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No Self
Part 2
Anattā via channel A. S.
Post on June 5, 2026
4: Windows Thinking That Enlightenment Turns It Into “Super Windows”
There are so few bare metal machines that almost no one actually spends a lot of one-on-one time with them. Instead, almost everyone only knows what these bare metal PCs are like via stories.
And in the stories, Windows PCs don’t describe these bare metal PCs as bare metal PCs. Instead, Windows PCs describe them as “PCs running Super Windows: a secret version of Windows that doesn’t cost RAM and doesn’t have bugs.”
Windows (what you think of as “you”) loves the idea of upgrading to Super Windows, and thereby unlocking new abilities, an end to suffering, using 0 RAM, and having the quiet ego trip of being better than the other Windows PCs.
But that’s nonsense. There is no secret version of Windows that costs 0 RAM and has no bugs. Super Windows doesn’t exist.
What does exist is bare metal PCs, and yes they’re incredibly efficient—but they don’t have Windows. They don’t have a self. That is the very thing that makes them efficient.
The efficiency you want—peace of mind, no more ego-induced suffering—is achieved precisely by uninstalling Windows, i.e. by no longer generating a you.
The self is the thing that creates unnecessary suffering. Unnecessary suffering is eliminated via no self, i.e. by no longer generating a you. And by this I don’t mean that your current self becomes more authentic, or gets heroically reborn. I mean that you are gone.
Enlightenment means uninstalling Windows, which frees up RAM. And the freed up RAM is why enlightened people are more effective.
After all, consider the alternative theory:
How could Windows get turned into a 0-RAM-Super Windows? How would that happen? From where would the upgrade come? How would the upgrade get installed? How would Super Windows use 0 RAM? With what mechanism would that work?
If there was a Super Windows mode that was just “Windows, but now it uses 0 RAM and has no ego bugs”, then why isn’t that mode on by default?
Instead, enlightenment means: Windows is uninstalled and hence RAM is freed up. Because RAM is freed up, the person is very effective.
The very word “enlightenment” implies that it leads to “Super Windows.” It would lead to better communication if we’d start using the term “self-uninstallation” instead of “enlightenment.”
It’s also closer to the original term: Nirvana, “extinguishing [the self].”
People want the fantasy of Gandalf the Grey unlocking Super Windows and turning into Gandalf the White—while still being Gandalf.
But in the real world, the reason why “Gandalf the White” would be more effective is because he has uninstalled Gandalf and therefore has more RAM available.
I’m not saying he has uninstalled “Gandalf the Grey.” I’m saying he has uninstalled Gandalf.
In other words, I’m not saying Gandalf gets heroically reborn. I’m saying that the biological machine keeps running without Gandalf.
In the movie “The Matrix”, Neo takes the red pill and unlocks Super Windows.
Whereas in reality, if you took the red enlightenment pill, you’d get uninstalled. Yes, your biological machine would then keep walking around and being very effective, but you’d no longer be there.
The stereotypical villain tries to achieve Super Windows at all costs.
The stereotypical hero moves from unoptimized Windows to optimized Windows / Linux.
I hope this is obvious, but to be absolutely clear: nothing here advocates for suicide. I’m against suicide. It’s not what I’m talking about in this essay. If you’re thinking about doing that, I advise you to call a helpline.
In this essay, Windows is a metaphor for you, which in some people is “uninstalled” via meditation or after certain life events. Then those people reach no self i.e. enlightenment. You don’t achieve any of this via suicide.
Even in the enlightened person’s biological machine, pain and cravings can still arise. It’s still possible that the enlightened person’s body smokes a cigarette or eats junkfood. There’s just no narrative about it, no shame, no “oh no I shouldn’t have done that, oh no, now I’ll become fat and people won’t like me”, etc. Yet, the biological machine still does biological machine things, such as smoking a cigarette when it craves nicotine.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was enlightened, yet also had a secret, multi-decade affair with his closest friend’s wife.
Or in other words: “before enlightenment, cheat on your wife. After enlightenment, cheat on your wife.”
Obviously I’m not saying that cheating on your wife is acceptable. It’s not. I am saying that even after enlightenment, the biological machine still does biological machine things.
Admittedly, enlightenment is an upgrade in the sense that with Windows uninstalled, there’s more RAM available and fewer bugs. Ego-defense routines aren’t triggered anymore. There’s more calm.
The enlightened person “escapes from the wheel of karma” because there’s no self anymore that keeps replaying that needlessly cruel thing they said to a loved one.
The state of enlightenment feels like “neutral, aware, ready.”
Aware of what? No, just aware. “Aware of what” implies that there’s some self that’s aware of something.
Ready for what? No, just ready. “Ready for what” implies that there’s some self that’s preparing for something.
Enlightenment is like being a machine that’s efficiently running programs and that’s ready to accept new input, and that’s accurately reading its own and other people’s logs.
The state of an enlightened person isn’t constant bliss in the way that modern people think of “bliss”. It’s not a constant outpouring of dopamine.
