Bud Jetsun

Bay area California by chance? I'm in Santa Cruz area if you ever need help. I know nothing about the Tao, God, or the nature of reality. I am comfortable in this understanding of no-knowing. Unlimited Love, -Bud

There is only an illusion of "has to be completed" and an illusion of "requires a teacher". Those things are perhaps good advice and perhaps a method to spoil oneself by leveraging someone else's path's progress, but not requirements, as ultimately all realization is self-realization and all mindfullness is self-mindfullness and choice in awareness of this moment is self-choice in awareness of this moment alone. If you have the budget and selfish desire to employ hired wisdom and guidance and pamper yourself with weeks or months of dedicated meditation, this may or may not help, it still ultimately hinges on the choice of the individual to choose by will for it to help or not help in ones evolution towards becoming one with the nature of reality. The right teacher for the right person could be an incredible symbiosis of wisdom transfer and mindful evolution of state of being. However, just whole-heartedly looking inside oneself equally offers this same potential, albeit the user must search harder to find it without guidance. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Mid-awakening can be traumatic like a birth. As a being discovers its true Self, but still lives in a world of delusions and constructs made by mis-perceptions of little self, a fissure in conflicting realities may arise. It is equally possible to permit this fissure to destroy you or empower you by your own choice of will alone. Unlimited Love, -Bud

You remain equally free at each moment to choose more drugs or no drugs or switch drugs (lots of folks seem to like caffeine, not a fan of uppers myself). They have only offered you sensation and your true being is unaffected. That said, respect your body and especially if you're going to party get a solid 8hrs of sleep in and pamper yourself with only the best nutrition. A strong healthy optimally nourished and well rested body is a vessel capable of amazing single event experiences with weeks in between. Repeatedly dosing stimulants leads rapidly to tolerance and increasing doses to perceive effect. Wasteful of the compound and resting vitality. Enjoy sitting on the dirt breathing in a forest. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Unbreakable bliss is not enlightenment nor related to enlightenment. Its a choice each being is free to mindfully choose. Outside phenomena perception can only offer stimulus. A non-bliss state arises only through mindfull effort of choosing to suffer ones state of current stimulus. Awareness of being is bliss. This is experienced not as a state to attain but a conclusion of recognizing the non-bliss state as more than an optional and fleeting covering always possible to apply or not apply by choice of the beings own will alone. These are unrelated matters to enlightenment, and indicators of mindful awareness and realization of an always optional singular beings choice in state of mind, if you have mindful awareness or not. If mindfulness alone is cultured to completion, unbreakable bliss requires only consciously choosing the state of bliss in this one moment and consciously choosing not to deviate as a consequence of stimulus or phenomena. If this level of mindfulness is enlightenment then enlightenment is a selfish gift to escape your own suffering but not wisdom to aid others. When Buddhas occur, they self-populate with profound wisdom of the nature of reality (Tao, Logos, God, etc). Mindfulness is a choice every being is already making and infinitely free to alter by will. Profound spontaneous wisdom on the nature of reality (or Tao or whatever) seems to have a number of well documented occurrences. This must transcend mindful choice alone or anyone could achieve it in a few years of mindful living and would not arise the wealth of profound wisdom. I don't know more than that about enlightenment and am at peace with it. One day we each equally will shed our delusions of enlightenment or nor-enlightenment because we will be in a state of appreciation of being instead. Unlimited Love, -Bud

All the good deeds, all the spoken/written/shared wisdom, all the profound soul stirring realization, all the power to tame/control/guide mind(s) does not make one a good person in Now (which is all that is real). At some point he wanted to become the Guru's guru and this was manifested. At some point while considered the Guru's guru he decided he would prefer to be a molester/rapist, and so this too became manifest. Our lifes path is determined by the choice in thoughts at this moment of Now alone. It matters not however many amazing thoughts one may have once previously had or whatever kindness one may have previously shown. Buddha himself didn't want to teach after achievement of full enlightenment. Which is fine, and he changed his mind after things sunk in that there was nothing else to do about it. Even if the Buddha taught and lived in great compassion for decades, at no point would he not be free to choose to become cruel at any instant. Complete perfect mindfulness does not imply any loss of ability to mindfully choose whatever thoughts one prefers. If ones preference is compassion rooted the choices are likely to yeild kind thoughts and kind actions. At no point does it become impossible to choose non-compassion rooted thoughts (and hence non-compassion rooted actions). Unlimited Love, -Bud

A thought has still never left your ultimate control. What one may choose to conclude practice of is the illusion someone/something else had ever been capable of thinking for us. That which is labeled God (or Tao or Logos etc) is inherently no more than a humans delusion of understanding the meaning of the label to be. Yet we are all God/Tao/Logos and seamlessly experienceing God/Tao/Logos as a whole. Some are just choosing to trade this awareness for there own choice in concerns/thoughts to needlessly replace it with. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Life is simple. There is this moment to share and appreciate Love and it's manifestations kindness and compassion. The rest is unnecessary self-imposed distractions. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Two 'Gods' in bibles. One God creates the way of nature in Love and IS all eternally. Second "God" acts like spoiled vengeful kindergartener with no inner peace or realization of way of nature and no timeless omnipotence.

