needs cannot be met. If my mind is modest, I shall walk on the Way. If my mind is arrogant, I shall walk in fear. The Way is long, going around many mountains; but people prefer shortcuts.

☯ Why was the Way honored in days of old? People believed that, if they sought the Way, they would find it. And they believed that if they needed shelter, the Way would provide it. Thus the Way was honored above all things under heaven. If you move by the light of the Way, your movement takes you nowhere. At the center of the wheel there is stillness. ☯

― Tao Te Ching

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Broad Way That Claims No Authority

The Tao is broad; you can move far to the right and to the left; and still remain within it. Millions of living beings live on it, depend upon it for their existence; it accepts them willingly, and claims no authority over them.

The Tao accomplishes its tasks, and claims no credit. It clothes and feeds the living beings who live on it; yet it imposes no obligations on them, and expects no gratitude from them.

The Tao desires nothing, so it may be called small. Yet since it claims no credit, imposes no obligations, and expects no gratitude, it should be called great.

— Tao Te Ching #34

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Transcendental Transgender Tao

Gopi girl in the making, age eighteen and a half or thereabouts.

Back in the days, life was all about running for the nectar-oozing worlds where every word was a song and every step a dance, joining a team of prepuberal little angel girls in yet another venture in fetching flowers and honey wine for the cuddling transcendent couple's scheduled daily dalliances. For all my transgender transcendentalism in the fantasy worlds, it sure spinned my yin and yang into a hefty gordian's knot.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Dichotomy of Light and Darkness

Winter solstice, past by a mere moment now, marks the transition from darkness to light, from death to new life. Yet one more cycle in the grand order of nature has rolled its course and revolves anew, the time of renewal is at hand. While the Indians were also very aware of the peaks and transitions in the universal cycles, especially so in the ancient Vedic times, it was in the North where the extremes stated their presence.

Many of you may have been following Uma's series on the old pagan celebration of Yule, the rebirth of Mother Nature, later remodeled into a grand Christian celebration with an eerie abundance of pagan symbols and practices. While the celebration of these transitions of universal reach indeed has its place in the mesocosmic sphere, a natural turn in the human fabric of old, it is not those I write of today. I'm about to dig deeper into the superficiality of the good-evil duality often imposed on worlds of light and darkness.

The Ancient Aryan Divide

The division into good and evil is regrettably not as clear-cut as God versus Lucifer or Christ versus Antichrist, a lesson well learned from the ancient Indian evolution of religion. Vasistha was among the leading Vedic seers, while for the Zoroastrians he was among the villains. While asuras were the bad guys for the Vedic seers, Ahura-Mazda (or Asura-Maya in Sanskrit, a close relative of the Avestan language of the Parsis) was the lead monotheistic deity of the Zend-Avesta scripture.

These two polar religions came to plant the seeds of two very different religious traditions. Zoroaster was a grand-ancestor for the doctrines of a dual god and anti-god, the expectance of a messiah and a linear approach to the cosmic order. The Abrahamic tradition, or Judaism, Christianity and Islam, evolved in a mixture of Zoroastrian ideals and the ongoing evolutions in Egyptian and Middle-Eastern native polytheistic systems.

A whole different branch and orientation of religion, the greater part of which goes under the loose label of Hinduism in the contemporary world, evolved from the root of the ancestry of Vedic seers. Hinduism as we know it is a loose amalgamation of distinct traditions that evolved under shared cultural premises, a most heterogeneous compilation held together with unitarian texts such as the Bhagavad-gita.

The fact that the two religious divides forming the vast majority of the Earth's population is on a deep level divided almost as deep and fundamentally as the grand cosmic order of the ancient cultures is every bit as exciting as it is scaring. It is then little wonder that the Abrahamic dualist heritage has always sought to reform all known cultures and peoples into the faith of the one true savior, one supreme deity and one word of god, or a succession of subsequent revelations in the case of later traditions.

The Indic tradition, on the other hand, unsubscribed from an ontology that assigned them among the evil, in both its root movements. While the direct descendant of the brahmana-tradition, the heritage of the Vedic seers, maintained a sense of duality evident in the legends of the Puranas, it was against a canvas of higher, nondual ideas evolving from the old Upanishads, tense and often asystematic philosophical discourses that sought the deepest essence of the Vedic sacrifical religion. The Sramana tradition, to which the Buddhists and the Jains are the only surviving heirs, sought to eliminate the realm of duality altogether, and in doing that went so far as to do away with the supreme deity himself.

The roots of the ancient good-evil divide appear to lie in an ancient conflict tearing apart a single cultural heritage, a world where the devas and the asuras dwelled together. Mitra and Varuna, a dual deity of whom the latter is well known as an oceanic deity in the Puranic lore, are in fact among the asuras of the Rig-vedic tradition — asuras receiving oblations just as the devas did. The details of the evolution effectively reduce the concept of an absolute, primordial divide into a partition much more complicated and human, into the internal disagreements of an ancient sacrificial, fire-worshiping culture.

Powers of Light and Darkness

Neither light nor darkness possess inherent ethical value; they are neutral potentials reposed in their own nature. As darkness clouds, creates mystery and brings towards unity, light unveils, explains and exposes a vast arena of plurality prior to growing so bright as to grow all-engulfing, thereby becoming essentially one with darkness again, a field of a single, undivided nature containing all of reality in its ever-vibrant lap. (Udesidning: An ancient Nordic way of integration in darkness.)

