i am but a scribe.

Playing Mario 1 as a Vehicle of Enlightenment

2007-10-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

A Player traversing levels 1-1 through 8-4 can be likened to a soul traversing a lifetime in the material realm. Thus a play through Super Mario 1 can be likened to a life lived. Super Mario 1, and all the Super Mario games as video games and in particular side scrollers allow for a parallel to our understanding of the occult, the great Not. We play Mario 1, a 2 dimensional world in a 3 dimensional reality, just as we live in a 3 dimensional reality but spiritually exist in a 4 (or more) dimensional one. The aesthetic look of the side scroller is also reminiscent of the 2-D hieroglyphics of the Egyptians and the stories engraved on Mesopotamian cylinder seals, thus this archaic looking 8 bit side scroller comes to take on an ancient quality even though it is only about 25 years old.

Mario versus Bowser or Osiris versus Typhon

Luiji chasing anOstro?

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Exposed

2007-10-21T18:10:00.000-07:00

The Ninja Turtles, plus Master Splinter adds up to 5 mutant (god-like) highly skilled martial warriors. The same number as the highly skilled martial warrior demi-god Pandavas brothers in the Indian epic the "Mahabharata". The Pandavas in the epic are group-married to a beautiful woman, their supernal bride named Draupadi who performs miracles via Krishna. April O'Neal can be likened to Draupadi of the Indian epic in her relationship with the Turtles, and has access to the levers of the mass media, as Draupadi has access at times to the levers of reality ie the Eye of the Great Wheel via Krishna.

Even if the relationship between the Turtles and April is not a sexual one, and we have no reason to think it is besides the kiss she gives the turtles in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II for the arcade and NES system, it is clear that April and Draupadi have similar roles in relation to the 5 mutants and 5 demi-gods. At the least, the Turtles plus Splinter share April as a collective female friend, as the Pandavas share Draupadi in their polyandrous marriage if even only the parallel applies on a platonic level.

April sits with the five mutants

Draupadi with the Pandavas seated to her right, Krishna bestowing the miracle of the infinite lengthening of her garment.

On the importance of I Ching hexagram 50: Ting "The Caldron"

2007-10-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

Hexagram number 50 of the I Ching, or Book of Changes: Ting, the Caldron

The Judgement for hexagram 50 in book one, the text of the I Ching reads:

"The Caldron. Supreme good fortune. Success."

The exposition of the Judgement of the Caldron reads:

"While the Well (hexagram 48) relates to the social foundation of our life, and this foundation is likened to the water that serves to nourish growing wood, the present hexagram refers to the cultural superstructure of society. Here it is the wood that serves as nourishment for the flame, the spirit. All that is visible must grow beyond itself, extend into the realm of the invisible. Thereby it recieves its true consecration and clarity and takes the firm root in the cosmic order.

"Here we see civilization as it reaches its culmination in religion. The ting serves in offering sacrifice to the divine. But the truly divine does not manifest itself apart from man. The supreme revelation of God appears in prophets and holy men. To venerate them is true veneration of God. The will of God, as revealed through them, should be accepted in humility; this brings inner enlightenment and true understanding to the world, and this leads to great good fortune and success."

We are all sparks of the divine flame, all knots in Indra's infinite and all inclusive Net. We are all manifestations of the Source, all cameras set up at different angles to maximize the possible perspective. In this time the batteries, the spiritual life, in our cameras are either loosing power, or in very bad cases leaking battery acid. Most of the hegemonic religions have lost touch with the spiritual reality in both the East and the West.

