The Ferryman’s End

The Buddha’s Parinirvana

The ferryman’s craft is his skill (Sanskrit: dharma). His skill is to create and transmit difference.

For: ‘Only difference makes a difference’.

The difference he transmits (read: puts across) is his unique contribution to everyday life, and by extension to the whole life (or creation) process.

Those who transmit difference are (ferrymen). Those who don’t, ain’t.

The ferryman’s craft sinks and he dies when his capacity to create difference diminishes. Remaining the same (i.e. non-different) he (is compressed out and) cannot touch (the shore = the other) and be touched. Unable to touch he fails to become real and identifiable, consequently ceases to be.

Losing touch, i.e. disconnection is inevitable (as the Sakya Buddha rightly observed but did not fully understand). That’s because touch (i.e. contact) is momentary (i.e. quantised ≈ digital). Since ‘only random contacts (i.e. events) can strike’¹, each touch or contact must be different. Sameness cannot touch. For an individual to stay alive, i.e. to be fully real (and continuous ≈ animated ≈ spiritual), conscious (that is to say, monitoring series (to wit, bites) of differential contacts or instructions) and joyful (i.e. fully energized (read: enlightened) as result of @1 (between two random contacts) fusion²), that individual must continuously touch or be touched, differently.

The reward for successful transmission (i.e. for ferrying, read: communication) of difference is joyful (i.e. ‘high’ energy, read: ‘orgasmic’) self-realization with or without transmission content³ related consciousness.

The individual who seeks stillness (i.e. quiescence, for instance, in meditation or relaxation), who abides in sameness, initially reduces undesired (i.e. life detrimental) differential contact (i.e. experienced as inner turbulence and interpreted as distress (Pali: dukkha) and the unpleasant (thereafter unbearable) heat it generates. Further (> complete ≈ @100% ≈ @1) reduction of differential contact (for instance, excessive meditation, as in Zazen, Yoga and so on) leads to the elimination of all stress, both life supporting and life degrading, resulting initially in trance (to wit, the various states of absorption), then in coma ≈ non-life.⁴

The ferryman’s craft is his capacity to create bits (i.e. quanta) or bites (i.e. analogues or relativities) of difference. Anyone who creates difference, thereby making real and/or giving a real new shape is a ferryman.

Interpret the ≈ symbol to mean equivalent.

1 … Random (or wholly different, therefore unpredictable) contacts (or instructions) collide in a relativity vacuum, therefore present for contact at the rate (or quality) of c, thus producing a c² (read: c squared) moment of absolute realness. Hence,

‘1c² is’

The notion ‘1c² is’ results if and when the false equation (actually a tautology) e = mc² is fully compressed. Since non of the symbols of Einstein’s in famous equation, to wit, e, =, m, c and squared are independently defined, and certainly not in quantum mechanical terms, e = mc² is merely a suggestive metaphor for a relationship yet to be clearly described.

2 … Energy (to wit, life support capacity) release, experienced as enlightenment (i.e. as increase in brightness (as a surge or rush of either energy or speed) or of lightness (i.e. as in levitation), happens as after-affect of either fusion or fission, and that pro rata (s developed in atomic power plants). Hence the Great Awakening (≈ Arousal), and which is alternately experienced as the Great Enlightenment, happens as the result of a full or complete (=@100%) ≈ Great (i.e. initial state capacity related) release of stored energy or the acquisition of maximum external energy.

3 … Content happens as the after-affect (or after-image ≈ Gestalt) of a series (or string) of individual (hence random) contacts (i.e. of an instructions bite). Consequently, content, for instance, ‘time, space and form’, happens as analogue display, hence belongs to the dimension of relativity. In short, individual (random) contacts (or strikes (read: instructions)) function as quanta (or units ≈ bits), therefore are best described with the rules of quantum mechanics, and series (or bites) of individual contacts (≈ quanta) function as analogues and are best described with the rules of relativity theory.

4 … For non-life (hence non-death) read: Nirvana (or moksha). The ultimate goal of Indian Yogic training, hence the goal of Yoga as such, was (and still is) the attainment of the deathless 4 … For non-life (hence non-death) read: Nirvana (or moksha). The ultimate goal of Indian Yogic training, hence the goal of Yoga as such, was (and still is) the attainment of the deathless (hence life-less, Sanskrit: amara or amata)) state. Though much disputed by Yogis who train beginners (in mild relaxation practices), the deathless state happens prior to or after ‘being’ (real animation) consciousness, and joy (viz. sat-chit-ananda), hence is wholly unspiritual.

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