A is for Animism:
Animism is the belief of primitive people that there are
spirits in everything. If metaphysics is approached
mathematically, it a symmetrical approach is taken to
metaphysics, it supports the animistic, the panpsychist
hypothesis. It supports the notion that an invisible
subjective root lies beneath the visible objective world.
This subjective root appears to consist of an infinity of
infinitesimally concentrated subjective singularities. These
singularities are eternal and free and are the ultimate
causes, the creative source of all things. They are the Jivas
of the Jains, the Monads of Liebnitz.
An even handed approach to metaphysics in which the self
is the polar opposite of the social, the whole of the part, the
fixed of the fluid, reveals a world not that unlike the
Monadology of Liebnitz. These panpsychic units, these
bits of subjectivity that underlie the quantum world, but at a
deeper and more refined level are the cracks in the fabric of
the universe, the eternal dimensions that describe the
infinity of being at its hidden root.
The larger structure of this mathematical metaphysics
shares similarities with ancient Neoplatonism, the process
philosophy of Whitehead, the New Thought cosmology of
Unity and Religious Science, and the New Age cosmology
of modern Spiritualism. It also has elements of the
animistic beliefs of Chinese folk religion, Japanese Shinto,
and Native American, African, and Australasian practices
and beliefs.
B is for Belief:
No one knows the ultimate truths. No one knows the
ultimate possibilities. Of all the alternatives, this balanced
metaphysical approach seems to hold out the greatest
possibilities for good. Ultimate reality is what it is
regardless of what I do or think about it. If there no
potential for a metaphysics of the sort I propose my belief
in this metaphysics can do no harm for in such a lesser
world my freedom to believe and the influence of my belief
will be of minor significance anyway.
If there is a chance that what I believe, what I choose, has a
major effect and I don’t act on that chance, the loss can be
very great. If there is a chance that my choice, my belief
has eternal metaphysical significance and I act otherwise,
tremendous negative effects might be generated.
Therefore, in an agnostic situation, the most prudent action
is to act as if the most favorable potentials exist in respect
to the power of choice and thought to change the world.
There is a practical imperative, therefore, that I act morally
in the sense of Kant and Buddha in ways that work for the
maximum benefit all potential subjective beings and that I
think and believe in the fashion of Religious Science and
New Thought and the Dhammapada in ways that sow peace
and joy and positive thoughts and feelings on the fertile
ground of all being rather than anger and fear and negative
thinking. Wisdom, prudence, accuracy, proof, knowledge,
observation, testing, analysis, and truth are also aspects of
positive thought and action. Thus, I must face reality.
C is for Climate:
Climate and geography influence belief. Island cultures
like Greece emphasis analysis and river cultures like China
emphasis synthesis. Mountain cultures like Nepal
emphasize the ideal and coastal cultures like New York
emphasize practical expression. Tropical rainforest
encourages belief in the supernatural. Colder areas tend to
put more emphasis on the natural. Inland desert cultures
tend to worship the tyrannical God of the thunderstorm.
Ocean cultures emphasize free energy as in the Mana of the
Polynesians.
I want my beliefs to transcend local geography and local
culture. My ancestors were caught up in the imperial God
of the old Holy Roman Empire that the Jews had imported
from Babylon. I will not waste my attention on the gods of
desert tyrants. I will not bow down to the gods of fear and
judgment and the superstitions of the Roman Imperial State
in the later days of its fall. Neither do I care to have my
faith dictated by King Henry VIII, King James, or Oliver
Cromwell, the Lord Protector.
I have not been liberated from the foolish beliefs of these
tyrants to worship at the feet of pompous scientists and
philosophers like Willard Quine. It will be a cold day in
hell before I let the philosophers and physicists of MIT and
Harvard, or any other institution, have free rein with my
beliefs. The cold minds of the North my find these way of
thinking pleasant, but I don’t. I desire a cosmology that
transcends any of these local cold climate prejudices.
