The Lotus Sutra is the final teaching given by the Buddha shortly before he dropped his body. I recently saw a reenactment of the essence of the Lotus Sutra by Zen monk Song-Dam. It starts out with the Buddha bowing down 3 times to an audience of 5,000, who were present that day to hear his teachings. Unlike Baba, the Buddha had never bowed down to anyone until this moment. An ominous air falls over the hall. Still on his knees, the Buddha faces the audience. A dead silence falls over the hall as the Buddha’s deliberate words echo out slowly.
“For the past forty-odd years I have been teaching you the four noble truths, the twelve dependent arisings, the five precepts, and the eightfold path. And by doing so, I have been committing a great wrong to all of you. I have made up so many lies including Vipassana and Samsara. I told you that after six years of hard work and discipline, I achieved Buddha-hood, but this was a lie. I taught you that understanding is not enough, that you have to experience it for yourself, but this was a lie, too. For the past forty-two years, every word I uttered was nothing but lies.” The Buddha pauses for a moment.
“Not knowing that all my teachings were complete fabrications, you had called me Sae-Jon, the most precious one in the world. Yet, all I did was lie, lie upon lie, day after day, every day of my life, from the very first teaching ’til now. Now that my body has worn out and I’m about to drop this body, looking back at a lifetime of deceit, I feel the need to confess. I hereby completely confess, and beg your forgiveness.”
The audience is deeply rattled. The Buddha pauses for a while to give time for the gravity of what he just said to sink in. In time, the agitation of the crowd increases. After some time has gone by, the Buddha’s voice cuts through the hall:
“Even if I were to tell you that I will speak only the Truth from now on, how could you possibly trust what I have to say? How can even the confession of such a man be trusted? How is it possible to trust the next thing I say? How do you know I’m not lying even now? And if it is true that there is no way for you to know, whether the next thing I say is true or not, what is the point of listening to me anymore anyway?”
He pauses for a while….
“Those of you who understood what I just explained should find no reason to stay here any longer. Since the words of such a man can no longer be trusted, I too have nothing more to say.”
Then the Buddha bows his head back on the ground, and remains bowed. As the full implication of his words begin to settle into the audience, one by one they begin to stand up and leave. One by one at first, but soon they leave in droves. Some are looking bewildered, and some are looking visibly upset. Soon the hall is empty, with only a handful remaining. The few that remained behind sit calmly in their seats, as if they were expecting something like this was coming. The Buddha still has his forehead on the floor like a frozen statue.
It is only after the 5,000 have left that the Lotus Sutra begins. A disciple stands up to break the long silence. He confidently clears his throat and calmly says, “But teacher, isn’t it true that it is due to the sheer magnitude of our ignorance that you had no choice but to resort to the use of expedient means? We, who have remained behind, understand this very well. Of course, sometimes a Master has to mislead the disciples in order to guide them closer to the Truth. We understand this, Teacher. Please tell us, Teacher, what you could not tell us in front of the others. Please tell us now, Teacher, that one thing. That one thing you were not able to voice all these years. Tell us now — the unveiled Truth.”
But the Buddha remains unmoved. As the silence continues, panic begins to set into the disciples. These disciples were expecting that once the others left, the Buddha would tell the Truth to the ones who didn’t fall for the Buddha’s “expedient means”. These were the disciples that had already come to suspect the Buddha’s teachings. His top disciples. They knew that Buddha used his confession as an “expedient means” to get rid of those who are not yet ready to hear the Buddha’s final teaching. They thought: ‘Those fools fell for Buddha’s expedient means and left. I feel sorry for them, for they will not hear the final teaching—the Highest Truth.’ Unlike the ones who left, these were the ones who had already figured out that the Buddha’s teachings really didn’t add up.
But as the silence continues, slowly but surely their calm begins to churn little by little into panic. These were the disciples who understood what Jesus meant when he said, “Don’t throw pearls to swine.” The Buddha’s silence meant that they too — like the 5,000 others that had just left — were swine. For an aspirant, who would readily give his life to know the Truth, this is devastating news. A panic, far beyond the the fear of death, begins to set in among the disciples. The disciples are now in a state of shock, given the Buddha is about to drop his body shortly.
