Thursday, June 13, 2024

The Heart Sutra: When self is not-self


THE HEART SUTRA is a classic. It is the most chanted and certainly the least understood of all the apocryphal Mahayana Buddhist discourses. Here is a new translation by Wisdom Quarterly.

The Heart Sutra
Who looks down and hears cries of the world?
Amen (aum'n). All honor to the [personification of the] Perfection of Wisdom, lovely and holy!

Avalokita, the great-deva and bodhisattva, was realizing the wisdom that has gone beyond.

He looked down from on high and beheld only FIVE HEAPS, seeing that in and of themselves they were impersonal, utterly empty.

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
Herein [within this Dharma], O Śāriputra, form is emptiness, and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, and form does not differ from emptiness: Whatever is emptiness, that is form.

The same is true of [the other four heaps]
  • feelings,
  • perceptions,
  • formations,
  • consciousness.
Herein, O Sariputra, all things (dhammas) are marked with emptiness; they are [non-dual] neither produced nor stopped [neither originated nor annihilated], neither defiled nor immaculate, neither deficient nor complete.

Therefore, O Sariputra, in emptiness [in that they are impersonal and not the thing themselves but what they depend on] there is neither form nor feeling, nor perception, nor formation, nor consciousness;
  • no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;
  • no forms, sounds, scents, tastes, tangibles, nor objects of mind;
  • no sight-organ element, no sound-organ element, no scent-organ element, no taste-organ element, no touch-organ element, no mind-consciousness element.
  • There is neither ignorance nor extinction of ignorance...there is neither decay and death nor extinction of decay and death.
  • There is no suffering, no origination, no cessation, no path.
  • There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment.
The Heart Sutra is brief in Sanskrit, the cul-
mination of 100,000 lines of explanation
Therefore, O Sariputra, it is because of one's [letting go, no longer clinging, and] non-attaining that a being-bent-on-enlightenment, through having brought about the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings.

In the absence of thought-coverings, one no longer trembles; one has overcome what can upset, and in the end one nirvanas [nirvana as a verb].

All of those who appear as supremely awakened ones in the three periods of time [past, present, future] fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect enlightenment because they have brought about the Perfection of Wisdom.
Therefore, one should know the perfection of wisdom as the great mantra [thought instrument], the mantra of great knowledge, the utmost mantra, the unequalled mantra, allayer of all suffering, in truth, for what could go wrong?

Heart as in emotions, love, eros? - No
By the perfection of wisdom has this mantra been delivered. It runs: gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

("Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, so it is!)

This completes the heart [pithy telling, summary, culmination, conclusion] of perfect wisdom.
  • When is "self" (I, me, mine, soul, myself) not-self? When wisdom is perfected to see that all things (but particularly the Five Aggregates clung to as self) not only impermanent, not only unsatisfactory, but also impersonal (anatta), which is to say "empty" (shunyata), devoid of self, essence, ego, thingness.
Background
Ven. Sariputra, monk foremost in wisdom
The Buddha did not utter it, but Mahayana is not concerned very much with the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. Its interest is in Kwan Yin (Avalokita, Avalokiteshvara).
  • This figure is transformed into a female figure, a feminine icon, called Kwan Yin (Kwun Yum, Guanyin, Kuanyin, Kannon, Kanzeon, Chenrezig, Lokanat, Lokabyuharnat, Lokesvara, Gwaneum, Quan Am, Nātha...)
And instead of the historical Buddha and his teachings, focus is turned to new "Cosmic Buddhas" like Amitābha and Medicine Buddha and Great Bodhisattvas like Ksitigarbha and other Vedic and Hindu syncretistic figures. Gone are countless Vedic gods, now reborn as Buddhist figures.

Who was the deva (god, godling, deity, lit. "shining one") Avalokiteśvara, this tenth-level bodhisattva?

Originally, it was a male deity who looked down and heard the cries of the world with boundless compassion. And this is the central figure in this, the Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra.

Buddhism may be described as the marriage of wisdom and compassion. One represents compassion, so who represents wisdom?

Heart Sutra, Siddham script, Japan (wiki)
It is the other figure in this work, the overly intellectual disciple Śāriputra, whom the Buddha declared "foremost in wisdom" among monks but viewed dimly in Mahayana Buddhism, just as in Theravada, where everyone loves easy-to-love Ānanda and Sariputta gets short shrift.