D is for Determine:
If the mathematically balanced metaphysics I have
designed is correct, each soul contributes infinitesimally to
the ultimate nature of all things. God is what we believe,
and imagine, and feel, and cause her to be. Therefore I
choose to act and believe and imagine the highest possible
God, the Buddha, Aslan the Lion, Christ, positive thinking,
Krishna, best and finest. I choose the God of ultimate love,
peace, faith, virtue, truth, wisdom, joy, etc., as described by
Gandhi, Emerson, Ernest Holmes, Religious Science, New
Thought, etc.
Most belief systems deny my responsibility. The empirical
beliefs blame natural systems. I am simply the atoms of
nature formed into a brain that thinks what it thinks because
of the movement of those atoms and the natural effects with
which they area associated. Christian belief puts all the
responsibility on a Santa Claus God and Islamic and Jewish
belief on a Tyrannical God.
Buddhist belief denies the self entirely. New Thought
affirms the metaphysical responsibility of the self without
the moral aspect. Existentialism affirms the moral aspect
without the metaphysical. Few want to assume the total
responsibility indicated by mathematical metaphysics.
I must assume that responsibility for the reasons presented
by Kant (the failure of the theoretical puts the focus on the
practical) and by the Romantic Idealists, Marxists,
Existentialists, and Pragmatists he inspired.
F is for Full:
I must take full responsibility because the Kantian juncture
can imply the critical role of the self (Fitche), a balanced
theoretical system in which the self plays a critical role
(Hegel). A system that is economically and practically
liberal (Marx and Dewey). A system that is morally and
spiritually open (Jaspers, Sartre, etc.). A system in which
God is evolving, being drawn into being (Alfred North
Whitehead, Wolfhart Pannenberg).
I cannot find evidence for this responsibility in the world
because the world is what the self uses to hide itself. I
cannot find evidence for this responsibility in God because
the world’s notion of God is a tyranny the world has
invented to excuse the exploitation of man by man and the
irresponsibility of man (Marx’s notion of “the Opiate of the
People”).
I must take the alternative that gives me the fullest
responsibility. Not a responsibility that denies the self as
the Buddhist or denies the metaphysical role of the self as
the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish. Not a system that
denies the radical aspects of that responsibility as the
Hegelian does or the theoretical aspects as the Kantian
does. Not a system that denies the metaphysical as the
Existential does or denies the moral as Positivism does.
I must not hide in Nirvana as in the East or hide in Allah as
in the West. I must not use Eastern yoga as an escape or
Western science as an escape. I cannot run to any exit.
G is for God:
My God has totally withdrawn all power so that her
children will not be oppressed by her and may have their
freedom. She has shattered herself into an infinity of
pieces so that that existence is not absorbed by the tyranny
of her presence and so she may nurture the infinity of souls
she has created from within each, souls who now have the
freedom to recreate her as the goddess of their choosing.
I cannot fathom the depths of the gift of freedom and
creativity that God has given me unless I take it to the limit.
I do not know what the self is until I use the self. I have
not fully used the self until I have stretched it in all
directions: moral, metaphysical, spiritual, practical,
existential, liberal, radical, etc.
This is my gift and my challenge. God belongs to God.
The world belongs to the world. The atoms and particles of
nature belong to nature. Only my negative subjectivity
belongs to me, only my privacy is mine.
I must focus on my challenge. I may only seem empty
because I have not stretched myself at my depths. If I can
only stretch infinitesimally, does not this stretching stretch
all existence infinitesimally and for all time? In stretching
myself, have I not stretched God? How can I deny this
challenge? How can I fail to give a gift to all, everywhere,
for all time, of my own piece of all things at their deepest
root? How can I fail to be my deep self at its creative
pinnacle of novel being?
H is for Highest:
The world is not the highest and can never be the highest.
The world is the common, the normal, the statistical
average. Only in a democratic state would humans even
consider a metaphysics that depends on the language rules
framed by the language community. Yes, the language can
create puzzlement. But deep puzzlement is not public.
Deep puzzlement lies at the private root that lies within.
The highest puzzlement is the deep puzzlement that cannot
be communicated. This is the meaning of Buddhist
wisdom. The God, the Self worth knowing is not the
public God or the public Self. From a public point of view,
this deeper reality is nothingness, is non-being, is utterly
removed.