Then, a very senior disciple, a man who has never lost his poise, or his calm, rises up. “Most precious one, we beg you, please have mercy on us! We beg you please!”
The others are shocked to see this great man of poise literally pleading with the Buddha like a child. “Please, don’t abandon us to remain in ignorance. Please tell us what that truth is. If you leave us like this, we will never get another chance to hear the Truth.” The man is trembling, his face covered in tears. The remaining disciples are now in the worst panic of their lives. The panic felt that day by these disciples of Buddha is said to go beyond mortal comprehension. The old man collapses to the ground in tears.
But the Buddha, like a stone statue, doesn’t budge. Another disciple takes his place. He boldly stands up to address the Buddha properly, honoring him with the 10 names of Buddha. “Please most precious one (Sae-Jon), the eternal changeless one (Yeo-Rae), who is worthy of alms (Eun-Gong), the teacher of god’s and men (Chun-In-Sa), the knower of all minds and hearts (Jung-Byun-Ji), the one capable of saving all sentient beings (Sae-Gan-Hae), the tamer of all minds & hearts (Joe-Oh-Jang-Bu), and the one who has leaped over the sea of suffering (Seon-Seoh)—please realized one (Bul), have pity on us!”
The disciples have now resorted to the last resort—the last resort of all resorts—kissing Buddha’s Butt ( I felt the need to capitalize B). All of them join in and repeat the 10 names of Buddha over and over again.
The one standing continues, “Please tell us the Truth—The Highest Truth! If you leave us like this, when will we see you again? Please tell us that one thing that you were not able to tell us for all these years. Even if we may fail to grasp it, please just tell us. If you leave us without telling us, how will we bear this agony of not knowing? How can we go on living? Please do not leave us in this Hell!”
They are relentless; as the repeating of the 10 names of Buddha continues, the one standing cries out “Please have mercy on us, oh most precious one, please teach us the Highest Truth!!!” What started as Butt kissing has now evolved into a hostage situation.
And then suddenly, they see movement in Buddha’s body. In an instant, a deafening silence fills the hall. Buddha has lifted his forehead ever so slightly — giving them hope. All eyes are frozen on the Buddha’s forehead. Did he move? Or did he not? It’s as if he moved a little and then froze again. The tension is unbearable. For the disciples, it is a matter beyond life & death. Just when their hopes were all but extinguished, the Buddha slowly rises, to face them, with that big mischievous smile on his face.
“I knew it! Expedient means!”
The remaining disciples are leaping around like frogs—as if they had just won the World Cup. Some are even doing victory laps (just kidding). Indeed, they were not swine. What a relief this must have been for them. The palpable joy filled the entire Hall. The joy, or should I say the bliss, these disciples felt at this moment is said to be beyond mortal conception. The relief they felt is said to be beyond ordinary. Remember, these were men that would have easily sacrificed anything, let alone their lives, if only to know the Truth. The grin on their faces literally went from ear to ear. The tears of immeasurable joy now flowed over what was just moments ago the tears of insurmountable sorrow. Like a child who had just found his mother, the disciples were overjoyed.
So after the longest drum roll in all of cosmological history, the Buddha’s drum stick finally crashes the cymbal. The Buddha begins to tell the Highest Truth — the Holy Grail of Buddhism, if you will, was about to be revealed.
The final punch line of Buddha’s ministry,
The very essence of the Lotus Sutra IS…..
…..are you ready?
“I am not your teacher. I am your father!”
****“Noooooo!…” cries Luke Skywalker.
Yes, but as Baba-lovers, you might say we already knew this. But for his disciples, this was very strange news, indeed. To them the Buddha was an aspirant just like them, who had through immense effort and wise thinking achieved the Buddha-hood. They believed the Buddha worked hard to get realized.
To them the Buddha was my teacher — not my dad.
The Buddha had to give them some time for this big news to sink in.
