Studying And Practicing With “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”: Summary, Findings, Observations And Comparisons (7 of 7)

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Series introduction:

While I reference some non-Buddhist material most everything in the notes and podcasts for this series on The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta are solely my effort to relate considerations, questions, experiences, explorations, suggestions, interpretations and practices involved and associated with this sutta.

This series comes via seven categories/blog posts/podcasts:

1. Introduction; the key encapsulation/encoding/summary paragraph of the whole sutta which includes and weaves in the four powers; and a reading of one of two translations for the sutta
2. Unpacking of the hindrances and the other of two translations for the sutta
3. A (type of) situational awareness
4. 32 parts of the body
5. Perceptions of night, daytime and light
6. “Psychic Powers,” practice combinations and miscellany
7. Summary, findings, observations and comparisons

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In more detail, the four Iddhipāda — sometimes translated as bases of psychic power, basis of psychic power, bases of power, base of spiritual power, wings to success, paths of accomplishment, accomplishments, or roads to power — are:

1. chanda: desire; enthusiasm; purpose; wish
2. viriya: persistence; energy; effort; will
3. citta: intent; consciousness; knowing mind; mental development; devoting mind to; heart-mind
4. vīmaṃsā: investigation; inquiry; discernment; discrimination; reason; interest; intelligent curiosity; [(perhaps a new contribution, or for chanda:) balanced and helpful enthrallment, fascination]; feedback and fine tuning, adjustment; learn from doing; circumspection

Along with aiding our even mundane accomplishments and mastery, perhaps the Iddhipāda play a significant role in approaching will — the way one decides on and initiates action — and at the core of The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta is an analysis of will along with instructions for its training, development, and use.

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Summary, Findings, Observations And Comparisons

• If “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power” is (mostly) for monastics, what would be any significant difference(s) for a lay version?

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Iddhipāda development instructions left out of the “The Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis Of The Bases Of Power”

I also discovered towards the end of producing this series the “the practice that leads to the development of the bases of psychic power”:

And what is the practice that leads to the development of the bases of psychic power?

It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is:

right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.

This is called the practice that leads to the development of the bases of psychic power.”

Selection from Linked Discourses 51, 2. Shaking the Stilt Longhouse, 19. A Teaching on Psychic Power, Etc.

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A fulcrum for knowing Anicca, inconstancy?

For the section:

“…perceiving what is in front and behind so that what is in front is the same as what is behind, and what is behind is the same as what is in front.”

Or translated:

“…perceiving continuity: as before, so after; as after, so before”

Could this also be somehow related to helping with seeing, knowing and discerning the arising and passing nature of phenomena and/or (a type of pivot point between) past and future, aka the present moment due to keeping a “. . . perception of what is in front & behind … well in hand, well-attended to, well-considered, well-tuned [‘penetrated’] by means of discernment,” or “the perception of continuity is properly grasped, attended, borne in mind, and comprehended with wisdom”?

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Extrapolating a take on encrypted Esoteric instructions and teachings (in the subtext)

“There is the case where a monk develops the base of power endowed with concentration founded on desire & the fabrications of exertion, thinking, ‘This desire of mine will be neither overly sluggish nor overly active, neither inwardly constricted nor outwardly scattered.’ He keeps perceiving what is in front & behind so that what is in front is the same as what is behind, what is behind is the same as what is in front. What is below is the same as what is above, what is above is the same as what is below. (He dwells) by night as by day, and by day as by night. By means of an awareness thus open & unhampered, he develops a brightened mind.

