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Satan's real weapon was never control. It's temptation — because esoterically, Satan isn't a being, he's your ego. Every craving, every habit, every urge to justify a bad choice: that's the mind performing for your awareness, hoping you'll identify with it. You're not the craving. You're the one watching it.
"O que é a verdade? "Eu não tenho nada a ver com a tristeza, com as ações, com a ilusão ou o desejo. Eu estou em paz, livre da tristeza. Eu sou Brahman (Consciência Pura) - essa é a verdade. "Eu estou livre de todos os defeitos, eu sou o todo, não busco nada nem abandono nada, eu sou Brahman - essa é a verdade. "Eu sou o sangue, eu sou a carne, eu sou osso, eu sou o corpo, eu sou consciência, eu sou a mente também, eu sou Brahman - essa é a verdade. "Eu sou o firmamento, eu sou o espaço, eu sou o sol e todo o espaço, eu sou tudo aqui, eu sou Brahman - essa é a verdade. "Eu sou uma folha de grama, eu sou a terra, sou um toco de árvore, eu sou a floresta, eu sou a montanha e os oceanos, eu sou Brahman não dual - essa é a verdade. "Eu sou a consciência à qual todas as coisas estão amarradas e por cujo poder todos os seres se envolvem em todas as suas atividades, eu sou a essência de todas as coisas - essa é a verdade."
- Yoga V��siṣṭha
@gusyeva_ Isso aí é "sororidade feminina invertida". É só uma mulher se demonstrar diferente do "pensamento de rebanho feminino" que já tem o "bullying pedagógico" recheado de inveja e ressentimento.
There is growing xenophobia in China.
This is not [mainly] caused by the foreigners, but rather Chinese women. Specifically, Chinese women who worship foreigners.
The main gripe stem from the fact that these Chinese women asks for extremely high standards when it comes to Chinese men, such as bride's price and owning a house. But when it comes to foreign/ western men, these women asks for nothing, even provide these foreign men with money like paying for dates.
This extreme double standard is caused by Chinese neo-feminism, which is centered around the extraction of financial benefits and social status from people (usually men). This, by the way, is the direct cause of the collapsing marriage rate in China.
⬇️Context of this post on Douyin.
The growing xenophobia lives in this wider environment, intolerance of interaction with foreigners have reached such a high degree, that sometimes rather innocent posts like the one below gets blasted.
2 Chinese girls minding their own business taking photos, a white male comes up to them and complemented their looks and wanted to take a photo with them, according to the poster they parted their ways. Quite a normal interaction. However, due to the placement of their arms, it looked like the girls where holding the arm of the white guy, but they are holding their own arms. The poster were blasted by the comments, forcing them to turn off the comments.
Although not entirely innocent, the girls did post this image as a form of self-gratification, of being complemented by a foreigner.
This type of backlash is the exactly what many people, including myself warned about. Chinese neo-feminism basically painting a large target on the backs of every women in China, instead of helping women, it reinforced stereotypes.
Personally, I think a little xenophobia is good, it weeds out the foreigners who are in China just to take advantage of our people. Only in relationships based on equality and mutual respect, can you have real friendships. Nothing good comes out of blind worship, even if the foreigner has no ill-intent initially, acquiescence to their whims will only incentivize them to take advantage of you.
“A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood.”
- Chinese Proverb
The idea behind this proverb comes most clearly from the writings of Zhuangzi, one of the central thinkers of Daoism in the 4th century BCE.
In the Zhuangzi, a famous story tells of a large, twisted tree that carpenters ignore because its wood is unsuitable for construction. Precisely because it is considered “useless,” the tree is never cut down and survives to live out its natural life.
Zhuangzi uses the tree as a metaphor for human life. In Daoist thought, being “useful” by conventional standards can make a person vulnerable to exploitation, control, and exhaustion. Those who are unconventional, overlooked, or unwilling to fit society’s expectations may instead preserve their freedom and live on their own terms.
Ready to get Started in Theurgy? Check these out:
* Plato - Symposium, Phaedrus
* Iamblichus - Egyptian Mysteries, Life of Pythagoras
* Proclus - On the Hieratic Art, Hymns and Prayers
* Damascius - Life of Isidore (also called the Philosophical History)
* Chaldean Oracles
* Corpus Hermeticum
* Greek Magical Papyri
* Stephen Skinner - Techniques of Greco-Egyptian Magic
* Giordano Bruno - De Umbris Idearum (On the Shadows of Ideas), De Compositione Imaginum, Signorum et Idearum (On the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas)
* Zohar
@emitriz_ Te entendo, tenho compulsão por tudo que tem maracujá e amendoim, é só ver um doce de um desses que já tenho que bolar um jeito de conseguir comer.
In Greek philosophy, phantasia is the metaphysical mirror and boundary between the sensory world and pure intellect. Where mental images (phantasmata) are generated and projected; and sensory data, memory, symbols, and psychic patterns are stored before the rational mind (1/3)