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Phaistos Disk Master Key:
a tool to teach meditation
47 symbols were imprinted repeatedly on a 15 cm oval clay disk in a seemingly chaotic mix, but with careful observation intricate patterns with multiple layers of knowledge start appearing. When following lines in the clay that link clusters of symbols, threads of information reveal a network of knowledge that was well known and practiced in Europe for at least 1,800 years.
Not limited by language barriers images were used to create “mathematical formulas” compatible with the meditation system taught by the Buddha Gotama in India in the 6th century BC and introduced into Greece by Pythagoras, mathematician and the first to call himself a philosopher: “one who loves wisdom”.
Phaistos Disk made by Pythagoras?
Was the Phaistos Disk of Crete made by Pythagoras in the 6th century BC? Pythagoras (c. 580–500 BC) was a contemporary of the Buddha Gotama (c. 624 – 544 BC) in India, he was about 36 years old when the Buddha entered Parinibbāna. If his teachings of “metempsychosis” (knowledge of past lives), was based on Dependent Origination as taught by the Buddha, the symbols on the Phaistos disk and the Linear A and Linear B scripts were “ideograms” to teach meditation step by step, and not the lost phonetic alphabets of ancient Greek dialects as currently thought.
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial:
to cross the ocean of samsara
This short video (no sound) is a visual accompaniment to the Sutton Hoo text: www.lostlinksofbuddhism.com & www.settiwessels.com The 7th-century Sutton Hoo ship burial was part of the “culture of concentration” that stretched from southern Europe and as far as Uppsala and Vendel in Sweden where similar swords and helmets with coded bird images were found in burial mounds; eyes were accentuated “to see the truth of existence”. A Buddha image from Gandhara found in Helgö near Stockholm was made around the same time, in the Oseberg ship burial of Norway was a bucket with a Buddha image. Were the Old Norse in Scandinavia Buddhist meditators? Every object in the Sutton Hoo burial was designed meticulously to describe their in-depth knowledge – images visually expressed codes and concepts of numbers that match those found in the meditation system of the Buddha described in Pali texts (Abhidhamma). Birds represented the mind (6th sense) that can investigate meditation objects at a distance, unlimited by time or space; the seahorse was a metaphor for the mind that “dives into materiality” to observe and analyse the meditator’s existence at subatomic particle level (kalāpas). The Sutton Hoo burial was carefully arranged in a visual way to follow definitions that were expressed by the numbers of the Elder Futhark rune symbols, which were designed based on the “mystic numbers of Pythagoras” (c. 580-500 BC) who was born shortly after the Buddha’s enlightenment in 588 BC. The Sutton Hoo burial was arranged as a refined and elegant diagram to explain the meditation system that was practiced in Europe for up to 1,700 years, the details of both the ship burial and a few selected objects are described in this animated text clip.
Pict Stones of Scotland
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The Pict stones reveal the knowledge of local people about how the sixth sense, the mind, works. Abstract symbols were used since the 6th century BC to make exceptional monuments to the concentrated mind that is expressed as fleeting rays of light (Maeshowe), as winged horses or birds to observe objects at a distance and as fishes “diving into materiality” to observe the truth of existence inside the body, following methods originally taught by the enlightened Buddha Gotama. For a period of at least 1,700 years – from the 6th century BC when Maeshowe was built until the 13th century when over 30 rune inscriptions were made inside the tomb by the Old Norse Vikings – various nationalities lived together peacefully. They meditated in “man-made caves” in Scotland: brochs, souterrains and earth houses. The Pict stones were made as votive stones, or perhaps as “sign boards” for travellers to find remote locations where people meditated. Evidence of the symbols on the stones make clear that they practiced advanced meditation techniques, aligned to the system of meditation originally taught by the Buddha in India.
Design source of Pict Stones:
Ogham treatise in the Book of Leinster and Book of Ballymote
It gradually became clear that the site of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth in Ireland had to be an important learning centre linked to Greece and India, eventually the site was analysed as last after years of research.
The Neolithic mounds of the Brú na Bóinne were adapted and engravings that simulate Linear A and B clay tablets were added on massive rocks after Greek philosophers – the Milesians from Ionia and Boii from Boeotia, location of the Oracle of Delphi – settled in Ireland. The source for development of Pict stones were illustrated in the Book of Leinster and Book of Ballymote based on Linear A and B clay tablets of Greece and the Phaistos Disk of Crete.
Information was obscured by the corrupted Book of Leinster and Book of Ballymote copied in the 12-13th century, a new parallel history was introduced to obscure the origins of the 6th-century BC teacher Pythagoras, the first to call himself a philosopher: “one who loves wisdom’.
Viking Coins Eye of the Mind
Viking coins minted from the 7th century are mysterious and cryptic, very little is known about the meaning. It is generally thought that “illiterate Vikings” copied the themes they used – crosses were automatically interpreted as Christian, supposed crude animal images are interpreted as monsters, dragons and porcupines. There is a lost history, much older, that is not recognised by experts, the sophisticated information expressed by Viking on their coins is hidden to untrained modern eyes. Were Vikings aware of the mystic numbers of Pythagoras, used since the 6th century BC? With careful investigation Viking symbols can be traced back to the earliest Greek coins minted in Boeotia near Delphi, symbols that were used unchanged for up to 1,700 years before the meditation practices – illustrated on objects ranging from the Vix crater and Phaistos Disk to the Old Norse rune inscriptions in the Maeshowe cairn in Orkney – were finally replaced by Christianity and forgotten. The lost links of Buddhism in Europe are exposed in this video, a clip with animated text (no sound) that is a summary of findings described in an illustrated text: Viking Coins Eye of the Mind.
