Okay, the sacred writings continue.  Let me first say the non profit has entered a new place in the process.  It is now at a place were sales and donations are needed to keep it alive. We are talking with a distributer for placement of the sauce, which could be quite helpful in staying solvent.  So please join me in helping the sacred works project become a reality by lending your material support,  Let your local health food store know about the sauce, ask them to carry it. Buy a bottle and spread the word.  And of course, any and all donations are tax deductible and very welcome.  Donations will be used to bring our first sacred project, the healing sauce called Mamas Fire into reality.

What follows is a teaching I received in the process of making the sauce.  I share it with you all today.  This is the moon teaching may it benefit all beings without one exception.

First let me tell you how I got to the place where the causes and conditions could come together to bring this understanding into my mind stream.  I had been working with a new mantra that came out of my practice of the prajna paramita.  The mantra that came forward as I practiced the traditional practice for understanding emptiness was this, OM SHARI BODHI SAGARA SWAHA.  It translates from Sanskrit to OM the whole of space the universal ground of everything.  SHARI, here is an offering I give to you understanding that I will receive nothing in return and that the giver and receiver are one.  BODHI, the fundamental nature of kindness the energy that comes from giving a gift that is needed freely and having it completely received and appreciated for what it is, the nature of the Buddha’s mind and heart.  SWAHA, so be it.  This is the mantra that is said over each batch of the hot sauce to infuse it with the healing properties of bodhicitta.

            The mantra first came as I did repetitions of the prajna paramita mantra, OM GATE GATE PARA GATE PARA SAM GATE BODHI SWAHA.  It came in English first and then in Sanskrit.  In English I heard oceans of Bodhi, Bodhi Sagara Bodhi and with it I saw the visualization of offering to all the beings in the universe who are spirit workers oceans of Bodhi so that they may have all they need to do their work.  The visualization grew to all beings good or bad as I came to understand that it was this energy of kindness this golden honey light of mind that heals all wounds and is what everyone desires no matter how confused they may be.  And so my practice went on until I finally understood the depth of the dakini teachings.  I understood that in fact all of the confused beings; all of the horrors that rest in the alaya of mind are actually bodhisattva’s of the feminine lineage.  They are kind enough to hold all of the horror so that it may be seen and worked with, embraced and loved.  That the act of holding whatever is asked of them is the ultimate in kindness.  So, I began to offer each of these beings oceans of bodhicitta that they might be given the means to heal the horrors they held and be free to bring about a kind and interconnected world, a kingdom where all who lived with in it may be happy, free of habitual patterns and inspired with passion to build wonderful monuments to enlightened mind.

            This was the ground for my experience.  I sat in a car with my wife, my step daughter and her friend.  At the same moment, I touched my wife’s hand and felt how much I loved her, I looked at the full moon and it struck me that the most potent practice there is for a man to do to realize enlightened mind, is also the furthest away in the dark ages we live in.  It is that of honoring the feminine with love with real love, bodhicitta love.  I saw in that moment that just as the sun shines on the moon so that it may shine down on us during the night time hours, so will the mind which is so willing to hold and create any pattern we give it, shine like a blazing fire if we honor it with this kind of love. 

It is so simple and yet how to do it.  I can only share with you my own path to this place and a mantra powerful enough to meet all the darkness in the human experience and transform it as the alchemist’s of old, into the gold of loving kindness.  If you have read these two pages then you have received what I have to offer and only have in front of you the process of training your mind to work with said mantra.  To focus your tool of mindfulness and bring about the awareness so that you may focus the true energy of love on each experience that comes into your mind stream.  This is my practice and teaching for this life time, there may be more but for now may this free all beings and bring them the lives of love and happiness that they all deserve.