COMMENTARY

ANNOUNCEMENT

GREAT MOTHER BUDDHISM

Origins

Prophesies

THE ULTIMATE SUTRA

REALIZATION

Tantra

The Great Light

The Great Death

Amsterdam

The Cycle Completed

COMMENTARY

THE TEACHING

Awakening

Personal integration

Rooted in Heaven and earth

Breakthrough of the Light

Dark Night of the Soul

Taking Refuge in the Mother

BOOK OF THE DEAD

HYMN TO THE GREAT MOTHER

LETTER TO MY SPIRITUAL SISTERS

TAISHO

THE GREAT LEARNING

1. In the Great Mother Tradition the teaching is directly derived from Realization. It is a fresh start. It is the reason why an account of personal experience e.g. of Ultimate Realization has been presented here. Through it everything is directly referred to the Origin. Three crucial Moments have to be distinguished. Unique Moments, which will bring about a decisive turn in spirituality. Usually Enlightenment is considered to be the ultimate Realization. Hence, it is said to be the alpha and omega, the aim of countless practitioners.

The claim of patriarchat appears to be false. The Ultimate Reality
isn’t God, Father or Being, but the Womb, the
Great Mother, the Vacuum, the
Inconceivable Abyss of
the universe.

2. Few are aware of the fact, that the Great Light is "only" one side of a coin of which the Great Darkness appears to be the other. The reason is that the latter is extremely rare. Only in Great Mother Religion, Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism accounts have been preserved. But even there the link between the Great Light and the Great Darkness has not been elaborated. It may therefore come as a shock to you: Enlightenment is part of a polarity and because of that cannot be the Ultimate Oneness. There must be something Beyond. The key to this is Absolute Nothingness, "caused by" Cosmic Lightening as has been described above. In the selfsame Moment as it struck, existence was wiped out in Absolute Emptiness. It is the empirical "proof" of the Vacuum ("Nirvana").

3. Now everything makes sense. The Light, Being, the Divine appears not to be a "dimension on its own", but has been born out of the Void, Emptiness...There thus appears to be a "Mother and Son" relationship between the two. Both the Great Light as the Great Darkness ("Endarkenment") are aspects of the Vacuum Beyond, of the Womb. Thus Absolute Nothingness is the Essence of the Great Mother, Enlightenment (Her Light Body) is Her Creative Aspect, while the Great Darkness is Her Destruction Body*. It corresponds fully with the archaic notion of the permanent destruction and rebirth. Everything without exception - including the Divine - is born out and returns to the Great Mother. As the Matrix of Life, She embraces all existence. Through Her everything is interrelated as all religions are of one family. She is the true Context of life, the Source of Ekayana, the common denominator of all religions.

*The Ultimate Realization is thus threefold: Absolute Nothingness,
Enlightenment and "Endarkenment".

4. Are we - just like 2000 years ago - at the eve of a worldwide spiritual-religious turning point? Many who have read „The Lap of the universe"* think so. Others are hoping it dearly. This book is the witness of a new era. The Divine exists, but appears not to be the Ultimate Reality. Both the Eternal Light and Darkness are nouminous aspects of the Mother. Her Depth is the Beyond of the Beyond, the Vacuum, the Womb, the Lap of the universe. Hence, the beginning of the universe isn’t „male" but „female" - in Reality of course neither of the two - it is (can be named) the "Great Mother" (Matrix). Therefore, „God", Being, Light is not the Father, but the Son. The world isn't a creation, but a birth. The Light is born in the bottomless Abyss of The Mother. Everything, including God is born out of Her, while returning in the same Eternal Moment. The purpose of life is therefore to continuously die and being reborn.
*See "Lap of the universe": http://welcome.to/thegreatlearning/ (In Dutch)

The Ultimate Realization: the recognition of the Mother

5. The Mother represents the essence of life. She includes the various levels of existence: Being as Her Lightbody and the universe as Her Material Body. By (re)connecting to our inner Self and the body we restore the unity with "Heaven and earth". Wholeness includes the unity of the vertical dimension with the horizontal. They represent the various levels of existence - "emanations" - continuously born out of the Vacuum, while returning to Her in the selfsame Eternal Moment. Thus by becoming part of "Heaven and earth" again, we will participate in the Mothers (multi-layer) Body, which is the first step to cosmic unity. It is all very simple. The various stages are: to become aware, seeing "I am here and my thinking is there", thus "I am not my thinking"; to reintegrate the various parts of the small self (emotional self-integration) and to permanently become one with "Heaven and earth". The latter being done by restoring bodycontact with our immediate environment through feeling awareness. This reintegration with "Heaven, earth and the community" is called the Original Tradition*. To be part of this "law of the universe" is our natural state of being. It is a homecoming and the end of all separation and suffering.

* These basic steps towards unity are described in this book. See: Teaching.

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