Reply #43: political enlightenment [View All]

[sweetheart]

Though indeed my guru was apolitical, he was very political... and was deeply opposed to the neocon takeover. It was those same neocons that sicked the FBI on our cult, deeming it subversive, and using the RICO laws to undermine my guru's teaching suggesting that any devotees who were tax-incompetent somehow reflected in any way on the school of meditation my guru held. He held freedom of religion as the most sacred of american qualities, including the separation of church and state.

That said, he did point out that the neocon bad guys were reincarnated from nazi germany... to achieve what they failed to achieve in that former existance. One thing about enlightened charisma is that it melts opposition, and transforms people. Had it been the will that he be political, surely he would have been assassinated as nonspiritual people are intimidated by the intense power round an enlightened soul.

Until his death, i could always say that despite america's flaws, there was solid gold inside the beast... as Rama strongly supported american business and work ethics as wholly healthy tantra.. likening the incarnation to a past life long ago in Japan where there was no "monastary" rather a collective of disciples working in the world.

The very advanced souls i know are all deeply opposed to fundamentalism as it represents the ossification of identity to a little body-mind-self, even if the memory is of enlightened experience... to have memory, one must have engaged the past/future software of the human attention field, and this itself is ego. Intending recollection is more like dreaming, and is well described by carlos castaneda in his book series on occult awakening.

The "I" self that is everpresent before words, language and identity in any given moment... is already free... Yet the mind is trained to "cry for food" from a very young age.. and the expectation that spiritual enlightenment will come from similar crying is amateurish, however advanced self discovery learning becomes in its Ph.D discipline... it is still crying for food... in stopping, meditating, recognizing the awake silence before desire clouds over... stopping takes no time, only the willingness to recognize how "me" has become a fundamentalist.

The fundamentalist is the ego, and it speaks life in the absolutes of words. It creates differences to discriminate and survive, yet these animal impulses that get one survival are in awakening merely chains of ego-self... however effective.

What am i rambling about? I guess i'm saying that if you take on the fundamentalist in your own intellectual-knowing with the same zeal you oppose the bush clan, you'll awaken. There is no other, only you. The fundamentalists reign because you have not put the baby to bed. :-)

Sorry if i sound pointed. its hard to say.. as in language, the self identity is ego. You would really have loved my guru had you met him... he was really funny and profound. Though i have no guru, i would recommend to anyone who really wants to awaken beyond the tyrant of their own superego.. www.gangaji.org She is enlightened, very very subtle, and able to cut any gordian knot of ego you lay in front of her. She's on public access cable in much of the west, and has retreats that are really worth a lifetime.

Putting an unenlightened person in front of enlightenment is the best way to defeat fundamentalism. It creates a chain reaction in consciousness that transforms the world.

My smeller only detects the subtle traces of your attachment to your knowledge, and what a tyrant that is, knowing fundamentalism absolutely as ones own state of mind, and also knowing to want to be free from it, divided in ones own house.

Its a very subtle critique, not of your writing or exceptional inspiration, but of your state of mind reflected in writing... honourable hannah whatever-your-last-name. ;-)

Your enlightenment will defeat the bushies, more than your writing.

namaste,
-sweetheart