How Mundane And Supramundane Work

The mundane and supramundane work in the same way as the exoteric (information for the many) and the esoteric (the truth realised by the few). This is the difference between knowing the truth personally, and accepting whatever we are told as being the truth from translations that are interpretations mixed with culture.

There are stages or levels of understanding. Just because we read something does not mean we know. Let’s say we want to learn about a subject, maybe Buddhism or plumbing. We know nothing and find out things; we then try it, and wow! We become a knower, and enter the supramundane of the initiated. That’s exciting – and it’s here that we have to be very careful not to get carried away, which the mundane effect of becoming obsessed.

There may be a feeling of being special, but that gradually becomes commonplace as we get used to having ‘the knowledge’. As learned experts, we assume a mundane perspective again as we’re stuck in the land of words and names. The supramundane turns into the mundane (the form) and we go no further, becoming Mara’s minions. Mara works in the subtlest of ways, as we are still caught up in desire and oneupmanship.

Believing answers should be black and white is an exoteric level of laziness, as we just go through our routines to feel good. We’re blinkered, having a narrow, mundane outlook.

Realisation is dropping all words and meditational experiences
to ascend the levels.

It is we who have to do the work, by testing the teaching for ourselves, and then testing it again – and it tests us. Every moment is a fresh view.