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 the void
the quasi
the apophatic
the desert
the dark night
the mystofictional
Real.
The stranger transfuses the symptom—exposed in the yearning embrace of the curative fantasy that is 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, assume a relaxed yet alert bodily position (sitting, standing). Establish awareness right there. Like this: breathe in, attending to the felt sensations of the breath touching your nose and upper lip; breathe out, simply attending to the sensory breath. That’s all.
Our buddhomystical contemplation consists in three basic postures, in the first instance:
Stillness. Breath. Awareness.
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—that 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.
Close
That’s it.
And then, the stranger leaves the ruin.
Toward what end?
To struggle against the powers of the World.
To clash with Hell.
What do you think?