#eastern thought

[wytchwyse]

There is No Karma In Cunning

Modern Witchcraft  and magical systems that do not come from Eastern traditions and religions  should not be concerning themselves with Karma. Most often when Karma is imported into witchcraft and western magic  it is completely watered down from its original source. The white washed understanding of karma is appropriative, unoriginal, and inaccurately portrays Karma. I dont think it's appropriate for me to still be finding witches making a “good karma oil” and then go on to describe a potent purification and protective oil.  Good fortune oil, luck oil, road opener oil etc all are fine and fit into the philosophies of many western traditions. Let us please move away from Karma in western Witchery, Cunning and magic.  

[wisdom-and-such]

“ If my mind is weak, even a minor difficulty is oppressive

…but exerting oneself and invigorated, one is hard to defeat even by great calamities.

So, with a firm mind, I shall make difficulty for difficulty.

For so long as difficulties conquer me, my desire to conquer the three worlds is laughable.

For I must conquer everything. Nothing should conquer me.

This pride should be wedded to me, for I am a son of the lionlike Conqueror”.

—Bodhicaryavatara, The Perfection of Vigor. 700CE. Nalanda Temple, India.

[1five1two]

But, for all that, there is a Beyond, and he who has once caught a glance of it, is like a man who has gazed at the sun —wherever he looks, everywhere he sees the image of the sun. Speak to him of finite things, and he will tell you that the Finite is impossible and meaningless without the Infinite. Speak to him of death, and he will call it birth ; speak to him of time, and he will call it the mere shadow of eternity. To us the senses seem to be the organs, the tools, the most powerful engines of knowledge ; to him they are, if not actually deceivers, at all events heavy fetters, checking the flight of the spirit. To us this earth, this life, all that we see, and hear, and touch is certain. Here, we feel, is our home, here lie our duties, here our pleasures. To him this earth is a thing that once was not, and that again will cease to be ; this life is a short dream from which we shall soon awake. Of nothing he professes greater ignorance than of what to others seems to be most certain, namely what we see, and hear, and touch ; and as to our home, wherever that may be, he knows that certainly it is not here.

Friedrich Max Müller

India: What it can teach us

[tea-from-the-bodhi-tree]

"Life should go like the giant's walk, pounding over the earth. No holding back, no indecision, no explanation, no reasoning. It just appears--decisively.

I deeply believe, and hurl myself into it: the decision of birth, decision of sickness, decision of aging, decision of death. The decision that breaks out in laughter or spills in tears.

Life is always being itself. Living in the Eternal Now, I praise the past life that it holds, follow the future life contained in it. So my life moves from decision to decision, from deepest truth to deepest truth, always obeying the changes of time. I concentrate my power on living life."

Haya Akegarasu

[mbuckleydesign]

Read the Book of Five Rings and learn about Miyamoto Musashi here.

[mikefrawley]

I Am A Child

A follower of no known religion claiming neither heritage nor tribe I am a child, innocent and eternal an ancient traveler of distant realms today portraying an accident of birth  dreaming up a little time on planet earth  a seabird placing clouds upon the sky shining brighter than the morning sun I am a universe waiting to be created an ocean filled with joyous equanimity   I am a child, as are you dearest soul and nothing here have we need to fear for although small, we too are everything  

[wisdom-and-such]

“Can you, mating with heaven, serve as the female part?

Can your learned head take leaven from the wisdom of your heart?” – Lao Tzu

[wisdom-and-such]

“Without ever themselves forsaking the mind set on awakening, they caused others to adopt that same attitude. They were generous, self-controlled, restrained, gentle, and patient.”

-- Drumakinnararājaparipṛcchā (The Questions of the Kinnara King Druma)

click here to find this sutra online