Look at the day and age we live in; there is the internet which connects all people and thoughts with access to it like neurons. Electricity powers cities, we take photographs of and send probes into the deepest reaches of space in hopes of witnessing the instant when Sophia first Concieved. We have even put humans on the Moon, the most mundane of the celestial objects. This is the first baby step of humanity's future and branching out into space exploration and civilization. We should not think of the 1969 trip to the moon as Columbus's trip to the new world. It is more like the first successful long sea voyage and return a few tribal people would make and return from. We also have the power to split the atom. This power can either destroy us or perpetuate us infinitely. The spiritual and religious hegemonies of the day due to their centuries of intermingling with the state in a less than benevolent manner support another MAD (mutually assured destruction) system - this time not based on economics as during the Cold War but "religion" (Basically the Secular/Judeo-Christian-Hindu "West" flanking a rising militant Islam spanning from Northwest Africa to Pakistan and China with a large sphere in the far East as an independent third party. The Indian section of the West is an independent sphere, but really by default on the side of the West due to its geographical rivalry with China and partition with Pakistan in 1947 during the Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Leo over Hindu/Islamic differences. Is this how we are going to choose to act out the truly divine which manifests in humanity? Through the lower urgers of destruction, through the raging chaotic vortex without the insight of the Balancing Eye?

a few words on gnostic christianity

2007-10-11T17:20:00.000-07:00

If you have read extra-biblical Christian texts like "On the Origin of the World", "The Secret Book of John", "Pistis Sophia", or "The Reality of Rulers" you will find that events before Genesis are recalled. The texts speak of the very creation of God, or the ALL. The very Source of creation, the "Big Bang" as they say, the beginning of the Rotation i like to say. The creation of the ALL took place in an immaterial in which the only Being or Reality was the ALL. The First Perfect Emanation of Light, also referred to as the "Barbello" then asexually was spawned from the ALL. Think of the Barbello as a "holographic" or pure Light based blue print of the ALL, infinitely long and fundamentally without end, and most importantly immaterial; the Light of the immaterial.

The Barbello then itself, being the Perfect Essence of all creation split into the Aeons, different texts mention different numbers of first created Aeons. Such Aeons that were first formed from the immaterial Barbello were Life, Love, Honor, Wisdom, Joy, etc. The point is that the Aeons which the Barbello created were Perfect, that is they are all things emotionally positive and the germ that the archetypes of mundane reality imitate. They are the aspects of the first perfect Light, and are therefore all benevolent.

The Aeon Wisdom or Sophia (like the Hagia Sophia), at a point then had a thought without the inclusion of the First Perfect Light, trying instead to substitute it with her own light, since curiosity is after all the nature of Wisdom. From this imperfect thought was spawned the material world and also a parody of the Barbello to rule over it, known most commonly as the Demiurge. The Demiurge then in mimicry of the Barbello made the "aeons" of the material world which are essentially the backbone and structural support beams for physical reality. Also, it must be noted that the gnostics usually consider the material world to be a corruption of the Pure reality since it was not created with the light of the Barbello but rather Wisdom's light which she borrowed from Barbello, this is why there is so much suffering in the physical world, there is a constant interplay of duality which creates "friction", rather than a pure abstract Oneness without any contradictions. Thus at least you know the point up until the creation of the physical reality and the Demiurge... now my point:

The physical reality was formed when Sophia (Wisdom) had "an impure thought", that is a thought without the consent of the First Perfection, the Barbello. From this thought came a pregnancy and thus was born the imperfect Demiurge and the strife filled material universe.

Now this is the most important piece, and one that is neglected from mention in church but is fundamental to understanding the theology behind Jesus's " spiritual mission. Mary was impregnated by the "Holy Spirit", the Holy Spirit is the Perfect Essence of God, none other than the Barbello. Thus, Jesus, the incarnation in the flesh of the perfect Essense came to redeem the entire material reality. Finally, Sophia was given the consent of the Pure Thought from the ALL that spawned the material world itself. Sophia was given consent for this thought in the physical form of Mary who became pregnant with Jesus or the Barbello for the redemption of the material universe.