Woo woo and run on sentence alert:

Why would the Buddha initially give somewhat cryptic instructions in “An Analysis of the Bases of Power — Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta” then go on to explain them in ways where some don’t seem immediately obvious and/or related to the initial cryptic instructions? Could this be a nod to various occult(ed) means to power using some of the same kind of imagery while at the same time decrypting in a manner that could be critical to/of established occult systems (for those with eyes to see and ears to hear)? And/or even going so far as to the initial cryptic instructions actually being what is only taught secretly to some occult initiates then saying there’s deeper layers of decoding while critically commenting — by reading between the lines and in the subtext — on (the) existing occult schools and systems, ie. not with some kind of reformulated, recreated, homogenized, special 360 vision for “perceiving what is in front & behind so that what is in front is the same as what is behind, what is behind is the same as what is in front”; nor by (somehow) purifying the body by rituals (because internally it’s “full of various kinds of unclean things”); and by dwelling so “what is below is the same as what is above, and what is above is the same as what is below,” means not something such as combining heaven, hell and earth, or emphasizing ((symbolic) spats over) various hierarchies, but by mindfulness to/of/for — in a kind of way — the immediate everyday human reality of being trapped in/with a meat suit body composed of foul things.

[In the podcast I say the Buddha was critical of other teachings. I don’t know if this is a fair stand-alone statement as I’ve heard he also praised some of the Jain stuff and also points out flaws in others criticizing and quarreling with others over teachings]

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Inversions and contradictions?

Why would the Buddha draw attention to, and give instruction to invert something, anything — in this instance to dwell or “meditate as by day, so by night; as by night, so by day. . . [by developing] the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm [ /energy/ mental development/ inquiry], and active effort, with the same features, attributes, and signs by day as by night. And they develop it with the same features, attributes, and signs by night as by day.” Are there other instances where the Buddha specifically instructs inversions this explicitly?

Are these the proper translations? If so then is following passage from https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN4.html a paradox in need of resolving?

“There are some contemplatives & brahmans, brahman, who have the perception of ‘day’ when it is night, and of ‘night’ when it is day. This, I tell you, is their being in a dwelling of delusion. As for me, I have the perception of ‘day’ when it is day, and of ‘night’ when it is night. . .”

Or translated:

“There are some ascetics and brahmins who perceive that it’s day when in fact it’s night, or perceive that it’s night when in fact it’s day. This meditation of theirs is delusional, I say. I perceive that it’s night when in fact it is night, and perceive that it’s day when in fact it is day. . .”

https://suttacentral.net/mn4/en/sujato

If this is an inversion though could the subtext involve (inversions on) how day and night came to be (altered) in this world (thus could such a type of instruction help invert an inversion for restoration)? [see: https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Earth%27s_Axial_Tilt]

To me the phrase “turning upright what had been overthrown” or “righting the overturned” from a popular refrain ending plenty of suttas is pretty close to inverting an inversion.

“Magnificent, Master Gotama! Magnificent, Master Gotama! Master Gotama has made the Dhamma clear in many ways, as though he were turning upright what had been overthrown, revealing what was hidden, showing the way to one who was lost, or holding up a lamp in the dark for those with eyesight to see forms. I go to Master Gotama for refuge and to the Dhamma and to the Sangha of bhikkhus. From today let Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone to him for refuge for life.”

Or translated:

“Excellent, Master Gotama! Excellent, Master Gotama! As if he were righting the overturned, or revealing the hidden, or pointing out the path to the lost, or lighting a lamp in the dark so people with good eyes can see what’s there, Master Gotama has made the teaching clear in many ways. I go for refuge to Master Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Saṅgha. From this day forth, may Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”

https://suttacentral.net/mn4/en/sujato

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Implications of light

Also, could doing practices or developing perceptions as mentioned in this sutta like “the perception of light, the perception of daytime [at any hour of the day] well in hand & well-established” make one a very bright light (so to speak) and so maybe dwelling by day as by night is helpful to not draw so much attention to oneself?

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Out of this placement of King and Priest as the highest offices of this world emerged the restatement of the ancient ritual of establishing two pillars at the entrance of every temple, oriented to the rising sun (rising son = Horus Rising or Horizon) coming over the horizon on the first day of spring on the vernal equinox. These two pillars represent the Line of the King and the Line of the Priest, who established their lineages to control the Land and the Law throughout history to the present time.

