Download or read book Black Sun Rising: Making the Darkness Conscious written by James Portocarrero and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!