Slowly but surely, “The Buddha is my Dad” began to cook their noodles. The Lotus Sutra is filled with a couple of father & children parables to help explain where the Buddha is coming from. The Buddha is not a mortal like us who became realized, but the Ancient one, the one & only Savior of all—as we Baba-lovers already believe. But for the disciples, this was big news. ‘This changes everything,’ they thought. They needed some time to assimilate this new “revealed Truth” into their world view. Soon they were able to intuit that there must be more to this Highest Truth—like a second part to it.
“Tell us more, Oh Precious one. There’s got to be more.” they said calmly.
“You are right.” confirmed the Buddha.
It turns out the final punch line of the Highest Truth is a combination punch. The first blow must be delivered properly in order that the second blow can have its deadly effect. One must keep in mind that the fact that “the Buddha is not my teacher, but my dad” is a pretty big pill for these guys to swallow.
While they chew on the pill, let’s first have a listen to what the Buddha himself had to say about this ‘so called’ Highest Teaching. Here then, is the sales pitch that the Buddha offers to his disciples about this Highest Teaching:
“There is no greater teaching than this teaching I’m about to tell you. There has never been a greater teaching than this, and there will never be a greater teaching than this. This is the highest possible teaching. No teaching is greater. No teaching is more eminent. No teaching is more integral, vital, or essential. This can be said to be the final teaching that all teachings are aimed at arriving at. All the countless Buddhas in all the countless Universes know this very Teaching, that I am about to tell you, to be the highest possible teaching. No one has ever been realized who did not first understand this Highest Teaching. No one currently realized does not know this teaching to be the Highest Teaching. And no future realized one will disagree that this teaching is, indeed, the Highest Teaching. There never was and there never will be a Higher Teaching than this. This Truth I’m about to tell you is the end of all teaching. This Truth, that I’m about to tell you, is what turns all previous teachings into ‘expedient means’—i.e. total fabrications—i.e. complete lies.”
How’s that for a sales pitch? Wow! Wow! Its like ‘wow’ is not enough.
So hang on to your seats.
Here it comes.
개이성불도(皆已成佛道) Kae-Ey-Song-Bul-Do
This is the final punchline, the conclusion of the Lotus Sutra.
Kae 개 (皆) : this word means “absolutely everything” = all souls = every sentient being
Ey 이 (已): this word means “in the past” = already
Song 성 (成): this word means “achieved” = accomplished = completed = finished
Bul-Do 불도 (佛道): this word means “became Buddha” = God-realized.
“The realization of all souls has already been completed.”
The Maitreya(God unborn) smiles and tells us:
“My children, I finished it.
I already accomplished the realization of all sentient beings.
It’s already done.
As in, already in the past!”
On page 31 of ‘The Nothing And the Everything’,
a book Baba said contained 10% of his Secret Book,
Baba says:
Until Everything awakened fully (infinitely)
and asked itself, “WHO AM I?”
and answered, “I AM GOD,”
the states of Infinite Consciousness
and Infinite Unconsciousness were not established
and creation did not begin.
That’s right.
Everyone and Everything was realized even before creation began. I know it’s mind boggling, what could be more absurd?
Here’s a Zen Koan to help sink it in.
By the time the thunderclap of realization is felt,
The flash of lightning had already struck and gone.
The Maitreya explains:
Since I have already completed the realization of all sentient beings,
What is there left for you to think about?
There! stop thinking.
Since I have already completed the realization of all sentient beings,
What is there left for you to discriminate (discern)?
There! stop discriminating.
Since I have already completed the realization of all sentient beings,
What is there left for you to receive?
What is there left for you to want?
There! stop your wanting.
Since I have already completed the realization of all sentient beings,
What is there left for you to do?
There! stop your doing.
Since I have already completed the realization of all sentient beings,
What are ‘you’?
There! you can now stop this ‘I’ business.
I am your Father, and I love you all infinitely,
Did you really think I could bear to see my children suffer at all?
Do I have infinite intelligence or not? Yes, you do.
