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Picnic stilllife
Mistress of the animal spirits
Starfire by Barbara Yochum - SpiritPainter
Trying to get into making art.
If we teach way of life to people who do not have the capacity or desire to understand it, this is disrespectful to Dharma and in time will distort the Dao. If we teach Dharma to people who already understand it, this is disrespectful to those we try to teach who will see it as an intrusion.
The respect for practice of some wandering gypsy students looks like disrespect to some restrained practitioners. Holy rolling even became the rage. The respect for Dharma of some restrained monks on retreat looks like disrespect to some scholars of religion or philosophy who think the monk is not really doing anything.
Some people on retreat respect the retreat, but have no respect for human beings or animals. Respect and disrespect always depend on the pure intention of the inner elements, call it alignment of the winds through the psychic channels. Where, for example, aversion and desire are balanced by the 'Equality of Difference' in the mind continuum.
If we are monks and do not have natural moral mind or weariness of samsara and empathy for its worst parts, and yet we try to keep our vows externally with the expression of the certain actions of body and speech in order to gain people’s respect, we become military academy monks, which is disrespectful to pure monks.
If we do not recognize our own inner light Wisdom Dakini (call it the guiding anima, angel if you will) and only respect outer gross phenomena dakinis while justifying ourselves through the Tantric system, then we become aphrodisiac yogis, which is disrespectful to the pure yogi.
Thinley Norbu
36" x 20"
acrylic on 1/4" panel with texture
2016
North Dakota homestead
Fishing
Most of us are
learning as we go,
because that’s how
it was always meant to be,
despondency & hope
counterbalanced
in the hollow spaces
of our hearts,
like a voluminous moon
periodically overflowing
from a fervent sky,
a recurring sign
that everything & nothing
are powerful
but transitory phases
—opposing forces
designed to spark
continual evolution
in the enlightenment
of our transcendental minds.
RhymingTherapy—Sept 2021 (my photo) poem inspired by @ Writerscreed challenge “all or nothing”
The Universal Activity of Absolute Consciousness
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The dynamic vibratory character of absolute consciousness is its freedom to assume any form at will through the active diversification of awareness or 'vimarsha' in time and space, when it is directed at, and assumes the form of, the object of awareness.
In a philosophical context, particularly within nondual Shaivism, Vimarsha (विमर्श) refers to the reflective power of awareness or consciousness, the capacity for self-reflection and self-awareness. It is the power of the absolute to know itself, often described as the feminine divine energy (Shakti/Anima) in relation to the masculine illuminating power (Prakasha, or Shiva or the Self in a Jungian sense).
The motion of absolute consciousness is a creative movement, a transition from the uncreated state of Being to the created state of Becoming. In this sense Being is in a state of perpetual Becoming (satatodita); it constantly phenomenalises into finite expression.
The Absolute, or Supreme Consciousness, is not a static state of being but a perpetual, creative movement. It is a process of constantly manifesting itself as the external world in multiple form of sentience. This creative movement is also described as 'Spanda', a web of movement a universal vibration or pulse of consciousness. In this view, Being and Becoming are two sides of the same universal consciousness. For adherents of this philosophy, the physical world (ābhāsa or "appearance") is not an illusion but is itself real. The fact of appearing is equivalent to the fact of being.
The concept is closely related to svātantryavāda, the doctrine that the Divine Will has absolute sovereignty and freedom to express and manifest itself.
The shining of inner Being is the manifestation of outer Becoming and, as such, is the constantly self-renewing source of its own appearing as Becoming. Thus, the universal character (sāmānya) of Being is expressed in the radiant form (sphurattā) of each phenomenon. Rightly understood, Being and Becoming are the inner and outer faces of universal consciousness which becomes spontaneously manifest, through its inherent power, as this polarity. The inner face (antarmukha) of consciousness is the pure subject which, devoid of all objective content, abides beyond the realms of time and space. Inner being is the abode of omniscience and every other divine attribute. It can never cease to exist because nothing else can be perceived outside it