I get questions and critical views all the time, and I post up a reply, answering and providing more information. Guess what ? I have had a question about Gnosis recently.
Q. I have read Gnosis is slightly related to Mahayana Buddhism, and your views seem to be different. Can you explain this, please?
A. Gnosis has no connection to Mahayana Buddhism LOL. Mahayana, or the great vehicle way, grew away from the Theravada (vehicle of the elders) when the younger monks left the elder community and started the Mahayana. The younger monks said the elder monks had fallen from the enlightenment and sought to find a clearer way. The Mahayana way sought to merge some of the Hindu ideas with Buddhist ideas (deity practice or mantra practice). So the Buddhist teaching of no self or no supreme God or supreme self became a transcendental Buddha nature. This is like a view of the eternal Self renamed Buddha nature. Originally, the Buddha taught there was no real ego or atma or super atma. This is very undualistic Gnosis. The thing is, the teachings of the Buddha are not complete.
Q. What do you mean, not complete?
A. Ok, let me explain. I mentioned before in previous posts about spiritual awakening, when a person realises a fundamental truth. Being spiritually asleep means to follow someone else’s guidance or discernment, which is like following someone blindly. Buddhism has been misunderstood for over 2000 years. When the Buddha taught about nothing or shunyata, everybody picked up on it without examining it further. This has resulted in a complete misunderstanding of the Buddha's Dharma. Shunyata is a dualistic view to teach other people, but it is not the supreme truth. It's more of a teaching tool, lol.
Q. So why has nobody else realized this?
A. The reason is that 95% of us are sleeping. Gnosis is the totality of all things and not an empty blank space. The blank space is a type of sleep, again within duality, not enlightenment. This applies to Samadhi trance too.
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