I find the will to power childish. It is an empty aimless pursuit imagined by out of shape intellectuals and unattractive fantasy writers thinking power is something tangible that holds universal influence. Power is the ability to see something through, and the scope of that power is only measured to what that something is. As soon as that purpose is fulfilled, that's it. I get the impression that some view human power like animals. But not even animals have this idea of hierarchy as some powerful strongest on top. Primates have the one that can earn the most favour's on top. Because you know what, Everytime a selfserving sigma ape reach the top, a gang of apes are united by a friend ape and fuck that alfa down to the bottom of the clan.
The new hierarchy becomes a chain of bonds to the likeable ape based on the strength of this bond.

Politicians hold no power of their own.
Even dictators have people to please.
Corporate psychopaths only speak to please power. 👥
And money can only convince poor people.

I know many of you hold this ideology as a way of life. Let me hear some success stories, what do you do to gain power, and what do you do with it?

Buddhism is only practiced by the very brave.

They who dare to seek final resolutions.
In a world of nihilists(believing death to be the end) they adobt reincarnation and then seek an end to rebirth.
In an eternalist world, they seek annihilation.
In a world where voidness, nothingness and emptiness is considered frightening, they seek it and hold it as the essence of world.
In materialistic world, they renounce possessions.
In a theist world they reject relying on gods to attain liberation.
In a world of a true unchanging self, they become noself.
In a world where desire is considered the path to bliss, they reject desire.
In a world of violence they adopt non-violence.
In a world that values family and householder life, they become homeless monks.

In a world of constant movement, they are still.

Always seeking where others would not dare.

Ours is the duty absolute. Ours is the vigil that must never end. Ours is the timeless honour, the willing sacrifice.

People who preach religion, need religion.
People who preach tradition, need tradition.
People who preach morality, need morality.
People who preach power, need power.
People who preach libration, need libration.
And people who preach war..

Beware of us telegram preachers. We seek to manifest the world according to our needs. Who think they need war? Valor?
Quoted men long dead echo with images of chivellry. Inspiring you to the same end.
Their time has passed.
Your story is still being written, something new. Don't be swayed by illusory displays of the dead.
Large scale violence is not enjoyable,
War is not fun, loosing family and friends is not fun. Having your sister raped is not fun. Having your grandparents displaced is not fun.
Economic collapse, mass unemployment, famine is not fun. Being forced to listen to mainstream media just to follow the progression of the war, hoping your brother is still alive is not fun. Praying to ever meet your children again is not fun.

Wake the fuck up.

If you want to make change, you don't need violence. The system is built on violence and can simply justify the use of it.
We need autonomy and culture. Alternative technological infrastructures for open media/news with actual sources, systems for anonymous transfere, logistics and trade, economy and politics through direct-democracy. This I believe is enough to change everything.

Give me not goons but a handful of engineers and we would change the world within a year.

When people have autonomous means of providing for themselves, people can ignore the state, not pay taxes. Direct-democracy can actually work for the popular and actual vote. Like not going to war.

Today when we are literally proletarian wagecucks. We own no land, we have no influence, our values are not represented by our leaders. How the fuck do they convince you to go to war, when you have nothing to loose but your life. The people is part of the resource, the people produce products out of the industries and the land. Industries and lands they don't own. Products and resources that are sold to other countries. In practice, the wars are for protecting the assets of those who have them.
We only need to worry about who we pay taxes to.

When someone you know, that is close to you suffer, you also suffer.
When someone you don't know, that is distant suffer, you don't suffer.

Knowing suffering is relating to suffering. The more you know the closer you are to the direct experience of that. This is why compassion is wisdom.

Even if you are today ignorant of the suffering you've caused. As life teaches suffering, it is only a matter of time before you eventually know.
And when you know, you will relate. And when you relate you will suffer.

Knowing that no one causes harm without suffering themselves.
How could we not forgive?
How could we not suffer with them?

The other day I went through some of my old diaries. I noticed a pattern. The times when all I valued was power and personal gain, was also the times my suffering peaked. I couldn't see my sickness at that time. One day I would write on psychology, that was purely in the context to manipulate others.
Next day I would feel isolated and misunderstood.
Another day I would write on rhetoric, to persuade and influence(of course 😉) .
The next I would've gotten into conflicts from constant debates.

The need for power came from feelings of vulnerability and inadequacy. These negative emotions was not in reality from any lack of power, but from constantly getting into conflicts.
The conflicts made me feel disliked, so I fueled it towards more power, this led to being more aggressive not getting into less conflicts. So the selfish cycle of suffering continued.
Power to subdue others doesn't make you respected or loved, it just makes you enemies.🙈

Powerful lonewolf. No young self, you're in hell. 🤣

PAY ATTENTION!

