The Rains Method

the cure for crushing chronic distress without belief

The Rains Method is about a dozen actionable practices that – together – lead to the final extinction of Crushing Chronic Distress (Crushedness, Crush, Crushing, the Crushing). This disease is is part of nature. So is the cure. Anyone can see this clearly. And anyone can and must cure themselves with very little aid. The Rains Method is that little bit of aid which can be offered – it is an account of nature, and while little, you will find for yourself that the Rains Method is all that is necessary to end the Crushing – without belief.

The claim of the Rains Method is grand. The practice is step by step and becomes self-evident one breath at a time. By the time you believe the Method you’ve already abandoned it.

Who is the Method for? The Rains Method will end the Crushing for anyone alive, and everyone alive. This is because the Rains Method doesn’t belong to a person named Rains it is a piece of nature, not well understood, brought t to bear under the name Rains. There are two conditions for success. 1: you must be ready, 2: you must practice.

Who is ready? There are only a few types of readiness:

  • Those committed to believing in something that will make life better in are not ready.
  • Those who have important questions they have not yet found satisfactory answers for, and have experiences they do not understand are closer to ready.
  • Those who are not believing of answers based on credentials, appearances, or promises are more ready.
  • Those who are willing to listen to and critically evaluate unfamiliar ideas and but are unwilling to experimentally practice those ideas that make sense are not ready.
  • Those who are willing to listen to and critically evaluate unfamiliar ideas and who are willing to experimentally practice them in their daily lives are more ready.
  • Those who recognize and practice the Method and achieve small results which might lead to the end of distress, and let that success rejuvenate their practice rather than their self-image are quite ready.
  • Those who continue to recognize thus and practice with great energy will end Distress in their life.

What is Crushing Chronic Distress? Distress is completely crushing, chronic stress that is felt by all human beings at all times without rest. Within Distress, all true happiness is lost. Distress is not the same as pain, nor is pleasure the absence of Distress. The Rains Method understanding of Distress is likely unfamiliar and may take time to communicate if that is what you wish. If it were familiar, you wouldn’t have read this far.

Curiosity without trust is the ideal learning posture. Take what you get, and leave the rest, but look. Some will take it. Some will leave it. Perfect. Perfect.

The Rains Method is presented as the Natural Law that leads to true happiness. This law is simple: life is perfect. The Method will present you with many claims which are difficult to recognize or incredible. Those who are ready will listen, those who see will practice. The rest will not. Perfect. You are encountering the swiftest and most effective way to awaken from Distress to true, lasting contentment.

The Rains Method is not invented nor is it really discovered. As Natural Law, it does not belong to its founder Jes Rains. The communicative expression of the Method might belong to the founder, but the essence is available in all things. Sometimes it helps just to have someone point it out to us. The Rains Method was developed by conducting an ongoing 41 year old case study of distress, its cause, and its cure, as well as hundreds of thousands of cases of naturalistic observation, as well as literature reviews of several hundred peer reviewed empirical studies in the social sciences, as well as corroboration from a basis in the physical sciences. In short, there is nothing in this world that contradicts the Method except the fictional stories we tell ourselves about this world. It is only our minds that make the method uncommon knowledge. Not one event in any moment of these studies contradicts the understanding claims of the Method, including the fact that you, I, and everyone we know are perfect.

Not Unique. My success and yours do not depend unique insights, unique effort, unique circumstances, unique intelligence, empathy, or special powers, unique personality, or unique luck. In fact, I don’t have any credentials that you do not already have – most of you have more. All I ever had was readiness and practice

No Credentials. The founder of the Rains Method is not a doctor, psychologist, priest, or other certified expert. Life is not an area of expertise. Every human being is receiving the same education about life regardless of certification at every moment. Those who are taking advantage of that education exist across all lines of education, class, race, sexuality, age, gender, intelligence, charm, charisma, wealth, strength, beauty, and the rest. Your resume does not declare your readiness to face reality and practice according to what you see, nor does mine. We prove ourselves by our minds.

