AURAL TRADITIONS

Aural Traditions

Avdi, Vide, Tace, si tv vis vivere in pace. I couldn’t sleep last night. I was thinking about the funeral. There was a part of the burial where I had put my boom-mic down to reach for a clod of dirt to drop into the grave hole with a good bye prayer. I watched the clod hit the casket container and made a thud sound. So I picked up my boom and I stuck the mic into the grave hole and looked over to everybody, and one by one starting with his children, they came to drop their clod of grave dirt. I was just crouched there in this out of mind state watching earth pile on top of somebody I once knew and loved and hearing the earth hit the container with loud thuds since I had earphones on.

But my Mind works in a weird way. Last night the brief recalling of the Sounds of earth hitting the casket got me thinking about how we bury ourselves in words. Facta non verba. Which got me thinking how come words are living while some are dead and empty. Which got me thinking how some culture are living while others are empty. Which got me thinking about how my own culture and Buddhism is alive and in what way I regard it to be so. Which got me thinking about how living words is the base or foundation of a living culture, living tradition, and living sasana. Which got me thinking about ONA. And then it was dawn. I was as tired. I got a couple hours of shuteye, but woke back up thinking about a whole mess of thing related to the ONA. Somewhere in that process of mental rambling I was equating the ONA with a barbie doll and changing its Outfits. Which all sort of distilled into the two sides of the ONA that outsiders are unaware of; the the ONA concept of an Aural Tradition. So now – with a lot of coffee – to put into words that wordless flow that kept me up. Which perhaps will only be significant to me.

Living Words

Just a warning: I’m going to use the word “weltanschauung” a lot because I know of no other word that described that which I wish to convey: a World or Matrix in which the Mind is born, develops, and exists inside, entirely composed of Words, Ideas, and Culture; or a “Lingual-World” if you will. But Lingual-World sounds stupid. I could use “samsara” which in my mind is nearly the same idea, but people are stupid and will misunderstand the essence of that word.

My own personal brain exists in two completely different weltanschauungs, and English one, and a “Asian” one. Last night during my “insomiatic” rambling I was getting a kick out of switching my brain back and forth between these two “Worlds” using two words: Good & Bad. I thought it was funny. Because when I switch into the English world, those two words are nebulous, vacuous, and empty. Meaning that the semantic field/area those two words cover is so ambiguously huge that the words are rendered meaningless: to me. But when I switch into my “Asian World,” the Khmer equivalent of those two words had a focused meaning, and even beneath the focused meanings there were shades of philosophical values to each word.

For instance, I was using milk in the fridge last night to switch back and forth between my two Weltanschauungs. When the milk is drinkable in English we can say that the milk is “Good,” and when it goes sours, we may say that it is “Bad.” And to me, those two words are empty as they still do not capture in focus “something” real or living. Or as if those two words were bottomless.

But I can swtich into my Asian Weltanschauung and thing become very different. When I ask my aunt-mom if the milk is still good, she may answer: “No, the milk is Koch.” “Koch” is pronounced the same as the English word “Coach,” as in football coach. There is no word in English to translating Koch into but “Bad.” Except in its Native weltanschauung the word Koch does not mean simply and ambiguous “bad.” Koch means what something has become Rotten, Defected, Soiled, Broken, or Not Working Anymore. As when my computer screen isn’t working, I tell my uncle-dad that my computer screen is Koch. Underneath that to support that meaning there is a culture based philosophical value to it. Which is if something is Koch, it means that there was a previous Original condition when it was Not-Koch. That what is Koch is not in its Original condition. And so there is an Original condition that is the “shadow” of the word Koch.

So we’ll dwell on that concept for a moment. Let’s say that we are witnessing a bank robber robbing a bank across the street. In English you may describe to me that this bank robber is “a Bad person,” in that context, the word “Bad” has a moralistic value associated to it, which is dependent on your own moral judgment and ethical valuations. I might not think the bank robber is “Bad,” especially if I am ONA.

But in Khmer you would describe the bank robber as saying: “that Manuss [human/person] is Koch.” In this context, you immediate imply, infer, and suggest that what person we are seeing which we have deemed to be Rotten and broken and defected, Must have had an Original state in which he was not defected. In other words: something can’t be broke if this something was not Unbroke to break in the first place. If a fruit Rots, it must first have been Ripe. That this bank robber’s current state of being is not his Natural state of being. That something has gone wrong which Caused him to be Koch from his Original Nature [Taoist term]: his Harmony with Dharma. Harmony with his own Original Nature.

Now if I asked my aunt-mom if the milk is “Bad,” she may say: “No the milk is La’or.” La’or is pronounced as a Frenchman or Brit would say it, with the R silent giving the O a sound that is slightly different from the “Oh” sound. The only two words in English to translate the word La’or into is “Good,” and “Nice.” Except in its Native weltanschauung La’or describes something the way it Should be and not good or nice. Like when I paint my nails and looking at it I say: “That looks La’or.” It means “nice/good” but it actually means that my nails looks the way it “should” look. And the philosophical cultural value beneath La’or is that something can only look the way it “should” look Because you have Experienced this something in the past or have experienced in some way before.

For example, if I go shopping for shoes and I see a pair I have never seen before and I like the pair and say: “Those shoes are La’or.” In English I mean they are nice, and look good. But in its native matrix, I actually mean that the pair of shoes I see in front of me look like they “ought” to look Because in my Mind I had envisioned a pair exactly like them. Or if I met a guy, and I say: “He is La’or,” I actually mean that I have met other guys before whom I approved of for various reasons and this guy is as he “should be” as those other men were whom I emotionally favoured. But La’or isn’t the opposite of Koch. It’s is only one Form of an Original Essence. That concept is also Taoism: First there was the Tao [Way]. Then the Tao became the Yin and the Yang. So there are in oriental thought not two but three vectors: an Original Essence, and the two primary Forms that Original Nature becomes.

Koch is the Yang, La’or is the Yin, and the Tao is: “dhammada,” which is pronounced “Tom-Madda.” If I asked my aunt-mom how she is feeling today and she says back: “Dhammada,” she is saying she feels “Normal,” “Natural.” It has the same meaning as when I ask her in French: “Common Sa Va?” And she says back: “Comme Ci, Comme Ca.” Not here, not there, just “Is.”

When we see a river flow as it Naturally should flow, we say that the river is flowing Dhammada: just Normal – the Way it should by Nature. That Natural Way is the Original Essence – or as the Taoists say: Prenatal Essence/Nature – of a River. And so when we have seen that Natural state of a river flowing as it should [when we feel for its “prenatal nature,”] and we see a different second river flow as it ought to based on our experience of the first river we say that the second river is “La’or,” but if you see the second river not flowing right, jagged, defected, corrupted, we say that the river’s flow is “Koch.”

To quickly try to clarify the three vectors and how they would relate with each other: Prenatal Nature is trying to approximate a “thing’s” total Potentiality before Birth or Causal manifestation right? Such as if I were to give you the seed of an orange I ate and I told you that it was sweet to the taste. Then you plant that seed. That seed has a Prenatal Nature/Essence of being Both sweet and sour in an unexpressed state of Potentiality. We know this because when your seed has become a big tree and gives you fruit, it is not guaranteed that every orange on that tree will be sweet. So here we can say that the Tao has become/manifested as Yin and Yang: sweet and sour. There is a more mystical and alchemical meaning/use of Prenatal Essence, but that’s a different matter. But, which of the two – sweet or sour – is closest to the Prenatal Nature of the orange? The orange that is neither sweet or sour but a little of both would be in this case. Neither this nor that.

So if you look closely at the word Dhammada, you’ll actually notice something that should be revealing. That the Root word in dhammada is actually: Dhamma which is Sanskritized as “dharma.” Dhammada isn’t actually an original Khmer word. It’s a loan word from Pali. The “suffix” ending -da in the word is a Pali variation found in the Sanskrit word: Sunya-ta. Sunya meaning Zero. Sunyata meaning the State or Condition of being Zero. In English this morphs into the ending -ity as in “Sanity,” being the State and Condition of being Sane. Dhamma-da essentially means the State and Condition of being Natural and Normal according to the Way/Essence of Nature. So then, what does Dhamma end up originally meaning in ancient times before Sanskritization and Brahminical corruption? Tao. Which is why the Buddha – at least in Theravada – condemns his first follower in ancient times to never translate his teachings into Sanskrit and to always keep it in “our common tongue” [Pali in context], because the cultural life – the Living Essence – beneath the words is always lost in translation.

The Language that we have come to speak is a Living entity that is dynamic and changing that is a indivisible part of a living people’s culture. That Language-Culture entity has taken thousands of years of living, or trial, of error, of growth, or change on earth to be what they each are.

When we translate the words or borrow words from one language/culture to another, it is like as if you were to desire to have me, and in asking to have me, I take off my clothes and give them to you. The clothes I gave to you is not me: the Living Person. As a person, I am the convergence of a thousand years of history and living people’s dynamic and aeonic flow. The clothes are just outer dressing. The audible sounds of each word is just an outer dressing which clothes an ancient Living dynamic Essence that is entwined with Time and a people.

The common American might find it hard to understand what I am trying to get at. But we can use a different example to draw out the essential point. There are in certain very old cultures and people a class or set of Laws called “Common Law,” or “Unwritten Law.”

For example in my own culture and family/people it is “common law” that if a man and woman have cohabited each other for a “long while” that the man and woman belong to each other and are by “virtue” of that “unwritten law” husband and wife. You don’t need a ceremony, or a rite, or rings and diamonds, or government paper work, or monks consecrating some marriage. It’s common law. You can’t find that common law written out by lawyers and legislators in a file somewhere. It is law by power of the people/culture that understand such peculiarities to be Common and lawful according to either tradition or just plain old getting used to over Time.

Another Common Law that is observed in my own culture and family/people is: not to harm a kin of flesh and blood, and to feed them and shelter them when they are in need of such. That we have a certain duty born of recognition of kinship of some sort and Love to such people, be they close comrades or relations.

