10/ Situated at the confluence of Himalayan Islam and Indic currents, Nund Rishi's genius was to translate Islam into the rhythm and grammar of Kashmir's pre-Islamic soul—not diluting it, but deepening a blend of Shaivite, Buddhist, and Islamic linguistic and religious registers.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: William Dalrymple; Nick quoting Thich Nhat Hanh; Nick planetary syncretism Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet thread here: Maitreya,The Benevolent One and Future Buddha His worship began early and he became especially popular between the 3rd to and 6th centuries, notably in Kashmir and Gandhara, the source of many of the first images. 1/ We might expect #ThichNhatHanh’s averral that the next Buddha, #Maitreya, “might not take the form of an individual, but a community,” reflected, naturally, in evolving representations of the form. The universal sangha, as fluid, syncretic, planetary archetype, for example. 2/ It comes as little surprise that the cultures of Gandhara and Kashmir, responsible for what likely still represents history’s most refined gathering, synthesis and integration of differentiated consciousness and peoples, so fully defines the symbiosis of planetary syncretism.
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Open original document@RizomaSchool There's only one way to find out. I trained daily at one of the country's most orthodox Buddhist temples for a few years. Precious times. Pluriversalism? Moriarty: "Jesus is our hero of integration." Most folk thrive in the familiar: some are cosy in a sincerely planetarian mode.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201547415670792 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. By ‘Westernizing’ the thangka method in symbolic geometrical form, the images which follow describe a novel, experiential gathering, synthesis and integration of three highly distinct, subtle-body technologies emerging out of Sufi, Daoist and Yogic contemplative disciplines. 7/ t.co/cgZ7NHtB0a
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201556538368006 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Three ‘thangkas’, in chronological procession, then. The first, an effort to paint an experiential picture of ‘Dhikr-i Jaru-b’, the Naqshbandi Dhikr of the Broom; a practice to purify and energize the ‘Lata’if’ or subtle-energy-centers specific to Sufi contemplative practice. 8/ t.co/LuthZkqI6x
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201564205469701 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. The second ‘thangka’, I initially constructed to theorize the feasibility of a further, fuller, inter-spiritual iteration, integrating Sufi Lata’if and Yogic Chakras, and ‘Eight Internal Iron Palms Qi Gong’. The geometric archetype ‘clicked.’ Experientially, it could work! 9/ t.co/FuRVJTgSfQ
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201571029606407 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Indeed, it did. Next steps? Consulting my Teachers of these specific traditions to brainstorm a deeper synthesis. Was my approach coherent? What of possible pitfalls and dangers? Then, several weeks of devoted, early-morning practice-exploration at Dharmalaya in Eugene, OR. 10/ t.co/hgrU0ZAGyJ
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