No, Jack Kornfield, your former Mentor is not the Rigden God Almighty!

[Brad Klee]

If you've read the victim's testimony, she claims that during the funeral
the corpse took on a rotten stench of corruption despite spending
thousands and thousands of dollars on cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine
and incense.

No, Jack Kornfield, your theorem that Chogyam Trungpa should be
compared to Vimalakirti [1] has been refuted by the very existence
of Ciel Turzanski. No student is so precocious as to deserve a seat
next to Jason Altom and Kenichi Hirose, who could have used better
seating themselves.

No, Jack Kornfield, you did not teach me on Lion's Roar how to do
Metta starting with Shambhala Prom Queens living in Colorado
who have not called me this week, themselves already having as
many mountain-man boyfriends as they could ever desire.

When I do Metta, I would start with someone like Jason Altom,
Kenichi Hirose, or Ciel Turzanski, but what I am really doing is
amplifying the part of myself that is suffering beyond repair
and using that as a reason to care about mutual empathy.

From there it is easy to move on to people who didn't even get
to go to school, and to people who got abducted from school,
and to people who claim to have been abducted by aliens and
experimented on with invasive technologies.

Yes, I do think Tonglen and Metta can be practiced concurrently,
but have argued if you tried to tonglen the suffering of the whole
world at once, that you would break instantly. My opponent at the
time (On of the sexy Colorado women), said that it is ultimately
possible if you practice stronger all the time, and I agreed (in principle).

Ultimately, you will realize that all the virtue signaling at the
University of Shambhala Waseda Wherever is just spiritual
materialism in a nice package, and that if somone virtue
signals for or against you, they will probably steal your merit
to deposit in their bank accounts as soon as you let them,
so that is where it starts to become difficult to breathe in
the greed delusion and the jealousy delusion at once, and
breathe out love for sadhus who are finding it difficult to
make alms when so many doors have been closed due to
the continuing threat of COVID-19.

It sounds like a delusion, and it is. Merit isn't a material quantity,
so it can't be stolen. But when you wake the fuck up you realize
that children have died, and that the money you gave as taxes
went to kill them. As civilians, we don't even get an explanation
of how the energy weapons telemarket with remote kill drone
strikes & zoom calls + FISA warrants--but when the bodies pile
up, and the magicians come out to eat them, make no mistake
that which can not be stolen has been stolen, even life itself has
been stolen, turned into nothing, tortured in a hospital, left to die
as an adult in his or her parent's house!

No, Jack Kornfield, you were never married to Chogyam Trungpa,
and if you had been, maybe you still would have missed the better
comparison with Tharpa Nakpo. That is good news for you, Jack,
you could turn out like Pramadeva (Transcendent Faith) and still
be mentally cogent enough to read and understand the Buddhist
Sunshine Report for what it really is.

Try and keep up with the discussion,

--Brad



[1] Recalling Chogyam Trungpa, Ch.2, "Holding the Banner of the
Dharma...", Shambhala, 2005, ed. Fabrice Midal.

PS. Chas, thanks for the meta data entertainment, funny, but
you could still always try to do less ad hominem attacks. If you
don't shakubuku, don't worry, I'm sure someone else will.

[Julian]

Reboot your SatNav.

[Brad Klee]

Sorry Julian, Can't understand what you're saying, too cryptic, but
here you go, my friend from England sent me this because he
thinks I'm tripping out to talk myself to death (again):

https://fpmt.org/mandala/archives/older/mandala-issues-for-1996/march/the-faults-of-criticizing-and-blaming-others/

If I've ended up talking like Chas, Maybe he's right, at least worth
listening to. Going silent now, --Brad



On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 10:50:04 AM UTC-5, Julian wrote:
> Reboot your SatNav.

[Julian]

On 20/09/2021 17:10, Brad Klee wrote:
> Sorry Julian, Can't understand what you're saying, too cryptic

snip. Try this..

