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Zooming in on the notion(s) of
pilgrimage & the pilgrim
Going on pilgrimage (i.e. acting as a pilgrim) can mean: 1.
Getting from A to B (the beginner’s view). For instance, hiking to
Santiago de Compostella, Badrinath, Mount Kailash (or Meru) and so on. This
understanding of pilgrimage is the Normal (i.e. the lay person’s 100%) zoom. 2.
Transforming self A into/as self B by adding energy and adding (or
subtracting) goal oriented food/data during the external pilgrimage is the advanced
pilgrim’s view. This understanding of pilgrimage is Zoom
In 1. a.
Adding energy plus (or minus) food/data while swimming/feeding in a
nutrient soup, i.e. the external world (the adept’s view). Zoom In 2.
b.
Adding energy plus (or minus) food/data by eating one’s way through a
solid nutrient block** (‘pie’) (e.g. a BEC, to wit. a Bose-Einstein
concentrate) is the more awakened pilgrim’s understanding of pilgrimage. Zoom In 3.
Note: Some Chinese Zen
masters suggested the term ‘Uncarved Block’ to the whole pie (or soup, to wit
‘The Great Ocean), prior to disturbance (hence relativization). 3.
Transforming the differentiated (hence relativised) state of the
nutrient pie (i.e. of a particular real self/identity). This understanding of
pilgrimage is Zoom in 4. 4.
Local (i.e. personal) self/identity appears (i.e. self-realizes and
self-identifies) as an involuntary and impermanent transformation, hence as a
not-self (i.e. not the actual, i.e. original (hence in absolute ownership),
hence ‘own’ = atta pie). This (flawed) understanding of pilgrimage is Zoom in 5. This appears to have been the (early,
i.e. Pali Vinaya) Buddha’s view. He remains silent (i.e. does not make a
positive comment) on (or definition of) the pie, i.e. on its existence,
non-existence or constitution, should it exist. Pie (i.e. the Pali metaphor atta
(Sanskrit: atman) usually mistranslated as self, sometimes as soul)
commentaries were later invented by Mahayanists hybridising with the
seemingly more user-friendly notions about the pie (to wit, the Brahman =
atman = prajapati) speculated on in the Upanishads, see below). 5.
Local self/identity appears as an involuntary (resulting from
ignorance, or being ‘bound’, hence limited) and impermanent nutrient pie
transformation created (possibly
‘blown’, possible ‘fired up’, hence disturbed) voluntarily or
involuntarily by the pie itself (read: Brahman). This is the understanding of
pilgrimage Zoom In 6. This appears to be the
view (i.e. darshan) expressed in the early Upanishads. Voluntary (i.e.
intentional) self- (or part-self-) transformation by the pie (i.e. God)
appears to be the creationists’ view, though a clear answer as to ‘who or
what moved the mover’ is yet outstanding. 6.
Local self/identity appears as a (fractal elaboration of) spontaneous
(hence involuntary) nutrient pie transformation resulting from random
disturbance (resulting in pressure change, the ‘self’ happening as the
interface between temporary pressure fields). This appears to be the
evolutionists’ and the early Buddha’s view. 7.
Maximum zoom reveals that all everyday forms happens as configurations
(or compounds) of ‘original’ quanta of a universally distributed creation algorithm
(called God or the atman or the Brahaman). For instance, at maximum zoom all
computer graphics reveal themselves to be non other than pixels arranged in
patterns, the latter creating the illusion of shape and colour. Likewise do
all living creatures reveal themselves as mere patterns of disturbance of the
formeless colourless God/creation algorithm-ground.
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