{"quotes":[{"text":"…if divinity, which is the goddess, is intrinsic to her being, something she caries around with her all the time, something she is, then her status in general shifts. Then one would need to be vigilant, constantly maintaining an attitude of listening to her, as ordinary woman, which affords a shift in the normative discourse between the genders and that allows for a recognition of her as a subject, as a person to whom one should listen.","author":"Loriliai Biernacki","tags":["female-divinity","feminist","tantra","women-and-religion"],"id":6805,"author_id":"Loriliai+Biernacki"},{"text":"In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":11967,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.","author":"Saurabh Sharma","tags":["freedom","loneliness","love","lust","mind","raging-hormones","romance","soul","tantra"],"id":19335,"author_id":"Saurabh+Sharma"},{"text":"The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོ]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics ('phel-gdung [འཕེལ་གདུང་] and rainbow lights, is:[OṂ] YE DHARMĀ HETUPRABHAVĀHETUN TEṢĀṂ TATHĀGATOHY AVADAT TEṢĀṂ CA YONIRODHO EVAṂ VĀDIMAHĀŚRAMAṆAḤ [YE SVĀHĀ]('Whatever events arise from a cause, the Tathagāta [Buddha, 'Thus-gone'] has told the cause thereof, and the great virtuous ascetic has taught their cessation as well [so be it]').","author":"Graham Coleman","tags":["buddhism","dependent-origination","mantra","tantra","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":21282,"author_id":"Graham+Coleman"},{"text":"When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["beatdom","buddha","buddhism","death","left-hand-path","religion","tantra"],"id":40453,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":66975,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"The foundational Vajrakilaya is the sun shining in the sky behind the clouds. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the clouds from the sky through the force of wind and rain, or whatever; it is the path of method and wisdom, combined. And the resultant Vajrakilaya is the nature of your mind, the nature of your rigpa, which is the same mind as the mind of the primordial buddha, Kuntuzangpo. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the adventitious veil of obscuration that covers rigpa. Applying the method by practicing generation stage (kyerim) and completion stage (dzogrim), accumulating merit and purifying negative karma, removing that veil, is the path. The result is realizing that ones own self nature is buddha. So the result is the same as the foundation. In the beginning you are buddha, and in the end you are buddha.","author":"Gyatrul Rinpoche","tags":["buddha","nonduality","sun","tantra","vajrakilaya"],"id":70987,"author_id":"Gyatrul+Rinpoche"},{"text":"It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["buddhism","left-hand-path","religion","strength","tantra","zeena-schreck"],"id":75367,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as 'I AM.' YOU ARE the essence of life—the Cosmic Consciousness that creates, lives in, and destroys all things. In Buddhism, your true nature is referred to as your “Buddha Nature.” Muslims refer to it as Allah, Native tribes have often called it the Great Spirit, Taoists refer to it as the Tao, and numerous other cultures throughout history have all created their own distinctive names for it. But the one eternal reality that these cultures point to remains the same—and this reality is YOU.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","source","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":78332,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the left-hand path seek liberation in this life.--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":79168,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}