Izheheruvim
16th December 2024, 00:19
Also on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/21stcenturyguide/p/no-name-something
Me spearheading a new totalitarian cult – "No-Name Something" :) You might be eligible to join in, should you be able to relate and subscribe to all that follows:
- You are down for a major shakeup
- In other words, you wield a certain amount of courage and open-mindedness
- You have capacity for humility, which can be loosely verbalized as "I do not know everything" and "I might be wrong in some of my views and ways"
- There is some truth-loving about you
- You allow for the existence of God within and without, the Father or the Mother, or both, or Primordial Cosmic Being – in sum, the Divine Principle at the heart of the universe
- In your idea of the Divine Principle, He/She/It doesn't create and endorse everything there is
- In other words, there is good and evil that can never mingle. For instance, pedophilia is abominable to God, and so too a bunch of other things, on which major religious teaching largely concur
- In other words, you take phrases like "God is everything" with a grain of salt
- To put it differently, apart from a fair amount of predetermination in the universe, there is also freedom, for better or worse, to navigate through it
- In this freedom, there is a possibility for enlightenment, that is, aligning yourself with God's Will and Grace
- Essentially, enlightenment is all about the sublimation and purification of attention
- A great deal of predicaments in this world issue from unenlightened human beings
- Affiliation with "No-Name Something" does not warrant your enlightenment, for it comes down to your personal relationship with God, the ultimate source, medium and destination of enlightenment. Hence, you cannot bring a bad name to the cult in case you fail – the fault will be all yours
- My role in the cult is that of the authoritarian leader. Should I forget about this role and, say, spend too much time away playing table tennis or eating honey crullers, you will be obligated to remind me of my dictatorship
- You are not going to pay me any money
- The only thing you are going to pay is your attention to everything laid out here
- Should you manage to send me a payment by hook or by crook, I am not going to buy a Rolls-Royce
- There will be no merch sold, like T-shirts with the "No-Name Something" logo. If I spot you wearing something like that, you will be expunged from my good books
- You are not going to have intimate relationships with me
- You are not going to have intimate relationships with your fellow cultists, unless one of them is your spouse
- Some forms of intimacy even within marriage are abominable to God, just keep that in view
- You are not supposed to idolate me, or else I will personally think you are cuckoo and a non-starter
- The other Commandments out of the Ten are also a must at virtually all times. Well, if you are a Robin Hood robbing crooks in style, all to give the plunder to the needy, some allowances can be made
- If you join this cult simply to mend your health, receive good grades at school, kick-start your career or for companionship's sake, you might be tolerated, just for the time being, for humanitarian or entertainment purposes
- Personal hygiene understood, say, in Islamic terms, is an ought
- If you try to boss around in my totalitarian cult and some fellow cultists become impressed with your airs, this will attest to your ineptitude for enlightenment
- What constitutes the totalitarian nature of "No-Name Something" I have yet to figure out
- The cult leader as I am, I am not a fully enlightened being as of now. For one thing, had I been fully enlightened, I would have launched a democratic, unlike totalitarian, cult. The degree of enlightenment I do present though nudges me to be putting all this forth
- Provided that proper ethical principles, ideas about life and conduct are in place, your main spiritual practice is going to be meditation
- Meditation in "No-Name Something" is not what you might be thinking
- Meditation is essentially withdrawing your attention from your messy lesser self to the pure Divine one
- The transition from the lesser self to the Divine self, unless you are a Ramana Maharshi, cannot be done headlong, without the help of some "scaffolding". For this reason, it is going to be mediated by an auxiliary self, a new identity you are going to mold and embrace
- In this new identity, you will be consistently refusing to define yourself – during your meditation session at the least – with your past or your ideas about the present goings, or your projections into the future. The more formless you go, the closer you will get with the Divine self. The Hindu technique "neti-neti" might be of great help here, look it up on the Internet
- In other words, you are not going to be repressing your emotions and thoughts but, rather, acknowledging or witnessing them while nicely perched in your auxiliary self, without some ultimate "encapsulating" judgment of yourself in a Buddhist kind of fashion
- You will be encouraged to make peace with your past and forgive yourself and others for whatever wrongs done to you, or by you for that matter. In practical terms, this will bring about more relaxation in your being and usher more of your attention towards the Divine self.