Another Common Law regards the heinous act of someone of our own people/family/tribe/clan who has murdered one of our own. By common law, that act of murder is understood to be what it is in such context. We need no damn layer to tell us some nut murdered our kin of flesh and blood. And per this Common Law the murderer is shunned and exiled out of the people. They are no longer recognized as “Our People,” and being not “Our People” who is Koch, they are not under our care and protection, such that if any retaliation or harm should befall on this Rotten person, that it is considered “right” or at least outside the jurisdiction of our people’s care.

Such “common laws” were never legislated by some group of elders or politicians. In fact, nobody really knows how or when such common laws started. But we know that such common laws are a living part of a living culture, in the same way that a language is a living dynamic part of a living culture.

But there are these Dead Laws. These arbitrary and abstract laws politicians may make, or that legislators will draft as a “bill” and the common mundane populous arbitrarily votes as “laws” because they like the sound of the wording, because they are on the receptive positive/beneficial end of the law, because such arbitrary and abstract laws makes them feel safe. These are dead laws because where do they exist? On paper. How did they come into being? Did they dynamically develop in close tandem to a living breathing culture over Time and develop according to such living cultures collective aeonic pathei-mathos? No, some guy in a suit and tie scribbled the law up.

But you can say: “So what. Who cares about a living law and a dead law. The law is the law.” Sure dummy. Like the law that some parliament or congress wrote up condemning Blacks as slaves in the not so distant past. Do you actually believe that if two groups of races lived along side each other for a thousand years that a common law of enslavement of the weaker race would develop Naturally? You know how many ethnic races exists in China along side each other for 4000 years? Yet I have never heard or read of how one of these races were enslaved by another, as Blacks were. I mean even during the heinous Qing Dynasty when the Manchu dominated the ethnic Hans, the Hans were not treated as inhuman slaves and livestock; as Blacks were treated by White dead laws. Dead, meaning not living, not having any living connection with the living.

Or the arbitrary and abstract laws that the fatcats of a government passes to make it okay to deforest their forests and jungles. Which is what has ravages and raped much of Africa’s rainforest, and which is happening in Southeast Asian now. Are these laws Livingly connected with the Life of the forest and its people? Who benefits from these written laws? Follow the money trail. And am I to believe that if left to themselves for a thousand years that Africans and Southeast Asians and native Brazilians would develop the cultural praxis or common law of raping their own forest and land?

So that is the difference between a “Living Law” and a “Dead Law.” One is dynamic, unwritten, and rooted deep in the Living Being of a people and their culture; whereas the other is drafted and written on paper, by politicians, legislators, lawyers, lobbyists, or “professionals” who are actually psychologically removed from the actual real world; because they live in their offices and their minds grew in law schools. And the people that vote such arbitrary dead laws into power are not doing so out of long-time pathei-mathos, but for benefits, for safety, for the condemnation and exploitation of others; or just out of being conned by hearing words they want to hear.

And so that is also the essence of Language and the words of a language. The words are culture and people rooted. The words are living dynamic entities that changes over Time in tandem with its people’s gradual growth and development. Each word over such long periods of time becomes pregnant with, essence, ideations, values, qualities, and philosophical shades. Which living words need not ever be written at all. Think about it: human speech came before the alphabet.

I have never thus far seen a Khmer or Thai dictionary; and I don’t carry one in my pocket; I can’t even read it if I had one. My family and the living people in my culture don’t walk around with a dictionary in their purse either. Like they bust it out and point to definitions of some Khmer or Pali word so I won’t confuse the meaning with my own imaginative/creative personal apprehension of them. Each word I use is deeply rooted and grounded and interwoven with the people and the culture and the ancient flow of Time and History such people has passed through.

And I know that the English language has this same quality of Life to its own Native people: the British. Which brings me to the dead words. Because when “America” as a people severed itself from its British cultural-matrix after the Revolution, they cut the living tree of English at the truck, so that what words they now use, may be the same aural sounds as a British person speaks, but beneath the aural there is emptiness. There is only Webster’s definitions. There is no ancient cultural pregnancy to each word, rooted in a people’s long-time pathei-mathos. It’s just Webster’s faces staring at you.

And you can feel it inside as an American using and speaking English. We know intellectually that each English word we use has a definition, just ask Webster. But yet we say that many English words are “nebulous,” “vacuous,” even “meaningless.” Why? What do we mean by that, when we intellectually know that such words have a dictionary definition. Such as the word “Spiritual” when an average American user says it. Why is it that even though we know for a fact that if we open up Webster’s trusty and authoritative dictionary that there will be an official written meaning; but yet some speakers end up describing that word as being “meaningless,” “empty,” “nebulous,” etc? Or the words Good and Evil, Right and Wrong as used by and American-English user. Why is it that we can go to Webster’s dictionary and for sure know that such words have written meanings given to us by the hallowed pen of Webster, but yet we seem to culturally have no living grasp of what each word means in Essence? We all seem to fight over what each word “really” means and how other users have it all wrong.

I know exactly where my Mind is “at” when I say and use the word “Koch” and “La’or,” and so does every person in my own living culture. I have never met a single person who said to me: “Well, no Chloe, your grasp of our word Koch is dumb, let me bust out my Khmer dictionary because the Khmer Webster in the year 1842 defined it thusly.” Or another example is the word “Preah.” That word has over a dozen very different meanings. It can mean a feeling of veneration. It can mean a numinous presence. It can describe your mother. It can mean a king or queen or monk or angle or deva. And it can mean Brahma/God. I have never met any person from my own culture who was confused as to what the word meant and felt like, and I have never seen anybody debate over its semantic meaning. We all seem to use the word and just know/feel what is being meant.

I have been given definitions of words I am unfamiliar with. But living words aren’t like dots and cities drawn on a map where you can just point to a dot and say, “Here it is, right there!” Each aural sound is just an aural “landmark” which denotes a general field or meaning and essence. Different people who use such living words will not always be at the same distance from this landmark. We each have our own relative grasp of the essence of each word. Collectively – the sum of all parts – is what defines the semantic field or general “meaning” or value or common understanding. No single person’s relative grasp of a word is the single representative of the field of essence.

In the same sense that I can’t point out a Mexican-America and tell you: “That Mexican is the standard of American culture.” And I can’t point out a White-American and tell you the same. No single person defines or represents the “culture” and “people” of America. Collectively – the sum of all parts – every American is the Culture and People. And each individual American thus has a individual understanding of what the Whole is. In the same sense that every Thai person who uses the word “phra” has their own individual grasp of the word as the Whole collectively has grown to understand it over time.

It’s easy to look up a dead word and see what it means. Just open a dictionary. But if you were to ask me how I would come to grasp the “meaning” of the essence of a Living Word, I would say that I would have to go about doing it as I would in learning about a people’s culture. By direct immersion, and by understanding and taking into consideration that each person is a part of the sum which is their culture. So that each user of a word also is a part of the sum of the word spoken and is the living essence beneath the aural sounds spoken. Like the “word” Buddhism. You can never genuinely understand what Buddhism is in essence from Webster. First of all Webster wasn’t a Buddhist. Secondly there is more to Buddhism than an individual person’s general definition. It’s an entire living entity associated with living cultures. To understand it, one must go Native, and have an eye to see the Whole. Or like cock fighters would say: “Be the chicken.”

Living Sasana

What is Buddhism? That’s the same question as: What is the ONA or What is Japanese or What is Baseball? And its a simple answer really: it’s everything all together as a Whole. Baseball is the damn stadium, the ball, the grass, the players, the bats, the audience, the hot dogs, the tail gating party, everything as a systematic and functioning Whole is baseball, the experience of baseball, and the culture/memeplex of baseball. No one single aspect of that whole memeplex is the whole. Four bases don’t make baseball. A net doesn’t make tennis. The definition of soccer doesn’t make soccer. The Buddha doesn’t make Buddhism. My brain doesn’t make me. I am the sum total of all my parts and pieces. The “ONA” is collectively ONA. No individual part or portion or person is the ONA.

That’s my easiest way to define something like Buddhism: Buddhism is just Buddhism. And if that doesn’t make sense to you, then you know you aren’t a Buddhist born and raised. Being Thai is just Thai. If that doesn’t make sense, then you know you are not Thai. It’s that simple. But if you want to know what Thai is you have to go Native. Live with the people. Learn the language. Eat the food. Go to the temples with everybody. Make friends. Get married to a Thai girl. Care for your Thai parent in laws. Have half Thai children. And 30 years later when I ask you what Thai is you will say to me: “Thai is just Thai.” If you have to ask, you aren’t.

Just a side step concerning being born a Natural “Buddhist,” or Satanist, or being born Sinister By Nature. I wouldn’t say that you come int the world with Satan, or Buddha, or ONA imprinted on your brain at birth. A person isn’t born with a high IQ for example. They are born with the Potential to grow a high IQ if that potential is nurtured. Put the boy genius in front of books and toys and that will stimulate his IQ. But put a dumb kid in front of the same books and toys and the dumb kid will still be dumb; because he lack that Potential. In the same way that if you put a normal kid in front of a musical instrument of paint that they will not end up a genius artist. But put a kid with the Natural Potential to become a genius artist and the kid will express that potential through whatever medium you give to him. Give a person born with the Natural Potential to rob people the means and he will just express his Nature. But his Potential Nature must develop over Time. Which is to say that even if a boy is born with the Natural Potential to be a Genius, that Potential does just manifest in one lump sum as a 118 IQ; it develops through expression. It does take a person a certain inner potential for Metta, Honour, Buddhi, etc to develop into a Buddhist and their Buddhist culture for them serves as a living means to nurture that Potential into ripe fruition. If you have to ask you aren’t. Put a kid Genius with a natural passion for music in front of a piano, and this kid will not need to ask anybody to teach him shit. He’ll figure it out on his own and grow into his Potential Nature: his Dharma.

So, the word “Sasana” is a word that has traveled a lot. It exists over several thousands of years and in several languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, and their various dialects. And so you’ll find it in Khmer too. But like the living dynamic thing that it is the essence beneath the audible spoken word is culture specific. In the sense that you can’t force the ancient Sanskrit meaning of sasana onto a Thai speaker who uses that word today. It’s literally two different cultures and people and time frames. Like you can’t force the ancient meaning of God and Religion onto its current English forms and usage. They don’t mean the same things. God etymologically once mean That Which Is Invoked and was not a being but a presence that was felt, more closely related to the concept of the Numen in Latin. Religion once mean a community of people and their social order.

