The Daily Nightwalker

Now, my first spiritual talk. I admit, I have no training from any sage or patriarch, and I do not claim to have any kind of amazing supernatural abilities. I am simply giving a lesson, and if you like it, you like it. Now, to begin.

Vampire Zen sounds ridiculous as a name, and yet it feels good to me. It implies facing a powerful fact of the world; both you and I, everyone who has ever eaten and who was born from a woman is a vampire. We all feed on other living things. In the womb, you fed on your mother’s blood. It is profane, but it is life. And life, as we might say, is sacred. So, then. The sacred and the profane perpetuate one another. If nothing was profane, nothing would be holy. And even further from this, we unlearn those words “sacred” and “profane.” They are opposites, and therefore the same.

Some Buddhist Sects refrain from eating meat. While I think this is a good practice for compassion, it is not always practical, and not always the first lifestyle everyone can be accustomed to wherever they are in life. So, while I have no problem with it, even vegetarianism still involves destroying a form of life and eating it. And even beyond that, with every step one takes, you kill millions of bacteria.

So, the point is not that killing is bad; it is just unwise to kill with the intention of the ego, and not the body. When a vampire drinks the blood from another, the vampire knows he must do it to survive. It is the circle of life, of the profane and the sacred as one mysterious whole. That is why murder is murder, and killing is killing.

Man is perhaps the only animal who kills his own kind, and the only one who loves as deeply as he loves. For that reason, man is the most unstable and powerful ape, especially for his third trait, his intelligence. I shall then explain in this philosophy how a man becomes, by realization, a vampire, which is also known as a Sage.

When man knows he is born, and yet, the result of the natural “profane” act of intercourse among his species for generations–a cyclical process in motion–He learns that he is only a small appendage in the world’s body. When he sees himself and his ideas change over time, he realizes that none were his. When he knows he will die one day, and leave it all behind, he realizes that his absence means he was never there. He is, therefore, not a whole one, but an entity of intricate parts, and no source of “him” or “essence” can be found anywhere.

That is emptiness. And when he knows he is emptiness, he know what he really is can never die, and it is natural and good to live and die as a physical body. It has limitations, and it falls apart. On top of that notion, he learns through science that time is but an illusion of change. All change being illusion, then, was he is now, he cannot lose. Even in death, what he is then, was, and will be has nowhere to run. It is still there, like frames of a video. And when he learns the nature of the illusion his perception creates, he knows he is a walking camera, and separation from this unknowable whole around him is impossible. That dying is impossible, and that even when he was born, “he” was always there. From death to life, though, he appears to come. Non-existence to existence.

And so he is undead. Being undead, he is also unborn. He abides by no logic, for his nature has no logic. From a distance, things appear fully knowable, but when the vampire inspects them, he sees things as mirages, and they vanish like marvels.

That is my first lesson, an intro to Vampire Zen. As I learn more, I will give you tips on living, dealing with life situations, and other things through spirituality. I will also reemphasize the things I have covered here.