- Forgiving doesn't necessarily mean feeling good about the perpetrator's deeds or your own misdoings. It means being emotionally detached from the effects of those
- Being pardoned for your past misdoings will not entitle you to commit them afresh
- As you dissociate from your lesser self, you will be putting to scrutiny all your ideas about life, this way moving to a more objective, nuanced, and wraparound outlook
- No merch with "No-Name Something" is allowed unless once in a blue moon, like when the moon is literally blue. Or else
- You are not going to feel jealous of your fellow cultists, should they outpace you in spiritual progress. In case jealousy hits you hard, your witnessing power, as well as admiration for those more spiritually advanced, is going to dissolve the unnecessary and ungraceful feeling
- For practical ends, you will be advised to differentiate your being across three principles known as rajas, tamas and sattva as known in Hinduism, or yan, yin and taiji respectively, should you like Chinese singsong sounds better. Among other things, this differentiation will help your auxiliary self to become more detached from the lesser self and explore more of its nooks and crannies
- In an ideal scenario, your auxiliary self will be empowered and transported little by little to the Divine self by what is referred to as Kundalini in Hinduism, also known – but oftentimes misinterpreted– as bride in Christianity, or oil of the blessed olive tree in Islam (likewise misinterpreted). For simplicity's sake, henceforth I will be referring to this force as Kundalini matter-of-factly, in a familiar way, with no italics
- Essentially, Kundalini is the longing for God or the Divine Principle in one’s psyche. She is closely involved with the element of sattva
- Feel free to look up on the Internet all these fancy terms like sattva, rajas and so on instead of watching some garbage. Well, even if you are watching the extended edition of "The Lord of the Rings", put it on pause
- As per my lights, the most complete and undistorted idea of Kundalini and her workings is given these days by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga
- Not only that, Shri Mataji is the catalyst for Kundalini awakening, of which I myself happen to be a recipient
- Your Kundalini might be awakened through Shri Mataji, too. I shall return to this later
- Without Kundalini or however her other names might sound, your auxiliary self is going to be shaky or imbalanced, and your spiritual practice might come to resemble mindfulness, with the element of rajas, or yan, playing the leading, and largely misleading, role
- You can actually borrow the meditation technique, along with some of the purification methods, from Sahaja Yoga
- You are not supposed to worship Shri Mataji, unless out of deep recognition granted by your own Kundalini
- You are not supposed to do all the "Hindu stuff", unless it is deeply felt
- If you are, say, a devout Christian or Muslim and feel cautious about having your Kundalini awakened through Shri Mataji, you can ask God to protect you and reveal who Shri Mataji actually is. If you are not capable of such spiritual experiments, your faith in God proves rather shallow as per my lights, and you might also be missing an opportunity to realize the essense of your own creed
- Sahaja Yoga is not tantamount to Shri Mataji, for She is way beyond it
- Sahaja yogies, in their turn, are not necessarily reflective of Sahaja Yoga. Do not trust them, not all of them at the least. Well, you are kinda supposed to trust me as your authoritarian, oppressive leader
- You can try to awaken your Kundalini this very moment. Consider this as an ordinance
- Throughout this... experiment, your left hand will be pointing to the photo of Shri Mataji (you will find it below), with the palm facing up. All "maneuvering" will be carried out by your right hand. You will also need to say several statements along the way, in your mind or out loud, with as much solemnity as possible. Ready?
