We offer a path forward that differs in values and practices than the mainstream. Any organization
that challenges the modern status quo will be at the center of controversy. If you walk this path,
you will enter that controversy.
Our deepest clarity must function right in the center of the deepest delusions of our world.
In devoting our lives to guiding our civilization out of omnicidal insanity,
we meet that insanity and fear by going right into it without losing our clarity and compassion.
This is the heart of our training.
Therefore, it’s important for us to know how you respond to various perspectives on our work
so we can assess your ability to see through delusion.
(Note that we do not know of anyone offering a coherent argument against our mission or
strategy. When people attack us, they do so with specious claims.)
In an era of witch hunts, we’re the witches.
The global machine is not a viable alternative to what we’re doing here. That’s why it fears us.
You will burn us at the stake. You will feed us to the lions. And then you will come to us in
remorse. And ask us to take over your civilization.
We have a viable path forward. It is thousands of years old. We are creating it as you read this
sentence. We need your help to give this path to the world. You must throw away the petty
concerns that feed the machine.
We can help you do that.
*Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
This place will not support you. Abandon hope and fear.*
This is a place where we cut through hope and fear. Attacks on this place come from hope and
fear. Hope and fear are petty. Wisdom and compassion are not petty. Please consider: the
opposite of compassion is pettiness. Harm is justified and valorized by petty aspirations.
We, here in this community, lost our lives by seeing that we are the ones who must do what must
be done. We do not wait for someone else to do it. We tried that, and lost faith, so we stepped
forward. This is the first blow to arrogance that we know for ourselves.
Then, our lives were taken from us. We saw that what must be done cannot in any way ever be done
by us. It certainly cannot be done by notions such as “myself” and “intelligence.” This is the
second blow to arrogance that we know for ourselves.
We tried to let go to a larger self or a larger intelligence. But we saw that absolutely no kind
of self, and no kind of intelligence, can ever do what must be done. This is the third blow to
arrogance that we know for ourselves, and this is how we take full responsibility for doing what
must be done.
There is a world beyond belief beyond the confines of your mind.
Centuries have passed since our society last accessed this world. The West has recoiled from
this world, and has built structures to hold this world at bay, and cut down everything that
reminded it of it. This has meant cutting down everything without exception.
The result is the global crisis. The global crisis is your call to the path of liberation.
That means that if you come here, your first step is to discover the Dharma for yourself.
Your second step is to realize it so clearly that you can design a version of the eternal Dharma
for this digital age.
Religions have always given rise to and been distributed through new telecommunications
technologies. Your third step is to become so clear that you can distribute the Dharma in the
midst of the worst delusions.
You’re probably not up for any of this. If you alone could do this, you would have. You need a
teacher and you need friends and you need courage.
You are entering this training to become a member of a team that really does this. If you want
to be on this team, you must be committed to making it the most important team that has ever
existed. If we can function with the same clarity in this era that the Buddhist sangha did at
the time of the Buddha, we can do this.
Pay attention to how you feel right now. If you are uncomfortable with this, you’ll hold us
back. If this is exciting to you regardless of whether you’re uncomfortable, you’re needed here.
People who train here often say, “Before I came here, no one had ever told me, ‘Yeah, this is
real, and it’s possible, and you can do it, and we can help you.’ That’s why I gave up
everything to enter this training.”
The price to enter monastic training is simple: everything you know and love. When you are
offered a way to give up everything you know and love, do you think, “No! Not yet! Only when I’m
ready!” or do you think, “Yes! Finally!”
We here are actually committed to saving life on Earth. Everything we do is explained by this.
If you don’t believe that anyone could really aspire to saving life on Earth, then you will
think we’re crazy. Naive. Malicious. That thought is based on a lifetime in a world that is
crazy, naive, malicious. It claims there is no other world. But there is another world. The
world we live in here is sane. Realistic. Compassionate.
We here are actually committed to realizing Buddhahood. Everything we do is explained by this.
If you don’t believe that anyone could really be committed to realizing Buddhahood, then you
will think we’re crazy. Naive. Malicious. That thought is based on a lifetime in a world that is
crazy, naive, malicious. It claims there is no other world. But there is another world. The
world we live in here is sane. Realistic. Compassionate.
There is a real path. Saving the world is just the first step.
