#enlightened person

[alittlebitoftruthcan]

Look at Jesus, he was not a humble person at all. He was not an egoist, but not humble either. That created the problem, that led him to the cross. He was not humble at all. And now many psychologists say that he was neurotic, and they have a point. Many psychologists say that he was an egomaniac; they have a point. If psychologists study Buddha and Mahavira they will conclude the same things—but they have not studied them. They should have been studied very minutely. So they say he was an egomaniac. Why? You can find reasons—because he was not humble. He used to say, ‘I am God,’ or ‘I am the son of God. I and my father in heaven are one.’ To the egoist mind this will appear like ego. And nobody can say that this man is humble who claims that he and God are one, or who claims that he is the son of God. It looks like a claim to us; to Jesus this was a simple fact. And he was not claiming that you are not the son of God: claiming that he is the son of God, he claimed for you all. It is Christianity which claimed the wrong thing; Christianity started to claim that he is the only son of God. That is absurd, that is egomania. But Jesus was saying a simple fact: if the whole creation is out of God, the whole creation is the son, God is the father. He was saying a simple fact with no ego in it, but this disturbed people. They thought a sage must be humble. He used to say, ‘I am the king of the Jews.’ This has been said many times, but to people who were more wise than Jews. Jews were offended that this man who was just a beggar on the street, no more—just a vagabond, just an old hippie—that this man claimed, ‘I am the king of the Jews.’ But he was not claiming anything, he was in a state of mind where there is no ego. Kingship comes into being, but that is not ego. And that kingship doesn’t belong to any worldly affairs, it is not a claim to rule anybody. That kingship is just felt as an inner nature.

Ram Teerth, an Indian mystic of this century, used to call himself Emperor Ram. He was a beggar, but nobody took offense in India because we have known so many beggars saying that, and we know that that happens: a moment comes when a person becomes an emperor without any kingdom. Really, a person becomes an emperor only when there is no kingdom. He went to America, and the American president invited him to visit. The American president felt uncomfortable because Ram Teerth always used to say ‘Emperor Ram.’ Even while talking he would say, ‘Emperor Ram says this.’ So the president humbly asked, ‘I cannot understand this. You don’t seem to have any kingdom, why do you claim that you are an emperor?’ Ram Teerth said, ‘That’s why I claim—because I have nothing to lose, nobody can defeat me. My kingdom is of the eternal, you cannot take it from me. Your kingdom can be taken, your presidency can be destroyed. Nobody can destroy me, I have nothing to lose. I am an emperor because I have no desires.’

If you have desires you are a beggar. So there are two types of beggars, poor beggars and rich beggars. When Jesus said, ‘I am the king of the Jews,’ he was saying this. But people got offended. They said, ‘This is too much. This man cannot be tolerated—he must be crucified, he must be killed.’ But Jesus was a humble man, humble in this sense, that even humbleness was not there—egoless, egolessness was not there—truly humble. But then one starts saying facts. And you live in a world of ego, you interpret because of your egos. So people thought, ‘This man is claiming something—that he is the son of God, he is the king of the Jews—and he is nothing, just a beggar, a vagabond!’ In India nobody would have taken any offense. India has seen so many Jesuses, nobody would have taken offense.

In India every sannyasin is called SWAMI; swami means the master, the king. We call a man swami; swami means the lord. When he leaves everything, when he doesn’t claim anything, when he has nothing, then he becomes swami, then he becomes the lord. Jesus was claiming something Indian in a country which was not India; that became the problem.

— Osho (Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi)

[mypearldiary]

Pick a card, any card

Lastnight I had a dream, I think I was at a party or house gathering and there was a spiritually enlightened person woman there. she and I were laughing and playing around when she asked me to guesss what number she was thinking of. I thought something like 7 but then I second guessed myself and thought okay I'll say 14. she looked back at me and said actually it was 7. and I screamed out, omg I was going to say that!!!! "hahaha guess again" this time I thought something like 3 , but I hesitated that it wouldn't be that and said outloud something like "9" to which she responded "haha no it was 3" and I said, "omg that's not possible. I was GOING to say that!!! I swear to god" and she looked so sad and she said "why do you keep doing that?" meaning I shouldn't second guess my self twice in a row only to be wrong by doing so when I was actually right to begin with. I said something like "but how do I not do that" and she said something like "go with whatever jumps out at you to begin with, don't change it by clouding It with thoughts because you change it to the wrong option when you were right to begin with. go with the one that's pops out clearly at you, and go with that one.