Sasana, in my culture – as my grandmother and her peers use it – means a religion, a way of life, a culture, a tradition, a set of customs, a system of belief, a way of thinking, and a way or method of doing things all at the same time. For example I peal my apples like a normal American person would. I hold the blade facing me with my index, and I use my thumb to guide the blade under the peal. I like to slowly peal my apples in a spiral so that the peal comes out this single long thing. My mom, and her siblings and everybody else not of my age group peals their apples the reverse. They hold the knife blade facing away from them and use the blade to skillfully scrape/cut the peal off. My grandma laughs at how I peal my apples and she once said to my aunts: “She’s gone into the sasana of the White people. She peals her apples backwards just like their Kind. I wonder how how she learned it. It amazing she does cut her thumb open.” We know that White people have no religion based on pealing apples. My aunt-mom thinks its funny and she’ll say: “You’re crazy! Nobody cuts their apples like that. Our people cut it with the blade away from us so we won’t cut ourselves.” And I’d have to say: “But I don’t know how to cut it like ‘your people.’ I’ll cut my four finger up.” Sasana here just means a way of doing stuff according to a Sas, which means a Tribe, Folk, or People. Sas-ana would literally superficially mean a “Race-Thing” or a “Tribal-Thing.” As in this is our Tribal Thing, how our people do and believe in our mythos. Sas doesn’t mean Race; because Sas-Akiang means the American people, Sas-Angley means the British, Sas-Barang means the French people, and Sas-Alamang means the German people; and all of these people are mostly the same race: White; and some aren’t even White.

So “sasana” as my family uses it means a people’s culture, tradition, customs, beliefs, way of life, and way of doing things. And that sasana is grounded deeply in such people’s long-time aeonic existence as a people. But that sasana or Culture is also entire manifested into being by the language specific to that culture. Because the Mind of the “member” of the culture itself is the “nexion” through which the words, ideas, mythos, beliefs, ancestral common law, traditions etc, are “presenced” out into the Causal realm. Because of this, the dance between Language and Mind makes up 90% of the culture and the “member’s” human identity as a “member” of such culture.

That dance between Language and Mind thus begins as soon as you are born because at birth your brain jumps into its secondary cycle of growth; and so your brain completely develops enveloped entirely inside a sea of the sound of words and language your people speak and uses. This concept becomes very significant when we fully realize that when we absorb the world via our 5 senses, that part of the process of making “sense” of what we apprehend is “translated” into words and ideas. We see a tree outside of our eyes, but in our minds we know what we see as the “word” and “idea” of “Tree.” And so the people we see outside our eyes are not just people. Inside our Minds our language defines what those people are to us and what we are to them. And thus also, the cultural praxis and mythos we see with our eyes and hear with our ears objectively, also is a weaving of words in our Mind.

You don’t realize that you are literally inside a samsara of language until you step outside of that linguistical-matrix your brain was conditioned and developed in. Which is the hard part, because our words by our adult years is so much a part of the overall process of processing sensory data that our words and language we think in is our reality.

But if you were born and raised inside two very different samsaras of language/culture like myself; then it’s actually becomes possible to consciously step outside of one weltanschauung and go into the other. And once inside the other, you are able to objectively look back at the other samsara of language/culture and fully realize it objectively from the outside. Which is when you realize that Languages are in themselves – through Mind – entire “Worlds” each one different from the other. I’ll illustrate.

In my Buddhist-Asian World, my brain grew up and developed inside a matrix where something called a “chitta” exists. Chitta means your Heart-Mind. It is the part of us that feels and thinks and knows and understands. In my cultural matrix the Heart-Mind is the seat of our consciousness. The brain in our heads is actually culturally insignificant. In Khmer the word for “brain” is “Kuer-Khbal” or “Coure-Kapalle” which would sound like how a Frenchman would say it. Those are approximate phonetic Anglicization and francophone renditions. Khbal/Kapalle means “Head,” and Kuer/Coure means something like “Marrow,” or actually the “Core” of something. So the brain is just a fatty marrow thing in the head, which doesn’t do much. Or its not believed to do much. Your chitta does the feeling and contemplating and the basic things that gives you a persona, character, and personality [Charak in Khmer].

But this thing called a Chitta is completely non-existent in the English “World.” So when I consciously do step outside my Asian World and into my American World, I carry with me this concept of a Chitta, but I have no words in English to express the essence with. And this happens with many words and ideations, and vise versa between “Worlds.”

Or a better example to show how language defines our reality and understanding of Self and the world we live in is “registers” of Language and how the Mind has been conditions inside such registers of Language.

A “register” in a language is like a music track to a song. A track would be a single layer of musical notes, melodies, and beats. I had a computer program once which lets you make trance and techno music at home. It has all these pre-recorded sound and melodies. And you can make each melody or beat a track and stack one track over the other to end up with what should be techno music. I threw the program away because my techno “music” was shitty. But that’s what I’m trying to mean when I say “track.”

A register is a track of a language. All registers together collectively is the Language. I would consider English to be a 4 Track language. Meaning that I perceive there to be 4 different grades or levels of English. The first and lowest would the the Informal-Barbaric register which would be Street Grade English-Slang you talk with your barbaric peers. The second register would be the common casual English you talk every day. Above that is the Formal-Posh English which is the educated English with the big words and the “Yes Sir,” “Thank You Madame,” etc. Then above that is the English version of the “Sacerdotal” register which is the fantsy-pantsy Lawyer talk with all their technical Latin phrases like “Habeas Corpus,” “Malum In Se,” and so forth.

So if we look at those 4 registers of the English language we’ll see that each register has its own set of vocabulary and lexicon. What register you use when speaking not only tells other people what strata of society and social class you come from; but also shows if you have culture and are well bred. If you were born in a lower class where everybody spoke the barbaric register of English, and you were incapable of switching registers in formal situations or when speaking with respectable people; then you are judged to be ignorant, barbaric, stupid, and uncultured. And if you were taken to court and you could not speak the sacerdotal gibberish they use in court and could bot afford a Priest of Law to speak for you; than more than likely your society/court will throw you in prison.

This is the same condition all Southeast Asian languages exist in, except the registers are actually official and not speculative. They are actual official divisions in the structure of the language itself. Khmer and Thai would be a 7 Track Language; with 7 entire registers, each register with its own set of words and lexicon and even syntactic structure. The registers are sometime so different from each other, that they constitute a different dialect or language entirely. Or even weirder, you can have two totally different languages but one or two of their registers overlaps and is mutually intelligible. For example the Royal register of Thai is 75% Khmer mixed with Sanskrit and Pali. And the Sacerdotal register of both Khmer and Thai are 90% the same Pali and Sanskrit, which is actually mutually intelligible. Some registers have and use pronouns such as “I,” “you,” “she,” and so on. While other registers lack pronounces and consider pronouns as vulgar words like cuss words.

So for example in the lowest register of Khmer which is the language of most uncouthed barbarians, to “Eat Food” is “Chrass [eat] By [rice/food].” Chrass being a word used only with animals and peasants as in when we would say in English the Dog Devours its Food. The Common peasant register for “To Eat Food” is See [eat] By [rice]. The same phrase with familiars such as friends and siblings is Nyam [eat] By/Mahoab [rice/food]. The same phrase in a formal register as you would say to your grandma or mom is: Pisa [eat] Mahoab [foodstuff]. The same phrase in the Sacerdotal language/register as when you speak to Monks is: Chan [eat] Preah [the venerable] Aha [foodstuff]. The same phrase in the Royal Register as when you speak to a king or his relations is: Sauy [eat] Preah [the worshipful] Charoya [food]. The more you know the top 5 registers, the more cultured you are. The more you know the bottom two the more vulgar and savage you are.

When the Communist Khmer Rouge came to power during the 70′s they didn’t like this register stuff. This is because Communist ideology reject classism. And the entire Khmer language was actually programmed to instill classism. So what Pol Pot and his friends did was they leveled the language by inventing their own flat dialect which everyone must speak. Which was like a universal register of the people where they invented their own words. Then they killed everybody that knew the top 5 registers, and forced the survivors to speak their people’s register. So in Pol Pot’s communist people’s dialect to Eat Rice/Food is said: “Hoap [eat] By [rice].” Hoap sounding the same as the English word “Hope.” So now you have even today where peasants and common people still use the word “Hoap” meaning to eat. You can immediately tell that such people were either party members, or indoctrinated by the party.

In the dialect/register my family and I use every day, we only have one pronoun which is “Yeung [we/us].” Otherwise we don’t use pronouns with each other or others. The We pronoun acts as a substitute for the rest of the needed pronouns, depending on who is speaking to whom. For example if its me and grandma and my grandma says to me: “We are cooking for Us,” she means I am cooking for you. Or if my uncle-dad says to me: “Did We do Our homework today?” He means I did my homework. Or if I say to my mom about my aunts: “Where are We going” I actually mean where are They going.

This plays a massive psychological trick in your head. Because if you are born and raised in such a worded environment where you are saturated with the idea and word “We/Us” your whole life, you do not have a sense of a separated feel for Self. You feel yourself to naturally be a part of an Us, a part of a whole. You are not a separate autonomous “individual. No word exist for you or I. There is only We. There is no such thing as the concept of “individuality” and “independence,” at least not on an emotional and psychological level.

But that We pronoun is not used often. Usually in every day common talk we use what we are to the person we are talking to as a substitute pronoun. For example if I were to tell my mom I am hungry I would literally have to say: “The daughter is hungry.” Or I would say my name in place of the “I” or “me.” If my aunt-mom is telling me she is going somewhere she says: “Mae/My [mom] is going somewhere.” If I am telling my younger cousin that I have something for her I have to say: “The big sister has something for the little sister.”

The use of familial titles in place of pronouns for well bred and culture people extends beyond the family. Every old person your grandmother’s age is your grandmother and grandfather, and are addressed as a such. Every person your parent’s age is your aunt or uncle, and you refer to them as such. And you would us Niece/Nephew and Uncle/Aunt in place of an I and you.

