Your Life is an App

You know what an app is: a software application that runs on a specific platform, such as Windows, Android, Linux or iOS. A software platform is associated with a hardware platform, such as a PC, smartphone or Mac. Your life is also an app that runs on the platform of your consciousness and ontology, associated with your body.

This is true whether you’re aware of it or not. Most of what we perceive and experience is software. Our bodily senses and other hardware inputs are run through an extensive processing system that abstracts their information into symbols for more efficient processing.

Plan Z

My name is Dharmasar, and I’m starting a disruptive startup, The Dharmasar Solution. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, and more. Of course, I have a Plan A and a Plan B, even Plans C and D.

But what if everything goes wrong? What if nobody buys it? After all, I’m only trying to give people unlimited intelligence and prosperity by recontextualizing one of the world’s great religions, LOL. But you know what people say about building a better mousetrap.

The Scope of The Dharmasar Solution

Since my whole life crashed and burned at age 64, I have been reconstructing my worldview from scratch. Instead of basing my ontology on faith as I did before, this time I grounded it firmly on observation and experience. I documented the process as I went along. The Dharmasar Solution is the result, the systematic collection of my work for over two years. 

Platforms and Apps

Windows is a platform; Word is an App. OS X is a platform; Safari is an App. The Cloud is a platform; the Internet is a platform. Whatever you build using them is an App.

The Dharmasar Solution is a platform—your dream is an App. Got it?

The Buddha discovered Dependent Origination, the process of becoming. Used ignorantly, Dependent Origination leads to suffering. Used intelligently, it leads to happiness and enlightenment. Dependent Origination is a powerful platform, with a programming language and development environment you can use to build any kind of App. Any kind of App! This makes it possible to live your dream.

Compulsory Education Spoils Success

We all want to live our dreams. What gets in the way, more often than not, is our education—or actually, the lack of one. Schooling is not education. In fact, in many ways it is the opposite. According to John Dewey of Decimal System fame, one of the founders of American education policy:

“Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way the teacher is always the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of heaven.” — Dewey, Pedagogic Creed (1897)

Underground History of American Education

John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education is an eye-opener. It describes the origin and design philosophy of the American public school system.

“The secret of American schooling is that it doesn’t teach the way children learn and it isn’t supposed to. It took seven years of reading and reflection to finally figure out that mass schooling of the young by force was a creation of the four great coal powers of the nineteenth century. Nearly one hundred years later, on April 11, 1933, Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, announced to insiders that a comprehensive national program was underway to allow, in Mason’s words, ‘the control of human behavior’.”

That is why we developed Matrix Learning based on the original teaching of the Buddha.

John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education
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The State of The Dharmasar Solution

The Dharmasar Solution is a big piece of work: a bridge from western philosophy to the teaching of the Buddha. I’ve been developing it for over two years now, and it’s nowhere near done. The basic arch is complete; to make it useful, now we have to build the rest.

The Dharmasar Solution Story

Many ambitious people have an idea or passion, but don’t know how to become what they want to be. The Dharmasar Solution is a startup that leverages the core teaching of the Buddha so you can independently be, do, have, learn or become whatever you envision.

I’m a monk who helps people attain their dreams and goals with the same powerful technology the Buddha used to become enlightened. I’m building an extensive website with a complete set of self-learning modules presenting a general solution to the problems of life, and a network of partners and coaches to market the content, help people to apply the materials and get the results they’re looking for.

Our partners are mostly yoga teachers and life coaches who charge for their services. Our clients are highly self-aware, goal-oriented achievers who want powerful, sophisticated tools to help them attain their life aims.

I’m in a unique position to help my partners and clients because I’ve deeply studied and practiced the Buddha’s teaching in traditional forest monasteries with some of the best teachers in the world. Earlier I was an artist and small business owner, and understand the challenges people face when they’re trying to succeed in a highly competitive field.

The Dharmasar Solution presents the Buddha’s powerful technology of becoming in an unrestricted context, so its applications and benefits are limited only by your imagination.

I’d love to talk more about your goals and plans, and explore how we may be able to work together. Just contact me and let’s begin the conversation.

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Reasons why The Dharmasar Solution is better than others in the same space:

1. Traditional Buddhism holds the Buddha’s teaching in a religious context. This unnecessarily restricts who can participate, the range of goals they can accomplish, and the applications and benefits of the Buddha’s technology.
   Some human-potential organizations use the same or similar technology, but do not credit the Buddha as the source. This plagiarism taints their integrity and makes their motives suspect.
2. We don’t make dependency a condition for giving knowledge or help. We are not gurus or schoolmasters. There is no lock-in, no long-term commitment to an organization. We unconditionally encourage you to use this technology independently to achieve your personal goals, whatever they may be.
3. Our work is open-source. We do not use copyright or other means to discourage the use of our material or derivative works in any context whatsoever. If you use our materials, we do expect you to have the integrity to acknowledge the source. A citation with a link back to our site is enough.
4. Our materials are free. If you’re intelligent enough to understand and apply them without coaching, then kudos to you. If not, talented compassionate coaching is available through our network.
5. We’re in it for the karma, not for profit. Our philosophy is that when you benefit, we automatically benefit—especially in the long term.

Setting the Capstone: Dharmasar Solution Coach Training

When building an arch, the last stone to be set in place is the capstone. The masons first lay the sides of the arch, if necessary supporting them with a temporary scaffolding. The very last stone to be set is the trapezoidal keystone at the very top. Once the capstone is in place, the arch can support enormous weight due to its tremendous compressive strength. Until then, though, it can’t even stand by itself.

Similarly, after more than two years of work, we have completed the basic arch bridging western culture with the teaching of the Buddha. We call it The Dharmasar Solution because it solves the problem of how to deliver the essence of Dharma—the unaltered meaning and complete benefits of the Buddha’s original teaching—in Western language.

Secular Buddhism: an Oxymoron

So it looks like we are heading away from the Theravada tradition and more toward an orientation of nonreligious or ‘secular’ Buddhism. Actually I don’t like either of those terms, and together they seem especially ugly and oxymoronic.

While secular can simply mean nonreligious, it also has a primary definition of ‘having no religious or spiritual basis’ and the dictionary lists its antonym as ‘sacred’. Our work is certainly in the nonreligious realm, if only because we consider the religious aspect of Buddhism as an unnecessary overlay on the original self-sufficient teaching of the Buddha. But our work is also sacred because we are dealing with the fundamental meaning of life and the deep properties of existence and consciousness.