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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Analogy
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:09:30 -0400 (EDT)
Analogy "The most important analogy of all is that of affiliation: the candidate should affiliate his body, speech, and mind with the Body, Speech, and Mind of the Buddha, called the three mysteries. According to Mkhas grub rje, it is this affiliation which establishes the superiority of the Diamond Vehicle (the Tantras) over non-tantric Buddhism. One affiliates his body by gesture (mudra), his speech by incantation (mantra) and his mind by deep concentration (samadhi). Mkhas grub rje's Fundamentals... states, 'In the Kriya and Carya (Tantras) one intensely contemplates the body as Great Seal (mahamudra), speech as Incantation (mantra), and mind as Reality (tattva). This is the 'Quick Path' because all avenues of the being are operating for a common goal: the body, speech, and mind are not working at cross purposes. In such a case, we might say of body, speech, and mind, what Arya-Sura wrote in his Jataka-mala in description of King Sihi (but in his case meaning the three types, kama, artha, and dharma). [...] 'In him all forms having multitudes of virtues consistent with the three types appeared with common residence as though from merger of rivalries, and they had no loss of brilliance due to opposition and commotion.' In Hinduism it is believed that these three types when in harmony yield the fourth one, liberation (maksa)." (Alex Wayman, Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra, The Arcane Lore of Forty Verses, A Buddhist Tantra Commentary, Motilal Banardsidass, 1990.) http://www.alansondheim.org/vortex1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vortex2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vortex3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/vortex4.png (perhaps unlike software/programming) in my work, there are no errors, only creative commotion on the lip, edge, or brink; there are repertoire extensions to be sure; analogy dissolves; commotion is brilliance; what dissolves is nothing whatsoever; what's left is nothing whatsoever; in the airless realm; in the unintended or intentionless realm; in the true world and the breaking of intention and the intended; in annihilation already foregone or future anterior; in the blank of the afterthought of the alpha channel; in mind noh-mind no-mind; in mindless speechless air; in no-body. (i am full of myself; full of air; i suffocate; therefore i am air.)