Logos & Dharma - Platonic Buddhism
– Neoplatonism and theurgy – Dzogchen and the View of spontaneous presence – Zen Koans and Platonic dialectics – Theurgy, non-dual Tantra, and mysticism – Ancient languages, sacred texts, and poetic meditations – Dialogues, essays, rants and chants
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All this leads to a definitive conclusion: Buddhism was always, in core parts, European. From the Indo-European origins of its founder to the developments of the Hellenistic age and its heirs, the Dharma need not adapt in order to be transmitted authentically to the West; it merely requires the awakening of its latent memory. As Western practitioners, therefore, we do not have to pretend that we are culturally Tibetan, Thai, or Japanese, nor force ourselves into inauthentic religious boxes pre-ordained for us as passive and creatively inert mass-men. We can integrate the crux of the Dharma with our own inherited religious and cultural idioms. Europeans have profoundly deep lineage roots w...
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So what can these newly uncovered revelations concerning the multiple Buddhist corpora, and the decisive role of the Gāndhārī texts within them, mean for the contemporary Western practitioner of the Buddhadharma? The most obvious implication is that we may…
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So what can these newly uncovered revelations concerning the multiple Buddhist corpora, and the decisive role of the Gāndhārī texts within them, mean for the contemporary Western practitioner of the Buddhadharma? The most obvious implication is that we may let go of the anxiety over whether the lineage from which we received transmission is the “authentic” or “superior” Buddhism. We can instead give the Path room to unfold naturally within our individuated lives, practicing the form of the Dharma that feels most organic to us and recognizing ourselves within, and as, the Path itself. There is, however, another implication, more intimately tied to the historical identity and destiny of the...
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As a tummo practitioner, I thoroughly enjoy this subtle "burn" (pun intended) of Vajrayana Buddhism. I know Vajrayana practitioners who do get autistic about the esotericism of this tradition. However…. I have watched many communities fall into the false…
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As a tummo practitioner, I thoroughly enjoy this subtle "burn" (pun intended) of Vajrayana Buddhism. I know Vajrayana practitioners who do get autistic about the esotericism of this tradition. However…. I have watched many communities fall into the false binary of tantric versus non-tantric Buddhism, as if one excluded the other, or as if one form were the more legitimate, "truer" Buddhism and hence the more effective path to enlightenment. Regrettably, centuries of animosity between Buddhist sects have fostered such divisions. It is all nonsense, of course. Contemporary Buddhist scholarship proves that we cannot identify a single source of "original Buddhism" as was once wrongly thought...
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Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practicing deep Prajna Paramita Clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty Transforming all suffering and distress Form is no other than emptiness Emptiness is no other than form Sensation, perception, mental reaction, consciousness are also like this Shariputra All things are essentially empty Not born, not destroyed, not stained, not pure, without loss, without gain In emptiness there is no form, sensation, perception, reaction, contact-consciousness, No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind No sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought No seeing and so on to no thinking No ignorance and also no ending of ignorance and so on to no old age and death and no e...
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The sheer malice of the volition orchestrating the conditions for these barbaric hordes to be unleashed against Europeans, Civilization in general, and Beauty itself is baffling. This darkened world we were thrown into tests the compassion of even the purest of minds. We need new Caesars with the heart of a Buddha.
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Consciousness without surface, endless, luminous all around, does not partake of the earthness of earth, the liquidity of liquid, the fieriness of fire, the windiness of wind [and so on through the classes of beings and gods], nor of the allness of the All. -Majjhima Nikāya 49 (Brahmanimantanika Sutta) “Listen, Great Being! Just this nature of Pure and Total Consciousness is the ultimate essence of all that exists. Never having been born, it is totally pure and unhindered; as it cannot be achieved by treading a path, it has no deviations; spontaneously perfect from the beginning, it cannot be the outcome of a quest…Treading a path to reach what cannot be reached by treading causes deviatio...
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May the Lamp of Memory shine upon all souls in the generational cycles of Time. May innate Clear Light reawaken to itself and recognize the Wholeness of Life as the unceasing union of Being and pristine Awareness! Thou fill'st from the winged chalice of the soul Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal. -Mnēmosýnē, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881.
