Vital Aims
To liberate ourselves and others from delusion, oppression and needless suffering.
To abandon and resist greed, hatred, ignorance, apathy and arrogance.
To generate clear awareness and truthful insight into the nature of life and death.
To fully uncover our humanity and actualize our whole potential.

Critical Common Imperatives
To prevent systemic violence, coercion and needless killing.
To prevent corruption and over-consumption.
To prevent abuse of human dignity and social exploitation.
To prevent hypocrisy and the spread of lies.
To prevent pollution and senseless destruction of natural habitat.

Innate Means of Liberation
Amity and generosity
Integrity and honesty
Serenity and stability
Vitality and tenacity
Clarity and equanimity
Simplicity and radical wisdom

The Essence of Radical Wisdom
The heart of human compassion, stirred by profound and timeless wisdom, sees into all aspects of human nature and finds them essentially dream-like. With this insight, anguish and despair are overcome.

Reality beyond appearances is vast emptiness, emptiness is transient reality, reality is not different from unfathomable emptiness, and emptiness is not different from manifest reality. Form, sensation, perception, mental reaction, and consciousness are intrinsically like this.

All things are illusory like a dream; not created or destroyed, defiled or pure, gained or lost. Therefore, in emptiness there is no self that is separate from form, sensation, perception, mental reaction or consciousness; no self-identification with eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no self that is independent of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, or thought; no self who is seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching or thinking; no ignorance, cause and effect or end of ignorance, cause and effect; no aging and death or ending of aging and death; no suffering, no origination of suffering, no end of suffering or ways that lead from suffering; nothing to grasp or cling to, no individual attainment,.

With no individual attainment, human beings, guided and empowered by radical wisdom, lose all of their doubts and obsessions. Having no obstacles for their minds, they overcome fear and hesitation, liberating themselves entirely from illusion, and experience genuine awakening and wonderful clarity. All intimately awakened human beings in the past, present, and future, relying intuitively on radical wisdom, realize radical means and actualize complete and universal liberation.

[ 13 July 2005: Message edited by: Ecosocialist Libertarian ]

[ 27 June 2005: Message edited by: forum observer ]

Yes and how?

“Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita perceived that all five skandas in their own being were empty and was saved from all suffering. O Sariputra, all dharmas are marked by emptiness…..”

There may be reasons to continue to use language that is outside of our usual experience, words such as skandas and dharmas. They are words free of conventional associations and encourage us to create new patterns in our minds.

There may also be reasons to take the teachings and find new ways to express them.

eidted for shortness

[ 27 June 2005: Message edited by: forum observer ]