The Mountain Forest Dharma is to dispense the skillful means of healing and awakening, to articulate the Way in this degenerate world age. So many are lost in this Kali Yuga, in this increasingly darkening realm of red dust, blood, and tears. Many, perhaps all who find themselves reading this, have had glimpses of the true reality, of the true priorities, the fleeting but profound lightning-like flashes of illumination and enlightenment that is so difficult to hold. Such realizations dissolve, they dissipate in the stress, the blur and chaos of life problems. We all stand on the threshold of a collapsing order, of a dying world, and most can feel this reality deep within their Being.

As most succumb to this death spiral of demoralization and depression, of becoming numb and dissociated as a survival mechanism, we seek to pierce this cloud of angst and estrangement from True Humanity. We present here a Mindfulness/Memory practice of sacred Jewel Pills. There are 4 sets of 27 pills, one pill for each day for 108 days. These are to be taken each day during meditation, where one holds the precious pill in their mouth and let it dissolve with mindful breathing as the empowering practice of ‘tasting Dharma.’ Each phase of the pills increases in potency and both medicinal and spiritual function.

The first phase, a small silver coated pills, Diamond Mountain Pill, cleanses and opens the channels, unties subtle psychic knots and primes for the pills of the next phase. The next pill is a Mountain Forest pill from the Yamabushi, the Great Guru Precious Pill, that saturates the body in the psychic ingredients for stable abiding, clarity in mystic dreams, and in generation phase practice of the secret fire that heals within. The third pill is the Forest Golden Mushroom pills of wild sacred healing fungi such as special sacred mountain forests cultivars of reishi and Yamabushitake that are catalysts for a deep immune healing and combat against the internal psycho-spiritual and bodily parasites. The final pill is the Sacred Bodhisattva Discerning Insight pill that is specially formulated by our adept elders in this lineage. It is a Tantric medicine to soothe and pacify the demons that assault the adept in the final phases of a retreat or healing protocol. It is to shatter obstacles and to gather merit within like a concentrated elixir that transmutes wayward energy. This final pill fuses with the striving and skillful means of the 108 foundation practice to elevate one beyond the personal limitations of bad habits and health and the fetters of fate and karma.

In early Buddhist thought, mindfulness is something to be brought into being intentionally but memory is required for any meaningful mental activity. Therefore identifying a counterpart to memory in the Pāli discourses requires finding something that is continuously present in the mind. Thus many Buddhist scholars must dispense with the games of semantics and understand that mindfulness is a form of memory as the aggregate of perception (saññā/想). This aggregate is indeed present in any state of mind, rather than needing to be brought into being through intentional cultivation. In early Buddhist teachings, such intentional cultivation is required for mindfulness, using the practice satiānāpāna, in-and-out-breathing, “is itself both a recollection―of the air element which the breath is a sub-set of and one of the four elements our bodies are composed of―and an admonition, to leave nothing unquestioned or unexamined about the body or its functioning, to take nothing for granted, and to remember that the body is not-self.”

Scholars focus on the concept of sati as incorporating the meaning of “memory” and “remembrance” in much of its usage in both the suttas and the commentary, and suggests that without the memory component, the notion of mindfulness cannot be properly understood or applied, as mindfulness requires memory for its effectiveness. Thus, mindfulness meditation itself is best conceptualized as inevitably involving some form of remembering, which is sometimes done by those stressing the memory connotation of sati. Mindfulness established to the forefront , or to breathe in mindfully and breathe out mindfully (sato va assasati, sato passasati) is the integrated understanding of Buddha’s statement that the one who possesses sati (satimā) is “endowed with the highest memory and wisdom” (satimā hoti paramena satinepakkena samannāgato); sati is not any memory―semantic, episodic, or otherwise―but that special faculty which is also united with wisdom. It is not ‘mere’ mindfulness or memory in a mundane sense, but the supersensory awareness and Recollection of Buddhahood in every moment, or with every breath, until such awareness is so profound and pervading that there is no separation from this Reality.

As one Buddhist scholar writes,

“A noble disciple is mindful, possessing supreme mindfulness and alertness, one who remembers and recollects what was done and said long ago. sati is not a passive act of receptive awareness, but requires memory of the Buddhadhamma to motivate and catalyze transformation ( smṛti as a body of sacred tradition is to my knowledge not reflected in the usage of sati in the early Buddhist discourses, leaving only the other nuance of memory. This is indubitably a recurrent feature in the discourses (and later texts), but it does not follow that the Buddha could not have developed his own usage of a term that was current at his time. In relation to several Brahminical concepts and ideas, the discourses reflect at times substantial re-interpretations attributed to the Buddha.”

This is of Remembrance of purpose, of the essence of self that is fractured and splintered through the myriad beings and experiences. It is the regaining of the self as Buddha within the transmuted delusion into the “lucidity of mind.” This is being Mindful of a Truth of Being that one forgets in the blur and rush of life, in the dark moments and in superficial distractions. This practice can be combined with other meditations to finally transcend the abstractions and false yoga or attempts clouded by New Age and other degenerate systems and to pierce to the great practice of Recalling Buddhahood.

Special offerings includes 27 quantity of each precious pill with gift incense blend.