Pythia
- henbaneode
- Apr 12, 2023
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 17, 2023
John Collier
'Priestess of Delphi'
1891
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[12APR2023WED1739PST]
For the record: my [DeviantArt] sites are hacked -- nada, zilch...
Somebody seems desperate...
I was going to access a description of 'dharma' from a post I uploaded there at [Jigeh] site -- but that not being possible, I Googled & found the following site & m glad...
'...The Dharma of ice is to be cold and to cause to cool. This is the nature of ice, which is universal and eternal.
Similarly, when a person develops negativity such as anger, aversion, jealousy, and animosity, he feels unpleasant sensations and becomes miserable.
Neither the mental negativity nor the resultant misery can be called as Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or Jain. This is the nature of mental defilements: to make one miserable...'
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The text I was looking for under 'Datura Stramonium' at [DeviantArt][Jigeh] -- also mentions that the meaning of dharma includes act of detachment...
Detachment from the universal law?
(The reading is going slow; mind wanders; if anyone wants to access this post, they will have to have memorized the url which was twitted to a few people -- now gone including all the DeviantArt sites... Such is the reality...)
[12APR2023WED1857PST]
(Well, DeviantArt sites are back on... Now, the public will lose interest in my posts... What a weird cycle...)
[12APR2023WED2131PST]
(Well, Wix as well as DeviantArt both went OFF again, then back ON again...)
So, where was I?
O yes, the Dharma...
(I haven't finished with reading, so please be patient, Wix...)
Okay, here begins the quilt job:
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- Meditation should begin with the truth as its object, and as one progresses, hai bhī sacu, one should give all importance to the truth of the present moment. As one advances step-by-step, with the base of truth, one finally reaches the stage where hosī bhī sacu, one attains the ultimate truth.
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One who wants to practice this path of truth does not gain anything by mere thinking or reasoning:
-The ultimate truth cannot be obtained even if one thinks about it one hundred thousand times.
The Buddha also said that one does not attain the ultimate stage through suta maya paññā (received wisdom) and cinta maya paññā (intellectual wisdom). So, he taught the practice of meditation to still the mind.
A certain tradition believes that the ultimate stage can be attained by observing silence. However, even if one is silent at the vocal level, the mind does not become silent. Various thoughts and ideas keep arising in the mind.
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(I will illustrate this phenomenon via personal insight in a minute...)
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-One must walk the path in accordance with the law of nature, which can be realized only through personal experience. This law (hukami) or will (rajā) cannot be found in any book or discourse. It is within ourselves and can be realized only through experience.
-This law is within every individual. Seeking it outside is meaningless. One can progress only by understanding it through personal experience. This law is universal.
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-When one realizes this law (hukamai) by his own experience, one’s ego is completely destroyed and one no longer says ‘I’ and ‘mine’.
-Ego is the origin of karma and of birth.
-Ego is the fetter that causes repeated birth.
-Ego is a dangerous illness. However, the remedy can be found within oneself. When one realizes this through experience, one clearly understands that the path of liberation is contained within oneself.
-One becomes swayed by this illusion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ and forgets the truth.
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The Buddha also said that one should know and experience the actual truth as it is (yathā bhūta), which manifests itself within oneself at the present moment. It should not be a truth that has been created, imposed or imagined.
When one objectively observes the truth of mind and matter, he clearly understands by his own experience that the mind-matter phenomenon is impermanent. It arises and passes away every moment. One realizes that this mind and matter, which is so ephemeral, cannot be ‘I’, ‘mine’, or ‘my soul’.
When one understands the true nature of mind and matter by personal experience, one does not generate craving or aversion, which is dependent on the false notion of ‘I’, and ‘mine’. One realizes the ultimate truth because one is liberated from the snare of illusion.
The entire path of liberation is based on truth. Truth is eternal and not dependent on external conditions.
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I am not sure if I meditate because I seek 'liberation'; I meditate first out of 'fad' -- it's a hip thing to be meditating nowadays -- and because I am bothered by many 'inner chattering', hoping they will quiet out if I discipline myself to sit at least half an hour a day...
'...One can progress only by understanding it through personal experience....'
So, what is this 'personal experience' that I am willing to forsake 'liberation' for?
There is a reason why religious institutions tell us not to bow to two gods...
For one, doing so confuses you...
However, either by choice or by accident, I hop between Jesus and Buddha -- besides, there is a rumor that Jesus hung out in India during the 'missing years', and became 'Guru Isaac'...
[The Missing Years of Jesus]
by National Geographic
Google: [Jesus' Cave in India]
Now I jump to the death of Jesus & grieving Mary Magdalene...
I have a problem with the following statement:
'...Similarly, when a person develops negativity such as anger, aversion, jealousy, and animosity, he feels unpleasant sensations and becomes miserable....'
I once read somewhere Rajneesh had uttered, 'When you are angry, be angry...'
In my humble opinion (IMHO) {for Martian Virgins}, Mary Magdalene has every right to be 'angry' -- and be miserable, into her death and from the underworld -- for 2000 years...
Inversion of that would read, 'Not being angry about Jesus' death is infamy, disgrace and blasphemy...
Since we (the humans of the Western culture) have discarded our emotion about the death of Jesus, we have de facto become 'soul-less' -- we let go of God...
Because it is 'inconvenient' to be miserable, cumbersome and not 'fashionable'...
I am to compare modern day human's state of being as though it has degenerated as Eukaryotic cell having degenerated into Prokaryotic cell -- by losing its 'nucleus'...
That is my theory of 'Parallel Universe'...
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So humans are bacteria and humans make bacteria just like Anunnaki created humans; humans have become God -- the ultimate challenge; we have arrived~
[Anunnaki r us]
(Well, it appears FB hacked the above Lucidchart site & chopped its tail off...)
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[YouTube] just tried to pop my eardrum by upping the AD volume (I've commented on this before that this practice should be made 'illegal,' but it has gone into deaf ears) as I opened the following url:
I was looking up on:
[Anselm’s ontological argument: an a priori proof of God’s existence?]
A befitting suggestion would be:
UN should allow German Tank that is made to destroy human eardrum to be sold to Palestinians...
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[Datura stramonium | Jimsonweed | Buddhism & Mandala]
Datura Stramonium
Mehmet Kanik
Morfou, Cyprus
17NOV2022
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[Pythia]
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