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things that resonate with me on my spiritual journey researching the belief systems around India and East Asia
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In the teachings of the Tantras, the goddesses are said to have three forms through which they can be engaged: the image we see in paintings and statues, the mantra, and the geometric form, or yantra. Each of these forms, the Tantric sages say, fully contains the energy of the deity. As we tune into that unique energy signature, it will start to
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Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī
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Agni is considered the mouth of the gods and goddesses and the medium that conveys offerings to them in a homa (votive ritual).
Agni
“The Buddhist practice is a gradual process. Look at how a flower blooms; subtly, gently. Nothing is cut off, or forced.
Its a path of transformation, like how ice melts under the sun to flow as water. We let go of things naturally as wisdom grows, like how the sun appears thru a break in the clouds. Wisdom has many functions, one is seeing clearly
... See moreIn Tibetan Buddhism and other forms of Vajrayana, a yidam is a meditational deity used as a focus for practice to realize one's innate Buddha-nature.
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White Mahakala is a pivotal figure in Tibetan Buddhism, representing protection, prosperity, and the compassionate wrath of Avalokiteshvara.
White Mahakala: A Symbol of Purity and Spiritual Enlightenment
To practice and train thoroughly in a vast range of deeds related to activations, which are sets of outer (physical and verbal) [actions] such as mudras and other characteristic focuses as taught in action tantra, and thus [to have] objects of practice that accord with that tantra; to cultivate inner (mental) contemplation that accords with... See more
Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia
Shaktism (Sanskrit: शाक्तसम्प्रदायः, romanized: Śāktasampradāyaḥ ) is a major Hindu denomination in which the metaphysical reality or the deity is considered metaphorically to be a woman.