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1/5 #Kashmiriyat Triptych. Kashmiri syncretism has powerfully defined world culture since ancient times. Indeed, to this day, world sages aver that the path of global reconciliation and peace necessarily passes directly through #Kashmiri experience.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Oct 2020

@TWalk @psyche_the_mag 1/ A perfect, universalist echo in the Sanskrit traditions, as it happens. We have Tantric masters, for example, who decry all doctrines and all rituals and instead applaud the ideal of perfect spontaneity - or ‘sahaja’ as it is named.

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Quoted by@CarlMcColman What Jesus surely came to end are such distinctions between inner and outer worlds, narratives and experience. Besides, how could one realm ultimately be more important than the other, in this regard? What, after all, of Gaia? What of our captives?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @theintercept 1/ Why does Kashmir matter? The most densely militarized zone in the world - 1 Indian soldier for every 8 Kashmiris - mass disappearances, torture & rape are systemic; human rights efforts have been crushed; countless are dead. Meanwhile, three nuclear powers vie for its control.Quoted by@theintercept 1/ Why does Kashmir matter? The most densely militarized zone in the world - 1 Indian soldier for every 8 Kashmiris - mass disappearances, torture & rape are systemic; human rights efforts have been crushed; countless are dead. Meanwhile, three nuclear powers vie for its control.Quoted byThrough the ages, such inter-spiritual, trans-cultural integration has catalyzed, stabilized and guided the emergence of peaceful societies, worldwide. Such blendings also remain foundational and essential to the advent of planetary reconciliation and peace in this, our time. 14/Quoted by#artforthepeopleofthescreenauction Writing elsewhere just now...Goethe called it a holy open secret. Do the good work and you meet the good people. ?s=20Quoted by@mountaininkmag "I still owe you the rains of Himalayas, the fragrance of shrines and the autumn of chinars."