Authority. You should never trust a method based on credentials or the person’s experience or even how persuasive they are. You should trust it because you recognize it is towards truth, and you should pursue it because that recognition is has its own desire for completion. That intimate connection, proof and doubt colliding moment after moment, between and offering and a recipient is ultimate authority on matters of life. Do you recognize this as true? Then you may have found the right way.

The Jes Method is not original. It is natural law. It has been taught in every language, every microsecond, since the dawn of civilization. This world is teaching you the Rains Method now, always has been, and forever will. Though for millennia, few have taken the trouble to point it out directly. I wonder why? Everything in life is unique, yet points to the same truth. Step back or step forward. This world is perfect as-it-is.

The Rains Method is four decade case study of stupidity, greed, and hatred perpetually sensationally sucking up infinitudes of phenomena and climaxing in unrelenting agonizing Distress… that came to and end. Humanity has the same distress, and the same end to that distress. The Rains Method is based on the hard way of my life, and is presented as the easy way to you.

INCLUSIVENESS

Secular (welcoming of Atheists)

Inclusive of followers of all Religions, including Christianity

Inclusive of all other isms: including capitalism, communism, hedonism, Stoicism, Machiavellianism, Luciferianism, Rastafarianism, alcoholism, consumerism or any other way of life

Inclusive of people of all levels of education, intelligence, physical appearance, cultural affiliation, and appearances

Training is available in English and in Spanish

You will not be asked to believe anything, nor discard your existing beliefs

Those seeking to listen to a new possibility are welcome

VALUES

Sobriety

Integrity

Love

Family & Friends

Community with Purpose

Anonymous Kindness

Masterful Work

Material Success

Physical Health

Mental Health

SCRATCH

Dharma in RM = “Method”

Practice for “followers” = buddha (me or anyone who knows more), dharma (called like method) (this method, or any that works), and community (called “rains group” or whatever”

Method (dharma) includes 8 core practices, but many others, such as on intuition and other derivatives, as well as specific real life “advice.” all “teachings” of rm spoken, written, audio, video are the the method

The buddha is the relationship with me, not my teachings

INTERNAL

Taxonomy of the Method

  • Method
    • Practice
      • Element
  • Integrations: multiple practices

CORE PRACTICES OF THE METHOD

Interdependently developing practices that together cure Crushing Chronic Distress

WISDOM

1. Rains Resolution: to cure Crushing Chronic Distress

7. Rains Insight: intuitively understanding the world at all times, made up of Six Core Insights

  • The deep, unforgettable knowledge that makes confusing situations crystal clear. Knowledge that is intellectual, emotional, sensory, and somehow more.
  • Insights that guide us to end Crushing Chronic Distress are merely insight into the world as it is.
  • See section Domains of the Practices below for details.
  • The Elemental Insights are a complete list, there’s nothing to add or subtract:
  1. Life is Crushing Chronic Distress
  2. Wanting is the cause of this distress
  3. Life is Change
  4. There is No Self
  5. Life is Empty
  6. Life is Perfect
  • Elemental Insights in detail
    • Life is Crushing Chronic Distress
      • The cause of Distress is Wanting
        • Wanting simply means “wanting reality to be different”
      • Life is Change
        • Constant change
        • Revolutionary change, each moment, at the core, bearing zero resemblance to the previous
        • Stability, lastingness, permanence, or any measure of survival of anything or a trait of anything is one hundred percent illusion
    • There is No Self
      • Self means something separate, in control, and autonomous.
      • Each of these things is seen as an illusion with zero substance, that is, pure fantasy
      • The composition of these three, self, is an illusion built of illusions – with zero substance
    • Life is Empty
      • “There is no such thing as a thing”
      • There are no things to be found in this world, there is no where to go, nothing to see, no one to be, nothing here or there or anywhere
      • Life is voidness
    • Life is Perfect
  • Supplemental Insights
    • Karma
    • Dependent Co-origination

SAMADHI

2. Rains Meditation: coming to experience the world as-it-is

  • The state of viewing what-is, as-it-is, is called Samadhi
  • Elements
    • Environment
    • Body
    • Posture
    • Breath
    • Breath-Posture
    • Samadhi