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The storyline of the Isis and Osiris mystery cult is simple and quite instructive. There are nine godheads in the primary Egyptian Pantheon known as the Ennead. Anu sits at the top of the Council of Nine (the Ennead). Below him are two sets of brother/sister twins (husband and wife) that embody the physical Earth in its primordial elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Out of these emerge another two sets of brother/sister twins (husband and wife), representing the polarity of dark and light in the false light matrix of the hologram containment field. These are Isis and Osiris on the light side, from who emerges the prodigal Sun/Son Horus, who rises in the east at the Horizon (Horus Rising). Set and Nephthys counter the light as it is extinguished on the western horizon by Set as he removes the light of the day at Sun-Set and gives it over to his sister/wife to cover the Night. Light and Dark, Black and White, the never-ending polarity, displayed for all to see on every Masonic temple floor, in Westminster Abbey and many more.

from p.43 and p.104 of An Overview of the World System of Bondage and Separation from Life

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Maybe having “the perception of light, the perception of daytime [at any hour of the day] well in hand & well-established” is a boosted illumination of consciousness to neutralize forces of “light and darkness” especially when added to the sort of swapping of perceptions for day and night. Such day and night perception swapping, coupled with the perception of light allows for light to prevail amongst what some say are now unnatural/manipulated periods of sunlight and no sunlight on earth where others say in a far ancient time the earth had two suns and no darkness. And perhaps this also lends skillful perceptions of night, unlike some symbolic representations of night like a nuclear winter or dark ages or a worldwide virus.

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BTW, 10 perceptions helpful to some who are ill:

• inconstancy
• not-self
• unattractiveness
• drawbacks
• abandoning
• dispassion
• cessation
• distaste for every world
• undesirability of all fabrications
• mindfulness of in-and-out breathing

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Not mentioned in the podcast:

Protection strategies

Perhaps the four protective meditations on foulness, death, loving-kindness and the Buddha are helpful to address non-benevolent powerful forces not so keen on the rise in power of those whom align with more benevolent intents.

Meditation on death could perhaps deter those who threaten with death to invoke (and feed on the subsequent) fear. Death meditation could also deter those who would like to keep on and on with tactic after tactic to block progress with the faulty reasoning that one’s current existence is eternal so what’s the big deal with messing around with someone if doing so is only a blip in the grand scheme of things.

Loving-kindness can protect against mischievous beings only crying out for kindness (and not really realizing it); for those who still have a conscience but have temporarily forgotten it; and towards those who seek to provoke anger, violence, ill-will and retaliation (as fuel).

Meditation on death and loving-kindness may protect against any harmful actions of nihilists since they resonate with death and the energy of loving-kindness may be a reprieve from their bleakness.

And of course meditation on the Buddha — and the true pinnacle of awareness represented thereby — appeals as a deterrent for more seemingly middle of the road, non-benevolent forces, especially those who seek to connive using (false) knowledge, deception, distractions, deterrents, tricks, foolery, games, etc.

Finally meditation on foulness can deter (those forces appealing to) lust, seduction and misuse of sexual energy.

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Much of this series seems to present the four Iddhipāda as objects. However, perhaps perceiving the Iddhipāda more as features, aspects, and/or characteristics will help add further vistas and dimensions of the Iddhipāda for greater meaning and inner/over/understanding.

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The raw unedited YouTube transcription of this podcast:

