Beauty, purity, bliss, purpose, and the Motherly Buddha

Stepan Stulginsky states:

"Amid the monotony of conventionalities only a few sense...reality. ...Only a few know how to overcome the dragon [hence the colloquial 'drag'] of everyday routine. The consciousness of humanity has become so saturated with the dust of usualness that it is necessary to break through this wall. One should learn to feel oneself beyond trivial usualness and to adhere in spirit to the manifested world of Beauty." (Cosmic Legends of the East, p16)

And now a banquet of excerpts from the Kun byed rgyal po'i mdo (The Motherly Buddha) will crystalize our stance:

"As suchness is not a path on which you may proceed, suchness will not be reached through proceeding. ...[Among] all who want achievement by striving there is not one who has arrived [at the goal] through previous progress on the path. There is not one who has received [the result] by what she or he has done in the past. There is none who achieved [what he or she aspired to] in the past through striving for achievements. ...I also declare examining and reflecting to be an error...as I do [with such concepts as] subject and object, and doctrinal views and religious practice. Doctrine and practice, pursuit and abandonment, striving and achieving, causation, [all these concepts] are an obscuration as they are wrong with regard to the great bliss which is without effort. ...A performance which must be done is to seek after no single thing; this will let you become spontaneously perfected. ...Then you will have reached the stage of perfect purity which is beyond progress... free of acting and agent, and beyond striving and achieving. ...By this means you will reach the bliss free of striving and achieving and fulfill the purpose of a sentient being." [brackets are translator's] (p158,109,73,167,83,67)

Pragmatically speaking, since it is impossible to be true in a false paradigm, the only way to be true is ...to not-do; in the absence of 'doing' our 'beings' are no longer identified with the falsity which is everywhere.

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These excerpts are taken from unpublished chapters from

THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas