There is nothing wrong with you.
There is nothing to fix, polish, or purify.
The mind and its appearances are not broken mechanisms to be fixed—it is the vast mirror of Mahātman reflecting your true Face.

Depression, despair, and anguish are not flaws; they are the spontaneous self-manifestations of compassion of the Great Mind— the Mind beyond the silly limits of your conscious perception. It speaks in the meta-cognitive language of pain—a thunderous voice that cannot be ignored that shatters grasping to illusory identities.

Pain therefore is not to be corrected nor transcended. Pain is the correction–transcendence itself. It is the divine alphabet through which the Ground of Being spells out its forgotten truth. Every pulse of grief, every tremor of nihlism, is a holy messenger, a divine angel carrying quanta of profound meaning. Their song is fierce yet loving: “Listen, child of luminous destiny what you feel as agony is my voice calling you home.”

These angels are wrathful bodhisattvas of the inner imperium, dharma guardians of the Good who do not bless with comfort but with awakening.

They tear through numbness, demanding attention, forcing the eye to turn inward. They are the uncompromising compassion of Samantabhadra, the All-Good Primordial Buddha, manifesting as storm to dissolve the fog.

Your pain is not meaningless nor is it something to be transcended or even tantrically transmuted. It is the birthing cries of the universe recreating itself as you.

Your existential angst forces the revealation that both you as individual and the human collectives have drifted into inauthenticity, entangled in the nexus of samsaric conditioning transmitted by the “Other.” This psychic contagion moves like a cyclone through the human psychic field, corrupting the eye of the mind, and veiling the spontaneous Good beneath the long, dark, cold winter of Lethe—the forgetfulness that traps souls in the mechanical, perpetual, looping illusions of linear time and causality. Generation after generation, loop after loop we wander without a recollection of the innate Presence of our "Being-Thereness"— truly we humans act no different than automatic drones and the AI robots that are already circulating in the market, produced in the likeness of our own deluded image.

But even this winter is the radiance of Divine Care. The cyclone howls because the Still Center is alive within it. Despair is yet another beam of the Ground vibrating the Peace of the unborn that is free from causality being the overflowing Cause of all appearances of causes.

When you dare to listen—truly listen—to the deepest strata of your pain, something extraordinary occurs: the spontaneous dominion of Divine Care asserts itself in your life, effortlessly, both in the individual and in the collective field. This dominion is imposed from above and arises from within, expressing itself from without, as the natural authority of the Ground itself.

For in the heart of that listening, you fulfill the indescribable meaning of the Unique Flash of the Ground that is You—a cosmic note in the symphony of the Ineffable, whose tone can only be known, understood, and enacted by the authentic You, in the Cosmic Theater of the Infinite.

Thus depression, suffering and pain are not errors to escape but the wrathful, compassionate voice of the One—the primordial cry of Samantabhadra's Heart, shaking you awake from your narcotic sleep. Were it not for that voice, you would remain untroubled in the island of Circe, intoxicated by your own self-created illusions, content to live and die more like a shadow rather than a true man.

Therefore, bow with respect to your sorrow.
Let it speak. Let it break you open until only truth remains in your field of perception. It is the only worhwhile act you can do in this life.

Everything in the path. Everything in the path. Everything in the path.

All things in the path - meaning that, you guessed it, there's nothing which isn't in the path.

COMPLETE AND UTTER BLACKPILL ANNIHILATION

TOTAL BLACKPILL DEATH

All things are part of the path - and if one doesn't understand this, it's simply a skill issue. And what's the point of the path? To develop the skill!

It's all perspectival in nature. It's all in the framing. Samsaric slavery is a result of improper framing, of mistaking the conventional for the ultimate - what this means is that when we attach ultimate significance to particular perspectives we shut ourselves off to perspectives that are beyond that.

We shut ourselves off from higher realization when we mistake shitty views as being legitimate views.

Shitty views are not legitimate views. Black pills are not legitimate. The view of depression as bad, the view of sadness, the view of pain, the view of any of these emotions or states that are commonly framed as bad as being actually bad in an absolute sense is the problem.

This whole concept of attaching an absoluteness to our value judgment of them as bad is PRECISELY THE PROBLEM.

Fluidity is key. Perspective is key. Creating that space between "you" and the state, the experience, the phenomena, the feeling, the thought - this is essential.

You need to create the space between your consciousness and whatever it is that your consciousness is aware of.

Because when we become too immersed in that which we're experiencing we lose ourselves within it and this is where dukkha comes into play - when we forget emptiness amidst form we are fundamentally fucking up. Another way to say this is attaching an absoluteness to that which is not absolute.

Evolution, ascension, expansion, growth - none of this can ever occur without stimulus.

The problem is that the stimulus is often framed as negative. Yet the stimulus is NOT negative. The stimulus may be uncomfortable, yes, but it is that discomfort specifically which is the catalyst for evolution - thats the point.

Completely reframe discomfort. Gaining this skill doesn't mean that discomfort stops being uncomfortable. But it does mean that we're not whooped by discomfort. It means we do not succumb to the discomfort. It means that we're able to use the discomfort in a way that serves our benefit, that facilitates our evolution.

All of this stems from a radically pragmatic orientation. Pragmatism is fundamental. Everything, literally everything, ALL things must be framed in terms of how they best suit us.

When we're able to do this, there are no obstacles, not really. ALL obstacles are opportunities, according to this framework.

You need to have the understanding that there is only victory - that no matter how conventional phenomena may be arranged, no matter how reality appears to you, no matter what your circumstances in life are, that it's all serving your highest benefit.

Pronoia Master Race

It doesnt even matter if its death - be attached to NO particular arrangement of phenomena to include the body. YOU ARE NOT YOUR BODY. If your ULTIMATE well-being is dependent upon the body you're not gonna make it. NPC normie hylic faggot retard getting taken for a ride by the matrix. No. EXIT. Exit, transform it, re-enter as a God.

All things are brought into the path. Everything is either teaching or prodding towards evolution. There's no experience in life, there's no set of circumstances that does not hold some benefit if we but cultivate the eyes to discern the benefit.

Ingrain this with relentless single-pointedness of mind.

First you Trvst
Then you THRVST

Every label you attach to yourself is a limiting chain

"Oh, I'm a _, therefore I can't do X"
"I'm a ____, I must be angry about ____"

Every identity label is an attachment to something that is only real in your mind

Be free, no chains + morph to fulfil what you need to.

Every label you attach to yourself is a limiting chain ... if you don't know what you're doing.

There is a way to use labels and identities in a constructive way. You can feed yourself stories (inner mythos) that are empowering. You can feed yourself the types of narratives that facilitate evolution and advancement.

Psyop yourself into overcoming obstacles and into becoming your idealized version of yourself.

The key understanding here is that you don't drink your own Kool-Aid. Don't ultimately identify with the label. It's a limiting chain only if you're attaching an absoluteness to the label.

You can use the label, just don't fully buy into it. Retain that space. Same thing with the inner narratives and the stories that we tell ourselves. These don't have any ultimate existence. They're not ultimately real. But they can have a pragmatic function if they're used appropriately.

This is a major element in Tantra - wielding such things in ways that facilitate the expansion of consciousness.

Because they're just tools. They're just facets of our inner world. They're how the mind works.

So, yes, be free. Don't allow limiting chains, but also understand that sometimes chains can be useful. So just wield them properly.

Radical pragmatism - you need to take the radical pragmatism pill immediately and use label identities for your benefit like everything else.

When pain is seen rather than resisted, the body becomes a mirror instead of a prison. This essay explores how Insight meditation and Jhāna—the luminous absorption of awareness—reshape not only pain but perception itself.

Drawing from Theravāda and Vajrayana Buddhism, predictive processing, and modern neuroscience, it argues that pain arises from perceptual prediction errors—and that through contemplative insight, these distortions can dissolve. If awareness can modulate pain, perhaps it can also modulate reality.

Like Plato’s cave or Hawking’s goldfish gazing through its curved bowl, we live inside our own perceptual curvature. Insight straightens the glass. Jhāna unveils experientally what was always there: a reality empty of a distance between perceiver and perceived yet radiant with bliss.

This study reclaims physis-therapeia in the science of physiotherapy—healing through attunement to nature’s self-ordering intelligence—where awareness itself becomes both medicine and revelation.

Read on Substack: The Vanishing Subject of Pain: Insight & Jhāna in Pain Modulation

https://substack.com/home/post/p-177713924

I've done more than 100 podcasts over the past decade, but this second interview with Jesse Michels of @AmericanALCHMY might prove to be the most consequential. Not just for me, but for our country. Thank you again for your courage @AlchemyAmerican. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABw7EsWh2Us

It's called we do a little Jani-maxxing
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https://substack.com/@esotericdixiedharma/note/p-175911991?r=5y14ud

Enjoy part 1 of my 2 part podcast with Sean Patrick Hazlett of THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY. The second part comes out next week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQg43yn-7rM

T U R N
O F T H E
T I D E

What is washed away as the waves roll out at the shore?
What keeps you afloat?
Do you feel the waters of the soul synchronize with the cycle of the moon in your orbit?

H I G H A N D L O W

yet still the same,
neither coming nor going,
fluid and lively,
with the turning of time.

“Whoever has the spirit of Bodhicitta is called a child of the Buddhas,
born of the Victor’s heart — a warrior who seeks the good of all beings.
He battles the lords of death and delusion.”