summary

findings

observations and comparisons this is the

final part of a seven part series on

studying and practicing with the eripada

fifonga suta an analysis of the basis of

power so i may have mentioned this

before but if the suta on the analysis

of the basis of power

is mostly for monastics what would be

any significant differences for a lay

version and i also discovered towards

the end of producing this series that

quote the practice that leads to the

development of the basis of psychic

power

end quote is

specifically

explicitly stated in the link discourses

51-2

and this is just that section

translation from ponte suggiato

quote and what is the practice that

leads to the development of the basis of

psychic power it is simply this noble

eightfold path that is

right view right thought

right speech right action right

livelihood

right effort right mindfulness and right

immersion this is called the practice

that leads to the development of the

bases of psychic power maybe a lot of

the

practices and way of working with the

suta is kind of for naught or maybe it’s

just

now an interesting

consideration

or maybe there’s something to it i don’t

know so now addressing the section

quote perceiving what is in front and

behind

so that what is in front is the same as

what is behind and what is behind is the

same as what is in front are translated

quote perceiving continuity as before so

after as after so before end quote so

could this section also be somehow

related to helping with seeing knowing

and discerning the arising and passing

nature of phenomenon and or act as a

type of pivot point between

past and future aka the present moment

due to keeping a perception of what is

in front and behind well in hand well

attended to well-considered well-tuned

penetrated by means of discernment or

translated the perception of continuity

is properly grasped attended born in

mind and comprehended with wisdom

it’s playing on this perception or this

way of doing things of what is in front

and behind in continuity

if you take the present moment

and then you go in front of that or

behind that when we’re considering time

or timelines

timetables time matrices

are just this perception of continuity

translated that way or looked at it that

way

and that’s you know well attended to

well-considered well-tuned grasped born

in mind comprehended with wisdom and can

this be a type of strategy

a way of

establishing oneself

with awareness so that a rising and

passing nature of phenomena

on perceived linear time could be more

easily discerned seems like it wouldn’t

hurt anything

so now here’s kind of a woo-woo and

run on sentence alert after i read

what i’m going to address here

the section of the suit i’m going to

address kind of really get into

some kind of

out there speculation when it comes to

esoteric teachings and whatnot my guess

is on why the buddha

language this the way he did

and then broke it down so anyway this is

on the main section again

the kind of encoding encapsulation of

the entire suta in this one paragraph

that he later goes on to unpack and i’ll

just read it again here quote there is

the case where a monk develops the base

of power endowed with concentration

founded on desire and the fabrications

of exertion thinking this desire of mine

will be neither overly sluggish nor

overly active neither inwardly

constricted

nor outwardly scattered he keeps

perceiving what is in front and behind

so that what is in front is the same as

what is behind

what is behind is the same as what is in

front what is below is the same as what

is above and what is above is the same

as what is below

he dwells by night as by day

and by day as by night

by means of an awareness thus open and

an unhampered he develops a brightened

mind end quote

so here we go after the first couple

sentences here with my run-on sentence

commentary if needed afterwards so the

main thing here is why would the buddha

initially give

these somewhat cryptic instructions in

the suta on the basis of power

then go on to explain them in ways where

some don’t seem immediately obvious and

are related to the initial cryptic

instructions that i just read could this

be a nod to various occulted means to

power using some of the same kinds of

imagery while at the same time

decrypting in a manner that could be

critical to

established occult systems for those

with eyes to see and ears to hear and or

even going so far here as to the initial

cryptic instructions actually being

what is only taught secretly to some

occult initiates

then saying there’s deeper layers of

decoding while critically commenting by

reading between the lines in the subtext

on the existing occult schools

and systems

that is not with some kind of

reformulated

recreated homogenized special 360 vision

for

quote perceiving what is in front and

behind so that what is in front is the

same as what is behind

what is behind is the same as what is in

front end quote

nor is it by somehow purifying the body

by rituals because internally it’s full

of various kinds of unclean things and

by dwelling so

what is below is the same as what is

above and what is above is the same as

what is below end quote means not

something such as combining heaven

hell and earth or emphasizing

symbolic spats over various hierarchies

but by mindfulness two of and four in a

kind of way the immediate everyday human

reality of being trapped

within a meat suit composed of foul

