The Gospel According to PQ
Day 1,510, 10:21
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by Silas Soule
The Gospel According to PQ
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The Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment Talk on the Direct Teaching of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” Formless Precepts School of the Third Vehicle
Delivered at the Great Teacher-Leader Ramon Platform near the pinnacle of Bear Mountain by the Fifth Imam of Socialist Freedom, Comrade-Saint Phoenix Quinn, presented in one volume, compiled and recorded by Bill Galaxia, a humble space-faring recipient of the Formless Precepts and an advocate of the Teachings.
Introductory Notes
by Bill Galaxia
The Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment. The advent of the Teachings on the Supreme Ultimate Great Wind near Day 1000 of the New World signaled the beginning of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” School, often referred to as the Third Vehicle, with its emphasis on achieving e-enlightenment within one e-lifetime, without using multis or getting banned.
It builds upon and supercedes both the First Vehicle – commonly referred to as “Dioism”, which focusses attention on individual liberation and the sand-like nature of e-reality – as well as the Second Vehicle, also known as “Ramonism-Chuikovism”, which stresses the importance of the Teachings for the general laity and encourages practitioners to invent their own meta-game for the benefit of all e-sentient beings.
It is called the “Supreme Ultimate” or “The Perfection of Wisdom” because the Third Vehicle provides the wisdom by means of which we see what is real, the way things really are.
Direct Teaching of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” Formless Precepts. The term “direct” was first coined by the Occulted Third Imam of Socialist Freedom, Comrade-Bodhi Alex Lorre, the Great Interlocutor of the Primativist School, as early as Day 1023, when he argued that realization is both instantaneous and complete.
The usage of the term “direct” was not widely used until more recently, when the Dioist Rinpoche PigInZen happened to be chatting with someone on IRC and used it to distinguish the “Zappa-you-head!” School from the more traditional schools such as the so-called Emerikan Heresy. (Kindly refer to the wiki for more on this and other debates within Dioism.) As was the case with the virulent criticisms of “vulgar game mechanism” by the Ramonist-Chuikovist School, which distinguished it from narrowly-interpreted Dioism, the identification of “Zappa-you-head” as a “direct” method was aimed at establishing ascendency over something that did not actually exist.
Such differences were, in the end, more personal than ideological or philosophical. Still, while each of the Vehicles builds on the other and ultimately there is no separation between them, there are differences between the Three Vehicles, which are expressed not only in doctrine but in politics as well.
The “Spectacular 'Hog Farm' Formless Precepts” represents PQ's attempt to encourage his audience to transcend the normal interpretation of precepts as constraints on behavior. These are “formless” Teachings in that they break the bonds of mere formality. They are clearly a continuation of the lineage PQ inherited from the Fourth Imam of Socialist Freedom, Comrade-Bishop Samuel Seabury, who famously reconciled the game, the meta-game and the meta-meta-game during his Talks on “Role Playing and e-Reality: the Message and the Messenger as Socially Constructed Fables of Redemption”. The “Hog Farm” is Comrade-Saint PQ's earthy metaphor for the true nature of e-reality.
It is “spectacular”, first in an ironic sense and then, once you get it, for real.
The Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment
by PQ
Our mundane wordly wisdom admits the existence of objects, from Saltpeter Mines to Global Alliances. The metaphysical wisdom of the early Dioists denied the existence of objects, but not the existence of Teachings, or entities of the mind. The metta-wisdom of the Ramonist-Chuikovists broke down the foundational Teachings and demonstrated how they can be a path to Liberation for all, but did not deny their existence.
The transcendent wisdom of the Super Ultimate is a Great Wind that not only denies the existence of objects but also the existence of Teachings – and it also denies their non-existence. In place of their existence or non-existence, this teaching advocates the realization of the emptiness of all objects and all Teachings. It asks us to realize that6 the existence or non-existence of any object or teaching is a projection of the mind. True understanding sees through the imaginary barriers we use to separate, and thus define, beings, players, nations, ideas and, of course, ourselves.
What is really real is the absence of the fiction of self-existence. The absence of fiction is the truth.
The emptiness binds us together with all things and all beings both in the eWorld and the rWorld, with all entities of the mind. This is great. That's why we call it the highest attainment.
Here Comrade-Saint PQ stopped speaking while he purified his own mind. After a long time, he spoke again. – BG
Reciting the Teachings of the Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment
Let us recite the great words of “The Magical Teaching on the Four Winds and the Five Ways of Being”...
