Black Sun Rising: Making the Darkness Conscious

by James Portocarrero

Life, death, mortality, pain, pleasure, all the dualities of experience are like karmic knots which have accumulated deep within our psyche from beginningless time. Conditioning and patterning our lives and experiences, we are living in tapestries woven from the threads of the past in varying shades of dark and light fabric. This book presents a philosophical and ontological analysis of our situation in the 'realm of continuous birth and death', i.e. the notion of Samsara, through the lens of Mahayana Buddhist thought, while using very little Sanskrit words, and presenting only the essence of the Buddhist realization, along with wisdom garnered from other esoteric traditions from the East and West.Reading this book with an open heart and sharp mind will allow one to immerse fully into the great enlightened mind of pure awareness that the Buddhist reality envisions, and actually experience the cutting of the knots of duality and absorption of their frozen wisdom-essence! The tone of the text and the logic it presents is drastically urgent and important for every human being on the Earth. It challenges us to challenge ourselves, and examine our life and the nature of existence acutely, and in doing so to overcome all of our fears and grow and mature as individuals living in a cosmic reality of pure enlightened mind, rather than being trapped in self-begotten matrices of illusion and duality!Overcoming the poles of dark and light that form webs of repressed psychic patterns one will find is the very essence of Enlightenment and Buddhist thought. In this book you will explore these themes and more and come to be established in the spacious clear light of the 'Perfection of Wisdom'!

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 29, 2012