4 Tantric Seals

Dear reader, there are known to be 4 Tantric seals which are kind of untying certain knots that kept us bound in the cycle of action-memory-desire.

The first of these seals is called Karma Mudra. To open this seal one needs to be total in action what the Dakini pointed to Saraha when he hold the arrow and closed one of her eyes, the eye of logic. What does it mean to be total in action (and action is not only of the body but it is also thought and speech) is to not act as a means to an end but to utterly enjoy it in the present.

The second seal is called Gyan Mudra. This is related to knowing. The open this seal you need to let go of borrowed knowledge, beliefs, 2nd person perspective what people tell you or told you, parents, teachers. There are voices and voices that have piled up and one has to peel off the layers one by one to hear his inner voice. Everyone has a still, small voice that whispers to us, what to do, what not to do, what to say, what not to say. You can hear this voice if you get nudges about things that stay with you longer, days may pass, sometimes months, years and the depth of your being keeps calling you to what has meaning to you. What do you know for sure ? That you are and that you are someone who knows. And where you are ? Here. Here is not a place in space but your innermost Self.

The third seal is called Samaya Mudra. This is related to time. When you don't live in your memories and you don't live in your imagination or your dreams, the mind is free to be in the present moment. This moment. This moment, This moment, This moment. Experiences such as sensations, images, feelings, thoughts are all fleeting, they arise in consciousness, you experience them in consciousness and they subside in consciousness. When you don't cling to experience and you don't judge the experience you can just be with the experience in the present moment then subject and object merge. Language by its very nature is dualistic the knower and the known. When dealing with practical matters we tend to objectify experiences in space and time and this is useful for planing, for going to the market but as such in truth there is no boundary between the experiencer and that which is experienced (which is always sensations, images, feelings, thoughts) there is a stream of consciousness and you can flow with the stream consciously when you don't try to swim upstream. There is no past, no future. There is only Now. Whatever you experience is always Now, when you have a memory of the past or you dream it is also Now.

You are Here Now.

You are Here Now.

You are Here Now.

The fourth seal is called Maha Mudra. The great gesture, inner spaciousness. That which is called Shunyata and is often mistranslated as void. That's where Maitri (compassion) and Pragya (wisdom) meet. Loving-awareness. This is known in love. The path of wisdom is fulfilled in love. The path of love is fulfilled in wisdom. That's how you know you have reached on the path of wisdom if you have love. And on the path of love you know you have reached if you have wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge. Knowledge can be borrowed, understanding acquired and wisdom is always lived. Knowledge is what we learn and remember through recollection (what in Sanskrit is called Smrti). We read something, we think we got it, than we forget, and at a moment in time we might remember. Understanding goes a little deeper is an insight into a matter, we are involved, is not something borrowed. For example when we see the benefit of quitting a certain habit that is not beneficial but every once in a while we might get caught into forgetting about it, like turning off auto notifications on the phone when we do something and we don't want to get disturbed, but every once in a while, one might just forget about it, understanding is there but it's not permanent. When understanding is permanent, where there is non stop remembrance (what in Sanskrit is called Smaran) than the door to wisdom opens. As with Shamatha, through habituation, through repetition, the mind habituates to sitting calm but alert. The same mind that gets from one thought, to another thought and get carried upstream can Now watch thoughts like clouds, arising in consciousness, witnessing the thought in consciousness and letting the thoughts subside in consciousness. Wisdom arises when one moves from object referral, from seeing the witness is always Here and that which is witnessed (sensations, images, feelings, thoughts) as objects in consciousness to Self referral, to being the seeing and the seen. We are both. One Being, many forms. The innermost of the mind is the heart. When one recognizes the Self in a rock, or a plant, or an animal this recognition is called beauty. When one recognizes the Self in another human-being that is known as love. Love is always connected with appreciation (deep gratitude), attention (deep listening), affection (deep caring) and acceptance. Acceptance is drop judgment and comparison. Everyone is doing the best they can from their level of consciousness and whatever is that we know is the work of many friends on the path. In this way we don't boast with our accomplishments, when we give, we give without expecting anything in return, if thanks come that is ok, we can receive them graciously, if not, that doesn't need to bother us, we offer because we are love. Often times people beat themselves up because they are not a big boat like Jesus or Gautama or Krishna or Eckhart. We each have our measures. Some people can hold in their heart the whole world and some are called to love their family and tend to their friends and to the work they love and be of service in this way.

