The Buddha is called the Self Enlightened One. He’s not honored as a great teacher because of the moral code he devised, or the philosophical insights he shared in his Tipitaka though. The Buddha is honored because he gave anybody who wished to achieve self enlightenment a step by step “do-it-yourself” path, which he used himself.
Exoterically, the Buddha basically taught that life is suffering. This could hardly be considered illuminating, since the dumbest of individuals living a hard life knows this. To end this suffering the Buddha prescribed the 8 Fold Path.
Now, esoterically – and here’s the enlightening bit – the Buddha taught his disciples that life is full of suffering: because the common person is a total idiot completely oblivious to the anatomy and mechanics of the causal world.
It’s simple really. The Buddha is Self Enlightened because he had come to realize that the causal world operates or functions on a very simple causal mechanics: Put in – get out. He didn’t have a word for this so he hijacked a pre-existing word from Hinduism: karma. Unfortunately the word Karma already came with supernatural stigma such as: retribution, divine judgment, reward for good deeds, punishment for bad deeds. Which served its purpose at the time as it kept the common idiot in order.
Karma is like a dust bunny under your fridge [as with most things superstitious and occultish]. It looks innocent and almost cute at first, but over time, it builds up and grows into a disgusting monster. Today karma is this bastardized *slash* Occidentalized “cosmic law,” where some Thing watches your every move and rewards you accordingly over time – or many life times [primitive Cargo Cult thinking]. You would think that after so many centuries of knowing such a cosmic law, and doing good deeds, that the human race [its population] would grow more progressively rewarded and blessed with each generation. But we seem to see the total opposite: the human race appears to actually be going to hell in a hand basket and we’re taking the earth with us.
Buddhism today has actually lost the Light the Buddha had discovered. I know because I was raised a Theravada Buddhist in oriental context; and I study Buddhism as it is mutilated and sold to the western market.
As great and non-religious as Theravada Buddhism is [as it is written in the Tipitakas], it’s practiced very differently by the Southern Buddhists. Theravada is also known as Southern Buddhism as it dominates the southern portion of Asia.
To the average common southern Buddhist folk, the Buddha isn’t a teacher, he’s a deity, a god. Some tell me he is the supreme god. And underneath him are the Hindu gods. Instead of meditating for self enlightenment, the common folk pray to statues of the Buddha and asks him for favors in return for thing.
My family and I often go to this one Thai wat [temple] where there is a giant statue of an Emerald Buddha. It’s said that if you pray to the emerald Buddha and ask for something, and promise to give the emerald Buddha 24 chicken eggs in return for answering your wish, it will come true. The thing is the wat is packed to the ceiling with cartons of eggs.
I did try it. I lit three sticks of sandalwood, made my wish, and prostrated before the green statue three times. This was long ago when I first tried it. I was in love with some one at the time. I told the green Buddha that if he brought my object of affection to me, I would bring him 100 cartons of 24 eggs; after all, they were just chicken eggs; what a deal!
After you pray and make your wish before the statue, you wander off to the side of the platform which the statue sits on and put in a dollar in a little red box on the carpet. Then you pick up this cup thing made of bamboo inside which are 64 little bamboo sticks with a number on them. And you shake the cup thing until a stick falls out. Then you take the number on the stick and go to the cubby box with the number on it and get a piece of paper with your fortune written on it in Chinese, Thai, Khmer, and bad English. Usually the fortune that you get relates to the wish you made. I had my mom read mine for me, because the English translation was a single badly written paragraph, while the fortune in Thai and Khmer took up the whole page.
Anyways, after two month I got my wish, to my surprise. That’s when I had to figure out where to get 100 cartons of eggs, and how to get 2400 eggs to the wat safely. I joking tell Kayla that she was cheap because I only had to trade 2400 eggs with the Buddha for her.
All my friends learned about the green Buddha, and they all started to go to the wat also. Eventually all of them started to bring cartons of eggs to the green Buddha too monthly. And I kept on going back for more. Every time you ask for something, and you negotiate how many eggs you will bring, your wish somehow comes true.
Anyways every weekend the wat has a thing where they sell Thai food and have a BBQ, and all these Thai and Khmer people come out and converge at the wat in droves. Inside the temple you can smell sandalwood everywhere, and you can here the constant sound of bamboo sticks shaking underneath the monotoned droning of old monks chanting as they sprinkle “holy water” on elderly ladies.
Outside the old nuns and others have all these booths set up cooking and serving different food and sweets. Then under this one tree on the other side of the temple are these jewelry booths set up by these guys with magic tats decorating their arms and bodies.
