What follows is basically a download page, starting with several texts for meditation practice, but also some occasional downloads for friends or interested parties.
The Lyme Liturgy Commentary Series including Guidelines for practice have been posted on the blog and are available for download as one file on this page. (See: 0-learning-from-lyme-liturgy-series-consolidated-1Download below)
The Learning from Lyme Liturgy was written in 2017 to help alleviate chronic illness episodes; it is based on basic Buddhist principles and the author’s experience with various meditation texts over the years. It’s a little quirky since it was written for personal use but recently because of another episode or perhaps ‘long covid’ I found myself turning back to it and then spent some time going through its many sections on this blog since it was subject matter I was then dealing with on a daily basis (December-January 2022).
This page offers the two Liturgy texts, one longer and one shorter. I have since added two derivations, one for simple daily meditation and one a guru yoga for fellow students of my teacher who died in 1987.
I suggest you open the Lyme Liturgy text by selecting ‘Open in New Tab’ and then it will open as a new tab in your browser. The texts feature a computer-translated version in Spanish. If you are a Spanish language speaker, I suggest you copy the latest English version and then paste it into a Google Translate window and then print out that result. Once the editing process is entirely finished, there will be a final version with a final translation which a Spanish language speaker will go over to clean up.
The Long Form is designed for initial use. Once one is familiar with that both in terms of the general meaning and thrust as well as with the techniques then the quick and easy Brief form is all one needs as explained in the posts and Guidelines available below for download.
September 2024: a relative recently came down with Lyme which made me remember that I put together an almost-book in 2019 called ‘Learning from Lyme’. This morning I bundled all the chapters together into a single pdf file. It is not properly edited or laid out but some might find the content interesting and/or helpful:
Prior Text (before adding the longer consolidated document above):
Here are some texts I wrote, probably only of interest to those with experience of Buddhist meditation practices.
- The Daily Long Form:
2. The Daily Brief Form:
3. Commentary with Guidelines:
The above features commentary and general guidelines for how to use the previous texts in regular, ideally daily, meditation practice. I found this extremely helpful, though others’ mileage may vary. I also encourage those with extensive experience with sadhana practice to write their own for Lyme or any other chronic illness. A fascinating process…
The Short Liturgy of Vajra Being: Composed in February 2022 as a means of easily and quickly resting in the nature of mind for those already familiar with so doing.
The Guru Yoga of Undying Vajradhatu:
A similar text fashioned as a guru yoga for students of the late but ever-present Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché:
Assorted Downloads
With permission of William Horden:
I Ching Mathematics, King Wen version by William Horden:
Volume II Image and Number:
Pandemia – a small book of 108 haiku and quasi-haiku, most published on the blog in various scattered posts
I got interested in Admiral He’s voyages (not for the first time) having stumbled on a book by the controversial Menzies who went round the world many times as a submarine navigator and later Captain, so someone highly experience in marine navigation. This paper is interesting to me because it tells of how after Admiral He the Mandarin Class enacted a Maritime Ban which result in a century or two of rampant piracy up and down the Chinese coastal areas where most people live. My personal strong suspicion is that this unnatural pulling in by China created the expansion of the West in a climate of endemic piracy on the high seas. The current ‘World Hegemon’ run from within the (captured) USA is largely piratical in nature, but much of this, I suspect, is due to those stodgy, bureaucratic Mandarins of the mid 1400s in China. One should never let bureaucrats over-rule Kings. It ends badly. Like communism in Russia, which was basically a replacement of long-established Royalty model with middle and working class ‘work meeting’ model. Ghastly. Millions perished making the cure far, far worse than the disease, as so often happens when people who don’t know what they are doing take over.
A recent book by Peter Myers who has spent the fast few decades doing a deep dive into world conspiracies and such and in so doing dredges up lots of fascinating material from the past that one rarely finds collected in one place. Including articles by Marx, for example, in Chapter 11 that were not yet published on the internet such as his ‘The Russian Loan’.
Six Realms of Samsaric Existence, from When the Iron Bird Flies by Ashley Howes:
Basket Stories by John Bear MacNeil, a compendium of verbal and other accounts of the ancient still living Mi’maq tribe of Cape Breton and Nova Scotia and beyond, including their presence in Europe in the 11th century and the portolan harbour near Bordeaux.
When the Iron Bird Flies… an almost–published book Introducing Buddhist thought and tradition to a young reader. The publishing house, Crossroads-Herder – who also published a Pope – went under a few months before it was due to come out and the purchaser wasn’t interested. I also was never quite happy with the book because I felt the beginning and end didn’t quite fit together in that the beginning works for a younger – say intelligent teenager – reader, but the last half doesn’t quite, at least in my opinion. Anyway, here it is on the Download page so that if I want to reference a chapter here or there in correspondence or for an Article, I can.
From which an Origin Chapter:
Layers & Levels 1-12 for Grok:
A new Constitutional Charter for the USA, worked with Ptolemy AI. This was drafted after doing a comparative study of (mainly feudal) stable societies throughout history, though we zeroed in mainly in European and Chinese models both of which featured local autonomy, a feudal class system including local gentry, and some sort of central authority with limited powers to interfere with local functions. The US system has moved very far from a model like this even though it has stood the test of time in many eras and very different civilizations with different religions and world views.
Some items about WenWanGua to share in class:
First link is a pdf, second is an open source word doc .odt.
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