Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @nick_routledge

@sssfCommunity 2/ Referred to as ‘jivan-mukta' ('living liberation') in both Hinduism and Sikhism, the path is also a current within Mahayana Buddhism, analogous to the totalizing simplicity of Zen integration and the 'sustained spontaneous activity’ of the Daoist perfect man.

Quoted or linked post

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.

View this post’s context →

Context in the archive

Quoted by@SherPoint 2/ Young once and naive, I assumed the confident refrain seemingly characterizing every anthology of mysticism I'd stumbled upon (namely, "Only mysticism for everybody can save the world") sagely anticipated the forthcoming advent of a mass awakening to mystical common sense.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @VividVoid_ @TerrifyingQuest 'Abandon originality,' the Daoists say. And Kabir: 'Same ol’ story. One damn pundit and pandit after another.' If it's true it has to be true everywhere: the sacred intensely perceived as present in everything, even in the passions and illusions of superficial consciousness.Quoted by@VividVoid_ @TerrifyingQuest 'Abandon originality,' the Daoists say. And Kabir: 'Same ol’ story. One damn pundit and pandit after another.' If it's true it has to be true everywhere: the sacred intensely perceived as present in everything, even in the passions and illusions of superficial consciousness.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CACRadicalGrace "We are really 'saved' when we no longer think of ourselves as 'saved,' because there is no alternative. This is when profound incarnation [occurs]. The reality of God is intensely perceived as present in everything, even in the passions & illusions of superficial consciousness."Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace "We are really 'saved' when we no longer think of ourselves as 'saved,' because there is no alternative. This is when profound incarnation [occurs]. The reality of God is intensely perceived as present in everything, even in the passions & illusions of superficial consciousness."Quoted by@SophiaCycles Gendered perspectives aside, the phenomenon has storied, interspiritual recognition.