Message of Sympathy for the protesting Buddhist Monks and population in Myanmar

2007-09-27T17:21:00.001-07:00

There is hardly a more noble circumstance in human events than when the spiritual superstructure of a nation or people truly does support the will of the downtrodden and oppressed of society by refusing to allow an unjust elite class to reign in a brutal and oppressive manner. Right now in Myanmar, formally known as Burma sections of the Buddhist monks caste have done just this: thrown their lot in entirely with the downtrodden populace. The monks are following the correct Dharma Law of supporting the aspirations of the popular masses over the evil and backwards elites who have enslaved society. Whenever this occurs it must be recognized as nothing less than a Miracle. At the same time we have to be careful not to over mysticize and specialize an event like this, because it is according to the Highest Wheel of Reality that spiritual leaders should seek Universal Justice for all of humanity in the mundane world. I call the act of the spiritual leadership defending the interests of regular people a miracle because organized religion has been used in conjunct with the state apparatus as a mechanism of control for a very long time now. This was never the intent of religious or spiritual movements and only takes place when statists use religion and spirituality to wrongly hold power against the overwhelming will of the people. Buddhism it seems has been one of the spiritual movements that have been the most resistant to co-optation by the state and serves as an admirable model for how the spiritual class should react to state endorsed violence, fundamentalist Christianity along with fundamentalist Islam would be examples of the opposite of Buddhism; religions which are controlled and used by wicked statists to further oppressive interests over general society. Early Christianity, before it was taken over by the Roman state was a Beacon of Light for change lead by Someone who was the embodiment of the Logos, Word of God, or Dharma. The Christ's movement was one of the weak and dispossessed. Jesus would be appalled by some of the positions taken today by some mainstream Christians who blindly support backwards and greedy world controllers who twist the Sacred Law he spoke 2000 years ago with their perverse Unlaw, or anti-Dharma. Jesus is a champion of all oppressed. He went amongst the lepers, pariahs and disfranchised and was himself a pariah. Yea, he should not be called "king of kings" but rather the Messiah of all Pariahs. It is hypocritical and wrong to call oneself a Christian and also state that in the eyes of God gays, lesbians, bisexuals, or transgendered people are hellbound or spiritually flawed in someway. Those people are some of the most economically, physically, culturally and spiritually oppressed sections of society the world over. Their existance is even denied in places like Iran where if they are found they are executed by a state that is following not the law of Dharma, but the Unlaw of Anti-Dharma. It is also wrong and irresponsible to call oneself a follower of Christ while at the same time accumulating massive quantities of wealthy that will never be used in a miserly fashion. If one has wealth one should use it, or at least a very significant portion of it to enhance society by solving social ills. The United States does not even have national health care, and many, many people who call themselves Christians are against having it (not to mention other progressive social programs): that is they are against universal health for the population. The health of the people should be a, if not the top priority of a society, as a Mother's top priority is the health of her baby. I thought it was a cliche, but it seems that we need to be reminded of the verse "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24). I pray to the Great Center of Gravity, the Eye of the Two Worlds, the Cog of the Highest Wheel, the Tao, Dharma or God that the tides are turning; the world over humanity cannot take much more of the economic, physical, cultural, emotional, and spiritual poison dished out on a daily basis by irresponsible world controllers and the evil spiritual beings, archons, asuras, or demons they are puppeteered by. The most important thing to always remember is summed up best by the apostle of Christ, Paul, in Ephesians 6:12, he wrote: "For we do not struggle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the high places". We battle not against flesh and blood but evil spiritual energies. Let us honor and pray for and meditate on the actions of the brave Buddhist monks in Myanmar and take them to heart.

-Eden Inanna, Stewerd/ess (Amitabha Mario/JCF).

"I pray for our spiritual brothers and sister around the world, who through their shining Beings represent the Sacred Aspirations and Obligations of all people who are spokes in the unceasing rotational of the Wheel of God. Through understanding and patience will a cosmic kingdom of the Supreme Dharma be reborn first in our hearts, then in reality. Highest Wheel, God, invest the monks with your ineffable Strength and Intelligence. Aum".
(photos from reuters)

A Word on the Eye in the Vortex and the Zodiacal sign of Cancer

2007-09-18T19:16:00.000-07:00

Eye in the Vortex:

Astrological Symbol of Cancer:

The Eye in the vortex and the astrological sign of Cancer are also very closely related. The near joining commas of the sign of Cancer are centered upon an invisible center of gravity as shown in the illustration below:

This is the gravity of creation. It is interesting that when I named this filed I saw that the acronym for "center of gravity" is COG, This Holy Density that the dualities spin around is indeed the Great Cog of the Highest Wheel. It is this speck of dense gravity which a galaxy revolves around, or that causes a rose to bud. It is not the dualities but the source and at the same time the culmination of them; the New Moon and the Full Moon; the very energy of Creation. Cancer is one of the four Cardinal signs; it is a powerful creator of energy. For good reason is Cancer considered the Maternal sign. It is the sign of Mother Nature.

