Corona Money Laundering

March 26, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Corona comes like Shiva and Brahman, the destroyer and the creator. Corona comes like an alien invasion to destroy our comfortable assumption of what’s real. The great Comfort culture that we have created in America has been under attack since the 50s and it’s belief in Scientific Utopia. By now, (and I remember) according to the scientific fixation of the 50s we should all be living in a perfect utopia like the Jetsons.

Global Warming has cracked our belief that our scientific materialism will create paradise on earth. Instead, our good intentions are destroying the earth’s habitats. And now Corona comes to destroy our illusion about our own immortality and safety. Corona is destroying our cultural habitat.

Oh, and I should not fail to mention Trump as the destroyer. Brannon said Trump comes to destroy the administrative state, even the defense shield Obama had created for pandemics. (ironic)

Both Global Warming and Corona come to wake up Brahma, the creator aspect of the Hindu trinity. Shiva the destroyer, Vishnu the One that is Two, out of which Shiva and Brahma rise, and Brahma.

First comes Shiva, the destroyer. Now destruction comes in many ways. Just having a new member in your household can destroy old relationships and spacial relationships. Any upset is destruction. Shiva is always on the loose. Anytime we have negativity, a rub with the world, that is Shiva. And then Brahma comes with insight, invention, creation, discovery, a sudden fix of a problem, a new viewpoint. Brahma is everywhere Shiva is. They dance together.

But the fearful mind separates them. The comparing mind separates them. Why Me? This should not be happening. OMG.

In my viewpoint, Vishnu is the Buddha Mind that sees destruction and creativity as One. Everything is Just This.

If you are ironing your shirt and ironing y our money, what is the difference really? You hold the iron. You hear it’s steam breathing. You layout the money/shirt, and iron it. What is its meaning? Is that crazy?

If there were not Corona as the context, ironing your money would be insane. But with Corona, it’s perfectly sane. How knows what was on that hand that just gave you that money. Did you lick your thumb when you counted the bills?

Sanity depends upon the context in which the act is performed. Corona changes the context in which we perform actions, changes the meaning of everything. Corona is not good or evil. Corona is just change, rapid and unexpected change, to be sure, and we must change because Corona says Change or Die.

Deny Corona and you cannot change behaviors necessary for survival. Denying Corona is like denying lung cancer when you are a chain smoker.

The freedom of Corona

March 25, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

The core of Buddhism that it activates, stimulates, pushes as shift in viewpoint from thinking mind to the heart, from becoming in time to being now. Christianity as a religion is a salvation through belief. But belief in Buddism is still the OS of the mind, and is not a shift in viewpoint that transcends the duality of belief. Buddhism is beyond belief.

But if you get to the core of the teaching of Jesus, the Jesus of the Thomas Gospel, you come to this same shift if awareness from belief to being.

But if I say there is a shift from becoming Jesus in time (getting to the Kingdom) to being Jesus now, why, that is heresy in the Christian viewpoint. j

But if Buddhism its core axiom is that you are Buddha Nature always already. Awakening is Being Buddha. But you see, Buddha is not a noun, a person, place or thing. Buddha is an action, a verb.

While in Christianity, Jesus is contained in our grammar as a noun, a person, place or thing. Christianity as a belief religion blocks the shift that Buddhism invites, from becoming in time to being Now.

In my view Buddha Nature and Christ Consciousness are the primary consciousness that has been overlayed by cultural Ego, a secondary consciousness that in our culture has become primary, thus making our primary consciousness (since you cannot have two consciousness at the same time) thrown into the future to be attained as enlightenment. To the Ego consciousness, the primary consciousness is death, so it is thrown into the future.

This creates tension in the conventional consciousness where it has to deny its primary consciousness in order to exist.

Socalled primitive consciousness is Buddha nature because it is in total harmony with the environment. The primitive is always at the right place at the right time. Just as elephants leave the beach before the tsunami arrives, before any evidence, the primitive consciousness and nature are One.

Secondary or Ego consciousness is for tool making, but modern society has made it primary, pushing original consciousness into a sleep. Time is created in order to restore original mind in the future, so one you have primary and secondary consciousness at the same time even though they are split. I can have my original mind in the next moment, with this new product or religion.

Non-dual spiritual practice has the goal of bringing these two minds back as One Mind, and awakening arrives when one realizes that they are always already One mind. Practice brings us to the point where we realize practice itself creates the separation between primary and secondary minds.

