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Squeezing The Legs Out Of The Snake

Attachment is still attachment, even when it's attached to something that's not attached.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/03/squeezing-legs-out-of-snake.html

#acceptance, #book, #Buddhism, #clearseeing, #herpetology, #RoughAroundtheEdges, #snake, #Tibet, #Vajrayana, #Zen

Squeezing The Legs Out Of The Snake Attachment is still attachment, even when it's attached to something that's not attached. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/03/sque... #acceptance, #book, #Buddhism, #clearseeing, #herpetology, #RoughAroundtheEdges, #snake, #Tibet, #Vajrayana, #Zen

Squeezing The Legs Out Of The ...

Squeezing The Legs Out Of The Snake

When attachment is unattached.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/03/squeezing-legs-out-of-snake.html

#acceptance, #book, #Buddhism, #clearseeing, #herpetology, #RoughAroundtheEdges, #snake, #Tibet, #Vajrayana, #Zen

A helpful discussion on Dzögchen practice in modern life.

> Denver Dzogchen: Denver Dzogchen Podcast, Episode 28 The Great Perfection Needs a Great Path: Vajrayana’s Crucial Role

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/denver-dzogchen/episodes/Denver-Dzogchen-Podcast--Episode-28-The-Great-Perfection-Needs-a-Great-Path-Vajrayanas-Crucial-Role-e32g09d

#Dharma #Buddhism #Dzogchen #Vajrayana #Meditation #RecoveryDharma #BuddhaGang #USPol @dharma @dzogchen @vajrayana  
@recoverydharma @buddhagang

Queerness in Vajrayana – Alimma Dechen Khacho, part 1
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JEz_qhT-Y4k&feature=shared #IQBC #Vajrayana #buddhism #QueerBuddhist

On vit dans un monde d'apparences ou tout n'est que tromperie, Les contemporains, les faux prophètes, les influenceurs, je ne m'y intéresse pas. Les Piliers Spirituels et Mystiques : #Soufisme #KabbaleJuive #Rosicrucianisme #Taoïsme #Theravada #Vajrayāna 🙏🙏🙏

Dear Friends of #Magick and #Buddhism ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

As we may know about the idea of #magical Buddhism, or magic in Buddhism. We can happily move along if not our cup of tea ... ​:ablobcatlurk:​

A lot of people don't like this idea that there are magical concepts, ideas, very strange ways of dealing with things within Buddhism, but of course there are. These things have grown up over the years.

Some people will prefer the very #linear processes within Buddhism, we sit, meditate, do the practices and eventually gain peace and wisdom and insight and enlightenment.

People like that, that's a progressive path, but there is also a sort of random, chaotic element and that's what we'll discuss a little here. In #Vajrayana, some people are still using this term #Tibetan #Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is just Tantric Buddhism, it's very much based and dependent upon the system that was developed in Hinduism and a lot of the ideas are still there within Tantra. And so Tantra is very much a magical system, a system where the visualisation and the idea that the teacher is a #Buddha and therefore is a #personification of #perfection is very important and if that teacher is indeed an able personification of #qualities that people need, then it's very #helpful.

Unfortunately, a lot of Western Tantrists have just taken this idea and manipulated it for their own preferences.

Some has come from people who saw the way Westerners were and thought, oh, we can make use of this, we can get engaged with this. In #samsara, using samsara as a base to create the kind of chaotic magical system that some Tantrists do. That's fair enough, that's a way of approaching things, that's a way of doing things. Not always helpful

So the idea of the Daka and Dakini, which is the magical, the wisdom practitioners, at a high enough level, they are in fact using chaos or chaos magic. And chaos magic is very unpredictable. Just like there's an approach in Zen where the Zen teachers are very, almost incomprehensible or very traumatic in their response or very dramatic in their response. But this is within the confines of a strict system. And again, some people have abused that power and that authority because it's a centralised authority.

And this is different to the way a lot of us prefer to work, which is with our own wisdom base and our own understanding. And we have to take responsibility for that. So even though we may be using some of the tactics and techniques, if we use them in an unhelpful way, in a way that is based on our lesser capacities and our more mixed up feelings and thoughts and ideas, then we can do a lot more harm than good.

So doing good is one of the primary understandings, or creating #sukha as opposed to #dukkha, creating good, happiness, peace, wisdom, compassion, all the things that actually unravel people. This is the point of utilising Buddhism in its highest aspect. And if you can do that with whatever it is, including, as I say, the magical aspects of Tantra, or whatever religion, or whatever thing that you wish to, whether it's psychology, whether it's using computers, whatever is the thing that interests you, grabs you, and makes some use of your #potential initially, because you have to create something for yourself initially.

