Dark Enlightenment

Chenrezig, The Buddha of Compassion

Here, I use “enlightenment” instead of “awakening” because the phrase “dark enlightenment” is droll and eye catching.

Have you heard of dark matter? It turns out that actual observations of objects and events in space make no sense to astronomers unless they posit the existence of a huge quantity of dark matter. It is dark in the most literal sense. It is matter in that it has mass, and thus gravitational effects, which is why we…