Hope that helps!

Love!

Choe Kor Due Chen - Teaching of the Noble Mahayana Sutra from Tibet House, New Delhi by Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul

May I become Buddha for the benefit of all my dear mother sentient beings. (x3)

 

Enthused by great compassion,

You taught the immaculate Dharma

To dispel all perverted views.

To you, the Buddha Gautama, I pay homage. (x3)

 

Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta

 

I go for refuge until I am enlightened

To the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.

By my accumulations of the practice of giving and so forth,

May I become a Buddha to benefit all sentient beings. (x3)

 

In dependent origination,

There is no ceasing, no arising,

No annihilation, no permanence,

No coming, no going,

No separateness and no sameness.

I prostrate to the consummate Buddha,

The supreme among all teachers,

The one who taught (this) peace,

Which is freed of elaborations.

I prostrate to the mothers of the Hearers, the Bodhisattvas and the Buddhas,

Which, through the knowledge of all, lead Hearers seeking pacification to complete peace,

Which, through the knowledge of paths, causes those helping migrators to achieve the aims of the world,

And through the possession of which, helps Subduers expound a variety of teachings.

The One who has transformed into the Reliable Guide, motivated by altruism to benefit sentient beings,

The Teacher, Sugata, and Protector, to You, I make prostrations.

The One who has eliminated the web of conceptualisations,

And is endowed with the divine bodies of the vast and the profound,

Who eternally shines forth the forever noble light rays,

To you [the Buddha] I make prostrations.

Inspired by wisdom and compassion

Today in the Buddha's presence

I generate the mind of full awakening

For the benefit of all sentient beings.

The Essence of the Dependent Origination Mantra

OM YE DHARMĀ HETU PRABHAVĀ

HETUM TEṢĀM TATHĀGATO HYAVADAT

TEṢĀM CHA YO NIRODHA

EVAM VĀDĪ MAHĀ ŚRAMANA YE SVĀHĀ (x3)

 

Meaning of the Tendrel Nyingpo Mantra

 

All phenomena arise from causes,

The causes are taught by the Tathagata,

The cessation of the causes, as well;

Is taught by the Great Seer.

Profound, peaceful, elaboration-free, clear light, and non-composite;

Such is the nectar-like Dharma I have discovered.

Finding no one to fathom this teaching,

In silence I will retire into the woods.

 

Beyond utterance, thought, and expression is the Perfection of Wisdom;

Which is unborn, unceased and has the nature of space,

It is the object of apprehension of self-realised wisdom;

To you, the mother of the Buddhas of the three times, I pay obeisance.

 

The Four Seals of Buddha's Teachings

 

All composite things are impermanent;

All contaminated things are of the nature of suffering;

All phenomena are of the nature of emptiness and selflessness;

Transcending sorrow is peace.

The Guru is the Buddha; the Guru is the Dharma;

Likewise, the Guru is the Sangha;

The Guru is the source of everything wholesome;

I go for refuge in the Guru.

By the sound of the vibrant drum of Dharma,

You liberate all beings of miseries.

I beseech You to kindly remain and give teachings

Until the end of the expanse of billions of aeons.

The Buddha does not wash the negativities of beings;

Nor does He remove their miseries by His hands;

His spiritual realisations are not transferred to them;

It is by teaching the truth of suchness, that beings are liberated.

With folded hands, I beseech the Buddhas

Of all directions

To shine the light of Dharma

For all bewildered in misery's gloom.

If you are attached to this life, you are not a spiritual practitioner;

If you are attached to samsara, you have no renunciation;

If you are attached to your own self-interest, you have no Bodhicitta;

If there is grasping, you do not have the view.

Praise to Shākyamuni Buddha

 

To the Founder, the Endowed Transcendent Destroyer, the One Gone Beyond, the Foe Destroyer, The Completely Perfected, Fully Awakened Being, Perfect in Knowledge and in Good Conduct, Sugata, Knower of the World, Supreme Guide of human beings to be tamed, Teacher of gods and human beings; to You, the Completely and Fully Awakened One, the Endowed Transcendent Destroyer, the Glorious Conqueror, the Subduer from the Shakya Clan, I prostrate, make offerings and go for refuge. (x3)

1. When, O Supreme amongst humans, You were born on this earth,

    You paced out seven strides,

    Then said, "I am supreme in this world."