The world must be agnostic to the highest truths because
those highest truths cannot enter a public place without
being destroyed by public entropy. To avoid
thermodynamic decay, we must avoid the public
thermodynamic world. To avoid being shattered by the
finite, we must avoid empirical particulars.
This other reality is primitive and private. It is prior to the
finite and prior to the public. It lies at the infinitesimal
roots. All freedom is reduced to fate and chance at the
public level. Only radical cuts in the primary ground of
being can truly be free. Only changes in the metaphysical
roots of being themselves can carry the highest creativity
and freedom. The world is blind to these things.
I is for Initiative:
One must take the initiative. The public world will support
the agenda of the public world. The public world will not
acknowledge the priority of the private because it will not
willingly yield status and power to the private. Public
religion will not acknowledge the possibility of private
metaphysics, of private divinity.
You cannot wait for the public community to give way, for
public philosophy to give way, for public science to give
way. They are forced to scorn alternatives to their central
status by their need to retain all possible power in the face
of the drain of public entropy.
Do not expect support from any aspect of the public power
community, religious, psychological, scientific,
philosophical, even parapsychological. All are forced by
their public status to work for public goals that necessarily
serve the economic and social power exchanges of the
public world.
You are the only agent of your own metaphysical origins.
You are the only angel of God small enough and
existentially powerful enough to enter the door of your own
essence, to enter into the crack of doom that alters all things
hidden at the center of your soul.
It is your lack of public power and of finite power that
gives you existential power. To the extent you claim finite
power, public power, to that extent you lose true power.
J is for Judge:
There is no judge that can judge you because no one can
enter into that chamber, into that rip in the fundamentals
except you. You are the agent, the eye, the hand of God in
that basic place that is your subjective root, is the root of
ultimate creation, of ultimate freedom.
You are your own judge. What you do is entered into the
framework of all being. The seeds that grow in that
framework are the seeds you planted there. The judgment
entered begins with you. All fundamental judgment is selfjudgment and all fundamental forgiveness is selfforgiveness. All fundamental salvation is self-salvation as
you discover the Christ, Buddha root of your own soul.
The public world is simply the reflection of the collective
creation of all its members. The public world is the world
you join; the world the collective unconscious gives you as
the reflection of your creative thought and action. You are
radical freedom as a novel subjective interpretation that
expands though all-being to remake the world from inside.
Externally you are powerless but internally you are the
beginning of the ground of all being, the retelling of the
creation story of all things.
But the world will try to fool you into believing that you
are its slave. The world will try to fool you into believing
that it created you. The world will try to steal your power
for use in its power and status wars. It gains as much
power from you as you choose to give to it.
K is for Kind:
You cannot control the loss of objective power. However,
objective power is a hollow kind of power. Holding on to
objective power is a trap, a trick the shadow world will
attempt to play on you to keep you locked within its
shadow slavery. As long as you believe in the shadows you
become the shadow, you fade and become of the same
kind.
But shadow is not your true type, your true kind. You
belong to the subjective realm that can see the pure
beginning. You have true freedom in the realm of
subjective power. Since, subjective power is primal power,
is hidden true power, this is the only power source that has
true importance.
You must rediscover your true identity, your true kind.
You are an avatar, a creative activity of God. You are God
in the process of remaking herself. You are of the Buddha
kind, of the Christ kind, of the divine kind.
The pictures that are taken of activity in the brain give the
false impression that this is a picture of the roots of
thought. Pictures of brain activity are pictures of objects,
not of subjects. Brain activity is simply a primary field of
the objective, but it is still the objective. Science cannot
capture the radical soul because the radical soul is not an
object and science only studies objects. The soul is just not
the kind of thing you can take a picture of. Objects and
public world events are not the kind of thing that is free.
L is Level:
The soul exists at a totally different level. The soul exists
at the radical beginning level, at the radical source level, at
the level that comes first before all others.
The empirical and the public will try to fool you into
believing that they are the radical first. They are the radical
first objects only. But, the subject is prior to the object and
the infinitesimal is infinitely prior to the finite small.
But the public and the empirical will answer that there is
nothing smaller, prior to the quantum. But the soul will
answer that there is nothing smaller and prior to the
quantum within the public and the objective, but the soul
does not belong to the public and the objective. It belongs
to a reality that is radically prior.
