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[[File:Any Road (Sunset).jpg|thumb|right|240px|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fFdc-karA|Lewis Carroll, [[Any Road|song by George Harrison]]]]
[[File:Hotei, god of happiness at Jōchi-ji temple.jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[Budai|Hotei]] (Putai, Budai) - smash the Buddha in the backyard, tear down the fence! {{refn|group=note|The Existential Buddhist: "There’s a Zen story about Hotei. When asked "What’s the significance of Zen?" he put his sack down on the ground. When then asked "What’s the actualization of Zen?" he picked his sack back up and walked away. Clever Hotei! The very essence of Zen — letting go and dropping off whatever we’re holding. The very actualization of Zen — drawing water and chopping wood. Hotei lives life at the crosshairs of the Absolute and the Relative. A lot like Hakuin himself."<ref name ="eb" /><br><br>The Existential Buddhist: "When Hotei was not busy being all these things, he served double duty as [[Hakuin]]’s alter-ego and his Everyman. While Hakuin’s Hotei is a spiritual fellow and sits zazen, he also enjoys the pleasures of secular life. In painting after painting we see him puffing on a pipe (and what comes out of the pipe is not a smoke ring, but the prostitute Otufuko!), flying up in the air as a kite, playing go, riding a colt, playing kickball, and street juggling."<ref name ="eb">[http://www.existentialbuddhist.com/2011/01/on-hakuin-hotei-and-mice/ The Existential Buddhist, ''On Hakuin, Hotei, and Mice'']</ref><br><br>Osho (not a favorite of mine, so don't get the wrong impressions) has the story this way:<br>Putai is said to travel giving candy to poor children, only asking a penny from Zen monks or lay practitioners he meets. One day a monk walks up to him and asks, "What is the meaning of Zen?" Budai drops his bag. "How does one realize Zen?" he continues. Budai then takes up his bag and continues on his way.<ref>[http://www.livingworkshop.net/budai.html livingworkshop.net, ''Budai'']</ref>}}{{refn|group=note|1=See also [https://www.google.nl/search?q=hotei+hakuin&num=100&newwindow=1&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ne6gVNb1GIPuUJXBgbAL&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=620 Google on Hakuin and Hotei]}}]]
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[[File:Aaron_Swartz_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg|thumb|right|240px|In memory of [[Aaron Swartz]], here at 2009 Boston Wikipedia Meetup. [[Aaron Swartz#Public response|Support]] [[Open access]] and http://pdftribute.net/]]

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[[File:Vajrapani American Museum of Natural History.jpg|thumb|240px|[[Vajrapani]], whose appearance as a [[Yaksha]] generates "fear in the individual to loosen up his [[View (Buddhism)|dogmatism]]". The conviction of [[Enlightenment (spiritual)|being enlightened]] or otherwise being above common standards is not a criterium for Wikipedia; only [[WP:42|reliable sources]] are so.]]

[[File:Amulet Thor's hammer (copy of find from Skåne) 2010-07-10.jpg|right|thumb|240px|The [[Eugene Sledge|hammer]] [[Mjöllnir]], the hammer of Thar. The Indian equivalent is the [[vajra]], a symbol of [[Prajna|insight]].]]

[[File:MCC-41976 Hamer van St. Maarten (1).tif|thumb|right|240px|Compare the "Hammer of [[Martin of Tours]]," Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Made in 13th century CE; [[Corded Ware culture|hammer-head]] ca. 1,000 BCE.]]