    To You, who were wise then, I prostrate.

2. With pure bodies, form supremely pure;

    Wisdom ocean, like a golden mountain;

    Fame that blazes in the three worlds,

   Winner of the best - Lord, to You - I prostrate.

 

3. With the supreme signs, face like a spotless moon,

    Colour like gold - To You - I prostrate. 

    Dust-free like You, the three worlds are not.

    Incomparable Wise One - to You - I prostrate.

4. The Saviour having great compassion,

    The Founder having all understanding,

    The Field of Merit with qualities like a vast ocean -

    To You - the Tathagata, I prostrate.

5. The purity that frees one from attachment,

    The virtue that frees one from the lower realms,

    The one path, the sublime pure reality,

    To the Dharma that pacifies, I prostrate.

6. Those who are liberated and also show the path to liberation,

    The holy field qualified with realisations,

    Who are devoted to the moral precepts -

    To you, the Sangha, I prostrate.

7. Do not commit any non-virtuous actions,

    Perform only perfect virtuous actions,

    Subdue your mind thoroughly -

    This is the teaching of the Buddha.

8. A star, a visual aberration, a flame of a lamp,

   An illusion, a drop of dew, or a bubble,

   A dream, a flash of lightning, a cloud -

   See conditioned things as such!

9. Through these merits, may sentient beings attain the rank of all seeing,

    Subdue the foe of faults,

    And be delivered from samsara's ocean,

   Perturbed by the waves of ageing, sickness and death.

 

The Heart Sūtra

The Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra

 

I prostrate to the Arya Triple Gem.

Thus did I hear at one time. The Buddha was dwelling on Mass of Vultures Mountain in Rajagriha, together with a great community of monks and a great community of Bodhisattvas. At that time, the Buddha was absorbed in the concentration on the categories of phenomena called Profound Illumination. Also at that time, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Arya Avalokiteshvara looked upon the very practice of the profound illumination of wisdom and beheld those five aggregates also as empty of inherent nature.

Then, through the power of the Buddha, the Venerable Shariputra said this to the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Arya Avalokiteshvara: "How should any child of the lineage who wishes to practise the activity of the profound perfection of wisdom train?"

He said that and the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Arya Avalokiteshvara said this to the Venerable Śharadvatiputra: "Shariputra, any son of the lineage or daughter of the lineage who wishes to practise the activity of the profound perfection of wisdom should look upon it like this, correctly and repeatedly beholding those five aggregates also as empty of inherent nature.

Form is empty.

Emptiness is form.

Emptiness is not other than form.

Form is also not other than emptiness.

In the same way, feeling, discrimination, compositional factors and consciousness are empty. Shariputra, likewise, all phenomena are empty; without characteristic; unproduced, unceased; stainless, not without stain, not deficient, not fulfilled. Shariputra, therefore, in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no discrimination, no compositional factors, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no visual form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no object of touch and no phenomenon. There is no eye element and so on up to and including no mind element and no mental consciousness element. There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so on up to and including no ageing and death and no extinction of ageing and death. Similarly, there is no suffering, origination, cessation and path; there is no exalted wisdom, no attainment and also no non-attainment."

"Shariputra, therefore, because there is no attainment, Bodhisattvas rely on and dwell in the perfection of wisdom, the mind without obscuration, and thus without fear. Having completely passed beyond error, they reach the end-point of nirvana. All the Buddhas who dwell in the three times also manifestly, completely awaken to unsurpassable, perfect, complete Enlightenment in reliance on the perfection of wisdom.

Therefore, the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, the mantra of great knowledge, the unsurpassed mantra, the mantra equal to the unequalled, the mantra that thoroughly pacifies all suffering, should be known as truth, since it is not false.

The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is declared:

TADYATHĀ OṂ GATE GATE PĀRAGATE PĀRASAMGATE BODHI SVĀHĀ

Shariputra, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva should train in the profound perfection of wisdom like that."

Then the Buddha arose from that concentration and commended the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Arya Avalokiteshvara saying: "Well said, well said, son of the lineage, it is like that. It is like that. One should practise the profound perfection of wisdom just as you have indicated. Even the Tathagatas rejoice."

The Buddha having thus spoken, the Venerable Sharadvatiputra, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Arya Avalokiteshvara, those surrounding in their entirety, along with the world of gods, humans, asuras and gandharvas were overjoyed and highly praised that spoken by the Buddha.