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan

[Brad Klee]

Oh my, if it's alright, I think I'd rather stay away from David Dalton and
his creepy binding bullshit, looks much worse than "feeding demons".

So I guess the question on topic would be: Who is Vimalakirti on the
Gohonzon? Visistacaritra Bodhisattva (Superior Practice)?

[Brad Klee]

One other thing while your on the line... If you didn't see this already:

DALeast did some nice illustrations for Dzongsar Khyentse's great
analysis "A Celebrity Falls Sick", the quality reminded me of your proof
of concept, everything in the lotus sutra could be a lie, or whatever the
hell you called your collage books. Available free @ 84000:

https://84000.co/doc/vimalakirti/Vimalakirti%20Book_E_screen-170724.pdf

https://84000.co/artist-daleast-on-sutra-illustration/

See ya in Earth Born,

--Brad

On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 1:01:53 PM UTC-5, Julian wrote:

[Julian]

On 20/09/2021 19:55, Brad Klee wrote:
> One other thing while your on the line... If you didn't see this already:
>
> DALeast did some nice illustrations for Dzongsar Khyentse's great
> analysis "A Celebrity Falls Sick", the quality reminded me of your proof
> of concept, everything in the lotus sutra could be a lie, or whatever the
> hell you called your collage books. Available free @ 84000:

Searched 84000 for "Nichiren."

"Sorry, but no items matched your criteria."

[Brad Klee]

https://84000.co/?s=shakyamuni

Or how about this one:

https://read.84000.co/translation/toh113.html

[Chas.]

On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 4:11:44 AM UTC-7, brad...@gmail.com wrote:
> If you've read the victim's testimony, she claims that during the funeral
> the corpse took on a rotten stench of corruption despite spending
> thousands and thousands of dollars on cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine
> and incense.
>

> No, Jack Kornfield, [snip the rest of your schizo trip, Brad Klee]

Julian has been kind enough to humor your misdirected ravings, however I'm not willing to suffering blithering self-destructive fools.

I will remind you once again that this is the newsgroup named after Nichiren Daishonin, who was quite clear in identifying everything you slack-jawbone about as grievous slander of the Law, and thus yourself as the designation of icchantika/issendai/incorrigible disbeliever. Since that is the tune that your inner demon pulls your puppet strings and causes you to dance to, that is what your appellation here.

However, in spite of that state of affairs your true identity is that of the Buddha of Beginningless Time and the Buddha of Infinite Joy, if you would first simply stop slandering your true self.

I would appreciate it greatly if you would take your suicidal self immolation elsewhere. I will of course always be here to serve up a rebuke to your endless river of slander of the Law, in hope that someday the flow will ebb and your future not grow darker, quicker.

-Chas.

[Brad Klee]

CHAS:
> Starting to have conversations with people not present,
> like the rambling schizophrenics on the street, Brad

You wont get anywhere by insulting my friends, Chas. If only
Sunshine & Moonshine were both here to "Ramble on Rose",
you would do well to listen to what they would say about the
false vibrational powers of alien mantras, which remain active,
even after they are done with all the experiments and boot you
out of their spaceship!

> Julian has been kind enough to humor your misdirected ravings,
> however I'm not willing to suffering blithering self-destructive fools.

So says the self-proclaimed, self-destructive wiseman, who acts
upon himself as a contradiction!

> I would appreciate it greatly if you would take your suicidal
> self immolation elsewhere.

You haven't seen anything yet! You want to see self immolation?