And then from there you can move on to improving those around you, #family, #friends, and perhaps eventually the wider #community. 🦞

#introduction

I’m Aurie, 26 year old Chinese-Canadian belonging to the Japanese #shingon school of #vajrayana #buddhism. I came across this tradition on #koyasan in 2018 thanks to a tour guide who explained the teachings to me. She had pointed to my heart and said “here, the Buddha is inside you” and I had felt like the Shingon teachings had put words to everything I believed in but could not articulate. I aspire to be a student and maybe monastic.

Welcome and let’s support each other! 🙏

#introduction #introductions
@buddhism

Happily married English vegan Buddhist living in #Slovenia, trying to be kind to every kind.

#buddhist #vegan #solarpunk #ecosocialism #animalrights #humanrights #socialjustice #feminist #antifa #anticapitalist #green #ecology #environment #sustainability #minimalism #kind #progressive #feminism #mahayana #vajrayana #zen #buddhism #philosophy #veganism #love #compassion #meditation #mindfulness #tonglen #bodhicitta #buddhanature #mentalhealth #health

dear changelings 🫂

Changed my bio hashtags. Was tempted to include #TransQuility and add something to my imp personal interests such as #FreeWater

Anyway … time for my breakfast:

- verbal tea, which might end up being green, black or coffee 🤪
- raw garlic to suppress my vampire and wer-lobster tendencies 🧛‍♀️
- plumb fruity porridge 🥣
- stone soup 🍵
- left offers 🤹

I will not be having cigarettes or beer, because I don't smoke or drink. Might have that with superior smugness 😌😎🤗

Have a great day to all Kinds of kind ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​



#Tao #NewBuddhist #Zen #Dzogchen #Mahamudra #Vajrayana #Mantra #Meditation #Yoga #Puppy #RaspberryPiOS #Manjaro #Linux #FOSS #Python #Dervish #Alchemy #Rasayana #Heretic #Anarchy #Health #WellBeing #Tranquility #Healing #Tooting #London #Health #Nature #Herbs #Trees #Science #Gardening #Food #Firefish

dear changelings 🫂

Changed my bio hashtags. Was tempted to include #TransQuility and add something to my imp personal interests such as #FreeWater

Anyway … time for my breakfast:

- verbal tea, which might end up being green, black or coffee 🤪
- raw garlic to suppress my vampire and wer-lobster tendencies 🧛‍♀️
- plumb fruity porridge 🥣
- stone soup 🍵
- left offers 🤹

I will not be having cigarettes or beer, because I don't smoke or drink. Might have that with superior smugness 😌😎🤗

Have a great day to all Kinds of kind ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​



#Tao #NewBuddhist #Zen #Dzogchen #Mahamudra #Vajrayana #Mantra #Meditation #Yoga #Puppy #RaspberryPiOS #Manjaro #Linux #FOSS #Python #Dervish #Alchemy #Rasayana #Heretic #Anarchy #Health #WellBeing #Tranquility #Healing #Tooting #London #Health #Nature #Herbs #Trees #Science #Gardening #Food #Firefish

dear changelings 🫂

Changed my bio hashtags. Was tempted to include #TransQuility and add something to my imp personal interests such as #FreeWater

Anyway … time for my breakfast:

- verbal tea, which might end up being green, black or coffee 🤪
- raw garlic to suppress my vampire and wer-lobster tendencies 🧛‍♀️
- plumb fruity porridge 🥣
- stone soup 🍵
- left offers 🤹

I will not be having cigarettes or beer, because I don't smoke or drink. Might have that with superior smugness 😌😎🤗

Have a great day to all Kinds of kind ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​



#Tao #NewBuddhist #Zen #Dzogchen #Mahamudra #Vajrayana #Mantra #Meditation #Yoga #Puppy #RaspberryPiOS #Manjaro #Linux #FOSS #Python #Dervish #Alchemy #Rasayana #Heretic #Anarchy #Health #WellBeing #Tranquility #Healing #Tooting #London #Health #Nature #Herbs #Trees #Science #Gardening #Food #Firefish

dear changelings 🫂

Changed my bio hashtags. Was tempted to include #TransQuility and add something to my imp personal interests such as #FreeWater

Anyway … time for my breakfast:

- verbal tea, which might end up being green, black or coffee 🤪
- raw garlic to suppress my vampire and wer-lobster tendencies 🧛‍♀️
- plumb fruity porridge 🥣
- stone soup 🍵
- left offers 🤹

I will not be having cigarettes or beer, because I don't smoke or drink. Might have that with superior smugness 😌😎🤗

Have a great day to all Kinds of kind ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​



#Tao #NewBuddhist #Zen #Dzogchen #Mahamudra #Vajrayana #Mantra #Meditation #Yoga #Puppy #RaspberryPiOS #Manjaro #Linux #FOSS #Python #Dervish #Alchemy #Rasayana #Heretic #Anarchy #Health #WellBeing #Tranquility #Healing #Tooting #London #Health #Nature #Herbs #Trees #Science #Gardening #Food #Firefish

@annedraya

I have practiced mindful eating at #Dervish, #Vajrayana, #Theravada, #Yoga, #Christian personal #retreats ✔️

