tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post139457016204030923..comments2024-03-25T17:38:01.020+08:00Comments on Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar: Poisons and Pathogens: Origins of DiseaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-90738381545235592632010-11-14T08:54:57.684+08:002010-11-14T08:54:57.684+08:00To strike a discordant note against 'Discordan...To strike a discordant note against 'Discordant note', I don't think this is oversimplification, at least not for a blog -- it's an essay worthy of being published on paper (with a few enhancements still possible of course). Granted some infectious agents have awareness, some are non-corporeal entities, some may simply be psychic forces of other humans that stress us out without our knowing why (what used to be called "evil eye" or black magic). <br /><br />It's interesting that Peldan Lhamo, another scary lady riding a mule who is the main protectress of Tibet, carries a "disease bag". So do many other deities of the Mamo (female wraith) class, including those that protect Buddhism.<br /><br />Now what's in those bags, I wonder? Pixie dust mixed with itching powder? Giardia-laced acidophilus supplements? Probably not. More like powdered Rakshasa-warts from Alpha Centauri, or aerosolized demon-dung from Mars. <br /><br />So maybe 'spirits' are not themselves the infectious agents; maybe they think _WE_ are the infection, so they call the Orkin Man from Orion, who uses something that we perceive as scum, to deal with what they see as a dangerous eruption of scum (i.e., our vibrations, oozing interdimensionally). <br /><br /><br />Here in Jambudvipa 4-d space-time the universe is busting through, as it were, with plagues of porn, riots of spousal abuse, storms of electromagnetic polition, and (for all I know), tsunamis of space-time disturbance caused by our very confused, overactive minds, if not also by other devices in the hands of sociopathic tycoons. <br /><br />That might be vexing, even a health hazard in some parallel realm. Someone there might grab a 32-oz can of Raid Ultra-Grody Herpes Formula, and spray us through the Stargate app on their 7-dimensional-modem-equipped iPod...<br /><br />You never know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-4104909044403771432010-11-11T23:24:46.489+08:002010-11-11T23:24:46.489+08:00This is straying into oversimplification and intel...This is straying into oversimplification and intellectual theory. Many diseases have independent awareness and intelligence. Some are like simple microorganisms, others are spirits that have strong personal feelings and self referral consciousness. Most have no qualms about attacking the innocent once they are independent consciousnesses. Additionally some disease is simply wearing out, over use and poor body mechanics. This is like talking about the assassination of Prince Ferdinand while you are in a trench in 1915. [I did love the article ;)Discordant notenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-73939471626047781852010-11-11T17:17:54.167+08:002010-11-11T17:17:54.167+08:00I really enjoyed reading this and thinking about w...I really enjoyed reading this and thinking about what I read. I wish you would write more about this subject.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-65379457153169084522010-11-11T08:02:37.618+08:002010-11-11T08:02:37.618+08:00hummm tenapa has something to do with this no? th...hummm tenapa has something to do with this no? the deNavajo say that the medicine clan arose because of war... the earth drums were first... hollows built in the ground stamped with the feet. may the queen of waters find peace through the tears and love of a simple monk.UrgyenRinpochenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-87529243159998779982010-11-10T18:36:48.192+08:002010-11-10T18:36:48.192+08:00Very well said, Michael.Very well said, Michael.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607443504553459238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-82303263521847150522010-11-10T18:29:40.259+08:002010-11-10T18:29:40.259+08:00To your last question, "So, if this is the ca...To your last question, "So, if this is the case, then from where do the pathogens take their "intelligence," or their organic ability to survive, and indeed resist death?" Pathogens are a part of us, inseparable, and a reflection of our state. Their intelligence is our intelligence. Their survival is our survival. If we abide in meditative stability, then the pathogens are abiding. If we wander in distraction, then pathogens wander and invoke disease, our wandering and distraction. Our compassion for pathogens heals and is the universal medicine; expressed, as you say, by fire, food, air, and human touch. Waging war on pathogens is counterproductive to our health, since pathogens are us. Shamans know this during ritual healing, by retelling the story of union. Shamans may wander in distraction by getting caught up in the three worlds, and can return to compassion by singing the one world, emptiness. Padmasambhava warned against shamanizing to emphasize the singularity of emptiness; loving compassion. Disease is a sign of imbalance and calls for healing through the elemental modalities so throughly recognized and confirmed through the ages; fire, water, air, earth, and space. These elements reflect our human face, which we recognize and are healed.michael davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08497421444022078949noreply@blogger.com