Avalokiteshvara (Mes Indes Galantes)
Mahayana turns him into a stick figure here, a scarecrow representing dunderheaded thinkers who lack compassion and direct knowledge. It is said by professors of Buddhist studies that poor Sariputra is often put in this light in Mahayana texts. Of course, this is a very unfair representation, but then whom to attribute it to?

Who is the author here, a Vedic Brahmin, an ancient Central Asian scholar writing in Gandhari, a Chinese compiler of Hindu and Buddhist texts brought to China by the Monkey King in the Journey to the West? We would like to know.
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Self, No-Self, or Dependent Origination?

O Buddha, please explain just two things to me, not-self and Dependent Origination! Al E.
But, Buddha, if there is no self, what is there? - There is Dependent Origination.
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Self or no-self? How could it be?
At all times many delusions (wrong views) have influenced and are still influencing living beings.

They are quoted in the sutras. Among them, however, the one wrong view that everywhere at all times has most misled and deluded beings is personality-view, namely, the ego-illusion (atta-ditthi).

It is of two kinds, either manifesting as "eternalism" or "annihilationism."

On the one hand, the view or belief that one is eternal (sassata-ditthi) is that a soul, ego-entity, or personality exists and persists independent of the physical-and-mental processes that constitute a life and continue after death in an endless series of linked rebirths.

On the other hand, the view or belief that someone or something more or less identical with those physical-and-mental processes, a soul, self, ego-entity, personality is annihilated (uccheda-ditthi) at death.

Dissolution at death is neither means that one survives death nor that one is annihilated at death. (Then what happens? What is dependently originated continues to be -- marked by the Three Universal Characteristics of All States of Existence -- with elements that are radically impermanent, disappointing (unsatisfactory), and impersonal.

An impersonal (empty, suññatā) process continues to roll on and relink to yet another rebirth unless it has previously been brought to rest by awakening (bodhi).

For the 20 kinds of personality-belief, see sakkāya-ditthi. More at "view" ditthi.

What is Dependent Origination?
Abhidhamma (Leigh Brasington)
Paticca-samuppāda (conditioned co-genesis, conditioned co-arising, the composite and empty nature of things) is the doctrine of the conditionality of all physical and mental phenomena.

This uniquely Buddhist Teaching (Dharma), together with the doctrine of not-self (anattā), which is that all things are impersonal, forms the indispensable condition for any real understanding and realization of the Teaching of the Buddha.
  • What does the Buddha teach? Only two things, suffering (dukkha, disappointment) and the end of all suffering (nirvana). Enlightenment (bodhi) is awakening to the liberating truth. How? By learning the cause (found within the Four Noble Truths, where "noble" means aryan or "enlightening"), the solution, the Enlightening Eightfold Path, is practiced full realization here and now in this very life.
What did the Buddha teach for awakening?
It points out the conditional or dependent nature of the uninterrupted flux of manifold physical and mental phenomena of existence conventionally called the self, soul, ego, or personality.

On the one hand, the anattā doctrine (that self and all other things are impersonal) proceeds analytically. It splits (analyzes) existence into its ultimate constituent parts -- mere empty, insubstantial phenomena or elements.

On the other hand, the doctrine of Dependent Origination proceeds synthetically. It shows that all phenomena are conditionally related with each other.

In fact, the entire collection of the Dharma in Ultimate [rather than conventional] Terms (Abhidhamma Pitaka), as a whole, is nothing but a treatment of just these two doctrines, phenomenality implying the impersonal and conditional nature of all existence.

The former or analytical method is applied in the Dhammasangani, the first book of the Abhidhamma collection; the latter or synthetical method, in Patthāna, the last book of the Abhidhamma collection. For a synopsis of these two works, see Guide I and VII. More
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A Verb for Nirvana


Hey, everybody, I have no respect for cultures!
In the days of the Buddha, nirvana (Pali nibbana) had a verb of its own: nibbuti. It meant to "go out" as a flame goes out.

Fire was thought to be in a state of being trapped (bound) as it burned — clinging to and trapped by the fuel it was consuming (burning). To go out was seen as being unbound, released, freed.

