The outer calm of an Akashic masks deep pains and passions from every age and every conflict, and the dreadful karma from those times lingers even now.
That history includes awful times: the Himalayan Wars against the early Chakravanti conquests and revolutions the sect’s murderous rivalries with the Wu Lung, Dalou-laoshi, and rival Akashic groups the Boxer Rebellion and its opiumtrade beginnings Mongol invasions and Kamikaze Wars the Screaming Ghost Purge and Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward.Īkashics have trained samurai and disemboweled themselves for honor they’ve raised katars with the Rajput, stormed the Forbidden City, starved in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields, and turned to ash at Hiroshima. Once immersed in Akashic mindspace, a seeker’s awareness helps him parse the collective memories of Akashayana throughout history. A quiet mind, freed of ego, can sense the Record, in which all consciousness joins in a single stream. This imprint has several names –Merumandala, Akashakarma, the Universal Consciousness, shared memory, and more modern Brothers, though, call it the Akashic Record. The shunyata (primal emptiness) that underlies all things holds karmic traces of all past thoughts and actions. Today, any mindful Brother can relive this entire history to better understand the cycle of continual remanifestation. In modern times, echoes of their teachings have spread worldwide. Akashi helped build Shaolin Temple and Angkor Wat they overthrew tyrants, and their monasteries reached across Asia from Nepal to the Ryukyu Islands. Over the millennia, countless teachers – notably Gautama Buddha, “the Awakened One” – have incorporated elements of Do into Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, hatha yoga, and folk medicine. Those origins have followed them wherever they go. From there, they supposedly brought their language and ways to India, Nepal, China, and points east. Eventually, however, the imperfections of this world sundered Mount Meru from its celestial foundations, scattering the Meru’ai throughout the mountainous region later called Tibet. It’s been said that the Celestines Dragon, Tiger, and Phoenix taught the Meru’ai the disciplines that would become Do. In a Time Before Time, humanity’s world was a single Mount Meru there, the Meru’ai people lived in harmony. Despite some misperceptions, the Akashayana did not originate in China. A Harmonious Brother (an honorific used regardless of the mage’s gender) strives to help all beings realize samadhi (enlightenment, Ascension) and liberate each Bodhicitta (Avatar) from the cycle of rebirth. Through relentless training, the student (or Akashi) develops the concentration he needs in order to discern the essential dissatisfaction of Samsara, the perpetual cycle or flow of existence. Encompassing a range of spiritual practices from tea ceremonies to Tantric union, Do focuses a person’s essence, form, and intentions. Do, however, is more than mere war techniques.
In the process, the Akashayana refined Do (“the Way,” pronounced doe), the primal martial art from which all others descend. Just as the strings of an instrument must be struck before they can vibrate harmoniously, so too has the Brotherhood endured millennia of war. Deeply misunderstood among the Council as “peaceful warriors,” devotees of the Akashayana Sangha (“Order of the Vehicle of Akasha”) strengthen their bodies to cultivate their minds – and, by extension, the Sphere of Mind – in their pursuit of harmony. And so, the Akashayana, commonly known as the Akashic Brotherhood, seek harmony in a world filled with chaos. It is, perhaps, the lot of man to strive against that flow certainly, the modern world is filled with distractions from such purposes. To attune one’s self to that flow is so simple that it can take lifetimes to master.