things from my understanding currently

the buddha would be critical of some of

the teachings and practices of his day

and he would also

be able to immediately give kind of a

reference point that the

teachings that were being criticized he

would give reference points for these

that the people he was talking about

them to would immediately

recognize and then

go on to

explain in a way they could understand

kind of what the more

helpful wise skillful version of

what was being kind of unskillfully

unwisely

unhelpfully taught and practiced

get into kind of occult schools and

esoteric schools or even

esoteric texts

especially a lot of it’s encrypted

or there’s layers of meaning hidden

behind certain things so there’s kind of

an esoteric version that’s taken

literally and then there’s symbology

embedded within that a lot of times what

i’m getting at here is you know could

the buddha have used this

kind of language and

imagery

that was kind of in line with some of

the esoteric and occulted schools but

then in the subtext

in between the lines in code his

understanding of these

type of

ways of i don’t know doing whatever

occult schools do about

gaining hidden wisdom and knowledge so

for example

when he says perceiving what is in front

and behind so that what is in front is

the same as what is in behind is behind

and what is behind is the same as what

is in front there’s this one

esoteric occult

teaching about 360 vision where

supposedly there’s this ability if i’m

remembering this right or getting this

right where

one can see

in all directions at once either with

their inner vision

to the outside or with somehow with

their physical vision somehow i don’t

know to get an idea of this i think

there’s some like apps where you can do

a panorama or 360 view

and see in one 2d image

360 degrees around you

but as i’ve gone into here that’s not

what the buddha meant by

perceiving what is

in front and behind so that what is in

front is the same as what is behind and

what is behind the same as what is in

front you know we gone in or i’ve gone

into that are we if you’re listening to

this

and then there’s of course this practice

and some

schools and teachings of purifying the

bodies with rituals

bathing rituals burning certain things

all kinds of other stuff

but here the buddha talks about the

bodies

internally full of various kinds of

unclean things

and while some people can do internal

cleanses there is a perception of well

if these guts were spilled out on a

table i mean how clean can they be if

there’s food and stuff and waste going

through them all the time i mean in one

way

what kind of purity can there ever be

in some sense of the word and then this

classic one though what is below is the

same as what it’s above and what is

above is the same as what is below

there’s this classic esoteric axiom as

above so below and also as within as

without so this is kind of like talking

about the correspondence between

if something happens in the heavens then

it’s going to have some kind of

correlation

here on earth and i guess if there’s

something going on in earth there’s

going to be some kind of correlation in

the lower realms hell realms and so

by what is below is the same as what is

above and what is above is the same as

what is below

he’s not talking about that so much and

he’s not talking about a combination of

heaven hell on earth or even different

hierarchies about higher and lower on

the food chain

but he’s talking about the mindfulness

of the immediate everyday human reality

of being in this meat suit you know

composed of these foul things these 32

parts of the body so i thought that was

a kind of interesting take on some of

these different occulted esoteric guests

still taught and established sometimes

perceptions and teachings and

keeping things hidden

and less initiated

which in general

some of those things i feel don’t need

to have initiations or

self-initiations okay

and especially during these times where

there’s so much access to information

and seem to be at a state of

consciousness where a lot of this stuff

is okay without initiations however

there’s still some teachings and

practices that require initiation

require

the teaching and training and tutelage

supervision guidance of

someone who’s gained mastery and

successfully does such initiations

because some of this type of information

if

and practices if given to the wrong

people at the wrong time is kind of like

giving a flamethrower to a

three-year-old then going on now why

would the buddha draw attention to and

give instructions to invert something

anything and in this instance i mean

here to dwell or meditate as by day so

by night as by night so by day by

developing the basis of psychic power

that has immersion due to enthusiasm and

also energy mental development inquiry

an act of effort with the same features

attributes and signs by day as by night

and then develop it with the same

features attributes and signs by night

as by day

so this seems kind of like an inversion

and are there other instances where the

buddha specifically instructs inversions

this explicitly

it’s also interesting here to note

are these the proper translations

because

what i’m going to read here is kind of a

paradox of this to front load an answer

really quick or briefly

it might just be the context of the

audience too

certain audiences might need to hear it

one way