What did the Romans know?
Western academics interpreted history based on texts from antiquity corrupted in Christian Monasteries in an attempt to replace existing meditation practices. The Roman objects can be analysed using the series of numbers illustrated on the Phaistos Disk of Crete. Votive Roman objects are found at sites in Ireland and in Britain including Wales, Scotland and the Orkney and Shetland islands.
Gundestrup Cauldron
a Meditation Diagram
When the Gundestrup Cauldron is compared to the meditation system originally taught by the Buddha in India in the 6th century BC there is a perfect match: the famous horned deity tells the visual story of the first time the Buddha explained the process of enlightenment to his followers in a Deer Park in India. The 16 silver pieces (made mainly from Celtic and Germanic votive coins that were melted down) were buried in Denmark accompanied by one fragment of an iron ring dated to the 3rd century BC – when Ashoka sent an envoy of enlightened monks to Europe. Recent carbon dating of the beeswax for the National Museum of Denmark suggests a 90% probability that the Cauldron was made between 93-144 AD – during the reign of Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian. A mind-boggling scenario that matches all historical dates presents itself. Made as a project to promote peace in the Roman Empire the Cauldron was designed at the same time as the Pantheon in Rome based on the “mystic numbers of Pythagoras”. Plutarch, a contemporary of Hadrian and priest in Delphi, described in an essay with 21 chapters “On the ‘E’ at Delphi’ the exact same information that was later used to design definitions for the rune symbols in Scandinavia. If the Cauldron was designed as a key to reintroduce the numbers of Pythagoras, the first one to call himself a philosopher – a lover of wisdom – the Cauldron was not Viking loot as described, but a highly prized votive object, a symbol of peace and wisdom. The Cauldron contained the key to the practice of the “dialectics of philosophy” that was carefully protected by advanced meditators for up to a thousand years before it was disassembled and carefully buried at Gundestrup in Denmark when meditation practices were under sever threat and banned in Europe. Whatever the original conventional history of the Cauldron may be, its meaning at every level – from the main plates to the smallest individual markings in the silver – represents the universal truth about existence in the cycle of life as taught by the Buddha in India in the 6th century BC.
Mysteries of Mithras
and the Quest of the Cauldron
Was “Mithras” the symbol of Stoic philosophers who meditated in “manmade caves” in Rome? The meaning of Mithraism that originated in Rome (thought to be a deity from Persia) in the second century AD is still a mystery, but with an analysis of all elements of the tauroctony (where Mithras sacrifices a bull) from a meditation perspective there is a seamless match with the system of meditation techniques originally taught by the Buddha Gotama in India. The suffering of repeated birth, ageing and death can be overcome by cutting the roots of attachment to sensuality symbolised by the bull, symbol of sensual attachment and the an-iconic symbol used for the luxury life as a prince of the Buddha-to-be. The 7 stages of initiation of Mithras are aligned with Seven Stages of Purification, which were illustrated on the Gundestrup Cauldron that was made between 94-143 AD, according to recent carbon dating: during the reign of Roman Emperors Trajan and Hadrian. During the same time the Pantheon was built in Rome: a meditation diagram in the shape of “an eye to see the Truth”. The design of the Pantheon, Gundestrup Cauldron and Mithraism seem to be linked: launched by Hadrian as projects to promote peace in the Roman Empire by promoting the practice of meditation techniques: the dialectics of philosophy.
Pantheon: Eye of the mind, Maeshowe and the “E” at Delphi
A simple question turned into a series of discoveries: with basic knowledge of the meditation system taught by the Buddha in his lifetime there is overwhelming evidence that meditation was practiced in Europe for up to 1,700 years. The most impressive evidence is how the light beam inside the Maeshowe tomb was first “studied by a grammarian from Tarsus” and then applied by emperor Hadrian in the Pantheon of Rome: a 3-D meditation diagram: an “eye of the mind”. His collaborator, Plutarch (Neoplatonic priest in Delphi), wrote an essay that describes in exact chronological detail a definition for each of the rune symbols of Scandinavia, the definitions are recognisable despite the corruption of the text: “On the ‘E’ at Delphi”. By implication the information reveals knowledge of early European history thought to be lost: “mystic numbers of Pythagoras” and the unwritten doctrines of Plato. After Delphi was destroyed the golden collars of Sweden and massive silver chains in Scotland were made as a celebration 1,000 after the lifetime of the Buddha by communities who protected the meditation practices, they continued to use the definitions of Plutarch. Again, 1,500 years after the Buddha, impressive rune stones were made in Sweden with evidence that they were familiar with formal Buddhist teachings in India. The video is a visual introduction of illustrated text that describes the history in detail: “Golden Collars of Sweden and the ‘E’ at Delphi”.