Full Enlightenment vs.
Delusions of Secular Buddhism
My comment to Guru VikingPodcast episode 119.
I didn't have the
patience to listen all of it but it did catch my ear Shinzen Young
saying that he doesn't think doneness, i.e. buddhahood is possible.
Sigh... another secular buddhist who lots of people look up to who is
so unripe in his realisations that he directly contradicts himself
with mahayana and vajrayana masters, while claiming to be a proponent
of both. Stephen Batchelor, Culadasa Yates, Young... all singing the
same tune. Two-three years before his passing Culadasa even admitted
that sutrayana "doesn't go far enough", after 50 years of
practicing it.
It is (much) better than nothing that there are
teachers out there who have had one or few awakenings but compared to
any nonphysical (or physical) mahasiddha, all these people are
incredibly unripe. Then they in their "wisdom" of "many
decades" of meditation with all the "top" teachers who
themselves were unripe draw these genious conclusions... I remember
Batchelor state, after his 8 years of being a gelugpa scholar monk,
that guru yoga is bogus! See Why I Didn't Quit Guru Yoga.
It gets mindbogglingly stoopid when
folks who didn't learn to practice well throw away the baby with the
bath water, just like that. And that's another reason why tantric
guru yoga is so precious because these silly conclusions end right
there in the presence of someone who *is* done, a mahasiddha.
People
of the world should really learn about the correct practice of
tantric guru yoga and call masters - mahasiddhas - to them. Buddha,
Jesus, Guru Rinpoche, Milarepa etc, any will do. It is easiest and
simplest practice with no need for empowerment or any type of
preparation other than being open to receive. It is easier than
shamatha, quicker to learn than jhanas, no need to learn long prayers
or mantras in foreign languages, and most importantly presence of a
guru reveals our basic state or buddhanature, everytime without
exception which is what jhanas or shamatha meditation can never
accomplish. This is the gift of tantra that anyone anywhere anytime
can make use of and receive. And importantly, this is also a way to
get beyond unripe stages, where people who don't hang around with
mahasiddhas get stuck. This is a way to raise the bar of dharma in
the world.
People need to know that it is indeed possible to
get "done", fully purified, entirely sinless, fully
enlightened, to become a living buddha, just like generations of
mahayana and vajrayana masters have said!
-Kim, 30.10.2021