In their jewelry cases they sell these magical Buddha necklaces made of beads and strange metal for $100-$500 a piece. Each necklace magically does something. Some make you bullet proof? Some helps you win court cases? Others help you win in gambling? Or make girls like you?
Then the monks all get into the fortune telling, and magic stuff too. You give a monk some money and he’ll take you to his room and read your fortune for you, or give you a magical yantra for whatever reason.
The monkhood of southern Buddhism has de-evolved from an institute of devoted men on a quest for self enlightenment, to a school which teaches trivial Buddhist philosophy and magical chants and occult knowledge.
“De-evolve” is not the right term to use. It’s like saying Tibetan Buddhism de-evolved into some occultish Bon-po thing – when Bon had long been the ancient indigenous religion of the Tibetan people.
All this animism, and cargo-cult wishing and negotiating with spirits that live in statues, magical tattoos, magic metals and necklaces, and magical chants and yantras were a living part of an indigenous way of the people of Southeast Asia. The Buddhism is a superficial cover, which is barely understood by the folk itself.
My mom and family, and even the monks I have spoken with tell me that the only law of Buddhism is: Don’t cause others to suffer, and do good, so you can be reborn in a better life. So in the south, it is safe to say with regard to Buddhism, that what is written is not what is practiced. The written religion, and the Way of Life in Theravada are two very different things.
In the West, Buddhism seems to be tailored to satisfy the taste of the market. The Buddha is actually a teacher, whose teachings are at times philosophical, other times deep or moralistic. Karma has gotten its own life beyond the confines of its Hindu-Buddhist parent. “What goes around, comes around.” So Karma has de-evolved into.
You’ve got this Dalai Lama sometimes preaching Buddhism to occidental seekers of exotic truths – hoping that somehow via his preaching, he will one day become the autocratic-theocratic ruler of Tibet again.
But nobody in the west [or east] seems to know what the Buddha DIS-COVERED that caused him to be called the Self Enlightened One. Not even the Dalai Lama – for IF he knew the essence and meaning of what the Buddha Dis-Covered, the Dalai Lama would not be whining and crying for his lost Tibet: lost to China. As a wise woman once said: “We must ultimately dance with what we put into motion.” That is the genuine meaning of what the Buddha meant by “Karma.” That is what he Dis-Covered.
“Karma” basically means “to act.” That’s it. The ACT of doing something sets off a causal chain reaction which the Buddha names the Eightfold Paths. Essentially, what you think influences how you feel. You emotions influences your actions. Your actions in life, then produces reactions. These reactions then manifests as experience. The ONA’s esoteric concept of Wyrd better resonates with the Buddha’s original meaning of “karma.”
These reactions generated from our own actions, not only effects our lives, but it ripples out to effect others, and vise versa.
Thus, it can be understood why there is suffering in the first place. Stupid people do stupid things. 7 billion stupid people doing stupid things equals the eventual extinction of our species. What do I mean though by “stupid?” By stupid, I mean the inability to see and feel beyond your own self – lack of Empathy in other words. It’s also the inability to understand that your actions don’t stop when you stop doing stuff. Your actions continues to exist as a creative or destructive force altering your life, creating the reality you will experience, and effecting the lives and reality of those around you.
The inability of European aristocrats to Empathize with the serf and common people they are abusing, exploiting, tyrannizing – eventually progresses into revolution where those same aristocrats are beheaded and lose their power. Whose fault is it that the revolution happened?
The inability for greedy shareholders of pharmaceutical corporations to Empathize with the sickness and disease of the common person, to genuinely care enough to rid the disease or sickness, and instead sells pills that only cover up the symptoms and produces new side effects. This in turn, over time causes more medical complications and disorders in a large segment of society.
The inability for food corporations to genuinely empathize with the actual nutritional needs of a people, and instead pack their food products with man made chemicals that preserve or makes it taste better for profit. This in turn, over a period of time, causes physiological complications in a large segment of society because who is to know, what those chemicals do to us over a long period of time.
We never stop to ask ourselves why feral dingos don’t get cancer, but our pet dogs do? Why people living in many parts of Asia and Africa have never even had a case of cancer; but yet it’s a leading cause of death in the west. Heart disease – how many people outside the chemical grip of industrialized western civilization dies of heart disease.
It’s not just about politics and disease. It’s also about financial well being of a person and nation.
The inability of Europe to Empathize with Africans caused the rape, plunder, and mass continental exploitation of Africa. Sure, such actions gave Europe a quick fix of wealth and power. But are the long term effects of Europe’s Wyrd in Africa worth it? Is it worth all the famine? All the political instability? All of the genocide that manifested?