TADYATHĀ (OṂ) GATE GATE PĀRAGATE PĀRASAMGATE BODHI SVĀHĀ (x7)

By the teachings of the three Supreme Jewels possessing the power of truth,

May inner and outer hindrances be transformed.

May they be dispelled. [Clap hands once.]

May they be non-existent. [Clap hands once.]

May they be pacified. [Clap hands once.]

May all negative forces opposed to the Dharma be completely pacified.

May the host of eighty thousand obstacles be pacified.

May we be separated from problems and conditions harmful to the Dharma.

May all enjoyments be in accord with the Dharma.

May auspiciousness and perfect happiness pervade this place now.

 

Eight Verses for Training the mind

Geshe Langri Thangpa

 

1. With a determination to achieve the highest aim

    For the benefit of all sentient beings,

    Which surpasses even the wish-fulfilling gem,

    May I hold them dear at all times.

2. Whenever I interact with someone,

    May I view myself as the lowest amongst all,

    And, from the very depths of my heart,

    Respectfully hold others as superior.

3. In all my deeds, may I probe into my mind,

    And as soon as mental and emotional afflictions arise,

    As they endanger myself and others,

    May I strongly confront them and avert them.

4. When I see beings of unpleasant character,

    And those oppressed by strong negativity and suffering,

    May I hold them dear - for they are rare to find -

    As if I have discovered a jewel treasure!

5. When others, out of jealousy,

    Treat me wrongly with abuse, slander and scorn,

   May I take upon myself the defeat

   And offer to others the victory.

6. When someone whom I have helped

    Or in whom I have placed great hopes,

    Mistreats me in extremely hurtful ways,

    May I regard him still as my precious teacher.

7. In brief, may I offer benefit and joy

    To all my mothers, both directly and indirectly,

    May I quietly take upon myself

    All hurts and pains of my mothers.

8. May all this remain undefiled

    By the stains of the eight mundane concerns,

    And may I, recognising all things as illusions,

    Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.

Lama Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Dedication Prayer, Verse 1

 

From my two collections, vast as space, that I have amassed

From working with effort at this practice for a great length of time,

May I become the chief leading Buddha for all those

Whose mind's wisdom eye is blinded by ignorance.

Short Mandala Offering

This ground, anointed with perfume, strewn with flowers,

Adorned with Mount Meru, the four continents, the sun and the moon,

I imagine this as a Buddhafield and offer it;

May all sentient beings enjoy this Pure Land.

The Four Dharmas of Venerable Gampopa

1. May I be blessed that my mind is directed towards the Dharma.

2. May I be blessed that my Dharma practice is on the proper path.

3. May I be blessed that the path is freed of flaws.

4. May I be blessed that the flaws are seen in the light of exalted wisdom.

The Four Dharmas of Venerable Bhikshu Mahasattva

1. Becoming utterly frustrated with the ignorance that grasps at true existence, please bless me to generate genuine renunciation, seeing all aspects of samsara as viciously repulsive.

2. Please bless me that my mindstream overflows with the precious Bodhicitta that cherishes others more than myself.

3. Please bless me to have an immaculate experience of the wisdom of emptiness that does not see even an atom of intrinsic reality, on the basis of understanding how things come into being by dependent origination through mere conditioning.

4. Please bless me that my mindstream overflows with the precious wisdom of the non-duality of bliss and emptiness.

IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYĀMĪ

The foundation of all good qualities

Lama Tsongkhapa

1. The foundation of all good qualities is the kind and perfect pure Guru;

   Correct devotion to him is the root of the path.

   By clearly seeing this and applying great effort,

   Please bless me to rely upon him with great respect.

2. Understanding that the precious freedom of this rebirth is found only once,

    Is greatly meaningful and is difficult to find again,

    Please bless me to generate the mind that unceasingly,

    Day and night, takes its essence.

3. This life is as impermanent as a water bubble;

    Remember how quickly it decays and death comes.

    After death, just like a shadow follows the body,

    The results of virtuous and non-virtuous karmas follow.

4. Finding firm and definite conviction in this,

    Please bless me always to be careful,

    To abandon even the slightest negativity

    And accomplish all virtuous deeds.

5. Samsaric splendours are unsatisfying and unreliable;

    Seeking them is the door to all suffering.