That also conditions your Mind in a huge way. Because when your brain is born and develops in such a worded environment where everybody is family, distance does not exist. There is no such thing as a stranger on an psychological level. It becomes emotionally very hard to hate a person you instinctively identify as your sibling, uncle or grandmother unless they have physically harmed you. As sinse your culture conditions you to serve and honour family, you have a natural open feel of service and honour for people you are familiar with.

And then when I was 5 I went to school. Which was when I got mentally/emotionally lost. I spoke English back then, but only with family people and cousins. I got mentally lost because now I had a teacher who did not speak Khmer. But she was older than me. Having been born and raised in my Asian Linguistical-World, I didn’t know how to call her or address her. And I also didn’t emotionally and psychological know what she was to me. Referring to her as a “You,” or by her name was barbaric and vulgar, and I was raised to understand that only savages use names and say pronouns. I didn’t want to be a savage and at the same time I had a natural instinct to pay my respects to her in the right way, but the English language had no means for me to do so.

So when I switch to the American-English Language-World I feel a disconnection. Like I have been unplugged from a group consciousness/identity. And the world is made up of separated people who have no connection to each other. When I switch to my Asian Language-World, the connection is there and the feel of separation does not exist.

So this whole thing I tried to describe about different Language-Worlds our Minds are born and develop inside is what is a Culture or the foundation of a Folk-Culture/Sasana. This Linguistical-World in a sense is Samsara. You are born into it, and sometimes you never get out and die in it. What keeps us flowing with the current of samsara is our own unawareness of the feel and realization that one’s Mind is literally entrapped in an unreal reality made up of words and ideas. The unawareness keeps us in our respective lingual samsaras. The thought of our samsaric words and ideas influences our emotions/chitta. And those emotions governs our actions in life. So the elders say that samsara is a cycle of unawareness in which people do the same things together over and over and over again in total ignorance.

Because when as a Mind you are born and raised in a samsaric class/language where you are from the top strata of society you will mistreat peasants over and over and over again. Because that is the literal world that you were born into, which influenced your thoughts, heart, and actions. And if you are born a savage, you will continue to do stupid and simpleton things over and over and over again.

That is culture. When we knowingly or unknowingly Cultivate the same habit or ethos or “doing” over and over and over. And samsara is this same concept but doing such things repeatedly in total ignorance of what the origins of our words, ideas, thoughts, feeling, and actions are and what they are doing to us or what they are causing us to do. In such a way that we are also ignorant or unaware of our actions causal reactions in life, in our own life, and the lives of others around us. The difference between Culture/Sasana and samsara is that in one the Mind is Master and fully aware whereas in the other, the Mind is Mastered and is Unaware of it state, place [weltanschuung] and condition. And being unaware, you can’t escape the cycle of lingual-samsara. As if you were born and conditioned inside a prison cell and were completely unaware/unconscious of your state, condition, and “place” to even desire to break free. Or like a person in a deep coma, lost in a dream. You see, being unaware that they are only dreaming, they cannot come out of their coma. So Buddhism says that one must awaken and realize – Buddhi – the samsaric nature of our state of being, condition, and locality of Mind. The first step is to go beyond the forms, the words, the ideas, and to feel for the living essence: the Dhamma, the phenomena beneath.

You know that you are trapped inside a samsaric world of language when you actually see and judge the whole world, others, and the universe with your own lingual vocabulary and ideations. As when I look into the world and say to myself: “All people in the world have a chitta just like me.” Or like when you say: “This is what I believe and its true for everyone.” Because “chitta” and what you believe are just words and ideas in our respective languages. Without Language and ideas, chitta and belief does not exist. You cannot believe in something which you first cannot put into words to agree to believe in, in the first place. You can see/experience the moon, and you don’t need to believe in it. You can believe in evolution, in creationism, and the universe is cubical, but first you need the words and ideas before the belief or dis-belief can happen.

For example in my dialect there is no word or idea for the English words: Exist and God [preah technically doesn't men god]. So being a Mind which was conditioned inside a weltanschauung in which the idea and word for God and Exist is non-existent how do I believe [or not believe] in the Existence of God when I can’t even ideate the concept to believe or not believe? In the same sense that I can ask: how do you as an English speaking American believe [or not] in chitta – a Heart-Mind – when for your entire life as a Mind you were born in a language and cultural matrix which lacked the word and idea chitta, thus causing you to be completely Unaware and Unconscious of it? Before you or the English speaker were aware of the word chitta, have you as a people and culture for the thousands of years even once said: yes I believe chitta is real or no I disagree, chitta is not real? No, because the word/idea did not exist in your samsaric wetlanschauung. You cannot believe or not-believe in something which does not exist inside the Word-Soup your Mind is familiar with. If you grasp this concept you’ll be able to answer the following questions: Do animals believe or dis-believe in things? And Is belief reality?

So Culture or Sasana is very much like Language. Culture develops, changes, grows over time with its people. Living Culture starts simple as a cultural meme and gradually grows into mythos and memeplexes. For example the culture of fishing. At first it was a simple human need to eat that drove our ancestors to try to catch fish. That was the initial cultural meme. Different people will later evolve their own way of catching fish. The most effective way which feeds the most people as a memeplex will continue aeonically into the future by Nature’s decree. Because as Mother Nature, any memeplex which feeds your little humans and helps them survive, thrive, and multiply is worth supporting. So that now in many parts of Southeast Asian, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands you have this common way or sasana of fishing where the girls will stomp down stream in a river walking up stream to scare the fish up the river. While the girls do this stomping the boys will build little blockades or a damn upstream. So the sasana or culture of fishing here is to scare all the fish towards that damn and block them into a small area so that everybody can just grab them with their hands.

That’s what I mean by a “Living Sasana/culture.” Living in the sense that the praxis of such culture is founded on long-time experience, trial and error, or Pathei-Mathos as ONA and DM puts it. And such Living Cultures at times are not samsara, because as a people you may know where the culture of fishing came from, and you may understand that such ways of fishing is not the only way, and it is not word based, it is experience/praxis based. If a better way comes along you are able as a people to consciously adopt and adapt. Samsara is when you do such things in complete ignorance and continue to do them even if fishing poles and better mechanical means of fishing is created because you are simply unable to change and adapt. Your Mind is fixated or attached to a causal form or methodology so much that it will hold onto that causal form even if the holding on will cause mortal suffering and eventual death. Gambling, drug addiction, alcoholism, for example. Money, politics, religion, nation-states are another set of examples of samaric entities a Mind may find hard to remove itself from and do something different.

Getting Your Living Sasana

So if we were children born on a Pacific Island which practiced that culture of river fishing with rocks and how would we learn about this living culture? Not from books. We learn it orally and aurally. By our elders speaking to us, and showing us, and by us hearing and trying. We never realize it, but we acquire a host of complex human culture and cultural practices wordlessly, that if you were to put everything your culture was about and everything you know how to do inside that culture into an informative how to manual, it would fill several book shelves. How many pages would it take to describe the act of driving a car? Texting, grocery shopping, making friends, dating, etc. We are able to absorb a shit load of things simply by hearing about it, seeing it, and wordlessly experiencing what we hear and saw. That’s the ‘esoteric’ meaning of the Latin motto: Avdi Vide Tace, I Hear, See, [be] Silent. To be silent suggesting to that what we humanly experience in life, are apprehended wordlessly and best kept silent, because how do you write about or tell about the feeling of falling in love and being loved? It’s a simple experience, yet for as long as we as a species has been around, it doesn’t seem as though all the poetry and epic myths like the Mahabarata and Ramayana, and all the music and songs has yet to capture the living Essence of Love and being Loved and doing things for Love. Let the recollection of the experience just resonate inside you.

And so, in the same way something like Buddhism with its 25 thousand pages of writings as a living tradition is incredibly past down orally and aurally. By hearing first, seeing it second, then experiencing it wordlessly third. You hear the Oral Tradition, you see it done, you try it and gain the living experience. Then when you wish to pass it down to other you repeat the three steps. Speak it, show it, and allow the other person to try it.

Which is how I got my Buddhism. For as long as I was growing up I never once was even aware that a Tipitaka existed. I was 18 years old and I still believed that Buddhism was the worlds only religion to not have a written text, like how Wicca was too. But then I ended up finding the text online which was a culture shock.

A living culture or sasana like Buddhism in Southeast Asia isn’t taught to you in lectures. It’s percolated to you little by little orally/aurally. Each trickle of insight and practical wisdom is given to you according to your age, level of understanding, and more importantly according to experienced situations.

For example I was a time when I was around 7 or 8 and my cousin-brother Andy – who is my age – we were walking out in this park by our house just on the other side of the corner. In the park were a lot of trees and bushes. And so we ended up that day finding a birds nest with little baby birds in it. The mother bird was gone. So I told my cousin-brother Andy that I wanted to keep them as a pet. I knew we weren’t allowed to. But Andy said we can secretly keep them in a box in his room under his bed. All we had to do is feed them. So we ran home and we grabbed a shoe box and ran back to the park to the nest we saw in the bush. Then we put the 3 baby birds in the shoe box and ran quietly through the side fence door were Andy would secretly hand me the box through the window as I stood in his room.

So there they were under the bed. Except me and Andy were so small, we really didn’t know what birds ate. But we had a whole of uncooked rice. And we saw people fed bird seeds and uncooked rice looked like they could pass as seeds. So that’s what we stuffed down their throats. But they were making noise cheeping and we got scared so we put a thick blanket over the shoe box to cover their noise so our mother [my aunt-mom] would not hear them.

Anyways, we came back from school two days later and ran into Andy’s room to play with out secret pet bird and found our mother waiting for us in Andy’s room. She didn’t look happy and the shoe box was on a lamp table. Our mother just said in an angry voice that they were dead. She asked us how we got them, and we told her that we took them out of a nest we found in the park. And she tells us that we can’t take things away from their mothers like that. They don’t belong to us. And now they are dead. I was crying partly because they died and partly because I thought were were in trouble. She told us to go and bury them and to ask them to forgive us for taking them away from their mother and killing them, and for their spirits to be free to come back.

Later after dinner in the evening as I was ready to go to bed, my aunt-mom comes in to tuck me in like she does. And she said something like: “Our people call it Karma. That when you do something, it makes other things happen. The Life of an animal and nature happens in its own way. And when you took those babies away from their mother, you broke that natural way of their Life. And they died. And their death caused you to be sad and unhappy inside. That’s what we call Karma. We get the fruits of our actions.”