other audiences might need to hear it

another way it might apply to some

during certain conditions and times

and not to others this is taken from

mn4

majimana kaya four there are some

contemplatives and brahmins who have the

perception of day when it is night and

of night when it is day this i tell you

is

there being in a

dwelling of delusion as for me i have

the perception of day when this day

end of night when it is night this is

also translated by bonte sujato as there

are some ascetics and brahmins who

perceive that its day when in fact its

night are perceived that its night when

in fact its day this meditation of

theirs is delusional i say i perceive

that it’s night when in fact it is night

and perceive that it’s day when in fact

it is day so if this is an inversion

though um in the suta

about kind of not going exactly what he

said

to these brahmanas in majimana kaya four

if it is a type of inversion could the

subtext involve inversions on how day

and night came to be in this world and

so thus could this make

the instructions laid out here actually

invert the inversion for a restoration

so inverting an inversion actually

removes the inversion puts it back

upright and i’ll link to a

article about the earth’s axial tilt

which

explains kind of how

way back the

changes in the tilt of the earth which

would affect

daylight night time

daytime night time and just to me this

the phrase turning upright what had been

overthrown or writing the overthrown

from a popular refrain ending plenty of

sutas is pretty close to inverting an

inversion

so this is a classic way that plenty of

sutures end

and just kind of illustrates this

point of inverting an inversion putting

back right what’s been tipped over and

distorted done wrong

restoring something so here’s the

refrain

one translation of it magnificent master

go to a magnificent master gotama master

gotama has made the dhamma clear in many

ways as though he were turning upright

what had been overthrown

revealing what was hidden

showing the way to one who was lost or

holding up a lamp in the dark for those

with eyesight to see forms i go to

master gotuma for refuge refuge and to

the dhamma and to the sangha of bikus

from today let master gotoma remember me

as a lay follower who has gone to him

for refuge for life or just one other

translation here from bonte sagiato

excellent master got a minute excellent

master gautama as if he were writing the

overturned or revealing the hidden or

pointing out the path to the lost or

lighting a lamp in the dark so people

with good eyes can see what’s there

master gautama has made the teaching

clear in many ways i go for refuge to

master gautama for the teaching and to

the mendicant sangha

from this day forth may master gautama

remember me as a lay follower who has

gone for refuge for life so another kind

of nuanced consideration that probably

wouldn’t crop up for many

in this world currently but could doing

practices or developing perceptions as

mentioned here like the perception of

light the perception of daytime at any

hour of the day

well in hand and well established the

ability to do that could that make

someone a very bright light so to speak

and so maybe dwelling as by day as as by

night it’s helpful to not draw so much

attention to oneself

so this is just kind of like you know a

beacon a lighthouse in the darkness

obviously it’s going to be seen and

people will know where it’s at and be

able to easily access

someone shining so brightly

with really no other light sources

around right metaphorically here

being able to

dwell by day as by night maybe one

wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb so

much

to

i don’t know potential

forces

and beings who

would probably not like to see someone

shine so bright

or it can make them look bad or

might tend to take some of their power

away

their influence away

and i’d like to just read a little

portion of kind of a illustration of

some of the

old

mystery school religion esoteric type

things for some people here that are

claimed to be in power and what they are

actually into

their belief systems their viewpoints

and this is from pages 43 and page 104

of an overview of the world system of

bondage and separation from life that’s

found at the gemstone university website

out of this placement of king and priest

as the highest offices

of this world emerged the restatement of

the ancient ritual of establishing two

pillars

at the entrance of every temple oriented

to the rising sun rising sun equals

horus rising her or horizon

coming over the horizon on the first day

of spring

on the vernal equinox these two pillars

represent the line of the king in the

line of the priest who established their

lineages to control the land and the law

throughout history to the present time

and here the storyline

of the isis and osiris mystery cult is

simple and quite instructive there are

nine godheads in the primary egyptian

pantheon known as the iniad anu sits at

the top of the council of nine the iniat

below him are two sets of brother-sister

twins husband and wife that embodied the

physical earth and its primordial

elements

earth air fire and water out of these

emerge another two sets of brother

sister twins husband and wife

representing the polarity of dark

and light

in the false light matrix of the

hologram containment field these are

isis and osiris on the light side from

who emerges the prodigal son

[Music]