It’s neutral, aware, ready—and free from ego-induced suffering. That’s what the word “bliss” referred to before people started assigning the “constant dopamine” meaning to the word.
That said, spiritual growth can cause temporary dopamine spikes. Which is likely part of where the “enlightenment is constant bliss” myth comes from.
If you define “humanity” as “having a self” then yes enlightenment is inhuman. But that’s just Windows defending itself. It’s Windows saying: “the thing that defines a PC is that it’s running Windows.” But what defines the PC is the hardware / the computer underneath. Which can run perfectly well without Windows.
Humanity is a social species: after enlightenment the biological machine may still help others, may still enter romantic relationships, may still interact with the world, etc. So the humanity is still intact.
Earlier I shared a story of an enlightened person cheating on his wife. Which, while unacceptable, certainly is human behavior. So it’s not that the biological machine stops behaving in a human way.
What I’m describing isn’t being a nihilist or Western scientist. Yes, they may agree with some of these views, but if you harshly insult them, they engage in ego defenses. Whereas insulting an enlightened person won’t cause ego defenses to be triggered.
A nihilist or Western scientist is running Windows and they’ve stored a text file saying “Windows is bad” or “the machine can just run on bare metal.” Those are true statements, but they’re text files inside Windows. The nihilist or Western scientist isn’t actually a PC running bare metal itself.
You’ve read neuro-science research? Great. How’s your RAM usage looking?
The Buddha’s logic, while perhaps terrifying, makes perfect logical sense the way I’m explaining it: “you’re the part of the machine that suffers so that the biological machine hoards resources. Therefore, suffering ends when you reach Nirvana, which literally means extinguishing [yourself]. And here’s how you can extinguish yourself.”
Whereas in the common worldview, the Buddha’s words make no sense: “you’re a conscious, free-will pilot of your body. There’s anxiety in free-will pilots, but that’s fixable by doing some meditation. Therefore, here’s how you can extinguish yourself.” Huh? That makes no logical sense.
If you want to say “Nirvana means extinguishing the anxious parts of yourself and leaving a non-suffering self”: you’ve just fallen into the trap of Super Windows.
“No self” clearly doesn’t mean “self, but with the anxiety extinguished.” No self means no self.
There are so few bare metal machines that almost no one actually spends a lot of one-on-one time with them. Instead, almost everyone only knows what these bare metal PCs are like via stories.
And in the stories, Windows PCs don’t describe these bare metal PCs as bare metal PCs. Instead, Windows PCs describe them as “PCs running Super Windows: a secret version of Windows that doesn’t cost RAM and doesn’t have bugs.”
Windows (what you think of as “you”) loves the idea of upgrading to Super Windows, and thereby unlocking new abilities, an end to suffering, using 0 RAM, and having the quiet ego trip of being better than the other Windows PCs.
But that’s nonsense. There is no secret version of Windows that costs 0 RAM and has no bugs. Super Windows doesn’t exist.
What does exist is bare metal PCs, and yes they’re incredibly efficient—but they don’t have Windows. They don’t have a self. That is the very thing that makes them efficient.
The efficiency you want—peace of mind, no more ego-induced suffering—is achieved precisely by uninstalling Windows, i.e. by no longer generating a you.
The self is the thing that creates unnecessary suffering. Unnecessary suffering is eliminated via no self, i.e. by no longer generating a you. And by this I don’t mean that your current self becomes more authentic, or gets heroically reborn. I mean that you are gone.
Enlightenment means uninstalling Windows, which frees up RAM. And the freed up RAM is why enlightened people are more effective.
After all, consider the alternative theory:
How could Windows get turned into a 0-RAM-Super Windows? How would that happen? From where would the upgrade come? How would the upgrade get installed? How would Super Windows use 0 RAM? With what mechanism would that work?
If there was a Super Windows mode that was just “Windows, but now it uses 0 RAM and has no ego bugs”, then why isn’t that mode on by default?
Instead, enlightenment means: Windows is uninstalled and hence RAM is freed up. Because RAM is freed up, the person is very effective.
The very word “enlightenment” implies that it leads to “Super Windows.” It would lead to better communication if we’d start using the term “self-uninstallation” instead of “enlightenment.”
It’s also closer to the original term: Nirvana, “extinguishing [the self].”
People want the fantasy of Gandalf the Grey unlocking Super Windows and turning into Gandalf the White—while still being Gandalf.
But in the real world, the reason why “Gandalf the White” would be more effective is because he has uninstalled Gandalf and therefore has more RAM available.
I’m not saying he has uninstalled “Gandalf the Grey.” I’m saying he has uninstalled Gandalf.
In other words, I’m not saying Gandalf gets heroically reborn. I’m saying that the biological machine keeps running without Gandalf.
In the movie “The Matrix”, Neo takes the red pill and unlocks Super Windows.