- If yes, the first statement goes, with your right hand placed on your heart: "I am not this body, emotions, or thoughts. Essentially, I am a pure spiritual being"
- Your right hand is now on your forehead, and here you utter the following: "I forgive everyone". And try to do this in earnest however ridiculous this might sound
- This time, your right hand rests on the back of your head. At this juncture, you ask forgiveness for all your misdoings, by commission or omission, against your own Divine self, or inner God, as well as other living beings
- Finally, you raise your right hand above the top of your head, with the palm facing down. You could address here the Divine Principle the way you conceptualize It along these lines: "If it is Your will, let my Kundalini be awakened"
- Having done all that, just calmly register what is happening above your head and inside you. After that, you can put down both your hands on your lap, with the palms facing up. Just sit quietly for some time observing your inner state
https://photos.smugmug.com/PHOTOGRAPHS/PORTRAITS/Portraits-early-years/i-3r3QJqR/4/LXk5mMtWTJMGjkKqZ94rpwNLDpgsw74GJJJJ2q8zL/O/IMG0005.jpg
- Whether you have conducated the above experiment or not, your humility and truth-loving are going to be tested and assuming new dimensions, if tested successfully
- Sahaja Yoga meditation or not, with your auxiliary self alone, as is said, you are not going to make it to the Divine self without the help of your Kundalini in her Hindu, Christian, Muslim or other "raiments"
- If you want to learn more about Kundalini, watch "Adi Kundalini puja talk 1991" by Shri Mataji. Feel free to watch other Her talks, too
- Do not forget that I am your totalitarian dictator, even if I am playing table tennis a thousand kilometers away, do not even know who or what you are, and now even forgot the name of my new cult
- Should you wear a T-shirt with "I am a pure spiritual being", I will consider this tasteless
- The way of Tao is neither difficult, nor easy
- Off to eat some honey crullers. Or whatever within my reach
- Some goodbye poetry? Poetry it is:
Attention is a kind of field of rambling mathematical dots;
They ramble all over the body, emotions, feelings, and thoughts;
The dots, having rambled away, come back with a certain catch;
Attention is a coveted prize for various centers of force;
Robust frontal lobes are required for a good attention control;
Too rarified an attention will make you a gullible fool;
And overmuch concentration will make you an idiot, too;
The line between folly and idiocy isn't so clear-cut;
God assembles the dots into a congruous kaleidoscope;
Only God assembles the dots into a congruous kaleidoscope;
One humbly offers attention to God for this very end;
This proves much more beneficial than slaughtering a buffalo herd;
The sacrifice of attention is better than donating to church;
Attention may have to do with skittish bosons of Higgs;
Controlling and refining attention is a primary duty of man;
Relaxing attention in God is by far the greatest of joys;
And now, just go back and check on your half-slit buffalo corpse.
Me spearheading a new totalitarian cult – "No-Name Something" :) You might be eligible to join in, should you be able to relate and subscribe to all that follows:
- You are down for a major shakeup
- In other words, you wield a certain amount of courage and open-mindedness
- You have capacity for humility, which can be loosely verbalized as "I do not know everything" and "I might be wrong in some of my views and ways"
- There is some truth-loving about you
- You allow for the existence of God within and without, the Father or the Mother, or both, or Primordial Cosmic Being – in sum, the Divine Principle at the heart of the universe
- In your idea of the Divine Principle, He/She/It doesn't create and endorse everything there is
- In other words, there is good and evil that can never mingle. For instance, pedophilia is abominable to God, and so too a bunch of other things, on which major religious teaching largely concur
- In other words, you take phrases like "God is everything" with a grain of salt
- To put it differently, apart from a fair amount of predetermination in the universe, there is also freedom, for better or worse, to navigate through it
- In this freedom, there is a possibility for enlightenment, that is, aligning yourself with God's Will and Grace
- Essentially, enlightenment is all about the sublimation and purification of attention
- A great deal of predicaments in this world issue from unenlightened human beings
- Affiliation with "No-Name Something" does not warrant your enlightenment, for it comes down to your personal relationship with God, the ultimate source, medium and destination of enlightenment. Hence, you cannot bring a bad name to the cult in case you fail – the fault will be all yours
- My role in the cult is that of the authoritarian leader. Should I forget about this role and, say, spend too much time away playing table tennis or eating honey crullers, you will be obligated to remind me of my dictatorship
- You are not going to pay me any money