Nothing is good or evil of its own nature; all depends on the application, and moreover the applier. Magic is neither good nor evil owing to its technical procedure of conjuration, whether born of light or darkness, white or black. The divider of good and evil is in the human choice between benevolence and malevolence, between sacrificing and feeding the egotic drive consuming its objects to grow stronger.

A transcender of duality wields light and darkness with equal might, regardless of his preference, a preference that in its fundamental essence is only a latent sensation of the past, a game or an amusement of sorts, unbinding to the player who has ascended from a participancy to entertained spectatorship. Having seen the pinnacles of light and darkness under the ancient egotic drive, one evolves into a seer of non-duality, experiencing the inherent voidness of reality as we know it.

With the diffusion of apparent essence and substance into ethereal streams, one transcends stereotypic moral assessments and dwells in a lasting perception of inherent and foundational unity, even while an adept conventionalist as needed in the common world. The art of life has now been mastered.

The Old Pagan Approach

While the philosophical sophistication of Indic traditions is often lacking in ancient native religions, they do an amicable job in the practical transcendence of duality in living in a seamless harmony with nature and gods in their own world of mythos. In fact, many ancient native traditions supersede the seclusion-seeking Indic mystics in their ability to interact with plurality in a state of active integration, perhaps with a flavor of the smooth and flowing natural Tao of the Chinese — a quality I've always been in tremendous awe of!

The action-in-knowledge tradition also found its exponents among the Buddhists with the gradual evolution of Buddhism first into Mahayana, and onwards into an admixture with the tantric tradition especially prominent in Tibet. In the Tibetan model, Hinayana and Mahayana, or the lesser and the greater vehicles, are stepping stones into the highest dimension of vajra-sattva, the lightning-strata, where one becomes a wielder of cosmic powers, conquering and subjugating the energetic release produced in the meeting of the fundamental dualities of nature, the energetic bases of archetypal male and female energy, personified as the man and the woman of the human world.

Transcending and mastering the fundamental fabric of existence, the conscious being evolves into a god-like state of integration with the flow of the cosmos, unveiling the infinite peace and inner ecstasy ever-present in the ultimate non-dual god-experience. Consciousness employs a third strata beyond light and darkness, the infinite halls of existence itself. Night turns into a day and day yet again into a night. Winter falls over the fertile summer fields, spring awakens Mother Nature to life anew. Light and darkness rise and fall time and again of their own accord; the wheel of existence revolves forevermore.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Infrequentia Commedia

Art is a bizarre way of exploring your subconscious mind. The other day, my notepad started filling up with curious sketches, one stranger than the other, tying together into a small tale. Tale of a journey to the farther shore of emptiness.

Increasing perception of emptiness can come across as a very disorienting experience. It's as if one were born into a strange new world, a world where nothing is quite the same it used to be.

It's as if a strange brew of entheogenic herbs had been prepared in the lady viper's cauldron. The world comes across as radically different, a transfiguration of mind and matter unfolds before our very eyes.

Re-examining the validity of existential premises including the very reality of ego itself, the conglomerating agent of human experience, can lead to a period of confused identity.

The ego, once so glamorous and proud, disintegrates and resolves itself, leaving the unlabeled interdependent phenomena reposing in their own essential nature. Ah, ego, that facade, the pestilence of worlds!

This new reality of emptiness-cum-fullness blows socks off the feet of even profound philosophers and mighty meditators. The expansion of consciousness stretches beyond one's wildest imaginations.

Equipped with vivid experience of reality au naturel and the co-arising wisdom, one descends towards the highest heavens of nirvana. It really is a journey nowhere, a journey that must stop before it starts to reach its objective.

But the journey is odd indeed. It's as if the very fabric of the universe were poked full of holes, revealing dimensions where the laws of conditioned existence no longer apply.

Unweaving the dense and intricate web of karma is a mission impossible by mending individual karmas. One must destroy the efficient root principles to accomplish summary karmic resolution.

Going too high and too fast can lead into delirious states. Yet madness can be profoundly true and impactful, heard from a true baul from the land of shunyata. Crazy wisdom they call it, unconvential twists in a world of conventions.

Inability to cope with the disorientation and the necessary holistic renewal of the psyche can easily lead to neurosis. We're playing with fire, ladies and gentlemen. This is not a drill.

Nature seeks to resolve itself. Step off the grid, let the universe flow its way. Orient yourself to the dharma matrix. The distracting ego dissipated, harmony prevails in a world of chaos.

Monday, June 27, 2011

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya

≡ Intellect [Sphere of Awareness]: Primal Reality — 4x Maitreya ≡

≡ Heart [Sphere of Experience]: Causal Worlds — 4x Maitreya Buddha ≡

≡ Body [Sphere of Manifestation]: Phenomenal Worlds — 8x Maitreya Sananda ≡

Saturday, March 19, 2011

≡ Message from the Man in the Moon ≡

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Signs of the Nameless Way of Balance

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Broad Way That Claims No Authority

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Transcendental Transgender Tao

Monday, December 22, 2008

Dichotomy of Light and Darkness

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Infrequentia Commedia

About Me

Blog Archive

Favorites

Labels