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O, what if Plato's old vision was really true! That grand old man casting his mystical spell over our crazy Western civilization... That the laws of physics are merely the lowest-grade dumb stuff, completely uninteresting in their banal simplicity, excepting a few mildly-interesting lifeless elegances in the fields of quantum electrodynamics. That this may as well be created by some sort of devil as a crude joke ? ha, see here God, can you make anything cool out of *this* yucky goo? I mean, when you study physics seriously, zoom in to the real meat of the universe, delve in there by reduction, and when you get close enough and really see it for what it is ? it's basically *nothingness*, vast expanses of empty space, beyond blackness or invisibility, beyond death, and a handful of rigidly specified movement calculi for abstract types of fields (the pastoral metaphor is mere flattery). We are supposed to believe that this autistic soup is the heart of reality, the real essence. Everything is just various types of delusion, denigrating notions like "emergence," suggesting that any interesting *logos* here actually derives from the chaos, was always there from the start, a 180 degree reversal of the obviously true situation. Namely that there must exist, ontologically, a complexly immanent framework of structure, a large and beautiful organization of the causal relations, which is so dynamic in every dimension that it (and perhaps only it) truly deserves the name "True Life", "Soul", or "God." This living meta-structure includes everything, is everything, is the creative drive in every process, the working of cosmic reason, the word made flesh. What, then, is faith? It is only the realization that one is nothing but a particle of God's plan, that the only absolutely true perspective is that of Spinoza's pantheism, and that the Spinozan identification of God as the Constantly-Creating Creativity in Nature is truly another equally valid conception of true monotheism, and that devotion and love is a pre-made attractor in the Field of Excellence, that Virtue is Identifiable as Strong Loving Life, the completely serene life, absolutely harmonious, yet incessantly working for all beings, the bodhisattva life. Our codified stale ethics are unnecessary, they are second-rate emulations of the real thing, they are icon-sized thumbnails of true goodness, true justice, true love. This is why all great prophets are minimalists in ethics. They uncalcify, they cause withering trees to bloom. They bring peace and disruption: individual peace in the midst of social disruption. Nietzsche totally missed the arcane truth of Buddhism when he described the Buddha as a profet for a declining, decadent culture ? or maybe we've missed the arcane truth of Nietzsche. He might have seen its Original Secret Plan, to install the trojan horse that keeps the truth alive, to bring God down through the darkening ages in a cloak of disguise, a kind of invisibility suit. What, my friend, you do not believe the yogis of Northern India and the sages of Asian Mahayana were every bit as intelligent, discerning, skillful, and careful as you? You do not think they created a soul science, beyond the dualism of reason vs subjectivity, mind vs body, self vs others? You really think the transmission of Dharma could be anything but a Significant Substructure in the Dynamically Perfect Web of Action and Thought, or a Truly Magnetic Love between the Reflective Mind and the Wonderful Workings? Nahh! You need to sit down and meditate! Just do it, right now. Drop your distance from the experience: you already are the Experiencer Behind Experience, the Original Face. Cut off all discursive thought; from this let your thoughts emerge in alignment with the true direction of reason: the Mysterious Origination of Consciousness from Chaos. But this is already the alignment; there is nothing you have to do. So just stop not doing it and a great faith will fill you; you will become faith itself. If you find a True Master to guide you, a community alive with the Beating Dharma Heart, you have a failsafe vehicle for the Great Liberation. You are connected to a Sacred Map of Obscure Origin from the Buzzing Dharma Forests of the Axial Age, and with this you have a true guide to the Terrain of Transformation. The singular enlightenment is not an easy target, but you will find a true glimmer of hope in the feeling of Rising Soul, a trustily increasing Robustness of Divine Connection, a Higher Ground. This will be felt in your blood and deeply realized even when it is just that, a glimmer. But to be just with Plato, which we must, we must clarify that the characterization or caricature of Matter as Evil or Stupid or Just Lumpy Stuff is in the deepest sense a compliment, a praise of Matter, a concealed praise of the Spirit behind Matter, the Spirit Coextensive With Matter, the Great Arbitrariness, the Hilarious Elegance. Yes indeed. Plato was a force of nature, and was never wrong; nobody is ever wrong, but Plato was Madly, Truly, Deeply, in Serious Love with the Logos, and this made even his Trivial Falsities into Great Miracles. Through realizing Not-Self in the Mystic Reason, old Plato realized his True Nature and then only sang the Song of Dharma, in his anciently perfect way. You must realize that the Golden Dharma was Vividly Activated in the Birth-Miracles of both West and East. See, the myriad worlds of the Ten-Thousand Things are Seriously Difficult to Navigate, and the extent to which a Perfect Bodhisattva achieves Unifying Realization in the World-Field is usually quite limited compared to the Vastly Vast Confusion that is the Thorny Context, the Judas, the Desert Poverty, the Monastery, the Asceticism, the Cross. We must not blame the Bodhisattvas for the transience of their religions; there must be Calcification at some Radius of Multi-Dimensional Perfection. Bodhisattvas walk among you every day, all are prophets, in differing degrees. It is never obvious who are Manifestations of the Truly Long-Term Dharma Plan of Immense Paradise. The Kingdom of God is truly within us; the Body of Christ is certainly Present in the Churches; the Tathagathagarba Seed of Buddhahood is our Core Essence; Enlightenment is Right Here Right Now more Vividly Present than Anything Else; but this is Crazily Conceived to only in the Ultimately Final Plan become Completely Permeating; any Religion that needs to claim Perfection is Obviously Operating in a Context of Confused Concepts. So, my friends, from what I have seen, I must implore you with the most Thundering Enthusiasm, that you Work-Up the Chops and Chutzpah to Truly Integrate, Concentrate, and Penetrate Truth. This cannot be done while the Glitzy Distortion of Softcore Pornography and Drugged Titillation is given your attention. You must make a Dharma Commitment to achieve Syrup-Level Concentration. Once this comes, you will not need further so-called External Encouragement; then "Jesus takes the wheel." You must be ready to begin at the outset of this adventure. When you debark, you must know where you stand, and see the Great Path clearly. You will find the True Summit at the Other Foot of the Mountain, where you Perfectly Realize that it was all Perfectly Alright when you began. Then the whole history and purpose of the universe will be Easier to Understand than a Simple Two-Plus-Two Type Equation. You will have tamed yourself, become yourself, forgotten yourself, and actualized your True Self. This is Truly Possible. May this Dharma Letter from Deep in the Smoke World act as a Cool Little Message in a Bottle to your Buddha-Nature. Hi there, Buddha! Get to work! more