Phat

Sama

Speak the truth.

THE CLOUDS

Visualize that you are sitting on top of a very high mountain. The sky above you is filled with puffy white clouds. The banks of white clouds are gently drifting over your head. As you watch them you find yourself feeling very relaxed. Feel that your body is becoming very light. You are so light that you are starting to float. Your body is rising above the mountain top and is floating up into the clouds. You are surrounded by beautiful white puffy clouds on all sides. Feel that you are floating with the clouds. As you drift with the clouds you are losing track of time. Today, yesterday, and tomorrow have all merged together. All that exists for you is timeless floating high above the earth. As you float in the sky you are conscious that you are passing over oceans, deserts, forests, and cities. You are above and beyond them all as you are blown forward by the winds of existence. Continue visualizing yourself floating with the clouds for as long as you like. Simply drift with the white clouds and relax... When you are totally relaxed, picture that you are again among the mountains. Visualize the mountain you were originally sitting on. Feel that your body is growing heavier and that you are drifting back down to the mountain top. Imagine yourself sitting on top of the mountain, completely refreshed and relaxed after your journey with the clouds.

Sambava.

DEBORAH

It seemed odd that one particular week the subject of Zen kept coming up. A friend gave me a book of Zen koans, with answers. The back cover announced it as an 'underground classic.' I thought she had given it to me as a joke because something in me knew that the 'answers' to koans were not like that; not right or wrong regardless of time or place or the intent behind the answer. Another friend told me that week that she'd 'sat Zen' and that there was only one correct answer to each koan. I knew she was wrong but figured she'd had more experience than I. It was that week, too, that Rama began to do Zen exercises with us. He began by describing his breakup with his last girlfriend, Susan. He finally saw that his world love had made it impossible for him to maintain an individual love. He said that his girlfriend and he had gone to an Indian restaurant in New York called “Nirvana.” All the buttons in the elevator had numbers except the top one which was labeled, “Nirvana.” The koan was, “If you press that button will you reach nirvana?” I began to tremble as I often do when something affects me deeply. I remembered. I knew that Rama was doing a contemporary but absolutely correct and pure form of Zen. I knew he was judging the answers correctly. But how did I know? I had never, in this life, studied Zen. And I really didn't believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation was, to me, a fun idea, a game like astrology. I liked to imagine that I had known certain people before I was romantic about it. Unlike many people, I didn't think I had been kings or queens, but rather great warriors and heroes, great revolutionaries and fighters for justice. I imagined I was part of the anti-colonial uprisings in Africa. I have peasant ankles — I must have been many, many peasants. Past lives were simply an amusement. When Rama had said that a great percentage of his students had studied with him in other lives I was sure I had not. Rama had given me a tough time when I applied for admission; I felt as though I'd just made it by the skin of my teeth. I was sure that unlike my friends I was a standby, an orphan.
I wasn't doing well with the koans. My answers were superficial and uncomprehending. But I was deeply, deeply moved, tears streaming down my cheeks and my body trembling. I remembered. I remembered having studied Zen. Still, I couldn't believe it and I was afraid to ask Rama. I didn't want to find out that I had imagined it all; it would be worse than not knowing. But I asked anyway. “This Zen game is very familiar,” I said to him. “Oh yes. You've had many Japanese incarnations. You've played this game many times before.” My God, I thought, maybe I'm not crazy. Or at least not about this particular thing. I had to ask. “With you?” “Yes.” I was totally elated. I was one of his past life students. The bond I felt when I first saw him wasn't because I was just a maniac. I had gone wild with my burning to study with Rama. This was why! I'm 'in,' I thought. I'm one of the people who has a special connection with him. His attitude changed. I don't remember what he said to me but he was responding to my silly feeling of being 'in.' When I went home everything in me had changed. I had experienced that reincarnation was true. Maybe other things Rama had said, things antithetical to my rational mind, were also true. I felt that something had clicked into place. I felt clean and centered and that it was time to change. I had held on a long time to my feminist, butch looks. I knew I had to be able to look straight and feminine. I had to buy dresses, I had to be able to fit in. It was time. I must be able to choose how I appeared to people rather than having them be able to type me. I needed to be able to be incognito. I needed to stop mothering and counseling and trying to make everyone understand me and like me. I had to stop believing that my great wisdom was so important. I had to begin to work on my own incredible indulgences. Most of all something in me accepted what I could not accept. The next week I had a long talk with a friend in the center who had been sitting near Rama and I when Rama told me I had been his student. He heard Rama say, “You are too much in the ego. It's time to grow up now, Deborah.” I know I listened carefully to Rama and I could swear that on an outer level he'd not said that. And yet, when I had gotten home I had responded, inwardly, exactly as though I had heard him. Had I simply blocked out hearing Rama's outer voice, or had my friend heard his inner one? It didn't seem to matter; the line was blurring between the inner and outer connections with Rama. Both my friend and I were learning to listen with our subtle senses.

