Ideas realized
The insignificance of significance,
Incredibly we can gaze from the Vantage of a distant planet,
Upon our homeward in marvel,
And yet collectively not strive to preserve it,
That is the greater wonder.
May we one day appreciate significance of insignificance.
Through the inspiration and blessing of our Guru comes realization of the Four Noble Truths. Thus our realization of the Noble Truths is the inspiration and blessing of our Guru. To be shown the Four Noble Truths is not realization, that requires wisdom.
Guru Yoga
In meditation, visualize the essence of your Guru as Vajradhara, a tantric aspect of Shakyamuni Buddha, as manifested in the non-dual space before you.
Vajradhara (‘holder of the vajra’) is an expression of the Dharmakaya and root of all the enlightened-families. The vajra (Tibetan: dorje) is a diamond (‘sovereign among all stones’) scepter-like ritual object that indicates the indestructible reality of buddhahood. The vajra and bell together represent the perfect union of discriminative awareness and skillful means.
In appearance, Guru Vajradhara, radiant blue in color, sits upon a throne supported by eight snow lions atop a lotus and sun seat. He holds a vajra and a bell and embraces his blue consort. Their blue spatial radiance is great bliss and wisdom of non-duality. Recognize it as such.
At their crown chakra visualize a white om atop a moon seat, at their throat chakra a red āh atop a red lotus, and at their heart chakra a blue hūm atop a sun. They have great kindness and concern for you.
Light radiates in the ten directions from the hūm at Guru Vajradhara‘s heart. Atop each ray you may visualize one of the lamas who have mastered the practice of inner fire yoga and have realized the illusory body and wisdom of clear light.
Preform the seven-limb prayer (below) with mandala offering. The best offering to give is the offering of meditation practiced sincerely toward happiness and realization.
Pray intently to Guru Vajradhara, the Dharma protector, for realization according to the development of your practice.
Visualize all the lineage lamas as they dissolve into Guru Vajradhara.
From Guru Vajradhara, emanating rays of:
Visualize as Guru Vajradhara absorbs into you at your crown, enters into your central channel and into your your heart chakra. Unify your body and speech with those of Guru Vajradhara. Unify your mind with Guru Vajradhara’s transcendental, blissful wisdom of dharmakaya.
If you have a dualistic conceptual view of Guru Vajradhara you do not comprehend.
Recognize the guru in every moment.
Seven Limbed Prayer Before those of great compassion we lay bare with mind of regret all non-virtuous actions of misfortune committed since beginning-less time or have caused others to commit or have rejoiced in, we vow never to commit again. All things are like a dream, lacking inherit or natural existence, sincerely we rejoice in the happiness and joy of all Āryas and non-Ārya beings and in ever white arisen virtue. May the rains of vast profound Dharma fall From a hundred thousand billowing clouds of sublime wisdom and loving-compassion, to nurture, sustain and propagate a garden of moon flowers for the benefit and bliss of infinite beings. Your vajra-body subject to neither birth nor death is a vessel of Unity’s wish-granting gems, Please abide forever in keeping with our wishes: Pass not into nirvāna until samsāra’s end. We dedicate white virtues created that we may be inseparably protected throughout all our lives by venerable Gurus possessing the three kindnesses and that we may attain Vajradhāra Unity.
How unfortunate to think
Eden forbidden and mythic.
For any spot on Earthly sphere,
Not spoiled nor exploited
by industries’ grinding gear,
And greed’s insatiable
Need to exploit for gain
Again and again,
Is Eden paradisic.
What is this planet Earth,
If not a paradise in the vastness
Of empty spacial dearth.
The sangha are many,
That in buddha are one,
And in dhamma are none.
Wars are never truly won, nor do they verily end.
(especially when financed)
“Abandon concepts, realize all-encompassing emptiness, and dissolve all duality.”