Living humans glow by default. http://m.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visible-light.html Each human already has the capacity and is successfully emmiting visible spectrum light to some extent. For many this amount of light is so small its invisible to the limitations of human perception. It's an indescribable golden yellow and its not a circle, but a torroid shape. I dunno about the head, I only enjoyed the pleasure of seeing it encircling my body, curling like the field lines of a magnet. Totally unexpected, persisted in an easily visible form for perhaps 30seconds of looking around at it in curiousity before closing my eyes again. Only experienced seeing it once, but Ive also never bothered to check again. Visual sensation is fleeting.

Tao does not need the illusion of why, it is the cause of this flow of shared energy. Some portion with fleeting manifest forms perceived by human body perception limitations for a brevity.

Non-sustainable practices conclude. Irreguardless of all human choices, the earth and other planets become consumed by the sun after it inevitably looses fission stability. This resuling mass is then consumed by a supermassive black hole along with the rest of the stars in that galaxy. The energy in the matter is sprayed out as energy to eventually condense as new particles to condense into baby star-stuff for the cycle to repeat. The Tao includes the how of this cycle, not the why. The condition of Now is not as important as it's level of appreciation. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Plants and sun relationship is already the entropy source for the human manifest body. When someone chooses to participate in a corpse eating ritual, the energy in that corpose came from plants. If one eats say 100cal of an aligator's necrotic corpse, this was once ~1000cal of chicken corpse, which was once 10,000cal of soy beans which harnessed the sun's energy to transform through photosynthesis from a lower entropy substance to a higher entropy substance. Even if a being chooses indifference in imposing needless torture and murder on other beings, it's still disrespectfully wasteful of mother earths energy and resources to not directly fuel this body from plants directly with no added stages of thermodynamic losses. If one plants a seed outside in the sunshine, or grows it indoors with artificial light, the energy still came from the sun. If the artificial light was generated by burning coal or natural gas, this is stored chemical potential energy from the sun. If its powered by wind turbines, the wind is driven by the sun, etc. Every aspect of our physical bodies, including the physical conscious mind, ultimately depend on plants for energy to survive. In this inseparable animal/plant relationship, many adaptations have arisen between them. One adaptation is the 100's of thousands of unique chemical receptors inside ones body which serve no other function than to detect and interlock with various plant/fungus chemicals. The relationship is beyond chance, its a very complex 3d key in an even more complex 3d lock in the receptor, often once combined gaining a unique ability to penetrate the bodies blood-brain defense barrier which would otherwise not enable function. Behind each of these normally locked doors in ones physiology resides an alternative perspective reality experience. With each new vantage point reality is observed from, one gains opportunity for new realizations that were otherwise non-obvious. I have experienced dozens of these always unique and often profoundly powerful plant/body interaction opportunities for perception induced realization. It has been my only teacher. With no words, this teacher can't lie. With no lesson plan, this teacher can't incorrectly or improperly deliver it. With no mercy this teacher can cut through all internal fleeting arisings of the little mind to reveal to you indescribable Mind. As far as the plants which can offer this, the list is much too long to post and it would still be incomplete. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Perhaps research teaching plants. It is not so casually non-committal and comfortable as chatting in a room with someone where one is always free to simply walk out. Heed this warning, it is not a path for faint of heart as the plants know no concept of mercy. Those unwilling or unable to take the effort to meditate and integrate the experiences may rapidly suffer an imbalanced reality model/delusion to whatever extent they choose. Plants are indifferent to human suffering, while simultaneously offering all the physical energy in ones manifest body for this fleeting human experience. Unlimited Love, -Bud

While a beautifully composed metaphor, this line would imply various plants are gurus. Even with no plants and no guru, just looking inward is enough. Ultimately no matter ones external discourses, it remains to be found inside alone, as it's no one else's to find. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Thank you kindly brother. My delusion is no better than yours or any other if it's expressible in keystrokes, I respect your freedom to choose whatever beliefs you find best suits your needs. There remains a place beyond the expressible, I will see you there. Unlimited Love, -Bud

