An open letter to my brother…

Dear Brother, I am writing you to let you know some really good news. I know that you have been a seeker most of your life, and that you are still looking for answers. It can all be found in Mark Hamilton’s Neothink materials, for they will set you free from your bi-cameral dilemma. First, know that what you have been seeking has been seeking you, and remember that everything has a reason; it is karma-related.

Life is a series of choices, and how we make our choices will bring different results. As a family, we really weren’t given any information or advice on how to grow up. It was just assumed that somehow we would catch on, since our parents never taught us a methodology for dealing with the outside world.

Our parents didn’t know, so they couldn’t teach us anything beyond necessary body maintenance. But we knew we weren’t given the total picture, because of the struggle and difficulty of making it in this world. We never had any plan or idea on how to accomplish that plan of making it beyond a livelihood.

Now I understand it wasn’t any more their fault, nor was it their parents’ fault, and so on. Therefore, we spent most of our lives looking for that road map toward success and personal happiness, not realizing at the time that it all falls back on the individual to decide and make his own life choices. That is a form of self-leadership.

And this form of self-leadership comes by following a mentor, a teacher who knows more of what life is and how you can make it better. So like you, I started reading books and going to seminars and teachings to find the answers I sought. I finally came to Buddhism when I picked up Gradual Awakening by S. Levine in the mid-80s, and that book started my journey into Buddhism. By the 1990s I was following Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

By 2000, I was seeking refuge to begin my training as a vajrayana student. This went on until just recently, when six months ago I started receiving Mark Hamilton’s first of three volumes, Secrets of Secrets. Within a week, my depression stopped, my enthusiasm came back to my art, and my Friday Night Essence returned.

That meant I was motivated with a game plan, a road map as it were, showing the methods for determining one’s own fate instead of leaving it to another. In other words, a way out of the impasse and toward self-fulfillment at the highest level. We may have the good karmic fortune to find a teacher, but it takes effort to maintain that special link.