13/ It was not only a translation bridge between religions—it was a declaration of ontology. A lived stance. A fidelity to what arises naturally when empire, ego, and clerisy fall away—how the eternally actual, which has always been here, becomes recognizable in ordinary things.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: "The focus on everyday life is one of the defining features of the Prataybhijna philosophy... Simply by giving attention to even ordinary activities... one can reach profound mystical states (in which) the self, the "I," expands to its awareness as the whole cosmos." -Biernacki@nick_routledge Pratyabhijna has been described as “the philosophical basis” of tantra, the most thorough articulation, at least in Indian schools, which then diffused into Tibet (though starting a few centuries earlier). Though Shankara didnt care for rituals either, being that Brahman is all. Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate knowing more about the stupendous spiritual significance of that time and place and, indeed, its contemporary relevance to planetary psychogeography. Visiting Kashmir as a child, I was utterly transfigured by the land, its art and culture.
@RobertEllsberg Hark, the cautionary tale of the moon and St. Dilbert, for he is a real heavy cat.
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