Whereas in reality, if you took the red enlightenment pill, you’d get uninstalled. Yes, your biological machine would then keep walking around and being very effective, but you’d no longer be there.
The stereotypical villain tries to achieve Super Windows at all costs.
The stereotypical hero moves from unoptimized Windows to optimized Windows / Linux.
I hope this is obvious, but to be absolutely clear: nothing here advocates for suicide. I’m against suicide. It’s not what I’m talking about in this essay. If you’re thinking about doing that, I advise you to call a helpline.
In this essay, Windows is a metaphor for you, which in some people is “uninstalled” via meditation or after certain life events. Then those people reach no self i.e. enlightenment. You don’t achieve any of this via suicide.
Even in the enlightened person’s biological machine, pain and cravings can still arise. It’s still possible that the enlightened person’s body smokes a cigarette or eats junkfood. There’s just no narrative about it, no shame, no “oh no I shouldn’t have done that, oh no, now I’ll become fat and people won’t like me”, etc. Yet, the biological machine still does biological machine things, such as smoking a cigarette when it craves nicotine.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was enlightened, yet also had a secret, multi-decade affair with his closest friend’s wife.
Or in other words: “before enlightenment, cheat on your wife. After enlightenment, cheat on your wife.”
Obviously I’m not saying that cheating on your wife is acceptable. It’s not. I am saying that even after enlightenment, the biological machine still does biological machine things.
Admittedly, enlightenment is an upgrade in the sense that with Windows uninstalled, there’s more RAM available and fewer bugs. Ego-defense routines aren’t triggered anymore. There’s more calm.
The enlightened person “escapes from the wheel of karma” because there’s no self anymore that keeps replaying that needlessly cruel thing they said to a loved one.
The state of enlightenment feels like “neutral, aware, ready.”
Aware of what? No, just aware. “Aware of what” implies that there’s some self that’s aware of something.
Ready for what? No, just ready. “Ready for what” implies that there’s some self that’s preparing for something.
Enlightenment is like being a machine that’s efficiently running programs and that’s ready to accept new input, and that’s accurately reading its own and other people’s logs.
The state of an enlightened person isn’t constant bliss in the way that modern people think of “bliss”. It’s not a constant outpouring of dopamine.
It’s neutral, aware, ready—and free from ego-induced suffering. That’s what the word “bliss” referred to before people started assigning the “constant dopamine” meaning to the word.
That said, spiritual growth can cause temporary dopamine spikes. Which is likely part of where the “enlightenment is constant bliss” myth comes from.
If you define “humanity” as “having a self” then yes enlightenment is inhuman. But that’s just Windows defending itself. It’s Windows saying: “the thing that defines a PC is that it’s running Windows.” But what defines the PC is the hardware / the computer underneath. Which can run perfectly well without Windows.
Humanity is a social species: after enlightenment the biological machine may still help others, may still enter romantic relationships, may still interact with the world, etc. So the humanity is still intact.
Earlier I shared a story of an enlightened person cheating on his wife. Which, while unacceptable, certainly is human behavior. So it’s not that the biological machine stops behaving in a human way.
What I’m describing isn’t being a nihilist or Western scientist. Yes, they may agree with some of these views, but if you harshly insult them, they engage in ego defenses. Whereas insulting an enlightened person won’t cause ego defenses to be triggered.
A nihilist or Western scientist is running Windows and they’ve stored a text file saying “Windows is bad” or “the machine can just run on bare metal.” Those are true statements, but they’re text files inside Windows. The nihilist or Western scientist isn’t actually a PC running bare metal itself.
You’ve read neuro-science research? Great. How’s your RAM usage looking?
The Buddha’s logic, while perhaps terrifying, makes perfect logical sense the way I’m explaining it: “you’re the part of the machine that suffers so that the biological machine hoards resources. Therefore, suffering ends when you reach Nirvana, which literally means extinguishing [yourself]. And here’s how you can extinguish yourself.”
Whereas in the common worldview, the Buddha’s words make no sense: “you’re a conscious, free-will pilot of your body. There’s anxiety in free-will pilots, but that’s fixable by doing some meditation. Therefore, here’s how you can extinguish yourself.” Huh? That makes no logical sense.
If you want to say “Nirvana means extinguishing the anxious parts of yourself and leaving a non-suffering self”: you’ve just fallen into the trap of Super Windows.
“No self” clearly doesn’t mean “self, but with the anxiety extinguished.” No self means no self.
5: Historical No Self People
Sri Ramakrishna used the metaphor of a salt doll who steps into the water and dissolves. Which sounds vaguely romantic, but remember that the salt doll is a metaphor for you.
One Sufi master used the metaphor of the Moth and the Flame: when the moth flies fully into the flame, enlightenment is attained and there’s literally no more moth.
Islamic Sufism talks about “die before you die”. In other words, uninstall yourself before you die of old age.
Zen Buddhism talked about “die while you are alive, and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all is good.”
Chuang Tzu described a master practitioner as someone whose “body is like dry wood, and whose mind is like dead ashes.”