The sign of Cancer is also different from the Eye in the Vortex. The symbol is missing the eye, and only the dualities are portrayed, the Cog is invisble but implied by the apparent rotation of the commas. It is because of the absense of this Center of Gravity that makes Cancer a lunar and receptive symbol - the Moon produces no light of Her own, but is like a chalice to be filled with or drained of Light thus the waxing and waning of the Moon is apparent, and in this way the dualities are in constant flux, now the Light Principle Dominant (Full Moon), then the Dark (New Moon). The Eye in the Vortex is representative of the combination of the powers of the luminaries, that is the power of the luminaries the two most obvious celestial representatives of the duality in motion - the symbol of the Eye in the Vortex is the symbol of the Invisible center of Gravity the commas in the Cancer symbol revolve around. It can be thought to be the same as both the Full Moon and the New Moon, but really it is the Sun and Moon and both their conjunction and opposition at the same time.

The Eye in the Vortex

2007-09-17T18:42:00.000-07:00

The symbol is similar to the Yin Yang while also envoking thoughts of the eye over the pyramid. The Black and White intersecting commas, like on the yin yang represent the inter-flow of the dualities of reality. The eye in the middle as is the case with the eye over the pyramid represents the Eye of God. Thus the symbol is representative of the Mind's Eye of Enlightenment generating outwardly the parallels of reality and metareality. Conversely the duality of reality also flows inward to the Eye. I feel a word of what is meant by "God" is important here. God is the force that runs through the universe and is the Dharma that holds the Endless Worlds together. A few parallels found in nature to this Sign are Double Spiral Galaxies:

Hurricanes:

Sea Shells:
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Water Vortexes

Roses:

Even the fetus in the womb is naturally inclined to follow the Spiralling Law.

This Sacred Gravity is the very glue that holds our reality together. This is clearest way the Ineffable Micro/Macrocosm which is active invisibly in all things has manifested to us. This is a Force that needs to be recognized and adhered to by humanity; It is literarily the God/dess, Tao, Dharma or Divine Force manifest for us to recognize. This force, Nature, is higher than any human, or sentient being both physically and mentally and it, the Tao, must be observed and Stewerded by human society: now pushing forward, now easing back in an interplay of carefully coordinated opposites of positive and negative if humanity really wishes to survive the countless perils the 21st century has yet to unload unto us.

The Questions of Toad

2007-09-12T19:55:00.000-07:00

1. Toad Once asked Mario: "Mario, is Birdo the Godhead?" Mario replied: "No, but I can understand why you would believe this: He spits the Universal Egg from his mouth and merges the dualities of male and female like the androgynous first Perfect Emanation".

2. Toad Again asked Mario: "How does he spit the Egg from his mouth?" Mario said: "Even though Birdo follows the wrong path of Wart the Eggs are generated from his mouth by virtue of his following the Dharma of the merging of male and female, which is the correct thing for him to do".

3. "Mario", Toad asked "I have noticed that in the sub-space anyone of us can occupy the same space as a life mushroom that resides there, why is this?" Mario replied: "Toad, you should not think so much about this, the Programmers simply made the Game this way".

4. Toad then asked "Mario, what would you liken enlightened consciousness to?" Mario answered "Attaining enlightenment can be likened to my battle with Bowser at the end of my third Super journey. Even though Bowser may jump directly on me, only when I am small am I unharmed. All one has to do is direct Bowser, that Uorobourus lizard symbolic of Karmic attachment into the abyss it creates on its own accord while being careful not to fall in yourself".