[yourlocalabomination]

“Aside from TGWDLM (and a brief BF cameo), Ted Spankoffski has long hair and we as a fandom need to represent that more often within our fanworks, ” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“They’re right,” he says. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row stands: Joey Richter himself, with long hair.

[jatersade]

this too is yuri

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

we absolutely do not talk enough about how gorgeous the tardis is at the start of enlightenment

[spookysalem13]

I'm on a journey of growth ✨️ and rebirth.

[enlitment]

Which Underrated Woman from History are You?

Finally got around to making a uquiz featuring six of my favourite women from history! You can either get someone from the French Revolution, Roman Republic (I know, how unexpected!) or from 1700s/early 1800s.

Featuring scientists, writers, politically active icons and a few poets whose lives were intertwined with theirs, as a treat!

Enjoy and thanks everyone for sharing! ✨

[potatobugz]

reference

[prideprejudce]

my only real gripe with this episode is that I'm not a big fan with how they made alys and helaena the "back to the future" type of seer or witch who do things like tell daemon and aemond explicitly how they will die or have them see centuries into the future like watching a reels youtube clip. i liked it better when the realm between mysticism and reality was more blurred, and visions could have multiple meanings, or even no meaning at all. and it was the characters who decide what to believe or not believe. instead I feel like we got the lazier "look into my crystal ball and see your future" kind of magic

[anglerflsh]

we jest we laugh but doesn't the thought that we aren't even free of nobility as a ruling class make your blood boil. Yes yes by the modes of the present the current ruling classes are the capitalists the hegemonies the monopolies but we can't even say we exchanged one for the other. They're literally still here. It's so inconcievable to me. What the hell

[eddiegettingshot]

sorry like. i just do not think white people fundamentally understand, or if they understand they don’t care, how genuinely fucking uncomfortable and weird it is as a person of color to get on here and see legions of white people writing treatises on why actually racist white people can learn and grow, and how actually he’s totally redeemable, and how actually you’re probably speaking in bad faith if you’re dissatisfied (because you’re a buddie shipper, which of course matters more than anything and is a fair thing to make social justice assumptions based off of!), and how actually tommy’s story - written by white people on a network tv show - has been told really well and is super important. like do you get how fucking insanely alienating that is as an experience when you’re a non-white person around here. no probably not. because you’re white. like. it doesn’t matter how academically sound or well-constructed your argument is (although it’s never academically sound or well-constructed) because you are acting like a fucking weirdo and this is weird white person behavior. i don’t trust you and you’re weird

[alittlebitoftruthcan]

Buddha says: ‘Hold your tongue. Do not exalt yourself…’ because when you become enlightened the ego has disappeared—you can become enlightened only when you have fulfilled that condition—but now the experience is so vast, so overflowing, so ecstatic that it starts expressing itself. You have to learn…

It is said of al-Hillaj Mansoor—who, like Jesus, was crucified, but in a far more inhuman and cruel way than Jesus himself—it is said about him that the day he became enlightened, he shouted, ‘ANA’L HAQ—I am the truth! I am God!’ His master, Junnaid, was present. He came close to him, whispered in his ear, ‘Mansoor, keep it inside you. Please keep it inside you! Contain it! I know it is very difficult to contain it, it is so vast, almost uncontainable. It expresses itself. I know you are not uttering it, it is being uttered by some unknown force, by God himself, but still I say to you, hold your tongue.’ And Mansoor promised, ‘I will hold my tongue.’ He understood the point, but again and again he would forget. Again and again he would come into that same state of inner light, joy, bliss. And again the shout—the lion’s roar, as Buddha used to call it—would come out of him in spite of himself. He would come and apologize to Junnaid, his master, but the master would say, ‘Mansoor, something has to be done; otherwise you are going to get into trouble unnecessarily. You could be of great help to humanity, but this way you will be unnecessarily in trouble. And not only you, you will stop my work too. It happened to me too, but I had to contain it and you have to contain it too.’ But Mansoor was not capable of it. Junnaid sent him to Kaaba for a three-year pilgrimage. ‘Maybe on this three-year-long journey, being with many mystics, he may cool down. The experience is so new; by and by he will become accustomed to it.’ But he could not become accustomed to it; when he came back he was again in the same state, proclaiming the same things. Because it was a Mohammedan country and it was one of the greatest crimes, the greatest sins, to call oneself God, to declare oneself God, he was caught by the king, by the people and was killed.