But suppose you paid a lot of attention to algebra, which I guess Galbraith didn't, and you think, "Well, the fundamental principle of algebra is, 'If A is equal to B and B is equal to C, then A is equal to C."' You've then got a fundamental principle that demands that you look for functional equivalents, all you can find. So suppose you ask the question, "Is there such a thing in economics as a febezzlement?" By the way, Galbraith invented the word "bezzle" to describe the amount of undisclosed embezzlement, so I invented the word "febezzlement": the functional equivalent of embezzlement.

I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the monk, Fra Luca de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest. Then, the cash register. The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register-based system, helps the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms. I'll go further: I say economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. We have a charming Irish Catholic priest in our neighborhood, and he loves to say, "Those old Jews may have invented guilt, but we perfected it."
And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man. But economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns of numbers.

Many bad effects from vice are clear. You've got the crazy booms and crooked promotions-all you have to do is read the paper over the last six months. There's enough vice to make us all choke. And, by the way, everybody's angry about unfair compensation at the top of American corporations, and people should be. We now face various crazy governance nostrums invented by lawyers and professors that won't give us a fix for unfair compensation, yet a good partial solution is obvious: If directors were significant shareholders who got a pay of zero, you'd be amazed what would happen to unfair compensation of corporate executives as we dampened effects from reciprocity tendency. A roughly similar equivalent of this no-pay system has been tried in a strange place. In England, lay magistrates staff the lower criminal courts, which can send you to prison for a year or fine you substantially. You've got three judges sitting up there, and they all get a pay of zero. Their expenses are reimbursed, but not too liberally. And they work about forty half-days a year, as volunteers. It's worked beautifully for about seven hundred years. Able and honest people compete to become magistrates, to perform the duty and get the significance, but no pay.

It is not always recognized that, to function best morality should sometimes appear unfair, like most worldly outcomes. The craving for perfect fairness causes a lot of terrible problems in system function. Some systems should be made deliberately unfair to individuals because they'll be fairer on average for all of us. Thus, there can be virtue in apparent non-fairness. I frequently cite the example of having your career over, in the Navy, if your ship goes aground, even if it wasn't your fault. I say the lack of justice for the one guy that wasn't at fault is way more than made up by a greater justice for everybody when every captain of a ship always sweats blood to make sure the ship doesn't go aground. Tolerating a little unfairness to some to get a greater fairness for all is a model I recommend to all of you. But again, I wouldn't put it in your assigned college work if you want to be graded well, particularly in a modern law school wherein there is usually an over-love of fairness-seeking process.

Right side + Wrong side= Right side

Devil will punish them.

369

Yamantaka

Solitude is the mother of creativity.

Phat.

Except in certain rare cases, they banned publicly traded stock in England for decades. Parliament passed a law that said you can have a partnership with a few partners, but you can't have publicly-traded stock. And, by the way, England continued to grow without publicly-traded stock. The people who are in the business of prospering because there's a lot of stock being traded in casino-like frenzy wouldn't like this example if they studied it enough. It didn't ruin England to have a long period when they didn't have publicly-traded shares.

Om

Close your eyes and watch the worlds inside your heart.

Phat

God glory

God saves

God writes

Foboyama

Paradoma

Sofridoma

Twema

Phat

What does God really look like stripped naked?That's the province of enlightenment...the formless perfect state of existence.

Meditation is a powerful practice especially when it's done with maximum regard for Gid and His rules as we have it in the Bible

