Vajradharma

Vajra is a thunderbolt.  it is the lightning in the sky; it is the ego-destroying breakthrough.  The annihilation of the small self reveals the hidden doorway which leads to the open vistas of our own true nature.  The vajra is for people who like to stay up late, go fast, and jump out of perfectly good airplanes.

The vajra path is not the sutra path.  The vajra path is the tantric path.  Its not easy to explain.

Look:  you know the story of the turtle and the hare, who got caught up in a race?  Imagine if they had worked together, so that the turtle carried the rabbit long distances and the rabbit carried the turtle really fast over short distances.  They would be invincible together, right?  The best of both worlds.  But that would require a paradigm shift in their whole relationship; they would have to overcome their natural tendency to compete and instead choose to cooperate.

And so, if we were to use words to describe the process, we might say that the zero-sum game of competition mutates into the nonzero sum game of cooperation over time because of the innate human quality of compassion.  Or in this instance, nonhuman quality.

Compassion is the source of great miracles.  This is the premise of the tantric vajra path.  The psychic quantum universe is nonlinear and nonlocal,  and all feelings are felt by all, nonlinearly and nonlocally, and as a fractal of the holographic cosmos, compassion is the source of great miracles.

And yet this compassion carries with it a tremendous wrathful energy with which it defends its boundaries.  Infinite compassion wrathfully defended by impenetrable boundaries is a formidable combination.  It's the bright lightness of the hare, protected by the heavy armor of the turtle.  Because it's the best of both worlds, it's the breakthrough bomb.  It's the lightning bomb.  Its the vajra.

This compassion is aligned with the dharma.  It is not blind or slavish compassion; it is an intelligent, skillfully guided compassion, which intuits easily what is dharma and what is nondharma.  And by using skillful means the practitioner of the vajra dharma artfully, humorously and nonviolently decapitates heads, annihilating egos for the sake of the truth, tenderly composting the detritus and greeting the new birth with joy.  And so the weeds of nondharma are pulled from the garden of dharma, wrathfully and compassionately, without craving or aversion, by the vajra tantrik or tantrika.  Vajra dharma tantrics are like bodhisattva special forces.  Compassion has moved them to fanaticism, but thankfully, their fanaticism is fueled by compassion.

And so because it is the vajra dharma that is so radically unorthodox in its reach, so comfortable with guerrilla tactics, so potent at overthrowing bigger stronger adversaries by using the opponent's own momentum to create new perspectives of mutual respect and common ground, it is the warriors of the vajra dharma - the indestructible dharma - who vanquish conflict itself, and eternally reign victorious over conflict itself, and end war by practicing peace, and the forgiveness of one's enemies.  All the while wrathfully defending one's boundaries.  This wrathful peace, as it were, is our own inner peace that's worth defending, and needs our skillful means to defend it.  And so we role model the skillful self-defense of inner peace.  And this is tantra.  Vajra tantra - life in the fast lane.  Or rather, spiritual consciousness fully engaged in worldly life.  Not just making it work, but changing the way it works, so that it actually starts working.  Like a breakthrough.  Like a thunderbolt.  Like a vajra.

Like the dharma.  The sacred law.  The sacred Truth.  The Way.  The Way of Truth.  The Way of the Law.  Natural Law.  The Law of Nature.  The Dharma.  The Sacred Way.  The Way of the Law.  The Way of Duty.  Sacred Duty.  Duty to the Law.  The Law of Duty.  This is Dharma.  This is the sacred eternal path, which leads to enlightened societies, which preside over civilizations that span eons and galaxies, only to collapse into a dark age, and rise again...
(I've seen it before)

Ashtanga vinyasa yoga asana

11 But he said to them, a“Not everyone can receive this saying, but only bthose to cwhom it is given.12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs dfor the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
Matthew Ch. 9





“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” – Nikola Tesla



The materialistic view of reality says that humanity ascended from apes, who came from fish, who came from plants, who came from the ocean, basically.  But according to quantum physics, material reality arises out of consciousness.  Consequently, we need to look for a nonmaterialistic, or spiritual view of reality.

The spiritual view of reality says that humanity descended from the nonphysical realm of angels down into physical reality.  Out of ignorance, angels voluntarily downgraded their status in order to enter into physicality, basically because the women were hot and the angels wanted to try sex out.  Desire was the catalyst that cast the angels from heaven into the world - sex desire.  The desire to procreate.  More specifically, angels who wanted to be God and wanted to create in their own image jumped ship so that they could breed to their hearts content.  Poor horny angels, you can't really blame them. 

Angels desired to have sex and have children, and create in their own image.  This led to the creation of space-time, the physical cosmos, biological life, the human race, and all the associated problems.  Angels did the bopping and breeding and samsara is perpetual, you know.  It never ends.  Samsara is desire itself.  It goes on forever.  Samsara is the original A.I. program.  It is the matrix, and worldly desire keeps us trapped in it. 

As long as these fallen angels remain focused on satisfying their desires, they remain trapped in physicality, the human realm, the realm of desire.  Only when they abandon selfishness and set about the great work of serving others do they free themselves from the chains of desire.  From this place, wherein the flowers of the garden inspire us not to pluck but to water, samsara loses its grip on us, and angels ascend to their rightful place once again, not as masters of worldliness but as servants of the most High.

This is the path of the spiritual warrior, and this is the starting premise of any authentic tantric yoga practice.  The mature tantrik or tantrika is steeped in the tapas of brahmachariya.  Or, as Christ would say, there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.  Way to go, guys.  In a world of tinder and polyamory the brahmachari/brahmacharini isn't exactly worried about fitting in.

The heart of tantric practice is facing and making peace with our own negative feelings.  The esoteric mystery of tantra is the esoteric mystery of making peace with the shadow, and thus embracing it as an ally.  Only in such a way may the competition between light and dark, between yin and yang, be transmuted into cooperation.  It is through this technique that peace breaks out in the war of the sexes.

Thus through tantric technique we are able to annihilate our enemies by making allies out of them, as it were.  Tantra is the interweaving of opposites.  Tantra is the technique of healing relationship.  If yoga is the science of revealing the absolute and annihilating the relative, tantra is the technique of revealing the absolute to the relative, and making peace between the two.  The supreme, invincible tantric technique, of course, is the only one that really matters: loving-kindness.

Ashtanga vinyasa yoga asana, in the crazy wisdom tradition of Vajradharma.  Coming soon.