Do I have infinite knowledge or not? Yes, you do.
Do I have infinite power or not? Yes, you do.
If so, how long do you think it should take me to finish any task no matter how big it is? Very fast.
How fast? Infinitely fast, because you are infinitely capable.
What if the task were the completion of God-realization for all sentient beings? Would it take me longer? ‘No, it wouldn’t matter how great the task was.
Would it take me a nanosecond? No, faster.
How much faster than a nanosecond? Infinitely faster.
So how fast would it be? It would be the shortest possible amount of time.
Isn’t it even shorter than the shortest possible amount of time? Yes, immeasurably shorter.
Isn’t it so short, that you couldn’t even say time occurred? Yes, I guess so.
Wouldn’t it literally be finished by the moment it started? Yes, it would.
Couldn’t you say that it was so fast that time wasn’t even established? Yes, I guess not.
So if time was not even established, could you even say anything occurred? I guess not.
So was I kidding when I said: “Nothing has happened, Nothing is happening, and Nothing will ever happen.” I see what you mean now.
Also, if it is true that I love each and all of you infinitely, how motivated am I to finish said task as fast as possible?—(in light of your suffering, that is) In other words, in terms of reducing your suffering, how motivated am I to finish it all as quickly and as painlessly as possible? Highly motivated, or rather, infinitely motivated.
Couldn’t this love, possibly further optimize my infinite capabilities to the point of finishing it before it even starts? You mean like before the beginning-less beginning?
Kind of…words can never do it justice…
Do you think I could bear to see you suffer at all, even for an instant? ‘Not if you love us that much.’ Of course not. Because I love you so much, so infinitely, I couldn’t bear to see you suffer for even an instant.
—-So I finished it before it even started.
Wow, I’m beginning to understand what Infinite Love implies.
But this is so hard to believe. How does one accept something like this?
If I can give God realization to any rock instantly at will, what makes you think I haven’t already done it for all of you? Wow, is that why you kept telling us that you could do that?
In fact, if I love you infinitely, how is it possible I didn’t already finish it for you?
You all are already realized.
Game over, end of story.
There is nothing left to discuss,
nothing left to think about,
nothing left to discriminate,
nothing left to receive or want,
and nothing left undone.
So, rest in My peace, my child.
There is nothing left for you to worry about.
If the best reason for loving God is for no reason at all,
There! Now you have nothing to gain by loving me,
For I have already finished it for you.
If the highest form of surrender wants nothing at all,
Not even ‘union’ —like Love does,
Or even ‘to please the Beloved’—like Obedience does,
There! Now you have nothing left to want or receive,
For I have already gifted it to you.
As Meher Baba says:
“In the end, you have to free yourself even from the want of “I want love,” or “I want to become one with the Beloved.” Of course, such a want frees you from all other wants, but even this singular want belittles the glory of love and it becomes a burden to the Beloved.”
–JUNE 1960 – UNLESS THE MASTER HELPS YOU, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO OBEY HIM ABSOLUTELY
If the word “Gospel” means “the best possible news,”
as in
“no better possible news.”
AKA
‘News-ultimatum’
This is the exact definition of the word ‘Gospel.’
Can you think of some news that could be better than:
‘God already finished the God realization of all sentient beings’–?
If the highest level of Bliss is immeasurable thankfulness,
Can you think of a man more thankful, or more happy,
than a man who means it when he says ‘Thank you Father for finishing it all for me?
If life is a mighty joke, as in mighty even by Baba’s standards,
Can you think of a mightier joke, a greater benevolent irony,
than ‘He already finished it.’?
If Nirvana is the “greatest sigh of relief possible.”
Can you think of a man more relieved, more at peace, more at rest,
than a man who knows ‘God already finished it’?
Can you think of a man who loves God more
than a man who has come to accept that his Beloved has already finished it for him?
Yet, can you think of a man more deprived of anything to gain by loving God, at the same time?
Can you think of a man who thinks of God more naturally,
than a man left with nothing left to think about, except the Beloved,
because he has come to see, indeed, that the Beloved had already finished it?
