Ethereal Insights

Four-armed Chenrezig ( अवलोकितस्वर ), Avalokiteshvara Tuesday: My views on the nature of reality – July 1, 2025 The world as the material expression of reality is the most salient and manifest form of the creation, for it makes itself apparent without effort, even to the man with no sight, and indeed the material nature of the world can be quite overwhelming and intoxicating to the man of mortal flesh and imperfect intent , the man of the primordial, the man of us all without perfection and high quality . This has prompted man, in his imperfect state , to seek profound insight into the world, for the betterment of himself, his society , and his prodigy, but this insight, while still converging around the source, is being challenged in the material game of politics and short term gain from all angles, thus reducing the sight of modern man – indeed the more modern man has become convinced of his own high status, the idolatry of modern man, among the many and growing material stations of...

Tibetan Depiction of Kurukulla ( डाकिनी ) as Dakini Monday: My views on Bodhicitta – June 30, 2025 Working towards enlightenment through compassion  and actions that benefit all sentient life – is the highest mode of being in the material domain, it is what sets the nobleman apart from the plebeian populist horde of the beast, operating only for its own benefit, at the expense of the earthly qualities inherent to life under the Sun, and acting under the ever promiscuous animalistic paradigm of the liberated man  – the man that is governed by his " reason " and that can improve himself by ever more material gain but in the end never actually solve what he regards as his adverse material circumstances. Verily, life on Earth is bound by the Dharma, the celestial order, and the intent to put the scales of the Dharma into proper balance is indeed to seek enlightenment and to walk towards the source, and to operate in the material domain with the intention of benefiting ...

Tibetan thangka of the Chemchok Heruka ( ཆེ་མཆོག་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་ ) Sunday: My views on the human condition – June 29, 2025 The human condition, quite apart from the condition of other sentient life in the universe, is a peculiar one, because man finds himself at the center of a contradiction between nature and nurture: nature being the qualitative aspect of his being shaped by time and true hardship, just like any other life; and nurture being the quantitative aspect of his will, his ability to shape the world after his image so that he may improve the material circumstances, as opposed to accepting the material circumstances he finds himself in. As a result, man is a being of unusually maladjusted nature , or really he is a being without natural tendencies inline with his surrounding nature.  Indeed for any other sentient life, it would be quite impossible to live and sustain more life without living in complete harmony with nature – to live clearly within the boundaries of the celestial...

Six-Armed Mahakala ( महाकाल ), Likir Gompa, Ladakh Saturday: My views on Natural law – June 28, 2025 Certain conditions, qualities, and patterns make themselves apparent across time and cultures – they can be summed up as the Natural law or just natural laws and in their application they can be thought of as an attempt by man to put himself closer to the celestial order, often by invoking God and the source. The Natural law is therefore the closest thing to universality and in turn the source, or the transcendent, it is in other words: the attempt to describe the seemingly invariable equilibrium of the universe that is expressed as a sense of justice by human beings, and justice is surely a necessary prerequisite for any civilization and anything of the material that can be described as belonging in part to the transcendental. Natural laws are not derived merely from what can be considered egalitarian or tolerant : natural laws are derived from the highest from of objective reasoning...

Wassily Kandinsky - Sky Blue, 1940 Friday: My views on freedom – June 27, 2025 In the material pursuit, there is no freedom to be found, for freedom is not a quality present in the material domain – freedom exists firmly outside the material domain and cannot be achieved within the material constraints of the modern world or indeed within any part of that domain. Freedom is a quality much more of the mind; the man that has achieved true freedom is the truly liberated man, he is the anti-liberal man, for he requires no perpetual improvement of his material circumstances, instead he accepts the constraints of the material word and walks towards the light and seeks out the transcendental within the creation – he is the truly enlightened man, the nobleman. The human condition is nothing to strive for; the human condition is something to escape from, and that requires dedication and harsh judgement, none of this liberal tolerance based on the fundamentally false humanist axiom . There is n...

Bodhisattva ( बोधिसत्त्व ) as the personification of Prajnaparamita ( प्रज्ञापारमिता ) Thursday: My views on discipline – June 26, 2025 The acquisition of skillful means requires of every man: to seeks the light, to ascend the material domain, and to earn true discipline based on the aversion to all material, including those needs that modern man has labeled natural; for discipline is the rejection, in its entirety, of animal nature – discipline is the ability to clearly steer away from temptation and sin and transcend the human condition – discipline is the mark of the nobleman. Discipline is the antithesis to the beast, for discipline requires the transfiguration of man into the nobleman, the transcendent being on Earth, without any need for materialism or its causes, such as egalitarianism and nationalism – to seek the good in all aspects of existence and to show great compassion to the particular fate of every sentient being, based on the call to uphold the celestial order, is th...

