The Orthodox-Catholic Path is really a Tantric Path.
Think about it :
First you recognize the Nature of this temporal experience ( „valley of the shadow of death „ - )
By confession you recognize that such existence has deeply affected you.
So you seek refuge by Baptism in water cleansing yourself from the stains that this existence has left on you.
Next you ingest the actual body of the supreme divine realty.
By way of the physical absorption of the divine essence into every Cell of your physical body you are digested body and Soul into the divine energy of God ...
Thereby being graced supreme Mystical Divine-Union .
All this steps are also present
In the Tantric Path of #TibetanBuddhism
( including sprinkling of water during refugee and bread whine in the form of Zampa and wine )
Which should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows that Christianity has been present on the Tibetan Plateau before Buddhism reached there.
Bud unlike in the counterfeit in the Original Eucharistic Sacrifice you are consuming the Actual Body of God .
#Eucharist #Tantra #Catholic #Mahayana #Buddhism
Think about it :
First you recognize the Nature of this temporal experience ( „valley of the shadow of death „ - )
By confession you recognize that such existence has deeply affected you.
So you seek refuge by Baptism in water cleansing yourself from the stains that this existence has left on you.
Next you ingest the actual body of the supreme divine realty.
By way of the physical absorption of the divine essence into every Cell of your physical body you are digested body and Soul into the divine energy of God ...
Thereby being graced supreme Mystical Divine-Union .
All this steps are also present
In the Tantric Path of #TibetanBuddhism
( including sprinkling of water during refugee and bread whine in the form of Zampa and wine )
Which should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows that Christianity has been present on the Tibetan Plateau before Buddhism reached there.
Bud unlike in the counterfeit in the Original Eucharistic Sacrifice you are consuming the Actual Body of God .
#Eucharist #Tantra #Catholic #Mahayana #Buddhism
#Karma and the #eucharist
In this Sense i believe in reciprocity - ( „for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”* - Karma ) that the one who
In proper context ( as above noted ) preparation and disposition **
Cannibalizes the true Flesh and Blood of the Son of God
⁃ an Act in which all his other actions ( karma ) dwarf n comparison
That one is by consequence of reciprocity Body and Soul in his totality ( all possible past present and future actions - karma ) Devoured digested and absorbed by God Into God into his Primordial state.
“For ‘in him we live and move and have our being“
(Acts 17:28)
** How ever the one who does so without the Proper preparation and motivation will rather sooner than later find himself in unimaginable trouble.
In this Sense i believe in reciprocity - ( „for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”* - Karma ) that the one who
In proper context ( as above noted ) preparation and disposition **
Cannibalizes the true Flesh and Blood of the Son of God
⁃ an Act in which all his other actions ( karma ) dwarf n comparison
That one is by consequence of reciprocity Body and Soul in his totality ( all possible past present and future actions - karma ) Devoured digested and absorbed by God Into God into his Primordial state.
“For ‘in him we live and move and have our being“
(Acts 17:28)
• Galatians 6:7** How ever the one who does so without the Proper preparation and motivation will rather sooner than later find himself in unimaginable trouble.
In the comfort zone, life feels safe.
But everything you dream of becoming, achieving, or figuring out exists in the growth zone.
You will feel vulnerable and insecure.
You must let go of your need for comfort and security.
Train yourself to value growth and learning.
You must do things you’ve never done before.
Starting before you’re ready isn’t easy, but if you want to change, it’s required.
Are you ready to change?
But everything you dream of becoming, achieving, or figuring out exists in the growth zone.
You will feel vulnerable and insecure.
You must let go of your need for comfort and security.
Train yourself to value growth and learning.
You must do things you’ve never done before.
Starting before you’re ready isn’t easy, but if you want to change, it’s required.
Are you ready to change?
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„ The law of cause and effect ( karma ) is transcendent by the grace of God „
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„ The law of cause and effect ( karma ) is transcendent by the grace of God „
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The Roman Goddess Minerva,
in Roman religion, the goddess of handicrafts, the professions, the arts, and, later, war; she was commonly identified with the Greek Athena. Some scholars believe that her cult was that of Athena introduced at Rome from Etruria. This is reinforced by the fact that she was one of the Capitoline triad, in association with Jupiter and Juno. Her shrine on the Aventine in Rome was a meeting place for guilds of craftsmen, including at one time dramatic poets and actors.