[[File:Medbud BuddhaManjushri.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Manjusri|[[Manjushri]], [[bodhisattva]] of [[Prajñā (Buddhism)|prajñā]], who is said to have [[Kathmandu#Ancient history|created the Kathmandu valley]].<br><br>"[T]he shattering of the mind of samsara [...] is not necessarily bound up with zazen meditation.”<ref>Jeff Shore, ''What is a koan? And what do you do with it?'', p.14, quoting Mujaku Dōchū</ref>
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[[File:Oxherding pictures, No. 8.jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[Ten Bulls|No-thing, No-I.]]{{refn|group=note|Oxherding pictures no.8. Both Bull and Self Transcended:<br>Whip, rope, person, and Ox -<br>all merge in No Thing.<br>This heaven is so vast,<br>no message can stain it.<br>How may a snowflake exist<br>in a raging fire.<br>Here are the footprints of<br>the Ancestors.<ref>[http://www.buddhistdoor.com/OldWeb/passissue/9710/sources/art9.htm Reverend Eshin, ''Ten Oxherding Pictures'']</ref>}}{{refn|group=note|[[Moheyan]]: "When he enters a state of deep contemplation, he looks into his own mind. There being no-mind, he does not engage in thought. If thoughts of discrimination arise, he should become aware of them [...] Whatever thoughts arise, one does not examine [...] He does not examine any dharma whatsoever. If he becomes aware in this way of the arising (of thoughts, he perceives) the absence of self-existence [...] After sitting (in this manner) for a long time, the mind will become tame, and one will realize that his awareness is also discriminating mind [...] Awareness itself is without name or form [...] [T]he awareness and place where it occurs cannot be obtained by any search. There is no way of reflecting on the inconceivable. Not to cling even to this absence of thought is (the immediate access of) the Tathagatas.<ref>Gómez (1983), ''The direct and gradual approaches of Zen master Mahayana'', pp 108–109; in Gimello and Gregory 1983 (eds) (1983), ''Studies in Ch’an and Hua-yen'', University of Hawai‘i Press, pp 69–167; cited in Paul Williams (1994), ''Mahayana Buddhism'', p.195-196</ref>}}{{refn|group=note|[[Je Tsongkhapa]]:<br>"Whatever depends on causes and conditions<br>Is empty of intrinsic reality<br>What excellent instruction could there be<br>More marvellous than this discovery?"<ref name="PatrickJennings">[http://thenonbuddhist.com/2014/01/12/tsongkhapa-in-praise-of-relativity-the-essence-of-eloquence/ Patrick Jennings, ''Tsongkhapa: In Praise of Relativity; The Essence of Eloquence'']</ref>}}]]

[[File:'Hotei' by Kano Seisen'in, c. 1819-1834, Honolulu Museum of Art, 13508.1.jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[Budai|Hotei]]]]
[[File:HoteiMusashi.jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[Hotei]]]]

[[File:Georg von Rosen - Oden som vandringsman, 1886 (Odin, the Wanderer).jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[Odin]]]]

[[File:Bronze Shiva as lord of the dance CAC.JPG|thumb|right|240px|[[Nataraja|Shiva]] destroying [[Apasmara|ignorance]] and [[Mystical experience#Anterior insula|effortless knowledge]].]]

[[File:Mother of God -Znameniye.jpg|thumb|right|240px|''Znameniye'', "Our Lady of the Sign", depicting the conception of Christ as the timeless Logos in his human emanation. See also [[Buddha-nature]].]]

[[File:Vladimirskaya.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Mother Mary and Jesus.]]