For centuries it has been discussed among Sufis who was greater, Junnaid or Mansoor. Ordinarily one would say Mansoor: he was really a great martyr: he suffered and suffered laughingly. He died with laughter. Even Jesus had gone to the cross a little forsaken. When the last nail was put in his hands he looked at the sky and said, ‘God, have you forsaken me? Have you forgotten me? Why is all this happening to me?’ There must have been a little doubt, just a shadow of doubt. He understood immediately, he apologized. He said, ‘No, forgive me. Let thy will be done.’ But for a moment he had wavered. Mansoor never wavered. And he was killed so mercilessly that Jesus’ crucifixion seems to be very humane compared to Mansoor’s. First his legs were cut off, then his hands were cut off, then his eyes were destroyed, then his tongue was cut out, then his head was cut off. But even though all this suffering was there he was all laughter. Before his tongue was cut out, somebody asked, ‘Why are you laughing?’ He said, ‘I am laughing because you cannot destroy my experience; whatsoever you do is irrelevant. And I am laughing because you are killing one person and I am somebody else. You are such fools, that’s why I am laughing! And I am also laughing at God. I am laughing at him, ‘You cannot deceive me. In whatsoever form you come I will recognize you. I recognize you in the butcher who has cut off my feet, who has cut off my hands. It is you who are in him, and nobody else.’’ In fact, Junnaid seems to be a little cowardly; many people think that he was a little cowardly. Why should he tell Mansoor to keep it inside? But that is not true, he was not a coward, in fact he sacrificed far more than Mansoor. Mansoor’s sacrifice is apparent; Junnaid’s sacrifice is not apparent, it is very subtle. To contain the truth when it happens is a superhuman feat, it is a miracle. And he tries to contain it so that he can help people. He is a bodhisattva and Mansoor is an arhat. He cares nothing for the work, he cares nothing for anybody else. He has attained, now there is no problem. Death is not a problem at all, he knows he is immortal. Junnaid is working silently, in the dark, to help people who are blind. And you don’t know his suffering. His suffering is that he has to contain something which is uncontainable.

Buddha says: ‘Do not exalt yourself…’ Avoid any exaltation, avoid any declaration unless you find it is going to help, unless you find it is going to prepare the way; then it is okay. Buddha himself declared, ‘I am the most perfect enlightened one.’ He knew that this was going to help. But if Jesus had asked him he would have said, ‘No, contain it,’ because Jesus was in a wrong country with wrong people. To declare there, ‘I am God’ was just asking for your death, nothing else. Jesus could only work for three years. Hence Christianity is so poor, because the master lived only three years. Up to his thirtieth year he was working for his own enlightenment. When he was ready he came out of the monasteries, started working, and then lived only three years. By the age of thirty-three he was crucified. Now, three years’ time is not enough at all. Buddha worked for forty-two years; even that is not enough. If Jesus had asked Buddha, Buddha would have told him, ‘Keep quiet, work silently. Just be an ordinary rabbi. There is no need to declare that you are the Son of God. You know it, that’s enough; and God knows it, that’s enough.’ But in India, Buddha himself declared it. It is a totally different milieu, it is a totally different climate. For centuries buddhas have happened in this country, they have prepared the way; hence it is very simple to declare, no problem.

— Osho (The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 11)

[vero-niche]

anime man who has at least one suspiciously homoerotic friendship: i looove women

us, every time:

[sulky-cabbage]

I adore the notion that Sukuna's downfall (in love) begins with his fight with Gojo—I mean, physically? That's pretty much Canon. The main reason he lost was the damage Satoru dealt him.

However, I also want to believe that Satoru caused him psychological damage (not really damage but Sukuna is a drama queen) in addition to the physical one.

Sukuna helps Satoru become enlightened, but it results in his own (de-enlightenment?)

PEAK

Sukuna only cares about his pleasures and he realizes that they are ephemeral. But then he experiences such intense pleasure that he finds it impossible to move on from it, promising Gojo to remember him all his life.

It appears to me that he became attached.

Him using Satoru's hand sign until his last moments while having four fucking arms is proof of that.

And THAT'S the curse of love😉

[girlsaintjust]

Thinking bout him*

*blorbo from my thesis

[bibewilderedandbuck]

hmm? me? oh im just thinking about that moment of pure nothingness going on in bucks head after he was first kissed by tommy