This is a lovely idea. According to Tibetan lore – specifically the Nyingma tradition of Padmasambhava – there are many secret, sacred valleys dotted around the Himalayas and beyond, where people, who are seeking peace and spiritual refuge, can go…
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Teachings of Saraha
The Dohakosa 8th century. (Long story short ~ Saraha was a Buddhist monk from a Priest-caste family who was expelled from his monastery for drinking alcohol. He became a wandering mendicant. He married a ”low-caste” woman and was further reviled…
Posted in Buddhism, Uncategorized
Come On Baby, Light My Fire
COME ON BABY, LIGHT MY FIRE. Beware of fanatics. Beware of crazy-wisdom gurus who seek to strip your ego bare. Those who would deign to temper your will. Those who presume to measure your soul. Beware of teachers who criticise.…
Posted in Oddities, Uncategorized
Fiction – Tipped Out Into The Void
Softly, softly, her vision constricted, as if heavy velvet curtains were being drawn closed, slowly gathered about by an invisible drawstring. These curtains narrowed her vista so that she saw only the head of a single white carnation bobbing on…
Real Versus Unreal
“You know what truth is? It’s some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah – ain’t it the truth?” ~Kurt…
Posted in The Shrine of Eris, Uncategorized
Hazel
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with…
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Spanda
Quotes on Spanda and Extracts from Spanda Karikas (9th Century). Spanda is a Sanskrit term – derived from the root spadi: “to move a little” – for the subtle creative pulse of the universe as it manifests into the dynamism…
Posted in Uncategorized, Yoga
Maimonides Quotes
Maimonides Quotes ”One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is…
Posted in Uncategorized, Western Mysticism
Maimonides on Imagination
Maimonides on the Influence of Negative Emotions on the Imagination Edited Extracts ”We have thus described three kinds of perfection: mental perfection acquired by training, perfection of the natural constitution of the imaginative faculty, and moral perfection produced by the…
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Maimonides On Angels
Edited Extracts. ”As for the existence of angels, there is no necessity to cite any proof from Scripture, where the fact is frequently mentioned. The termelohim signifies “judges”. It has been figuratively applied to angels, and to the Creator as being…
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The Secret Miracle ~ Jorge Luis Borges
For when you have a spare half hour 🙂 The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges And God made him die during the course of a hundred years and then He revived him and said: “How long have you been…
Posted in Books and Literature, Uncategorized
Creation’s Witness ~ Mirza Abdul Qader Bedil
(Image Source ~ http://violakaia.deviantart.com/art/Spring-Eye-122086598) Creation’s Witness By Mirza Abdul Qader Bedil At time’s beginning that beauty which polished creation’s mirror caressed every atom with a hundred thousand suns. But this glory was never witnessed. When the human eye emerged, only…
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
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