But the public and the empirical will answer that subjective
is nothing, is of infinitesimal significance. The soul will
answer that things of infinitesimal significance are
infinitely different than things of finite significance. The
infinitesimal significance of the soul belongs to the infinite
and not to the finite and is distributed through the infinite
and not the finite. It is multiplied by the eternal and the
boundless. The eternal and the boundless times the
infinitesimal generates results that can be either infinitely
smaller or infinitely larger than the finite, that can either be
overwhelmed by the finite or can overwhelm the finite.
But, when the infinitesimal overwhelms the finite, it is
always through the infinite and hence is not a finite object.
M is for Means:
The soul is its own means. The soul is its own basis. The
soul is its own beginning. When the soul grabs the finite it
is destroyed by the finite, it judges itself by its acceptance
of the finite, its enslavement by the finite. The soul linked
to the finite enters an earth that turns to hell.
The soul that enters the infinite multiplies its freedom. The
soul linked to the infinite is free to enter the finite through
the infinite. It experiences the finite not as a boundary or a
limit but as the free gift and expression of the infinite. The
soul linked to the infinite enters a heaven that creates the
earth as its perfect expression.
The soul linked to the finite fades and dies. The soul linked
to the infinite gains the endless life of the infinite. The
infinite is the salvation of the soul trapped in the finite.
The infinite enters the finite in the symbolic form of Christ,
Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, Confucius, Lao Tze,
Socrates. The infinite comes to the finite trapped soul as a
prophet of the infinite liberty of the ultimate, of Yahweh,
Nirvana, Allah, Brahman, Divine Mind.
As a rip, as a cut, as a break in the endless ground, the soul
is its own link, its own means and transition. It can yield
its free creativity to the endless or to the finite specks that
become lodged within it. When it is focused on these
specks, they block its creativity, they prevent it from union
with the endless. They trap the soul in endless death and
block its union with endless life.
N is New:
When the novelty, when the newness of the soul is freely
transferred to the endless, it washes the soul clean. The
finite returns to the soul, not as death, not as a tomb, but as
life, as endlessly renewed life. The infinite entering the
soul as Buddha, as Christ, as Krishna washes the specks,
washes the sins, washes the shadows away and makes all
things infinitely new.
The situation of the soul is simple. The soul is the radical
newness of pure creative freedom. That newness can either
be bound in the limited and the dead or unbound and set
loose to infinite liberty. Sickness, sin, and death are
symbols of that dying. Christ, Heaven, Buddha, Nirvana,
Krishna, Brahman, Divine Mind, are symbols of that new
life.
The different religions, the different creeds, the different
holy books, the different philosophies, the different
dogmas, the different rituals, the different mythologies are
all simply different surfaces the holy wisdom takes within
the world. The soul trapped in the surface is trapped in an
idol, trapped in an image, in a shadow. Only the meaning
is important, only the meaning brings freedom. The letter
kills but the spirit brings endless life.
Set free within the infinite, each soul creates its own new
philosophy, its own new ritual, its own new religion, its
own new cosmology, its own novel interpretation of the
One, its own unique manifestation of Divine Mind.
O is Original:
The spirit of God is utterly original in every soul. The soul
is the pure originality of God taking new form and
generating a novel creation. That novelty can never be
exhausted, can never be used up.
The inexhaustible extent of that novelty is the basis for
immortal life, is the gift of the Buddha, of the Christ to the
deep root of the soul. A soul that abides in that deep root
can never die and can never be judged or condemned by
sin. A soul that abides in that deep root abides in its deep
freedom and its deep triumph.
The power of the soul is difficult to see in the souls that
have attached themselves totally to the world and removed
themselves from their connection to the boundless. Such
souls tend to fade to the point that their nothingness ceases
to be a lens of divine creativity and becomes instead a pale
shadow of hell. Gradually the subjective power is absorbed
into the body to which it is attached so that it dies in the
body and ceases to give creative life.
Such souls are totally a part of the world. Such souls have
no freedom and such souls die with the body for there is
nothing left to be reborn but a pale pale shadow of the
soul’s creative life.
