MEMENTO MORI

Mosaic from Pompeii  (I, 5, 2)

National Archaeological Museum, Naples

Roman mosaic depicting the Wheel of Fortune which — as it turns — can make the rich (symbolized by the purple cloth on the left) poor and the poor (symbolized by the goatskin on the right) rich. Certainly, both states are very precarious, with death never far and life hanging by a thread: when it breaks, the soul (symbolized by the butterfly) flies off. And thus are all made equal.

 

Monday, October 3, 2022 First Quarter Illumination: 56% On October 3 the Moon is 7.92 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases. The Moon's current phase for today and tonight is a First Quarter phase. This phase occurs roughly 7 days after the New Moon when the moon is one-quarter of the way through its orbit around the earth. Precisely half the moon will be illuminated and half dark. On the day of the First Quarter phase, the moon is high overhead at sunset and is visible until midnight when it sets in the west. The First Quarter phase is a one-day event and in the following days, a Waxing Gibbous phase becomes more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.

 

Phase Details For - October 3 Phase: First Quarter Illumination: 56% Moon Age: 7.92 days Moon Angle: 0.55 Moon Distance: 363,307.44 km Sun Angle: 0.53 Sun Distance: 149,658,437.26 km

"Turn within — see what has prompted you.

And there will it be told — from within you — 

the steps you should take day by day, step by step."

ECRL 922-1

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

"Each individual must stand upon their own inner developments to bring peace or harmony. So long as any is leaning upon another, or so long as they are leaning upon another, there cannot be the full or complete control of self."  ECRL 165-22

Losing Sight of self

Whatever was is no more

The present knowledge is based on a total absence of knowledge

Parenting and scholarly education amount to alienation

Nothing anymore flows from the source

Until I return

ज्येष्ठ नक्षत्र चंद्र Jyeshtha Nakshatra Chandra

Sunday, October 2, 2022

"So with Happiness.

Only when one has lost sight of self,

in the appreciation of the love, beauty and hope

in the Creative Forces and their activity,

may one indeed know Happiness."

Edgar Cayce reading 262-111

Celestial Tree, Robert Venosa

Embraced & Owned XIII

སྒྲོལ་མ

तारा पद्मासन, Tārā padmāsana / Dölmalotus

• Upon birth and within the first and half year — gradually giving way to the creation of an ego that will pilot the local experience — the natural life force and the prior and inherent knowledge attached to it are coiled and stocked in a deposit account physiologically located somewhere between the first (lowest) and second nervous plexuses — a retirement saving account of sorts.
• Thence is the procreation stage that lasts until the turning point @ 49 ䷰ 革 ㄍㄜˊ the revolution.
• @ that point — &/or after 50 ䷱ 鼎 ㄉㄧㄥˇ where stands the philosopher's (Andor, thief-turn-rebel) caldron — begins the recreation — the recess — as one returns.
• This last phase must be acknowledged, accepted and embraced — ䷵ 歸妹 ㄍㄨㄟ ㄇㄟˋ 54 — as no one can work out anything with the methods and tools used during the procreation period. It is no more a time of generation, but more a period of reverse engineering and eventually, destruction. The time is no longer dedicated to the production 生 or harvest 收 but to abandon and forsaking. Any clinging on — ䷝ 離 ㄌㄧˊ 30  — regrets, becomes a hindrance.
• Once the acceptance is achieved, starts the re-alignment. The signal is given by the free spirit — ䷼ 中孚 ㄓㄨㄥ ㄈㄨˊ 61 — processed by the modem of the soul, but in the end, must be fully integrated by each and every organ and all the circuitries of the human system — ䷽ 小過ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄍㄨㄛˋ 62. Only then does the power rise — release of the कुण्डलिनी kuṇḍalinī.
• In the end, the ultimate goal is to reach the point of no return — with no intention or fake, illusory reasons, whatsoever, to come back — to cross the Rubicon i.e.䷾ 既濟 ㄐㄧˋ ㄐㄧˋ 63, passing the rubēdō,  the "reddening" process, the fourth and final major stage of the alchemical magnum opus.

The alchemist who has Achieved Illumination. Zoroaster Clavis Artis, 1737

कुण्डलिनी

kuṇḍalinī

योग सिद्धांत के अनुसार प्रत्येक मनुष्य के मेरुदंड के नीचे एक ऊर्जा संग्रहीत होती है जिसके जाग्रत होने पर आत्मज्ञान की प्राप्ति होती है।दिव्यांशु पाठक के अनुसार कुण्डलिनी महाशक्ति दिव्य ऋतम्भरा प्रज्ञा प्रदान करती है साथ ही यह योगीयों के लिए आदिशक्ति हैं। इसका ज़िक्र उपनिषदों और शाक्त विचारधारा के अन्दर कई बार आया है। ऊर्जा का यह रूप (क्वाईल या कुंडली) एक सांप के साढ़े तीन कुंडली (लपेटे हुए) मारकर बैठे हुए रूप से मिलती है।