To go out could, therefore, be called "unbinding," although that is very clumsy. Sometimes another verb was used, pari-nibbuti, using the intensifier pari- to mean "total" or "all-around," indicating that once unbound, unlike fire unbound, one would never again be bound or trapped.
  • Nirvana (nibbana) is what an enlightened person experiences while alive, reexperiencing that bliss over and over, whereas pari-nibbana (pari-nirvana) is "final" or complete nirvana, gone out for good.
The Buddha reclines into final nirvana (Burma)
Now that nirvana has become an English word, it should have its own English verb to convey the sense of "being unbound" (liberated, freed, emancipated) as well.

At present, we say that a person "reaches" nirvana or "enters" nirvana, implying that nirvana is a place where one goes.

Nirvana is not a place (not the Christian equivalent of heaven, seventh heaven or, worse yet, nothingness).

Nirvana is realized, touched, glimpsed when the mind stops defining itself in terms of place: here, there, or between here and there.

This may seem like a hairsplitter's problem, a hobby for word-choppers problem — but what can a verb do to our practice?

The idea of nirvana as a place has created severe misunderstandings in the past, and it could easily create misunderstandings in the future.

There was a time when sophists and philosophers in proto-India reasoned that if nirvana is one place and samsara (the "endless wandering" or "Wheel of Life and Death") is another, then entering into nirvana leaves one stuck: Our range of movement has been limited, for we cannot get back to this miserable (impermanent, unfulfilling, impersonal) samsara.

To solve this imaginary problem they invented what they thought was a NEW kind of nirvana: an unestablished one in which one could be in both places — nirvana and samsara — at once.
  • [This is in a sense possible because when an arhat, a fully enlightened person, experiences nirvana, that person does so in the midst of samsara but now is no longer bound by samsara after it runs its course in this very life. When this revolving record comes to a stop, there will be no more revolving like before. This is bliss, this is peace, this is being unbound, but one might imagine that samsara is everything and, therefore, nirvana must be nothing. This is completely mistaken, as enlightened persons know directly. However, how can anyone explain to those still craving and clinging to sensual pursuit, to the idea (wrong view) of annihilation, or to the wrong view of eternal wandering on?
Simplified depiction of six (of 31) planes of rebirth
However, these sophisticated philosophers misunderstood two important points about the Buddha's teachings. The first was that neither samsara nor nirvana is a "place." Samsara is a process (revolving, cycling, and recycling) creating places, even whole worlds. This is called becoming (bhava). Then wandering through them, these places to experience the results of deeds, this is called rebirth.

Nirvana is the cessation of this miserable process. One may be able to be in two places at once — or even develop a sense of self so infinite that one can occupy all places at once — but we can't feed a process and experience its end at the same time. We are either feeding samsara or not. If one feels the need to course through both samsara and nirvana, we are simply engaging in more samsara-ing (wandering on, revolving) and keeping ourselves trapped.

The second point is that nirvana, from the very beginning, was realized through unestablished consciousness — one that neither comes nor goes nor stays in place.

There is no way that anything unestablished can get stuck anywhere at all, for it is not only non-localized but also undefined.

The idea of a spiritual ideal as resting beyond space and definition is not exclusive to the Buddha's Dharma (Teachings). Issues of locality and definition, in the Buddha's eyes, had a specific psychological meaning. This is why the non-locality of nirvana is important to understand.

Just as all phenomena (all things) are rooted in desire, consciousness localizes itself through passion (craving, clinging, attachment).

Passion is what creates the "there" on which consciousness lands or gets established, whether the "there" is a form, feeling, perception, mental formation (thought-construct), or a type of consciousness.

Golden Buddha deep in meditation, Sukhothai
Once consciousness becomes established on any of these Five Aggregates clung to as self, it becomes attached (stuck, trapped) then proliferates, feeding on everything around it and creating all sorts of havoc.

Wherever there is attachment (clinging, which is just habitual grasping), that is where one gets defined as a "being."

One creates an identity there, and in so doing one is limited there. Even if the "there" is an infinite sense of awareness grounding, surrounding, or permeating everything else, it is still limited. This is because "grounding" and so forth are aspects of place.

