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eats bugs Reged: 09/14/23 Posts: 442 Loc: lives in trees |
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Sounds like the Dweller on the Threshold. Guardian of the gate to the dream realms/astral plane/spirit world//bardo etc. I've encountered variations on the theme in a lot of places. First came across it through table top roleplaying. And have encountered it often as a visual representation of needing to let go of conceptual clinging to ideas like birth and death, self and other, etc. in my own journeys. And in Buddhism, impermanence is a dharma seal. One of the marks the Buddha offered as meditation objects for penetrating insight into the ultimate nature of reality. And Mara is kinda the dweller on the threshold in a lot of Buddhist cosmology. The Lord of Death that keeps the cycle of Samsara spinning. If we let go of birth and death, Mara has no power. And we can see the bardo Timothy Leary and the Tibetans talk about. Of course, that takes practice. -------------------- Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved. ~ David Foster Wallace, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way Edited by tree frog (11/24/23 09:04 AM)
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