We can ignore Africa for a while, and pretend nothing is wrong with it. But in time, when the fresh water is too polluted to drink, the raped land is to dry to cultivate, the political regimes fallen. There will be mass migration; mass war; mass genocide. Where will these people go if not into other countries for there survival – en mass. Which will cause more problems.
Lack of Empathy thus causes human suffering. But it goes deeper than just empathizing with another person. Lack of Chronomorphic – or Aeonic – perspective causes human suffering.
By lack of aeonic perspective I mean to say that one lacks the ability see the fruits of one’s action in a future time frame. For example: if you cut down the Amazon rainforest, what will causally manifest 100 years from now when there is no more rainforest? If you continue to insist that you are better than others, or that you can continue to do as you please without regard for yourself and others, what kind of life will you experience 10-25 years from now?
From an aeonic perspective, sometimes acts that – for the moment – appears to be compassionate, empathetic, and productive, ends up having negative causal effects which prolongs or enhances human suffering. For example: Mother Theresa.
She is a saint in my eyes. For an old woman to devote all her time to the poor of India, is no easy task. Cleaning the streets of dead bodies, nursing the sick, comforting the rejected: But to what end? Mother Theresa was a blind saint. Blind because she only nursed an open wound of a nation, and did not cure the cause of the wound.
No amount of clearing the streets of Calcutta of dead bodies, feeding the hungry, and comforting the hopeless is ever going to teach the people of India to work together to get itself out of poverty, for the sake of their own people. Mother Theresa only kept people alive longer to suffer longer. Why is it that a nation like Australia with only 25 million people can materialize a well to do collective existence; but yet a nation of 1 Billion living in a naturally lush, and resource rich land mass as India can’t house or feed most of its population? The Enlightened solution has been stated before rather well: Give a beggar a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish, and he eats for life. It is Numinous to Empathize with the suffering of a person, but it becomes un-numinous when you act out your pity without aeonic perspective by doing something for a quick fix for the unfortunate.
For example: You neighbor is laid off from work and he has a family and house to think about. Which of these two courses of Numinous action would – thru an understanding of Wyrd – manifest the best and most positive result which would have less suffering: A) You pity your neighbor, and out of pure altruism pay his bills and mortgage for him; or B) Take him to the unemployment office, make him go back to school to get a high education. If you pick A, you only temporarily cover up the symptoms of a cause. The cause which is inside your neighbor, which is born from him lacking the right mind, right heart, and right actions.
This brings us to the Numinous Way’s focus on human suffering and the cessation of human suffering.
We know that suffering exists. We know some of the causes of human suffering. But do we know how to stop human suffering when we see it? Sometimes, a Sinister act or Applied Force must be set into motion to end human suffering. I’ll give to quick examples to illustrate:
The American and French Revolution. Revolution with its bloodshed may seem to contradict the Numinous Way superficially without aeonic perspective; but aeonically what did it achieve? It ended the suffering of the common person, and actually gave them something never before experienced: Liberty.
The other example would be the mass starvation of places like Ethiopia and Somalia. It’s heartbreaking to seek those little children die of famine. It is extreme suffering. But what choices do we have to end such suffering? Do we give the political regime in charge millions of dollars to feed its people? Chances are that money will never be used for what it was intended for. Do we send food to the government to feed its people? Chances are the food would be sold for weapons. Do we feed the people directly? We can, but this won’t solve the cause of the famine: the Politics and people in control who don’t care about their own people.
A predator with claws and sharp teeth is the last likely candidate for Nature’s Numinous Soldiers. The thought of a predator like a cheetah or lion evokes thoughts of heartlessly or opportunistically chasing down poor defenseless antelopes. But is nature that cruel?
What would happen in nature if we took out the Predators: the wolves, coyotes, dingos, tigers, lions, or spiders? There would be no force to keep the herbivore population in check. Nothing would cull genetically or physically defected herbivore which would contaminate its gene pool with irregular genes. Over time, not only is the surrounding environment depleted of vegetation – which in turn causes land erosion; but the very genetic health of a given species deteriorates – which may cause the very species to go extinct.
Nature is an Integrated Symbiotic System, in which every one of its parts has a unique and vital – Numinous – role to play. Without one part or species, the whole system falls apart. And we are just beginning to realize this, when it is all too late, because our arrogance and ignorance has already done the damage.
Thus, we cannot point to a particular part/species of Nature and say that one part is more “sacred,” more vital, more numinous, than another. No more than we can point to an organ in our own body and say that such organ is the best, or most human of bodily organs.