That’s how I got my Buddhism. In a living oral and aural manner where each teaching was given to me in context and anchored to an event or something I was experience or was doing in my own Life. What my aunt-mom was doing is call “Upaya” in Buddhism. Upaya is when you have an end goal in Mind you wish your student to adopt, then you take the essence of a dhamma of Buddhism and cleverly word it in such a way that it is meaningful to the individual and what the individual understand and has experienced. In essence you don’t get some prewritten doctrine some Buddha may have said. You get the essence put into words relevant to you, your culture, state of mind, level of understanding at “that” moment.

But Upaya is a trick, which is what the word means. The trick is to trick you into being a Buddhist by “any means,” which is the other meaning of Upaya. Upaya literally means a “means, or a trick to and end.” Buddhism as a living culture has had 2500 years to refine it’s trickery. It has had thousands of years to learn that the best way to propagate itself as a living entity into the future is by taking advantage of our most basic human methods of acquiring culture: first hearing, then seeing, then doing.

This is essentially based on how the Mind works itself regarding memory and data storage. When we are not thinking about a thought or memory they lay dormant somewhere. When we call up a thought or memory it is drawn up to our conscious awareness. But because of the nature of how ideas, thoughts, and memories are memetically linked to each other, as soon as you draw up a memory, you also get the other memes linked to the focal memory.

It’s like google search. You type in a key word, and you get pages and pages of everything remotely related to that key word. So that we’ll end up understanding that what thoughts most often are entertained in our Minds, those memes linked to such thoughts will also be up in conscious visibility often.

For example Sex. As humans we think of Sex all the time, very often. As an Upaya, if I wanted to trick you to being Christian, I anchor a Christian meme to that thought of Sex. Such that every time you think of Sex and feel guilty, the meme I pegged to that thought of Sex is consciously visible: Sin, Jesus Forgives Sin. Doesn’t matter of my memes of Original Sin is not even biblical. As long as you ass ends up being Christian. So if you peg cultural or mythos memes to ideas or thoughts a person hardly ever thinks about, those pegged memes would never be drawn up to the conscious field.

So when my aunt-mom that evening told me about Karma, she pegged it cleverly to an significant emotional experience I had, and explained it a way that I would be able to remember it every time I experienced a similar event. She said karma is when one thing causes another thing. So now every time I experience the littlest event where I consciously see an act cause a result I draw up that meme of karma pegged to causality. That’s how I got my Buddhism. And that is how I orally and orally/aurally teach my cousins about Buddhist and ONA as well as firmly ground them in our culture.

For example I have a cousin named Mac who is a couple years younger than me. This boy loves cars. He is a car freak like his crazy dad. His crazy dad has a new car every three months because he’s constantly trading cars. My cousin Mac does the same thing. He’ll buy a car [used], fix it up, sell it, and buy a new one and repeat the process. Except Mac is still young and actually doesn’t know how to fix a car engine. He messes up half his cars. Mac is not the religious type. Certainly not the type to read about Buddhism.

So as he was “fixing” his car in the front of our grandma’s house I went out to watch him “fix” his car with the intent of seeing if I can find an opportunity to teach him with an Upaya. I pretended not to know anything about a car [which I don't] and I asked him to briefly explain to me the important parts of a car, how they relate to each other and what they do. This was because I obviously knew he really likes cars and so I know the meme of a car is always up in his conscious awareness. If I peg a meme to that car meme, it insures to a certain large extent that he will recall my memes I pegged. Mac took the bait and just went on and on about how a car work with excitement.

I honestly didn’t give a shit. I don’t know any real girl that wants to even know what a car engine is. The technical stuff he was yapping about was actually giving me a headache. I just needed him to consciously be aware of how the car parts are interconnected and work together for a reason. As soon as he was done, I said: “Oh yeah, I get it, it’s like what the Buddha said how everything around us is interconnected and causally interdependent with everything.” In English that dhamma is sometimes rendered Co-Dependent Arising, or as Interdependent Co-Arising. Its slightly different from the idea of linear causality of this causes that causing this. It’s more systematic and holistic. But I slipped in the word “causality” as something I call a Gateway meme [for ONA usage]. Which is a meme you can use to link other memes to. So now every time Mac fixes his car and he thinks of how the car parts he is working on are interconnected and work together, he may better of a chance recall that Buddhist dhamma I Upayaed. So he Heard the message. Then he saw it superimposed the dhamma of interdependent co-arising with the system of his car. Then the silent part part in this case is Mac experiencing the real world and wordlessly realizing that all things are indeed interconnected and interdependent.

After over 2000 years, Buddhism has had the time to figure out the best way to configure itself in the most aurally transmittable way. So instead of ever seeing the thousands of pages of some Tipitaka, Buddhism structures itself in numerical power-point keywords. First the 3 Jewels; then the 4 Noble Truths; then the 8 Fold Path; and so on. Each keyword is a Seed which is accompanied by a verbal breakdown or explanation. But the explanations, like I said above is given to you in context to your experiences or what you are experiencing that may correlate to one of these key-ideas. For example the Buddha as the first Jewel is ubiquitous. You are born seeing pictures of Buddha. You wear Buddha pendents, you see Buddha statues. Dhamma as the second Jewel is disseminated to you in trickles, one teaching at a time as you are ready. Sangha as the third Jewel is the bhikkhusangha who are the monks you see every week at the wat, and the ariyasangha which is your family and close friends through which and for whom you apply your Buddhist praxis for, compassion, and all that jazz.

So this is how Buddhism has been pasted down from one generation to the next in at least Southeast Asia. Although Buddhism does have a textual or written side, its active-living side is actually a Living Aural Tradition, past down from mouth to ear. There is no reading involved. Just Hearing, Seeing, and Doing.

This is how you go into any culture or subculture. Like in high school when I was tagging. There was no reading or lecturing involved. I just heard my friends talk about it; saw them do it since I hung out with them, and then physically experienced it myself. Of course I started sucking at it, but with Time I got better. And with that Time, my association and identification with that tagging subculture solidified. It’s the same way with gangbanging when you are a new junior. You first have friends that gangbang; your Hear them talk about their gang culture; in hanging out with them you See they do their banging; and you naturally flow into the act of doing and trying yourself. And with Time, your association and self identification with your gang solidifies. No reading. No writing. No studying shit. Just Hearing, Seeing, and Experiencing. And if you consider that people kill and die and go to prison for their gang affiliations, then you’ll begin to realize just how powerful and influential on a Mind the simple steps of Hearing, Seeing, and Doing is. You can’t book-teach a nigga into being a gangbanger to the point where after he has studied his lessons he’s ready to pick up a gun and kill another human being for 3 stupid letters. Life does happen like that. Life does not spring off of letters and written text. We are Off-Spring of Nature, not letters. A Living Culture Springs Off of Nature: the human nature of hearing, seeing, and doing. Study has shit to do with anything. Study comes later in life.

Life unfolds right? Your Mind unfolds. You can’t force a 10 year old Mind to understand what sex is. Life and Mind unfolds with time, and we come to understand things in conjunction to Time. During our childhood our Minds are most receptive magically to language and culture. We hear and we see during that whole childhood. Then in our teen years Nature gives us a hormonal boost and we get restless and rowdy and wild. This is when we do what we heard and saw. We put what we heard and saw into motion, we try it, we do it. Then when we mature into our 20′s we become the tribal warriors, the national soldiers; etc. And from all that experience, we enter our 30′s when we have our own children. We mellow out. With our experiences we cultivated we now have the means to teach our own children what wsdom we have collected, which helps them succeed and survive and thrive.

Then in our 40′s and up we become the elders of the tribe, our children are taking care of themselves, we have free time, our minds have further developed, and thus we study the words and the doctrines and join the monetary or priesthood if we are so inclined. So with Life, there is a season and a time for everything. Or to put it simply if we take a 13 year old, a 22 year old, and 36 year old, and a 60 year old and we gave each of them the same body of written lessons, they would each do different things with those lessons, and what the do will bare very different fruit. As a tribe, if you had to choose between those fruit to productively add to your tribe, would you chose the fruit the 13 year old manifests from written lessons, or from the 50 year old? If you pick the 50 year old, then don’t be giving 25,000 pages of the Tipitaka to the 13 year old to read and study, because he isn’t going to understand it or do anything beneficial to the tribe with it. That 13 year old has his natural stuff to do. Work with his nature, not against it. Flow with dharma, not against it.

Aural Sects of ONA

By the word “sect” we mean a distinct tradition, culture, praxis, with distinct ideological belief patterns or approaches. This same concept with Buddhism is usually referred to as a “school” of Buddhism. Or more accurately a Yana [Vehicle]. Regarding Buddhism, the vehicle is not the Essence. The Essence is Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. Everything else beyond those three Jewels are literally Upaya to get people to understand, and manifest or take refuge in the Jewels. The Buddha even said that with Upaya, even amoral heterodox means are permitted so long as the End is met. Besides those 3 Jewels, Buddhism has a distant End Goal each Buddhist works towards, which Upaya must also be created to get people to work towards. The End Goal being: Nibbana or Liberation; at least in Theravada. It doesn’t matter how you get from point A to Point B. Just get there. Upaya if your have to. Make Vehicles if you need to.

Although it may also be that Forms/Vehicles are not equally as effective in relation to the End Goal. For example the certain subschools of Mahayana that are heavily theistic may actually help cause an adherent of this form to lose itself in a maze of gods and superstitious worship. But at the same time some forms of minimalistic Zen, may lack the power of creative inspiration that would stimulate a mind more receptive to mythos of gods and such. Theravada may in writing be too complicated and and actually disorienting. People may be drawn to Vajarayana and be lost in [fixated on] the occult acspects to even pay mind to Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and Nibbana. In other words, the Forms are not perfect and are not equal in an egalitarian sense. The Form/Vehicle essentially has the basic use of carrying/guiding the Rider of the Yana to their own personal direct experience of the Essence eventually.