[[Image:Quan Am 1656.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Wooden statue of Quan Âm ([[Avalokiteśvara]], [[Guanyin]]) with 1000 eyes and 1000 hands.{{refn|group=note|Sutra van Quanyin:<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een Boeddha of een Bodhisattva,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een Boeddhistische heilige,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een monnik of een non,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een leek,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een kind,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een hoog bejaarde,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door de Christelijke Verlosser,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door de Moeder Gods,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door engelen of heiligen,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door de Lijdende Dienaar van Jahweh,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door de Shechinah uit de Joodse mystiek,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door profeten of chaddiks,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een wijze in de Islam of Soefi,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een god of godin uit het Hinduïsme,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door een overtuigd atheïst,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door hen die volkomen mislukt zijn,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door de meest verlorenen,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Als iemand gered kan worden door monsters of demonen,<br>dan zal Zij die gestalte aannemen.<br>Temidden van alle angst en verschrikking<br>zal Kuan Yin ons onbevreesdheid schenken.<br>Zij is altijd bereid te luisteren naar het roepen om hulp,<br>van hoever die roep ook mag komen.<br>Haar universele geloften zijn afgelegd vóór alle eeuwen.<br>Ze zijn onpeilbaar diep als de oceaan.<br>Haar alles verlichtende Licht<br>vervult het hele universum.<ref>[http://www.mahakarunachan.be/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/06-Kuan-Yin-Lotus.pdf Maha Karuna Chan (Ton Lathouwers), ''Sutra van Quanyin'']</ref>}}]]
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[[File:White Tara statue manor place 291107.jpg|thumb|right|240px|White Tara statue in a [[Karma Kagyu]] [[dharma centre]]. Tara represents compassionate action.]]

[[File:Padmasambhava in yam-yum.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Padmasambhava in [[Yab-Yum|yab-yum]], which represents the primordial union of wisdom and compassion. The male figure is usually linked to [[Karuṇā|compassion]] and [[Upaya|skillful means]], while the female partner relates to [[Prajñā|insight]]. See also [[Dzogchen]].]]

