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Stranger Sutra version 27

Author: Glenn Wallis

Wallis, G. (2020, May 20). Stranger Sutra. https://speculativenonbuddhism.com/2020/05/20/stranger-sutra/

Stranger Sutra

Preamble

The stranger proclaims: To you, World, I refuse. The stranger identifies, the stranger resists, alienating representations.

The stranger proclaims: To you, World, I give. By means of interminable negation, the stranger reinvigorates being and thought in the face of radical immanence, in the face of empty reality, in the face of the axiomatic, in the face of para-zero, in the face of the void, the quasi, the apophatic, the desert, the dark night, the philofictional Real.

The stranger transfuses the symptom, exposed in the yearning embrace of the curative fantasy of ideological self-sufficiency, into a sovereign discernment for going forward.

Transfusion occurs in subjective submersion. We are speaking here of the decomposition that precedes bioremediation. We are speaking here of the inalienable poverty that begets the stranger.

Postulate

Sunk in inalienable poverty, the stranger emerges fit for the clash with Hell.

Practice: Decomposition with Breathing

Now, go to an isolated place. Sit down, and straighten your body. Establishing awareness right where you are, breathe in, simply aware, then breathe out, simply aware. Continue:

I breathe in, knowing I am breathing in. I breathe out, knowing I am breathing out.

I breathe in, sensitive to the entire body. I breathe out, sensitive to the entire body.

I breathe in, aware of emotion. I breathe out, aware of emotion.

I breathe in, cognizant of mental oscillation. I breathe out, cognizant of mental oscillation.

I breathe in, observing the arising of the breath. I breathe out, observing the dissolution of the breath.

I breathe in, connecting. I breathe out, letting go.

Warnings

Decomposition with breathing is rich in results for the person and is of benefit to society. But only if it remains an insufficient practice. When taken as sufficient, it conspires with the New Age Apocalypse. This is your first warning.

Decomposition with breathing is rich in results for the person and is of benefit to society. But only if it remains on the side of the living. When applied as a pharmakon for the imaginary plenitude of calm contemplation, it conspires with the Spiritual Death Drive. This is your second warning.

Autocommentary

Decomposition with breathing is rich in results for the person and is of benefit to society. It places the practitioner in the teeming ruin where person and World intersect and transfuse. The soil of this ruin is flush with fungal mycelia generating the energetic flows—biological, psychological, mythological, narratological, ideological—we call existence.

We vigorously apply a fiction: In the ruin of our practice unfolds a process of bioremediation. Through decomposition, contaminants are purged from the soil. Be clear! Remediation is not purification. Think, rather, quickening and augmentation of earth-incrusted organic matter.

That’s it. And then the stranger steps out from the ruin. Toward what end? To struggle against the powers of the World. To clash with Hell.

DMU Timestamp: November 12, 2020 20:50





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