Only through compassion and altruism, only by giving of
the self, can the soul remain in the body and grow in
creative power and divine spirit.
P is for Public:
The public world is caught up in the fashion of the time.
Slavery was the fashion of the South before the Civil War
and Suttee was the fashion of India before the British
arrived. The removal of the beating heart and the
cannibalism of the flesh of the victim was the fashion of
Aztec Mexico.
Exhibitionism was the fashion of ancient Greece and
domestic intimacy and Gross National Product is the
fashion of modern America. All are forms of public
madness.
A fool looks to the public world to determine his belief.
The wise look within.
The beliefs of the public have nothing to do with truth and
everything to do with economic determinism. The public
believes what the public needs to believe to support the rich
in positions of power and maintain the energy balance of
the community. No other system can survive in the worlds
of thermodynamic flux.
Deep within the self lies the primitive creativity that is the
polar opposite of the thermodynamic flux of the world, is
the essential subjectivity that makes objective probability
probable, that winds up the boundless so that the bound
may wind down in entropy and entropy fed systems of
evolutionary development. Only fools worship the gods of
entropy that are but the shadows of nature’s deeper root.
Q is for Qualification:
The deep roots cannot be seen. The beginning is only seen
as it is reflected in the ending. The empirical world is a
series of events and forms that allow the boundless to take
surface form and surface qualities. The physical world
provides qualifications to that which cannot be qualified or
bound.
Science is limited to measuring the tangible and the
qualified. Science is limited to tracking the qualifications
of the limits that structure the surface of public events and
developments. Science cannot measure the possible or the
boundless source of the bound, the infinite source of the
finite.
Only fools believe that science provides the final measure
of what is or the science can provide indications of the
character of the ultimate. The ultimate does not have a
character. The ultimate does not have scientifically
measurable qualifications and limits. The ultimate is the
boundless and the infinite that is the source of the bound
and the finite.
Those who follow the fools who worship at the feet of the
gods of the public world become slaves of the world and
slaves of the shadows and the decay of which the world is
made. To be free means to abandoned the hope that the
world will save, that the world will sustain, that the world
will provide what the soul needs. Only the infinite, only
the private, only the transcendent can sustain the soul.
R is for Realization:
The body cannot provide the realization needed by the soul.
The soul gradually dies as it seeks the pleasure of the
power and status found in the world.
The soul needs to realize its creativity, its freedom, its
uniqueness, its importance, its critical essence, its immortal
beginnings. To fully realize this freedom, the soul must
yield it to the infinite, surrender it to the infinite. Only the
infinite can provide the power needed by the soul.
The body is useful to the soul only when the soul is
attached to the body as a manifestation of the infinite rather
than as a possession of the self, or as a realization of the
self. The soul must realize itself through the infinite and
receive the body from the infinite as an instrument of the
infinite and not of the self.
The body must be given back to the infinite. The self must
release the body and the world to the infinite. The self
must accept the body and status within the world as an
instrument of its relationship with the infinite. Only the
infinite can prevent the body from being a burden that kills
the soul.
Since the soul is a rip in the infinite, it has power only as
the infinite flows through it. The finite blocks it and
prevents from realizing its true nature. The finite tempts it
to seek objective form when it is pure creative subjectivity.
The finite tempts it to seek security rather than freedom.
S is for Salvation:
The soul seeks release from the finite objects that become
attached to it and block it. When the soul seeks to suck
things in, the finite things it seeks to absorb block it. When
the soul releases them and allows the infinite to flow
through it, the infinite purifies it and saves it from bondage
to the physical. The soul sucking in the world generates a
local in-pocket of all being. The soul becomes a local
demon in a local hell that attracts other hells and other
demons.
The flow of the infinite through the soul purifies it and
releases it back to the endless Heaven. The flow of the
infinite saves it from its local hells. The infinite enters the
soul at its innermost root. The infinite enters the soul as
Christ, as Krishna, as Buddha, as the avatar, the angel, the
prophet of God.
The nature of that relationship is unique to each soul. Each
soul is an original form of creativity. Each soul remakes
the mythology of the One. In each soul Divine Mind enters
with a new cosmology, a new metaphysics, a new story.