Ravana ( रावण ) carries Sita ( सीता ) on his shoulders Wednesday: My views on the hubris of modern man – June 25, 2025 Materialism and man's ever more creative ways of reconstituting and re-configuring the material in both the body and spirit has enabled man to create more of the good in the material for himself and his prodigy, but none of this has served to humble modern man, instead it has served as justification for the liberal and degenerate ways of modern man, indeed it has paved the way for the transformation of man into the beast – this has had dire consequences for man's ability to ascend the material and enter the transcendental plane. Modern man is not driven by the light—he is not seeking the transcendental, he is driven by short term gain and the hedonistic pleasure of the invisible man atop of the world, the victorious man of the reasoned mind —for modern man is seeking the material as a substitute for the profound insight that he is lacking, but the material i...

Durga  ( दुर्गा )  riding her lion Tuesday: My views on tolerance – June 24, 2025 In modern times it is fancy to be tolerant, and by tolerant I mean: to show indiscriminate acceptance of everything and everyone, regardless of their status and their actions, without rendering public judgement; and without upholding that which is right – the celestial order. Tolerance is part of the liberal paradigm  of "every man has the right to demand ultimate liberation from all material impositions adverse to him or not to his liking", and thus it has become unacceptable to uphold the moral order, for every man is his own island and every man has the right to make enormous and preposterous claims against the world – and anything that challenges those claims must be removed for the benefit of the liberal man and his all knowing material wisdom. To be deviant or to exist in a state of dissonance, compared to the societal body  and the moral order, is no longer considered something ...

Carolingian Evangelist portrait from the Codex Aureus of Lorsch Monday: My views on society – June 23, 2025 The societal fabric is the canvass of the human story, it is the product of destiny and of the sanguine flow of providence , and as such society is the central feature of the human context or the human condition really – without society there is no human story to tell and there is no humanity to be a part of. Fate has ordained that any given society should be shaped by its own particular and parochial peculiarities, based on the material circumstances of the region that the given society came out of, and as such the source—or the transcendent values as manifest in the world, or as they make themselves apparent in that particular society—becomes salient at different points across different societies, but they all converge around the source and the all – this is the essence of the parochial and the particular and these qualities shape the fabric of society and they also enable eac...

Carlos de Haes — Los picos de Europa Sunday: My views on the nature of providence – June 22, 2025 In modern times, man has taken it upon himself to put the world right, or to put the scales of the celestial order into balance, without the belief in the celestial order in the first place, and this has lead to many confusions culminating in mans complete transformation into the beast— the anti-transfiguration into the beast , the beast of the material only—at the center of the worlds conscience, and the complete idolatry in his own image and the belief in his image as the highest form of being. This world, the world of the beast, is a desolate place not bound to the moral order, floating aimlessly like a plankton in a nihilistic and uncaring sea of entropy , a world not anchored to the sacred ways that made the canvass of the societal fabric possible in the first place and that stretches out far beyond the life of the individual man of the liberal mind , which has lead invariably to ...

Jahangir ( جهانگیر ) hunting with a falcon Saturday: My views on the nature of masculinity – June 21, 2025 Masculinity is the force in perpetual motion, seeking the source and putting the celestial scales into balance and thus bringing light onto the Earth in the form of the ascendant law above man. Masculinity seeks the source in the material, but only the feminine can bring out the source in the material, for at every part in the fabric of society the source makes itself manifest in the feminine form. Masculinity works towards the celestial order, because masculinity is a force shaped by nature and hardened by the material impositions adverse to the human condition apparent in nature, and this drives men towards greater lengths, always with the earnest intention to keep the balance of the celestial scales and improve the material circumstances for himself and his prodigy by keeping that balance. The material domain is the masculine realm, but only insofar as it is the necessary mediu...

Martha Darley Mutrie, Orchids, 1865 Friday: My views on quality – June 20, 2025 The antithesis to the modern world and the modern way of doing things: the ideological and the schematic way of the program, the robot, and the corporation – is the cultivation of true quality. Every aspect of quality bears the mark of cultivation and hard work, for it is only through consistent hard work beyond the time of any individual lifetime and any individual lust and need for materialism that quality is cultivated – quality is the aspects of materialism that brings with them transcendence, for they are inherently good and noble, and represents the celestial order and Gods love for his creation; within quality exists at the core some part of the source and every human soul. Quality is a part of the landscape, the fabric of society, it has a history, a lineage, and it has always been there, it is a timeless quantity that can't be clearly defined by modern ways of science, but nonetheless makes its...