from the depths of the unconscious, having passed through the Shadow,
gone beyond.to the very depths,
"After seven nights the Buddha has risen
from the sea where leviathans dwell
from the palace of the Serpent King, Sagara
happily he has come to this shore."
Lankavatara sutra
"The Buddha thereupon conjured mountains
peaks covered with jewels
beautiful scenes of every sort / adorned with countless gems
And on each jewel-covered peak
the Buddha could also be seen
and standing at his side
Ravana the yaksha appeared...
And after they had spoken
these buddhas and bodhisattvas vanished
only Ravana the yaksha remained / standing inside his palace...
”Where did those cities go
those radiant buddhas, those sugatas
were they a dream or an illusion?"
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"The womb of buddhas.
The mind purified.
The repository consciousness (alaya–vijnana) transformed."
"In its undifferentiated state, the repository consciousness, or alaya–vijnana, is known as
the tathagata–garbha, or womb of buddhas.
The former represents the defiled mind,
the latter the mind purified.
For buddhas, they are one and the same.
For the rest of us, they are different."
Dharmas and non-dharmas are likened to flames,
among which any distinction must be conventional, as with waves in the sea.
As with flames and waves, distinctions of an object’s development are likewise conventional, pragmatic, mind produced.
Everything is in constant flux in time, just as everything is indivisible in space.
Dharmas aren’t the problem. The problem is
attachment to the distinctions on which dharmas are based.
more guardians of the depths.
"Sagara was one of eight serpent kings who acted as protectors of the Dharma in ancient India. His residence was at the bottom of the ocean."
"On the Indian subcontinent, temples have been dedicated to the worship of serpents since the dawn of civilization.
Both Buddhism and Hinduism adopted nagarajas and naginis (serpent kings and their consorts) as
protective divinities and depicted them like human beings."⏬️