Each soul is the logos made new in a novel form.
To find the God within, the soul must drop the prophecy
and priesthood of the world. To find the God within, the
soul must enter in privacy into the secret chamber of the
heart.
Each salvation is unique. Each salvation comes within.
T is for Turn:
Salvation comes by turning within. Salvation comes by
turning to the infinite. Salvation comes my turning the self
around so that it gives of the infinite rather than takes of the
finite. To give of the infinite, the soul must find the Christ,
the Buddha, the Krishna within. To give of the infinite, the
soul must enter Islam, must submit to Allah.
But the Islam of the soul, the Christ of the soul, the Buddha
of the soul is not the Buddha of the world. To find the
Buddha of the soul, you must kill the Buddha of the world.
To find the scriptures of the soul, you must burn the
scriptures of the world.
The soul turns from the world and in turning from the
world receives the world as the free gift of the boundless.
The soul turns form the flesh and in turning from the flesh
receives the flesh as the free gift of the boundless.
The soul knows when it has found the boundless for the
gifts of the boundless are joy, love, beauty, peace, health,
wealth, patience, gratitude, happiness, satisfaction,
harmony, truth, wisdom, knowledge, justice, progress,
faith, abundance, freedom, and compassion.
The soul must reverse its natural course of greed, lust,
pride, jealousy, desire, pleasure, comfort, security, status,
property, power, and plunder. The soul must give and
create and surrender and release. The soul must show
mercy and forgiveness and serenity and peace.
U is for Ultimate:
The pathway of salvation is not a pathway that is visible.
The pathway of salvation is hidden at the ultimate root of
the soul. The pathway of salvation is private and
boundless. The pathway of salvation is not the secure path
of public knowledge and comfort. The pathway of
salvation is the dark occult path of inner doubt and inner
uncertainty.
That darkness and uncertainty must be offered on the alter
of the affirmation of endless joy, love, harmony, beauty,
and abundance. The soul must rediscover the hidden
source of glory, the hidden source of infinite supply.
The temptation is to study the mechanism by which the
soul attaches to the body, by which the soul attaches to the
brain. But that study is potentially endless. Each stage of
human history will believe it has the answer but will be
only another finite unit up an infinite chain. Besides that
infinite chain may be, probably is, unique in each soul.
The soul end of the chain cannot be understood in the body
or through any mechanism of science. It is possible to
waist eternity in trying to analyze the link between soul and
body and still have discovered nothing of great use. The
knowledge of great use that must be focused on is that the
study of this link is a diversion, is a waste of effort the soul
could be spending on recovering its freedom, on recovering
its unique path to the infinite. The soul must stop wasting
its time on the finite and renew its contact with the infinite.
V is for Value:
In the end, knowledge of the finite is a trap because all
things finite are a trap without the infinite to wash through
them. In the end, the finite is a loss of value because all
finite values induce infinite loss when the infinite is their
alternative.
To the extent the finite blocks the use of the infinite, the
finite generates infinite losses of value. Infinite joy,
beauty, love, peace, harmony, justice are without price for
they endure all things and are distributed through all things.
Any grasping of finite things in place of infinite things
generates infinite losses.
The Gross National Product and the free market induce
infinite losses because the finite profits measured in the
objective world necessarily take place at the expense of
infinite potentials in the subjective world. All labor is
slavery when it measures the value of labor at its finite
objective measure and ignores the infinite preciousness, the
boundless preciousness of all subjective time, even when
captured within the finite containers of objective time.
The knowledge of the relationship of the soul and the finite
only has finite value. The knowledge of the relationship of
the soul and the infinite, to the extent it strengthens that
link, has infinite value. To exchange the knowledge of the
finite for the knowledge of the infinite is to endure and
infinite loss. There is only one occupation that has true
value: the contemplation of the infinite, of Buddha, Christ.
W is for Way:
The way that leads to the flesh and the world is the ancient
broad way that many take. The way that leads to the
infinite is the straight and narrow that few find. The broad
way is the way of eternal death and boundless loss. The
broad road leads to hell and purgatory and endless suffering
and soul death.
