Manjushri Has Blessed America

This form of Manjushri has blessed the
wild technological age.
We could usefully consider this the
Great Freedom of Speech and the Internet Manjushri.

Different resolution.
Everybody is so busy seeing him/her/maybe
nobody can see him/her/surely.

This form of Manjushri has the quality of
liberation upon sight over pixels of light.

Where such things are possible
all things are false.

Here She Comes

How are you ewe?

Old Days

With the old Kalu Rinpoche in the Pasadena Hills. They were lighting for what became a famous photograph, by a then-unknown but subsequently celebrated photographer. I was asked to do a sit-in, on a very rich day. In my sit-in photo (below) I am looking straight at Rinpoche. When he sat down for his portrait (above) he was looking straight at me.

I once took him, the current Kalu Rinpoche's father, and mother, together with my own attendant and driver, from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

He wanted to bless all the animals between those two places.

That was not his sole intention. 

It certainly formed part of his intention.

My intention is that all the old negativity be swept away.

Indeed, that was then, and this is now.

Both equally a spacious illusion.

The CIA and Magic.

In 1977, while conducting research into the history of magic's use as a weapon of state, the Central Intelligence Agency granted my request, and released to the open literature, a technical report entitled "Magic and how to recognize it."

This document was thereafter furnished to anyone who asked, utterly free of any cost. All of these things are very easy for anyone to see, if they know where to look. If that particular document is light available, I would like to see what it looks like now.

Meanwhile, I recall so many conclusions of that report as I watch world events unfold.

"As witch doctors are known to be interested in gossip, people tell them gossip."

We are hearing a wild echo of human speech, in all its aspects, as the destruction of speech by social media explodes.

"[M]agic will almost invariably be found associated with situations of tension and anxiety."

What a blessing to hear only beautiful sounds?

When can we stop digital drumming for magicians?

Mercy for the Wicked

To the King Magician Who Guards Islam:

No Buddhist has ever harmed a single thing that is Allah's.

If it has been said that a Buddhist 

has caused harm to a single thing that is Allah's, 

that person is not a Buddhist, 

and that thing is not Allah's. 

Since there is no thing that is not Allah's, 

you take the matter as granted before I speak, 

and nod sternly in agreement to hear truth promptly told.

May this incline Your Majesty's indulgence.

Allah's word can never be profaned by false words, 

because Allah's word is absolutely pure.

Nothing improves purity:

It is here that everyone agrees.

Purity requires no defense.

Oh, Eternally Patient and Merciful 

Judge Who Protects Islam:

We, on the other hand, are here to defend 

a magical apparition of some sort 

-- now brought to the Court's notice as Ashin Wirathu --

before you give your ruling, 

and we both permit his fears to continue 

to their inevitable conclusion.

We have great respect for the Court's earnest person 

which we now express through a similarly earnest wish for 

your long and glorious presence at a moment in mind 

where space is understood as something other than space, 

and time is Allah's very own servant.

Over the course of time and experience, 

men see Allah's face in the faces of all beings. 

To recognize his own face, a man must look into a mysterious mirror.

Had I not come to understand my own face, 

how might I otherwise have reason to see Allah's face in yours?

The Plea

At this time, we waive reading of the charges, enter a plea of Not Guilty, 

and beg for the simple courtesy of house arrest, while we conduct forensic examination

of benefit to all circumstances hereinafter arising within the scope of this matter.
The defense has engaged extensive investigative support to speed things along.

Defendant is in fact burdened by time, 

so in no event can the Defense burden the Court's time,

Nor do we expect less than the Court's own sense of timely justice.

If the Crown Prosecutor permits, kindly help the Defense accomplish mens rea?

If the Crown Prosecution finds it helpful, we will plead right now over what we find on the issue of intention versus what actually happens.

Theory of the Defense

No crime violated. Over and out to the airport.

If Ashin Wirathu is a thief, he is a master thief.
We do not find anything missing.
A master thief occupies himself thus:

1) He breaks into houses,
2) Plunders wealth,
3) Commits banditry,
4) Ambushes highways.

He requires these five:

1) The uneven,
2) Thickets
3) Powerful people
4) He offers bribes,
5) He moves alone.

There are other elements, but kindly agree:
A master thief, like an evil monk, lives alone.
If Wirathu has sought to steal from a crowd
We take confidence he is no thief.

If Ashin Wirathu is a liar, he is a master liar.
We cannot find a single word he says is true.

When questions are asked
the lie is already formed before
the answer is even given.

If there be one word as a lie
Then all words are lies from the beginning.

As the liar only profits from true lies
why would a liar brand truth as lies
and lies as truth?

Allah knows all of man's sounds are false
and only Allah's sounds are true:
Man knows all of Allah's sounds are true
and only man's sounds are false

This is the instruction on the echo defense.

Ashin Wiraphu is suffering from symptoms of so-called dementia.
Allah uses those thus called to serve as Allah's guardians
for they are beyond any lies.
As Buddha's guardians anticipate the same circumstances,
So, too, do these guardians use those the same so-blessed,
for they are beyond lies.

Ah, yes... then.

This will require daylight on magic.


[pause]

Mens Rea

What is the intent of this apparitional speech?



In honor of the great Alan M. May, I have come to hell to help a Jewish lawyer argue a defense for a Buddhist in an Islamic Courthouse. He once engaged me to investigate a ghost. 

Sky Blue Manjushri

My mother had a vision of this deity before I was born. I have struggled to find this practice for many years. Perhaps it is lost. Perhaps it is only waiting for my absolutely polite silence, and complete attention.

Tribute to A Great Magician

This is the new King of Saud. Until yesterday, he was head of the Royal Saud Intelligence Service. He is also the greatest practitioner of Islamic King Magic on the face of the earth.

In tribute, a Buddhist magician's apprentice in Asia, just offered all of the Golden Triangle's opium and gold to the Golden Crescent.

He also offered up the entire Buddhist religion.

They say one of these men has dementia, and the other is demented. Nothing could be more untrue. All over the planet, magicians are singing, in an attempt to stop the bloodshed arising from religious speech.

Let no Buddhist, anywhere on this planet, harm a Muslim.

Not even in magic dreams.

Brief Silence

We are all hearing terrible screaming, because we are all screaming terribly.

The illusion of speech, under control of magicians.

Frequency echo in reverb under compression.

One cannot drown out the illusion.

One can, however, stop screaming.

By the illusion of silence is the illusion of screaming pacified.

The echo stops.

What remains is all sound.

I am Ashin Wirathu

Before the Triple Gem, With the Authority of Space:

In a fresh dream,
picked up and put down twice
the white dakini removed the binding
from my mouth with medicinal balm.

I did not interpret this as her invitation to comment.
I understood this as a command for confession!

This is the face of a sly magician.
Throughout future history,
Let it be associated with Tenpa Rinpoche,
For I am Ashin Wirathu,
In the three times.

I light a fire to feel the warmth
of my burning afflictions
as it is a very cold day in Hell
and I come again to comfort the King.

It is a wild ministration
if one obtains cold from heat
but that is precisely what happens
When a healer breaks a fever.

Screaming and fighting
with dakinis, using poisons
to obtain relief, this is
contrary in its own way.

Upon what do results in all cases depend?
I take Ashin Wirathu's sins
and give them my name,
For I am the same magician.

The Elaborate Speech Offering

A work of Buddhist magic operates in the three times, then evaporates. 

It can seem quite real.

"The Elaborate Speech Offering" is one such work of Buddhist magic.

With all respect to world opinion, this is not the face of Buddhist terror.

This is the sound of Buddhist magicians singing.