Think Hippie Thoughts with Inner Fire
Never happen.
Acceptance, appreciation, love, community, world peace.
Are you fucking kidding me? Hippies are way too weak to do this.
Consciousness expression and all that spirituality sustainability mind expansion jive.
Who’s gonna pull all that off?
You need inner fire.
Otherwise you burn out.
You don’t have the karma to pull that off. You’re gonna get stuck in the mud and die from inhaling too much muck.
The ruckus is gonna get you down. You don’t stand a chance, man, poetry time is fighting time, all in one.
Compassion my ass, you gotta fight for it, then it’s compassion.
Music and exploration. Sounds like you skipped sex-ed in highschool and you’re trying to make up for it. Your desire’s gonna bring you down, you’re gonna blow your load before you plant any seeds in that garden.
Sustainable like a cheap tent in a hurricane, you can’t take a punch and you don’t want none either.
First sign of a fight and you’re back home to Disney.
Do I have your attention?
Good.
I like hippies. Love them. I like activists and people who love the planet and the earth and the sky and everything in them.
Actually, I love everyone, and I want everyone to win, but it’s not possible without inner power and inner fire.
Thinking happy thoughts is about as useful as dreaming while sleepwalking on a white shark.
I’m exaggerating again. I love exaggerating. But it’s true, good thoughts will cultivate your mind, but your actual mental essence, the actual power of your being to get shit done, to smash through opposition and win the fight, plant the garden, make people happy, keep people safe, stay alive and spiritual and sustainable and poetic and loving and musical year after year..
IT TAKES INNER FIRE.
BURNING POWER.
INNER SMILE AND SMASHING TIME.
And it also takes the mental emptiness and power of heart to do it all peacefully, to burn peacefully, to smash peacefully, to be the Hulk at the same time be the landscape, the ocean, the breath, the one doing the hugging.
So let me introduce you to Ucchusma. The Vajra of Great Power.
Vajra means Mind Diamond. It means perfect mental essence, undying and primordial.
And Ucchusma is the mighty vigorous power of truth, and HE BURNS, he burns away attachments, weakness, bullshit, dirty, lack of luck, lack of prosperity, lack of activity, lack of working power, lack of power, any lack you can imagine HE BURNS, and then HE BURNS some more and makes things tough and strong and beautiful and POWERFUL and loving.
And he does all that with true inner fire and true inner power, from the belly and from the heart, united in MIND.
Now, let me introduce you to Mantra. Mantra is a perfect mental essence. It’s a perfect essence of concentration, empty balanced continuous energy, born of the nature of all things.
Not yours, not mine, not even everyone’s. Primordial nature. The archetypal nature of Mind, pure and perfect, pristine and powerful.
Ucchusma is a Buddha, and the Mantra represents his perfect inner state, or inner nature, or inner concentration. The empty state of primordial concentration is known as Samadhi. As you concentrate with a mantra, repeating it, you gain that state, you gain samadhi, and you gain the essence of that Buddha. In this case, the mighty smashing nature of Ucchusma.
And because Ucchusma is at the same time the nature of HeartMind and the nature of perfect activity, it’s easy to bring this meditation into your life, to make it spontaneous, to always concentrate with mantra and have it powering up all your activites, to gain an endless concentration that is perfectly stable in mind and suffuses all things, until you relax perfectly, perfectly at ease and concentrated in your own body, with Samadhi to last forever, beginningless and endless.
That’s Samadhi, and that’s Mantra. You put them together, you concentrate, and you do it constantly and continuously, and then the mantra is always there, and your destiny has already changed. It’s hardcore, it’s beautiful, and it’s the primordial meditation of all Buddhas, one that nobody can take away from you.
Once you get samadhi, nobody can take that state away from you. That energy is yours, forever, and you get to suffuse and infuse all things with it. All beings. All landscapes.
You get to think happy hippie thoughts and actually have them come true.
Because you have inner fire and true power to back it up, and you’re present to make it come true, you have primordial energy and your destiny has changed, suddenly it doesn’t stink up the place anymore, IT BURNS IT UP and makes everything joyful and good.
