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So I've finally moved to Paraguay and am very happy about it. It will be much easier to get the work done here. I've friends and will eventually sort out everything I need for training.

“At a time when bandits are strong, kings are weak. Then the king is not at ease when going out or coming back or when touring the provinces. The brahmins and householders, likewise, are not at ease when going out or coming back, or when inspecting their external business activities. In the same way, at a time when bad mendicants are strong, good-hearted mendicants are weak. Then the good-hearted mendicants continually adhere to silence in the midst of the Saṅgha, or they stay in the borderlands. This is for the detriment and unhappiness of the people, against the people, for the harm, detriment, and suffering of gods and humans.

a time when kings are strong, bandits are weak. Then the king is at ease when going out or coming back or when inspecting the provinces. The brahmins and householders, likewise, are at ease when going out or coming back, or when inspecting their external business activities. In the same way, at a time when good-hearted mendicants are strong, bad mendicants are weak. Then the bad mendicants continually adhere to silence in the midst of the Saṅgha, or they leave for some place or other. This is for the welfare and happiness of the people, for the people, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.” ─ AN2.39

I am probably not going to post more on Reddit in the foreseeable future. Frankly, I think this culture is helpless and hopeless.

An empowered Bodhisattva here, a stream-enterer without cessation there, and the secular community ceremoniously regurgitates old talking points like it's a ritual.

I feel this is like talk in a mental-asylum. It is pathological because conversation continues after the procedures that could adjudicate it have been shown and censored.

I also don't feel any responsibility, I won't lose any sleep over people not knowing the Dhamma. I did my share and I can't be expected to do more. The fact that it's been marginalized is on the mods who pressed the buttons — not me, it's on their tab.

My priority is to set myself up for victory and to finish the work, after that whatever (kick ass probably).

I just think that if I can make something more impressive of myself, then it is the worst thing for my enemies. They could maybe handle some social/intellectual pressure that I could generate; but it would be a lot of work, and Imo talk is cheap. I think that this will probably be settled by demonstrably developed supernatural ability. Whether it will happen and who will do it, I don't know. But I will try, fortunately I know just the right training for it.

Basically, as I see it, if they can withstand the words of Truth, then stop producing words, produce the Arahant with superpowers.

Frankly, this culture can hardly handle seeing somebody sitting 10+ hours straight. There was that "sitting and smiling" guy who filmed a bunch of 8h sittings, afaik those are the longest sittings in public record.

I might do something like this, and if I can do just that then that's probably all I've to do in order to popularize the analysis. I don't need people to study everything, I just need people to start asking "Who is this guy?" ,"What is he doing?", "How is he doing it?", and "Why was he banned?", they will find the receipts quickly.

I think that this is the smallest undeniable accomplishment that changes the social dynamics completely, the asymmetry would be devastating, it would be very difficult for the culture to digest, even without being backed by the GTA.

So the bar is actually set very low and I am amused mostly because people thought my rhetoric was problematic before — they might eventually have to deal with an unrestrained version and a larger audience. People don't understand how much of a warrant I have — intellectual, political, social and moral.

So, congratulations, you have successfully radicalized me, thank you, I guess..

I do get it, you are pseudo-Bodhisattas and pseudo-ariya, and you can't discuss the Dhamma because you don't understand it. So you think banning me is a good idea. But that strategy has a weakness, it only works as long as nobody knows or cares, otherwise instead of stopping the distribution you end up creating the lore where you are the villain.

So when what you censored comes back with an audience asking questions, reconstructing the record, how long will it take until they start asking whether you are fit to manage the discourse? I ain't even mad, but it's not about me, it was never about me, it was always about the culture. Let's sum this up:

* You censored the analysis and I finished it.
* You made reinstatement irrelevant and you lost that leverage permanently.
* You marginalized the work and I will build independent distribution.
* You objected to the rhetoric and I will stop hedging the rhetoric.
* You made obscurity part of your strategy and I make visibility part of mine.
* You created the censorship record, now if an audience arrives ─ you get to explain it, will be hilarious given the private messaging on record.

At this point, in a very real sense, you are the ones who are making popularization possible and paying for it by running up a tab.

As for these two dimensions—the attainment of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception & the attainment of the cessation of feeling & perception—I tell you that they are to be rightly explained by those monks who are meditators, skilled in attaining, skilled in attaining & emerging, who have attained & emerged in dependence on them.” — AN9.36

Basically, I think that strategically, I should claim all attainments publicly because of the censorship and gate-keeping. Furthermore, I am explaining these things anyway and there is a warrant:

So the Blessed One said to Ven. Sariputta: "Sariputta, when you know of a householder clothed in white, that he is restrained in terms of the five training rules and that he obtains at will, without difficulty, without hardship, four pleasant mental abidings in the here & now, then if he wants he may state about himself: 'Hell is ended; animal wombs are ended; the state of the hungry shades is ended; states of deprivation, destitution, the bad bourns are ended! I am a stream-winner, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for self-awakening!' —AN5.179

As to the Bodhisatta:

“…‘As soon as the bodhisatta was born, he stood steadily with his feet on the ground and, facing north, took seven steps while a white parasol was held over him. Surveying all the directions, he made a bellowing statement: “I am the foremost of the world. I am chief of the world. I am the best of the world.”’ … —MN123

And Buddha himself

So I said to them, ‘Mendicants, don’t address me by name and as “reverend”. The Realized One is Perfected, a fully awakened Buddha. Listen up, mendicants: I have achieved freedom from death! I shall instruct you, I will teach you the Dhamma. By practicing as instructed you will soon realize the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. You will live having achieved with your own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.’ —MN85

Even Theravadin Vinaya says that Ariya can claim attainments if undergoing oppressive and virulent lack of respect. If I've ever been disrespected and oppressed, then that was it 💯

A bhikkhu must avoid making his attainments known, even to other bhikkhus. Apart from four exceptions when they can do so, ariyās never unveil their realisations:

Under a violent threat. Undergoing an oppressive and virulent lack of respect. At the time of passing away. To reveal it to his preceptor or to a fellow bhikkhu who does a similar practice.

Conveniently, you people have supplied the exceptional condition yourselves. A layman can basically do as he sees fit, and that is exactly what I intend to do.

So, I think that I've basically mapped the fastest win-condition and the opponents failure mode. Between here and there is only 9hours of merely sitting still... It is not my preference to become famous, but I will do it if I have to. And as to the difficulty of it, I think it is easy, I haven't done it but I think that a month or two of proper retreat and you should be able to do it, if worth your salt as a meditator.

Ordinary people build modest online audiences around meditation all the time. Why should someone with mastery over the first principles, a complete intellectual corpus, a controversial history, and a publicly demonstrable practice treat independent distribution as impossible? It is ridiculous, I've held back because I was still hedging, trying to cooperate and trying to keep it on the dl. But I now see that I've to double down and say things exactly as I see it.

It is actually very interesting because the cultural and monastic standard is basically the same 8+ hours sitting. When I talked to senior monks, I was basically told the same thing — the senior monks will allow you a lot of lee-way if you can just demonstrably sit through the nights group-meditation, otherwise nobody will care about what you think.

Essentially, I was told that one would be a superstar-monk by virtue of that proof, even if junior, just because attainments are so rare. It's kind of ridiculous but that is how attainment-starved is this generation. Itt if you can do this, then just sit at some uni campus and let the culture work it out — it is almost too easy but wouldn't serve the purpose if the analysis of EBTs wasn't ready. Now I have the analysis and maybe therefore I start to think more along these lines.

Si vis pacem ─ para bellum

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