…between Essel and institute and Sri, let's say, that would reach for, and this was to be the name of the novel, cloning Buddha. I thought that would be interesting. I mean, why should the next Dalai lama be anyone less than Gautama? After all, we have…

…mean, this is only 500 bc. And the interesting objections to cloning are, some of them are removed in the case of Buddha, because people say, well, even if you cloned Napoleon, it wouldn't be Napoleon, because Napoleon was a product of a unique…

…was a product of a unique environmental and social system, and he was the product of the experiences of his lifetime. But presumably Buddha was born Buddha, and so it would be very interesting to clone Buddha and to see what this child was like. This is…

…of a unique environmental and social system, and he was the product of the experiences of his lifetime. But presumably Buddha was born Buddha, and so it would be very interesting to clone Buddha and to see what this child was like. This is not a…

…the product of the experiences of his lifetime. But presumably Buddha was born Buddha, and so it would be very interesting to clone Buddha and to see what this child was like. This is not a practical suggestion. This is to horrify and amuse you, and to…

…other historical personages. I love the theological mess it raises. You know, maybe that's what the second coming is, the cloning of Buddha, I think it's called Matrea. Well, no, no, the Christians covered their bets on this one by having the body rise…

…of clarification. Something before I get into that, I'd just like to say that I thought that was interesting about cloning Buddha. Maybe this time the Buddha won't make ignorant statements about what Americans can do in their bedroom about masturbation and…

…get into that, I'd just like to say that I thought that was interesting about cloning Buddha. Maybe this time the Buddha won't make ignorant statements about what Americans can do in their bedroom about masturbation and about homosexuality, like the Dalai…

…and he went into what holes you can put it in and what holes you can't, and he didn't qualify it. That wasn't Buddha. Well, wait a minute. But is this past the vetting of consensus reality, or has Barry been sniffing angel dust? Did this happen?…

…of cannabis in these latter days smoke it, but, and don't smoke charas, hashish, because it's rare in this country. But smoke Buddha, flowering tops of marijuana. But if you actually eat hashish, you can convince yourself this was the LSD of the ancient…

…so that today I can be Napoleon to Mar Jesus and I can meet somebody else who also believes that he is Napoleon, Jesus, Buddha or whatever, and back and forth in time. I'm just wondering what, what kind of a place that's going to be. Well, I would…

…Hell, if hortatory beating on people could have worked then we would have solved all our problems thousands of years ago. Because Buddha and Christ and all these other people, they had the right idea. It's just that ideas don't cut the mustard. It has…

…ad date. That is the date where I feel the wave fits. You get the downslope at ancient Greece and the birth of Buddha. You get the terrible upslope that follows the fall of Rome. You get the long recidivist period of empire building that followed the…

…have done the trick, then the sermon on the mount would have been the turning of the corner. But we have Buddha, we have Christ. We have these examples of enormously insightful spiritual beings who have delivered their message, and humanity has continued…

…thought what they thought and let the chips fall where they may. And every once in a while, a Christ or a Mohammed or a Buddha would come along and reshuffle the deck, and then the game would play on. But we are coming to the place, a great turning…

…than the old shell game. I mean, the best advice I've ever heard to come out of the eastern tradition was that if you met the Buddha on the road, you should kill him. You know, finally, a bit of candor out of all of this, out of all of this stuff.…

…have done the trick, then the sermon on the mount would have been the turning of the corner. But we have Buddha, we have Christ, we have these examples of enormously insightful spiritual beings who have delivered their message. And humanity has continued…

…this. Of language as a thing to journey into. And language as a thing to avoid the pitfalls of. To be. You know, the Buddha say, awareness of awareness. Maybe it's easier if one thinks of it as awareness of language. You know, I wanted to pursue this…

…unmistakable evidence of encountering these demons, and they are talked about in various ways. In the enlightenment experience of the Buddha, it was the confronting Dimara, the God of death, which sounds very similar to the terror experience that you talk…

…was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the sixties. The whole thing was, who can understand this guy? You know, he's like Buddha. He speaks these words, but we can't understand. Well, now, 25, 30 years later, it reads pretty straightforwardly, and most…

…course it has that kind kind of personality. I mean it exalts, I was going to say freedom, but cognitive clarity. The Buddha image of all of this is Manjushri, the Buddha of discriminating wisdom. And Manjushree is always, not always, but in his peaceful…

…mean it exalts, I was going to say freedom, but cognitive clarity. The Buddha image of all of this is Manjushri, the Buddha of discriminating wisdom. And Manjushree is always, not always, but in his peaceful form, always portrayed with a sword. And this…

…history of the world through God knows what means, the truth was actually downloaded to somebody, a messiah, a rabbi, a Buddha, somebody, a something somewhere. But I find it unpersuasive, that idea because truth is so contextually defined and precious that…

…reflectivity and a David Korish. It's a mess. It's a very distorted and twisted kind of reflection. A Christ, a Buddha, a mohammed, a slightly cleaner shot at what it is, but nevertheless, horribly distorted and misunderstood by historical contextuality.…

