1

Three people were responsible for raising money in our group: Min Tao, Blue Gold, and Tim. Min Tao was working undercover inside NK State. Blue Gold had managed to gain access to the so-called lost and early bitcoins. The coins he had liberated were related to the first three years of the network’s existence. They moved part of the coins to new addresses and left them untouched. The dump of these coins meant to trigger panic, providing additional cover for the main operation.

Blue Gold claimed he extracted the keys out of the past through remote viewing. That is, he had seen the keys in the past through the eyes of their owners, memorized them, and brought them into the now.

But Min Tao did not believe that story. He knew that Blue Gold had once been connected to the Digital Resistance. He was one of the few who survived arrests and liquidations when the Digital Resistance was finally crushed by the United Forces of the Corporates and the States.

2

When Corporates and States crushed the Resistance, Blue Gold disappeared into Burma. There he spent some years practicing non-doing in the gray zones of the North and South. He studied the mechanics of acting through non-doing and operational mechanics of the mind's functional layers.

There was so much mythology and just fakes around him that even he himself had long since forgotten his real story. But there was one thing all of us had seen and knew for certain: Blue Gold had learned something that is difficult to comprehend through the mind — something better not to know at all.

Blue Gold knew war well. He had been there during the final years of the Digital Resistance. He claimed that he knew the art of killing without killing. Without generating karma, without creating causes and consequences — just killing without leaving behind any memory of it whatsoever.

I always considered him not normal. But then again, would any normal person ever enter into our Agreement? No. Nobody would. Only Nobody.

3

Once I knew a man. A man with an extraordinary story. He had been born many times - as this and as that, here and there, among different peoples and in different lands. And each time, his country was destroyed by stronger neighbors. Torn apart the way forest insects silently yet inevitably dismantle a corpse of a dead animal.

He tried to stop the war every time. And he always failed with that purpose. Then, in one of those lives that repeated themselves without ever truly repeating, he suddenly realized that all of this had already happened before. And each time he was trying to stop something that could not be stopped.

So he went for the Saya Dam practices, contemplating the labyrinths of emptiness and filling himself with something that is neither good nor evil. That which simply is as this and that. Here and there.

It shattered his spirit and his self, dividing them into thousands upon thousands of fragments. Yet he remained there still, drinking the poison of the world in the hope of reaching the very bottom. He believed he could drink all the evil of the world, leaving no sufferings for the living beings of Samsara. 

That greed led him to Shiva. Shiva laughed at him for a thousand Yugas until even his laughter was drained. Yet despite this, the man remained there -  contemplating the labyrinths of emptiness. Then Shiva decided to drive him away from that place and incarnated him as a pile of stones at the bottom of a mountain stream.

After being a pile of stones for an endless time, he still dreamed of only one thing: how to stop the war. Then Shiva became furious and incarnated him as the very thing he had so desperately tried to stop.

*

Yet even as war itself,
He still remained himself,
Still searching for the end of suffering
For all living beings.

Then Shiva took his mercy -
He brought him back and spoke:

“I see that you, as a human,

Are stubborn and greedy for samaya.

I'll show you

That what is not.

And teach you everything

That I don’t know.”

*

And Shiva gave him a dragon
As a light in the heart of his soul
And whispered:

“There shall come an age
When I myself will incarnate to rule
the Earth for the sake of humankind.
And there I shall find you again
For the fulfillment of the vow:

That death,
Suffering,
And war —
We shall bring them to an end,
Just because
It is impossible.”

4

Min Tao enjoyed the sunrise, seated upon the shore and gazing into the depths of the horizons beyond the Gulf of Siam. A month had passed since his escape from NK State. He had worked for them for more than three years. It had been an immensely intricate game with only one purpose - to stop the war. And for that, all kinds of resources were required. Including money. And weapons.