Episode 5 · ~25 min

Annihilation of Joy

Jason Louv

Setting

A prison planet. Inmates with tongues cut out. A soul looping through death and rebirth. Egyptian soul-weighing. The clear light.

Transmission

The relinquishing of the idea of an individual, separate self is the perception of emptiness and the fundamental clear light of existence. Not nihilism. The bardo loop continues as long as we cling to a fixed identity.

The relinquishing of the idea that you have an individual self is the ultimate orgasm. It’s the perception of emptiness and the fundamental clear light of existence.

For the walk

• Which bardo loops — in health, work, the story of who you are — are ready to be met rather than escaped?
• No-fixed-self is not bypass. It is the ground that lets the personality be useful without being the boss.