Seven, Amber Dorrian, Xochitl, Wisdom Quarterly COUNTDOWN RESET: -144,000
Graphic video re-enactment of the end of a major Mayan cycle... followed by a new cycle (NES)
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| Aztec warrior at Kukulkan during 12-21-12 Mayan celebrations (ABC.net.au) |
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| Pyramids exist all over the world (Klaus Dona) |
"Told You So"? That would be a distasteful title. Wisdom Quarterly
said the world would end, and has it not?
Look around and suddenly see that the world is not the same: It's
similar but not identical. Never to return, all phenomena is
hurtling toward destruction, just as we were warned in the Buddha's
final admonition. On that day the Buddha encouraged the
devas and ascetics gathered around him before he blissfully reclined into final nirvana:
"Behold now, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness!"
All "conditioned phenomena" are that way. (Conditioned? Composite things, heaps that depend on supporting conditions, constituents, parts). The world is on fire! But to say so, that is not something anyone ordinarily wants to hear.
We desire and want to grasp and cling to what we desire. We are hurt to find that it is ALL going away, ALL swirling down the drain, ALL perishing just as soon as it arises. What all?
All the world we have ever known, ever experienced here on this plane and every other plane as well.
That is not to say everything is doomed. There is a further shore beyond these planes we cycle through. There is peace. There is rest. There is the non-arising, the not-coming-to-be of what is perishable and subject to suffering.
One can know-and-see it in
this very life. Know what? The going, the going, the going
beyond, the going altogether beyond. Oh, what an awakening! So it would be.
How will we see it, how will we awaken, how will we go from here to there and make an end of all misery?
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| Young Goodman Brown's vision (BK) |
One night
Young Goodman Brown ventured into the forest adjacent to old Salem town. There he saw a vision of evil -- the "good" town folk engaged in a ritual with a devil. The preacher welcomed the circle: "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now ye are undeceived! ...Welcome again,
my children, to the communion of your race."
Were it so, the world could not stand. For, according to the Buddha, the world has "four protectors" (Sigalovada Sutra). These are generosity, kind words, compassionate helpfulness, and impartiality. So the world goes on. But "going on" means constantly ending. Everything is perishing. What is here to hold on to? And we haven't even understood this world.
"Generous, of sweet speech, Helpful, and impartial to all – By these four fixed, the world goes round As the linchpin serves the moving cart. If these in the world were not found Then this repercussion would redound: Neither mother nor father could expect From children proper honor and respect. But since these four winning ways The wise approve and display, They to eminence have attained With praise and honor rightly gained"
(The Buddha, closing verse, "Advice to Householders," DN 31).
Project Avalon presents Klaus Dona with astounding Earth artifacts
