Real ethics is not a dogmatic system of principles, parameters, or prerogatives that one must strictly follow to achieve enlightenment. They instead constitute psychological ways of being that permeate our mind stream, atmosphere, relationships, and communities. By modifying our conditioned states of mind and curtailing states that produce suffering, we in turn ennoble ourselves and the people we interact with.

However, such steps require diligent work in the techniques of mindfulness, self-observation, and self-remembering. See how through an exploration of ethics in the three levels of religion; energy as applied to attention and karma; comprehension in meditation as opposed to repression or justification; voluntary mental discipline vs. imposed systems of constraint; the tools and methods of self-reflection and understanding; methods of analyzing the mind; the nature of good and evil; and much more.

Resources and References:

https://chicagognosis.org/lectures/carefulness-and-vigilant-introspection-the-ethics-that-lead-to-genuine-freedom

The sexual force is the power of divinity to create through love, constituting the basis for generating and cultivating genuine virtues. Learn how the Buddhist paramita of generosity is taught within the three levels of religion (introductory, intermediate, and advanced); the nature of giving material goods, fearlessness, safety, protection, and spiritual teachings (dharma); the four ethers that inform the mastery of creative energy and amplification of consciousness; how its purification leads towards liberation from suffering for oneself and others; the dangers of mixing bodhichitta (tantra: sexual energy) with lust; the impediments and precarious situation of a bodhisattva who just reached the Venustic Initiation; and the reasons why bodhisattvas must perfect generosity to advance to superior levels of development.

Resources and References:

https://chicagognosis.org/lectures/generosity-the-chaste-power-of-conscious-love

A prayer, relaxation, and visualization exercise from the Gnostic tradition of Samael Aun Weor, specifically an esoteric pronunciation of the traditional Buddhist mantra Om Mani Padme Hum.

This exercise accompanies The Aspirations, Initiations, and Humble Confessions of a Bodhisattva lecture from The Way of the Bodhisattva course.

For further study:

• (Glorian Publishing Lecture) The Mantra of Christ: Om Manipadme Hum