s-u-n-sun s-o-n

horus who rises in the east at the

horizon

horus rising

set

and

netflix

can’t pronounce the name of seth’s

feminine counterpart counter the light

as it is extinguished on the western

horizon by set as he removes the light

of the day

at sunset and gives it over to his

sister wife to cover the night light and

dark black and white the never-ending

polarity displayed for all to see on

every masonic temple floor

in westminster abbey and many more

from their checkerboard floor and that’s

the end of the two selections from an

overview on the world system of bondage

and separation from life so continuing

now on with this

notion of light so maybe having this

quote the perception of light the

perception of daytime at any hour of the

day

well in hand and well established is a

boosted illumination of consciousness

to neutralize forces of light and

darkness

especially when added

to the sort of swapping of receptions

for day and night

such day and night perception swapping

coupled with the perception of light

allows for light to prevail amongst what

some say are now unnatural manipulated

periods of sunlight and no sunlight on

earth where others say in a far ancient

time the earth had two suns and no

darkness

and perhaps this also lends skillful

perceptions of night

unlike some symbolic representations of

night like a nuclear winter or dark ages

or a worldwide virus

and by the way before i come back to

that paragraph i just laid out this is

an aside of 10 perceptions helpful to

some who are ill from a in 1060 having

the perception of inconstancy

not self unattractiveness

drawbacks abandoning dispassion

cessation

a distaste for every world an

undesirability of all fabrications and

on upon assatea your mindfulness of

in-n-out breathing so if one has

mastered consciousness

on both the light and dark sides of it

or if you want to say maybe positive or

negative then if i guess if there’s way

too much light it’s almost blinding then

if one has

this kind of

notion of dwelling at daytime or around

light

in the same way they dwell at night time

and vice versa if something’s really

dark and bleak and

negative or night and someone can

be and dwell how they do in the daytime

where there is light and if both of

those polarities are mastered so if

there’s an imbalance at any time can

rebalance that and that seems to

act as a neutralizing force in the world

a rebalancing

force one that leads towards liberation

so these types of

perceptions or even mass perceptions

aren’t as applicable especially when

they’re not helpful for anything

lead to more bondage so then if such a

thing is established and

having this

added notion of being able to

have the perception of life the

perception at daytime at any hour of the

day well and hand well established if

that’s added on to the swapping of

perceptions for day and night dwelling

then that would kind of give the light

an upper hand if it needs to

so if

i don’t know maybe a counterpart

that would also

master the swapping of perceptions of

light and darkness day and night but

then also

be working for the darkness the

negativity you know the kind of service

to self thing

as their agenda well then having this

ability to bring light in at any time

you know again added with this

mastery of

day and night perception well then

that’s going to

at least it seems like be a force for

good goodness

and by that i mean established ethically

and being a force for

cause for liberation well-being for

oneself and others

short-term and long-term leading towards

release unbinding nibana

and just having this

alleged manipulation of these times of

sunlight and no sunlight some say or

just tossing that off a little bit off

if it’s the earth is a little bit off

its axis then this wobble and whatnot

then you know what is the most conducive

periods of light and darkness for the

population if this is something that’s

been manipulated on higher levels which

i’ll link to in the show notes

how could it be righted how could it be

adjusted to

if it can’t be righted or corrected in

order to benefit ourselves and others of

course i don’t know the answers to that

but having the knowledge available the

actual ancient history if it’s accurate

available

can this help

can it distract some people

from practice

what

degree of knowledge

and knowing is necessary on this

how much should we share it and to who

how should we view it and how should we

respond to it

if at all

and that ends this summary section

with some of my findings observations

and comparisons