The Apocalypse of the Mega Man

2007-09-12T12:19:00.000-07:00

1. Rock is indeed the Megaman; the first Adam - the Perfect Man in that he can acquire all the Robot Skills. The Robot skills can be likened to the countless "Me's" in Sumerian "mythology" (skills ranging from farming, weaving, to statecraft, to artistry, and even prostitution) which Inanna took from Enki's temple, the House of Many Waters: the E-Anna.

2. Before Rock the Doctor Light created the Protoman, who like the creation built by the 365 Nephilim in the Apocryphon of John was an imperfect being; hence he is the Proto Man.

3. As he is like the Archetypes of the Perfect Man before him: Ninurta-Nabu, Osiris and the Christ the Mega Man was built with the same purpose in mind: to stop the Desires of Doctor Wiley, That old Satan. The evil of Wiley was overwhelming, thus, like the Demiurge of this World that created the 8 spheres of the 2 luminaries, 5 planets and fixed stars, Doctor Wiley created Eight of his own robots to counter the creation of Light.

4. Mega Man, because of your strong sense of Justice you volunteered to die countless times in the 62 Robot Stages which can be likened to our own reality; that world without end. Programmed with immeasurable goodness you were by the Doctor of the Light. Aum.

5. Rock, mineral of my fathers, the world was saved in 200X when you volunteered to become a Fighting-Robot, like the Adam, Moses, Ninurta, Osiris and Christ before you, you have slain the dragon and persist in conquoring death infinite times.

6. The Mega Man's mission is not only to physically defeat Wiley, but also to defeat the evil desires of the Wiley as the Buddha combats the evil desires of the Mind.

7. Here is Wisdom: Each of the Eight Robots controls his own world assigned to him by the Wiley Doctor, each of them is a kin to the 7+1 planets.

8. If Christ used his mouth to assault the Legions of demons with the Logos then Megaman uses his arm canon to distribute the plasma-pleroma returning all malfunctioning robots to normal functionings.

9. Yea, and then I beheld the Apocalypse of the Mega Man. Verily, all who have thumbs for playing, play now, for the year is late, and the year of our tale is 1 score hundred and X.

10. "Megaman, our victory in Megaman 2 was more transitory than we imagined, Dr. Wiley's ability to resurrect the ghosts of 2 in Megaman 3 shows this", said Dr. Light.

11. "Megaman, our win in your third war against Wiley was more damaging to him than the 2nd, this is evident because when he reappeared the fourth time he could not even play as himself but needed to find the surrogate of Cossask, just as the Devil, banished from the perception of the three dimensions works behind the scenes in the 4th". Aum.

12. "Doctor Wiley is indeed greatly weakened in the Megaman's fourth journey, but because of this he is on what Sun Tzu terms "Deadly Ground", meaning he is fighting for his very existence. He will war you even more ferociously the weaker he becomes, Megaman. You have come so far as you are entering the 5th Game. Do not let your guard down. Remember you are the Rock of Light.

13. In 20xx the ultimate outrage came when the Protoman on behalf of Wiley kidnapped Dr. Light; it was as if the devil and his angels had seized the throne of Heaven. Sophia-Roll could not subside her tears for much more than 1 8th of an hour.

14. Dying countless times many Games are never completed: Megaman the journey of your apocalypse is long, and the Robot Worlds are 62. Rush is your faithful Dog Star Sirius, always waiting to welcome you home or assist you on your way. With an ally like this how can the Rock of Light fail?

15. The wraith of God can be likened to the Earth Shaking Stomp of the Guts Man, so also it is with transits of Saturn.

16. Yea, though the apocalypse is always won Wiley always seems to hide away some robots when he is imprisoned. This is why we must always keep warning ourselves of Wily's immanent escape - just as the Enlightened Buddha consistantly guards himself against the encrouches of the small mind using Mind and Body.

