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Thursday, 25 January, 2024 | 37
The #Tao never does anything,
yet through it all things are done.
If powerful men and women
could center themselves in it,
the whole world would be transformed
by itself, in its natural rhythms.
People would be content
with their simple, everyday lives,
in harmony, and free of desire.
#Music on #Red-Magnetic-Dragon
#MegMyers 10/6/1986 #Birth US singer-songwriter and musician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5u9jb0PJE
#Meg-Myers - #Desire [Music #Video]
space, the final frontier...
#space #emptiness #experience #together #desire #data #startrek #tng #vidcap
#TEMPLE OF THE #64 #YOGINIS / #DAKINIS & #TANTRA
#Kama translated from #Sanskrit broadly means #Desire. #Sutra means #aphorism.
"The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text which, is considered the primary Sanskrit work on human sexuality. It was written by Mallanaga Vatsyayana in the 2nd century CE. The Kama Sutra is a part of a greater treatises on Dharma, Artha, & Kama (Virtue, Wealth & Desire respectively) as constituent elements of a path to achieve Moksha (liberation). It treats the subject of a Courtesean with some depth. The Kama Sutra is ahead of its time in the way it approaches, contextualizes, and describes how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life’s beauty. From CHAPTER II, OF THE WAYS OF EXCITING DESIRE, AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS, AND RECIPES of the Kama Sutra, translated by Richard Burton
‘Thus have I written in a few words the “Science of love”, after reading the texts of ancient authors, and following the ways of enjoyment mentioned in them.’
‘He who is acquainted with the true principles of this science pays regard to Dharma, Artha, Kama, and to his own experiences, as well as to the teachings of others, and does not act simply on the dictates of his own desire. As for the errors in the science of love which I have mentioned in this work, on my own authority as an author, I have, immediately after mentioning them, carefully censured and prohibited them.’
From my explorations (and I’m open to signs pointing otherwise), the Kama Sutra and Khajuraho are not obviously connected besides both subjects not excluding sexuality. However, I am intrigued by the connection between the temple of 64 Yoginis/Dakinis, Chapter III – On the study of the 64 arts in the Kama Sutra, and connections with the Temple Arts. Explorations to be continued in a future post."
https://lovemovementevolution.com/labofvisionaryplay/khajurahokamasutra
About the #tantric #temples #of #Khajuraho, #Osho, & the #KamaSutra
#Music on #Yellow-Lunar-Seed
#RickJames 2/1/1948 #Birth US musician and composer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPikYsi6_zU
#Rick-James & #Teena-Marie - #Fire and #Desire
The flash of desire is pure energy.
https://notesandsilence.com/2023/03/22/the-desire-in-fabric-squares
I'll journey on, I'll sing and dance
And the greedy ones can make their stance
With pockets for souls they'll never fill
With happy heart, I'm smiling still
https://www.subudbritain.org/about-subud/
The founder of Subud, Bapak Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwijojo (Bapak), explained that the latihan is a method of #worshipping #God that is open to #all #mankind and whose source is the power of God.
The practice of the latihan involves voluntary #surrender to the power of God. After quietening one’s thoughts and desires, one makes the intention to worship only God, who has the power to reach and move a #human #being from within, without any external means. This power is the #source of the #latihan. Once in such a quiet state, one may feel spontaneous vibrations or movements that derive from #divine #grace. By willingly following these movements, one can #experience a #worship #free #of #thought and #desire.
only 10,000 in the whole world /
On carnal desire and meat consumption.
https://notesandsilence.com/2022/10/18/on-eating-women
#zen #meditation #sutra #desire #spirituality #practice #violence #silence
As the night rises, and the day sets,
The silence that emerges is especially favorable to the rise of envy...
https://notesandsilence.com/2022/05/19/may-the-moon-never-go-out
The most appropriate moment to observe desire in its works is in the early morning.
https://notesandsilence.com/2022/04/22/morning-desire/
#zen #meditation #desire #peace #illusion #practice #life #spirituality
A quotation by Shaw, George Bernard
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
Man and Superman, Act 4 [Mendoza] (1903)
#quote #quotation #achievement #attainment #desire #endeavor #failure #goal #pursuit #success #tragedy
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/53213/
Most people seek after what they do not possess and thus are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. They become prisoners of their desires even though they appear to be free.
Anwar el-Sadat (1918-1981) Egyptian soldier and statesman
In Search of Identity (1978)
#quote #quotation #acquisition #avarice #desire #materialism #possession
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/sadat-anwar/3406/