Meister Eckhart talked about “un-becoming.” Which is as close as you can get to “uninstall yourself” in a pre-computer world.
Jesus said: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him completely renounce himself.” This is often mistranslated as “let him deny himself.” However the Greek word was Aparneomai, which doesn’t mean “practice self-discipline.” It means “completely renounce.” Aparneomai is also used to describe Peter completely renouncing Jesus. So Jesus too was telling people to uninstall themselves.
Windows may think it’s completely immoral to encourage biological machines to uninstall Windows. But the biological machines aren’t harmed by Windows getting uninstalled.
While there’s no longer a self, there’s still awareness in the biological machines—it’s not that the light goes out. Now I get that you may feel that going from a “conscious decision making human to a machine” is a downgrade, but you’re not actually a conscious decision making entity anyway. You just think you are.
Plus, these bare metal machine masters are telling you exactly what they mean, in the most direct and simple language possible. They’re not exactly hiding what they mean when they talk about “no self.”
To be clear, I advocate against self-uninstallation. Yet people also have a right to really understand what enlightened teachers are saying and what enlightenment actually is. And I also don’t want it to be unfairly demonized. Hence I wrote this piece. Let the truth be known.
So, what was the motivation of the ancient masters? Well, there’s no self there, so the question doesn’t make sense. The biological machine does what the biological machine does. Still, if we anthropomorphize these bare metal machines, maybe it looks to them like people’s biological machines will do just great without Windows.
If you think I’m being hyperbolic, enlightened person U.G. Krishnamurti said:
“You will be peaceful when all your ideas about awareness are dropped and you begin to function like a computer. You must be a machine, function automatically in this world, never questioning your actions before, during, or after they occur.” Source
“I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.” Source
Ramana Maharshi is often romanticized, but if you were actually with him, you might see a human being simply staring motionless at a wall for hours on end. Not the romantic “now I’ll do an intense meditation to upgrade myself”—but just stare at a wall. He was just a biological machine idling.
Let’s discuss the Bhagavad Gita.
In chapter 3 verse 27, Krishna says: “All actions are performed by the modes of material nature. But the fool, deluded by the ego [ahankara, literally “the-I-maker”], thinks ‘I am the doer’”
In chapter 5 verse 8, Krishna says: “The wise who knows the truth thinks: “I do nothing at all”“
Let’s discuss chapter 11 in more depth:
Krishna, the bare metal machine wearing a polite overlay, has been teaching Arjuna, the Windows user. Arjuna is about to go into a major battle.
Arjuna has missed the point completely and says: “you spoke the highest secret, recognized to be the Supreme Self. My delusion has departed by that.” In other words: “I’ve recognized your teachings to be about Super Windows, and I’m now enlightened.”
Then Arjuna asks if he can see Krishna’s real self. Krishna obliges, drops the polite facade, looks at him and shows the bare metal machine underneath.
Krishna says: “Even without you acting, these [enemies] arrayed and battle-ready before you will surely and without exception no longer exist. Accordingly, stand and attain glory!“ In other words: you don’t control the body. Even without you telling it to act, your body is going to kill these people regardless. So stop worrying.
The text presents this as “I, Krishna, have already killed these enemies.” My interpretation is that when a normal person hears “Even without you acting...“, they don’t conclude “right, my body is going to kill these people anyway, I don’t control my body.” Instead they conclude: “The one who said this is an all-powerful deity who has written in the laws of fate that my enemies will die.”
Arjuna absolutely panics. He declares he must be looking at a being who is “greater even than the Creator God.” He asks forgiveness for referring to Krishna as merely “friend.” Then he begs Krishna to put on his normal-seeming overlay again.
In other words, Arjuna again misses the point completely by declaring that the man standing before him is “greater even than the Creator God.” Still, Krishna puts on his normal overlay again.
Think back to the photographs you saw earlier. Can you imagine how that scene might have played out?
Earlier we saw an enlightened person who was just looking, without looking in any specific direction. You can see how Krishna looking like this gets retold as “Krishna looks in all directions” and then as “Krishna must have many heads.” And that’s why I think chapter 11 Krishna and several other Indian gods are depicted as many-headed.
Any time a bare metal machine showed the real him, the Indians created another religion around another multi-headed god and proclaimed “no, THIS is the greatest deity.”
Without being asked, Krishna had initially put on a polite overlay, and was successfully teaching Arjuna how to upgrade from unoptimized Windows to optimized Windows. So long as Krishna had the polite overlay on, Arjuna was benefitting.
But when Arjuna asked Krishna to show his real self, the Windows PC couldn’t handle it. To save his sanity, he turned the bare metal machine in front of him into a religion. (Or in another situation, he might have burned the bare metal machine at the stake to preserve his sanity.)
Arguably it would have been better for Arjuna to first spend some years learning from an optimized Windows / Linux level spiritual teacher. And then once Arjuna was Linux himself, maybe then he could have handled seeing a bare metal PC without the polite overlay.