In the same way, we cannot be so blind in regards to the Numinous Way, to concentrate on an idealistic aspect of Nature, the Cosmos, or even an abstract idealism, and say that such idealism is “Numinous,” above the rest of Nature. We must learn to see Nature and the Living Cosmos as the integral whole that it is – to which we are not only a living part of, but a vital sprocket of.
In the same sense, we cannot blindly choose an idealism such as Ahimsa [non-violence] or something in the Numinous Way and say that such an empathetic and honorable concept as non-violence is better and more numinous than intelligently applied force or predatorial instinct. Because one superficially seems to prevent human suffering, while the other superficially seems to cause it. In either case, when Empathy, Compassion, Pity, Ahimsa, or Force, is taken to the extreme – that extreme nature always causes human suffering: personally and supra-personally.
There is a point where extreme empathy and extreme force blurs: the point where an antiabortionist is so empathetic with an unborn fetus that they would kill a doctor. The extreme love and empathy of an overly protective mother for her overly sheltered children – not only causes suffering in the children, but limitation, and stupidity. The well intentions of Christians who genuinely believe their pile of crap religion who want us to live in a nation where bible policies is state policies, to protect our souls from eternal damnation – it’s nice and friendly, but would cause a lot of suffering. Thanks but no thanks.
Nature is neither extremely empathetic or extremely forceful with Her Children. There are times when the Cosmos seems cold and indifferent. There are times when Nature seems violent. But then there are those times when the Cosmos seems to be alive, dancing before you – calling; and Nature seems to offer Her bounteous fruits up.
The secret to Nature and the Living Cosmos is it has a “Cosmic Policy,” or a “Natural Agenda.” Nature has a goal and an objective – a Wyrd to weave and manifest. It is not a random coming and going of life and weather phenomena. There is progression. Look back to the earth’s past and you will see the progression – the Cosmic Policy.
Nature is thus like any strong and vital nation with a strong sense of where they want to be and what they want to accomplish. America as a nation in the international community has a strong self identity, an objective, a goal, a purpose, and aim. It has foreign policies and it deals with other nations according to how these other nations help it manifest it’s own goals. So America seems cold and violent to some nations, while close and brotherly with others. In the same way Nature was cold and unforgiving with the dinosaurs and Neanderthalis, and more caring and affectionate with us as a species – because we serve Nature’s and the Cosmos’s agenda: The agenda of spreading life – our blood and seed across the galaxy and Cosmos.
From this bigger, more Cosmic point of view, Life goes beyond the cause and concern for suffering. If Nature were so concerned for the welfare of all of its little parts, those ancient primordial bacteria in that primordial pond would still be alive existing in a perfect bacterial paradise, and we would not be here today. But with Cosmic Wisdom, an objective and balance between adhering to such objectives and empathy for its parts, Nature has not only evolved into many causal forms, but each form thrives in it’s own environment. But this did not come without a cost – some suffered, some perished.
So, just as they say: The few must die to give life to the many. There are times when the few must suffer to give peace and progression to the many. There must be balance and a goal to work towards – even in the Numinous Way – otherwise, it is aimless and pointless. As aimless and pointless as Buddhism is.
Buddhism is a quaint collection of nice ideas of compassion for all things and non-violence; and it would be great if we could all just practice those simple principles – but to what end? Buddhism has been in existence for 2500 years. What fruits has it produced for the human race after 2500 years? Are we any better off today because of it then 2500 years ago? No, actually today we have a thousand more things to worry and suffer over. Where would we be if 2500 years ago the Buddha taught: Be kind to each other, and by the way, lets go to the moon.
The cessation of human suffering is not enough for the Numinous Way. The rest of it must come along – the progression of the individual human to it’s highest potential; and the progression of human civilization to it’s highest potential: Galactic Civilization. Such an agenda – a policy – implies an eventual need to compromise the suffering of a few for the prosperity and peace of the future many.
But there must be a Vision, a purpose, a goal. Otherwise it’s pointless. It’s the difference between the high school graduate who knows what she wants to be in 5 years, and how to get there. She sets her goals, and gives her life a purpose and objective. She will suffer greatly: debts from loans and grants; expensive books; those long nights of no sleep; working a full time job also; all the stress and tears. Versus a guy who graduated from high school, and after reading the Satanic Bible figures he is his own god, and that he will indulge each day as it comes. Sure, our profane Satanist may live an easy – stress free life of low suffering. But after 5 years, which of the two will have done something with their lives? Which of these two will actually enjoy old age, and which will be working at WalMart at the age of 60 going to his grave worried about bills and medical debt, and whose fault is it if he suffers?