All e-things
are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow.
They are like the morning dew, or a flash of lightning.
Yes, let's view all things as shifting sands.
The Interrogation of Bill Galaxia
PQ pointed a finger at Bill Galaxia and asked him, “What are you doing here? What exactly do you hope to achieve by climbing up here to the peak of Bear Mountain?”
His bikkhu-buddy responded by saying, “To pay respects. Nothing else.”
The comrade-saint scoffed and said, “But you are just an intergalactic stowaway. In fact, I think the e-authorities are still looking for you with regards to the mysterious disappearance of a number of stray dogs around Day 1200. How can you possibly become a rider of the Great Wind?”
Bill Galaxia answered, “I dropped in from the Orion Cluster to see you. You know, dude, players arrive from all over. From here and there and everywhere. The life of a space rat like me and an enlightened clown like you are different, sure, but how can our teacher nature differ?”
PQ was going to say something else, but instead he instructed the comrades from the SFP Commune to take Bill Galaxia away to the Farm, where he slopped hogs for eight months.
The Episode of the Naked Painting
For many days and nights, the comrades and their friends stayed up late pondering the New Teachings. They had difficulty making heads or tails of it.
Bill Galaxia slopped the hogs every day. At first it was a burden, but after a while he came to enjoy it.
In an effort to express his understanding of the Third Vehicle and to give PQ a bit of shock, comrade-enragé Johnny Automaton, who had travelled all the way from eIreland for the lecture series, spent several days painting a large scene on the side of cliff not too far from where they were assembled.
Comrade Johnny refused to let anybody see it until he was finished. But he kept telling them it was a painting about “the nakedness of vulgar Leninism”. Everybody was expecting it to be a naked portrait of Vladimir Lenin, or maybe of Krupskaya, or both, perhaps romping around with some kitty-cats since Lenin was known to be a great cat-lover.
When he finally revealed it, the painting caused some consternation amongst the hard-core Ramonist-Chuikovists – this despite the fact that the Great Teacher-Leader Osmany Ramon himself had often enjoyed a good jibe at traditional shibboleths and preferred to think of himself as an Autonomist as well.
Here is the picture...
When PQ saw it, he said to comrade Johnny, “You've gone to so much trouble and travelled so far. I'll instruct the QuarterMaster to give you 10,000 USD, but we won't need any more paintings. As it says in 'The Rock-Hard Teachings of Balagoon': 'All images are illusions.'”
Then the Comrade-Saint addressed the assembled comrades, bikkhu-buddies, friends, overnight guests, hangers-on and at least one very stoned-looking hippie, saying that the portrait should be kept and maintained, noting that when used as an object of contemplation, practitioners might avoid falling into the three unfortunate states of existence, and therefore it would be of great help to anyone who cultivates the Teachings.
He then amazed the assemblage by burning sage in front of the image and reciting the Navajo early morning blessing.
“Unless you understand this painting”, he said, “you won't see your nature. Rely on this nakedness and you won't regress.”
The Direct Teaching
Days later, just after Dawn, Comrade-Saint PQ once again addressed them from the Ramon Platform. This is what he said...
Good friends, now that you have taken refuge in the treasures of the Teachers, the Teachings and the Community of Teachers, you should clear your minds completely. My dear little woodchucks, you may have chanted and pondered the Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment without understanding it. Now I am going to spell it out for you.
This Teaching must be practiced and not simply chanted with your mouth. If you chant but don't pratice, it's just an illusion or mirage. But the avatar-body of those who practice it is the same as that of all the great Teachers.
The capacity of the mind is great. It's like space. Be aware that when you practice the Teachings of the Spectacular Hog Farm, you will fall into a featureless void. In this world of ours, space has room from everything – the sun, moon, stars and planet of the rWorld, as well as the nations, parties, militias, forums and chat rooms of the eWorld. There are mountains, rivers, every kind of plant and tree, bad people and good people, bad teachings and good teachings, all the heavens and all the hells. All of this exists in space. The emptiness of our e-nature is also like this.
As you might imagine, that wow'd everybody. What struck some of them as kind of weird, though, was that PQ spent the next week wandering around the mountain practically naked, drinking beer, usually smoking something and telling anybody who cared to ask that he was “just gonna go fishing for a few days”.