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Elisabeth and I have published the first part of a series on Primordial Enlightenment: its existential recollection, and the many ways its practice of remembrance has been embodied in the esoteric traditions of both West and East. We will place a particular emphasis on Dzogchen, the radical Tibetan Buddhist vehicle of non-causal liberation. We do so not only because its teachings have enchanted our own hearts, but also because Dzogchen offers something direly needed in this dark age of the West: not another ideological or doctrinal garment to conceal our existential insecurities, but an unrelenting, compassionate medium to cut through the fabricated layers of our self and recognize the Enli...
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Consciousness without surface, endless, luminous all around, does not partake of the earthness of earth, the liquidity of liquid, the fieriness of fire, the windiness of wind [and so on through the classes of beings and gods], nor of the allness of the All. -Majjhima Nikāya 49 (Brahmanimantanika Sutta) “Listen, Great Being! Just this nature of Pure and Total Consciousness is the ultimate essence of all that exists. Never having been born, it is totally pure and unhindered; as it cannot be achieved by treading a path, it has no deviations; spontaneously perfect from the beginning, it cannot be the outcome of a quest…Treading a path to reach what cannot be reached by treading causes deviatio...
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Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practicing deep Prajna Paramita Clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty Transforming all suffering and distress Form is no other than emptiness Emptiness is no other than form Sensation, perception, mental reaction, consciousness are also like this Shariputra All things are essentially empty Not born, not destroyed, not stained, not pure, without loss, without gain In emptiness there is no form, sensation, perception, reaction, contact-consciousness, No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind No sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought No seeing and so on to no thinking No ignorance and also no ending of ignorance and so on to no old age and death and no e...
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The sheer malice of the volition orchestrating the conditions for these barbaric hordes to be unleashed against Europeans, Civilization in general, and Beauty itself is baffling. This darkened world we were thrown into tests the compassion of even the purest of minds. We need new Caesars with the heart of a Buddha.
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As a tummo practitioner, I thoroughly enjoy this subtle "burn" (pun intended) of Vajrayana Buddhism. I know Vajrayana practitioners who do get autistic about the esotericism of this tradition. However…. I have watched many communities fall into the false binary of tantric versus non-tantric Buddhism, as if one excluded the other, or as if one form were the more legitimate, "truer" Buddhism and hence the more effective path to enlightenment. Regrettably, centuries of animosity between Buddhist sects have fostered such divisions. It is all nonsense, of course. Contemporary Buddhist scholarship proves that we cannot identify a single source of "original Buddhism" as was once wrongly thought...
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As a tummo practitioner, I thoroughly enjoy this subtle "burn" (pun intended) of Vajrayana Buddhism. I know Vajrayana practitioners who do get autistic about the esotericism of this tradition. However…. I have watched many communities fall into the false…
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All this leads to a definitive conclusion: Buddhism was always, in core parts, European. From the Indo-European origins of its founder to the developments of the Hellenistic age and its heirs, the Dharma need not adapt in order to be transmitted authentically to the West; it merely requires the awakening of its latent memory. As Western practitioners, therefore, we do not have to pretend that we are culturally Tibetan, Thai, or Japanese, nor force ourselves into inauthentic religious boxes pre-ordained for us as passive and creatively inert mass-men. We can integrate the crux of the Dharma with our own inherited religious and cultural idioms. Europeans have profoundly deep lineage roots w...
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So what can these newly uncovered revelations concerning the multiple Buddhist corpora, and the decisive role of the Gāndhārī texts within them, mean for the contemporary Western practitioner of the Buddhadharma? The most obvious implication is that we may let go of the anxiety over whether the lineage from which we received transmission is the “authentic” or “superior” Buddhism. We can instead give the Path room to unfold naturally within our individuated lives, practicing the form of the Dharma that feels most organic to us and recognizing ourselves within, and as, the Path itself. There is, however, another implication, more intimately tied to the historical identity and destiny of the...
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So what can these newly uncovered revelations concerning the multiple Buddhist corpora, and the decisive role of the Gāndhārī texts within them, mean for the contemporary Western practitioner of the Buddhadharma? The most obvious implication is that we may…
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