by golden-whispers.com | Jul 23, 2024 | Blog
“Philosophy is the critical examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs and analysis of the basic concepts employed in their expression.” This is at least one good definition of what philosophy means. And another from Encyclopedia Britannica: “The philosophy of...
by golden-whispers.com | Jun 8, 2024 | Blog
More on this important topic appears in June McDaniel’s Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, the best study on Säkta folk religion and obsession in modern India which I have ever come upon (highly recommended). McDaniel classes several types of Tantrikas. Of...
by golden-whispers.com | May 20, 2024 | Blog
In the Gheravda Samhita, we learn that there are as many äsanas as there are life-forms. have been explained by Siva. Of these. eighty-four are exceptional, and of these thirty-two are auspicious in the realm of the living. This means that lots of postures are...
by golden-whispers.com | May 17, 2024 | Blog
Indian philosophy produced several models to describe what happen withhin body. Alas, this is already an oversimplification. There are several distinct schools of Indian philosophy and, as you know, they are not always in accord with each other. Just look at the...
by golden-whispers.com | Apr 18, 2024 | Blog
THE BUDDHA SAID: To be free from the passions and to be calm, this is the most excellent way. Those who leave their parents, go out of the home, understand the mind, reach the source, and comprehend the immaterial, are called shramanas. Those who observe the precepts...
by golden-whispers.com | Apr 18, 2024 | Blog
The Upanishad first affirms the existence of this profounder, vaster, more puissant consciousness behind our mental being. That, it affirms, is Brahman. Mind, Life, Sense, Speech are not the utter Brahman; they are only inferior modes and external instruments....
by golden-whispers.com | Apr 7, 2024 | Blog
Beyond the Notion of God The first point that should be made in connection with Eckhart’s view on the status of doctrine is that he firmly rejects the notion that God can be circumscribed by any concepts or descriptions. He repeatedly emphasizes the necessarily...
by golden-whispers.com | Mar 29, 2024 | Blog
So if we essentially house a chaotic collection of an infinite number of thoughts and reactions in our consciousness — and since the life we live appears to be a fairly orderly one — how does the Universe select from all of those thoughts floating in our being and...
by golden-whispers.com | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog
Käpälikas and Aghoras One fine day the gods were sitting in heaven quaffing Soma. As it so happened, Brahma, the Creator, began to boast about the wonderful job he was doing. Siva disagreed, there were words, and punches, and then Siva got really cross and chopped off...
by golden-whispers.com | Mar 18, 2024 | Blog
This book began its journey on a rainy evening in Tokyo, where the authors met for the first time in a cozy bar. Despite having admired each other’s work from afar due to the geographical gap between Barcelona and Japan, fate brought them together through a...