Corona Mindfulness

March 24, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

I have a walleye, or lazy eye when I look to the left. I remember as a child thinking everyone saw double when looking to the left until my mother noticed it and took me to an eye doctor. Later as my lazy eye crept around to the front, I got glasses with a prism to correct the focus so I could drive without seeing two of everything.

When I had cataracts removed I was surprised to be told there was an operation that could fix it partially, at least to give me a window of focus when I looked straight ahead and I could not depend upon the glasses.
The window of focus is small, so I must close one eye when I read, moving across the lines of words as if reading by a small beam flashlight.
My point is here that I thought seeing double was normal. And when that happens the eyes compensate by making one eye the foreground and the other eye a passive background. This is a great metaphor for our polarized culture.

We are left or right dominant in our cultural mind/reality. It’s interesting that the world our there is always one, but when you have walleyes, you perceive to different worlds that are out of focus, which means you don’t have any depth perception, and if you try to hit something you miss the mark. So we shut one eye.

But the reality of the other eye does not go away. In our metaphor of our collective walleyes, we shut one eye, but what we close out does not go away but becomes our enemy, for it wants to be open as well, but only one can be used. Our left and right eyes fight for dominance, the one focused reality. We gradually become cross-eyed, unable to focus on the external reality but only on each other eye as the cause of our dis-focus.
Corona has come to the rescue by refocusing our eyes on the one reality. There is no left or right Corona.

I whittle Zen down in my writing and talks to your everyday mind, to your experience that you can check out for yourself. Don’t believe me; check out what I say for yourself.

Close one eye and watch what happens to your depth perception. Try to put two fingers together. Now, most likely, you cannot make your eyes not focus, but if you could you would see that one becomes dominant so you won’t bump into things.

In our political polarization, one eye tries to be dominant. But here is the questions. Are both left and right views equal but opposite? Are there two realities, opposite but equal? Or can there only be One, and the other false. That is the view from each of the eyes: it’s the other eye that is false. My view is the right view.

That is not Zen. So what is the view of Zen? It’s not one or the other eye. The reference for the walleye is the other eye, the Other Eye that is wrong,, the view that keeps me from seeing what’s real, a depth 3D reality.

There is always this tension between the two eyes each struggling for dominance. In the Zen viewpoint, there is no tension, no struggle, and no wasted energy. Cross your eyes and feel how much effort it takes. Then feel the relaxation and release when you let go of the effort.

That is the Zen experience. When the tension of trying to focus is released, of trying to be the dominant viewpoint and making the other viewpoint in your relationships subordinate, that energy is now free, and free energy creative energy, joyous energy. While we are in our own custom relationships, the ultimate relationship is You versus the World. Can you feel the tension in that relationship when you lose your focus? When we lose out focus, we look around for someone or something to blame, and then we increase the tension as we try to remove it.

But this relationship between the two eyes is based on ignorance or forgetting that there is only One Eye. When that Eye opens, the eye that sees the One that is two, that is Zen.

When our left and right viewpoints don’t focus, what’s needed is a gestalt, a leap to grasp the whole in which all things are in focus. Another example is when we use a narrow focus lens that focuses on a foreground object with the background (the Context) going out of focus.

With our political/cultural eyes, an event when brought into focus after media brings out attention to it blurs the real background and, since every foreground must have a background (nothing stands by itself), we project our narrative of reality onto the screen behind the foreground. In this way, the foreground event has meaning, but only according to our memory background.

The foreground event is not from our memory. It is a real event that is conditioned. The event happens. But what does it mean? The event itself has no meaning until there is a context projected behind the foreground event.

Context gives meaning. Nothing in itself has meaning. What is a gestalt of reality then? The gestalt is a sudden grasp or seeing of the foreground and background as one reality. The projection of memory and narrative goes dark. The true background comes into view as the source of the foreground.

But where does making come from then? Meaning becomes creative. Every event creates its own meaning. Meaning is no longer referenced to the past and our conditioned opinion, beliefs and viewpoints. Life becomes fresh and innocent.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started

The Tao of Corona

March 24, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

I mixed the Tao, Zen, and Hinduism here in a Corona Cocktail. Corona comes as Shiva (the destroyer) and Bhrama (the creator), and we are Vishnu, Souce out of which these two gods spring, not one or the other, but both at the same time. Life is creation and destruction, life and death at the same time. But our mind separates the two to escape the tiger, and flees from destruction and runs towards creation. But there are times in both in our personal lives and collective life that Shiva and Bharama are simultaneous.

