Forwarded from Self-Immolation
“Vajra is a Sanskrit word which defies translation because of its numerous connotations, but essentially vajra is an indestructible substance, usually represented by diamond.
Vajra refers to the vajra mind, the vajra nature, and the vajra prajñā. The vajra prajñā is the vajra nature which in turn is the vajra prajñā. Vajra is identical with the self-nature, the essential life force of all living beings, because both are indestructible and adamantine.
Furthermore, the eternally dwelling mind all beings have in common is the same as the vajra nature, since it too cannot be destroyed. Prajñā, as the highest form of wisdom living beings can attain, is real mark prajñā, eternally indestructible. It is therefore referred to as vajra prajñā.
Ānanda thought the false-thinking mind was the real mind. The Buddha told Ānanda, “That is not your mind. What is it? It is just the empty false appearance of dust objects before you. Those appearances manifest from your false thinking and delude your true nature. From beginningless kalpas until now you have always taken that for your mind. To do so is like thinking a thief is your son, and it makes you lose the knowledge of your eternal source. That source is the eternally indestructible precious nature, the enlightened bright mind. For that reason you appear and disappear endlessly in the six paths of the turning wheel.”
The third mind is the true suchness mind which is real mark prajñā. The true suchness mind is so great there is nothing beyond it, and so small there is nothing within it. One will find nothing smaller or larger than true suchness. The true suchness mind is the vajra mind, the real nature of every one of us.”
Hsuan Hua
Vajra refers to the vajra mind, the vajra nature, and the vajra prajñā. The vajra prajñā is the vajra nature which in turn is the vajra prajñā. Vajra is identical with the self-nature, the essential life force of all living beings, because both are indestructible and adamantine.
Furthermore, the eternally dwelling mind all beings have in common is the same as the vajra nature, since it too cannot be destroyed. Prajñā, as the highest form of wisdom living beings can attain, is real mark prajñā, eternally indestructible. It is therefore referred to as vajra prajñā.
Ānanda thought the false-thinking mind was the real mind. The Buddha told Ānanda, “That is not your mind. What is it? It is just the empty false appearance of dust objects before you. Those appearances manifest from your false thinking and delude your true nature. From beginningless kalpas until now you have always taken that for your mind. To do so is like thinking a thief is your son, and it makes you lose the knowledge of your eternal source. That source is the eternally indestructible precious nature, the enlightened bright mind. For that reason you appear and disappear endlessly in the six paths of the turning wheel.”
The third mind is the true suchness mind which is real mark prajñā. The true suchness mind is so great there is nothing beyond it, and so small there is nothing within it. One will find nothing smaller or larger than true suchness. The true suchness mind is the vajra mind, the real nature of every one of us.”
Hsuan Hua
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Migrants getting chased out of a field in Blessington.
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Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
― Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
― Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Forwarded from Egbert Moray-Falls
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Meditation Instruction -How to meditate. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Shambhala
Chögyam Trungpa gives a general orientation to meditation in the Buddhist tradition and gives meditation instruction. This is essentially the same basic instruction that he gave throughout the time he was in the United States. It is also virtually identical…
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Forwarded from The Nietzschean Dawn
Always counter-signal dualistic and dogmatic worldviews
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Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words and phrases must be stretched towards a generality foreign to their ordinary usage; and however such elements of language be stabilized as technicalities, they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.
— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
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Forwarded from Elders of the Black Sun IV
I got this question in my DMs
How worth do you think it is running for office? Like running for governor or senator?
Ask yourself, wouldn’t it be amazing if someone with our sorts of values had the public stage had the ability and the power to craft legislation or to direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources as the chief executive? To have someone with political legitimacy that could rally people into a real cause, maybe even position themselves for higher office?
Of course it would be amazing.
But there would be personal sacrifice, the media would try their best to defame and destroy you, your life would never be normal again, your family would be harassed.
Since I was a little kid, I wanted to be involved in politics. But I realized I would be a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It discourage me from the idea. But in the MAGA ENVIRONMENT, if you played your cards, right, made the right friends without compromising your integrity, you could sneak in.
You’d have to decide how open you want to be about your real views, and how much you conduct silently behind closed doors. How you might use Normie justifications towards our ends, Or maybe you don’t and you act like Ron Paul and build a cult following, and bring our ideas into the mainstream.
It’s up to you. I’d rather have every single one of us on our local school board making decisions that affect our community, than all of us behind our computer screen.
And that’s how I think about that.
How worth do you think it is running for office? Like running for governor or senator?
Ask yourself, wouldn’t it be amazing if someone with our sorts of values had the public stage had the ability and the power to craft legislation or to direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources as the chief executive? To have someone with political legitimacy that could rally people into a real cause, maybe even position themselves for higher office?
Of course it would be amazing.
But there would be personal sacrifice, the media would try their best to defame and destroy you, your life would never be normal again, your family would be harassed.
Since I was a little kid, I wanted to be involved in politics. But I realized I would be a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It discourage me from the idea. But in the MAGA ENVIRONMENT, if you played your cards, right, made the right friends without compromising your integrity, you could sneak in.
You’d have to decide how open you want to be about your real views, and how much you conduct silently behind closed doors. How you might use Normie justifications towards our ends, Or maybe you don’t and you act like Ron Paul and build a cult following, and bring our ideas into the mainstream.
It’s up to you. I’d rather have every single one of us on our local school board making decisions that affect our community, than all of us behind our computer screen.
And that’s how I think about that.
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