That’s all you need to know in order to practice. Sit down and meditate with it. Walk with it. Dance with it. Do everything with the mantra, unite with it. And gently stop your breath, this is essential. Pay attention to your nose, concentrate it and gently ever so gently stop the breath, and it will unite with your samadhi, it will become an INNER BREATH and will CATCH FIRE.
You’ll burn up on the inside with your true fire element and your whole body will transform, along with your karma.
BURN IT UP.
Make the Great Wish to realize Mind and liberate all beings, and BURN IT UP.
BURN IT UP.
Vajra Krodha Mahābala Ucchuṣma Mantra:
OṂ KRODHANA HŪṂ JAḤ
Vajra Krodha Mahābala Ucchusma Long Mantra:
NAMAḤ SAMANTA KĀYA, VĀK-CITTA VAJRAṆĀṂ
OṂ HŪṂ HŪṂ HŪṂ PHAṬ PHAṬ PHAṬ
OṂ UGRA-ŚŪRAPĀṆI HŪṂ HŪṂ HŪṂ PHAṬ PHAṬ PHAṬ
OṂ JYOTIRNĀDA HŪṂ HŪṂ HŪṂ PHAṬ PHAṬ PHAṬ
OṂ OṂ OṂ PHAṬ PHAṬ PHAṬ
OṂ MAHĀ-BALĀYA SVĀHĀ
To quickly transform the body and gain power, once there is deep and continuous samadhi, also practice the fire concentration meditation of Ucchusma, described in the Surangama Sutra.
The quote from the sutra is also available on Wikipedia, alongside a summary of Ucchusma’s origin story.
From Wikipedia:
According to the Shurangama Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha asked the bodhisattvas and arahants to present their methods to understand the ultimate truth, the eighteenth to present his character was Ucchusma. The sutra states:
“Ucchushma came before the Buddha, put his palms together, bowed at the Buddha’s feet, and said to the Buddha, I can still remember how many kalpas ago I was filled with excessive greed and desire. There was a Buddha in the world named King of Emptiness. He said that people with too much desire turn into a raging mass of fire. He taught me to contemplate the coolness and warmth throughout my entire body. A spiritual light coalesced inside and transformed my thoughts of excessive lust into the fire of wisdom. After that, when any of the Buddhas summoned me, they used the name ‘fire-head.’ From the strength of the fire-light samadhi, I accomplished Arhatship. I made a great vow that when each of the Buddhas accomplishes the way, I will be a powerful knight and in person subdue the demons’ hatred. The Buddha asks about perfect penetration. I used attentive contemplation of the effects of heat in my body and mind, until it became unobstructed and penetrating and all my outflows were consumed. I produced a blazing brilliance and ascended to enlightenment. This is the foremost method.”
The Ucchusma Vajrapala Sutra, on the other hand, asserts that the Ucchusma Deity is actually the Vajra manifestation of Shakyamuni Buddha. Legend has it that when Shakyamuni Buddha was about to enter into Nirvana, all heavenly beings, with the exception of the ‘Spiral Hair-knot Brahma King’, came to pay their respect to Buddha. The Brahman King was in fact enjoying himself with the heavenly maidens in his own celestial palace. The heavenly gods, being unhappy with the arrogance of the Brahma King, went to his abode and try to persuade him to attend the Dharma assembly. Upon reaching his palace however, the gods found themselves trapped in the defiled energy cast by the supernatural powers of the king. Even some of the Vajra Deities who were later sent to apprehend the Brahman King were imprisoned by the foul forces as well.
When Shakyamuni Buddha came to learn of this, He employed His Origin Wisdom, and the Light of Perpetual Joy and Pliancy was emitted from His heart. The Ucchusma Vajrapala soon appeared from amidst the revolving radiance of the Buddha’s heart, and ascended to the celestial palace of the Brahma King. Despite the defiled energy hurled at Him by the Brahman King, the Ucchusma Deity was unharmed as He immediately turned these forces of contamination into ordinary soil. In no time, the Brahma King was subdued and brought to the feet of Shakyamuni Buddha. For this reason, the Ucchusma Deity is also known as the ‘Filth-eliminating Vajrapala