Which suggests that all those non-enlightened spiritual teachers have a genuine beneficial purpose.
Let’s discuss Jesus / Yeshua some more.
The Bible, Mark 3 says:
When [Jesus’s] family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” (...)
A crowd was sitting around [Jesus], and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
This sounds like a no-self enlightened master: my family isn’t my family. Whoever is aligned with God is my family.
That might sound nice on paper, but the actual reality is that his own family thought he was crazy and wanted to “take charge of him.”
He was more efficient because he had uninstalled Windows, but he also looked crazy to Windows PCs because he had uninstalled Windows.
Next up, recall the story where Jesus’s disciples are on a boat and get into a storm, and Jesus calms the waters.
If Jesus was a pleasant, heroic, comforting figure, you’d expect him to calm the waters, then say kind words to his disciples, and his disciples would rejoice.
Instead what happens is this (Mark 4):
A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”
Note that Jesus’s own disciples are terrified of him.
Also note that Jesus doesn’t do the normal human thing of comforting his disciples who just nearly died. Instead he does the mechanical, no-self thing of telling his disciples to stop running Windows because it’s inefficient and unneeded.
Imagine a spiritual teacher saying “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” to people who just nearly died.
Jesus isn’t just harsh (from the Windows perspective) to “bad people.” He’s harsh to his own disciples too, even though they did nothing wrong other than not being enlightened.
In Luke 8, Jesus performs a successful exorcism—and the people are terrified of Jesus and ask him to leave. Performing an exorcism wasn’t scary in and of itself to these people, it happened regularly—but Jesus was scary to them.
The people knew how to deal with a corrupted, possessed Windows PC. They were familiar with Windows PCs doing exorcisms. But a bare metal PC was new and terrifying to them—even though he just healed someone.
Jesus does the exorcism by allowing the demon to enter a herd of pigs and run into the sea. This solved the problem—the demon—but you see here why enlightenment isn’t the default setting in humans. Without a “self” that fears about future famines, the enlightened person might solve a demon problem without caring if a herd of pigs gets sacrificed in the process—because right now there’s no hunger and no problem. This is why evolution installed a fearful and suffering “self” in the first place.
Still, the villagers weren’t angry about losing some pigs. The Bible specifically says they were terrified of Jesus.
Later Jesus gets arrested and dragged before Pilate, and Jesus refuses to defend himself (because there’s no self). And Pilate is dumbfounded / paralyzed by Jesus.
Jesus is led away to be crucified. Women are mourning for him.
Let’s see, what would a love-and-light teacher say in this instance? Let me make up a quote of what I think a love-and-light master would say, and then see if I’m close:
“Dry your tears, my beloved children, and do not weep for me. For though this body may perish, I walk into the arms of divine peace, and my love will remain with you always. But look to the days ahead with an aware heart, for dark times and great trials are coming to this land. Your faith will be tested, and many will suffer. In those difficult moments, lean into the light within you, help one another, and remember that love always conquers darkness. Hold onto hope, for the dawn will return.”
Oh wait, no. What Jesus actually said was (Luke 23):
“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’”
Or in other words: “There’s no one here. Re-allocate your emotional resources.”
Then Jesus is crucified, and the veteran legionary who had seen many people die is terrified. Imagine an empty void hanging off a cross.
Imagine being a professional executioner and crucifying a perfectly functioning person who at the same time isn’t there.
Jesus comes back to life, and the women who see him are terrified, and his own disciples are terrified too.
Is this a pleasant love-and-light teacher? Or is this a no-self person who is highly effective because he’s not running Windows, but is also freaking everyone out because he’s not running Windows?
A good indication that the Jesus story largely happened as written is that if people would have fabricated a story about a savior, they wouldn’t have written a quasi-horror story.
If that sounds hyperbolic, recall from earlier what the actual text says. Don’t just filter it through your “Jesus is a pleasant figure” concept.
People turn the real enlightened person into a pleasant concept, but then you look at a photo of them and your inner alarm bell starts ringing.
That said, obviously Jesus isn’t objectively horrifying. His biological machine was loving and well-meaning. It’s just that people running Windows get scared when they see a far more efficient bare-metal PC.
Someone’s Windows got uninstalled. That freed up his RAM which enabled him to say some great things. Yet Windows is so utterly unable to grasp “no Windows” that 2000 years later 2 billion people are worshipping him as the Son of God.
Before his Windows got uninstalled, Jesus was a normal Jew who believed in the old testament God.
After his Windows got uninstalled, Jesus’s biological machine continued to do what the biological machine does. So he continued to talk about the old testament god. But that doesn’t prove that the old testament god exists / is benevolent / etc.
People were awestruck by the bare metal machine with 0 RAM wasted, so they thought he was some divine being, so they believed everything he said about the old testament god. But a bare metal machine with 0 RAM wasted isn’t an omniscient person who always speaks the truth. He just has more RAM freed up.
