December 2009
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The Very Dangerous Teacher and Radical Teachings →
“…We have already discussed the role of a “safe” and reliable teacher as spiritual friend (kalayana mitra) which is associated with the idea of peer sharing found in traditional yoga as well as in Mahayana Buddhism. There is also another type of teacher (called in vajrayana Buddhism a vajra charya), one who teaches in subtle and hidden ways often upsetting the...
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“Listen! the teacher of the teacher, the creativity of the universe,
In the...”
– Longchenpa
“As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises...”
– ~ Edgar Allan Poe (via ddrrnt)
Apollonian & Dionysian
Apollonian and Dionysian are terms used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy to designate the two central principles in Greek culture.
The Apollonian, which corresponds to Schopenhauer’s principium individuationis (“principle of individuation”), is the basis of all analytic distinctions. Everything that is part of the unique individuality of man or thing is...
On Dancing in Ancient Greece
For the Greeks, what you did with your body showed what sort of a man you were. Given the Greek obsession with training the body, perfecting its symmetrical balance through exercise became a moral and social vocation. Dancing became a charged moment when the body could be seen in its perfected form, poetry in motion.
The chorus had immense importance in the social fabric of Ancient Greece....
“Most Greek folk dances travel widdershins (counterclockwise), which at first...”
– Terpsichore: Dancing to the Gods
Artemis in the Indian War of Dionysus
When the gods ranged against each other in conflict over the Indian Wars of Dionysos, Artemis stood against Hera in battle and was defeated.
“Against Hera came highland Artemis as champion for hillranging Dionysos [when the gods took sides in the battle of Dionysos’ forces against the Indians], and rounded her bow straight. Hera as ready for conflict seized one of the clouds of Zeus, and...
The Indian War of Dionysus
“Dionysos was, in my opinion … the first to invade India, and the first to bridge the river Euphrates. Zeugma (Bridge ) was the name given to that part of the country where the Euphrates was bridged, and at the present day the cable is still preserved with which he spanned the river; it is plaited with branches of the vine and ivy. Both the Greeks and the Egyptians have many...