Wherever there is place, no matter how subtle, passion is latent, looking for more fuel to feed on.

If, however, the passion can be removed (let go of, abandoned, undone), there is no more "there" there.

One sutra illustrates this with a simile of the sun shining through the eastern wall of a house and landing on the western wall.

If the western wall, the ground beneath it, and the waters beneath that ground were all removed, the sunlight would not land. In the same way, if passion for form, feeling, perception, mental formation, or consciousness, could be removed, consciousness would have no "where" (no place, no there) to land, and so would become unestablished.

This does not mean that consciousness would be annihilated. It simply means that — like the sunlight — it would now have no locality. With no locality, it would no longer be defined.

The Buddha represented not as resting but reclining into complete nirvana (Sukhothai, Thailand)
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This is why the consciousness of nirvana is said to be "without surface" (anidassanam), for it does not land. Because the consciousness-aggregate (vinnana-khandha) covers only consciousness that is near, far, past, present, or future — that is, connected with space and time — consciousness without surface is not included in the Five Aggregates clung to as self.

It is not "eternal" because eternity is a function of time. And because non-local also means undefined, the Buddha insisted that an enlightened/awakened person — unlike ordinary, uninstructed worldlings — cannot be located or defined in relation to the aggregates in this life.

Moreover, after passing away, one can neither be described as existing, nonexisting, neither existing nor nonexisting, nor both existing and nonexisting. Why? It is because descriptions can apply only to definable things.

The essential step toward this non-localized, undefined realization is to cut back on the proliferations of consciousness.

This first involves contemplating the severe dangers and drawbacks of keeping consciousness trapped in the process of feeding. This contemplation gives a strong sense of urgency to the next steps:

Bringing the mind to oneness in stillness (concentrating it on a single object, which temporarily purifies it), gradually refining that oneness (or coherence of mind), then dropping it to zero.

The drawbacks of feeding are most graphically described in SN 12.63, "The Discourse on a Son's Flesh." The process of gradually refining oneness is probably best described in MN 121, "The Lesser Discourse on Emptiness [the Impersonal]," while the drop to zero is best described in the Buddha's famous instructions to Bāhiya of the Barkcloth :

Meeting an independent sadhu
"Regarding the seen, there will be [to you] only the seen. Regarding the heard, only the heard. Regarding to the otherwise sensed, only the otherwise sensed. Regarding the cognized, only the cognized.' That is how to train yourself [Bahiya]. When for you there is only the seen in regard to the seen, only the heard in regard to the heard, only the otherwise sensed in regard to the otherwise sensed, only the cognized in regard to the cognized then, Bahiya, there is no you in connection with that. When there is no you in connection with that, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor there [yonder, beyond] nor between the two. This, just this, is the end of dukkha."
  • Dukkha is the Pali term for "stress, pain, suffering, unsatisfactoriness, disappointment," and refers to the inability of all things to fulfill. All things (conditioned amalgams, fabrications, dependently originated constructs) ultimately disappoint. Nirvana is not a "thing" (composite) but rather the unconditioned element free of all suffering.
With no here or there or between the two, you obviously can't use the verb "enter" or "reach" to describe this realization, even metaphorically.

Defilements ended, there is quenching/cooling.
The word nirvana should be made into a verb (cool, slake, quench) or in any case understood as such: "When it is understood that there is no you (self) in connection with that, you nirvana." (One nirvanas).
  • [How is this not annihilation? If one understands that all that arises as "self" is dependently originated (conditioned), then it will be understood that all that "goes out" is ignorance. This is awakening.]
That way we can indicate that liberation, unbinding, release is an action unlike any other, and we can head off any mistaken notion about getting "stuck" in total freedom.
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Alaska Triangle: CIA remote viewer, ET base


Ancient Aliens: CIA Analyst Pat Price discovers UFO/US military base in Alaska (S19)
(HISTORY) May 13, 2023: Was this CIA agent killed because he was not supposed to "see" (remote view) a base in and under Mt. Hayes, Alaska? See more in this scene from Season 19, Episode 8, "The Mysteries of Alaska." What did he see? Let's see:

(Quest) The CIA's early psychic spy Pat Price remote views base

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Pat Price: The CIA’s psychic spy during the Cold War | The Alaska Triangle
(Quest TV) Nov. 22, 2022: ALASKA During the Cold War, the USA believed that the Soviets (USSR now Russia) had psychic spies who were remotely gathering intel on them, so the Americans recruited their own spies.