So with Buddhism you have three major Forms called Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. These three Forms are not the essence. The are Vehicles – Yana – which conveys the Essence to you. All three Forms together belongs to the essence of Buddhism. Or we can say that all three Forms collectively is Buddhism. Although the Essence is the same, each Form is different. So if you were the type to be inclined toward mysticism and magic you might go with Vajrayana. If you were theistic and believed in supernatural entities you might go with a sub-form of Mahayana that uses theistic paradigms. If you were more into a non-theistic psychology styled Buddhism, you might adopt Theravada. If you were a minimalist and don’t like any ideology, you might adopt a sub-form of Mahayana call Zen, or some kinds of Zen. Regardless of which Vehicle you adopt, you are still a Buddhist by virtue of the Essence: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and the Goal of Nibbana.

There is thus – if you understand the difference between Essence and Form – no such thing as a “fake” or “wannabe” Buddhist in Asian Buddhism. You cannot as a Theravadin say that Soto Zen Buddhist are fake and not Buddhists because they do things and believe different than your Yana. It doesn’t work that way, because the Essence the Yana is convey is the SAME. Yana literally meaning a cart or wagon. The wagon is not the load it is carrying. The wagon is not the destination it is taking you to. This stupid idea that one can be a fake or a real adherent of a memeplex is a Christian-Western world view which is heavily influenced by Capitalist-Consumerist weltanschauung. Consumerism as in when the consumerist market is programmed by marketers to buy “official” brand name products and reject generic brands, even though both may be identical. In such consumerist context, whom does this mentality serve and benefit in the end? The corporation that owns the Brand name product who payed the marketers to convince you to arbitrarily avoid market Competing products.

The Order of Nine Angles works in the same or similar way. It has an Essence and Forms. The Essence is like a barbie doll. The Forms are like her Outfits that come with her when you by her. If you don’t like one Outfit, you simply take it off and put a new one on. At no time in the changing of Outfits is the actual barbie changed or transmuted into anything different. But Mundanes – being mundane – cannot understand this with the ONA or with real life. For instance when a mundane sees a Police Officer they see the Outfit the cop wears and will react to the cop in some way, like hate cops. Yet they fail to ever realize that that cop Outfit is not the Human Being underneath who has feeling like then, fears like them, may be a great father like them, etc. Mundanes are superficial and judge what they see on the surface of things. They take things at face value and are incapable of looking deeper – Dark-Empathy – to feel and know the Essence beneath the Outer Form of things and people.

The ONA currently has 2 main Forms or Outfits. Neither Outfits is The ONA. All Outfits are The ONA. All Outfits equally belong to the ONA as a Form or Means or Methodology of conveying its Essence and getting it’s work done.

The first Outfit is the most familiar and most often is associated with the ONA or misunderstood to be the whole ONA. It is Traditional Satanism, or the Traditional Form. This Form basically uses the Black Book of Satan, all of Naos, utilizes the Mythos of the Dark Gods, has the sinister chants, is based on Satanism, and uses the Sevenfold Sinister Way.

The second form is the Way of the Drecc or the Dreccian Way. This Outfit has absolutely nothing to to with the Traditional Form. It does not use Satanism, or the Black Book. It may use the Sevenfold Sinister Way minus the Satanic and Traditional parts. But it does not have to. This way is based on the Law of the Sinister Numen, the Sinister Dielectric, and Sinister Tribes. Some Dreccs – like myself – will also heavily incorporate Reichsfolk and the Numinous Way into the mix. The Dreccian Way is not religion or philosophy fixed. Meaning you will encounter Dreccs such as myself who are Buddhist, those who are atheists, those who are mystics, those who are Muslim, etc.

Both Outfits of the ONA can and do utilize a number of other elements such as Nazism and/or Reichsfolk National Socialism, or whatever the individual Initiate/Associate or Nexion/Temple personally choses to incorporate. Many Caucasian ONA associates will use and incorporate Nazism, and Aryanism. And this is perfectly fine and they are still ONA. But many ethnic ONA associates will reject Nazism for obvious reasons, and instead may – such as myself – use Reichsfolk National-Socialism. It is inaccurate to say that ONA is a Nazi institution, because nazism is not the Essence of the ONA. It is just a tool used to get a job done, such as Radial Islam or Fundamential Christianity are tools an ONA Initiate will use to get the job done. But it is also inaccurate to say that ONA is not a Nazi or National-Socialist institution because such things are a part of the ONA’s various Outfits.

These Outfits, or Forms, or Sects, or Schools of ONA begin first Aurally, than as a praxis. And then someone may write and present their insights with others in written format. Which is what Anton Long has been continuously doing for a steady 30 years or so. Today Anton Long has produced over 5000 pages of ONA MSS. Born from his experiences over the several decades. He is not the only ONA person and can and should write. But it must be understood that the writing comes after the praxis and experience in the real world, and that such writing is an individual’s worded approximation of their Sinister experiences, written as a means to share their practical wisdom with their own Sinister Kind. But Essentially the ONA began as an Aural Tradition, and it largely remains an Aural Kulture. Aural meaning you gradually get your ONA from someone’s mouth to your Ear, and not by text. The texts and manuscripts are not the way to Germinate ONA Kulture. They are only insightful Guides. As a map should and can only guinde you in the Experiencing of a Terrain. What your Experience immersed in that Terrain, and what you teach others Aurally from your learnings of such Experiencing of such Terrain is the Kulture. Hear, See, Experience Silently, then teach.

This is another thing that mundanes can’t seem to understand, because they are mundane and superficial organisms. Most often they only see the written elements of the ONA, which we all understand to be the Byproduct of somebodies practical experience who got their ONA Aurally. These mundanes seeing only the written texts, thus judged ONA according to what they read. And worse yet, these mundanes read manuscripts and are inconsiderate of Time, failing to realize that what they are reading are still snap shots and photographs of an individual Minds expression of their experiences and insights and practical wisdom. It as like you were to have come across somebodies Diary which belonged to a John Doe, and having read such diary you assume that John Doe must be exactly as his diary describes him forever; and that what is not written in the diary John Doe never did. The writings is not the living individual. ONA MSS is not The ONA.

But the mundane can ask: “Well if you don’t read shit to be ONA then how do you become ONA to later write stuff in the first place?” If you have to ask, then you done have IT in the first place to be ONA. The Sinister Way is a Way of Life of those with a Sinister Nature. If you are Naturally Born Sinister, you don’t need to read shit to be sinister. You just do your shit. The ONA MSS are written for this type only as a guide to orientate them. It’s like people who have a natural love for long distance travel will travel by themselves. Allegorically ONA MSS to such natural travelers is a pocket compass. The compass needle with the little red tip pointing North Orientates the Travelers all into a common direction: the North Pole which is the allegorical End Goal they will work at reaching. How they get there and what they will experience on the Way thru the Terrain is and individual matter.

A person can be completely ignorant of the ONA ever existing and if the are Naturally Born Sinister, they will have the inner Ethos and inner Nature/Dharma of being Sinister. Such people when and if they should ever encounter ONA writings will Resonate with what they read. Resonate meaning they don’t adopt shit. They just ring at the same frequency and octave as what they read. Then they put the shit down and just continue doing what sinister shit they were doing before, but maybe with new ideas and tools to work with. If you need to be told how to be Sinister, don’t bother applying for “membership,” because there is nothing to be a member of. ONA should Describe you as a person you already are, not force you to be something you were not or cannot be.

Aural Transmission of ONA

Is it possible to Orally and Aurally transmit without using letters and books an entire culture and religion? It should be. I assume so because people came before books and writing. So I would ask myself: “How the hell did humans 100,000 years ago pass their people’s culture and tribal practices, and spiritual ways of life to the next generation if books and writing did not exist yet?” It should be a simple answer: By word of mouth and example. But you can’t expect a mundane who believes the internet to be the source of human wisdom and religion to understand this. These mundanes today just can’t picture a world without a computer screen and wikipedia. I can hear them asking each other: “How did those cavemen get their Hinduism without wikipedia. That’s how I learned about them when I did my school report on them?”

I was watching this great show on the discovery channel about an Orangutang Rehabilitation center in Indonesia. This documentary was one of those really good ones I love where the camera is right on location for months and years, and the narrator is most often silent to allow the scenery to just tell its own story. Occasionally native people who worked in the rehab center would talk and explain things, otherwise, it was a silent film of orangutangs doing what they do semi-naturally in this rehab center.

The documentary was about orphaned orangutang babies whose mothers were killed. People at the rehab center would take these orphaned orangutang babies and raise them to a young age and them let them try to live as natural a feral life as possible the rehab center, which was actually a huge section of the forest. But the director had a sense of subtle humour. Because of the semi-feral way of life the cameras were showing the Orangutangs were living. There was one quiet scene were a native girl was at the bank of a river inside the rehab center who was a worker there caring for the orphans. The girl was washing her clothes the old school way by beating her clothes onto a rock. Then the camera slowly shifts to her right and you see this big orangutang come by and quietly pick up a shirt, sit at the bank of the river near the girl, and commenced to beat the shirt on the rock like the girl.

There was this other amusing quiet scene when the camera was taking shots of a beautiful river in the rehab center and capturing all these mangroves, and birds, and fish. The camera goes into the water, and slowly focuses up at the bottom of a little row boat. Then the camera comes up the surface and just watches up close the little row boat pass by. As the little boat moves further away from the camera, an orangutang was on the boat using his hands to paddle the boat. I just thought that was incredible and funny at the same time. But the whole point is that if a monkey [a great ape actually] can learn Human Culture just by seeing and doing/experiencing, and you have to get that shit from a book, then you are stupid. You don’t have to teach those apes how to do Human things. They just watch, observe, follow example, then try, mess up, try again, then adopt the cultural-bit.

But Humans are slightly more sophisticated than apes, and so Nature has given us an extra tool to use to instill culture into our next generation and progeny: Language, as in spoken Language. We come out of our mothers womb instinctively “programmed” by Nature to acquire Language magically by the age of 1 sometimes. So not only does a human person have the ability to acquire culture by seeing and trying, but also via Language. And so that is how ancient human culture and sasana was and still is passed down across the flow of aeons.