The occult body is a field of attention. A human being is composed of various parts: the physical body; the subtle physical body or the etheric body; the occult body; the psychic body; the mind; the ego; the life force; and of course the jiva or the soul or what they call in Buddhism the anatman, that eternal spark which is the ultimate perceiver or non-doer. The occult body is not a body in the sense that it has a shape. It's shapeless. The occult body is a field of attention. It's an avenue of awareness. It's a wind tunnel that connects the different realities. Now certainly there are what we call “occult bodies.” It is possible to create these occult bodies. They're extensions of your own bodies; we call them allies or helpers. An advanced spiritual aspirant is capable of creating many different bodies and can utilize these bodies to help aid others in their liberation. But the occult body, more than anything, is a field of awareness. You might say it's a way of being. The occult body is power but power that is not directed in an obvious manner. The word “occult” means hidden, that which is unseen. There are various forms of spiritual practice. Naturally in some forms of spiritual practice we see that which is apparent. When someone loves God, is truthful, is kind to others, compassionate, we can see what appears to be the cause and effect. But the occult body is part of the realm of mysticism and it works through the occult fields. Just as there are different radio frequencies—shortwave, longwave, television, microwave—so in the cosmos there are different planes of awareness, different frequencies of being. Some of these frequencies don't relate to human beings at all. Some do. The principal planes that relate to human beings are the physical plane, which is part and parcel of the physical body; the vital plane or the plane of energy, the life force; the mental plane or the plane of thought and ideation; the plane of self, the sense of self, the ego, the "I”; the occult plane which is the plane of mysterious power, effect without cause; the psychic plane, which is the plane of beauty and psychic oneness and awareness; and finally the superconscious, the undifferentiated pure light of being from which all things come forth and to which all things return. The occult plane is neither good nor bad, neither emotional nor unemotional. It's an expression of pure intensity. We go down to the beach on a cloudy, stormy night when the wind is blowing and there's a tremendous gale. The white caps are foaming, the winds are rising and everything is swept by that wind. The surf pounds the sand. That intensity, that tremendous, awesome power is similar to the occult reality. The occult reality is a place of force and power.

You travel through the occult plane, through this different spectrum or band of existence, in your occult body. The occult body is your extended awareness. For example, if I choose to, I can send my occult body anywhere, to any universe, to any plane of existence, to any place in this world. And my occult body can produce effects. I can gather knowledge and see. It's like having a kind of mobile video unit out there. I can communicate, transmit power, prevent things from happening, start things—all without leaving my room. I can sit here in my room and create effects without appearing to create effects. This is all done through the occult body. Now, the occult body can be used for positive things. In my case I use the occult body to locate students, people who seek enlightenment, who I could work successfully with. Many people might seek enlightenment but I wouldn't be of any help to them. I wouldn't appeal to them as a teacher, even though I'm enlightened. The shoe wouldn't necessarily fit. But there are many people on this earth who live in many far-flung lands. Some are my students from past lives or some have worked with other teachers, but they could work successfully with me, meaning that I can be of some service to them along their way, which is of course what I live in this world for. Now, for me to find those people is very difficult. The world is very big; we only have a small amount of time in any given incarnation. So how could I find those people? I could travel the world and put ads in magazines, but maybe that day they wouldn't look in the magazine. Or maybe they're just in such a state of inner slumber that the thought of meditation and self-discovery hasn't even occurred to them yet. Even though they have an advanced soul, they're wrapped in maya. So what I—or any spiritual teacher—do is to use my occult body to work for me. My occult body can be out traveling, producing effects and creating changes, waking people up, giving them spiritual experiences, guiding them in some way to see a poster or an ad or something like that. People who are receptive, whom I could be of some service to, can be helped tremendously by my occult body. I don't have to necessarily be consciously aware of what it's doing. The mind is limited. It's a small computer, a little home computer. It can only process a certain amount of information. It has a limited storage facility—64K. However, there are other parts of our being that can do much more. Now, the mind will not necessarily be aware of what the other parts of the being do or will only have glimpses of it. In order to become aware of what the other parts of our being do, we must move into the superconscious. From a point high on top of the mountain we can look down and see everything that's happening in the valley, on any side. When we're in the valley, sometimes it's hard to see just past the next line of trees. So from a high altitude, from the superconscious, you become aware of what the many sides of your being do. Very often I use the occult body in dreaming. The occult body is the body of dreaming. At night when I'm asleep for a few hours I use the occult body to travel and visit, to give people spiritual experiences, to learn, or simply to have a good time, just to play. Because I love to play, just to play in the occult realms. Sometimes in the occult realms I have to fight sorcerers and witches and nonphysical beings that are harmful. I also have many friends who are in the occult realms, who exist in these planes, nonphysical beings who help me terrifically in what I do. We work together as a team. For humanity. Very often my occult body will travel in dreaming when I'm awake. For example, I might have a student who's in, let's say, Japan. I might be physically awake at that time, but my occult body, if my student is asleep, can enter their dreams, can converse with them, can communicate with them, teach them or simply have fun with them. I have literally thousands of occult bodies. Being an advanced teacher, who's been a spiritual teacher for many, many lifetimes, I've accrued the power to manifest hundreds and thousands of occult bodies simultaneously. Or you can say that hundreds and thousands of occult bodies have learned how to manifest me. Either one would be correct. I use the occult body just for fun, to give people beautiful spiritual experiences, to help find people, in other words to aid people in their spiritual evolution, to help them in their overall advancement.