Sutras of Flesh and Blood

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This is not the manifesto of a movement, but rather the expression, amongother things, of someone determined to expose a faade, signing theexpiration warrant of a doctrine composed in the language of dreams,preferring a speech disheveled by the wind and pitted with holes, but withthe kind of authority that a ruin cannot help but have and that no meremovement can ever possess.*

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Sutra 0The Perfection of Immanental Wisdom Sutra

Except through illusion, delusion, emotional distress or psychological need, x-buddhism, (Mindfulness, Zen, Vipassana, Secular Buddhism, ad nauseum )cannot substitute itself for the human. Without the force of illusion, delusion,emotional distress or psychological need, nothing is capable of displacinggeneric human identity. The human cannot, except through illusion, delusion,emotional distress or psychological need, substitute his/her identity for the x-buddhist subject. The person of flesh and blood is an inalienable reality.Reversibility between the person of flesh and blood and the x-buddhist

subject is impossible.

Sutra 0 2 The Irrevocable Axiom Sutra

The previous sutra is an irrevocable axiom on the basis of which this sutra andall those that follow are founded.

Sutra 0 3 The Fear or Contempt Sutra

X-buddhism (its doctrines, its teachers), in the twenty-first century West, is aspecies of contempt disguised as a species of compassion. Contemptuous ofwhat? of flesh and blood potentialities. Either that or it is fearful fearing theexuberant creativity and coruscating intelligence of the uninstructed hoi

polloi . Whether out of fear or contempt, x-buddhism arms itself in the nameof flesh and blood potentialities with a self-serving hermeneutics of

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exemplification, called The Dharma. This supra -signifier constitutes a batteryof abstract, obscure principles disguised as concrete, human ones.

Sutra 0 4 The Bourgeoisie Sutra

X-buddhism (its doctrines, its teachers) functions like the nineteenth centurybourgeoisie. Namely: it divides a generic, classless humanity into hierarchizedsubjects of its own invention; it fabricates false divisions in order to fulfill itsdesire for spiritualized power and domination; it reigns over the human via aconfusion of transcendent declarations cloaked as natural laws (dharma asmarket); it founds its principles and practices in transcendental illusions of itsown making; and therein it establishes its sufficiency in the last instance . X-buddhism (its doctrines, its teachers) prospers by alienating humans of fleshand blood from their unique productive forces. It then usurps those forces,distorts them, and employs them toward its own productive ends.

Sutra 0 5 The Statute of Decision Sutra

To romanticized Indian asceticism, glamorized East Asian metaphysics, andChristo-Judaic law (the still forceful code of western x-buddhists) is addeddecision the statute that calls for the rending of the flesh and blood personin order to deliver him, as mere remainder, over to the differentialtranscendent magistrate, The Dharma.

Sutra 0 6 The Lustful Imperium Sutra

The statute is the engine of x-buddhist desire. The statutes force is directed atthe humans sense of deficiency, born of illusion, delusion, emotional distressor psychological need. The statute, by fiat, decrees the annexation of fleshand blo od by the Imperiums lustful pontiff, The Dharma.

Sutra 0 7 The Sutra of Hallucinated Destruction

Since transference of identity is impossible, destruction of identity is impossible.The x-buddhist subject-practitioner is thus disabused of its exalted claim todestruction of the taints, of desire, of delusion, lust, and anger, of ignoranceand of the ignorant, of sorrow and lamentation, for instance. The x-buddhistsubject-practitioner dreams its purity in bloodless reverie. The subject-practitioner is a fleshless phantasmagoria, fashioned from rootless language,thought, and desire. Regarding the person of flesh and blood, the x-buddhist

subject-practitioner is the destroyer of nothing.


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Sutra 0 8 The Identity of the Assassin Sutra

X-buddhism is the master assassin. It targets the person of flesh and blood. But, x-buddhism is a specular pasha, reigning from on high. So, in order to fulfill thesecond tenet of the assassins creed hide in plain sight; be one with thecrowd it employs its teacher-acolytes to carry out the deed.

Sutra 0 9 The Suicide of X-buddhism Sutra

In the assassins hit , there is no death of the human, no murder of flesh, nospilling of blood. There is only the suicide of x-buddhism. The assassin strikeswith a body bomb and thus leaves only scraps of dharmic bone in theaftermath.

Sutra 0 10 The Impotence Sutra

To the extent that the person of flesh and blood lives subjugated by the lustfulimperious statute of x-buddhistic decision, he lives diminished by animpotence of thought, speech, and action and, thus, as flesh and bloodperson, with an indefensible culpability.

Sutra 0 11 The Termination of the Statute Sutra

The termination of the statute of x-buddhistic decision constitutes aninstantaneous return to the life lived through the inalienable body of flesh andblood. Termination of the statute spells the abrupt disempowerment of x-buddhisms violent gesture of abstraction known as The Dharma.

Sutra 0 12 The Reclamation of Radical Identity Sutra

Liberated from the perpetual force of the anti-human dharmic differential,termination of the statute of decision spontaneously exposes the raw, radicalidentity of the person of flesh and blood.


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NOTES

* Georges Bataille, Molloys Silence, in S. E. Gontarski (ed.), OnBeckett: Essays and Criticism (New York: Grove Press, 1986), p.131 (slightly reworded).

Sutras of Flesh and Blood takes its inspiration in form and inthe occasional word from Franois Laruell es Thormes de laBonne Nouvelle, in La Dcision philosophique , 1 (May 1987): 83-85. I thank Alexander R. Galloway for making available to me acopy of this difficult to obtain text. I also consulted Gallowaysexcellent translation, Theorems on the Good News, availableat his website .

T H E A U T H O R

Glenn Wallis holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Harvard University. He is theauthor of Mediating the Power of Buddhas and several other books andarticles on Buddhism. Wallis blogs at Speculative Non-Buddhism andOvenbird . For more information, visit: glennwallis.com .

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