a word on the purpose

2007-06-13T08:56:00.000-07:00

The purpose of this project is to simply incorporate the old mythologies and belief systems of the ancient worlds (Sumero-Babylonian, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, African, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, Abrahamic, Zoroastrian, Meso-American, Native North-American, Aboriginal) into the modern world we live in via the all encompassing medium of pop-culture which at this time is like the new moon, full of energy but devoid of the sun's expositioning light. The voidness of popular culture is both useful and useless. It is useful since it is filled with metaphors, allegories, and parables. But like an empty chalice it is useless until one recognizes that it can be filled with water and used to drink from. Why does human society cyclically fall into the karmic traps of the 3 poisonous minds: greed, anger, and ignorance? It is due to mass spiritual malnourishment which causes a samsara sea of domestic, societal and, inter-cultural strife. The way forward is to recover the dream coin from the sub-conscious zone as Mario, Luiji, Toad or the Princess. All characters can play the bonus game as long as they have a dream coin! As the Sumerian proverb goes: "Drink! Thats the thing! Food! Thats the thing!".

Amitabha Mario,
J.C. Fisher

The Reconcilliation of the 64 Megaman Robots with the 7 Planets and the Galactic Center or the Sphere of the Fixed Stars

2007-06-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

Each robot to appear in Megaman 1 through 8 is congruent to one of the original 7 planets or the sphere of the fixed stars which are actually not fixed but revolve around a black hole in the center of the galaxy located on the zodiac at approximately 26"50' Sagittarius. There are actually 1 + 64 robots, but seeing as though Protoman's "Robot Number" (shown in the credits of Megaman 1) is 0, he is absent from the list of 8 x 8.

According to the official Megaman storyline Protoman was the first robot created in an effort between Dr. Light and his then assistant Dr. Wily. Protoman's official robot number as assigned by Capcom is 0. Thus he sits apart and above the 'bots built after him, at sometimes attacking Rock (Megaman)as an inferior obsolete rival, and now aiding him as an older wiser brother who has gone first. Protoman can be likened to the 9th sphere, the sphere beyond the fixed stars, symbolic of the All and First Thought Emanation in Gnostic spiritualism.

Also note, that Megaman's original name is "Rock" and he had a sister named "Roll". Rock and Roll. Their robot numbers are 1 and 2 respectively. I will also be posting a version of this list with a annotated commentary dealing with why the robots were assigned these planets and one or two alternative line-ups for a couple of the games.

00. The Proto man

Megaman 1:

01. The Mega man (Rock): Sun
02. Roll: Venus
03. Cut man: Mercury
04. Guts man: Saturn
05. Ice man: Moon
06. Bomb man: Mars
07. Fire man: Jupiter
08. Elec man: Fixed Stars

Megaman 2:

09. Metal man: Mars
10. Air man: Jupiter
11. Bubble man: Moon
12. Quick man: Mercury
13. Crash man: Saturn
14. Flash man: Fixed Stars
15. Heat man: Sun
16. Wood man: Venus

Megaman 3:

17. Needle man: Mars
18. Magnet man: Moon
19. Gemini man: Mercury
20. Hard man: Saturn
21. Top man: Fixed Stars
22. Snake man: Venus
23. Spark man: Sun
24. Shadow man: Jupiter

Megaman 4:

25. Bright man: Sun
26. Pharaoh man: Venus
27. Drill man: Mars
28. Ring man: Saturn
29. Toad man: Moon
30. Dust man: Fixed Stars
31. Dive man: Jupiter
32. Skull man: Mercury

Megaman 5:

33. Gravity man: Fixed Stars
34. Wave man: Moon
35. Stone man: Jupiter
36. Gyro man: Mercury
37. Star man: Sun
38. Charge man: Saturn
39. Napalm man: Mars
40. Crystal man: Venus

Megaman 6:

41. Blizzard man: Moon
42. Centaur man: Jupiter
43. Flame man: Sun
44. Knight man: Mars
45. Plant man: Venus
46. Tomahawk man: Saturn
47. Wind man: Mercury
48. Yamato man: Fixed Stars

Megaman 7:

49. Freeze man: Moon
50. Junk man: Fixed Stars
51. Burst man: Saturn
52. Cloud man: Jupiter
53. Spring man: Venus
54. Slash man: Sun
55. Shade man: Mars
56: Turbo man: Mercury

Megaman 8:

57. Tengu man: Sun
58. Astro man: Fixed Stars
59. Sword man: Venus
60. Clown man: Jupiter
61. Search man: Mercury
62. Frost man: Saturn
63. Grenade man: Mars
64. Aqua man: Moon

copyright: 2007, JCF.