[They then created a viable psychic spying program called Stargate that produced a great deal of valuable knowledge. It was continued for a long time before going secret, getting expanded, and becoming a "black budget" program still in use but plausibly denied].

While one of their best psychics -- operative Patrick Price, a former Burbank police officer with great skill in this process of astral project -- was working, he was psychically attracted to a different location, a secret US military base housing humanoid space aliens underneath an Alaskan mountain in the Alaska Triangle called Mt. Hayes. From Season 1, Episode 1 🇬🇧 Catch full episodes of favorite Quest shows on discovery+: bit.ly/3AA4cP4
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New Jesus 'miracle' found left out of Bible

I'm a god/magician, using drugs, venoms, potions made by young bodies to be christed (Hillman)
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New Jesus 'miracle' uncovered in 2,000-year-old manuscript left out of the Bible
An ancient parchment has been unearthed, revealing a fascinating tale from Jesus Christ's youth that seems to have been omitted from subsequent versions of the Bible (irishstar.com).

In an era where [pop idol and possible demon possessed, Illuminati member] Taylor Swift is known for dropping previously unreleased tracks and posthumous albums emerge online, not to mention ABBA's holograms recreating their gigs from decades past, no one anticipated the discovery of a new miracle attributed to Jesus.

This newly uncovered miracle narrates how a young Jesus brought clay birds to life, an event termed the "vivification of the sparrows."
  • [This is an old and well-known story from the early stories that floated around different countries around the Middle East in northern Africa (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). This is right around the time Jesus killed a boy by cursing him, apparently not knowing his own psychic or paranormal powers.]
Who's this little guy on the tee? (Dalai Lama)
The 2,000-year-old text, found in a German library, describes how a 5-year-old Jesus could craft birds from clay mud beside a river and then animate them into living sparrows.

It's thought to be part of a broader work -- the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (IGT) -- dating back to the 2nd century, reports the Daily Star.

This gospel reportedly chronicles Jesus' early years but was excluded from the canonical Bible.

Prof. Lajos Berkes, a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-Universitat, where the manuscript was discovered, remarked:

"The fragment is of extraordinary interest for research." The papyrus had gone unnoticed, with experts initially dismissing it as they mistook the scrawled handwriting for something mundane such as a shopping list or a personal letter. More
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Gay Jesus? Christ's drugs, homosexuality

Hippie, wanderer (shramana), magician (magi) tripping on entheogens in sacred initiations, holy mysteries and rites with a band of very young boys I call my "apostles," as we engage in some gay acts, it's how I am christed, anointed, sprinkled. You wouldn't understand how we got high -- doted (dosed) and antidoted -- and had sex unless you're a scholar, philologist, and translator of sacred texts like Dr. David C. Ammon Hillman. Ask him how I'm gay. It's in the Bible for you to see.

Child prostitutes in the Bible with guest scholar GnosticInformant
We've been trying to tell everyone. Priests are practicing real Christianity by being gay pedos.
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Halleluia, we can go public and not hide our love
(Lady Babylon, S6, E4) Streamed live on Sept. 22, 2023: This video goes line by line through the Ancient Greek biblical verses in John, Chapter 13, which describes Jesus of Nazareth carrying on in a homosexual, pedophilic, pederastic manner, describing eros (erotic love) between the Lord and young prostitute boys.

Dr. Hillman is incensed that no one seems to notice that Jesus was arrested at 4:00 am in a public park molesting a boy, who in the description runs away as his loincloth falls off. An intoxicated Jesus blurts out, "I'm not a child trafficker!" complaining that the Romans have sent in a SWAT team for a simple shepherd/carpenter, but they were right to do so because a soldier's ear is cut off. This is all in the Bible.

What was Jesus doing in the park? He was getting intoxicated on venoms to bring on spiritual delirium and needed the boy's issue as an antidote or for reactive agents produced by his body, Dr. Hillman explains, to counteract snake venoms applied to cuts in the skin. Dr. Hillman is uniquely qualified to know this because of his background in pharmacology and his wide reading in Ancient Greek and Roman (Latin) texts discussing these potions, pharmakos (sorcery of allopathic concoctions), and pharmacopeia.

