Consciousness is all the seeds transforming in various ways, through mutual influence producing the many conceptualizations.

Vasubandhu

Kali Ma is neither a demon or a feminist icon. Kali Ma is an Avatar of the Goddess Durga. She is a protector and the destroyer of evil. Jai Kali Ma.

"Kama is the root of the world's existence. All that is born originates from Kama, it is by Kama also that primordial matter and all beings eventually dissolve away. Without [passion of] Shiva and Shakti, creation would be nothing but a figment, nothing from birth to death occurs without activation of Kama. Shiva is manifest as the great linga, Shakti essential form is the yoni, by their interaction, the entire world comes into being; this is called the activity of Kama. Canonical erotic art is an extensive subject in authoritative noscriptures, as they say, a place devoid of erotic imagery is a place to be shunned. By Tantric authority, such places are considered inferior and to be avoided, as if tantamount to the lair of death, of impenetrable darkness."

— Shilpa-prakasha 2.498–503

Never allow THIS type of person to infiltrate your religious organization.

“There is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed. Were there not, this unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed, there would be no escape from the world of the born, originated, created, formed.

Since, there is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed, therefore is there an escape from the born, originated, created, formed”.

“O que é proibido ao brahmācārin não são as práticas sexuais, são os vínculos e particularmente os atos reprodutores, que, por suas conseqüências, o ligam à sociedade, privando-o da sua liberdade.

“O brahmacarin não deve ter relacionamentos que impliquem riscos de concepção. Deve ser, de qualquer modo, econômico com seu sêmen, consagrando-se ao estudo”.

Alain Daniélou, Śiva e Dionisos, p. 98.

[The soul] loves then to be quiet, having closed its eyes to thoughts that go downward, having become speechless and silent in internal silence. For how else could it attach itself to the most ineffable of all things than by putting to sleep the chatter in it? Let it therefore become one, so that it may see the One, or rather not see the One. For by seeing, the soul will see an intelligible object and not what is beyond intellect, and it will think something that is one, not the One itself. … Thus, my friend, when someone actualises what really is the most divine activity of the soul, and entrusts himself only to the ‘flower of the intellect’ and brings himself to rest not only from the external motions, but also from the internal, he will become a god as far as this is possible for a soul, and will know only in the way the gods know everything in an ineffable manner, each according to their proper one.

Proclus, On Providence 31 & 32

Devotee: As far as I can see it is impossible to realize the Self until one has succeeded in preventing the rushing thoughts. Am I right?

Bhagavan: Not exactly. You need not prevent other thoughts. The wisest thing for one to do is catch hold of the leading 'I-thought', giving no chance for the other thoughts to distract one. There lies the true value of vichara and its efficacy in mind control.

~From: Guru Ramana

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The body is the bodhi tree;
Bodhi, fundamentally, has no tree;
the bright mirror, too, is without a stand.
From the start, not a single thing exists;
where could any dust remain?

«La educación ayuda a la persona a aprender a ser lo que es capaz de ser.»

— Hesíodo.
@UlisesCriollo

𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝗸𝘆-𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀, 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲. 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳.
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀.

-- 𝗔𝗯𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗮

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗶𝗿, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗼𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘀.

-- 𝗥𝗶𝗴 𝘃𝗲𝗱𝗮

LEVELS OF PRACTICE

One time I was speaking with a Zen teacher from Korea who was checking out my zazen practice. He asked, "What is your meditation practice?" I said, "Letting go of thought, letting go of anything other than the present experience." He said, "After you let go, then what?"

I said, "Something else comes up, some thought of past or future, so I let go again." "Then what?" he asked. "I let go again, and again, and again." The teacher said, “If you just keep letting go like that for years and years, how will this ever cut through the root of birth and death, basic delusion? It's like putting a rock on top of living grass. If you take the rock off, the grass just pops back up. It's still alive under the rock, since the root has not been cut. How could simply letting go ever cut the root?” This was disturbing to hear, since I had been practicing this way for a long time, but his point could not be denied.

- Kokyo Henkel