11/3 The world is becoming a sadhana, and my sadhanas are becoming the world, as phenomenon arise as objects of concentration and my mind gathers insights of clarity and emptiness through them. 24/3 Once the vajra yoga practitioner realizes the external world is a ‘blessing’—an ecstatic enhancement and not a ‘distraction’—in realizing the ‘inner mandalic world,’ Mahamudra is born. 24/2 Someone has their moment and it appears a great success but if analyzed there’s a premixed feel to their accomplishment. It’s determined by causes and conditions that must be met, as if preordained, but at the same time of their or will. In this way there’s no accomplishment in that anyone was willing in their own account the required actions. Rather, it was non-doing or negative capability that holds two things in ‘mind’ meaning a dependent arising of multiple elements creating those action that appeared self-determined. The genius of accomplishment resides in the revelation of emptines...
Five Ur Mantras of SGS: I’m Happy With What I Have I’m Not Coming to a Now—Not Going to a Then I Love All Beings—Both Near and Far I Purify Because I’m Already Pure & Medicate Because I’m Still Healing I Don’t Own Anything—Only Everything 15/1 stellaingerescobedo and 2 others Iran: understanding the Islamic takeover of a country that is not an Arab country. The people of Iran have been occupied for 47 years. This why they are protesting and trying to liberate themselves. Comment: Our heart goes out to you. Israeli leveraged politicians in service to our own elitists are slowly doing a similar transformation in America. Changing the names of our beloved institutions and putting our dictator’s name on them. Rounding up our neighbors of color. Public executions in the streets by slave catchers. Banning books. Rewriting our history. Transferring all the wealth from the middle and lower classes to the top five per cent and oligarchs. Ruining our all our relationshi...