- The only thing you are going to pay is your attention to everything laid out here
- Should you manage to send me a payment by hook or by crook, I am not going to buy a Rolls-Royce
- There will be no merch sold, like T-shirts with the "No-Name Something" logo. If I spot you wearing something like that, you will be expunged from my good books
- You are not going to have intimate relationships with me
- You are not going to have intimate relationships with your fellow cultists, unless one of them is your spouse
- Some forms of intimacy even within marriage are abominable to God, just keep that in view
- You are not supposed to idolate me, or else I will personally think you are cuckoo and a non-starter
- The other Commandments out of the Ten are also a must at virtually all times. Well, if you are a Robin Hood robbing crooks in style, all to give the plunder to the needy, some allowances can be made
- If you join this cult simply to mend your health, receive good grades at school, kick-start your career or for companionship's sake, you might be tolerated, just for the time being, for humanitarian or entertainment purposes
- Personal hygiene understood, say, in Islamic terms, is an ought
- If you try to boss around in my totalitarian cult and some fellow cultists become impressed with your airs, this will attest to your ineptitude for enlightenment
- What constitutes the totalitarian nature of "No-Name Something" I have yet to figure out
- The cult leader as I am, I am not a fully enlightened being as of now. For one thing, had I been fully enlightened, I would have launched a democratic, unlike totalitarian, cult. The degree of enlightenment I do present though nudges me to be putting all this forth
- Provided that proper ethical principles, ideas about life and conduct are in place, your main spiritual practice is going to be meditation
- Meditation in "No-Name Something" is not what you might be thinking
- Meditation is essentially withdrawing your attention from your messy lesser self to the pure Divine one
- The transition from the lesser self to the Divine self, unless you are a Ramana Maharshi, cannot be done headlong, without the help of some "scaffolding". For this reason, it is going to be mediated by an auxiliary self, a new identity you are going to mold and embrace
- In this new identity, you will be consistently refusing to define yourself – during your meditation session at the least – with your past or your ideas about the present goings, or your projections into the future. The more formless you go, the closer you will get with the Divine self. The Hindu technique "neti-neti" might be of great help here, look it up on the Internet
- In other words, you are not going to be repressing your emotions and thoughts but, rather, acknowledging or witnessing them while nicely perched in your auxiliary self, without some ultimate "encapsulating" judgment of yourself in a Buddhist kind of fashion
- You will be encouraged to make peace with your past and forgive yourself and others for whatever wrongs done to you, or by you for that matter. In practical terms, this will bring about more relaxation in your being and usher more of your attention towards the Divine self.
- Forgiving doesn't necessarily mean feeling good about the perpetrator's deeds or your own misdoings. It means being emotionally detached from the effects of those
- Being pardoned for your past misdoings will not entitle you to commit them afresh
- As you dissociate from your lesser self, you will be putting to scrutiny all your ideas about life, this way moving to a more objective, nuanced, and wraparound outlook
- No merch with "No-Name Something" is allowed unless once in a blue moon, like when the moon is literally blue. Or else
- You are not going to feel jealous of your fellow cultists, should they outpace you in spiritual progress. In case jealousy hits you hard, your witnessing power, as well as admiration for those more spiritually advanced, is going to dissolve the unnecessary and ungraceful feeling
- For practical ends, you will be advised to differentiate your being across three principles known as rajas, tamas and sattva as known in Hinduism, or yan, yin and taiji respectively, should you like Chinese singsong sounds better. Among other things, this differentiation will help your auxiliary self to become more detached from the lesser self and explore more of its nooks and crannies
- In an ideal scenario, your auxiliary self will be empowered and transported little by little to the Divine self by what is referred to as Kundalini in Hinduism, also known – but oftentimes misinterpreted– as bride in Christianity, or oil of the blessed olive tree in Islam (likewise misinterpreted). For simplicity's sake, henceforth I will be referring to this force as Kundalini matter-of-factly, in a familiar way, with no italics
- Essentially, Kundalini is the longing for God or the Divine Principle in one’s psyche. She is closely involved with the element of sattva
- Feel free to look up on the Internet all these fancy terms like sattva, rajas and so on instead of watching some garbage. Well, even if you are watching the extended edition of "The Lord of the Rings", put it on pause