    Recognising these shortcomings,

    Please bless me to generate a strong wish for the bliss of liberation.

6. Led by this pure thought,

    Mindfulness, alertness and great caution arise.

    The root of the teachings is keeping the pratimoksha vows.

    Please bless me to accomplish this essential practice.

7. Just as I have fallen into the sea of samsara,

    So have all mother migratory beings.

    Please bless me to see this, train in supreme Bodhicitta,

    And bear the responsibility of freeing migratory beings.

8. Even if I develop Bodhicitta, but I don't practise the three types of morality,

    I will not achieve Enlightenment.

    With my clear recognition of this,

    Please bless me to practise the Bodhisattva vows with great energy.

9. Once I have pacified distractions to wrong objects

    And correctly analysed the meaning of reality,

    Please bless me to generate quickly within my mindstream,

    The unified path of calm abiding and special insight.

10. Having become a pure vessel by training in the general path,

    Please bless me to enter

    The holy gateway of the fortunate ones:

    The supreme Vajra vehicle.

11. At that time, the basis of accomplishing the two attainments

    Is keeping pure vows and samaya.

    As I have become firmly convinced of this,

    Please bless me to protect these vows and pledges like my life.

12. Then, having realised the importance of the two stages,

    The essence of Vajrayana,

    By practising with great energy, never giving up the four sessions,

    Please bless me to realise the teachings of the holy Guru.

13. Like that, may the Gurus who show the noble path

    And the spiritual friends who practise it have long lives.

    Please bless me to pacify completely,

    All outer and inner hindrances.

14. In all my lives, never separated from perfect Gurus,

    May I enjoy the magnificent Dharma.

    By completing the qualities of the stages and paths,

    May I quickly attain the state of Vajradhara.

Migtsema Mantra

You are Avalokiteshvara, great treasure of non-referential compassion,

And Manjushri, master of flawless wisdom,

As well as Vajrapani, destroyer of hordes of demons without exception,

Tsongkhapa, crown jewel of the sages of the Land of Snows,

Losang Dragpa, at your feet I make prostrations.

I go for refuge to the Triple Gem;
I confess the negativities individually;
I rejoice in the virtues of all the beings;
I hold the precious Buddhahood in my heart. (x3)

Gurus, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, please pay heed to me.
Just as the previous Buddhas
Have generated the mind of Bodhicitta,
And just as they successively dwelt
In the Bodhisattva practices,

Likewise, for the benefit of all sentient beings,
I will generate the mind of Bodhicitta,
And likewise, shall I, too,
Successively train in the Bodhisattva practices. (x3)

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra

"Dependent arising"

Homage to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas!

Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was in the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods, seated on the throne of Indra. With Him were great hearers such as the venerable Asvajit; Bodhisattva Mahasattvas such as noble Maitreya, noble Avalokitesvara and Vajrapani, who were adorned with immeasurable precious qualities; as well as various gods such as the great Brahma, who is the lord of the Saha world, Narayana, the great Isvara, Sakra, who is the chief of the gods, and Pancasikha, who is the king of the gandharvas.

On that occasion, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Avalokitesvara rose from his seat and, having draped his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt down with his right knee on the peak of Mount Meru. His palms together, he then bowed toward the Blessed One and addressed these words to him:

"Blessed One, these gods all really wish to build a stupa. Now that they are present in this entourage, please teach them the Dharma in such a way so that their merit of Brahma will increase, and the merit of the monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen will increase much more than that of all types of beings in the world of gods, maras, and Brahma, including renunciants and brahmins."

At this, the Blessed One spoke the verses of dependent arising:

OM YE DHARMĀ HETU PRABHAVĀ

HETUM TEṢĀM TATHĀGATO HYAVADAT

TEṢĀM CHA YO NIRODHA

EVAM VĀDĪ MAHĀ ŚRAMANA YE SVĀHĀ

 

All phenomena arise from causes,

The causes are taught by the Tathagata,

The cessation of the causes, as well;

Is taught by the Great Seer. 

"Avalokitesvara, it is like this: This dependent arising is the dharmakaya of all the Buddhas. One who sees dependent arising, sees the Tathagata. Avalokitesvara, if a faithful son or daughter of a noble family builds, in a remote place, a stupa the size of a gooseberry fruit, with a central pillar the size of a needle and a parasol the size of a flower of the bakula tree, and inserts this verse of dependent arising which is the dharmadhatu, he or she will generate the merit of Brahma. When such persons pass on from here and die, they will be reborn in the world of Brahma. When they pass on from there and die, they will be reborn with fortunes equaling those of the gods of the Pure Abodes."