Being born and raised inside an ancient Living Culture, which has a sasan with a huge corpus of written text [Buddhism] I can say that it is entirely possible to Aurally, Visually, and Physically acquire such a huge load or culture and sasana without ever seeing a single letter or book. If you are furtunate to be someone born with a culture, then you’ll understand what I mean. But such Living Cultures has had a thousand years to refine its ability to pass onto the next generation. It’s an amazing feat if you really think about it. A culture and people randomly such as the Chinese, the Hindu, have had a coherent culture and collective identity for over 4000 years in tact. People and cultures like the Khmer, Thai, Lao, and English have had a coherent culture and collective identity since 800-1200AD. All that time that has pasted an the people’s group identity and culture has not dissipated; although like any living entity, such cultures do change and evolve over time. By dissipate here I would mean a cultural dissipation of a people into nothing, or absorbed/lost in another culture to be forever lost. Such as the Maya, the Ancient Egyptians, or Blacks of America who have completely lost their ancestral culture and identity. How do some cultures and peoples maintain aeonic continuity over thousands of years?

But you might say: “Who cares about cultural continuity. The human being itself is still there reproducing?” Culture is Nature’s way of insuring Her humans survives, but also Her way of guiding humanity forward. Each culture is like an ape in a troop. In a troop of apes the boss ape [alpha] inseminates all the females with his seed to sire the next generation. Only the proven seeds spawns the next batch for the next cycle. It works the same way with culture. The culture which has proven itself in the world of experience inseminates a very large population of humans with their cultural memes. Think English as a amazing example. It was an insignificant dialect of a Germanic language family spoken by an insignificant people long ago. But aeonically they played their game well and the little island of Great Britain ended up at one point in time being the worlds largest empire. With that proven Imperium there is influence of humans on a massive scale. Such that today, English is the de facto global language of the planet earth.

And if we actually understand that our Language we think in and speak is the wordful foundation of what we interpret as “reality” than the accomplishments of the once insignificant Anglo-Saxons long ago really is an aeonic accomplishment on a planetary scale. But language is not the only cultural meme that can be transmitted by an alpha culture. The culture’s philosophy [such as the Greeks and Chines]; a culture’s letters, laws, architectural style, and political concepts [Romans]; a culture’s minor cultural memes such as wearing silk [from China transmitted to India and Southeast Asia; a culture's science [Europe to the rest of the world]; a culture’s technology [America, Japan, S. Korea to the rest of the world]; a culture’s religion [India's Brahmanism/Hinduism; Christianity; Buddhism]; a culture’s genes [Caucasian & Mongol via empire and war]; etc. This is how I see and understand aeonics, culture, Imperium, and such other ONA/Myattian concept. Which is why I consider one’s culture to be of prime importance to the individual to consider maintaining, should such people genuinely be into this aeonic game of influencing and progressing humanity. The games we [ONA] play stretches vast spans of causal Time. But all this has to begin somewhere. How does a culture maintain its aeonic continuity? Not by making websites.

It’s really, really simple if we breakdown aeonics into its two most basic constitutional components and strive to genuinely understand everything we can about these two basic components of aeonics: 1) Time & 2) Humans.

The most basic unit of a culture, or nation, is the single human being. These organisms come in male and female. They breed and have offspring over Time. Their offspring come out instinctively programmed to absorb every sound and word they hear, everything they see, and they do everything they hear and see. And then one generation grows old and dies, thus the new generation populates the surface of the earth. So the question then simply becomes: how does one generation pass its culture down to its younger generation before it dies of old age? By taking advantage of the most basic human functions: Hearing, Seeing, Doing.

I learned how to transmit culture from two practical sources: my own culture, and from my high school years in tagger crews and affiliated with Asian gangs. Then there are the minor sources of sights from going to church. But you have to be extremely analytical about every detail about how everything and everyone works. Which is just a personal way my mind works. Maybe it’s a Buddhist thing to just look for causal connections?

The first step of cultural transmission is: Acquisition. In an actual living culture Acquisition is when you acquire a baby somehow, usually a girl makes a baby. So if you are a man, you would actually need to acquire a girl. In gang culture Acquisition is when I meet you, assess your quality and character type and if I think you have the Nature to gangbang, I say: “Hey, my name’s Chloe, got some boys throwing a party, you wanna kick it or what?” And the reason why this is the first step is because nobody can hear what the hell you have to say or see what you do, if they are not in close association with you. The second reason why is because close or intimate association build rapport and relation between the two parties. And with rapport and relation, the communication link opens for influence and inspiration.

So with ONA, when I work on “turning” one of my cousins or friends I meet in real life, the first thing I do is assess my target’s character type and quality as a person to see if this person has something that leads me to believe that they will take root in ONA Kulture. It has nothing to do with if they will accept it or not. They will accept it if you Upaya your shit right. None of my younger cousins I helped raised in our culture and in Buddhism had a choice and I didn’t give them a choice, nor did I consider if they would be accepting of it or receptive to it. You have no choice. You can never close your Mind up to outside insemination and pressure. The trick is to locate in this person’s Mindscape memories, thoughts, interests, emotional experiences to Peg your cultural memes to. Which is why it is easier to Turn people you intimately know and hang out with.

To illustrate Pegging, I Turned an older cousin of mine [she's 25] ONA not to long ago. I didn’t have to acquire her because she was already my cousin. But she was initially a challenge. The challenge was she is fully Asian, hates Satanism, hates Hitler, hates Nazis, hates terrorism, and hates the thought of killing people; and I had to figure out a way to subvert her inner orientation, to make her like ONA, like Hitler, like Satanism, like Nazis and be a Nazi, like terrorism, and agree that killing is doable. This cousin isn’t stupid either. She’s college educated, which was also a big problem because the Magians got to her first. So the next step from acquisition is intimate association which means constantly hanging out together. This way you can begin the Hearing stage of cultural insemination.

As I hung out with her I am looking inside and outside of her for anything I can use to peg some ONA related meme, to hook her. She has a White boyfriend. So that was what I was looking for. I used her White boyfriend to Peg a hook. I asked her while hanging out with her once about her future children she would have. Except I asked her in such a way that I gave her an answer I wanted her to give me. I asked her: “I think mixed babies come out pretty do you? When you have a mixed baby will it be with your current boyfriend?”

That Peg leads to a long conversation we had. My cousin did agree that people who are mixed half Asian and half White come out very attractive. This conversation opened the door for me to peg other hooks. One hook was Eugenics or intelligently designing your children; the other was Eurasianism as a geopolitical ideology. She is big on geopolitical ideologies. So there we were talk how smart it was to consciously design our babies, and how I heard from so and so that there was a thing called Eurasianism that was around not too long ago that believed in the SAME thing WE did. I said WE to her, not I know of this Eurasianism which believed in the same thing YOU do. It’s WE, I don’t want her to be a YOU anymore. I want her to believe what “WE” believe. After our hang out, my cousin went home and she and her boyfriend researched on Eurasianism. And I wait for a predictable reaction.

My cousin a week later while we were hanging out says to me: “So my boyfriend and I were researching about Eurasianism and mixed Asian-Caucasian people. I didn’t realize there was an old ideology about that? I was thinking about reviving something like that but with Buddhism mixed into it?” Once I see that my Eurasianism hook stuck, I used it as a link-meme to peg more memes to. The new meme I linked to the Eurasian hook was when I said in one of our conversations that next week: “Yeah, there’s some guy named Karl Haushofer…” And I proceeded to give her a quick mythos briefing of Karl Haushofer who was associated with the idea of a Eurasian Imperium back in the day. I used Hasshofer as a link-meme because he is intimately associated with the Nazi Party of WWII Germany. So you can now see the gradual process of leading a person’s inner orientation in a direction you want. My cousin has no choice because she is completely unaware that anything out of the norm is going on. And I waited, for a predictable reaction.

A few days later my cousin comes back. We hang out and she brings up Karl Haushofer and asks me what he had to do with the National Socialist party and why she had never heard of him in school. This opened the door for an entire load of link-memes I have. I introduced her to the idea/meme of Magians and how what she knows about National-Socialism may not be accurate because history is written by the victor. I then memedrop that there is a thing called Reichsfolk National Socialism which is not racist, and I mention that she just randomly youtube “Asian Nazis” and see what she finds. And I waited. The introduction of Reichsfolk is the big meme-link which will allow me to Turn her ONA.

A few days later my cousins tells me that she is in a state of shock because she has realized – on her own – that everything she once was taught about nazis was all wrong, and that as much as she hates to admit it, much of her own beliefs seems to be shared in common with National Socialism and Reichsfolk. This would be the stage of Resonance, when you have induced resonance.

Reichsfolk, on a practical level of real life, is my most powerful tool in Turning people I know ONA. Because it gives me the window to constantly use the word “Us/We” and to speak about things like Our People, Our Kind, Our Breed, Our Culture, and how “They” are taking that Culture away. This is the Second Step in Cultural Transmission: Severance.

The Severance Step is when you begin to sever or cut this person off from the entire world/population in such a way that your cultural identity or gang identity becomes their identity. This stage is the stage when the Us and Them rhetoric is picked up. Because you want your person to see the world in an Us verses Them. In an Our Way verses Their Way.

In the setting of being raised inside a culture this stage is when I hear the rhetoric of how Our People are noble, aristocratic, and how Those others are peasants and savage. This is usually Pegged to visual stimuli. For example when I watch television and the news comes on and shows crime scenes and such, that’s when you hear all the elders and you mom flood you with the Us and Them rhetoric. In gang culture this is when after hanging out with Us, we take you out to hang out in places where you are We will be physically confronted by rival gang members. We want you you visual and physically experience Us verses Them, For you to realize on your own that there is indeed an Us and a Them in your Mind. And it’s all the same intent, to make you see that you and the group you associate with has another group that is threatening. It’s a self preservation thing. It plays on your most basic tribal human instincts. You want to survive, you have found an accepting group of people to help you survive, and this group has an Enemy. If you’re in a church, this Severance stage is when they draw you in deeper and encircle you with “happy friends” who invite you to a flood of hang outs, and they constantly remind you that people who aren’t members of your church or religion is bad.

