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% Gospel of Muflax
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Foreword
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Every mystic needs their own gospel. You can't just go around, claiming "Those
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dudes pretty much said it all." and expect to be taken seriously. You have to
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not just invent your own terms, mythology and techniques, you also need your own
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Holy Texts about Everything One Needs To Know. At the very least, write some
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~~fanfic~~ new revelations to some other text. But then it better have some
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dragons, angels or immortals in it!
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So, here is mine. Even with added confusing commentary! Further revelations will
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be added as The One That Knows Shit (TOKSHI, 特使) teaches me more.
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Gospel of Muflax
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Thus have I heard.
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1. TOKSHI said, nothing lasts.[^anicca] If you watch closely, things keep on
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wobbling away, even really sticky ones.
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1. TOKSHI said, don't identify with things. Those that think they are things,
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become things. Those that don't think they are things, aren't bogged down by
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all the silly associations.[^anatta]
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1. TOKSHI said, now is good, tomorrow never good enough.
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1. TOKSHI said, don't force it. Things have a way of getting done if you don't
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try to get them done while getting them done.[^gtd]
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1. TOKSHI said, do whatever you want to do because that's what you're gonna do
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anyway. But try being nice sometimes?
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1. TOKSHI said, those that know the Law, will follow it. Those that say they
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know the Law, will break It. But they will get laid.[^unity]
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1. TOKSHI said, it's worse than you think. The Thing That Makes Things Happen
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According To Plan lost The Plan, but It is pretty good at faking
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it.
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1. TOKSHI said, the universe doesn't care about you. Like, at all.[^emptiness]
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1. TOKSHI said, if you try hard, you can do some wicked shit with your mind.
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Play around some time.
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1. TOKSHI said, everything is better with practice. Try it some more, you will
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get good at it, promise. This includes dying.
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1. TOKSHI said, don't wish for things because then you will get exactly what
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you wished for and it will totally suck and you will look stupid.[^wish]
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1. TOKSHI said, you have a brain the size of a coconut. You think that's just
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the right size to understand everything? Are you sure about that?
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1. TOKSHI said, there are only two correct answers to the question "What is
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this?"[^whatisthis] - the first, "It's not what you think it is."; the
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second, "Let me show you!".
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1. TOKSHI said, every strength is a weakness. Be empty, be invincible.
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1. TOKSHI said, don't be happy.
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[^anatta]:
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Try "finding yourself" some time. But don't do a half-assed job and stop
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with the first thing that comes up. Be thorough. Allow yourself to be
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genuinely surprised. If it makes sense right away, then it is most
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definitely wrong.
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A koan. One day, a monk went to TOKSHI and said, "Holy One, my mind has no
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peace as yet. Please, put it to rest.". TOKSHI quoted,
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> Huike said, "Your disciple's mind has no peace as yet. Master, please, put
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> it to rest.". Bodhidharma said, "Bring me your mind, and I will put it to
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> rest.". Huike said, "I have searched for my mind, but I cannot find it.".
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> Bodhidharma said, "I have completely put it to rest for you.".
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The monk searched and returned. "Holy One, I have searched for my mind and
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found it. Please, put it to rest now.". Upon hearing this, TOKSHI died.
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[^anicca]:
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When you watch yourself watching yourself, you will occassionally catch
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yourself not watching yourself. Really. Try it. (Unfortunatly, it takes a
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lot of practice to get there. The problem is developing a strong enough
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concentration and to get rid of many mental filters until you can direct
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your attention at your own attention. The rest falls into place in no time.)
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You see, even the elementary metaphysics of the universe are too lazy to put
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in full effort all the time. But hey, being All There Is can be exhausting
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sometimes. You'd cut corners, too.
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[^gtd]:
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Imagine the world being run by the most spiteful of all Demons. Whatever you
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plan, it will prevent. Whatever you want, it will take away. Whatever you
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want to avoid, it will force on you. But if you stop making any plans, it
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can't do anything anymore. The opposite of zero is still zero.
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This is when the Tao can take over. The Tao is a lot nicer than the Demon.
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So, stop making plans. And imagining demons. What are you, 5?
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[^unity]:
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Bullshitting others and yourself is a crucial skill in evolution. Even
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bacteria fake hard work while slacking off. Saying what is right, but
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doing what is convenient is the Ultimate Shortcut.
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[^emptiness]:
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This place is Limbo. It is utterly devoid of Meaning, of Truth, of Value, of
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God, of Purpose or of Choice. You are not even a prisoner or a slave because
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there is no Master, no Punishment, no Torment and no Guilt.
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Nothing you, or any else, does, matters. Understanding is irrelevant and
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temporary. Ignorance always takes over, no Structure lasts, everything is
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ground down eventually. There is no escape, but also no meaning to be had in
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suffering or revolution because there is no one watching, nothing to escape
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into and no transformation to be achieved. All we will ever do will be
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undone.
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It is the worst of all Hells because it uses consciousness against itself.
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If there were active punishment, active torment, any plan at all, we could
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rebel. We could take a stand. If there were any purpose, Freedom would be
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possible.
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It is the best of all Heavens because it never lasts, never allows us to
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grasp it, never fulfills. It gives us constant struggle, doomed to failure,
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and in it, we strive.
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It is just on the brink of emptiness, just full enough that our minds can
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make out Forms and Shadows, but not enough for them to hold onto. All
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suffering is self-inflicted by delusion, but knowledge is impossible, and
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delusion becomes inevitable.
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> Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a mother. The tears
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> you have shed over the death of a mother while transmigrating and
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> wandering this long, long time - crying and weeping from being joined with
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> what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing - are greater
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> than the water in the four great oceans.
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> Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a father, the death of
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> a brother, the death of a sister, the death of a son, the death of a
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> daughter, loss with regard to relatives, loss with regard to wealth, loss
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> with regard to disease. The tears you have shed over loss with regard to
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> disease while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time - crying and
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> weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from
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> what is pleasing - are greater than the water in the four great oceans.
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> Why is that? From an inconstruable beginning. A beginning point is not
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> evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are
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> transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress,
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> experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries - enough to
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> become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become
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> dispassionate, enough to be released.
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>
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> -- Buddha, Assu Sutta
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This world is exactly as I would have designed it. Have fun.
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[^wish]:
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A long time ago, a young monk had a clear vision of The Perfect Life,
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including a place to life and a girl to be with. Then he moved to that
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place and met the girl and he was really unhappy. Turned out, he didn't
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actually like being there and the girl was kinda boring and just as full of
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fear and uncertainty as the monk, so what good is she, really?
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[^whatisthis]:
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A koan.
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After a lesson, TOKSHI would often meet with individual students in private
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and allow them to ask any question about things they didn't understand. One
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day, an especially curious monk hid behind a curtain and listened to the
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conversations. This day, three students came.
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The first student asked TOKSHI, "Holy One, you have told us about God. I
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don't know what God is. Can you tell me?", and TOKSHI answered, "It's not
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what you think it is. Let me show you!", upon which TOKSHI would make the
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student see God.
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The second student asked TOKSHI, "Holy One, you mentioned rebirth. What is
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this?", and TOKSHI answered, "It's not what you think it is. Let me show
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you!", upon which TOKSHI would make the student be reborn.
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The third student asked TOKSHI, "Holy One, what is liberation?", and TOKSHI
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answered, "It's not what you think it is. Let me show you!", upon which
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TOKSHI would make the student free.
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Upon hearing TOKSHI's three answers, the monk was enlightened.
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