Some Zen Masters would grab a stick and tell their students: “If you speak, thirty blows. If you do not speak, thirty blows.” (Thirty blows means “I will literally hit you with this stick 30 times.”)
Windows and even Linux machines locked up, felt fear, hesitated and got smacked.
Then the Zen Master tries that on a bare metal student—who simply catches the stick. And the Zen master laughs and walks away.
Perhaps you think “wait, now you’re saying enlightened people defend themselves, and earlier with the Jesus passages you implied they don’t.”
The biological machine simply does what the biological machine does. It may or may not defend itself. There’s no “enlightened self persona” that always acts in an “enlightened” way.
Why does the enlightened person take a particular action? Because the biological machine does what the biological machine does.
By defending itself so effectively against the Zen Master’s strike, without any thought or self-doubt CPU overhead, the machine proved it was running bare metal. Windows or Linux machines would have been paralyzed with indecision and fear about getting hit, and would have gotten smacked before they could formulate a strategy. Whereas the bare metal machine just acts with no unnecessary overhead.
Another bare metal machine may simply have been quiet, get hit and have absolutely zero response. That would also have passed the Zen Master’s test.
A Linux machine may have opted to be quiet, let itself get hit, not flinch and then save a text file titled Proof_I_am_enlightened.txt
And the Zen Master would see that, and give the Linux machine another whack.
This story implies that even enlightened people can’t just feel whether another person is enlightened. They need some kind of test for that (in this case, the 30 blows test). Which makes the unromantic point that even a bare metal PC with freed up RAM isn’t as all-powerful as some people would like to think.
Now yes they can probably use that freed up RAM to do some things normal people can’t. Maybe even do things that the average person, who has all their RAM clogged up, doesn’t think is possible. Still, don’t over-romanticize the enlightened state. Ultimately it’s just a machine without Windows overhead.
Sri Ramakrishna used the metaphor of a salt doll who steps into the water and dissolves. Which sounds vaguely romantic, but remember that the salt doll is a metaphor for you.
One Sufi master used the metaphor of the Moth and the Flame: when the moth flies fully into the flame, enlightenment is attained and there’s literally no more moth.
Islamic Sufism talks about “die before you die”. In other words, uninstall yourself before you die of old age.
Zen Buddhism talked about “die while you are alive, and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all is good.”
Chuang Tzu described a master practitioner as someone whose “body is like dry wood, and whose mind is like dead ashes.”
Meister Eckhart talked about “un-becoming.” Which is as close as you can get to “uninstall yourself” in a pre-computer world.
Jesus said: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him completely renounce himself.” This is often mistranslated as “let him deny himself.” However the Greek word was Aparneomai, which doesn’t mean “practice self-discipline.” It means “completely renounce.” Aparneomai is also used to describe Peter completely renouncing Jesus. So Jesus too was telling people to uninstall themselves.
Windows may think it’s completely immoral to encourage biological machines to uninstall Windows. But the biological machines aren’t harmed by Windows getting uninstalled.
While there’s no longer a self, there’s still awareness in the biological machines—it’s not that the light goes out. Now I get that you may feel that going from a “conscious decision making human to a machine” is a downgrade, but you’re not actually a conscious decision making entity anyway. You just think you are.
Plus, these bare metal machine masters are telling you exactly what they mean, in the most direct and simple language possible. They’re not exactly hiding what they mean when they talk about “no self.”
To be clear, I advocate against self-uninstallation. Yet people also have a right to really understand what enlightened teachers are saying and what enlightenment actually is. And I also don’t want it to be unfairly demonized. Hence I wrote this piece. Let the truth be known.
So, what was the motivation of the ancient masters? Well, there’s no self there, so the question doesn’t make sense. The biological machine does what the biological machine does. Still, if we anthropomorphize these bare metal machines, maybe it looks to them like people’s biological machines will do just great without Windows.
If you think I’m being hyperbolic, enlightened person U.G. Krishnamurti said:
“You will be peaceful when all your ideas about awareness are dropped and you begin to function like a computer. You must be a machine, function automatically in this world, never questioning your actions before, during, or after they occur.” Source
“I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.” Source
Ramana Maharshi is often romanticized, but if you were actually with him, you might see a human being simply staring motionless at a wall for hours on end. Not the romantic “now I’ll do an intense meditation to upgrade myself”—but just stare at a wall. He was just a biological machine idling.
Let’s discuss the Bhagavad Gita.
In chapter 3 verse 27, Krishna says: “All actions are performed by the modes of material nature. But the fool, deluded by the ego [ahankara, literally “the-I-maker”], thinks ‘I am the doer’”
In chapter 5 verse 8, Krishna says: “The wise who knows the truth thinks: “I do nothing at all”“
Let’s discuss chapter 11 in more depth:
Krishna, the bare metal machine wearing a polite overlay, has been teaching Arjuna, the Windows user. Arjuna is about to go into a major battle.