A natural process that realigns the three multi-levelled vibrations once the turning point as the point of no return is reached. This occurs once one is seeing clearly through one's and anyone's own self-created illusions. The correct impulse is given by the spirit, the correct tempo (bon tempi) by the mind and the first alignments are provided by the different organs and the nervous systems of the body — reverse engineering as well as resuscitation — according to a geolocation of the many nodes along the meridians.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 "The healing must come from within — that is, life force — or cell units — must build within, or from within, in such a way and manner as to bring resuscitating life energy through the whole system."  ECRL 5440-1 Thursday, September 29, 2022 9 full months to Thursday 29th, 05:45 "Yet there is the healing of the physical, there is the healing of the mental, there is the correct direction from the spirit. Coordinate these and you'll be whole!"  Edgar Cayce reading 2528-2

心經

The Sanskrit Heart Sutra collected by Pelliot is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

The Heart sutra

(प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya)

and its similarities with

第十二章，

道德經。

五色令人盲目，

五音令人耳聾，

五味令人口爽， 

馳騁畋獵令人心發狂，

難得之貨令人行妨。

是以聖人為腹不為目，

故去彼取此。

Chapter 12, 

Dao De Jing English version by Chang Chung-yuan, 1975

[張錘元 Zhang Zhongyuan, 1907-1988]

12

Numerous colours make man sightless.

Numerous sounds make man unable to hear.

Numerous tastes make man tasteless.

Racing and pursuing game make man's heart violent.

Valuing rare things makes man worry about their safety.

Therefore, the wise concentrates on the belly and not on the temptations of the senses.

Thus, he abides in the one and foregoes the other.

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In the (प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya sutra, अवलोकितेश्वराने Avalokiteśvara addresses शरीपुत्राला Śariputra, explaining the fundamental emptiness (शून्यता śūnyatā) of all phenomena, known through and as the five aggregates of human existence.

觀自在菩薩。行深般若波羅蜜多時。照見五蘊皆空。度一切苦厄。舍利子，色不異空。空不異色。色即是空。空即是色。受、想、行、識，亦復如是。舍利子，是諸 法空相。不生，不滅。不垢，不淨，不增，不減。是故空中。無色。無受、想、行、識。無眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意。無色、聲、香、味、觸、法。無眼界。乃至無 意識界。無無明。亦無無明盡。乃至無老死。亦無老死盡。無苦、集、滅、道。無智，亦無得。以無所得故。菩提薩埵。依般若波羅蜜多故。心無罣礙。無罣礙故。 無有恐怖。遠離顛倒夢想。究竟涅槃。三世諸佛。依般若波羅蜜多故。得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。故知般若波羅蜜多。是大神咒。是大明咒是無上咒。是無等等咒。能 除一切苦。真實不虛故。說般若波羅蜜多咒即說咒曰：揭帝，揭帝，般羅揭帝，般羅僧揭帝，菩提僧莎訶。

歐陽詢書心經。Prajnyaapaaramitaa Hridaya by Ouyang Xun

When Bodhisattva अवलोकितेश्वराने Avalokiteshvara was practising the profound Perfection of the Wisdom (प्रज्ञा पारमिता prajñā parāmitā), he illuminated the Five Appearances (स्कंध skandha). He saw that they are all empty (शून्य shunya), and he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.

शारिपुत्र Shāriputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness.

शारिपुत्र Shāriputra, all teachings (धर्म dharma) are empty of characteristics. They are not produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure; and they neither increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or dharmas; no field of the eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, no Way, no understanding, and no attaining.

Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva through reliance on prajñā parāmitā is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid and leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind. Ultimately Nirvana! All Buddhas of the three periods of time attain अनुत्तरा-सम्यक-सम्बोधि: anuttarā-samyak-sambodhi through reliance on prajñā parāmitā. Therefore know that prajñā parāmitā is a Great Spiritual Mantra, a Great Bright Mantra, a Supreme Mantra, an Unequalled Mantra. It can remove all suffering; it is genuine and not false. That is why the Mantra of Prajna Paramita was spoken. Recite it like this: Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté. Bodhi Svaha!

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George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, “Fantasia 2000”

George Gershwin was born September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York City

Sunday, September 25,2022

"For these temporal things must pass away,

but that spiritual house, that temple

— that cleanliness so akin to godliness — 

is that which lives on and on."

Edgar Cayce reading 262-109

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.

For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

William Blake. Two scholars copied "Proverbs of Hell" from the devil's scroll.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy I, 1827, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.

The world had a beginning

And this beginning could be the mother of the world.

When you know the mother

Go on to know the child.

After you have known the child

Go back to holding fast to the mother,

And to the end of your days, you will not meet with danger.

Block the openings,

Shut the doors,

And all your life you will not run dry.

Unblock the openings,

Add to your troubles,

And to the end of your days, you will be beyond salvation.

To see the small is called discernment;

To hold fast to the submissive is called strength.

Use the light

But give up the discernment.

Bring not misfortune upon yourself.

This is known as following the constant.

Dao De Jing II. 52

― Lau 52

天 下 有 始 ， 以 為 天 下 母 。

既 得 其 母 ， 以 知 其 子 ，

复 守 其 母 ， 沒 身 不 殆 。

塞 其 兌 ， 閉 其 門 ， 終 身 不 勤 。

開 其 兌 ， 濟 其 事 ， 終 身 不 救 。

見 小 曰 明 ， 守 柔 曰 強 。

用 其 光 ， 复 歸 其 明 ，

無 遺 身 殃 ﹔ 是 為 襲 常 。

― 老 子: 「道 德 经」 : 第 五 十 二 章