Not only is this being expressed in the apostles' description in the Bible (Mark, Chp. 14, John, Chp. 13), accepted standard biblical texts (not recently discovered Lost or Gnostic Gospels) also document how Jesus drugged young boy Judas Iscariot to send him into a bacchanalian frenzy, inviting a demon or devil into him to do the adversarial task of accusing him. ("Accuser" and "adversary" is what satanas literally means, and personified Satan is called the "accuser" and "adversary").

Jesus may even have "married" one of his beloved young boys, according to guest GnosticInformant, speaking it seems of young Judas, the son of fellow disciple Simon Iscariot, who is disguised by calling him simply Simon or Simon Peter), and Jesus introduces this sexy boy to his mother, Mary (Miriam), as her "new son." Did he marry him. What could he mean?

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Before publishing this we looked into it, reviewed various standard Bible translations (including the harder to find Geneva), and pleaded with a devout Christian to explain. "It's the devil," "it can't be true," "only believe the gospels by people who knew him," he said. That is a handy standard because this information is based on a disciple who knew Jesus, reporting firsthand knowledge to the extent any apostle or gospel actually does. (They were actually written much later, not contemporaneously). The whole religion is based on gospels (firsthand accounts), so many of which were "inconvenient" that they were thrown out of the official books of the Bible. But they are returned. There is the Apocrypha, Lost Gospels, Gnostic Gospels, Nag Hammadi Scrolls, Dead Sea Scrolls, papyri, inscriptions, fragments (mentions of lost texts in surviving texts), cuneiform tablets, and bits and pieces found here and there and sometimes backed by more ancient accounts from Sumer, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia. Christians do not believe those. What they believe are the four gospels, and this information is from John.

Priests wouldn't really be hypocrites, molesting and covering up?

It's in the Protestant Bible, in many translations, and clear in the original Ancient Greek
I'm just following this book, boys.
Where is this information coming from? It is coming the Bible (John 13:26 ff. Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I give this [bread] after I have dipped it [into this purple psychedelic]." Then He dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot (biblehub.com) from the Greek translation of the Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ or "anointed" (Kristos, "sprinkled"?) gave drugs to little boy prostitutes, performing quasi-sexual acts, grooming behavior, lewd speech, and very strange things we have been lied to about.

But it's right there in the Bible (which is full of incest, murder, homosexuality, genocide, and god worship) for anyone to read and interpret. It has been misinterpreted, not necessarily misquoted, for us. Now readers of the original language may tell us what it unambiguously means, as Ammon Hillman does here.

Moses in the Bible says rape girls? Pedophiles. Boys, too?
Calling on his assistant Chuy (a Spanish nickname for anyone named Jesus), Hillman reads the Ancient Greek, and we may read along with him. Semen, bath towels, nudity, young boys, drugging...all of it is written and included in the Bible. Jesus' adopted son, Judas, is introduced to his mother as his husband or spouse.

We welcome any Christian to give a rebuttal based on the official text and early Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic terms themselves rather than apologetics.

Years ago, when the Catholic Church was in big trouble for all the revelations (unveilings) of priests raping little boy prostitutes they could get their hands on as elder priests and cardinals hid this from police and reassigned them to another parish, where the molestation continued.

Countless Catholic families have had their hearts broken that a trusted "father" (padre, priest, patriarch) has done this to their child AND the Church knew about it, and the Church protected shielded them from legal ramifications, covered it up, refused to cooperate with police investigations, brought in expensive lawyers to advise and shut down prosecutions -- when all that was happening, the satirists at South Park made an episode about it.


The local South Park priest goes to Rome to report that his fellow American priests are molesting little boys. He goes to the Vatican, where he is invited to address the cardinals, bishops, and the pope. When he reveals this, the holy congregation of men is confused why he's saying it.

The whistleblower priest asks them if they understand. The pope explains that what he's reporting is happening to children by child molesting priests is the main reason to join and be a member of this fraternal order of Catholic priests.