Can you think of a man more surrendered to God,
than a man who has already accepted that the Avatar had already finished it?
Is it possible to truly not worry, without first accepting that He finished it?
Is it possible to truly surrender, without first accepting that He finished it?
Is it possible to truly let go of the mind, without first accepting that He finished it?
If it is really true that,
“It is infinitely easy and thereby rendered infinitely difficult.” as Meher Baba says,
Can you think of anything easier than, “It’s already finished.”?
Doesn’t “infinitely easy” really mean “It’s already done.”?
Doesn’t “infinite intelligence” really mean “He must have finished it.”?
Doesn’t “infinite love” really mean “There couldn’t have been any suffering.”?
Doesn’t “infinite love” really mean “My Father finished it for me before I had a chance to suffer at all.”?
How can you Love me, unless you accept that I FINISHED IT?
Every reason you have for loving me
can be deducted from your love’s sincerity.
—
Love must love for no reason at all — you know that!
But, if it is true that I am currently sustaining your existence,
as the Sustainer(Vishnu), doesn’t that give you a gazillion reasons to love me?
You cannot possibly love me as I should be loved ,with all those reasons to love me in the way.
Let me help you get rid of those reasons.
There is no Sustainer,Preserver, or Vishnu. I lied.
How can there be a Sustainer, if I had already finished it?
What is there left to sustain?
There! you don’t have to love me for sustaining you anymore.
You have nothing to gain by loving me, for I have already gifted God-realization to you
–and all your friends and family, and even your enemies, in advance.
There! Now, you have no reason to love me anymore.
As you come to see, indeed, that I finished it,
Your love for God will become deprived of all it’s reasons for loving God.
Your love for God will become free
from the cages of reason, forever.
There!
Now, you can come to love me as I should be loved.
—which is for no reason at all.
—the best reason for loving God.
You can certainly forgive yourself now as well,
for I must have already forgiven you, for you to be realized already.
I’ve already finished it, so
There! now you can forgive and forget everything.
Meher Baba wrote a book in his mid-twenties he called his ‘Secret Book’. But, he didn’t write a secret book, hide it somewhere, and never speak about it. No! Every so often until he dropped his body, Baba talked about his ‘Secret Book’. Even in ‘The Nothing and the Everything’, which was written in his final years, Baba talks about his Secret Book. He talked about it to all kinds of people, not just Mandali, or a privileged few. Why did he do this? Is he begging the question? Is he trying to get us curious as to what might be in it? Didn’t he say that whatever is in this ‘Secret Book’ by far supersedes whatever he wrote in ‘God Speaks’ or ‘Discourses’? Baba clearly gives the vibe that his Secret Book contains a ‘higher’ Truth that will lay waste to any of the ‘lower’ truths thus far revealed in his other works.
What could lay waste to all of Buddha’s teachings? — and even all of Baba’s teachings? — and indeed all teachings for all time? There can be only one!— Thats right! You know the answer.
“The Avatar already finished it.”
If it is true, is there a teaching that could possibly supersede it?
If it is true, isn’t this teaching the highest possible teaching(as the Buddha’s sales pitch implies)?
If it is true that God already finished it, there can be no other message in that ‘Secret Book’ of Baba, other than:
“I,
your real Father,
already accomplished,
the God-realization
of all sentient beings,
Because I love you
Infinitely
Each and all of you so much.
Congratulations!
Don’t worry—Be happy!
Roger and out.”
That’s right. If indeed, it is true that He finished it — that’s gotta be what’s in it. Perhaps, followed by a more thorough and convincing explanation in the following pages.
Said differently, if God is who He says He is, endowed with un-exaggerate-able ability, and un-exaggerate-able love for us—then isn’t it True that it is not possible that he didn’t already finish it—in something far shorter than a nanosecond?
In ‘The Nothing and the Everything’ it is said:
“In this way, the nothingness of the Original Nothing
(mother hen) protected and guided the First Drop
(protecting and guiding each drop thereafter)
to know The Real Nothing, Nirvan,
to instantly become The Real Everything, Nirvakalp.”