Just gonna go fishing for a few days – PQ
The Transmission of the Lineage
Upon hearing and understanding, the listeners no longer dared to engage in petty disputes but practiced in accordance with the Teachings. Thinking that PQ did not have long to live, given his erratic behavior, they all bowed whenever he passed them on his way to some mythical fishing hole.
Finally the Venerable and Learned comrade-agorist Lysander Spooner, known as “the Second”, put a hand on PQ's shoulder and asked, “After you leave, to whom should your title and teachings be given?”
PQ said, “The Teaching has already been given. No one needs to ask for it. But no more than two years after I am gone, false teachings will create confusion and misrepresent the principle of our school. Someone will come forward without concern for their own life, and they will once again distinguish the true Teachings from the false, and they will unleash the Mighty Wind of our school and the true Teachings.”
Warning Label
Until now, the Direct Teaching of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” Formless Precepts School have been kept hidden from the mudbloods and muggles.
With the end and the beginning of Time scheduled for December of the current year, the School has decided it is a propitious moment to make this material public in order to liberate as many fools as possible.
However... only those who vow to practice and don't retreat from difficulty and who are able to bear hardship and who are rich in blessings, virtue and merit should transmit and receive these Teachings. For those whose capacity is inadequate or their ability insufficient, they cannot penetrate these Teachings and it would be a mistake to expose them to the full force of the Great Wind. Let this be known to practitioners that they might fathom the hidden meaning.
“Dare to struggle, dare to grin. ” – PQ
or
The Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment Talk on the Direct Teaching of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” Formless Precepts School of the Third Vehicle
Delivered at the Great Teacher-Leader Ramon Platform near the pinnacle of Bear Mountain by the Fifth Imam of Socialist Freedom, Comrade-Saint Phoenix Quinn, presented in one volume, compiled and recorded by Bill Galaxia, a humble space-faring recipient of the Formless Precepts and an advocate of the Teachings.
Introductory Notes
by Bill Galaxia
The Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment. The advent of the Teachings on the Supreme Ultimate Great Wind near Day 1000 of the New World signaled the beginning of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” School, often referred to as the Third Vehicle, with its emphasis on achieving e-enlightenment within one e-lifetime, without using multis or getting banned.
It builds upon and supercedes both the First Vehicle – commonly referred to as “Dioism”, which focusses attention on individual liberation and the sand-like nature of e-reality – as well as the Second Vehicle, also known as “Ramonism-Chuikovism”, which stresses the importance of the Teachings for the general laity and encourages practitioners to invent their own meta-game for the benefit of all e-sentient beings.
It is called the “Supreme Ultimate” or “The Perfection of Wisdom” because the Third Vehicle provides the wisdom by means of which we see what is real, the way things really are.
Direct Teaching of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” Formless Precepts. The term “direct” was first coined by the Occulted Third Imam of Socialist Freedom, Comrade-Bodhi Alex Lorre, the Great Interlocutor of the Primativist School, as early as Day 1023, when he argued that realization is both instantaneous and complete.
The usage of the term “direct” was not widely used until more recently, when the Dioist Rinpoche PigInZen happened to be chatting with someone on IRC and used it to distinguish the “Zappa-you-head!” School from the more traditional schools such as the so-called Emerikan Heresy. (Kindly refer to the wiki for more on this and other debates within Dioism.) As was the case with the virulent criticisms of “vulgar game mechanism” by the Ramonist-Chuikovist School, which distinguished it from narrowly-interpreted Dioism, the identification of “Zappa-you-head” as a “direct” method was aimed at establishing ascendency over something that did not actually exist.
Such differences were, in the end, more personal than ideological or philosophical. Still, while each of the Vehicles builds on the other and ultimately there is no separation between them, there are differences between the Three Vehicles, which are expressed not only in doctrine but in politics as well.
The “Spectacular 'Hog Farm' Formless Precepts” represents PQ's attempt to encourage his audience to transcend the normal interpretation of precepts as constraints on behavior. These are “formless” Teachings in that they break the bonds of mere formality. They are clearly a continuation of the lineage PQ inherited from the Fourth Imam of Socialist Freedom, Comrade-Bishop Samuel Seabury, who famously reconciled the game, the meta-game and the meta-meta-game during his Talks on “Role Playing and e-Reality: the Message and the Messenger as Socially Constructed Fables of Redemption”. The “Hog Farm” is Comrade-Saint PQ's earthy metaphor for the true nature of e-reality.