Corona is bringing these two opposites, destruction and creation together, and we are being forced by circumstance to find the Vishu, the Tao, and the Zen within. We must create our way out of Corona because what was is no more.

Corona, the end of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

March 19, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

It’s time for the Dems and Libs to stop fighting in the back seat. Mother Corona is now driving the car. For the first time since WWII, America has a common enemy that affects everyone, and not just a class of people. Mother Nature (the virus) has come to restore balance.

Bi-partisanism is no longer a promised land but a present imperative. The feedback loop of the past 50 years has been kept going by each partisan blaming the other for being not partisan. The spokes have fought each other for control of the wheel. Now the axis of the wheel is Carona instead of a partisan president.

The conflict between the two yolks of a single egg is evident in the external world but indicative of a split in our ways of viewing reality itself. The material world reflects our mental world. The world is the way we perceive it, and if we are pi-polar, then we see the world as a conflict between two equal but opposite poles that are mutually dependent. The two yolks (or views) are dependent upon the single egg or America.

There can only be One America. The Civil War decided that. But this external civil war of the yolk evolved into a mental war. The exterior world is One. We all shop at the same Walmart, but the internal world, our own minds are still fighting the civil war.

Corona, the end of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

We are so used in America to seeing the world as a war of worlds, left against right, and it is a shock to see overnight that this bi-polarism is now dysfunctional. It used to have a function: it gave us identity. I’m blue, you are Red. I’m this and you are that. This defined that and that defined this.

We can see now as we wake up from the dream of a bi-polar world how silly it is. Blaming each other is absurd when a common enemy is approaching. Trying to find out who shot the arrow before you pull it out is absurd.

Before Corona, our identity and meaning were referenced to our political identity. The reference has suddenly shifted to Corona ad we, instead of being against each other are united in our resistance to Corona, now our common enemy.

That is why death is the great unifier. Death does not play politics.

The meditation we are working with here is that everything changes when your viewpoint changes. Before Corona, America was like tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, a divided mind that generated polarized view of everything that rises in the Media.

When something rises at home, like whether you go to a movie or stay home, or what the name of that movie star is, the event does not (I hope) polarize into a Left and Right Eye.

But when something rises on the Media, our Eye into the world, it immediately polarizes through our bi-polar lens.Each eye or viewpoint gets its meaning by not being the other viewpoint.

The Other defines us. Each of us says I am not That, I exist because I’m not that, and conflict with That creates validation of my polorized idenity.

Corona has changed that. Corona, althought we are trying to polorize it into political terms— blaming Obama or Trump, or China or whatver—
the bi-poloarism cannot hold. Blaming does not stop Corona. Corona is not a Red or Blue virus, or foreign. Corona is Corona.

Corona is the One that is two (red and blue)

The meditation we are working with here is that everything changes when your viewpoint changes. Before Corona, America was like tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, a divided mind that generated a polarized view of everything that rises in the Media.

When something rises at home, like whether you go to a movie or stay home, or what the name of that movie star is, the event does not (I hope) polarize into a Left and Right Eye.

But when something arises on the Media, our Eye into the world, it immediately polarizes through our bi-polar lens. Each eye or viewpoint gets its meaning by not being the other viewpoint.

The Other defines us. Each of us says I am not That, I exist because I’m not that, and conflict with That creates validation of my polorized idenity.

Corona has changed that. Corona, although we are trying to polarize it into political terms— blaming Obama or Trump, or China or whatever—
the bi-polo=arism cannot hold. Blaming does not stop Corona. Corona is not a Red or Blue virus, or foreign. Corona is Corona.

Corona is the One that is two (red and blue)

Before Corona, the Red and the Blue were the Two fighting to be the One. The viewpoint of the Two that define themselves by not being the Other has shifted to the Two being the One at war with the One that is the Other of the Two.

Our religion and politics have merged in our bi-polar age. The Kingdom is the vision of the ONE where the two are in harmony like Fred and Ginger Rogers. But the religious and political identity exists because it is not the evil Other. The Right is right because it is not Left. The kingdom exists because it is not atheistic humanism. These two views become one view with a religious and political frame on the Right. For each, the Left was the Other that defined it.

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