- As per my lights, the most complete and undistorted idea of Kundalini and her workings is given these days by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga
- Not only that, Shri Mataji is the catalyst for Kundalini awakening, of which I myself happen to be a recipient
- Your Kundalini might be awakened through Shri Mataji, too. I shall return to this later
- Without Kundalini or however her other names might sound, your auxiliary self is going to be shaky or imbalanced, and your spiritual practice might come to resemble mindfulness, with the element of rajas, or yan, playing the leading, and largely misleading, role
- You can actually borrow the meditation technique, along with some of the purification methods, from Sahaja Yoga
- You are not supposed to worship Shri Mataji, unless out of deep recognition granted by your own Kundalini
- You are not supposed to do all the "Hindu stuff", unless it is deeply felt
- If you are, say, a devout Christian or Muslim and feel cautious about having your Kundalini awakened through Shri Mataji, you can ask God to protect you and reveal who Shri Mataji actually is. If you are not capable of such spiritual experiments, your faith in God proves rather shallow as per my lights, and you might also be missing an opportunity to realize the essense of your own creed
- Sahaja Yoga is not tantamount to Shri Mataji, for She is way beyond it
- Sahaja yogies, in their turn, are not necessarily reflective of Sahaja Yoga. Do not trust them, not all of them at the least. Well, you are kinda supposed to trust me as your authoritarian, oppressive leader
- You can try to awaken your Kundalini this very moment. Consider this as an ordinance
- Throughout this... experiment, your left hand will be pointing to the photo of Shri Mataji (you will find it below), with the palm facing up. All "maneuvering" will be carried out by your right hand. You will also need to say several statements along the way, in your mind or out loud, with as much solemnity as possible. Ready?
- If yes, the first statement goes, with your right hand placed on your heart: "I am not this body, emotions, or thoughts. Essentially, I am a pure spiritual being"
- Your right hand is now on your forehead, and here you utter the following: "I forgive everyone". And try to do this in earnest however ridiculous this might sound
- This time, your right hand rests on the back of your head. At this juncture, you ask forgiveness for all your misdoings, by commission or omission, against your own Divine self, or inner God, as well as other living beings
- Finally, you raise your right hand above the top of your head, with the palm facing down. You could address here the Divine Principle the way you conceptualize It along these lines: "If it is Your will, let my Kundalini be awakened"
- Having done all that, just calmly register what is happening above your head and inside you. After that, you can put down both your hands on your lap, with the palms facing up. Just sit quietly for some time observing your inner state
https://photos.smugmug.com/PHOTOGRAPHS/PORTRAITS/Portraits-early-years/i-3r3QJqR/4/LXk5mMtWTJMGjkKqZ94rpwNLDpgsw74GJJJJ2q8zL/O/IMG0005.jpg
- Whether you have conducated the above experiment or not, your humility and truth-loving are going to be tested and assuming new dimensions, if tested successfully
- Sahaja Yoga meditation or not, with your auxiliary self alone, as is said, you are not going to make it to the Divine self without the help of your Kundalini in her Hindu, Christian, Muslim or other "raiments"
- If you want to learn more about Kundalini, watch "Adi Kundalini puja talk 1991" by Shri Mataji. Feel free to watch other Her talks, too
- Do not forget that I am your totalitarian dictator, even if I am playing table tennis a thousand kilometers away, do not even know who or what you are, and now even forgot the name of my new cult
- Should you wear a T-shirt with "I am a pure spiritual being", I will consider this tasteless
- The way of Tao is neither difficult, nor easy
- Off to eat some honey crullers. Or whatever within my reach
- Some goodbye poetry? Poetry it is:
Attention is a kind of field of rambling mathematical dots;
They ramble all over the body, emotions, feelings, and thoughts;
The dots, having rambled away, come back with a certain catch;
Attention is a coveted prize for various centers of force;
Robust frontal lobes are required for a good attention control;
Too rarified an attention will make you a gullible fool;
And overmuch concentration will make you an idiot, too;
The line between folly and idiocy isn't so clear-cut;
God assembles the dots into a congruous kaleidoscope;
Only God assembles the dots into a congruous kaleidoscope;
One humbly offers attention to God for this very end;
This proves much more beneficial than slaughtering a buffalo herd;
The sacrifice of attention is better than donating to church;
Attention may have to do with skittish bosons of Higgs;
Controlling and refining attention is a primary duty of man;
Relaxing attention in God is by far the greatest of joys;
And now, just go back and check on your half-slit buffalo corpse.