x.noaidi

Contemplative (im)Permaculture | kasī-vasī vitakkapariyāyapathesu {Past life: PhDidn't in Psych/Neuro | Present life: PhDid in Buddhism via Religious Studies}

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

Beautifully reminiscent of neural networks, the rhizome, and Indra's net.

🧵🕸️🌱🧠☸️

Thread and tapestry, part 1 of n.

[neuro.social.self @neurosocialself]

Trees can make space for each other at the crowns, yet be so intertwined at the roots that they sometimes die together | C Lariviere | Berlin | April 2020

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

Rivers of Light

"As the cosmos contracts, sentient beings are mostly headed for the realm of streaming radiance."

Aggañña Sutta

"This is called freedom in the elemental cosmos."

Avataṃsaka Sūtra

Photo Credit to Luis Solano Pochet

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

O friend, understand: the body is like the ocean,
rich with hidden treasures.
Open your inmost chamber and light its lamp.
Within the body are gardens,
rare flowers, peacocks, the inner music; within the body is a lake of bliss,
on it the white soul-swans take their joy.
—Mirabai

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"A knot tied with space is released through space itself."

Candrakīrti, Prasannapadā

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"Vasubandhu immersed himself in Mahāyāna scriptures. Tāranātha reports that he read through the whole of the Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 verses in an uninterrupted session of 15 days and nights, which he spent (for reasons not entirely clear) immersed in a tub of sesame-oil."

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"There exists a form of the gem beryl that changes colors if it is placed on different colored cloth…In the same way, the Tathāgata assumes different hues because sentient beings are different."

Tathāgata­guṇa­jñānācintya­viṣayāvatāra­nirdeśa

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

Suvarṇottama­prabhāśrī the courtesan's daughter:

"Afflicted mental states are located within knowledge & liberation, placed within the totality of phenomena. I have understood them thus: without origination, without destruction, without change."

Mañjuśrī­vikrīḍita

[Fantasy of Leslie @Ed1171918745]

In Chinese #tales, Taisui太嵗 or Meat Lingzhi mushroom肉靈芝is a white flesh that moves slowly underground. Some say they are transformed by the Taisui gods in the sky. But after they descend to earth, they become a monster that casts an ominous spell on those who unearth them.

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"Although Einstein eventually did come to China, he only stayed one night, and the lecture tour never materialized."

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"Vasubandhu immersed himself in Mahāyāna scriptures. Tāranātha reports that he read through the whole of the Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 verses in an uninterrupted session of 15 days and nights, which he spent (for reasons not entirely clear) immersed in a tub of sesame-oil."

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"The human-like persons actively participate in the life of the 'ocean'. Two are shown escaping from the nāgas while wildly gesticulating."

Monika Zin

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"Fascinating are worm-like creatures with faces of cats (?), whose bodies coil in multiple ways and end in a tail fin."

Monika Zin

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"The animal in Fig. 8 resembling a bear must be a tortoise as can be deduced from its pendant in another strip. In Kucha, tortoises are shown with ears; since we are in the desert the painters probably never saw such an animal."

Monika Zin

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

Sámi eatnan duoddariid, dáid sámi mánáid ruovttu
galbma geađge guorba guovlu sámi mánáid ruoktu

Beaivi Áhči gollerisku, almmi allodagas
coahkká váibmu Eanan eatni, eallin eatnun šoavvá

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

Samiland's wide expanses,
home to Sami children
cold barren rocky realm
home of Sami children

Sun Father's golden jewel,
high in the heaven
Mother Earth's heart beats,
life rushes like a river

-Sofia Jannok, Wide Open Tundra of Samiland

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

may those on discord be at peace 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 may those on twitter be at peace 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 may those on X be at peace 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 may those on facebook be at peace 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 may those on instagram be at peace 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 may those on tiktok be at peace 唵嘛呢叭咪吽

[mhisa maya @mhisamaya]

30 meters reclining Avalokiteśvara that faces the eternal blue steppe sky, carved inside the Ikh Burkhant complex between 1859-1864 in Mongolia.

Buddhist symbols and mantra inscribed on the ground in Rañjanā script.

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

The southern wall frieze also starts with a winged seahorse flying over a lotus bud to pursue a white double-humped camel from Bactria with a special feature protruding from its head.

Cave of the Hippocampi

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"Although Einstein eventually did come to China, he only stayed one night, and the lecture tour never materialized."

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

Homage to Avalokiteśvara of "Greindness" 🙏

[x.noaidi @NoaidiX]

"In each atom of the lands of the cosmos
Rest the vast oceans of worlds."

(Trans. Cleary)

"In each atom of the realms of the universe,
There exist vast oceans of world systems."

(Qtd. in The Universe in a Single Atom by His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Avataṃsaka Sūtra