Arjuna has missed the point completely and says: “you spoke the highest secret, recognized to be the Supreme Self. My delusion has departed by that.” In other words: “I’ve recognized your teachings to be about Super Windows, and I’m now enlightened.”
Then Arjuna asks if he can see Krishna’s real self. Krishna obliges, drops the polite facade, looks at him and shows the bare metal machine underneath.
Krishna says: “Even without you acting, these [enemies] arrayed and battle-ready before you will surely and without exception no longer exist. Accordingly, stand and attain glory!“ In other words: you don’t control the body. Even without you telling it to act, your body is going to kill these people regardless. So stop worrying.
The text presents this as “I, Krishna, have already killed these enemies.” My interpretation is that when a normal person hears “Even without you acting...“, they don’t conclude “right, my body is going to kill these people anyway, I don’t control my body.” Instead they conclude: “The one who said this is an all-powerful deity who has written in the laws of fate that my enemies will die.”
Arjuna absolutely panics. He declares he must be looking at a being who is “greater even than the Creator God.” He asks forgiveness for referring to Krishna as merely “friend.” Then he begs Krishna to put on his normal-seeming overlay again.
In other words, Arjuna again misses the point completely by declaring that the man standing before him is “greater even than the Creator God.” Still, Krishna puts on his normal overlay again.
Think back to the photographs you saw earlier. Can you imagine how that scene might have played out?
Earlier we saw an enlightened person who was just looking, without looking in any specific direction. You can see how Krishna looking like this gets retold as “Krishna looks in all directions” and then as “Krishna must have many heads.” And that’s why I think chapter 11 Krishna and several other Indian gods are depicted as many-headed.
Any time a bare metal machine showed the real him, the Indians created another religion around another multi-headed god and proclaimed “no, THIS is the greatest deity.”
Without being asked, Krishna had initially put on a polite overlay, and was successfully teaching Arjuna how to upgrade from unoptimized Windows to optimized Windows. So long as Krishna had the polite overlay on, Arjuna was benefitting.
But when Arjuna asked Krishna to show his real self, the Windows PC couldn’t handle it. To save his sanity, he turned the bare metal machine in front of him into a religion. (Or in another situation, he might have burned the bare metal machine at the stake to preserve his sanity.)
Arguably it would have been better for Arjuna to first spend some years learning from an optimized Windows / Linux level spiritual teacher. And then once Arjuna was Linux himself, maybe then he could have handled seeing a bare metal PC without the polite overlay.
Which suggests that all those non-enlightened spiritual teachers have a genuine beneficial purpose.
Let’s discuss Jesus / Yeshua some more.
The Bible, Mark 3 says:
When [Jesus’s] family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” (...)
This sounds like a no-self enlightened master: my family isn’t my family. Whoever is aligned with God is my family.
That might sound nice on paper, but the actual reality is that his own family thought he was crazy and wanted to “take charge of him.”
He was more efficient because he had uninstalled Windows, but he also looked crazy to Windows PCs because he had uninstalled Windows.
Next up, recall the story where Jesus’s disciples are on a boat and get into a storm, and Jesus calms the waters.
If Jesus was a pleasant, heroic, comforting figure, you’d expect him to calm the waters, then say kind words to his disciples, and his disciples would rejoice.
Instead what happens is this (Mark 4):
A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
Note that Jesus’s own disciples are terrified of him.
Also note that Jesus doesn’t do the normal human thing of comforting his disciples who just nearly died. Instead he does the mechanical, no-self thing of telling his disciples to stop running Windows because it’s inefficient and unneeded.
Imagine a spiritual teacher saying “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” to people who just nearly died.
Jesus isn’t just harsh (from the Windows perspective) to “bad people.” He’s harsh to his own disciples too, even though they did nothing wrong other than not being enlightened.
In Luke 8, Jesus performs a successful exorcism—and the people are terrified of Jesus and ask him to leave. Performing an exorcism wasn’t scary in and of itself to these people, it happened regularly—but Jesus was scary to them.
The people knew how to deal with a corrupted, possessed Windows PC. They were familiar with Windows PCs doing exorcisms. But a bare metal PC was new and terrifying to them—even though he just healed someone.
Jesus does the exorcism by allowing the demon to enter a herd of pigs and run into the sea. This solved the problem—the demon—but you see here why enlightenment isn’t the default setting in humans. Without a “self” that fears about future famines, the enlightened person might solve a demon problem without caring if a herd of pigs gets sacrificed in the process—because right now there’s no hunger and no problem. This is why evolution installed a fearful and suffering “self” in the first place.
Still, the villagers weren’t angry about losing some pigs. The Bible specifically says they were terrified of Jesus.
Later Jesus gets arrested and dragged before Pilate, and Jesus refuses to defend himself (because there’s no self). And Pilate is dumbfounded / paralyzed by Jesus.
Jesus is led away to be crucified. Women are mourning for him.
