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“If with kindly generosity

One merely has the wish to soothe

The aching hearts of other beings,

Such merit has no bounds.”

―Kuan Yin

“For as long as space endures

And for as long as living beings remain

Until then may I too abide

To dispel the misery of the world.”

―Shantideva

Compassion and generosity are the hallmarks of the most elevated souls, fully manifested within beings like Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Moses, and all the prophets. The amazing fact is that such beings were once like us: filled with greed, envy, resentment, and all of the psychological contaminations and defects that make us suffer. What is also empowering is that we have the potential to become like these enlightened masters, whom in the east are known as bodhisattvas: "the essence or incarnation of wisdom," the latter word indicating Prajna in Sanskrit, or "vis-dom: the power of vision / perception." The equivalent Hebrew term is Chokmah חָכמָה, signifying Christ in the mystical Kabbalah.

The essence of genuine spirituality is kindness, selfless service, and comprehension of the root nature of all existence: the unsurpassed wisdom of emptiness, Prajna, Śūnyatā, or uncreated light of the Kabbalists, denominated in Gnostic terms as Khristos, Christ. Christ is not a human person, but the intense, primordial root energy of boundless compassion for suffering beings trapped within cyclic or manifested existence. This divine force, the emptiness of enlightened cognizance, sustains all of the universe and sacrifices itself by entering within those practitioners who are properly cultivated and prepared through the great perfections or paramitas, the trainings, principles, or qualities of awakened consciousness within Tibetan Buddhism.

Learn about the path of enlightenment through a gnostic exegesis of Shantideva's seminal Mahayana text, The Way of the Bodhisattva, and how the enlightened mind / heart of wisdom, bodhichitta, can be developed within the practitioner of any denomination, religion, or tradition.

A Gnostic commentary of Shantideva’s text.

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In the garbage ,

I see a rose.

In the rose ,

I see the garbage.

Everything is in transformation.

Even permanence is impermanent

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When we are young our memory is quite good. Our powers of imagination are very strong and our bodies are generally healthy, in accordance to our karma. But at the age of puberty we enter into very serious problems, we come to know profound anxiety. The suffering of a teenager is like nothing else you go through in your life. So much confusion, so much complexity, so much pain everyday. And because our culture, our karma does not teach us the proper methods, those experiences deepen, we continue to expel this energy and thus our imagination, our memory, our willpower (all of which are driven by the ethers of the vital body), our sense of true value of ourselves as a soul, are all depleted and we rely more and more on false images to give us security. We take the energy and we begin to feed the false images of the mind: we create an illusion in order to cope with our suffering. We imagine the ideal mate, the ideal life, the ideal self. It is those ideals that put us at odds against our true nature, against everyone else in the world, and most especially against our own inner God. They are ideals born of fear and pride, not of the consciousness.”

— Gnostic Instructor (via thatwhichdoesnotsuffer)

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SHANTIDEVA'S PRAYER (Hozan adaptation)

Now and forever may I become

A protector for those without protection;

A guide for all who have no direction;

A ship for those on the great sea of loss;

A bridge for beings with rivers to cross.

A sanctuary for all in danger and flight;

A lamp for those who are seeking the light;

A refuge for those who find no safe place;

And a servant to all in sure need of grace.

As long as space forever unfurls.

Wherever beings reside in this world.

Til then may I abide and persist.

Wherever sorrows of our world exist.

* * *

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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

— Albert Camus, The Fall

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"Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself—only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity." —G. I. Gurdjieff

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Emptiness is your ultimate protection against all enemies, both internal and external, and against the suffering that they inflict.

No matter how many enemies that you experience, no matter who or what they are, whether they are other beings, or an environment, or an afflictive emotion, or an illness, or whatever, not one of them truly exists without being dependent upon your mind's internal enemy.

For as long as your mind ignorantly grasps at an inherently existent 'self', there will always be an inherently existent 'other', and therefore you will always ignorantly perceive truly existent enemies, and you will suffer accordingly.

The moment that your mind is rid of this ignorance, by instead perceiving the reality of the emptiness of self, in other words, the lack of an inherently existent self, all internal and external enemies will disappear, and no matter what you encounter, you will always experience the pure bliss of reality.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

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“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”

— Viktor Frankl

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The mind is a mirror, and the world that appears is an inseparable reflection of itself.