Could the ‘eternal now’ be this ‘instant’ stretched out into ‘super-slow-motion’?
Could the ‘eternal now’ be this ‘lightning strike’ thats followed by a long-stretched-out-thunderclap(the false now)?
Welcome to the Lotus of Surrender.
Now you understand exactly what surrender means.
You understand why surrender wants ‘nothing.’
When the Bible says, “Thy will be DONE” they weren’t kidding.
Turns out, God already swallowed—on your behalf—the red pill you’re currently chewing on.
It’s all over and done with, as if watching a re-run.
There is nothing left to talk about. There is nothing left to do or undo.
The thunderclap of realization you’ll feel,
Already flashed even before creation began.
So here is the Final Word of the Maitreya:
“Congratulations!”
The Lotus Sutra is a mil-gyung(밀경), or secret sutra that showed up some 500 years after Buddha’s death. Baba’s secret book seems also to be headed down the same road. ‘Plausible deniability’ or ‘expedient means’ always surrounds secret teachings. About God’s Truth, Augustine said that he tried ‘to understand in order to believe’ for many decades. But it wasn’t until he ‘believed in order to understand” that his understanding began to escalate.
In other words, Augustine is saying that “you gotta swallow the pills first–the red pills of revealed Truth.” The word Sutra means “string of pearls.” The pearl represents a ‘revealed truth.’ The ‘string’ represents rhetoric, or line of reasoning, or way of interconnection.’ Pearls like Omniscience, Infinite Intelligence, and the Eternal Now are there to be assimilated as a string of pearls into our world view. These big red pills are not the easiest pills to chew on, swallow, digest, and then assimilate. For me, I felt I might never understand unless I swallow the string of Baba’s pearls, and digest them somehow.
If there ever was a leap of faith, the ‘red pill’ of ‘He finished It,’ I dare say, has got to be the biggest one. If True, as Buddha says, all sutras, or ‘strings of pearls’ were nothing but ‘expedient means’ to lure us into taking that final pill.—The BIG ONE!
For me, it was only when I swallowed the BIG ONE(the preverbal ‘leap of faith’), that all the pearl strings began to weave into pattern. All of a suddenly all the puzzle pieces magically began to fall into place. It was like watching a building demolished in reverse. I quickly discovered that the BIG PEARL provided the proper schemata to accommodate the Truth. A proper framework was needed to untangle the paradoxes into a tapestry of majesty. Perceptual adjustments began occurring spontaneously, as my world view began to shift radically. I began to naturally understand things that had perturbed me for decades. The BIG PILL is as advertised–I thought.
Seen through the eyes of the BIG PEARL, its as if everything is so much clearer now. The world falls into place with God, and God with the world. All kinds of false assumptions that I had been hanging on to, that I didn’t even know I was holding onto, begin to crumble away. In a rapid succession of flashes, previously inconceivable yet suddenly obvious connections become crystal clear to me like holographic 3D images suddenly coming into focus.
Let me give you an example of such a revelation. Buddha said that shortly after 2,500 years from his death date the Dharma will become invisible. Most scholars, and most Buddhist believe that this marks the period wherein Buddhism became so distorted that we might as well say that it disappeared. But the actual word he used was not ‘disappear’, but ‘invisible.’ I wondered why he used ‘will become invisible’ when there clearly existed words like ‘tarnished’, ‘no-good’ and ‘trash’ Then it struck me! The Buddha is talking about the coming New Humanity. The New Humanity will be believers of the Highest Teaching. The Highest Teaching exposes all other teachings as ‘expedient means’–So the Dharma become invisible! The Dharma is no longer needed.
