…life of humanity either we are about to experience the glory or be contacted by benevolent extraterrestrials or the coming of the Buddha Maitreya is hailed as just around the corner well rationalism just rejects all this stuff as the fantasy of a paranoid…

…on. One of the things that happened was... I was just absolutely ecstatic this whole time. I mean, I was abiding in the Buddha realm. I was complete. And I assumed we would never leave La Charrera. I couldn't imagine why we would. And I remember, well,…

…The transcendental event at the end of history sends distorted reflections of itself ricocheting backward through time. And a Christ, a Buddha, a John Smith, a Charles Manson, an Adolf Hitler, these are people who were hit by a distorted ricochet of the…

…an immense influence. I mean, this same transcendental object which drew a Galilean carpenter into founding a world religion and sent Buddha leaving his wife and good... it casts an immense reflection back into history but the centuries and now the mere…

…most astonishing places on the graph. How's this crowd all alive at one time? Thales, Anaximander, Lao Tzu, Cyrus the Great, Buddha, Mahavira, the prophet of the Jain religion, Confucius, Heraclitus, And then I'm leaving out the lesser life. What a dinner…

…I'm leaving out the lesser life. What a dinner party these people could have had. The great thing about, now let's see, Buddha was 38. We're not sure about Mahavira. Confucius was 26. They could have gone drinking and taken Heraclitus along. He was only…

…if one person can attain enlightenment then the phenomenal world will somehow be obviated and yet in the parinirvana Buddha attained enlightenment. Well, so then what is this apparent continued existence of the phenomenal world if enlightenment was attained…

…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.…

…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…

…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.…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…again into this one little particle that it all came out of and and you can have the great perspective of the buddha. Buddha sits there with his little smile watching empires rise and fall and individuals rise and fall and even universes rise and fall,…

…money will bring you problems and love will make you cry. Sometimes it seems like life is just a bitch and then you die. Buddha says desire is what keeps you from being free. And I'm craving for this and I'm craving for that and it just won't let…

…with the language skills 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…

…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 of…

…are people who were as ordinary as you and me except for their perspective on the eschaton. And these were the biggies. Christ, Buddha, Mohammed Every single one of us, from Joe Shako guru to you and me, we all have a perspective on the eschaton. It's…

…well money will bring you problems and love will make you cry. Sometimes it seems like life is just a bitch and then you die. Buddha says desire is what keeps you from being free and I'm craving for this and I'm craving for that and it just won't let…

…year cycle? Well it turns out it's about 460 b c. Well when you look into that date, you discover Mencius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Ezekiel, Pythagoras all of these people were alive at a single moment in time, that moment, the moment which it indicates as this…

…date and then prints all the other stuff around. Now it's scrolling up more. Ok, Pythagoras, Persian Conquest of Egypt Birth of Aeschylus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ezekiel will scroll up next and so forth. So it is or is it confirming that this deep trough is…

…so that he could walk across the water. It took him 40 years to perfect this siddhi. Finally he could cross the river. Buddha was preaching in the neighborhood. The guy came to him and he said, master, look what I've achieved: I can walk on the…

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

…did not have any kind of Superior Inferior subordination relationship between the sexes. It was not a matriarchy, as Reagan Buddha emphasizes, not a matriarchy which means the mothers dominate the mothers control rather than the fathers. It was, as Reagan…

…that world. And history really is this process of trying to generate a guiding image that serves. And so someone Christ Mohammed, Buddha will project the guiding image and it gels in the unconscious and becomes a creode and a vast set of historical forces…

…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…

…sentient beings 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's that? You know? Yes. Are you, shall we move on? Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry, to what extent you think change is…