Forwarded from Self-Immolation
"Are there no asses and the like to whom home and forest are alike and who wander about naked without shame? Do they all become Yogins thereby?
If men could get liberated by smearing themselves with dust and ashes, are all the country folk, who live amidst dust and ashes, liberated?
Denizens of forest like deer and other animals subsist on grass, leaves, and water. Then, O Devi! do they become Yogins Thereby?
Frogs and fishes live all their lives in rivers like Ganges; do they acquire special merit thereby?
O Devi! Parrots and mynas recite before people the sacred words with delight; are they to be regarded great scholars from such recitations?
Pigeons eat nothing but stone; Cātakas; (the bird Cucculus Melanoleucus) does not drink earth-water; are these too, Yogins?
Animals like pigs, bear the winter cold and summer heat and for them food fit or unfit is alike; are they Yogins thereby?
Indeed, such privations and self denials are, O Kulésvarī; only for deceiving the world while direct Knowledge of Truth Alone is the means for Liberation."
Kaularnava Tantra
If men could get liberated by smearing themselves with dust and ashes, are all the country folk, who live amidst dust and ashes, liberated?
Denizens of forest like deer and other animals subsist on grass, leaves, and water. Then, O Devi! do they become Yogins Thereby?
Frogs and fishes live all their lives in rivers like Ganges; do they acquire special merit thereby?
O Devi! Parrots and mynas recite before people the sacred words with delight; are they to be regarded great scholars from such recitations?
Pigeons eat nothing but stone; Cātakas; (the bird Cucculus Melanoleucus) does not drink earth-water; are these too, Yogins?
Animals like pigs, bear the winter cold and summer heat and for them food fit or unfit is alike; are they Yogins thereby?
Indeed, such privations and self denials are, O Kulésvarī; only for deceiving the world while direct Knowledge of Truth Alone is the means for Liberation."
Kaularnava Tantra
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Forwarded from Gnostic Intel
“For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.”
― Angela Carter
Image: Robin Hood Meets Maid Marian by Newell Convers Wyeth
― Angela Carter
Image: Robin Hood Meets Maid Marian by Newell Convers Wyeth
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Forwarded from Vajrarastra
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Oh You’re a Nirvana Fan? Name Three Steps on Noble Siddhartha’s Fourfold Path to Enlightenment
Hey, nice t-shirt. Nirvana. You think you’re a Nirvana fan? Sure, kid. Whatever you say. Okay big shot, how bout this? If you love Nirvana so much, why don't you name three of Siddhartha’s Noble Truths of Enlightenment, blessed be his name, the divine one…
Forwarded from Hammer and Vajra
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Forwarded from Vajrarastra
"The desire to get rid of desire is still desire" or any similar phrases are just a silly play on words that only work in the english language.
Sanskrit texts (using a highly technical language) make a clear distinction between right effort exerted towards liberation (virya) and negative craving born out of worldly desire (trisna/tanha).
Sanskrit texts (using a highly technical language) make a clear distinction between right effort exerted towards liberation (virya) and negative craving born out of worldly desire (trisna/tanha).
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