Her worship as a goddess of war encroached upon that of Mars. The erection of a temple to her by Pompey out of the spoils of his Eastern conquests shows that by then she had been identified with the Greek Athena Nike, bestower of victory. Under the emperor Domitian, who claimed her special protection, the worship of Minerva attained its greatest vogue in Rome.
#Minerva #Roman #Goddess
in Roman religion, the goddess of handicrafts, the professions, the arts, and, later, war; she was commonly identified with the Greek Athena. Some scholars believe that her cult was that of Athena introduced at Rome from Etruria. This is reinforced by the fact that she was one of the Capitoline triad, in association with Jupiter and Juno. Her shrine on the Aventine in Rome was a meeting place for guilds of craftsmen, including at one time dramatic poets and actors.
Her worship as a goddess of war encroached upon that of Mars. The erection of a temple to her by Pompey out of the spoils of his Eastern conquests shows that by then she had been identified with the Greek Athena Nike, bestower of victory. Under the emperor Domitian, who claimed her special protection, the worship of Minerva attained its greatest vogue in Rome.
#Minerva #Roman #Goddess
An idea is like a virus
Resilient
Highly contagious
The smallest seed of an idea can grow
To define or destroy you
The smallest idea such as
“ your world is not real “
A simple little thought that changes everything
So certain of your world
Of what’s real
Do you think he is ?
Or do you think he is as lost as I was ?
#Inception
Resilient
Highly contagious
The smallest seed of an idea can grow
To define or destroy you
The smallest idea such as
“ your world is not real “
A simple little thought that changes everything
So certain of your world
Of what’s real
Do you think he is ?
Or do you think he is as lost as I was ?
#Inception
"Sajāja Bramaņi"
(„Nobleman Rode Together")
Sajāja bramaņi
Augstajā kalnā,
Sakāra zobenus
Svētajā kokā.
Svētajam kokam
Deviņi zari,
Ik zara galā
Deviņi ziedi,
Ik zieda galā
Deviņas ogas.
D. 34075-0
The Brahmins climbed
Atop the high hill,
Hung their swords
In the sacred tree.
The sacred tree
Has nine branches,
At the end of each branch,
Nine blossoms,
At the end of each blossom,
Nine berries.
Latvian folk song
(„Nobleman Rode Together")
Sajāja bramaņi
Augstajā kalnā,
Sakāra zobenus
Svētajā kokā.
Svētajam kokam
Deviņi zari,
Ik zara galā
Deviņi ziedi,
Ik zieda galā
Deviņas ogas.
D. 34075-0
The Brahmins climbed
Atop the high hill,
Hung their swords
In the sacred tree.
The sacred tree
Has nine branches,
At the end of each branch,
Nine blossoms,
At the end of each blossom,
Nine berries.
Latvian folk song
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Paganism and Hinduism
If Nazi Aryan discourse and racially orientated forms of modern Paganism represent a xenophobic and racist response to scholarly research into ancient Into-European commonalities, other Pagans have been inspired in a quite different manner. Conscious of the linkages that scholars have made between pre-Christian Pagan Europeans and ancient Hindu Indians, some modern Pagans have come to view modern Indians as their long-lost cousins and to regard the religion of Hinduism as their oldest spiritual relative. This thinking is based on the dating of the earliest Hindu texts, the Vedas, to somewhere in the range of 1500-1200 BCE by most scholars.
The Vedas were written in a language, Vedic, that is an early form of Sanskrit, with
identifiable linguistic parallels to Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, and other European tongues.
Many scholars of the Vedas believe that the authors of the texts were migrants or invaders who went to India from the Indo-European homeland between 2000 and 1500 BCE, following the collapse of the native Harappan/Indus Valley civilization in an area that straddles what today is northwest India and eastern Pakistan.
Because Hinduism has never been supplanted by any other religion in India, despite the efforts of Muslim conquerors and Christian colonizers, and has thereby remained the religious tradition of more than 800 million Indians, it is of special interest to European and North American Pagans.
They look on Hinduism as the only Indo-European, Pagan religion to survive into modern times as the majority faith of an entire nation, despite the geographic and cultural distance that divides India from Europe and North America.
For this reason, a number of modern Pagan movements pay a great deal of attention to parallels between Hindu myths, practices, and beliefs and those of their own particular regional traditions.
To give one example, The Pagan Path, a 1995 book giving an overview of Pagan religious movements in the United States and beyond, contains a section comparing healing practices in various Pagan traditions;
the authors compare the Hindu chakra system of a hierarchical series of energy centres in the human body to the Norse notion of a World Tree with nine levels.
