"The Ceremony in the Air" from the Lotus Sutra & Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Apparition of a Stupa (Treasure Tower) and 2001: A Space Odyssey imagery Showing the connections between ancient Stupa iconography and the "alignment" scenes of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The connection with Nichiren Daishonin's Great Mandala and the Monolith from A Space Odyssey. The death-rebith "Ultimate Trip" and buddhahood. Ending with the closing from the old film "H.G. Wells Things to Come"

ERROR Correction: The Agel book with the quote from Arthur Clarke appears in "The Making of 2001" by Agel. It was stated as in "The Lost Worlds of 2001" in error.

Music: Treadmill of Penitence by DCole A live Yardbird's instrumental break from "Happening Ten years Time Ago" Closing music from the soundtrack of "H.G. Well's "Things to Come."

Excerpt from a letter to the disciple Abutsubo from Nichiren Daishonin:

"Abutsu is composed of the five elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. These five elements are also the five characters of the daimoku. Abutsu-bo is therefore the treasure tower itself, and the treasure tower is Abutsu-bo himself. No other knowledge is purposeful. It is the treasure tower adorned with the seven kinds of treasures— hearing the correct teaching, believing it, keeping the precepts, engaging in meditation, practicing assiduously, renouncing ones attachments, and reflecting on oneself. You may think you offered gifts to the treasure tower of the Thus Come One Many Treasures, but that is not so. You offered them to yourself. You, yourself, are a Thus Come One who is originally enlightened and endowed with the three bodies. You should chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with this conviction. Then the place where you chant daimoku will become the dwelling place of the treasure tower. The sutra reads, If there is any place where the Lotus Sutra is preached, then my treasure tower will come forth and appear in that spot."
---Nichiren Daishonin