Milarepa Tibetan: mi la ras pa
(1040-1123) The great twelfth century poet-saint of Tibet. He is known for his magnificent perseverance and determination in his quest for spiritual accomplishment and learning, even at the cost of tremendous hardship encountered under Marpa’s tutorship. His reputation for meditation and practice is such that all four main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism accept Milarepa attained full enlightenment within a single lifetime. He is particularly remembered for his collection of inspiring poems and songs, relating his experiences on the spiritual path. Principle among his disciples were Gampopa, the founder of Dagpo Kagyu school, and Rechungpa.
“I think we ought to climb the mountain…What else is there to do?”
Simon from Lord of the Flies
Drops within drops within drops…
Supposition
If it requires force to propel mass through the spatial dimension of spacetime, would it not follow that there be a requisite force to propel mass through the temporal dimension of spacetime?
Thought Experiment
Let us view “time” as a near-infinite well in which an object, that is said to have a beginning, is dropped into the well at its origination. Further let us drop Object A (Origination Event A) into the well and let us let A fall for twenty years (10,512,000 seconds). Prior to dropping Object B into the time-well it can be said that Object B has been falling for zero percent of the time A has been falling, B does not “exist” yet. Dropping Object B (Origination Event B) and allowing it to fall for one minute (60 seconds), it can be said that B has been falling for .0000000951% as long as A has been falling.
Given another 20 years after Origination Event B, Object A would have fallen into the time-well for 40 years and Object B would have fallen for 20 years. Object B would have been falling for 50% of the time A would have been falling. Given 500 years after “Origination Event A, Object B would have been falling for 97% (480 years) of the time A would have been falling (500 years). Ever closer to 100 percent.
In order to attain 100% the denominators would have to be equal in value, the only number that could possibly be is infinity, meaning both objects would have to fall for an infinite amount of “time.” From an independent frame of reference it would seem to a persistent witness that Object B accelerated toward Object A in the time-well but that it can never quite catch up, unless given an infinite amount of time.
Continuum
The above thought experiment simplifies spacetime into the time dimension and one spatial dimension. Let us now imagine that there is a force accelerating the objects through time not unlike how gravity would accelerate the masses of A/B (toward a very massive and distant center of gravity) in the above “time-well” thought experiment. Let us also imagine that instead of “falling” objects particles are accelerated through their worldlines. It would seem to take an infinite (or near such) amount of this supposed “time-force/energy” to propel particles toward infinity (not unlike the requisite amount of energy needed to create a very massive object, propel mass to the speed of light, or even create a universe.)
This “time-force/energy,” it is further supposed, originated at the Big-Drop (a reimagining of the Big Bang), when all particles in the universe were propelled into the time dimension (dropped into the time-well). All particles would appear chaotically random but would follow their predetermined worldine (per primordial rules and conditions) as determined at the origination event, Big Drop, (like surface waves from a disturbance in a pond). All predeterminate temporal “events” can be seen has happening instantaneously in infinity (no-time or end of time). We merely perceive the “passage” of time as our consciousness is a manifestation of an entropic chemical process.
Everything not held together by binding forces (gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak interaction ) would be “seen” as falling away from everything else in all dimensions of spacetime. Given enough “time” or more accurately if able to witness all worldlines in the universe, eventually even the binding forces will succumb to “time” and “return” to the emptiness of no-time/infinity.
Reflective
Can it be said that, “everything”’essentially exists in its own “time-well” receding from everything else?
If cosmic objects were viewed as falling away from each other in the curvatures of time as well as in the three spatial dimensions at ever increasing speed (all dimensions of spacetime instead of falling away in space only), would this “time force/energy”’ manifest in a way similar to the noticeable effects attributed to dark energy?
From the frame of reference of any one observer, would it not appear as if this force was accelerating the longer one observed or the further back in time one looked?
“May I take defeat upon myself And offer them the victory.”
That which cannot be
described in abstract,
nor ascertained in construct,
is ultimate reality.
Mediative Mind,
aware of the abstract
nature of consciousness,
and kind.