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)
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