The third step in cultural transmission is: Investure. As in your ancestral culture Invests on you a ceremony of recognition or initiation where the rest of the culture’s mythos and memes are openly invested on you. In my own culture there is no significant rite of passage. You just get your last birthday party at 14 as you enter your first year of high school. My parents welcomes me to young adulthood personally, and then begins to invest me with my Duties and Responsibilities or in other word, the family gives me my Rules & Regulations which I now must follow as a full fledged “member” of the family and culture. Such as I cannot have boyfriends, can’t talk to boys, can’t phone boys, can’t wrote letters to boys, can’t hang out after school with boys, can’t bring boys over to hang out, obey my elders, don’t do drugs, get straight A’s, etc. I olden day tribes this is when the rites of manhood and rites of passage are given.

In gang culture the Investure step is when your new street brothers whom you have been hanging out with for a while and whom you now identify with asks you formally: “So do you want in or what?” You will say yes, and they will initiate you with a “Jump In,” which is when they beat the shit out of you to draw blood: Blood In, Blood Out. Parts of the initiation stage may also include acts you must perform to prove your loyalty such as criminal acts and/or getting burns if its a Asian Gang. Girls in gangs get in a gang differently, depending on your status. If you are a girl and you have no relatives in the gang, usually its drinking, smoking dope, and getting sexed in. If you are a girl and you have a relative in a high rank, your status saves you from the sex part, but you may still have to prove your loyalty in some way.

With my cousin, her Investure was a month after I primed her for ONA with all of the above. She had been hanging out with me and my other cousins and friends who are ONA oriented constantly flooding her Ears and Eye. Then since we are Dreccs her Investure was technically us giving her the Rules and Regulations which included the Law of the Sinister Numen and the Oath. The causal ceremony ended with us eating at a fancy Chinese restaurant together GQ [all dressed up] with the exchange of gifts to mark her “First Birthday” into Our Drecc Family.

Once you have reached this stage of Cultural Transmission, you are considered “Germinated.” To illustrate, if a culture or tradition, or gang, or ONA were a field, your new pledge to your group is like a seed cast into that field’s surface. At such early stages, a slight wind can blow that seed away. But once that seed breaks and it’s roots dig deeper, so that a little green shoot comes out of the ground, the seed has germinated and will not go anywhere. A person who has Germinated into a culture, religion, or tradition is a sapling in that culture, who will not stray from the group. But this sapling needs to be nurtured into a big plant. Which is the final step of Cultural Transmission: Nurture.

The Nurture step is the last and longest step which may last a good part of the person’s adult years. In a culture like my own, the Nurture part is when I get my lessons from my elders, continuously participate in traditional observances, take care of younger cousins, care for elders, help out with family businesses, and just daily be exposed to the actual doings of the culture, and flowing into the daily praxis of the culture. In gang culture the Nurture stage uses simple “cultural observances” such as daily hanging out together, drinking together, smoking pot together, working the streets together, etc.

With my cousin and the others we’ve turned this is the longest stage and most difficult. Just because a plant germinates does not mean that the sapling can’t whither. Nurturing is a constant deed. First thing I do in Nurturing one of my Germinated people is to divide them into two groups based on their inner character: Drecc Way or Sevenfold Way. Usually girls I know are more inclined to take deeper root in the Drecc Way. We use the Sevenfold Way in the same way as Buddhism would use the Sangha, or in how a gang has a class of OG’s. We make it so that in our little Drecc Kulture, as a boy if you want to impress a Drecc girl, your ass needs to climb the Sevenfold Way degrees, to prove your shit. The Drecc girls they hang out with us and do what we do. This is the first part of Nurturing a Drecc. The second part is the Aural Transmission of the ONA.

None of the people I Germinated or Nurture gets their ONA from letters or documents. They get it Orally and Aurally in life oriented situations and real world environment. They can, if they choose, do their own study of ONA MSS on the side. But study is irrelevant. You can’t depend on study to Nurture a person. Any one who has been to school knows study don’t do shit, because a year after you leave, you forget everything. If Mother Nature depended on humans culture to be passed down via study, we’d be extinct as a species. How is a sapling nurtured? It gets 12 hours of constant sunlight, and constant watering and pruning. Consistency. Nurturing a Germinated person means 12 hours of bombarding their ears and eyes with culture and mythos; the other 12 hours is them sleeping.

To Aurally transmit ONA to my Germins [one who has been Germinated] I break down everything I know about the ONA into bits and pieces into keywords, like Buddhism does it. Each keyword I peg to a letter of the Alphebet: A means Acausal; A means Aeonics; A means Alchemy; Be means Baleful; B means Baphomet; C means causal; C means Casuality; D means Drecc; E means Exeatics; F means Feral, and so on, with my Z meaning Zeal for passion and Zealot for a person with passion for their Tribe. This way when the time arises, I can inseminate my Germin I am talking to with one of these keywords and breakdown what it means to me. This is the important part, because I Upaya what I breakdown, meaning I put it into my own words, but in such a way that the specific Germin I am talking to accepts it and understands it and usually pegged to a daily experience.

For example I have cousin who are still in high school and they brought their teenage friends over to meet me. I Germinated them into ONA over time. So, when one day one of my teenage Germins ditches school to hang out with us, I take advantage of what he did – ditching – and quickly inseminate him by saying: “What you did WE call Exeatics, which means such and such, because those Magins so and so.” And I’ll use his school system and his ditching school as an example he experienced to peg that conept of Exeatics in his Mind. Other times well just teach them the keywords and their meanings from A-Z, and randomly as we hang out we’ll ask them: “What R mean?” They’ll say “Reichsfolk,” and we’ll ask: “What’s Reichsfolk teach Our People?” And they will give the answer in their own words.

This stage of Nurturing is also when repetitive observances are crucial. Culture is a collective/common Cultivation of habit and ethos. In my own culture this deals with burning incense to the Buddha ever full moon; going to the wat every holidy; helping out at family businesses, etc. In gang culture this is the simple drinking together, banging together, smoking out together. Anything that you can do as a group together over and over again induces group culture and group identification. Gang culture is so simple compared to Buddhism with its 25,000 pages of holy writing. But a gangbanger fully Nurtured in his gang will murder for his gang, get shot up for his gang, go to prison for his gang. Repetative cultivation of praxis is some powerful shit. This is the shit that solidifies an ancient tribe together into a band of Warriors who scalped enemies and head hunted neighboring tribes in our human past. Doing shit repetitively over and over again – anything – especially in the same place [sacred grounds] is the most humanly powerful way to induce cultural coherency. And we should know this same method or repetitive Nurturing makes a random man a killer of an army. Repetitive salutes, repetitive drills, repetitive minor observances such as everyone getting up at the same 3AM, everyone getting the same hair cut, everyone wearing the same camo, everyone doing the same things over and everyone looking and feeling the same. And you get killers from that.

Doing and dressing the same way doesn’t have to be a daily thing in a Living Culture. We don’t look like retarded clones in my family and culture. But our year has lots of holidays. During those traditional days in my own culture we all either go to the temple together or bring monks over to one of our houses and hold the ceremony observing the special day that day. But in my culture, during such special days, you have to dress traditionally in a silk sarong [girls] and a traditional top. Each day of the weak is associated with an actual color. So that if a holiday fall on a Friday, Everyone wears the traditional colors that day. The men just wear suits with their ties of the day’s color. Unless they are risque and come to the temple in a big purple suit.

The trick to it is repetition, doing things together as a group, and learning how to teach Aurally. You can’t just sit a person down and just start yapping your mythos away. It has to be fluid and natural. You have to know your other person and be able to on the spot reword any part of the ONA memeplex to reflect what your other person is doing, has done, has seen, or has experienced. If your new Germin is even drinking a coke and chewing on his, you have to have the skills to breakdown ONA and anchor a bit of the ONA Kulture to his eating the ice. The ice is the Form, the H2O is the Essence, that Esence takes many Forms or whatever.

The other style of teaching is to wait for the other person to ask the question. This is how my Buddhist elders do their teaching. This is because they understand that a person’s Mind develops and has levels of understanding. You can’t teach a 5 year old to understand what Sunyata is even if you have a doctorate in Buddhism. It will not work. If you try, you are a stupid teach. The whole point to teaching is to get the other person to Understand the Essence of something. So from a Buddhist point of view, the only way to teach a person the deeper stuff of Buddhism is to just wait for the other person to ask. Because in their asking, they express that their Minds is at a level which may be able to understand the thoughts and concepts they are curious about in the first place. But you have to learn to dress your words and ideas up in ideas and words native to the other persons vocabulary and thought process and interests. If my cousin Mac were to try to teach me about Buddhism using car concepts, it wouldn’t work with me, because I don’t a single thing about cars, I don’t care about them, and so the teaching won’t stick.

I have been asked plenty of times by new Dreccs I make about whatever ONA MSS they may have read online. They usually ask in a confused manner suggesting unacceptance. This is why written texts are a bad idea and should only serve as a rough guide. From experience, a Germin expresses confusion only because words and outer ideas he read did not resonate or match up to words and ideas he or she uses. So I usually just tell them to forget what they read, and then Upaya what they read using their own weltanschgauung, words, idea, and frame of reference to things and subjects. But this is only possible if you know the insides and outs of the ONA, its Essence, and the person you are teaching.

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So from my own experiences, transmitting culture orally and aurally is very possible and still is the major means to transfer human culture from one generation to the next. As I have said some where up there, I deem Culture to be of great importance, if we Dreccs genuinely into aeonics. This ONA must gradually learn how to transmit itself as a Living Culture: Aurally; as some Dreccs still do. If it is to continue for a long time as a coherent organism. But in our current age of the internet, believing that posts and cybertransmission of ONA stuff is Living or has any long term benefits of Kultural longevity is dangerous to believe in. I have seen many memeplexes develop online or were caught up in the online medium which for a few years seemed to be productive and growing, but they have all dies out. The internet and the written text should never be a substitute for what is Human, and our Human way of giving culture to those who will comes after us. I wish I can wake mundane Satanism up from its enthrallment of cyberspace. I see it increasing moving away from the real world “out there” and into the PC screen. If this continues, it will not last. It’s not in my place to tell Satanism what to do with itself. But I can share ideas with the ONA, in hopes that those Sinister Initiates who have found there way into the Kulture today, may learn to transmit their Kulture in a Living way as an Aural Tradition. You may have to cut corners and mickeymouse my few steps, and you will make mistakes as you learn to make them work. But the Essence of Human Culture and Living Tradition is there.

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