The Tantra of Corona

March 29, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Let me say this upfront, I’m using Tantra in its philosophical sense, not Tantric Sex. Tantra (as I understand it) is Breaking Bad, liberation through the negative by making the negative conscious.

Corona makes what was negative positive. Germaphobes are now our front line. Aloof people who cannot touch others are now our models.

The Tantra of Corona is to meet Corona and the conditions it has created as if you choose it. This does not mean you chose it like you choose a chocolate ice cream. No, you choose it because you have to option but to choose it. You go to Corona as Jesus went to the Cross, in joyful participation. You participate with Corona; you don’t resist it, complain about it, cry about it, deny it…no…you accept it because there is no choice. If you don’t, then you exhaust your energy resisting something that resistance cannot change, and that destroys your immune system and make you more vulnerable to the complications of the virus.

Tantra is finding wisdom in the negative because there is no wisdom in fighting the negative. The negative and positive are ambiguous. They come together like the Up and Down of an elevator. You cannot only go UP. The Down defines the UP and the Up defines the down. What we really choose when we go to the elevator is the Elevator, the ONE that is two.

Corona is like that: Corona is both good/bad; up/down; Corona has no preferences, so in meeting Corona we cannot have preferences either. I know, we always prefer the good and resist the bad. But Corona doesn’t care. Corona is LIFE. (metaphor)

So we are reaching Situation Corona: Where can you go that Corona is not. Where can you go that Life is not? We may hideaway in a castle, but walls do not work with Corona. We have to assume everyone we meet has Corona.

When we used to hug and touch and feel bad if we didn’t, now we must not hug and touch and feel better because we didn’t. In this way, Corona makes us discover our essential nature, which is not conditioned behavior. Where we didn’t wash, now we wash. Where we used to shop, now we don’t. Where we used to be on auto-pilot, now we have to be mindful of what our hands are touching.

While Corona may destroy our old habits and certainties, Corona is creating great mindfulness, consciousness, and awakening of our basic creative nature.

Corona and Doc Martin

March 28, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

We are all Doc Martin, who is both a fundamentalist mind and an integrating mind. The fundamental mind is always in tension and conflict with the world as it is because it should be better, it should be perfect, but this mess life never it.

The integrating mind is a McGyver mind who uses what’s give to get out of a fix. These minds are polar opposites and cannot both function at the same time. Doc Martin as art, as metaphor makes these two mind works together as Doc Martin.

Doc Martin is a Persona and he projects his Shadow (all the messiness and imperfections onto the world), and this tension between his self image and the world generates the creative impulse of the Integrating mind. Doc’s heart has the pure intention to heal, but his mind is split into two polar opposites, perfection versus imperfection.

Corona creates a crisis in the street where Doc Martin must improvise with what’s given in order to save the patient. Like McGyver, he creates an ER in everyday situations using what’s given in a creative way. The Integrating Mind is not attached to names and forms like the Fundamentalist Mind.

As Metaphor, Doc Martin the art is both the integrating mind and the fundamentalist mind. His character holds these two opposites together, which makes him funny, an ironic character.

Corona the Guru

March 27, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

The world is your Guru because you are the world and the world is you. This is our primary way of knowing, but it has been subverted by our modern materialistic way of knowing, which is you are not the world and the world is not you. The world is an IT and so are you. This is the Way of Knowing of the Sky People in Avatar. Remember them? Everything is an IT. Nothing is sacred.

But when you are the world and the world is you, then everything is sacred because you are sacred. Corona comes to invite us, force us crying and screaming to make a shift from our Material way of knowing to the Unity way of Knowing. We can see this shift happened everywhere as people rise to a new way of being in the world now that our old way of being is temporarily suspended.

Corona says: Take a break from your outward attachments to the material world and turn within. Stay at home. Now, If you hear the teaching, take the teaching seriously, you will, perhaps, take time in your day to meditate, listen to the wisdom teachings, maybe do some yoga, practice being mindful of your daily household activity. it’s all right there. Your home is the Guru’s House. Your home can become a scared space where you discover your inner resources, your inner joy and creativity, and your inner peace.

Your home becomes a metaphor for your inner being. But it is the practice that creates the conditions for your inner primary Knowing, your inner wellspring of joy and peace to take root in your life. Whey you return to the old external world, it will as though you had cataracts removed. Oh, what an awakening!

The Teaching (or Dharma) becomes actives when. you see the world metaphorically. The forms of the world, appearances, becomes transparent to the Dharma or Unity Knowing (to coin my own word). There is Duality Knowing and there is Unity Knowing. The world we are conditioned to believe always comes in pairs: you versus the world. While this is a valid world view, it is secondary to Unity KNowing. But materialism is a dual world view, a world makes exclusively of things, including you. There is no unity in the way of knowing unless you create unity of things. But still, within that unity, you are separate.

The Unity KNowing only comes, it only rises, when we drop the Duality Knowing, either by force or intent, which is our longing for unity.

Guru is a metaphor for Unity Knowing. The Guru, true guru, is not a thing but a relationship that destroys Duality Knowing, but not really destroys it, but makes it subservient to Unity Knowing.

We can see Unity Knowing rising up in the wake of Corona. We call it compassion. Unity Know is not a feeling or emotion, it is the action of compassion, the action of unity. The mind may perceive duality, but the heart is Unity Knowing, and when the heart acts (the Mother), duality takes a back seat and shuts up.

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.