Super Mario Bros. Sutra 1

2007-06-06T13:32:00.000-07:00

1. The Kingdom of God can be likened to Mario, Luiji, Toad, or the Princess stepping into the Sub-con. It is here but not here, real but unreal.

2. Yea, the material world can be likened to a turtleshell caught bouncing between two pipes at either extreme for eternity.

3. The Raccoon ears are for hearing.

4. Better still, enlightenment can be likened to a turtleshell caught at the bottom of a small waterhole, bouncing now left, now right in an infinite loop. Above it all sits the fire-flower, undisturbed like the Buddha.

5. Look around you, the Tao is watching.

6. Yea, glory to the ineffable, who makes two not two, uniter of dualities, merger of left and right, above and below, male and female.

7. Mario, look around you, the player is watching.

8. The world is an airship controlled by a Koopa-Kid, can you avoid its bullets?

9. If the Sun becomes angry and attacks you, just hit it with a turtleshell like you would any other adversary.

10. Mario, your life is but a dream as you found in Mario 2.

11. Mario, you should know the Japanese do not even consider your second adventure as truly a Mario game. O the endless Dharma worlds!

12. The Japanese Mario 2 looks very much like the first Super Mario Bros.

13. Humanity is a Shyguy. What is behind your mask Shyguy?

14. Buddha consciousness can be likened to Mario's first arrival in World 4 - Bigland. The same old objects are seen from a new view that is actually old.

15. Finding the White Toadhouse is a power of your mind, as one needs to collect a fixed number of gold coins for its appearance.

16. Toad said to Mario: "Mario, what is a plumber?" Mario replied to Toad "One who fears not entering a pipe-zone knowing the Mushroom Kingdom is close at hand".

17. Once when Mario was travelling through World 7, Pipe-maze, he said "Oh, Daisy, to be stuck inside of the Mushroomland with the Brooklyn blues again".

18. The conspicuous absense of question mark blocks in Mario 2 should be plain enough evidence for anyone that it is actually not a real Mario game.

19. The fact that Mario 2 was originally not actually a Mario game makes it one of the more interesting Mario games. O glory to the hundred thousand Dharma worlds.

20. Toad, what burning hot coal is yours that even you feel the need to smite Wart with that brazenly steamed Turnip?

21. The Princess asked Mario: "Have you ever left the Sub-con with a dream coin stuck to your head Mario? I have".

22. Like Inanna-Ishtar's ascent from the Netherworld in which she recovers a garment robbed of her at each of the 7 celestial abodes in every world Mario recovers a magic wand that was stolen from the Princess's vassels and recieves an enchanted imperial letter bejeweled with a useful item.

23. Like Gilgamesh Mario descends to the bottom of the sea in part one of level 3 to retrieve the seed of power; yea the fire flower. Verily, now he can shoot fire even under water.

24. Star, Star, Star, 3-2, the way is easy to follow. Avoid boss bass, you he will never swallow.

25. Christ-consciousness is like utilizing the goomba-pipe on 1-2. Even 99 lives in one level is possible here.

26. Entrance into the outer-realm can be likened to Raccoon Mario reaching the greatest heights only to find a ceiling of bricks. In some spots they are breakable. In some spots they are unbreakable. Find the rooms above the breakable bricks for therein are hidden 1-ups, Tanookis, and Hammer-brother suits.

27. Mario's recovery of the Princess is a parable for the redemption of the soul. Mario passes through 7 Worlds controlled by 7 Koopa-Kids, and finally penetrates the 8th realm, the sphere of Bowser, the Mind at the end of Mario 3, and the Tyrant tyrannizing the Mushroomland. Recovering the Princess Mario restores Indra's net changing the Mushroomland back into the Mushroom Kingdom.

28. The Princess laughed and said to Mario lovingly: "Mario, no matter how many times you collect the 28 P-wings you are still just a plumber in Mushroom Land".

copyright 2007, JCF