Buddha in 2020

It’s not hard to imagine what the assault of Mara would look like if Buddha was around today. It’s as if Mara’s strategy has evolved through the centuries to the point where he can attack from all sides at once. He screams loudly through his MSM megaphone, and you better be scared, concerned, worried, feeling helpless, despondent and depressed.

Although I haven’t studied much of Buddhism aside from Zen, the story about prince Siddhartha is familiar to me not only from Hermann Hesse’s novel, but also from Asaf Braverman’s material that uses this story to illustrate the points of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way teachings. The image of Assault of Mara fresco was featured in his video tutorial dealing with transformation, which states the following:

True identity is neither in Buddha’s discipline nor in Mara’s army; neither in the gods nor the demons; neither in affirmation nor in negation. True identity resides in the part that witnesses the struggle. We are what observes, not what we observe.

In fact, the whole tutorial series is packed with useful information that can make a huge difference for anyone who is struggling with too many dire images swirling in their minds. You don’t have to consider yourself a spiritual seeker to benefit from teachings of Fourth Way.

Anyhow, that is all that Mara can do – install scary images in our minds that torment us wherever we go and whatever we do. We don’t even need to be watching, reading or listening to the news to feel helpless and dejected about what the deep state plans for us. Just look at the following clip from American sitcom Married With Children that shows what mainstream “journalism” is all about (and we thought we get only fiction in TV shows and movies, but somehow the news tell us true story – think again!)

It’s impossible to know what’s really going on in the world, especially when we’re dealing with snippets of second hand information passed around social media as news. Sure, we have the general idea, but really in our experience there simply isn’t world “out there”, is there? It’s the ego that thinks it knows something…

Not all is doom and gloom, though. There are certainly many people who are prognosticating ascension, golden age, heaven on Earth, victory of the light, downfall of the cabal and all kinds of technologies for healing, free energy, even teleportation to be released to public. The skeptics call these folks hopium dealers and complain that hoping somebody will save us makes us weak and complacent and not ready to fight for our liberties. However, we manifest our own destinies based on suggestions of possibilities, intentions and focus, so if we only focus on bad news that we can’t even verify, that surely will only benefit the controllers, and not general public.

To be Buddha-like in 2020, we shall not pick sides, but keep returning back to the here-and-now where everything just IS without qualifications. Observing and not participating. This puts us in the eye of the storm instead of blowing us all over the news and opinions landscape of unsubstantiated beliefs. So if you must by all means be informed about what is going on and what others are saying about the future, then surely it’s better to listen to good news (duh!), because the predictive programming that we had through dystopian novels, movies and news is what brought us here in the first place, so if we want to change that, then focusing on transhumanism, totalitarian dictatorship and total loss of freedom and property is very counter-productive. Who cares what globalists want to do – you focus on what you want. If you’re in fear of fictional threats (C19, climate change), then you can’t even figure out what you want, and will think that globalists solutions are your only option. Otherwise, keep noticing that nothing is real except experiencing of the present moment. And if you are reading this, it means you still have internet access and power, and free time. Isn’t that something to be grateful for? Appreciating what is presently good brings more of it in the illusory future.