Posted in poetry on Jun 29th, 2012
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clear vision
a rose being a rose
a soul a soul
and I’ve still no idea
which card to turn over
watching for monty
back into an angel
his sly smile provoking
my fear
clouding
shrouding
what rose
so holding still
is the answer
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Posted in mantra on Jun 6th, 2012
I spoke of a mantra in the last post,
and the mantra is as follows
OM namah shivaya gurave
satchitananda murtaye
nishprapanchaya shantaya
niralambaya tejase
I bow to God (Shiva) [my teacher]
whose form is truth/the existent, mind/consciousness, ananda (see below),
ever present peace,
self-existant light
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Posted in Buddhism, Consciousness, cosmology, mantra, metaphysics, psychology, puzzles on Jun 5th, 2012
Ananda (and the nature of the divine)
There is a mantra in which the second line tells us that God’s form, God’s nature, is “sat, chit, ananda”.
“sat” is truth, is the real, the actual.
“chit” is mind, experience, consciousness.
and “ananda”? Everyone says ananda is bliss, almost everyone…
and it doesn’t quite compute.
The divine as the actual reality, as [...]
Kusalo’s Old Lady
Ajahn Kusalo is a Buddhist monk in the “Thai Forrest” Theravadan tradition, and what a joy I found it to be in his company, to listen to him. A quiet laughter punctuates his speech and thoughts. He told a story I thought worth repeating…
Kusalo is from the antipodes, and his aged mother is [...]
