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6/12/2008 - Secrets of Labyrinth-Way Martial Arts

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Great Labyrinth-Way Philosophy

It is only by rigid attachment to Vineeta that any acquire pseudo-strength in martial practice (meaning the power of the forerunner, the chi of your Temple, the nature of the lung you root into).

Guru attachment in Vineeta leads to many doorways, only one or two are ever explored by any one student, this is because of karmic attachment to the human world. Humans only understand up and down, some understand side to side, but very few acquire baat gwa realization in their ritual.

Those who ignore Vineeta, who shy away from the sting of its needle, remain on the outside in the Occidental void of the Outer Dark. They gnash their teeth, mock, steal, and revel in attachment to small-I ego. This is the lung attached to the majestical orb, always jealous of the inside, not quiet enough to attain admission.

Pseudo-strength is not your strength, it’s the strength of your tradition, your masters, your guru’s guru, the line of this attachment stretches backward. As you enter your respective lung tradition, as you undertake the karma of Rightful Attachment and engage in the Eight Noble Truths, “secrets” are revealed to you. On this side of the mirror, the “secret” is the bait your guru dangles before you. The “secrets” have their legendary “forms,” and these “forms” hold the legendary keys to the adornments hidden in the ancient library of your lung practice (be it red, blue, green, white, or gold). Rightful Study is the method of enslaving your will, your body, your chi to the anchor of the ancestors. Do this, and you enter the Foyer of the Temple; flinch from this, and the tattoo of tradition goes awry, and because of your attachment to small-I, you flounder and slip into the Outer Darkness.

In the Outer Darkness, the failing student meets the Mercenary, a student who has made a study of “secrets,” Temple designs, pacts, wards, and koans. Because the Mercenary was not strong enough to take up the yoke of Rightful Study, the Foyer was denied. Floating from Temple to Temple, the Mercenary begs at the lung gates like a hungry ghost. Due to the benevolence of the guru, occasional scraps are thrown via images or broken sigils; and though the Mercenary breaks fast, the fast is slaked only on false flesh (through error, the door of Dao often opens, and this door leads back to the Sun Door of the Foyer"the voyage can be circular if good karma is the birthright of the Mercenary).

Due to attachment to Deceit (self-deceit, self-delusion), the Mercenary is enslaved to the shadow of the Temple and bears the ravages of eros in the mode of Desire. In this mode, the Mercenary often transforms, for even the Outer Darkness bears the transformative nature of the Way, but the transformation bears only fruit under the sigil of the Demiurge, and is thereby imperfect, flawed by small-I and riddled by misunderstanding as taught by the Monkey in his wrathful, deceitful emanation. Yesterday’s Mercenary was the false student of ch’an Dao; today, he bears the banner markings M.M.A.

Due to Rightful Attachment, Rightful Study (note: rite-full), and Rightful Adherence to Vineeta, the Foyer student soon bears the rite
of Entering; beware, for the proper study of Exit is taught but only in the study of the “secret” and its appropriate Dao formations (thus, many never find their way out of the Temple, and find only locked doors instead).

Pseudo-strength and all its “secrets” becomes the home of the Banner Bearer (the transformative identification of the Foyer student). Glory is for the Banner Bearer, and Life is extended unnaturally as the study of the Dao is perfected, yet never obtained. In contrast, the Mercenary exalts in Wrong Attachment, Wrong Study, and Wrong Adherence and Life is the hue of the False Grail. Health fails the Mercenary while the Banner Bearer enjoys unnatural adornments. Woe to the Mercenary, for Life is too short to dwell forever in the Outer Darkness.