[[File:Curry Powder, Trinidad and Tobago.JPG|thumb|right|240px|It's the mix of ingredients that gives the most extraordinary taste!{{refn|group=note|[[Rabindranath Tagore]]: "My heart, awake in this holy land of India; it is a place of pilgrimage for nations to mingle in a confluence of humanity. Nobody knows who urged them yet they came from different lands and merged in a single body – the Aryans, the non-Aryans, the Dravidians, the Chinese, the Scythians, the Huns, the Pathans and the Mughals – all of them like so many separate streams flowing irresistibly to lose at the end of their journeys their individual identities in one vast sea. Now the West has opened up its gates, all are collecting its prized gifts and the same irreversible process of mutual exchange and assimilation is taking place once again in that holy confluence of humanity."<ref>Rabindranath Tagore, "Bharat Tirtha"</ref> [[Talk:Indigenous Aryans#LoL|See here]].}}]]
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{{cquote|The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit<br> is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.|author=Alberto Brandolini<ref>Stephen Knight, [https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/09/the-european-scientific-journal-didnt-conclude-911-controlled-demolition/ ''The European Scientific Journal Did Not Conclude 9/11 Was A ‘Controlled Demolition’'']</ref>}}
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{{cquote|[[Sunyata|Emptiness]] is the [[Bankei Yōtaku#The Unborn|unborn]] and [[Nirvana (Buddhism)#Cessation|undying]] [[Buddha-mind]].<ref>Vrij naar Bankei en Hakuin; Hakuin, ''Idel Talk on a Night Boat'' (2009), p.94</ref>}}
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{{cquote|Noem het liefde, noem het leegte|author=[[Rumi]]<ref>Felicia Dekkers (2024), [https://www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/de-leegte-als-bron/ De leegte als bron], nieuwwij.nl</ref>}}
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{{cquote|Self-restraint{{refn|group=note|According to Vetter, ''dhyana'' may have been the [[Pre-sectarian Buddhism#Contents and teachings of earliest Buddhism|original core practice of the Buddha]], which aided the maintenance of mindfulness, and thereby self-restraint.<ref>Vetter, Tilmann (1988), The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism, BRILL</ref> According to Paul Williams, referring to Erich Frauwallner, mindfulness provided the way in early Buddhism to liberation, "constantly watching sensory experience in order to prevent the arising of cravings which would power future experience into rebirths."<ref>Williams (2000), ''Buddhist Thought'', p.46</ref><ref>Frauwallner, E. (1973), ''History of Indian Philosophy'', trans. V.M. Bedekar, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. Two volumes., pp.150 ff</ref>}} and benefiting others<br>With a compassionate mind is the Dharma|author=[[Nagarjuna]]{{refn|group=note|''Mulamadhyamaka-karika'', chapter 17, verse 1. Translation by Jay Garfield (2005), ''The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika'', Oxford University Press. See also [http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/mmk17.htm Advayavada Buddhism, ''Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamaka-karika, "Karma-phala-pariksha" (The analysis of action and result)].}}}}
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{{cquote|The main thing is to develop a good heart|author=Gen Lamrimpa{{refn|group=note|Gen Lamrimpa (2010), ''How to Realize Emptiness'', p.16: "The main thing is not the book; it is to develop a good heart and become a better person trough practice."}}}}
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{{cquote|Merit consists in doing good to others, sin in doing harm to others.|author=[[Tukaram]]}}
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{{cquote|A good man is a wise man|author=[[Jiddu Krishnamurti|Krishnamurti]]{{refn|group=note|Needleman: [...] I was reading a book the other day which spoke of something called "Sat-san".<br>
Krishnamurti: Do you know what it means?<br>
Needleman: Association with the wise.<br>
Krishnamurti: No, with good people.{{refn|group=note|See [[Satya]], [[Sacca]] and [[Satyagraha]].}}<br>
Needleman: With good people, Ah!<br>
Krishnamurti: Being good you are wise. Not, being wise you are good.<br>
Needleman: I understand that.<br>
Krishnamurti: Because you are good, you are wise.<ref>[http://www.dasglueck.de/download/krishnamurti/The_Awakening_Of_Intelligence.pdf Krishnamurti and Needleman, ''Conversations with Jacob Needleman'']</ref>}}}}
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{{cquote|Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens|author=[[Jimi Hendrix]]{{refn|group=note|Source: "FLOW" calendar 2015}}}}
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{{cquote|Being less reactive and more wisely responsive in any situation, you become a light in the world,<br>contributing to less suffering and more happiness and well being for others and yourself.|author=Richard Shankman<ref>[http://www.richardshankman.org/ Richard Shankman]</ref>}}
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{{cquote|Don’t be cruel. Elvis said it, and it’s true.|author=Garrison Keillor<ref>Garrison Keillor, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-voters-will-not-like-what-happens-next/2016/11/09/e346ffc2-a67f-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b ''Trump voters will not like what happens next''], The Washington Post November 9 2016</ref>}}
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{{cquote|God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him.|author=1 John 4:16}}
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{{cquote|having nothing—nothing—to do with fame or profit in any shape or form|author=[[Hakuin]]<ref name=Hakuin_Waddell>Hakuin, ''Wild Ivy'', tr. Norman Waddell; see [[:Post-satori practice]] and [[Hakuin#Final awakening]]</ref>{{refn|group=note|Hakuin: "Upon attaining satori, if you continue to devote yourself to your practice single-mindedly, extracting the poison fangs and talons or the Dharma cave, tearing the vicious, life-robbing talismans into shreds, combing through texts of all kinds, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, accumulating a great store of Dharma wealth, whipping forward the wheel of the Four Universal Vows, pledging yourself to benefit and save all sentient beings while striving every minute of your life to practice the great Dharma giving, and having nothing—nothing—to do with fame or profit in any shape or form—you will then be a true and legitimate descendent of the Buddha patriarchs. It’s a greater reward than gaining rebirth as a human or a god.}}<ref name=Hakuin_Waddell/>}}
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{{cquote|Compassion is the crown of ''dharma''.|author=Nícaldās, ''The Ocean of Inquiry''<ref>Micahel S. Allen (2017), ''Greater Advaita Vedanta: The Case of Nícaldās''. International Journal of Hindu Studies (2017), 21</ref>}}
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{{cquote|Neem het leven [[:Pindakaasvloer|niet te serieus]], je overleeft het toch niet.|author=[[:Armand (singer)|Armand]]}}
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{{cquote|Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.|author=[[:Elbert Hubbard]]}}
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{{cquote|I think that the gist is that the Wikipedian is essentially unfree. Here we are not free to write what we please. Those who thrive upon Wikipedia have long understood that they are not here to serve themselves or their own ideological/religious preferences [...] I don't see my role as a Wikipedian as promoting my own personal preferences. I am not here to proselytize or evangelize. I serve the propagation of academic learning, since this is the main purpose of Wikipedia.|author=[[User:Tgeorgescu|Tgeorgescu]]<ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGoogleMeNowPlease&type=revision&diff=980545599&oldid=980536543 diff]</ref>}}