All involved:
🔕 Silence or near silence whilst eating
💎 Gratitude
:breadbreadbreadpeek: Food, not obviously

As consumers, we are not used to:
:blobcatno: Holding fast to less
🍶 Turning water into wine
🍥 Miracles of sharing with hungry or holy ghosts

Now due to food scarcity, fresh water shortage, hunger, Etc … we might grow a little more mindful …

#YabYum

@annedraya

I have practiced mindful eating at #Dervish, #Vajrayana, #Theravada, #Yoga, #Christian personal #retreats ✔️

All involved:
🔕 Silence or near silence whilst eating
💎 Gratitude
:breadbreadbreadpeek: Food, not obviously

As consumers, we are not used to:
:blobcatno: Holding fast to less
🍶 Turning water into wine
🍥 Miracles of sharing with hungry or holy ghosts

Now due to food scarcity, fresh water shortage, hunger, Etc … we might grow a little more mindful …

#YabYum

@annedraya

I have practiced mindful eating at #Dervish, #Vajrayana, #Theravada, #Yoga, #Christian personal #retreats ✔️

All involved:
🔕 Silence or near silence whilst eating
💎 Gratitude
:breadbreadbreadpeek: Food, not obviously

As consumers, we are not used to:
:blobcatno: Holding fast to less
🍶 Turning water into wine
🍥 Miracles of sharing with hungry or holy ghosts

Now due to food scarcity, fresh water shortage, hunger, Etc … we might grow a little more mindful …

#YabYum

@annedraya

I have practiced mindful eating at #Dervish, #Vajrayana, #Theravada, #Yoga, #Christian personal #retreats ✔️

All involved:
🔕 Silence or near silence whilst eating
💎 Gratitude
:breadbreadbreadpeek: Food, not obviously

As consumers, we are not used to:
:blobcatno: Holding fast to less
🍶 Turning water into wine
🍥 Miracles of sharing with hungry or holy ghosts

Now due to food scarcity, fresh water shortage, hunger, Etc … we might grow a little more mindful …

#YabYum

@annedraya

I have practiced mindful eating at #Dervish, #Vajrayana, #Theravada, #Yoga, #Christian personal #retreats ✔️

All involved:
🔕 Silence or near silence whilst eating
💎 Gratitude
:breadbreadbreadpeek: Food, not obviously

As consumers, we are not used to:
:blobcatno: Holding fast to less
🍶 Turning water into wine
🍥 Miracles of sharing with hungry or holy ghosts

Now due to food scarcity, fresh water shortage, hunger, Etc … we might grow a little more mindful …

#YabYum

It's #StupaSunday!

This week's #stupa is #DhamekStupa located in #Sarnath, outside of #Varanasi. It is believed to be built on the location of the #Buddha's first sermon, the #DhammacakkappavattanaSutta.

All images are from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhamek_Stupa

Here are links to various translations of the sutta the Buddha preached on this spot: https://sutta.readingfaithfully.org/?q=SN56.11

#Buddhism #Dhamma #Dharma #Theravada #Mahayana #Vajrayana

Greetings fellow #Mastodonians Making a self #Introduction here: I am engaged in 
#Environmentalist, #Meditation Teacher, #MasterGardner, #RESIST, #Nonviolence, #BidenHarris, #TibetanBuddhism, #vajrayana, #Dzogchen, #Mahamudra, #nondual #FBR, #PlantATree, #AntiFascist, #BlockMagats

Someone asked me to summarise the #trilakshana (the three marks of existence) for them. I only have this to offer:

everything hurts, but nothing lasts.

#buddhism #buddha #vajrayana #zen #impermanence #anitya

#Spanner #AmEditing update continued: To that end, I may post a little explainer about #Buddhism, both #Vajrayana and #Nichiren, explore how it ties in to my caustic superhero satire, and pin it on my profile.

I'm editing chapter 4 before 3 because I can make fewer changes to reflect the "enemy civil war" conflict between the Radical Futurist and Superhumanist factions among the villains.

#UrbanFantasy #cyberpunk #ScienceFiction

#Spanner #AmEditing update: Before I call it a night, I'm going to say I'm skipping Spanner In The Works chapter 3 for now and editing Chapter 4. This is the one that introduces the Chaos Angel Spanner series' #Dakini theme from #Vajrayana #Buddhism. The sequels will associate main character Sia more specifically with the Japanese goddess Dakini-ten by way of the #kitsune. Along with superheroes, this is how I'm putting the #UrbanFantasy in my #cyberpunk #ScienceFiction.

It is possible to both, love a person and hate what they do. To care for, and put in boundaries. To send compassion, and distance oneself from. To stay within and seek escape from. You are not obliged to lead an either/or life.

#equanimity #uppekha #equipoise #balance #mindfulness #TwoTruths #Buddhism #Vajrayana #boundaries #MentalHealth