June 26, 2025

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 the mark of discipline and the truly enlightened man. Verily, to uphold the celestial order and to seek one's own place in the celestial order and to operate with the fullest intention of the righteous in mind is to know discipline from the willing chaos of the modern world, where everything goes and everything is tolerated in the name of freedom and individualism, and where the beast of man's anti-transfiguration rules supreme over the hedonistic hordes governed by the need for more material and short term pleasure – such is the way of the modern world and the subsequent atrophy of discipline and morals.

    To move about in the world in harmony with the celestial order, and to know one's place in the the societal fabric is indeed to know home, but in the modern world, the parochial and the earthly has been replaced with first nationalism and later cosmopolitanism, and as a result men know no longer of their homes and their place in the world. Verily, the beast has no home, he has no place in the world, he is the actor in perpetual motion, in search for ever more reasons and causes to attach himself to, so that he can fill his existence with ever more material quantities, all in order to replace his lost sense of the true qualities in life, for the beast lives only for the moment and his own individual lifetime, for him there is no connection to the fabric of society, the past and the future, he exists only for his own selfish reasons – he is indeed the liberal man. All justifications for action, for movement and for cause in the modern world are in the end derived from the humanist axiom, that in man's natural state—the human animal, homo sapiens sapiens—man is the rational actor, free to act on every thought derived from his unique ability to reason, and only motivated by the "greater good" of the improvement of man's material circumstances.

A Tibetan illustration of Subhuti (須菩提)

    Modern man only lives for the material circumstance, indeed he only lives for the moment here on Earth; he has made himself illiterate and unknowing of the sacred qualities of life and of existence by limiting himself to the material. Modern man knows of no other dimension than the material, and as such he has incarcerated himself and forced his transition into the beast – for only the beast may survive in the material domain, void of sacred qualities and sacred wisdom. Discipline therefore, has been reduced to the quantity of modern man's actions, not the quality of his actions as they pertain to the celestial order and his place therein, this is the sign of modern times – the Kali Yuga and its imminent and chaotic close. Discipline in its true meaning, the application of the moral law and the imposition of the celestial order on the Earth has almost completely lost its meaning as the very concept of discipline necessarily has degenerated into complete nonsense as the need for tolerance and indiscriminate acceptance of sin grows larger with the growing apatite of the beast. Everything in modern times is justified by the degeneration of man and the decay of discipline, for no law based on the balance of the celestial scales would be based on the beastly mentality and the ways of the man seeking short term pleasures, thus rendering the entirety of the modern legal enterprise moot in the transcendental arena – for modern man has no connection to the moral order of the universe. Steer clear of sin and contamination, do not allow the humanist axiom to stand victorious in that howling wind that will leave behind the Earth void of sentient life after the Armageddon. Discipline is about one thing and one thing only: the acquisition of skillful means – in the loving embrace of the transcendental risen above the Earth and the material. Do not transform into the beast – resist all temptation and embrace purity!

Reginald Drax – June 26, 2025.