The South Park priest is gob smacked. It's very funny because it exactly seems to be the way it really is: Catholic priests molest children as a benefit, perk, and sacrament, finding it one of the best parts of the job. Far from an aberration, it is the central secret teaching. How did South Park figure it out?
  • He's a cute child. The monks will "love" him.
    There is even a Buddhist connection. Ancient Buddhism is a monastic tradition, so it has homosexuality, child molestation, and a minor history of pederasty. (See Buddhism, Sex, and Gender). This is most shockingly expressed by a Buddhist documentary (Unmistaken Child, 2008) involving the current pope-king the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. A young boy is declared a tulku (reincarnated lama returning to earth to be found and brought to the monastery to be raised and groomed by men). No one would dare imagine that any grooming is taking place, only a holy ritual of Tibetan culture, except in the movie the Dalai Lama fondles the penis of the small boy and laughs about it on camera. We did not see the movie but only heard about this from a disturbed Western woman who thought it was shocking that this was going on and that it was being done from the top down. The current Dalai Lama, the 14th one in the line, was a tulku brought to the lamasery and raised to be a rinpoche and pope-king. Was this done to him because it is a commonplace practice? The ordinary Tibetan Buddhist wouldn't know. Who knows what monks/priests (lamas) and bishops/cardinals (rinpoches) do in secret with their young charges? Pederasty may be a well-established practice, as it has been in Japan, according to Buddhism, Sex, and Gender, as it was in ancient Greece (and goodness knows still is in modern Greece).
  • Buddhism and Sexuality: monastic homosexuality in Tibet
  • Monastic homosexuality in Japan
  • The connection is that the Jew Jesus was trained in this esoteric Vajrayana Buddhist tradition in ancient Tibet (now Ladakh, India, high in the Himalayas at Hemis Gompa, a lamasery that still stands. This is where Russian Christian scholar Nicholas Notovitch was shown written records of Jesus of Nazareth's 18 "lost" years not accounted for in the Bible. Jesus was in Asia, having journeyed there with a Jewish merchant caravan that frequently traveled between Jerusalem and Kashmir. Was Jesus (called St. Issa in Notovitch's account, later corroborated by Swami Abedananda and others, see Holger Kersten), practicing black magic (which in Tibet is the pre-Buddhist practice of Bon), witchcraft, siddhis (magical feats like walking on water) as lamas might train to do?
  • Sleeping with boys we care for in the lamasery
    Did Jesus then take those practices back to Judeah, Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, Nazareth, around the Dead Sea along with a penchant for "magic potions" comprised of entheogenic/psychedelic plants, mushrooms, and flowers? The Dalai Lama would never play with a boy's penis, right? There he is doing it on film, in a documentary, for anyone to see, and he is so out of touch with the world as religious royalty raised to rule in secular and spiritual matters, having led a cloistered life among so many males, that he thinks it's alright to do and can no more imagine why anyone would think it was wrong or strange or disgusting or criminal than he can understand a joke about pizza even after it is explained to him repeatedly by his personal translator.
  • Forget Adam and Steve, these are the 5 gayest Bible stories ever (and the fifth one is the point because this is where Dr. David C. Ammon Hillman says Jesus was caught naked in the park with a child as he was arrested while high, yelling, "I'm not a child trafficker" (not a joke)
  • (@boddyj11, 5/30/24) I can't wait for tonight's class!!! I was brought up in church (Southern Baptist) my whole childhood (twice every Sunday, Monday and Wednesday). Still, with all the things I was taught it all never sat well with me.. felt like I was missing something. Or rather, they were missing something. I'm TOTALLY CAPTIVATED by this well of knowledge you're bringing and GRATEFUL for your willingness to bring it all forward in such a raw and authentic manner. Loving my new home, Lady Babylon 🫶
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  • @jasontheflyingfarrierhays, 6/1/24) I’ll admit, I wasn’t so sure about you when I saw my first interview. Now though, I can’t stop watching this outstanding content. Your approach, using the texts only, no generalizations, no hyperbole, just the ancient texts, refreshing to say the least. Standing ovation from South Carolina 🫡
  • South Park; Ancient Greek Bible scholar Dr. Ammon Hillman, Ph.D., GnosticInformant, 2024; Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
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