3. Rains Awareness: appreciating the world as-it-is

  • Literally allowing your sense organs to contact the world without fantasy
    • (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, skin)
  • Process of extending Samadhi to contact with the world
  • Causes pleasure, and operationalizes intelligence
  • Elements
    • Five Organs
    • Mental confusion (cutting through)
    • Sense of Mind

6. Rains Contemplation: skill of using mental activity to quiet the mind

CONDUCT

4. Rains Action: to allow sensing what-is to cause action without interference

  • Identifying and doing the actions that end suffering
  • Process of letting Rains Awareness extend through our action-impulse pathways
  • Means letting go of control
  • Aggregates
    • Physical action
    • Speech
    • Work and it’s effects

5. Morality: limiting our actions when we know they are or will not be clear, with the goal of ending Crushing Chronic Distress in mind.

  • Elements:
    • Moral contemplation
    • Moral articulation
    • Moral commitment

DOMAINS OF PRACTICE

Areas of real life where the Practices of the Rains Method intersect and manifest. The Domain and Practice intersection represent “Practice within [that] Domain”

Social

Romance

Parenthood

Son and Daughter-hood

Friendship

Digital beings

Business

Acquaintances

Community

Society

Humanity

NOTES ON THE RAINS METHOD

Material Benefits: Apart from curing Crushing Chronic Distress, the Rains Method (and each of the Core Practices) will increase pleasure, diminish pain, increase intelligence, focus, physical strength, speed, agility, and dexterity, sensory acuity, creativity in all fields, deepen relationships, radically reduce stress, freedom from addiction, balance relaxed-alertness (“energy”). But pursuing these wanted things will work against the whole process, so I do not go on about it.

So much Rains: all the terms have “Rains” in front of them. This is a bit much, but because I want to clearly differentiate the terms of the practices from their conventional meaning.

Interdependence is Everything. None of these practices exists in isolation, just as the eye, the brain, and a thought do not exist independently. One way or another, everyone who ends Crushing Chronic Distress this way must work hard on all fronts: becoming more aware, meditative, etc. It can be like a puzzle where when you improve in one Practice, one or several others experience growth. Personally, my development with this way of life has been spells of rapid growth in beween significant periods of gridlock. In retrospect balancing and exercising all of the Practices of the Rains Method together would have saved me a lot of precious time and peace of mind. You can’t pick and choose. Each practice is the whole practice, the whole practice is each practice.

The Method will change: Practices will be added, subtracted, and changed, especially in the next four months. The ones listed here will probably stay pretty much the same.

PRECEPTS

  • Do no harm
    • Be honest
    • Be kind
  • Do not intoxicate one’s self

RAINS METHOD INTEGRATIONS

Processes are cycles of the Method that incorporate multiple Core Practices (“combos”)

  • Rains Intimacy: to communicate with the world as-it-is
    • Incorporates and cycles Rains Meditation to Awareness, to Action, to back to view with the world, for example, a person, food, annoying boss, etc.
    • Involves continuously refining and developing meditation, awareness, and action as the communication continues
    • One of the great wholesome sources of contentment in life (by the way)
    • Domains include: Family, friends, lovers, ideas, objects, money, the Rains Community, society, etc.
  • Liturgy
    • Combines meditation, action, morality, intimacy, awareness
  • Dependent Co-origination

ELEMENTS OF THE PRACTICES

Rains Action

  • Body Chemistry: balancing the body’s chemistry in order to end Crushing Chronic Distress. Includes what we physically consume, how we physically exert, physically soothe, as well as how we socially relate and engage psychoactive and body chemistry forces such as sunlight, acupuncture, etc. This is not nutrition or personal training. Body Chemistry in the Rains Method is the stance and followthrough we take on these matters and why: only to end Crushing Chronic Distress and gives rise to Awakening.
  • Materialism: relating to and “owning” phenomena (goods, services, people, ideas, feelings, thoughts, identity, etc) in a way that ends Crushing Chronic Distress and gives rise to Awakening. Does not mean avoiding wealth.

THE RAINS METHOD TRAINING OPTIONS

Currently

  • Rains Meditation Open House
  • Rains Meditation Group
  • One on one consultations

Coming Soon

  • Rains Activation

Later

  • Regular Live Online Meditation