That example is the essence of Wyrd and the original meaning of Karma: We must dance with what we put into motion. That the life we will eventually live and experience is born from what thoughts, emotions, and actions we entertain today. Knowing this secret the Noble minded – the Ariya/Aryan – will understand the means and method of raising to the top because they are enlightened to understand such secrets. The ignoble – the anariya – being an ignorant breed incapable of understanding this secret, even if it were taught to them openly, will continue to live their lives manifesting personal suffering.
Knowing the secret of how this causal world works – wyrd/karma – I will then ask you: What is the true and genuine cause of human suffering? The individual person itself is it’s own cause of suffering. Why? Because they lack the capacity to understand or care to understand that their foolish thoughts, uncontrolled emotions, and stubborn desire to do as they please actually causes their own suffering. How then is human suffered to be ended, if the ultimate and genuine cause of that suffering is a great portion of humanity itself?
It thus becomes the responsibility of the Nobility – the Ariya/Aryan – to strive to climb to the top to become people of power and influence, thus through superficial teachings and politics, guide the ignorant anariya forward for their own good. By Aryan here, I don’t mean a skin color, but a Noble quality of Mind and Civilized essence capable of apprehending lofty and profound concepts- as the word was originally used. Buddhism, it its beginning days was a religion invented by a Noble Aryan Prince intended to be adhered by kings, queens, and their Noble progeny and the Noble Minded who were in positions of power and influence – thus having the power and means to Enlighten the mass through anti-hindu godless philosophy [India was - as it is today - corrupted by Hinduism], and progress their kingdoms through the policies they make. But things don’t always end up as planned. [What's that Magian religion founded by Greek Jews based on a dead Jew on a stick - oh yeah: Christianity. It doesn't surprise me that German National Socialist had a certain amount of honor for Buddhism].
Empathy alone solves nothing. Honor alone does not destroy human suffering. Only Empathy complimented with Intelligence and Wyrd – or aeonic action that manifests a desired future result – will gradually end human suffering.
Thus, there is a place in the Numinous Way for Empathy as much as there is a place for the Sinister Predator. This may seem like saying wolves and rabbits are both numinous and sacred/vital to Nature, which from a localized perspective is hard to understand. But when we take a step back and look at the bigger picture as a functioning symbiotic whole, then we will be enlightened enough to realize that such a statement is genuine. There is a place for everything, and each thing does what it needs to do for Nature its own way.
Thus there is a natural congruency and integral symbiosis between the Numinous Way and the Sinister Way of the ONA esoterically – if we understand the essence of the two, and the way of Nature correctly. Only superficially do these two creations of Myatt appear to be different things. We should know by now in the ONA that the outer form, is not always the essence.
There may be a few insightful tidbits in this essay I wrote. But these insights, and concepts in this essay aren’t mine. It’s all because of Myatt/Long and the many things he wrote. Its just that those writings fell on a fertile mind. I would dare say that Myatt/Long re-Dis-Covered certain long lost “truths” a certain mythical someone named Gautama Buddha once also discovered.
Now, I am not saying or implying that Myatt/Long coppied the teachings of the Buddha, because such Buddhist teaching in this day and age is nothing like it was originally [what is after 2500 years].
If there is a similarity between Buddhism and Myatt’s Numinous Way and even his ONA [when you read the Tipitaka you'll understand]; it is because they are inspired by the same Source: Nature.
It wasn’t until the Buddha had become tired of those cults and religions that he retreated into the forest to be at one with Nature. And in the forest he discovered what is sometimes called the Forest Doctrine: the Enlightening Essence of what would become Buddhism.
This same Nature, inspired another man who mentally and spiritually left the profane world behind for a journey of self evolution, with his eyes constantly deep in the Cosmos. From that same source Myatt extracted Wyrd, Causal, Acausal, Aeonics, his Numinous Way, his Reichsfolk Culture, and even his ONA. True those words may have existed before in some form or other. But it was inside Myatt’s mind where these ideas and concepts were broken down, and reconstructed into a creative and new entity.
It doesn’t take much intelligence to buy the words and ideas of another man and use it as your own – no more than it does to buy a car. The originality, creativity, and genius lays in a mind’s ability to take many old useless concepts and alchemically make something new out of them – in the same way it would require intelligence, creativity, and genius to invent a car from the concepts of a steam engine and a horse drawn wagon. There is a major difference. Many men are buyers and users – few are innovators and manufacturers.
I know there will be the few who slap my wrist for praising Myatt in such a light. But when you have each come to understand the deeper essence of the forest doctrine, and realize that what Myatt is expressing through his mind and writing is essentially the same primal doctrine – then you will see what I see.
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