==Intro==
Hallo,

My main interest is in [[Buddhism]], but I'm also trying to understand other Indian religions, especially [[:Advaita Vedanta]] and related traditions of [[:Nondualism|"nondualism"]].

Contrary to most people interested in spirituality, I don't believe that there exists any "transcendental reality," be it God, Buddha-nature, Brahman or The Truth. Religion is [[Cognitive science of religion|inherent to our cognitive make-up]], and triggered and modified by [[Social constructionism|socially constructed practices]] and institutions. ''This'' world and life ''is'' the "transcendental reality" we're looking for; all the transcendental rest is constructed by ourselves.

Approaches like social constructionism and Madhyamaka offer an alternative to both essentialism and relativism, showing the innate magic of a world which is not frozen in absolute and timeless truths, but is ever-changing and "ingraspable." Yet, Zen, Dzogchen and Shentong also point to [[Nature of mind (Buddhism)|groundless awareness]], in which this amazing reality appears.{{refn|group=note|See [[Karma Lingpa]] (1326–1386), "Self-Liberation through seeing with naked awareness":{{sfn|Karma Lingpa|1989 |p=13–14}}{{refn|group=note|See also [http://www.fodian.net/world/zzgse.html Self Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness]}}
{{quote|With respect to its having a name, the various names that are applied to it are inconceivable (in their numbers).<br />Some call it "the [[nature of the mind]]"{{refn|group=note|Rigpa Wiki: "Nature of mind (Skt. cittatā; Tib. སེམས་ཉིད་, semnyi; Wyl. sems nyid) — defined in the tantras as the inseparable unity of awareness and emptiness, or clarity and emptiness, which is the basis for all the ordinary perceptions, thoughts and emotions of the ordinary mind (སེམས་, sem)."<ref group=web>Rigpa Wiki, [http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Nature_of_mind ''Nature of Mind'']</ref>}} or "mind itself."<br />Some [[Tirthika]]s call it by the name Atman or "the Self."<br />The Sravakas call it the doctrine of Anatman or "the absence of a self."<br />The [[Yogacara|Chittamatrins]] call it by the name Chitta or "the Mind."<br />Some call it the Prajnaparamita or "the Perfection of Wisdom."<br />Some call it the name Tathagata-garbha or "the embryo of Buddhahood."<br />Some call it by the name [[Mahamudra]] or "the Great Symbol."<br />Some call it by the name "the Unique Sphere."{{refn|group=note|See ''Dharma Dictionary, [http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/thig_le_nyag_gcig ''thig le nyag gcig'']}}<br />Some call it by the name Dharmadhatu or "the dimension of Reality."<br />Some call it by the name Alaya or "the basis of everything."<br />And some simply call it by the name "ordinary awareness."}}<br>[[Sogyal Rinpoche]] describes the [[:Pointing-out instruction|pointing out instructions]] given by [[:Patrul Rinpoche]] to Nyoshul Lungtok:
{{quote|Nyoshul Lungtok, who later became one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of recent times, followed his teacher Patrul Rinpoche for about eighteen years. During all that time, they were almost inseparable. Nyoshul Lungtok studied and practiced extremely diligently, and accumulated a wealth of purification, merit, and practice; he was ready to recognize the Rigpa, but had not yet had the final introduction. Then, one famous evening, Patrul Rinpoche gave him the introduction. It happened when they were staying together in one of the hermitages high up in the mountains above Dzogchen Monastery. It was a very beautiful night. The dark blue sky was clear and the stars shone brilliantly. The sound of their solitude was heightened by the distant barking of a dog from the monastery below. Patrul Rinpoche was lying stretched out on the ground, doing a special Dzogchen practice. He called Nyoshul Lungtok over to him, saying: "Did you say you do not know the essence of Mind?" Nyoshul Lungtok guessed from his tone that this was a special moment and nodded expectantly.<br>"There's nothing to it really," Patrul Rinpoche said casually, and added, "My son, come and lie down over here: be like your old father." Nyoshul Lungtok stretched out by his side. Then Patrul Rinpoche asked him, "Do you see the stars up there in the sky?"<br>"Yes."<br>"Do you hear the dogs barking in Dzogchen Monastery?"<br>"Yes."<br>"Do you hear what I'm saying to you?"<br>"Yes."<br>"Well, the nature of Dzogchen is this: simply this."<br>Nyoshul Lungtok tells us what happened then: "At that instant, I arrived at a certainty of realization from within. I had been liberated from the fetters of 'it is' and 'it is not.' I had realized the primordial wisdom, the naked union of emptiness and intrinsic awareness. I was introduced to this realization by his blessing, as the great Indian master Saraha said: He in whose heart the words of the master have entered, Sees the truth like a treasure in his own palm."<ref>The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: Revised and Updated Edition. by Sogyal Rinpoche (Author), Patrick D. Gaffney (Editor), Andrew Harvey (Editor) HarperOne: 1994. {{ISBN|0-06-250834-2}} pg. 160</ref>}}}} But... who or what creates this self-awareness of groundlessness?... "Mind" itself creates this awareness of emptiness, just as it creates the notion of "I." Thus, this luminous, self-aware "nature of mind" is just as empty as this "I"...{{refn|group=note|See also ''[[:I Am a Strange Loop]]''.}} [[Karuṇā|Karuna]] and [[agape]], "horizontal transcendence," are the accompanying stance in life, which make life meaningfull. [http://calvinethobbes.free.fr/english/c_der.html It's a magical world!]

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* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Advaita Vedanta and yoga|Advaita Vedanta and yoga]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Anubhava|Anubhava]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Birthplace of Bodhidharma|Bodhidharma birthplace]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Breast tax|Breast tax]]
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* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Dravidian migration|Dravidian migrations]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Indo-European Migrations|Indo-European Migrations]]
* [[User:Joshua_Jonathan/Perennialism|Perennialism]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Raju (Kshatriya) sources|Raju (Kshatriya) sources]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Guru-bhakti|Ramana Maharshi and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Roots of Hinduism|Roots of Hinduism]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Self-luminosity|Self-luminosity]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Swaminarayan Sampradaya|Swaminarayan Sampradaya]]

====Christ Myth theory====
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Quotes on the historicity of Jesus|Quotes on the historicity of Jesus]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Template:Quotes on the historicity of Jesus|Template:Quotes on the historicity of Jesus]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/List of Christ myth proponents|List of Christ myth proponents]]

===Paul===
* [[Salvation in Christianity#Paul]]
* [[Substitutionary atonement#Paul]]
* [[Resurrection of Jesus#Paul – participation in Christ]]
* [[Early Christianity#Paul and the inclusion of Gentiles]]
* [[Christianity in the 1st century#Paul and the inclusion of Gentiles]]
* [[Paul the Apostle#Atonement]]
* [[Paul the Apostle and Jewish Christianity#New Perspective on Paul]]

===Tables===
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Timetable of South Asia]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Periodisation of Hinduism]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Subschools of Vedanta]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Dependent origination]]

===Drafts===
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Eastern philosophy]]

===Maps===
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Wanderings of the Buddha]]

==Further reading==
* [[:Hanshan Deqing]]

==To do==

===Drafts===

====Buddhism====
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Classifications of Buddhist teachings|Classifications of Buddhist teachings]]