The narrow way leads to a hidden place that is unique to
each soul. Because it is hidden, because it is unique, the
world scorns it and the body mocks it. Yet, it alone leads
away from the pit of hell and endless bondage to the
suffering of the many finite worlds.
Deep at the smallest most hidden root of this way lies the
tiny pin hole that enters into transcendence, that enters
Nirvana, that enters Heaven, that enters endless Christmas,
endless Brindiban, endless Christ mind, that enters the
hidden mind of God.
That infinitesimal pin hole is the only gate way that leads to
freedom. The smallest speck within the deepest chamber of
the heart, it alone is the way to endless love, to eternal
salvation. It is the mustard seed, the pearl of great price,
the leaven in the bread of existence.
Science can never see this speck. Philosophy endlessly
losses this speck in its endless debating and analysis. But,
of all things, it alone has real value, real hope; it alone
holds the way out of this kingdom of bondage.
X is for Xeric:
The way travels through the xeric, travels through dry
ground, travels through a desert without the water of hope.
Only in the desert of our hopes can this path bloom. Only
in the desert of the desires of the flesh, can this rose bloom.
Only at the point of one of its hidden thorns can we prick
the bonds that chain us to the outer world.
Only when the flesh is dried out and famished by the death
of its hopes does the other way leave a faint trace that we
can follow. That is why it is symbolized by the crucifixion
of Christ, by the aesthetic practices of Buddha, by the
battlefield that Krishna carries Arjuna toward, by the
suffering of the Virgin Mary, by the journey that the
faithful make across the deserts to Mecca.
The luxury of the body feeds the decay of the soul. The
wealth of the word hides the desert path that leads away
from the boundless losses of the world to the treasures of
the hidden kingdom. The only gold worth finding is hidden
in the desert in tiny specks infinitesimally small but
boundless in ultimate value. It is the gold of endless life
and infinite treasure. It is the gold of the infinite and
endless miracle, the gold of true Heaven, Nirvana,
Brahman, the gold of the true Tao.
That gold can never be found unless all effort is focused
upon it. The specks of it are so tiny than they can never be
prospected for in the jungles of the world where they are
quickly lost in the luxuriant growth of public comfort.
Y is for Yoga:
The various yogas are ways of discovering this path. The
yoga of knowledge attempts to focus the mind on the
infinite. The yoga of action attempts to focus the actions
on the infinite. The yoga of devotion attempts to focus the
heart on the infinite. The yoga of meditation attempts to
focus the soul on the infinite.
The yoga of devotion teaches us to submit to Allah through
the desert of Islam, to worship the Christ child in the
eternal Christmas of the heart, to follow Aslan in the
endless Narnia of the soul, to worship the Bodhisattvas that
link us to Nirvana.
The yoga of action puts us on the battlefield of life with
Krishna at the reins of our chariot. The yoga of action
makes us walk with Christ through the endless Easter of
our soul. The yoga of action sends us on a pilgrimage
through the desert in search of Mecca. The yoga of action
sends on a crusade through the wilderness in search of the
Jerusalem of the heart.
The yoga of knowledge makes us gurus of our inner
Socratic monitors, of the inner Christ, inner Krishna, inner
Buddha, inner prophet of Allah, inner Moses of the heart.
The yoga of meditation links us to the Virgin, to the Holy
Spirit, to Nirvana, to Brahman, to Heaven, to Tao, to the
infinite and eternal One, to the Divine Mind, to the inner
kingdom of God.
Z is for Zen:
Zen is a disciple that deflates the endless nonsense of the
flesh and the world. Zen kills the Buddha of the world in
order to nurture the Buddha of the soul.
The narrow path is traced through a desert in which all the
knowledge and wisdom of the world dries up and withers.
Zen seeks out that desert. It does not point out the path. It
points out the thorns that prick the bonds that link us to our
diversions.
Zen is a discipline for killing the luxuries and diversions of
the world so that the voice of the soul can be heard. Zen is
a discipline for silencing the shadow Buddhas of the world
so that the whisper of the true Buddha can be discovered.
Zen is a series of methods for prospecting for the gold of
the infinite within the desert of the finite.