This is the Truth that Subori realized in the ‘Diamond Sutra.’ He had realized a Truth so big, so stupendous, that it wiped out the entirety of Buddha’s Dharma in one swoop. He saw the entirety of Buddhas existence as ‘expedient means.’ Later on, in the Lotus Sutra, when Subori discovers that the Buddha’s Dharma will become invisible shortly after 2,500 years, a peaceful smile descends upon him. Because he knew that the Buddha’s Bul-Gug-To(“Kingdom of Buddha on Earth”) i.e. Baba’s New Humanity was then to arrive. Left with nothing to gain by loving God anymore, the New Humanity shall find themselves loving God as he should be loved–for no reason at all, which is the best reason, according to Baba for loving God.
This whole thing came to me in a flash, like a Thunderclap of insight. It felt like God was overwriting faulty programs in my head. If I didn’t know better, I might have thought God was guiding me. But I know better than to think like that anymore. God is not guiding me. God isn’t doing anything. He’s resting. Doing nothing. Why? Because He had already finished IT!
The ‘He finished IT’ point of view does not allow for ongoing activity to be taken as real,
not even as a dream.
TOE
If true, “He finished it.” constitutes a ‘theory of everything(TOE),’ the likes of which Einstein wasn’t able to dream of. It can never be proven, as even God cannot be proven. However, if one takes a world view utilizing only the ‘Highest Truths’ revealed by Baba, the Buddha, or even the Bible. One cannot NOT come to something fundamentally similar. Baba says that “It is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.” Here he is clearly showing the Fractal Nature of Truth. He is telling us that the cosmos being in ‘us’ is more true than ‘we’ being in the cosmos.
Truth has a nature, and it is fractal, just like nature itself.
The Higher fractal truths are always truer than the lower fractal ones. In fact, higher fractal truths renders lower fractal truths null and void on the spot. For example, on the subtle planes power exists, but on the 5th plane power and energy are seen correctly as nonexistent. What happens is that power is no longer incorrectly seen as something that actually exists.
Lets look at another example. On the Human Fractal Baba tells us to ‘not shriek our responsibilities’. On this fractal obviously one must have ‘free-will. Free-will is what brings responsibility into the game. Animals, bound by instinct, neither have free-will nor the responsibility that comes with it. Therefore on the Animal fractal there is no question of morality, unlike the human fractal. Yet on a higher fractal, say the Saint Fractal, he tells us that:
“There is no free will. Everything is in accordance with the working out of one’s own sanskaras, and even this depends on the preordained plan set in execution with the emergence of the original whim of God, which gave the original urge to know ‘Who am I?’ It is the primal impression that works itself out as one’s destiny and as apparent free will. Thus, in fact, there is no free will.”–Meher Baba
Here it is clear that we never had free will to begin with. This is the fractal where God is the only doer. Therefor he is also the only one responsible. On this fractal the question of morality gets swallowed up by Divine Providence.
Yet, on an even higher fractal, the NIRVANA Fractal, he tells us:
Nothing is happening, nothing has ever happened, and nothing will ever happen.
We can intuit that this Nothing Zone is of a far higher fractal than the previous one—somehow. On this fractal, the very question of responsibility and of free-will become non existant. What’s there to talk about in terms of free-will or responsibility if nothing is even happening?
But there is an even higher fractal than the NOTHING Zone. This is the glorious fractal of EVERYTHING, or the NIRVICALPA Fractal. Baba tells us that words are pretty much useless when it comes to this Zone, so he didn’t even bother to describe this fractal that much other than to give a general outline. This fractal simply went beyond words. For lack of a word, he himself resorted to calling it the ‘beyond-beyond.’ At this fractal there is no question of free-will, responsibility, being or non-being, existence or non-existance—Here there is No question at all. ‘Question’ itself has disappeared.
Baba talks about the aspirants quest for the ‘Highest Truth.’ This caught my eye early. What is the highest truth?— I thought. If it is true that ‘He finished it’ then there can be no Higher Truth for us to arrive at. If it is true, the theory of everything that Stephan Hawkins is seeking could be articulated elegantly in five simple characters :
개이성불도(皆已成佛道) Kae-Ey-Song-Bul-Do
“The realization of all souls has already been completed.”
Note:
Check out how many times the “Kae-Ey-Song-Bul-Do” is repeated in the Lotus Sutra:
