Showing posts with label creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creation. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Sacred sound: Let there be light: OM




FA-18 Hornet breaks sound barrier (July 7, 1999)
In the beginning, in the dreamtime, it might have been that Brahma (the creator god of the Vedas and Hinduism) uttered a word, a sound, an aspirated aum or OM. Or maybe it made this sentence: Let there be light. And that sound was Brahma, the supreme, the alpha and the OMega, the A and the alph'. That's not what happened in the Agganna Sutta, the Buddhist account of "Genesis," the discourse on beginnings, which begins with light. That's because that sutra only deals with life on the origin of life on Planet Earth, not the universe. Here Gaia.com looks into the sacred sound at the beginning of form or what is now called the study of cymatics:

A machine to 'see' sounds (resonant vibrations)?

What if we could suddenly "see" sounds?
Vibration underpins all matter in the Universe.

The CymaScope is the first scientific instrument that can provide an analog image of sound and vibration. The once invisible world of sound is revealed in a myriad of [sacred] geometric patterns. When the microscope and telescope were invented, they opened vistas into realms that were not even suspected to exist.

Sound has been invisible throughout history, except in graphic depictions of conventional acoustics instrumentation.

Now, with the development of the CymaScope instrument, the omnipresent, unexplored realms of sound and vibration are made visible for scientific study and artistic appreciation. (Source: CymaScope via sunnylanblog.wordpress.com)

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Altadena Fire Mural coordination (Zoom)


WHAT HAPPENED?
This project is multisensory, involving meditation, live music, environmental talks, intention setting, a virtual reality component, QR code to access, an essentially channeled "Prayer for the Earth," assistant artists. It is so much bigger and more visionary than we can easily express. The timeframe for the portable mural/installation's is the last two weeks of July, possibly debuting it with other activities on Sunday, July 27 with free vegan food for all from Samantha Lau and Plant-Based Treaty. Wisdom Quarterly will have to follow up with a one-on-one interview with Ekaterina.

Altadena (Eaton Fire) Mural ("Prayer for the Earth") Zoom Meeting
Altadena Mural 2025
Zoom with artist Ekaterina Sky. All interested participants and boosters are invited to attend online. What's the story? Help wanted creating Ekaterina Sky's mural. We need volunteer artists to bring this vision to life to heal Los Angeles and the world. There's a project manager, funding is all in place, and all we need now are volunteers and supporters on the construction days, which we plan to launch in the middle of July.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Meet Buddhism's Creator and Savior

(Larry King) Hindu Sankhya philosophy, Jain, Buddhist

Does Buddhism have a creator? Yes. What about a savior? Yes, that, too, sort of

"God" has a sense of humor (Far Side).
Recently, Ven. Subhuti, a student of the awakened scholar-monk Pa Auk Sayadaw, made a video explaining a common question he gets asked as an American Buddhist monk in the West:

“Do you believe in a creator?” It is a loaded question usually asked by devoted Christians. They are expecting him to say “No,” but he answers, “Yes.”


Buddhism and the God-Idea
The real answer is that karma [kamma, deeds, intentional actions of body, speech, and mind, all that we sow and can expect to reap] is the creator [of our lives, our circumstances, our fruit, what we get].

He quotes a stock phrase from the Pali canon, Theravada Buddhism's canonical texts recorded in the lingua franca (common language) the Buddha spoke:

Kammassakomhi, kammadāyādo, kammayoni,
“It is my actions (deeds) that I own, it is my actions that I am heir to, it is my actions that I am born from,

I'll leave this one in the Garden.
kammabandhu, kammapaṭisaraṇo --
“Actions are my kinsfolk, actions are my guide --

yaṁ kammaṁ karissāmi, kalyāṇaṁ vā pāpakaṁ vā,
Whatever actions I perform, whether skillful or unskillful,

tassa dāyādo bhavissāmč ti.
“to that will I be heir.”

pabbajitena abhiṇhaṁ paccavekkhitabbaṁ.
“One who has gone forth [from home into the left-home life of a Buddhist monastic] should frequently reflect on this.”
  • If by karma we are "created," so it is by karma that we are "saved." Therefore, in that sense, our karma (our deeds) are our savior:
No one saves us but ourselves
No one can and no one may;
We ourselves must walk the Path;
Buddhas only point the way.

COMMENTARY
Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist Publication Society
Does that mean that there is a God in Buddhism? There are many Gods (brahmas) and gods (devas) in Buddhism, none quite fitting the exaggerated description of the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Judeo-Christian conception, except perhaps the Gnostic Christian view. But karma fits the omni-description.

Buddhism is nontheistic as well as polytheistic. How? Nontheism is not atheism. Theism is the certainty that there is some all-powerful God as imagined by monotheists; atheism is the certainty that there is not.

Nontheism, by distinction to both of these extremes, says that whether there is a God or whether there is not has no bearing on one's own awakening, enlightenment, and liberation (ultimate salvation). Why?

The gods and Gods themselves are not free. The Buddha excelled the Gods in that sense, and many of them (such as Maha Brahma and Baka Brahma) knew it, as hard as it was to believe. The Buddha is not worshiped, is not now sitting in his heaven welcoming and excluding souls. It's nothing like that.

But it is curious that Christians say things that are true without knowing it, such as: "God works in mysterious ways." Nothing could be more true of the working out of KARMA (actions begetting reactions, small causes and their exponential effects, deeds and their resultants).

The working out of karma is imponderable and is not mocked. "God is not mocked," it is said, but the Jewish/Christian God is mocked all the time. What is not mocked is karma, in the sense that both are given credit for producing results appropriate to actions.

Whatever is done, it is seen. It does not go unseen. And there are results, for the most part with some exceptions. (Not every action has to produce a result, e.g., if the soil upon which a seed was planet becomes barren, i.e., if a person becomes fully enlightened and therefore no longer liable any further results after this life).

God can be bargained with to avoid or modify some results. Karmic resultants are modified by other karma (actions). One easy way to understand this is given in an ancient example.

Freshwater naturally dilutes saltwater
Let's say a person were living a fairly good life but then did something very grave and wrong. That person could be compared to a cup with water in it that is now spiked with salt. How can that bitter saltiness ever be removed (the "sin forgiven")? While it can't be removed, it can be diluted.

The solution to saltiness is not removing salt but adding more fresh water. That will dilute it and make it less salty. Having done one "wrong," one might do many "rights" to compensate for it.

It'd be magic if salt disappeared
If one does many little wrongs, that also makes the cup salty and hard to swallow. Doing many little rights and some big ones, too, will be very helpful for the long future of drinking. We imagine there's only this life, but there are many more.

Karma is the creator (of our lives, our circumstances, our environment), the orchestrator, the chooser, the Generator, Operator, and Destroyer (G.O.D.)

Unlike Maha Brahma (the "Great Supremo") or the countless devas (celestial and terrestrial "shining ones"), all faring along according to their karma, it would be wise to engage in the karma that makes an end of all karma, that brings suffering to a final end, that results in knowing-and-seeing.

Why? "Karma, it's everywhere you're going to be."

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Yoni power and vagina talk (video)


Female sexual energy is just as important
(Library of Tehuti) Oct. 6, 2024: Learn about the hidden power of female sexual energy and discover its importance in spiritual growth and consciousness expansion.

This video delves into ancient wisdom from Tantric and Taoist traditions, revealing the sacred nature of the yoni and its potential for spiritual evolution.
  • 00:00 Just as important
  • 01:15 Sacred yoni gate
  • 04:37 Female tantrika
  • 07:45 Sexual kung fu
Understand the concept of the "Sacred Yoni Gate" and how it serves as a cosmic antenna for creation. Explore practical techniques for cultivating and circulating sexual energy, including Tantric practices and sexual kung fu.

Discover how to separate orgasm from ejaculation. Practice ovarian breathing. Use sexual energy for healing and manifestation.

This video offers empowering knowledge for women seeking to tap into their innate divine feminine power and use it for spiritual ascension.

🌀 Whether one is new to these concepts or an experienced practitioner, this video provides valuable insights into the mystical essence of female sexuality and its role in cosmic evolution.


🌀 All artwork is illustrated and designed by the Library of Tehuti Team. 🌀 For problems or inquiries about this video, please contact: libraryoftehuti@gmail.com. Thank once again for presence and engagement.

📚 SOURCES
  • Chia, Mantak, and Maneewan Chia. Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy. Destiny Books, 1986.
  • Camphausen, Rufus C. The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power. Inner Traditions, 1996.
  • Douglas, Nik, and Penny Slinger. Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy. Destiny Books, 1999. 
  • Mumford, Jonn. Ecstasy Through Tantra. Llewellyn Publications, 2002.
  • Richardson, Diana. Tantric Orgasm for Women. Destiny Books, 2004.
  • Abrams, Jeremiah. The Shadow in the Sheets: Sacred Sexuality in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Park Street Press, 2000.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Amazon created with 'dark earth' recipe


Unseen beings live here: spirits
The Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the planet (along with the chlorophyll plankton of the ocean and Siberian forests) are not natural. They were artificially made by humans [with help from advanced species from space or the center of Hollow Earth]. As humans went far afield, they planted "dark earth" (terra preta), a rich recipe of organisms and nutrients -- mycorrhizae and more -- and grew the forest like a giant garden. Such earth can still be taken from place to place to expand the enormous jungle that is shrinking due to human abuses as animal slaughterers burn down tree groves to make pasture for cows to send methane into the atmosphere (because of being fed inappropriate foodstuffs) and then be killed for their flesh, with rendering plants polluting the waterways.

Recipe for "dark earth" finally uncovered in the Amazon's depths
Some activities contributing to dark earth. A: Processing cassava. B: Waste in middens. C: Backyard crop cultivation. D: Sweeping ash and charcoal from a hearth. E: Kuikuro II village with locations of other photos. F: Spreading cassava waste. G: Spreading ash and charcoal around trees. H: Burning in fields and waste disposal areas. I: Burning waste and crop residue (Schmidt et al., Science Advances, 2023).
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(ScienceAlert) For such a lush, verdant paradise, the Amazon rainforest's soil can be surprisingly barren. Yet mysteriously fertile "dark earth" called terra preta can be found in patches across hundreds of sites, the origins of which have sparked debate among scientists.

Now new research (science.org) from the U.S. and Brazil says ancient Amazonians intentionally enriched areas of the forest to nourish crops for centuries, locking up carbon in the process.

Modern indigenous groups still use these ancient soil secrets, which could inspire agricultural [ScienceAlert.com: New report predicts southern Amazon rainforest is heading for collapse by 2064] practices and efforts to mitigate climate change.

"Our results demonstrate the INTENTIONAL CREATION of dark earth," the authors write, "highlighting how Indigenous knowledge can provide strategies for sustainable rainforest management and carbon sequestration."

Researchers had been working with Indigenous communities in the Amazon since the early 2000s, and those observations and data were analyzed alongside newer data from 2018 and 2019.

What lives in the Amazon Rainforest?

A: Locations of Kuikuro villages and archaeological sites. Inset shows the study area (red star) and documented archaeological sites with dark earth (black). B: Modern Kuikuro II village. The white circle shows an historic village. C: Seku archaeological site. Magenta dots mark the sample collection locations in B and C. (Schmidt et al., Science Advances , 2023/ScienceAlert).
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Darker soil around archeological sites in the Kuikuro Indigenous Territory intrigued lead author Morgan Schmidt, a geographer and archeologist who was then at the University of Florida.

"When I saw this dark earth and how fertile it was, and started digging into what was known about it, I found it was a mysterious thing – no one really knew where it came from," Schmidt says.

Located in the Upper Xingu River basin in the southeastern Amazon, the Kuikuro Indigenous Territory has modern villages as well as archeological sites that their ancestors likely inhabited.

"Archaeological research has demonstrated cultural continuity from ancient to modern peoples in the Upper Xingu region," the team writes, "offering an opportunity to examine linkages between present and past activities that have modified soils."

In a modern village, Kuikuro II, the team discovered soil that was strikingly similar to that in the archeological sites. Hundreds of people live in Kuikuro II and rely on the fertile soil to grow food like cassava [tapioca, boba].

In both the ancient and modern sites, the soil fertility was higher in the residential centers than in the periphery.

Throughout the residential areas, "middens" are created for waste and food scraps. After decomposing, these waste piles mix with barren soil to form dark, fertile soil that villagers plant crops in [in what is essentially the definition of modern urban and suburban composting].

"We saw activities they did to modify the soil and increase the elements, like spreading ash on the ground, or spreading charcoal around the base of the tree, which were obviously intentional actions," Schmidt says.

Kuikuro people were interviewed and co-authored the research paper, and it was clear that they intentionally produce dark earth through modern village practices.

To dig into the past, soil from plazas and roads surrounding ancient villages was compared to terra preta from middens – in residential areas and surrounding the roads and plazas.

RESULTS: Samples from both modern and ancient residential areas had significantly higher levels of organic carbon and lower acidity than those from peripheral areas.

"The key bridge between the modern and ancient times is the soil," says Samuel Goldberg, a data analyst at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the time.

"These practices that we can observe and ask people about today, were also happening in the past." 

Some elements, like phosphorus, potassium, and calcium, were more than 10 times as concentrated in the residential samples.

"These are all the elements that are in humans, animals, and plants, and they're the ones that reduce the aluminum toxicity in soil, which is a notorious problem in the Amazon," Schmidt explains.

A conceptual model of an ancient village showing locations of middens and enriched soils (Schmidt et al., Science Advances, 2023).
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At one ancient site, Seku, researchers estimated 4,500 tonnes of soil carbon were stored, while the modern Kuikuro II village had 110 tonnes of carbon stored in middens.

"The ancient Amazonians put a lot of carbon in the soil, and a lot of that is still there today. That's exactly what we want for climate change mitigation efforts," Goldberg says.

"Maybe we could adapt some of their indigenous strategies on a larger scale, to lock up carbon in soil, in ways that we now know would stay there for a long time." The study has been published in Science Advances. Source

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

The Second Moment of Creation (PBS)


The beginning of stories is not the real first point
The curious mistaken assumption about "creation" as understood in the West and in the Abrahamic faiths is that it is treated as absolute when it is no such thing. Any creation is The Creation, when it is just a story, a myth meant to explain current things. These narratives do not reveal existential questions. For example, say the God "created" Adam and Eve. They were not the first. They are just the current generation, the latest Adama (a group, not an individual). Eve was not the first woman in that story; Lilith was, but she's erased and divorced and sent away. What happened to the God's wife, Asherah? She was widely venerated as the Queen of Heaven in the past, but then all her temples were wiped out and her votive totem pole statues were smashed. They are found all the time, so widespread was devotion to her. That God, the God of the Bible, had a wife? He/It sure did.

Even if one could show that the Elohim, the gods, created humankind in their image, as is written, it was not the first creation of those means, merely this earthly vehicle, this generation of body (or bodies, koshas), not a "first creation" at all. It may be those gods think they did create something out of nothing, or bodies out of dust, and that may be. They are/were very advanced extraterrestrials/extradimensionals.  But the us we imagine existing now existed before. There was karma in the past, and those old deeds have more to do with what happens to us now, what we experience seemingly by chance or fate.

Ven. Dr. Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri, Ph.D.
The Buddha told a creation myth, not of a "first creation" but of humanoid life on earth. That "Genesis" is called the Agganna Sutta, the Discourse on Beginnings. The tale is wrapped in the power of karma because the Buddha, rather than being Buddhist, was a Karmavadin, a "Teacher of the Efficacy of Karma" or action. (One monk even reads into this tale an allegory about energy, photonic light, and its impact on matter here; see Dhamma Aboard Evolution, putting Buddhism right in line with science. Buddhism should not be put in line with mere materialistic science because it is metaphysical. That is, it goes beyond materialism to explain things).

The Agganna Sutta perhaps does not actually qualify as a creation myth because it does not say, "There was nothing and then there was this." Rather, no first point is asserted, discerned, or claimed. The Buddha may have seen one, but he did not state that. What he did state was that this plane was in such a way, and beings alighted on it. They came as they were, having (pre)existed elsewhere, and they began to devolve here. Surely there is evolution in Buddhism, but it is cyclical, bound up with devolution.