…the nature of reality that has any kind of track record whatsoever. The others just have a story to tell, you know, the Buddha story, the Jesus story, fine stories, but that's all they have is a wrap. The amazing, you see, why is science different?…

…but years ago, once at Sarnath, and it happened many times, but this was typical. Sarnath is the place where the Buddha taught his first sermon. After obtaining enlightenment, he walked from Bodhgaya to Sarna. So I took mescaline there with these two…

…object with the language of their historical time and place. And then they come back with a story about what it is. Buddha says this, Mohammed says this, Christ says this. These are lower dimensional slices of this transcendental object. At the end of…

…even claim that the psychedelic experience should be put on the spectrum of spiritual experience. Somewhere between moral rectitude and Buddha, you may be able to pass from moral rectitude to Buddha and never get near the psychedelic experience. That's one…

…spectrum of spiritual experience. Somewhere between moral rectitude and Buddha, you may be able to pass from moral rectitude to Buddha and never get near the psychedelic experience. That's one of the reasons flattery's book about Haoma is so fascinating,…

…even claim that the psychedelic experience should be put on the spectrum of spiritual experience somewhere between moral rectitude and Buddha. Well, I suspect that those little quotes should be able to stir up some interesting conversations in the weeks…

…There will be more and more of this stuff as we approach the moment of concrescence. And people in the past, Christ, Buddha, you name them. These are people who literally stood in a correct geometrical relationship to the transcendental object at the end…

…approach is phenomenological. I don't say that this will make you a better person. I don't say that this is the path that Buddha trod, or the Alan Watts trod, or that anybody trod. I'm just saying this is the most interesting thing I've ever encountered.…

…with the career of Christ, who was an extraordinary manifestation of energy in the historical time stream, not to be confused with a Buddha or a Mohammed or a Zoroaster, who were great saints. And it was something else. It was, in some sense, what it…

…just like this and it would climb down one finger, go out to the other one, finish go down here and you know how only Buddha or LSD can give you that kind of power to sit still? I think it's. And maybe I've misunderstood people, but I think it's a…

…week. So hey, thanks for thinking of me. Now, after the October gallery talk, Bruce gave a second version of it at the Buddha Field Festival, and that's the one I'll be playing today. As you know, Bruce titled this talk elves, egos, and avatars. And if…

…of our fellow slaughters sent me a message saying that he had been just kind of roaming through the festival grounds at the Buddha Field festival when he heard a voice that sounded vaguely familiar coming from a nearby tent. So he went in and discovered…

…on other things, but none of us could see the last ten years. Since 1999, the stakes have gotten even higher. You come to Buddha Field to reboot into feeling right into emotional fullness, but you go out into the world and get on the London tube and…

…that he could walk across the water. And it took him 40 years to perfect this city. And finally he could cross the river. Buddha was preaching in the neighborhood, and the guy came to him and he said, master, look what I've achieved. I can walk on the…

…and the guy came to him and he said, master, look what I've achieved. I can walk on the water to cross the river. And Buddha said, yeah, but the ferry costs a nickel. And that's the thing. I think we're not going to be able to replace this tool…

…that in states of deep meditation, modalities were observed. You know, it says in Siddhara Pundarika tantra Sutra that when the Buddha attained enlightenment through the night he watched the causal uprising and down flowing. And this is what you see in…

…thought what they thought and let the chips fall where they may. And every once in a while, a Christ or a mohammed or a Buddha would come along and reshuffle the deck, and then the game would play on. But we are coming to the place, a great turning…

…of our salvation. Because I don't think we can fix ourselves through rhetoric. If we could fix ourselves through rhetoric, then Buddha and Christ would have done the job. We can only fix ourselves by consciously analyzing our dilemma and then intervening.…

…was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the sixties. The whole thing was, who can understand this guy? You know, he's like Buddha. He speaks these words that we can't understand. Well, now, 25, 30 years later, it reads pretty straightforwardly, and most…

…causality operating. And what Wordsworth called intimations of immortality haunt time like a ghost. And so if you're a Buddha, a mahavira, a Christ, a mohammed, you get essentially, again, it's a geometric theory. You are simply geometrically positioned…

…distort it. And some distort it horribly, a Hitler, a David Korish, and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a Buddha, a mahavira, but the point is, they all distort it. Marshall McLuhan said, you know, we, our mistake is that we're driving the…

…only the rear view mirror. And that's sort of what we do. But then each one of us, you see, we are like Christ and Buddha and Mahavira. We also have a perspective on the transcendental object at the end of time, on the divine. And we work it out in…

…of the paraclete into our midst. And the idea of the Messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean, Buddha, Lao tzu, Mencius, Confucius. These were guys. A messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a…

…and all sentient beings would be liberated from the illusion of samsara and we would realize that this was what it was. It was Buddha 4.0 who hang up, you know? Yes. Are you. Shall we move on? Okay, yeah, I was wondering to what. Extent you think…

…have done the trick, then the sermon on the mount would have been the turning of the corner. But we have Buddha, we have Christ, we have these examples of enormously insightful spiritual beings who have delivered their message, and humanity has continued…