After the Blessed One has spoken these words, the hearers, Bodhisattvas, the whole assembly, and the universe of gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas rejoiced and praised his teaching.

Dedication prayers

In the land encircled by snow mountains,

You are the source of all happiness and good;

All-powerful Chenrezig Tenzin Gyatso,

Please remain until samsara ends.

Just as the brave Manjushri, and Samantabhadra too,

Realised things as they are,

Also I dedicate all these merits in the best way,

That I may follow their perfect example.

I dedicate all these roots of virtue

With the dedication praised as the best

By all the Buddhas who appeared in the three times,

So that I might perform the noble Bodhisattva's deeds.

 

Jangchup semchok rinpoche

Ma-khay pa nam khayghur chik

Khyapa nyam-pa may-pa yang

Gong nay gong dhu phelvar shok.

 

May the supreme Bodhicitta

That has not arisen, arise and grow,

And may that which has arisen not diminish

But increase forever more.

As long as space remains,

As long as sentient beings remain,

Until then, may I too remain

To dispel the miseries of the world.

I dedicate the merit thus gathered,

Towards the realisation of the deeds and the prayers,

Of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the three times,

And to the upholding of the Dharma of teaching and realisation.

May I, in all lives, through the force of this merit,

Never separate from the four wheels of the Mahayana vehicle,

And accomplish all the stages of the path,

Renunciation, Bodhicitta, perfect view and the two stages.

 

May sentient beings again and again

Make offerings to all the Buddhas,

And may they constantly be joyful

With the inconceivable bliss of the Buddhas.

 

With the wish to free all beings,

I shall always go for refuge

To the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

Until I reach full Enlightenment.

 

Due to the merits of these virtuous actions,

May I quickly attain the state of a Guru-Buddha

And lead all beings, without exception,

Into that enlightened state.

 

"The whore" and "The theologian" models of success in christian orthodoxy

Marriage as such as a lifelong commitment would in my humble opinion benefit from a certain preparation of the soon to be husband and wife, which would prepare the husband to be a lifelong provider for the wife and the wife to appreciate the love of the husband and receive graciously what he has to offer.

Because the making of a man that would be a lifetime husband is a process that is not entirely deterministic, depending on the family's merits, upbringing, tutors and willingness which is a delicate brew that has to come together just right. The way to go about this was to teach boys at home, that is what jews would do, appoint a Guru like the Hindus or a Pir like the Muslims and through the spiritual process establish the boy on the spiritual path that eventually leads to union with God and to becoming a man which can sustain a lifelong marriage.

Christianity instead thought no such engagement as a requirement and the end result is what makes the subject of this article.

The models are truly amazing adaptations of life, what would be called in spiritual jargon as wisdom.

Both "The theologian" and "The whore" are devote Christians and real life people who I would not name.

"The theologian" has in fact finished theology and law studies. In university he has heard what Christianity distilled in 2000 years as the wisdom to instill in the theologians: take good care what woman you marry with, repeated ad nauseam to be crystalized in the memory and hopefully consciousness of the soon to be theologians. With law studies the success model of Christianity is born "The theologian".

The wisdom pays and "The theologian" makes money from cases of the plenty divorces available on the market (most probably most of them from sex outside it), of the people who weren't lucky to hear the distilled gist of 2000 years of Christianity. As a hobby "The theologian" discusses theology with consumers of spiritual entertainment on social networks.

"The whore", a divorced woman who needed to raise her kid is essentially complementary to "The Theologian", she needs affection, sexual intimacy and fun. She gets to the people who can provide (you can guess) and while it pays she enjoys it and when the relationship is not to her fancy as is not offering what she needs it keeps the men at bay by emasculating them and threatening them to having engaged into prostitution because, you see they were men and offered to pay for a dinner, or a trip.

The common thread of both the success models is the environment that makes them possible: marriage taken easy by both the clergy and society at large, sex as a taboo which is clearly needed whether one is married or not and which together produce and sustain the two success models "The Theologian' and "The Whore".

