How
Liberation Works?
I remember when I
first saw Tenzin Palmo's video where she says that even buddha
couldn't help people get awakened. It felt like fresh air... that
someone would say exactly how it is and not sugarcoat it or talk
nonsense.
It is extremely sad that dharma - practices of yoga
- is made into a dogmatic religion. I can never accept that but I
understand why this happens. Systematically the humanity keeps
missing the point which ironically is also a testimony to the
ineffectiveness of the practices people are given. So you have all
these religious people upholding what they think is the teaching of
liberation that actually binds and blinds them, and makes them mean!
The next thing to do culturally, now that some sort of ethical
foundation has been set by the old religions, is to remove the
possibility of dogmatic fixation, so that pragma stops being made
into dogma. Then yoga - the science of enlightenment - can truly
thrive.
What!? To remove *possibility* of dogmatic fixation!?
You got to be joking!!
No, I am not joking!
The problem
of bad yoga, or practices that keep the mind in the delusional loop,
is that they don't break out from the field of self-delusion. Having
glimpses and few insights into selfless nature of mind is good for
starters but this is really just an appetizer. In Pemako we have
practices and a method that takes us way farther than just few
awakenings and in fact all the way to full enlightenment (skt.
anuttara samyak sambodhi). We have 5 people in the sangha at present
who are "fully enlightened". Five people out of 80, and the
number keeps rising higher.
What we have in our sangha is
nothing short of a revolution on individual and communal levels. On
individual level, this is revolution from the tyranny of the
self-based mind leading to perfect liberation. It is freedom from all
kinds of fixations, including freedom of religious fixation and
dogmatism. At present, because there are 5 people in our community
who are completely and permanently out of the loop of self-delusion,
the rest of the sangha is positively affected by this, and the number
of fully enlightened individuals - mahasiddhas - keeps increasing.
Soon there will be 10, then 15 and so on.
The reason why this
is the case in Pemako sangha is because we practice the dharma in a
pragmatic, not dogmatic, way. We practice the dharma in an open
minded and innovative manner just like secular sciences and arts are
practiced. And it works! Due to the fact that our practitioners keep
breaking out from the shackles of the samsaric mind on *daily* basis,
because of our unique and unorthodox set of practices, is the reason
why dogmatic fixation, narrow minded thinking, cult behaviour and
whatnot that is raging in all religions, dies altogether in this
community. Our unsual practices such as dynamic concentration,
actually tames our inner demons so they don't germinate and grow into
external actions in the world that would break and raise hell in our
community. It is indeed exceptional to have a harmonious and peaceful
community in this world, and it all boils down to the method that we
practice and the fruits that it bears.
When I was a small boy
I observed people and couldn't but think how screwed up they were.
They were distorting everything and making themselves and others
miserable that can all be summed up in two concepts: self-belief and
self-delusion. These early observations about the state of people's
minds and its effects on communal and societal levels were motivators
when I started "the path of enlightenment". To me, practice
was always about making the world a better place, the kind of place
it would already be if people stopped screwing things up in between
their ears!
When I look at how poor is the state of affairs
in the world, I cannot but say that the avalanche already seems to be
going downhill, rushing towards the bottom of the valley, causing
immense destruction on its way. It has come to the point when we are
loosing the planet itself and yet most people keep doing the same
things as they always did, as if they were hypnotized. Seeing this
happen I simply can't sit and do nothing about it.
Those who know me well
know how anxious I've been about getting proper functional dharma
practices out there, and I'm sure my anxiousness has contributed to
theirs but this is the reason why. In Pemako we have perfect
medicine, without any harmful side-effects whatsoever, and I am happy
to see that it is getting out there but at the same time I fear if
the medicine comes too late. The only way to stop that devastating
avalanche is to replace the culture built on self-interest with
self-liberation that automatically thinks about the benefit of *all
of us together*, the wellfare of the planet and life on it
included.
These are utopistic words but this is the only way
for the world community to attain harmony and peace. Once again, I am
not talking about creating a new religion that everyone should join.
I am not talking about beliefs to accept and forms to follow. I am
talking about internal peace and happiness.
I am talking
about realising the fact that everyone in this world is perfect and
pure, and free. You, me and everyone you ever met has the same
potential for love and freedom as Jesus Christ and all the masters of
yoga have. Within us all, there is perfect happiness that when
recognised and embodied makes our minds sober which in turn puts an
end to self-based confusion and selfish actions and their outcomes.
No matter what nonsense religions have fed us, innately we have
perfect potential to be really authentic human beings whose hearts
are limitless and kindness is real!
But we need practices, we
need exercise to realise that. We need a way to uncover, to reveal
what at present is kept hidden by our belief in self-based existence.
We need tools to break out and these tools I have given for anyone to
use.
-Kim, 25.10.2021
