Today is Gamma Day!
Eight years ago on this day all pieces of the puzzle came together to form the Gamma Tao symbol. As from that moment I knew I was on to something that was going to be a lasting part of my spiritual life.
In recent years on Gamma Day I planned short pilgrimages to places with a special spiritual significance like the Pantheon in Rome, a temple dedicated to all the gods. This is the second consecutive year that due to the pandemic I stay at home.
Last year I wrote how the Gamma Tao can help to increase resilience during the pandemic. Resilience is fundamental to the practice of the Gamma Tao. I really believe that the Gamma Tao has helped me to keep my spirits up last year.
Gamma Day is the most important celebration of the year for the Gamma Tao. It can even be extended to five days until the global celebration of Golden Rule Day on April 5th. The Golden Rule is one of the three treasures of the Gamma Tao. This year the sequence is even more special, because these days include Christian Easter celebrations as well.
It may seem a little pretentious to talk about Gamma Day like this. After all, the Gamma Tao is probably the youngest and tiniest spiritual “tradition” in the world. In fact, I am pretty sure that I am the only one celebrating Gamma Day right now.
It may feel like a joke on April’s Fools Day.
Actually, it is quite auspicious that Gamma Day and April’s Fools Day are on the same day. There is plenty of space for a smile on Gamma Day. Many great traditions are taken so seriously by extreme adherents that they regard it as the one and only absolute path to truth, to the exclusion of all other wisdom traditions.
The Gamma Tao is completely different. It is only a starting path. It truly recognises the value of all wisdom traditions. In fact, it leads to all of them. It is a path that encourages everyone to explore other wisdom traditions in order to come closer to transcendental love, truth and beauty.
During the past eight years my own daily practice has become to explore all great wisdom traditions of humanity, while constantly minding the basics of the Gamma Tao.
Happy Gamma Day!