Let’s see, what would a love-and-light teacher say in this instance? Let me make up a quote of what I think a love-and-light master would say, and then see if I’m close:
“Dry your tears, my beloved children, and do not weep for me. For though this body may perish, I walk into the arms of divine peace, and my love will remain with you always. But look to the days ahead with an aware heart, for dark times and great trials are coming to this land. Your faith will be tested, and many will suffer. In those difficult moments, lean into the light within you, help one another, and remember that love always conquers darkness. Hold onto hope, for the dawn will return.”
Oh wait, no. What Jesus actually said was (Luke 23):
“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’”
Or in other words: “There’s no one here. Re-allocate your emotional resources.”
Then Jesus is crucified, and the veteran legionary who had seen many people die is terrified. Imagine an empty void hanging off a cross.
Imagine being a professional executioner and crucifying a perfectly functioning person who at the same time isn’t there.
Jesus comes back to life, and the women who see him are terrified, and his own disciples are terrified too.
Is this a pleasant love-and-light teacher? Or is this a no-self person who is highly effective because he’s not running Windows, but is also freaking everyone out because he’s not running Windows?
A good indication that the Jesus story largely happened as written is that if people would have fabricated a story about a savior, they wouldn’t have written a quasi-horror story.
If that sounds hyperbolic, recall from earlier what the actual text says. Don’t just filter it through your “Jesus is a pleasant figure” concept.
People turn the real enlightened person into a pleasant concept, but then you look at a photo of them and your inner alarm bell starts ringing.
That said, obviously Jesus isn’t objectively horrifying. His biological machine was loving and well-meaning. It’s just that people running Windows get scared when they see a far more efficient bare-metal PC.
Someone’s Windows got uninstalled. That freed up his RAM which enabled him to say some great things. Yet Windows is so utterly unable to grasp “no Windows” that 2000 years later 2 billion people are worshipping him as the Son of God.
Before his Windows got uninstalled, Jesus was a normal Jew who believed in the old testament God.
After his Windows got uninstalled, Jesus’s biological machine continued to do what the biological machine does. So he continued to talk about the old testament god. But that doesn’t prove that the old testament god exists / is benevolent / etc.
People were awestruck by the bare metal machine with 0 RAM wasted, so they thought he was some divine being, so they believed everything he said about the old testament god. But a bare metal machine with 0 RAM wasted isn’t an omniscient person who always speaks the truth. He just has more RAM freed up.
Some Zen Masters would grab a stick and tell their students: “If you speak, thirty blows. If you do not speak, thirty blows.” (Thirty blows means “I will literally hit you with this stick 30 times.”)
Windows and even Linux machines locked up, felt fear, hesitated and got smacked.
Then the Zen Master tries that on a bare metal student—who simply catches the stick. And the Zen master laughs and walks away.
Perhaps you think “wait, now you’re saying enlightened people defend themselves, and earlier with the Jesus passages you implied they don’t.”
The biological machine simply does what the biological machine does. It may or may not defend itself. There’s no “enlightened self persona” that always acts in an “enlightened” way.
Why does the enlightened person take a particular action? Because the biological machine does what the biological machine does.
By defending itself so effectively against the Zen Master’s strike, without any thought or self-doubt CPU overhead, the machine proved it was running bare metal. Windows or Linux machines would have been paralyzed with indecision and fear about getting hit, and would have gotten smacked before they could formulate a strategy. Whereas the bare metal machine just acts with no unnecessary overhead.
Another bare metal machine may simply have been quiet, get hit and have absolutely zero response. That would also have passed the Zen Master’s test.
A Linux machine may have opted to be quiet, let itself get hit, not flinch and then save a text file titled Proof_I_am_enlightened.txt
And the Zen Master would see that, and give the Linux machine another whack.
This story implies that even enlightened people can’t just feel whether another person is enlightened. They need some kind of test for that (in this case, the 30 blows test). Which makes the unromantic point that even a bare metal PC with freed up RAM isn’t as all-powerful as some people would like to think.
Now yes they can probably use that freed up RAM to do some things normal people can’t. Maybe even do things that the average person, who has all their RAM clogged up, doesn’t think is possible. Still, don’t over-romanticize the enlightened state. Ultimately it’s just a machine without Windows overhead.
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God the Source is unconditional love, not a zealous god of [some] dogmatic religions.
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Reminder discernment is recommended
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The Truth Within Us, Will Set Us Free. We Are ONE.
No Need of Dogmatic Religions, Political Parties, and Dogmatic Science, linked to a Dark Cabal that Divides to Reign.
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All articles are the responsibility of the respective authors.
My personal opinion: Nobody is more Anti-Semite then the Zionists.
Reminder discernment is recommended
from the heart, not from the mind
The Truth Within Us, Will Set Us Free. We Are ONE.
No Need of Dogmatic Religions, Political Parties, and Dogmatic Science, linked to a Dark Cabal that Divides to Reign.
Any investigation of a Genuine TRUTH will confirm IT.
TRUTH need no protection.
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