It is “spectacular”, first in an ironic sense and then, once you get it, for real.
The Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment
by PQ
Our mundane wordly wisdom admits the existence of objects, from Saltpeter Mines to Global Alliances. The metaphysical wisdom of the early Dioists denied the existence of objects, but not the existence of Teachings, or entities of the mind. The metta-wisdom of the Ramonist-Chuikovists broke down the foundational Teachings and demonstrated how they can be a path to Liberation for all, but did not deny their existence.
The transcendent wisdom of the Super Ultimate is a Great Wind that not only denies the existence of objects but also the existence of Teachings – and it also denies their non-existence. In place of their existence or non-existence, this teaching advocates the realization of the emptiness of all objects and all Teachings. It asks us to realize that6 the existence or non-existence of any object or teaching is a projection of the mind. True understanding sees through the imaginary barriers we use to separate, and thus define, beings, players, nations, ideas and, of course, ourselves.
What is really real is the absence of the fiction of self-existence. The absence of fiction is the truth.
The emptiness binds us together with all things and all beings both in the eWorld and the rWorld, with all entities of the mind. This is great. That's why we call it the highest attainment.
Here Comrade-Saint PQ stopped speaking while he purified his own mind. After a long time, he spoke again. – BG
Reciting the Teachings of the Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment
Let us recite the great words of “The Magical Teaching on the Four Winds and the Five Ways of Being”...
All e-things
are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow.
They are like the morning dew, or a flash of lightning.
Yes, let's view all things as shifting sands.
The Interrogation of Bill Galaxia
PQ pointed a finger at Bill Galaxia and asked him, “What are you doing here? What exactly do you hope to achieve by climbing up here to the peak of Bear Mountain?”
His bikkhu-buddy responded by saying, “To pay respects. Nothing else.”
The comrade-saint scoffed and said, “But you are just an intergalactic stowaway. In fact, I think the e-authorities are still looking for you with regards to the mysterious disappearance of a number of stray dogs around Day 1200. How can you possibly become a rider of the Great Wind?”
Bill Galaxia answered, “I dropped in from the Orion Cluster to see you. You know, dude, players arrive from all over. From here and there and everywhere. The life of a space rat like me and an enlightened clown like you are different, sure, but how can our teacher nature differ?”
PQ was going to say something else, but instead he instructed the comrades from the SFP Commune to take Bill Galaxia away to the Farm, where he slopped hogs for eight months.
The Episode of the Naked Painting
For many days and nights, the comrades and their friends stayed up late pondering the New Teachings. They had difficulty making heads or tails of it.
Bill Galaxia slopped the hogs every day. At first it was a burden, but after a while he came to enjoy it.
In an effort to express his understanding of the Third Vehicle and to give PQ a bit of shock, comrade-enragé Johnny Automaton, who had travelled all the way from eIreland for the lecture series, spent several days painting a large scene on the side of cliff not too far from where they were assembled.
Comrade Johnny refused to let anybody see it until he was finished. But he kept telling them it was a painting about “the nakedness of vulgar Leninism”. Everybody was expecting it to be a naked portrait of Vladimir Lenin, or maybe of Krupskaya, or both, perhaps romping around with some kitty-cats since Lenin was known to be a great cat-lover.
When he finally revealed it, the painting caused some consternation amongst the hard-core Ramonist-Chuikovists – this despite the fact that the Great Teacher-Leader Osmany Ramon himself had often enjoyed a good jibe at traditional shibboleths and preferred to think of himself as an Autonomist as well.
Here is the picture...
When PQ saw it, he said to comrade Johnny, “You've gone to so much trouble and travelled so far. I'll instruct the QuarterMaster to give you 10,000 USD, but we won't need any more paintings. As it says in 'The Rock-Hard Teachings of Balagoon': 'All images are illusions.'”
Then the Comrade-Saint addressed the assembled comrades, bikkhu-buddies, friends, overnight guests, hangers-on and at least one very stoned-looking hippie, saying that the portrait should be kept and maintained, noting that when used as an object of contemplation, practitioners might avoid falling into the three unfortunate states of existence, and therefore it would be of great help to anyone who cultivates the Teachings.
He then amazed the assemblage by burning sage in front of the image and reciting the Navajo early morning blessing.
“Unless you understand this painting”, he said, “you won't see your nature. Rely on this nakedness and you won't regress.”