Anticipating that some may object to the identification of Hindu and Norse religious concepts, the authors commented, “There is a common saying among occultists that you should not mix traditions, particularly the Western and Eastern mystery traditions. We would like to point out to people who feel that this system does not belong in Western Pagan practice, that if they look closely they will find that most of our traditions are of common Indo-European heritage” (Farrar, Farrar, and Bone 1995, 78).
To give another example, one of the international organizations dedicated to modern Paganism, the aforementioned World Congress of Ethnic Religions, has had increasing contact with representatives of Hindu sects in India.
In February 2003, members of the Lithuanian organization Romuva and other WCER-affiliated groups attended the First International Conference and Gathering of the Elders in Mumbai (Bombay), India, which was followed by an “Indo-Romuva” conference in New Jersey in the autumn of 2003, further solidifying the links established between Romuva and Hindu organizations during the earlier meetings. Such interactions indicate that cooperation and mutual support between modern Hindus and Pagans seem likely to continue, bringing Indo-European religion out of the realm of purely scholarly investigation and into the domain of modern experience and activity.
- Michael F. Strmiska, Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (Religion in Contemporary Cultures), p. 27-29. 2005.
Transcribed by Nikarev Leshy.
Michael F. Strmiska holds an MA in Religions of India from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Religious Studies from Boston University in the United States.
If Nazi Aryan discourse and racially orientated forms of modern Paganism represent a xenophobic and racist response to scholarly research into ancient Into-European commonalities, other Pagans have been inspired in a quite different manner. Conscious of the linkages that scholars have made between pre-Christian Pagan Europeans and ancient Hindu Indians, some modern Pagans have come to view modern Indians as their long-lost cousins and to regard the religion of Hinduism as their oldest spiritual relative. This thinking is based on the dating of the earliest Hindu texts, the Vedas, to somewhere in the range of 1500-1200 BCE by most scholars.
The Vedas were written in a language, Vedic, that is an early form of Sanskrit, with
identifiable linguistic parallels to Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, and other European tongues.
Many scholars of the Vedas believe that the authors of the texts were migrants or invaders who went to India from the Indo-European homeland between 2000 and 1500 BCE, following the collapse of the native Harappan/Indus Valley civilization in an area that straddles what today is northwest India and eastern Pakistan.
Because Hinduism has never been supplanted by any other religion in India, despite the efforts of Muslim conquerors and Christian colonizers, and has thereby remained the religious tradition of more than 800 million Indians, it is of special interest to European and North American Pagans.
They look on Hinduism as the only Indo-European, Pagan religion to survive into modern times as the majority faith of an entire nation, despite the geographic and cultural distance that divides India from Europe and North America.
For this reason, a number of modern Pagan movements pay a great deal of attention to parallels between Hindu myths, practices, and beliefs and those of their own particular regional traditions.
To give one example, The Pagan Path, a 1995 book giving an overview of Pagan religious movements in the United States and beyond, contains a section comparing healing practices in various Pagan traditions;
the authors compare the Hindu chakra system of a hierarchical series of energy centres in the human body to the Norse notion of a World Tree with nine levels.
Anticipating that some may object to the identification of Hindu and Norse religious concepts, the authors commented, “There is a common saying among occultists that you should not mix traditions, particularly the Western and Eastern mystery traditions. We would like to point out to people who feel that this system does not belong in Western Pagan practice, that if they look closely they will find that most of our traditions are of common Indo-European heritage” (Farrar, Farrar, and Bone 1995, 78).
To give another example, one of the international organizations dedicated to modern Paganism, the aforementioned World Congress of Ethnic Religions, has had increasing contact with representatives of Hindu sects in India.
In February 2003, members of the Lithuanian organization Romuva and other WCER-affiliated groups attended the First International Conference and Gathering of the Elders in Mumbai (Bombay), India, which was followed by an “Indo-Romuva” conference in New Jersey in the autumn of 2003, further solidifying the links established between Romuva and Hindu organizations during the earlier meetings. Such interactions indicate that cooperation and mutual support between modern Hindus and Pagans seem likely to continue, bringing Indo-European religion out of the realm of purely scholarly investigation and into the domain of modern experience and activity.
- Michael F. Strmiska, Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (Religion in Contemporary Cultures), p. 27-29. 2005.
Transcribed by Nikarev Leshy.
Michael F. Strmiska holds an MA in Religions of India from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Religious Studies from Boston University in the United States.
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