Here you go, a three state cellular automaton for growing the
half-hex tiling, animation to time t=32:

https://0x0.st/-3Gq.gif

Product of the following 123 Rules:

{1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3} -> 3
{1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 3} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 3, 1, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 3, 2, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2} -> 3
{0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0} -> 2
{0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 0} -> 1
{0, 0, 2, 3, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2} -> 3
{0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0} -> 2
{2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 0} -> 1
{0, 0, 2, 3, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 3
{3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1} -> 2
{2, 0, 0, 0, 3, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1} -> 3
{0, 0, 1, 3, 3, 0} -> 2
{0, 3, 2, 2, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 3
{3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0} -> 3
{0, 1, 1, 3, 0, 0} -> 2
{3, 3, 2, 0, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2} -> 3
{3, 3, 0, 0, 1, 1} -> 2
{2, 0, 0, 3, 3, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1} -> 3
{0, 1, 1, 3, 3, 0} -> 2
{3, 3, 2, 2, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1} -> 3
{0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1} -> 2
{3, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 2, 2, 3, 0} -> 1
{2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1} -> 3
{3, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1} -> 2
{2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 2, 2, 3, 0} -> 1
{0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2} -> 3
{3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 1} -> 2
{3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{0, 0, 2, 3, 3, 0} -> 1
{2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2} -> 3
{0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 1} -> 2
{3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 2
{0, 0, 2, 3, 3, 0} -> 1
{3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0} -> 0
{3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 0
{2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2} -> 0
{0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1} -> 0
{0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 0} -> 0
{0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0} -> 0
{0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2} -> 3
{0, 3, 1, 3, 1, 0} -> 2
{2, 3, 2, 3, 0, 0} -> 1
{2, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1} -> 3
{3, 1, 0, 0, 3, 1} -> 2
{3, 0, 0, 2, 3, 2} -> 1
{2, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1} -> 3
{0, 0, 1, 3, 3, 1} -> 2
{0, 3, 2, 2, 3, 0} -> 1
{2, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0} -> 3
{3, 3, 1, 0, 0, 1} -> 2
{2, 3, 0, 0, 3, 2} -> 1
{3, 0, 0, 3, 1, 1} -> 2
{0, 0, 2, 3, 3, 2} -> 1
{0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0} -> 3
{3, 1, 1, 3, 0, 0} -> 2
{3, 3, 2, 0, 0, 2} -> 1
{2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2} -> 3
{1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0} -> 1
{0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 3} -> 3
{0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0} -> 2

I could be the first person ever to compute these values--I've
never seen this done before.

The point is: you're not the Daishonin Chas, so you should listen
to me and quit acting like a tyrant as soon as possible!

--Brad

[Julian]

On 22/09/2021 00:12, Brad Klee wrote:
> CHAS:
>> Starting to have conversations with people not present,
>> like the rambling schizophrenics on the street, Brad
>
> You wont get anywhere by insulting my friends, Chas.

Maybe he's already where he wants to be.
It is nothing extraordinary.

[Chas.]

On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:12:27 PM UTC-7, brad...@gmail.com wrote:
> CHAS:
> > Starting to have conversations with people not present,
> > like the rambling schizophrenics on the street, Brad
>
> You wont get anywhere by insulting my friends, Chas. If only
> Sunshine & Moonshine were both here to "Ramble on Rose",
> you would do well to listen to what they would say about the
> false vibrational powers of alien mantras, which remain active,
> even after they are done with all the experiments and boot you
> out of their spaceship!
> > Julian has been kind enough to humor your misdirected ravings,
> > however I'm not willing to suffering blithering self-destructive fools.
> So says the self-proclaimed, self-destructive wiseman, who acts
> upon himself as a contradiction!
> > I would appreciate it greatly if you would take your suicidal
> > self immolation elsewhere.
> You haven't seen anything yet! You want to see self immolation?
>
> Here you go, a three state cellular automaton for growing the
> half-hex tiling, animation to time t=32:
>
> https://0x0.st/-3Gq.gif
>
> Product of the following 123 Rules:
>
> {1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} -> 1

Snip the rest of your Low Performance Computing exercise, Brad.