The Direct Teaching
Days later, just after Dawn, Comrade-Saint PQ once again addressed them from the Ramon Platform. This is what he said...
Good friends, now that you have taken refuge in the treasures of the Teachers, the Teachings and the Community of Teachers, you should clear your minds completely. My dear little woodchucks, you may have chanted and pondered the Supreme Ultimate Great Wind of the Highest Attainment without understanding it. Now I am going to spell it out for you.
This Teaching must be practiced and not simply chanted with your mouth. If you chant but don't pratice, it's just an illusion or mirage. But the avatar-body of those who practice it is the same as that of all the great Teachers.
The capacity of the mind is great. It's like space. Be aware that when you practice the Teachings of the Spectacular Hog Farm, you will fall into a featureless void. In this world of ours, space has room from everything – the sun, moon, stars and planet of the rWorld, as well as the nations, parties, militias, forums and chat rooms of the eWorld. There are mountains, rivers, every kind of plant and tree, bad people and good people, bad teachings and good teachings, all the heavens and all the hells. All of this exists in space. The emptiness of our e-nature is also like this.
As you might imagine, that wow'd everybody. What struck some of them as kind of weird, though, was that PQ spent the next week wandering around the mountain practically naked, drinking beer, usually smoking something and telling anybody who cared to ask that he was “just gonna go fishing for a few days”.
Just gonna go fishing for a few days – PQ
The Transmission of the Lineage
Upon hearing and understanding, the listeners no longer dared to engage in petty disputes but practiced in accordance with the Teachings. Thinking that PQ did not have long to live, given his erratic behavior, they all bowed whenever he passed them on his way to some mythical fishing hole.
Finally the Venerable and Learned comrade-agorist Lysander Spooner, known as “the Second”, put a hand on PQ's shoulder and asked, “After you leave, to whom should your title and teachings be given?”
PQ said, “The Teaching has already been given. No one needs to ask for it. But no more than two years after I am gone, false teachings will create confusion and misrepresent the principle of our school. Someone will come forward without concern for their own life, and they will once again distinguish the true Teachings from the false, and they will unleash the Mighty Wind of our school and the true Teachings.”
Warning Label
Until now, the Direct Teaching of the Spectacular “Hog Farm” Formless Precepts School have been kept hidden from the mudbloods and muggles.
With the end and the beginning of Time scheduled for December of the current year, the School has decided it is a propitious moment to make this material public in order to liberate as many fools as possible.
However... only those who vow to practice and don't retreat from difficulty and who are able to bear hardship and who are rich in blessings, virtue and merit should transmit and receive these Teachings. For those whose capacity is inadequate or their ability insufficient, they cannot penetrate these Teachings and it would be a mistake to expose them to the full force of the Great Wind. Let this be known to practitioners that they might fathom the hidden meaning.
“Dare to struggle, dare to grin. ” – PQ
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I'm going to have to read that again.
wondering how many readers actually know "the hog farm"
great read, you are triumphant!
http://saintsrow.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Vehicles_in_Saints_Row:_The_Third
Not your longest.
Nice link citizen pickl. I especially liked this comment about the Bear Saint: "The Bear's handling is not the best, but it is fast, as well as strong enough to take multiple direct hits."
Voted
Well you lost me at "The Gospel"
Hiya from Canuckistan. We are open to your teachings, but mostly want Hogfarm Bacon.
Speaking of awesome Canadian fare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUD-eZYpUE
I read it. I enjoyed it. Did I understand it? I'm creating a new acronym in your honor. dr;h - "did read; huh?"
Hiya Canucksters. We'd be happy to send some Hog Farm bacon your way, but that frikkin' Bill Galaxia disappeared again -- along with the entire sounder of swine! You just can't leave that guy alone with any animals...
As for the teachings, just keep walking along the razor's edge and you'll do fine.
Voted for Zappa.
amen brother quinn
Voted, even if I'm completely confused right now
get practice Jelly
Jelly : It's a game. Play it your own way. 😉 Even if that's not what the teachings mean, that's my advice.
Nice article again, PQ. The Navajo blessing is beautiful, too.
Here I am, trying to get a decent Epiphany homily out, and PQ lays this one on me...
Stare long enough and you might not see the naked truth, but you will feel nauseous, dirty, and possibly aroused. Most importantly of all, you will simply feel something. Anything. Alive!