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How many years has it been?

And depression still pullin thru with win after win.

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

Aldous Huxley, (1894 - 1963) English Author and Philosopher (via panatmansam)

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_By EliasK

Seriously though.

Why am I still here?

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Why God, why God do I gotta suffer? Pain in my heart carry burdens full of struggle Why God, why God do I gotta bleed? Every stone thrown at you restin’ at my feet Why God, why God do I gotta suffer?

Kendrick Lamar (via amir-za)

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If I can smoke fear away, I roll that motherfucker up And then I take two puffs I’m high now, I’m high now I’m high now, I’m high now Life’s a bitch, pull them panties to the side now

Kendrick Lamar; FEAR. (via tiatati)

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You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

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Gautama Buddha

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Maha-Tara Jayanti.

Maha-Tara Jayanti is the day dedicated to goddess Tara, it falls on April 4 2017. I’ve been looking for some articles about Maa Tara to post for this day but I’ve found it difficult to connect to what’s available, my Guru placed great emphasis on this form of the Divine Mother and She’s very dear to me, so I’m making a humble attempt to write something myself, here goes….

Maa Tara is the second or ninth (depending on which tradition you follow) of the Mahavidyas or great wisdom forms of the Divine Mother, as a Vidya she represents sound, Mantra Shakti the power of sacred sound. The Vedic Goddess of sound is Saraswati, therefore Tara is often referred to as Nila Saraswati or Ugra Saraswati-‘fierce’ Saraswati, in the tantric tradition she is the feminine form of the sacred syllable 'Om’. She resembles Mother Kali greatly in appearance, but they have subtle differences, as Kali represent time, She who is beyond time, Tara is sound, beyond sound. The Divine Mother is one, Saraswati, Kali, Tara, they are all different expressions of the one Shakti. Sri Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta both use the names Kali and Tara interchangeably in their poetry.

According to the traditional story She appears in the tale of the Gods and demons churning the ocean for the nectar of immortality. A great poison was produced in the process which was swallowed by Lord Shiva to save the universe from imminent destruction. Shiva drinks the poison but falls to the ground due to its burning sensation in His throat, Maa Tara then appears on the spot and feeds Shiva with her breast milk to sooth the burning. Maharishi Vashistha is said to have revived Her Worship after learning it in Tibet (incidentally Tara is revered by both Hindus & Buddhists), he located her Shaktipeeth in Birbhum district West Bengal, identifying the place as the location Sati’s third eye fell in the Daksha Yagna tale, She is worshipped to this day in the famous Tarapith temple in the same location.

Tarapith is an amazing place, the image of Maa Tara here is one of the most striking you will find, the Goddess is very much awake in this holy temple. The adjacent cremation ground is a magnet for everyone from full throttle tantric Sadhakas, drunk red clad (and red eyed) 'sadhu’ beggars with their loud shouts of JOY MAA TARA, to pious pilgrims putting everything on a prayer. The holy tomb of Sri Bamakhepa Thakur, the famous 'mad’ saint of Tarapith is also located here, Sri Bamakhepa himself perhaps being Maa Tara’s greatest gift to the modern world. Maa Tara is the great refuge to those who seek Her shelter, I pray She grants us all Her blessings on this special day.

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Fun Fact: Danny Rubin, who wrote the script for the beloved Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day” chose that day so the movie would become a holiday classic. It worked. He gets royalties every time it plays so this was a good business decision for him.

Bonus Fact #1: One of the most frequent questions the director the late Harold Ramis was asked over and over again was how many actual years passed during the movie. Ramis finally answered “at least 10,000 years”,

Bonus Fact #2: The main reason that director Harold Ramis, a Jewish-Buddhist, picked the script was because it was an allegory of the teachings of the Buddha. Bill Murray’s character only broke out of the cycle of “rebirth” after he learned compassion and abandoned “self”.