The world can only offer us the absurd. It is absurd to
grasp at finite pleasure and lose the infinite. Yet, the flesh
and the world endlessly argue that this is the only sensible
path. When the thick jungles of public thought and brain
message rise up, they can overwhelm the thin threads of
our connection with Heaven. Zen is a disciple for focusing
on these thin threads in spite of the temptations of the flesh
and the world.
Zen is a path to the Buddha of the inner heart. Zen is away
of keeping to the straight and narrow in spite of the world.
E is for Effort:
The effort expended to gain power in the world is lost
effort. This is the message of the Christ and the Buddha. It
leads back to the wheel of birth and rebirth; it leads to hell
and purgatory. All the flesh ultimately brings suffering
because the finite is a burden to the soul without the infinite
to renew its power.
The soul cannot focus on the infinite and the finite at the
same time. The soul is a rip that must suck in or push out.
When the soul attempts to suck in the finite, it becomes
stuck on the finite, bound to the finite, trapped in the finite
like the souls in Dante’s Inferno.
When the soul allows itself to be a pin hole through which
the infinite can shine, the soul is transformed by the infinite
at set free. The only effort that is worthy is effort in pursuit
of that freedom.
Only the Easter and the Christmas of the heart bring life.
All efforts except the efforts devoted to the Krishna,
Buddha, Jesus avatar of the heart are futile efforts. There is
no worthy effort beyond the Islam of surrender to Allah in
the desert of the heart.
The wilderness that proves the futility of other efforts is the
wilderness that nurtures the kingdom of the Christ, of the
Buddha, of the true prophet. We must seek that Mecca,
that holy Jerusalem. This is the only begotten, the Virgin
mind focused on the infinite. She alone can find Heaven.
Appendix on the Soul:
In spite of all indications to the contrary, the subjective
individual is the primary source of all things. This
subjective individual is the Jiva, the soul, the Liebnitzian
monad, the spirit, the immortal novelty that is the
beginning of all creation, of all freedom, of all
consciousness, the essence of all existence.
The world does not seem to be an effect. The world
believes it is the source, it is the cause. That is an illusion.
The world is the effect, the world is the product. All cause
begins with the monad, the logos, the soul, the primitive
Buddhamind. This soul is the pure infinitesimal that rips
being open that it may be made new. All finite things are
woven of the threads of time spun as the infinite flows
through the primary infinitesimal. It is the pure Sattva
Guna. The world is formed of the Tamas Guna that results
from its Rajas Guna action. It is the pure Spirit and the
Body is the effect of the causes it sets in motion in the
systems theory, information theory, mathematical
superstructure of existence (the Dharma, the Law, the Li).
The world is the polar opposite of the soul. The world is
the threads of time spun from the soul’s pure conservation,
pure immortality. The world is the collective formed from
the soul’s pure individuality. The world is the
measurement spun from the soul’s pure transcendence.
As the soul spins the world, the world begins to take its
own polarities. The first polarity is between the fixed and
the fluid, between information system (reason and
mathematical structure) and energy, change and
thermodynamic process. This is the polarity of the Yin
against the Yang, of Dharma and Karma, of the Law and
Energy, Being and Becoming, Stability and Flux.
A second polarity begins to emerge between the infinite
whole and the finite part. This is the polarity between the
Brahman-Nirvana and Maya, between Infinite Mind and
local atomic particular.
The first polarity gives the soul the power to enter into the
becoming that generates novelty in the world, to enter into
the Karma that turns the Dharma wheel of being. To set
causes in motion that will manifest effects in the visible
world through the medium of the evolving system of
processes resulting from the interaction of mathematical
structure and thermodynamic potential.
The second polarity gives the soul a choice in the novel
causes it sets in motion. The soul has a choice between the
part and the whole, between the finite and the infinite,
between Maya and Brahman, Nirvana. Between the
manifestation of individual power and transcendence
goodness that benefits the collective whole. The first
choice leads to death and hell and the second choice lead to
heaven. The state of the soul that chooses death is Adam,
the state of the soul that chooses death at its deep root is
Satan. The state of the soul that chooses transcendent life
is known, as angel, prophet, avatar, Christ, Buddha,
Krishna, etc. The union of soul and the infinite is God.