"We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all."

~ Kalu Rinpoche

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“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” 'I don’t know.' “Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Learn the facts, fictions, and realities of astral projection and dream yoga from your own experience. A free online course with accompanying podcast, transcriptions, and videos, sequential and didactic practices for experiencing, remembering, and awakening within dreams, common obstacles and their remedies, questions and answers, and more. Final transcriptions have been uploaded. We hope that these classes aid you in developing your complete and divine potential!

Transform the dream state and awaken consciousness within the internal worlds.

Spiritual Nights and Gnostic Soteriology in Fidelio (Act II)

Every disciple of the straight and narrow way that leads to life (Matthew 7:13-14) must inevitably experience the afflictive consequences of their former actions. The question becomes if they do so with resignation, acceptance, and perseverance, so that by consciously and patiently paying what one owes before the divine law, spiritual debts are reconciled and wisdom is cultivated. However, the process is a prolonged and grueling one, designated by some authors as “dark nights of the soul.” In such moments of despair, loneliness, and abandonment, the practitioner lacks inner illumination to guide them forward in the psychological work, or as Christ exclaimed on the cross: “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46). While spiritual nights are painful and experienced by everyone in the Gnostic path, they are a necessary step towards self-realization, for ordeals and tests are fundamental for proving one’s candidacy in the mysteries. As Beethoven demonstrated in his life and his only opera, the initiate can overcome the punishment of the law through tenacity, negotiation, forgiveness, and supreme faith in divinity. See how in the conclusion of Beethoven’s only opera, whereby Florestan seeks his liberation from the prison of karma with the help of his courageous wife Leonora, the divine soul that descends like an angel from heaven to redeem the fallen Sophia.

How Beethoven depicted the gnostic path of redemption.

Theophany and Spiritual Descent in Fidelio (Act I)

Disguised as Fidelio, a male prison guard, Leonora seeks access to her incarcerated husband’s secret cell in the effort of freeing him. Like other metaphors in religion, the gnostic mythos describes the descent of divine light into the prison of the mind, seeking to liberate and elevate Pistis Sophia (the revolutionary consciousness) back to her rightful spiritual hierarchy. In the same manner, Leonora (the “light of Leo,” Helios, the Sun, Christ), disguises herself within the world of forms to perform a very sacred mission: the redemption and liberation of her forsaken husband Florestan, wrongly imprisoned due to political rivalry. Don Pizarro, the corrupt politician who governs the prison and Florestan’s persecution, symbolizes the gnostic archons, karma, and metaphysical laws that punish and oppress Pistis Sophia’s efforts towards self-realization. Discover how our own inner divinity (Leonora, the divine embodiment of the Christic light) makes super-efforts to orchestrate the greatest work in the cosmos: the liberation of the psyche from suffering and the complete development of our human potential.

How Christ manifests within and redeems the initiate.

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“Love purifies everything as long as you don’t go and get people into trouble, though of course, if you don’t mind about that, it simply means you don’t really love them.”

—The Initiate, Cyril Scott

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“You see, the trouble is, that although virtue is said to be its own reward, few people know how to acquire either the virtue or the reward; their idea is, simply to kill out their feelings – a process so unalluring that few wish to practice it – whereas they ought to transmute their feelings instead. Kill out a feeling, and there is nothing but tedium left; transmute it, and you transmute it into joy. Even the killing-out process is seldom a success, for the war is usually made on the gratification of the desire instead of the desire itself. A man has only overcome the drink habit when he no longer desires to drink, not when he merely refrains from drinking. Now, a lower desire can only be overcome by replacing it with a higher one, the higher desire being in reality productive of greater happiness than the lower.”

—The Initiate, Cyril Scott

Mastery is not the end of spiritual development, for while an individual can acquire, cultivate, and express their soul in this physical world, such a laudable achievement does not signify perfection in mastery. While many masters exist in Nirvana, heaven, or bliss, few are willing to renounce their happiness, return to this physical world, and guide humanity out of suffering. However, this is the essential requirement for incarnating Christ, the divine forces of boundless, enlightened compassion represented in many religions. Discover superior stages of initiation symbolized by Christ’s mystical life in the Gospels, or how a developed human being enters a true inner revolution against their own psychological defects, thereby performing a tremendous humanitarian mission.

How Christ rises within the initiate as serpents of light.

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