middle english is incredibly readable and a joy to read with modern spelling and a glossary.

I mean imagine an abrahamic talking this way about part of their scriptures

shvetashvatara upanishad is so good

will have beets when I'm hungry next hehehe

alright time to attempt sleep

at the most religious point of my life I tried to pray for at least 30 minutes everyday and renounce the fruit of my actions as a sacrifice to God, it was very hard for me and I make myself seem better than I was. anyway i lapsed after that and fell into a deep personal hell which I'm still in. hopefully next time I try karma/bhakti yoga it goes better for me, I have reason to believe it will. (divine grace)

I believe the only reason(s) the east has more successful (at uniting the soul with God) mystics than the west is that in the west there is on the one hand an emphasis on knowledge (and jnana yoga is incredibly difficult, much moreso than bhakti and karma yoga or a synthesis thereof) and on the other hand due to abrahamic religion there is an emphasis on widely-approved-prophet--revealed scripture instead of on personal revelation that still rare but not just a few "chosen" people can have (often leading to scripture revealed to a select few, like the upanishads or the dhammapada, but this scripture is taught to prepare a way for personal action towards enlightenment not to create orthodoxy or orthopraxis so much). and when people like st. teresa of Avila or the Baal Shem tov had mystical experiences and attained siddhis, they were faced with a society that didnt treat them as the start of a respected guru lineage based on their personal experience with conquering the ego but that demanded compliance with orthodoxy. so you had levitating nuns who were still expected to adhere to orthodoxy, and wonder working rebbes who were expected to teach torah more than anything else! but this idea of mine is very half baked like most or all of my ideas...

oh neat Anna's archive is on .li now

#caturday #catsOfMastodon #mlem
Behold, a cat that has dipped into my coffee. What could go wrong?

WHEN FULLNESS IS TAKEN FROM FULLNESS, ONLY FULLNESS REMAINS!

unfortunately I was born very unfit for even the most elementary meditation let alone for turiya. then why my intense desire for moksha? it is on account of my brokenness not my wholeness. in truth only Gods grace can and perhaps will lead me to liberation in this lifetime.

火鉢でホットケーキ焼きました！
これがこうなってこうなって、こうです！（途中にこっそり猫がいます）
ひっくり返すとこだけいったんキッチンでやったけど、あとはぜんぶ火鉢で。ホットケーキミックスも自家製なのでめちゃくちゃ膨らみました。

golden beets got no particular love in the beet vs beet poll

my "religious experiences" definitely seem to take the existence of a universal truth revealed by all genuine mystics, prophets, seers, and sages for granted is all I know. and from what ive read about the Discalced Carmelites, members seem to have had very nibbana-like experiences in increasingly absorbed stages of meditation on God... I wonder if Huxley compares jesus to other avataras who sustain the universe

I found brave new world insufferable but the perennial philosophy tempts me. it seems to bake where my own similar thoughts are rather half-baked. and its primary influence may be advaita vedanta which has held such an influence on me since my early-mid 20s. think I'll read it after I go through the primary upanishads again.

could get genuinely addicted to the strawberry fig and beet salad I had last night

I will never understand how fashy types follow rq me I'm a dumb foid jewess dyke into the sanatana dharma who isnt even funny

choccy milk

yes.... hahahaha... YES!