====Zen====
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Academic Zen Research|Academic Zen Research (draft, not finished)]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Deshan Xuanjian|Deshan Xuanjian (draft, in progress)]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Fayan Wenyi|Fayan Wenyi]] (draft, in progress)
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Takuju Kosen|Takuju Kosen]] (draft, in progress)
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/"Who is hearing that sound?"|"Who is hearing that sound?"]] (draft, in progress)

====India====
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Mutual Modern Spiritual Syncretism|Mutual Modern Spiritual Syncretism]]
* [[Wikipedia:India - South Asia nomenclatura]]
* [[:Krishna]]

====Spirituality====
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Developmental stages|Developmental stages]]
* [[User:Joshua Jonathan/Arthur Versluis|Arthur Versluis]]
* [[Vertical and horizontal transcendence]]

===Merger-proposals===
* [[Rangtong-Shentong]]
* [[Kuru Kingdom]]

===Clean-up===
* [[:Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta]] (D)
* [[:Vicara]] (D)
* [[:Cetanā]] (D)
* [[:Chanda (Buddhism)]] (D)
* [[:Kausidya]] (D)
* [[:Avidyā (Buddhism)]] (D)

===Various===
* [[Trance]]
* [[Moheyan]] / [[Kamalaśīla]]
* [[Mahamudra]]
* [[Shri Revan Natha Darbar]]
* [[Talk:Subitism#Wonderful]]
* [[Talk:Poltavka culture#R1a]]
* [[:History of religion]] - Hinduism

==Done==

===Mentorship===
* [[User talk:Bladesmulti/Mentorship|Bladesmulti]]
* [[User talk:AmritasyaPutra/Mentorship|AmritasyaPutra]]

==Wiki-links==
* [[:Derek Parfit]]

==LOL==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Haplogroup_L-M20&diff=next&oldid=879347665 Hindu kingdoms in Syria]

==recommended websites and blogs==
;(Zen-)Buddhism
* [http://www.mahakarunachan.be/maha-karuna/ton/ Ton Lathouwers, Maha Karuna Ch'an website]
* [http://www.mahakarunachan.nl/files/2013/10/PDF-book-Dutch-zenmaster-Ton-Lathouwers-pages-3-43.pdf Ton Lathouwers, ''More than anyone can do'', pdf]
* [http://www.fas.x0.com/writings/fasj/fj96koane.html Ton Lathouwers, ''The Fundamental Koan and the First Vow of the Bodhisattva'']
* [http://www.maartenhoutmanarchief.nl/ Maarten Houtman]
* [http://hardcorezen.info/ Brad Warner]
* [http://www.thezensite.com/index.html thezensite]
* [http://tuttejiorg.wordpress.com/ Soyons Cruels!]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140623013606/http://www.nondualitymagazine.org/nondualitymagazine.2/nonduality_magazine.2.stuartlachs.interview.htm Stuart Lachs on the shortcomings of 'dharma transmission']
;Nondualism
* [http://www.emptiness.co/ Emptiness, Buddhist and Beyond]
* [https://jedmckenna.wordpress.com/non-dualist-fundamentalism/ Jed McKenna, ''Non-Dualist Fundamentalism'']
* [http://emptinessteachings.com/2014/09/11/the-two-truths-of-buddhism-and-the-emptiness-of-emptiness/ Susan Kahn, ''The Two Truths of Buddhism and The Emptiness of Emptiness'']
;Genetics
* [https://www.gnxp.com/ Gene Expression] (Razib Khan)
* [http://eurogenes.blogspot.nl/ Eurogenes Blog]

==Deceased Wikipedians==
* [[User:Paul Barlow|Paul Barlow]]
* [[User:Corinne|Corinne]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Web-references==
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==Sources==
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* {{Citation | last =Karma Lingpa | year =1989 | title =Slef-Liberation through seeing with naked awareness | publisher =Station Hill Press}}
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