>
> I could be the first person ever to compute these values--I've
> never seen this done before.
>
> The point is: you're not the Daishonin Chas, so you should listen
> to me and quit acting like a tyrant as soon as possible!
>
> --Brad

As Nichiren Daishonin said, the common mortal is the true Buddha, and that's me, and you, so stop slandering true Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra already, OK? Take it elsewhere.

-Chas.

[Brad Klee]

I'm sure that he already is where he wants to be. Most other
people are not and view this life entirely as failing to achieve
perfection before death, so also as a process of constantly
trying to better ourselves and to live for others.

For example, one would think that if pramadeva had gone to
the charnel ground to practice corpse eating, he would have
been insightful enough to realize that it's better to wait and
be eaten than to become a cannibal immediately.

Chas, on the other side, has completely inverted the Chod
practice and none of his chosen victims are even happy
with his negative tongue karma. One taste of the meat and
he's lost his mind like a ravenous vulture!

That's why I have tried to help him with his ego delusion,
so that maybe someday he can understand where everyone
else wants him to be. Maybe he will end up chanting the
nembutsu and then make it to the pure land, who knows?

--Brad

[Brad Klee]

Chas,

Don't worry, later this week I'm leaving on a grand adventure to see a list
of very famous celebrities lecturing on the Vimalakirti sutra, and I won't
need any of your meanness polluting me in that situation.

Since the Vimalakirti sutra is only one of the original source texts for
Mahayana buddhism, I would think it's unavoidable that the Lotus Sutra,
perhaps even the Nichiren sect, would also be mentioned somewhere
in comparison.

Did you not get a copy of the notes I took from back when we were all
in high school together? Or you got a copy and simply ignored them?

Sorry if you didn't get to sit at the lunch table with the popular university
professors, and if you had to ask for free lunch, but yes I agree with you
about common mortals--you don't need a pedigree from Princeton Law
School to be in the Fall talent show--unless you claim to pull a bunny out
of your top hat, but really it's a sexy magazine instead!

Then, everyone will laugh, but the principal might get angry and send you
right to ISS or OSS. You'll need a lawyer, but at the same time you'll get the
rejection letter from the Princeton Entity of the Mystsical Law saying that
they don't want to go to Sunday mass with you anymore, that they don't
need any known disciplinary cases, that they're new girlfriend is sexier
anyways, and that in terms of YES answers, they've already decided on
Jackie Stone as the rep. from Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

By the way, this crazy practice is called "homeless friends from highschool
interbeing". Try it out sometime and see if it helps.

Please while I'm gone, remember to do less ad hominem and if possible
keep my good name out of your torrent of hating mean emails!

If you are nice enough, maybe I will show you more "low performance
computing". The advantage of "low performance computing" is that
common mortals can usually afford to do more of it, as they should!

Thanks again,

get well soon,

--Brad

[Julian]

On 22/09/2021 14:30, Brad Klee wrote:
> I'm sure that he already is where he wants to be. Most other
> people are not and view this life entirely as failing to achieve
> perfection before death, so also as a process of constantly
> trying to better ourselves and to live for others.

It comes over as your trying to "better" Chas
and have him live for you. You need more practice
whatever it is you're trying to do.

[Brad Klee]

> You need more practice whatever it is you're trying to do.

Now you sound like Rev. so-and-so. Next thing you're going to tell
me that you're a lineage holder? Or is it someone died and made
you the "sakyong wangmo"?

> It comes over as your [note: I often make this misspelling as
> well... it's actually you're, why is this so difficult?] trying to "better"

> Chas and have him live for you.

I don't need Chas to live for me, I just need him to stop with his
hating meanness. My own better-than-ism, I look at it in terms of the
better-lessness of bettering; and in terms of the worser-moreness
of bettering. Some of the things I've said, I genuinely feel bad about
and can realize as contributing to my Karma. For example, Jack
Kornfield probably doesn't need or want his name run through the
mud now that the eighties are done and 30-40 years gone.

So anyways.

