Just as an example, I will relate an experience of the Christian mystic Teresa of Avila. Her experience of religious ecstasy in her encounter with the angel is described as follows: “ I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me...

cooran wrote:Hello all,

What does the Easter Bunny have to do with Easter?

Chris

Follow that wispy light. It leads to what look like eggs bunched together. And one will be bigger than the rest, looking like a Moon in the clouds. Pagan nimittas, expressed in ordinary language.

I've read 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch', and I enjoyed it. It reminds me of 'The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus', because of the obvious overlap with the Imaginarium, and I think of both as like the Guru-Disciple relationship of Indian Tantra and Vajrayana, where the Guru manipulates the ima...

I read a sutta recently, the name of which escapes me, that mentions that the Buddha's face would become more clearly defined, and his body more golden, in response to his receiving angry words from someone. That the Buddha is golden as a result of giving homes to the homeless supports a notion I ha...

Nice, Thales.

Even a child, watching the tip of its nose would understand this:

"Hey diddle diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle, the Cow jumped over the Moon."

I enjoy these comparisons between faiths. It is worth considering the idea of the Guru who, through initiation, imparts a part of himself to the disciple, and effects a transformation within the acolyte, a rebirth of the student, a 'Virgin birth' of spirit, apparently without father. In this light, ...

I experience chakras when I meditate. A general practice of mindfulness can help to discern them. There is a lot of detail in the 'fine material body', and chakras are a part of this. Are they relevant to Buddhism? They are certainly interesting in themselves, and I presume they come under the banne...