In reading the medical test report, he evidently permitted the doctors to choose implements and body locations to pierce through his body at will, including through both lungs and liver and kidneys. His state of health was reported as normal after this testing. In reading his death story, it perhaps was not swallowing the huge needle that killed him, as he had it surgically removed (with no anesthetic), then later went home fine and laid down and went into a deep trance state where he was alive for ~2.5days (found dead on 3rd day with medically estimated 12hr previous time of death). Perhaps he died from needle damage or surgical damage, or maybe dehydrated in his trance state, or perhaps found complete perfect enlightenment in his trance-state adventure and shed the then needless body. Either way, I'm thankful he shared his message of Love and peace with the world and demonstrated if nothing else the capacity of mindfulness as ultimate governess of body phenomena. Thank you Mirin Dajo brother for having lived a life of inspirational wonder and sharing a message of inner peace with so many. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Common illusion. It's not a philosophical question, its a human anatomy hard-wired system that fundamentally has 2 operating frequencies for thought, a low frequency for fear and a higher frequency for Love, no middle ground possible from the hardware limitation. This gives rise to the nature of the 'dual' illusion, and why the ying/yang symbol has no grey. There is a yet another higher than Love frequency, however it's not related to something as mundane as thoughts/delusions. Mind and its thinking and all its thoughts have a beginning, middle, and end and are fleeting delusions induced through misperceptions. All terminate with the fleeting body and didn't matter 'prior' and wont matter 'after', as they inherently were non-reality, rather just perspective limited illusion/delusion/confusions. The root purpose of meditation or 'practices' is to find the non-thinking non-fleeting, non-delusion equanimity awareness each being always has had but choses not to perceive vs choosing to delude oneself with ones own stream of nonsense thinking. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Beautiful. The best teacher in any situation is a whole-hearted inward look. The rest is ultimately distraction. Unlimited Love, -Bud

The local rattlesnakes and mountain king snakes and garter snakes seem to kindly permit me to pet them at will. Not as lucky with most lizards, of which perhaps half run away before letting me pet them. Wisdom to share on why some types of reptiles seem to be into being petted while others bolt? Thank you for kindly sharing your very unique wisdom with us brother! Unlimited Love, -Bud

Interesting as an insider and developer to see the rampant and vocal confusion, and grasping mis-perceptions shared so freely. Ignorance is the cement that strengthens the illusions of knowing. It is optional for a forum to become a contest of who can become the most confidently and competently deluded.

The phrase, no. The choice to experience complete thankfulness is always available, and also always it's own best reward. When one is choosing to appreciate what is, one is choosing to show kindness to the self. Unlimited Love, -Bud

'Hate' = Ignorance driven fearing. While many were indoctrinated into believing there is a wide gamut of emotions, Love and Fear remain as the root of all human thought and emotion. When it appears otherwise, the observer has not finished tracing back to the root. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Fear-less. Fear is the antithesis of Love. While a being chooses to have fear-thought, this being is not at peace, not Love filled, and not capable of Love (just capable of it's delusions of love which are not Love). The rest is inconsequential details if you are fortunate enough to find a being who has mindfully chosen to cease fear-rooted-thoughts. The aspects of a being or body or whatnot that you see yourself as 'not liking' is your own purposeless choice to suffer, is unneeded, and concludes entirely and instantly when/if you find peace inside yourself. Unlimited Love, -Bud

Spoken with a confidence only ignorance can sustain. A virgin wife only holds appeal to the fear-filled and unaccomplished. All life experiences offer opportunity for realization and enrichment of perspective. Over a decade ago a friend got a mail-order-bride from Ukraine who used to be a prostitute, complete with scars on her from being pistol-whipped and where people used her body to extinguish cigars and cigarettes. What an incredibly strong, kind, appreciative, wise, and mindfully disciplined beautiful wife. She has also been an amazing mother to his children, perhaps one of the most strong and loving mothers I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Almost immediately after she joined the family, his kids never skipped school again and started getting A's, his house is always spotlessly cleaned and she shops for fresh produce and makes amazing home cooked meals for the family. They never fight, and live in a peaceful Love filled home together. He had been married twice prior to american raised 'good girls' (beings of limited life experiences) who would choose to fight and choose a state of discontentment over appreciation, the last one pointlessly killed herself through abusing pain pills. When I was ~16yo, I would only consider marrying a virgin wife (by my own choosing to suffer indoctrination induced delusions). By the time I was 20yo and had tried out plenty of them, all being pathetic, I wanted a mostly 'good girl'. By the time I was 25yo, I just cared that a woman consciously chooses to remain positive and wants to enjoy amazing life experiences. Years later when I met who became my wife, she was definitely the most fearless and bold intensely wild experience seeking woman I had encountered who had already gained a ton of wisdom as a result of empirical adventurous life enriching experiences. We explored the indescribable together too many times to count, got married, and every day together is exactly as good as we chose to make it (fantastic). She has done more than any other human to shine light on ways to improve aspects of myself and embrace Love and compassion for all living beings, and continues to offer me experiences that enrich and deepen my life experiences as I do for her. My wife is roughly the opposite of what I would have said I wanted in a wife 20 years ago. Thank God I eventually stopped listening to what others had indoctrinated me into believing I wanted for a wife, and instead found my soulmate. Unlimited Love, -Bud