Having eaten, it's time to start making art.
So as for the "second moment" of creation, after they arrived, this happened. Then this happened. And on account of this, things became like that. Things were dependently originated. The cause, ultimately, was karma (deeds). Things devolved. Later, they will evolve again. And after that, they will devolve. This goes on and on. It is as if there were a garden called Earth, a great and beautiful place. Who made it? Did anyone make it? Others might have, or it might have just been.

Being can terraform platforms and places, bring life and set it a'rolling. Things might even originate on their own when circumstances permit -- such as when stardust, full of amino acids, crashes on suitable ground for organic things to arise. Or space traveling beings may have set up countless worlds.

Whatever the case, those organic "beings" who come to be are not beginning out of nothing. They have been, and they will be again, cyclically. Thiis is samsara, the endless round of rebirth. It is not the same being being reborn, but it is not quite right to say it is another as that does violence to the language. Ultimately, they are not the same. But conventionally, one having given rise to the other, they may be said to be the same string, the same line, the reappearing of the former version.


Then, having arrived, having devolved, beings became humanoid earthlings, and in the second moment, they did stuff -- art, civilization, farming, survival...karma, giving us what we have now. What we do matters. It will give future earthlings what they will have.

Proto-India: Indus Valley Civilization (IVC)
Reality is strange, much different than what it seems. We are seeing a tiny fraction and attempting to form whole theories. It is like looking through a pinhole into a mostly dark room and spinning an entire narrative from that fragment of data. It is like looking through a glass darkly.

It would be far better to first purify the mind/heart, see things with the third eye (pineal gland), and understand things in context. And most of that context extends long before this slice of life and goes on long after. In this way, undertaking "science" with a cleansed instrument of understanding, we will not be misled by our six senses or jump to conclusions or favor certain answers. And when we see things as they really are, we can be set free. The delusion entraps one, whereas the Truth sets one free.
The Second Moment of Creation | Civilizations | Episode 1 | PBS
(PBS) PBS is an American public broadcast service. Aug. 2, 2024: Watch more of this series with PBS Passport. Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity itself.

Images and artifacts found in South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia testify to the urge to develop civilizations. Liev Schreiber narrates. (Originally aired in 2018).

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Civilizations: Survey the history of art from antiquity to the present on a global scale. Civilizations reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures. Download. #ancienthistory #worldhistory #anthropology #CivilizationsPBS

Friday, July 12, 2024

The Gnostic Creation Story (Eric Dubay)


The Gnostic Creation Story
Who Rewrote the Bible?
(Eric Dubay) May 1, 2024: Before the establishment of the Roman Orthodox Church, dating back to the first century A.D., the Gnostics were a sect of Christians with a very different set of beliefs from what the new blossoming religion of Christianity would soon become.

The Gnostics insisted they were in fact the original Christians and that the Roman Church leaders were imposters co-opting and changing their mythology.

Many original founders like Marcion [the creator of the first Bible] and Tatian were actually devout Gnostics who would later leave the Orthodoxy, claiming the church was “setting up the fraud of historic Christianity.”
Gnosticism continued to flourish alongside the Roman Church until it was declared heresy and outlawed by Emperor Constantine in 325 A.D.

Once the Orthodox Bible became canonized, all extra-biblical Gnostic gospels (the Apocrypha) were considered heretical and either hidden or destroyed on threat of death.

By the turn of the next century, any remaining Gnostics still openly practicing were hunted down as heretics...
  • What's so special about Marcion? Marcion concluded that many of the teachings of [good, kind, merciful] Jesus were incompatible with the actions of [genocidal, jealous, angry] Yahweh (YWVH, Jehovah). He concluded this by studying the Hebrew Bible [a simplistic version of the story told in a crude language with only 8,000 original words, which was derived from the much more sophisticated Ancient Greek and its half million words, according to classicist Dr. D.A.C. Hillman], along with received writings circulating in the nascent Church. Yahweh is characterized as the belligerent god of the Hebrew Bible. Marcion responded by developing a di-theistic system of belief around the year 144 [Note 2]. This notion of two gods — a Higher Transcendent One [a kind of Brahman] and a Lower World-Creator and Ruler [a kind of Maha Brahma] — allowed Marcion to reconcile perceived contradictions between harsh Christian Covenant theology and the nicer gospel proclaimed by the New Testament.
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