Did you come up with anything for number practice? If not, my
other friends in Europe love playing this OEIS game:

If you operate the half-hex growth rule, then you can count new cells
as a function of time, and you should get something similar to:

https://oeis.org/A151723

After subtracting to first differences, and dividing by six (for symmetry):

1,
1,
3, 1,
3, 5, 7, 1,
3, 5, 9, 9, 7, 13, 15, 1,
3, 5, 9, 9, 9, 17, 25, 17, 7, 13, 23, 27, 19, 31, 31, 1

The example from yesterday is like this:

1,
2,
3, 4,
3, 7, 8, 8,
3, 7, 11, 15, 10, 20, 18, 16,
3, 7, 11, 15, 11, 27, 31, 31, 10, 23, 36, 44, 27, 46, 38, 32

Notice that the second bounds the first on every term. Can you
explain what's going on with row ends? The first is always 1,
while the second is 2^n, row index n = 0, 1, 2 . . .

If you can't answer this question (the answer is easy), then you
need more practice--and you should listen to me because I'm a
lineage holder!!

The best part of this number practice is that it never contributes
to anything practical as long as you don't start talking about
nuclear chain reactions (what S. Ulam was doing)! That means
it won't lead to harming sentient beings, unless you use number
patterns as evil magic to make an exclusive culture clubs in the
Ivy League or at Cambridge University of Waseda wherever.

If you're having trouble with the answer, and ask nicely, I can
explain it to you anytime before Friday.

Thanks again,

--Brad

[Julian]

On 22/09/2021 17:04, Brad Klee wrote:
>> You need more practice whatever it is you're trying to do.
>
> Now you sound like Rev. so-and-so. Next thing you're going to tell
> me that you're a lineage holder?

Don't give up your day job.

[Brad Klee]

I didn't give up my day job. It was taken away by the cruelty of the
system, probably given to someone with a better demographic
profile, better looking selectors, and better "colegiality".

According to the culture war's best targeting practices, I'm not
likely to get any renumeration any time soon. In addition to everything
else, I'm behind schedule on training modules, which I view plainly as
brainwashing.

The good news for you and Chas is that all frees me up to do
some charity teaching in the wild west, ha ha.

So please do let me know if you have questions and or answers
about the new(?) half-hex cellular automaton, and realize that there
is more progress to make on the subject of limit-periodic mandalas
with fractal structure.

Thanks again,

--Brad

[Julian]

On 22/09/2021 17:27, Brad Klee wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 11:11:52 AM UTC-5, Julian wrote:
>> On 22/09/2021 17:04, Brad Klee wrote:
>>>> You need more practice whatever it is you're trying to do.
>>>
>>> Now you sound like Rev. so-and-so. Next thing you're going to tell
>>> me that you're a lineage holder?
>> Don't give up your day job.
>
> I didn't give up my day job. It was taken away by the cruelty of the
> system, probably given to someone with a better demographic
> profile, better looking selectors, and better "colegiality".

Always someone else's fault, eh? (rhetorical)

Instead of posting Tibetan stuff to ARBN
maybe you should work on your luck a bit.

[Brad Klee]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 11:35:28 AM UTC-5, Julian wrote:
> Instead of posting Tibetan stuff to ARBN
> maybe you should work on your luck a bit.

Thanks for the suggestion. I count myself lucky if I don't get left out of
the upcoming lecture on Vimalakirti, and if none of the practitioners are
hating mean rude toward me about my unorthodox views.

> Always someone else's fault, eh?

The only thing I blame myself for is writing a great dissertation, and I
wouldn't praise the rest of the world for their inability to understand it.

Cheers,

--Brad

[Brad Klee]

Okay Jules, I'll work on my bad luck. --Brad

On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 11:35:28 AM UTC-5, Julian wrote:

[Julian]

On 11/10/2021 03:52, Brad Klee wrote:
> Okay Jules, I'll work on my bad luck. --Brad

Start by working on your manners.
Your luck will improve as a consequence.