Jung agrees with Girard about mimesis. it's hazardous.

"Imitation includes
the idea of suggestibility, suggestive effect, and mental
infection.

we see daily how the mechanism of imitation is used,
or rather abused, for the purposes of personal differentiation;

some prominent personality, or peculiar trait or activity is
simply imitated

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re: the recent question concerning the Roman dodecahedron and its use.

some say it wasn't for knitting because no early artifacts.

hmmm.

here are some actually existing knitting tools using the same basic method. the dodecahedron shape is more versatile. glove fingers are just the beginning.

rope, nets, leggings, sleeves, socks, bags, depending on size.

here's a couple descendants⤵️

this is very cool. what a way to explore without airports, passports, and other travellers 🤔

@corlin
just came across this, seems à propos from yesterday's conversation.

“Bhagavan, are words ultimate truth? Or is what they express ultimate truth?”

"The Buddha replied, “Mahamati, words are not ultimate truth,

nor is what they express ultimate truth. And how so?

Ultimate truth is what buddhas delight in.

And what words lead to is ultimate truth.

But words are not ultimate truth."

invasives and alternatives for your gardening plans. 🇨🇦ontario or similar zones.

great resource, free too😎

https://www.ontarioinvasiveplants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Southern-Grow-Me-Instead-1.pdf

a thought for Saturday in these "interesting times".

"To know where the other person makes a mistake is of little value.

It only becomes interesting when you know where you make the mistake,

for then you can do something about it.

What we can improve in others is of doubtful utility as a rule,

if, indeed, it has any effect at all."

Jung, Aion, conclusion from a lifetime of practice 🙏🏻

Note Bene.

covid shot, 2nd day, after a day of no side effects.

arrrrghhh, every joint complaining, back aching to 9.

a little and slow exercise, very slow very gentle, moving all the joints 😖

gradually, they lubricate and move more easily.

qigong slapping and vibration gently all over, focus on joints.

after ½ hour, feeling alive again, still a bit of back pain, but the bed of nails is working on it. joints tender but moveable ✌🏽

so, if that's the vax, i definitely do not want the real thing

"The collective unconscious contains both good and evil and seems

to be a vast storehouse of experience both past and potential.

Jung found that as psychic energy touched new depths in the collective unconscious,

it brought into the conscious certain images that fell into fairly
patterns.

These archetypes manifested themselves when the mind seemed off guard, often in dreams and reveries.

Jung classified them into three
stages according to the psychic depth from which they emerged."

"What Jung called the "collective unconscious" resembles the Tathagatagarbha of the Lankavatara sutra.

it lies below the ego-centered personal unconscious and conscious. they make up a totality called the psyche.

the collective unconscious aspect of the psyche transcends the individual, while remaining immanent. It contains traces of psychic impulses and behavior tendencies ingrained in the individuals, body-mind from the experiences of previous generations."
🔽cont

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/9/1/9_1_394/_pdf/-char/ja

those "who fear suffering that comes from their projection of samsara seek nirvana

unaware that the difference between samsara and nirvana, as well as their projection of everything else

does not exist.

They conceive of nirvana as the cessation of all future sensory realms

not as the transformation of repository consciousness through the personal realization of buddha knowledge.

Instead, they are attached to perception of a realm outside the mind and keep turning the wheel of samsara."

the distinction between logic and lifeworld,

between concepts and direct personal experience,

lived experience.

logic doesn't transform, but personal direct experience does.

not attained by argument,. not Thomism or any system of logic, mathematics included. all these are "just words and projections".

here's something that makes even Red Pine's head hurt, a morning challenge.

"The cause of other schools does not qualify as eternal and inconceivable.

what other schools claim is eternal and inconceivable is not the result of its own causal attribute.

my ultimate truth is eternal and inconceivable because ultimate truth is the result of

a causal attribute that transcends existence and nonexistence.

Because the attainment of personal realization is its attribute, it has an attribute."
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sustained by breath, its regularity

expansion 🔛 contraction

consciousness/of X or y
co-emerge

energy activating, transforming, patterns in process

changing, always transforming, before our gaze

the subtlety of untold beauty

depths hidden by projections

generated by attachment to a form gone by

or to a future-phantom, figment of a figment of hopes or fears.

"avoid projections that view rabbit horns or ox horns, space or form as separate.

reflect on projections as perceptions."

"Drawing forms and spreading colors

I, too, teach like this

the colors don’t contain a pattern

nor do the brush or pristine surface.

To please the host of beings they render figures with their art

but teachings are unfaithful

for truth isn’t in the words."

the flowers of the mind blooming

"consciousness arises

together with the minutest sensory objects and sensory material of the various sense organs,

and with it arise external realms

as well like so many images in a clear mirror

or like the ocean when a strong wind blows.

And as the wind of externality stirs the sea of the mind,

its waves of consciousness never cease."

just called bromebirdcare about my feeder, which the squirrels have damaged by continuously jumping on it trying desperately and failing to get into it.

no problem. a new part, free and free shipping is being sent today. i'll have it by week's end👌🏽

i've gotten many replacement parts for my 3 feeders over the years, all free including shipping. no hassle, no interrogation.

👌🏽😎❤️

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.

"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."

"The womb of buddhas.

The mind purified.

The repository consciousness (alaya–vijnana) transformed."

3 poisons infecting the nations today.

three continuities, or tri–samtati:

greed, anger, and delusion, which elsewhere are known as the “three poisons.”

please open the 🙏🏻