Consider what you are doing and why. What it is you seek in any given moment.
Our foolish minds pretend to seek resolution while we engage in recreation.
When we engage in any new experience there is one outcome we hope for, to be blissed out.

If we get blissed out, we will crave and seek recreation. So it is important to understand this.

Whenever we engage in consumption or seeking pleasures or gratification, we are wise to consider what would remain if we where to get what we want.

When we engage in recreation, would we stop when not getting what we seek? Or would we keep searching?
And when we finally find it, would it not just reinforce the habit of recreation?
We are all gambling addicts.

We should all mindfully think:
What would happen if I got what I seek?
Would it be worth it over and over again?



Sweets, sex, porn, drugs, falling in love, alcohol, movies, food, news, jokes, memes, to be right, new clothes, spending money, idle chatter, watching sports, trading, reading

The only thing I've found being truly worth it. Is being of benifit to other people.

Verses of advice by Dza Patrül Rinpoche.

First:
“Dharma that does not benefit your mind
is Dharma only in name, not in substance.
If your mind does not change one bit,
even a hundred years in retreat is only source of hardship.”

In these times, we are all facing ups and downs, highs and lows. In the face of such circumstances, we speak of practicing the Dharma, but to do so it is essential to generate true compassion, faith, and belief in karmic cause and effect in our hearts and minds. These are the key points of Dharma that we need to remember. Don’t practice Dharma only in name, practice Dharma in substance; that is, Dharma that truly benefits your mind.

Second:
“You may have mastered the meditations of generation and completion,
But if these are not suffused with genuine bodhicitta,
Other than sowing the seeds of rebirth within the delusions of samsara,
They will not help you to reach the state of omniscience.”

In order to reach the state of buddhahood, we either need to establish the correct motivation, or the correct view. If you do not from the start lay the foundation of the correct view or the correct motivation, you will only be led astray from the path and away from the fruition. The correct view however is very difficult, or even impossible, to establish from the start. This view is the view of emptiness, or of the nature of mind, rikpa, primordial wisdom. But since we cannot reach the right view immediately, we need the correct motivation. The correct motivation is bodhicitta, which arises based on compassion. We need bodhicitta in order to practice the six transcendent perfections, and to further practice the generation and completion stages. Therefore, please cultivate bodhicitta.

Third:
“Tame your mind; tame your mind; tame your mind with Dharma!
If you tame your mind with the four mind changings,
Though you may not have the view, meditation, recitation, generation, or completion,
You will not stray away from the path to liberation.”

If you do not tame your mind, no matter what practice you engage in, you will not reach the state of awakening. Therefore, whatever practice you do, you need to base yourself on the evaluation of your own experiences in order to move forward on the path. The reason why we call Buddhists “inner” (nangpa) and non-Buddhists “outer” (chipa) in Tibetan is because non-Buddhists believe that all phenomena of samsara and nirvana arise from an outer cause, such as a creator god, for instance. Buddhists believe that all phenomena of samsara and nirvana arise based on one’s own inner mind. Therefore, Buddhists chiefly teach about the mind: how to tame the mind, how to recognize the nature of mind, and so on. Thus, we are not calling non-Buddhists “outsiders” because they don’t belong to our “insider” group; rather, it’s about where we focus our attention, inwardly or outwardly. Therefore, it is extremely important for you to tame your own mind.

With all my love and prayers,
Sarva Mangalam

Phakchok Rinpoche


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When there is desire, pure, there is mutual emergance. This naked truth is revealed through gradually moving closer.
Through contact like seeing, hearing, touching, itself is recognized.

However, When there is grasping. As from starvation.
Pushing and pulling, craving and aversion erupts. Naturally as there is no bliss to be shared, only thirst.

The dying.

This body, these beings. Like sculptures of ice in the winter, will nourish the flowers of spring.
My eyes and ears will disperse, just as the impressions they perceive.
Relative knowledge the news of history. Opinions and tastes, like grasping to memories of a dream soon forgotten.
Impermanence is a necessary precondition for learning. The truths accepted yesterday will just as likely become the lies of tomorrow.


The Deathless.

The volition of this avatar. Epigenetic inherited by offspring.
Kind deeds perpetual, soon to be the norm of people.
The teacher lives through the teachings. All ideas realized and shared. Every expression lives on.

If you believe death annihilation, consider this:
Is there any part of this self that has remained from birth?
Is there any part of this self that is unique and not present elsewhere?
is the conditions for birth really absent at the moment of death?
You are the continuation of ever life. Through innumerable lifetimes of ancestors of whom this body is composed, to this moment, they're still drawing breath. Through this body inanimate elements come alive.

The fear of being unconscious is conquered every night. Awareness rise and fall seamlessly. From fixation absorbtion and identification, the observed is (falsely self) aware.

At my gym written on the wall, the most concise of bodhicitta teachings, a one line summation of the great perfection.

It is not about how much you can take, but how much you give.