Relationships are made in heaven but are put together by people

After hearing spiritual teachers for a while I came to realize that spiritual people are not as such so much interested in other people who lead a happy life with a strong foundation and which are empowered in their life, leading successful family, business and societal ties but in people who they say want very much to help to get past the illusion of their conditioned mind.

Many times I got into hearing from the teachings of having some kind of spiritual practice which can be watching the breath, mantra or prayer which more often than not is an established way of getting on the spiritual journey, a kind of mode de vie.

Now if one establishes such a mode de vie in what is called the second half of life, so to speak, naturally as I understand it through experience to become an established way of life, one needs to spend just as much as one has cultivated in the first part of life, so to speak ... It's empowering to know that you would get through but rarely is this ever talked into a practical approach to establishing it but rather comes after trial and error, falling and raising oneself up again and again which adds to the determination but it also can harden oneself in the relationship with another which he finds he needs to forgive because of kinship of brotherly and sisterly ties and the often reality experienced where the brother or sister expects to meet you not where you are on the path but as a fully realized Being, a Jesus, a Krishna, a Buddha and expecting nothing short of that.

The relationships especially when they have been formed in the constraints imposed by society and established religion but without the necessary tools get one into co-creating with God from day one of the relationship while he or she finds himself in spiritual infancy without the spiritual tools needed to co-create with God from day two onward ... and find themselves acquainted more often than not with the spiritual practices after a failed relationship, shaky societal ties and so on, needing not only to work in much harder conditions but also on multiple fronts ... 

Sometimes it is true that people have found miraculous unfolding to their lives allowing Presence to teach through them and work out the areas of life on strong foundations.

A story of primacy: jews,christians, muslims

How the story of primacy is playing with our free will is related to the very idea of primacy ...

Free will is what every human-being has to make the choices and live life as he sees fit and free his soul or continue to a new incarnation to try the leson once more.

When one meets spiritual teachings after passing through common education one gets acquainted with the principle of free will. Nowhere before that, even so theoretically and even practically possible to bypass common compulsory education is free will spoken of. So we can infer that compulsory education doesn't want people to know that they do in fact have free will and thus try to hide that behind a veil of institutionalized ignorance that is so taboo that rarely even spiritual teachers do speak of it, because of the free will that is that cannot be stepped over.

But not all are subject to that kind of education, jewish boys in orthodox families have long not been involved in common education and have been taught at home. That very thing is related to the idea of primacy, that is in this context, there is a chosen people by God who is to teach others about God. When Jesus came people which were not jewish or descendants of Abraham that he fathered with Keturah to which he in fact gave spiritual tools and with that obviously also the knowledge of God, were gropping in ignorance waiting for the jews to teach them, and Saint Paul relates that he did the work entrusted to him by Jesus and which jews were postponing at that time.

Later still Muhammad instills in muslims the faith that jews are people of the Book just like christians but that no longer chosen as such but muslims are.

Bypassing the outer identification with the letter of the faith, all people as such can remember who they are in essence but how that plays on the level of form in the way that societies and communities evolved around organized religion is a different matter altogether, albeit tied to Being.

Moving to christianity there are many ways in which primacy undermined the Holy words of Jesus which taught all of the Holy Trinity in which all human-beings are sons of God and partake on a joyful feast by asking the Holy Spirit to bless their lives. As christianity became the main religion of the Roman empire, teachings of reincarnation have been removed from the official doctrine and instead the emperors, together with the clergy posed as the primary link between people and God, creating just as in Hinduism or Judaism a priestly and ruling elite that taught the masses something compulsory in order to rule them more easily while the chosen kept the esoteric knowledge hidden, such as Kabbalah, Vedanta (the mantras were only recently made available when one successor haven't been born in the Brahmin caste and thus not allowed to be a priest in one of the Maths was entrusted the mission to spread the wisdom to the masses).

So the basis is that in order to keep God's knowledge pure the one who felt elect for a holy mission have often chosen to keep the people who were not chosen in ignorance and exploit them in a 'brothery' way selling them effectively the story of free will.

With the development of technology, esoteric (that is secret) knowledge have been made available to the masses in doses according to the capacity of each while the wall separating the one who feel are elect is being carried further by means of technology aiming to have the people linked 24/7 on virtual classes which teach them.

Getting past the seals of action and knowledge is necessary to step into the Now and from Now into Awareness where Love can manifest also with emotion and not only with the thoughts linked to technology ...