#living buddha living christ

[a-queer-seminarian]

Thich Nhat Hanh on self-immolation

“Before the Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself alive in 1963, he meditated for several weeks and then wrote very loving letters to his government, his church, and his fellow monks and nuns explaining why he had reached that decision. When you are motivated by love and the willingness to help others attain understanding, even self-immolation can be a compassionate act. When Jesus allowed himself to be crucified, He was acting in the same way, motivated by the desire to wake people up, to restore understanding and compassion, and to save people. … When you read Thich Quang Duc’s letters, you know very clearly that he was not motivated by the wish to oppose or destroy but by the desire to communicate. When you are caught in a war in which the great powers have huge weapons and complete control of the mass media, you have to do something extraordinary to make yourself heard. Without access to radio, television, or the press, you have to create new ways to help the world understand the situation you are in. Self-immolation can be such a means. If you do it out of love, you act very much like Jesus did on the cross…”

- Vietnamese monk and Zen master Thich Naht Hanh (1926-2022) in Living Buddha, Living Christ (1995)

#self immolation #thich nhat hanh #living buddha living christ #crucifixion #protest #quote tag #thich quang duc

[wehavewords]

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

#wehavewords #thich nhat hanh #Living Buddha Living Christ #words #quotes #life quotes #life #quotes about life #true words #book inspiration #character inspo

[deconstructing-christian-girl]

"Most of the time, we are lost in the past or carried away by future projects and concerns. When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, we can see and listen deeply, and the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.

"The safest way to approach the Trinity is through the door of the Holy Spirit. ... mindfulness is very much like the Holy Spirit. ... When you have mindfulness, you see more deeply.... When someone touches Christ, he or she [or they] is healed. ... When you touch deep understanding and love, you are healed. ... All of us also have the seed of the Holy Spirit in us, the capacity of healing, transforming, and loving. When we touch that seed, we are able to touch God the Father and God the Son. ....

When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it."

#Thich Naht Hahn #Living Buddha Living Christ #deconstructing #exvangelical #christian deconstruction #christianity #christian #deconstructing christianity #buddhism #deconstruction

[hoangphuockimchi]

The Walk Home

I walked home tonight from the Women's Bible study at a nearby church. It had been a sweet time of Bible study and fellowship with the ladies--a relief since it was my first time attending.

After our Bible time was over, the ladies told me a bit about the history of the church and how it was founded in the 1940s by the a Japanese family, who lived through the Japanese internment to found the church.

I had just moved to the neighborhood and the church was close by, so I loved hearing about this folksy neighborhood church with such a rich history. And it also got me thinking, how sad that things have changed so much since then.

My mind tried to grapple for the picture of the church as it had once been before the ravages of time had winnowed away the crowds here---before the founders' grandchildren had grown up and all moved away.

Some hazy picture came to mind of an old, quaint church with a large gathering which consisted of Asians, Caucasians, African-Americans, and everyone in between.

Then I caught myself and directed my attention to what God had said to us in His Word: that though the sun may cease to shine, He will always be the same. He will always be there for His children.

I breathed a sigh of relief and praised God for His everlasting presence in our lives. As someone who's had to live through a lot of dramatic transformations and change, it's a relief to finally find the One that will never change.

This was something I never found when I was Buddhist, because Buddhism posited that everything was impermanent and subject to change.

What a burden it was to go through life all those years thinking that I had to bear all of the responsibility for my own salvation! And in the end, all we would ever get in nirvana is nothingness!

As I continued home, the cool breeze and warm sun cheered me up---and I rested my worries upon the everlasting arms of our Heavenly God.

#jesus #belief in jesus #jesus loves us #christ #gospel #yeshua #christian #christian living #jesusistheway #meditation #spirituality #inner peace #spiritualgrowth #mindfulness #consciousness #buddhism #buddhists #buddha #salvation #faith #scripture #new testament #nirvana #nothingness #zen buddhism #new age #spirit guides #divination #mysticism #starseed

[talonabraxas]

In the East, the serpent and the dragon have been the symbols of the sage or the wise man. In BUDDHISM, according to some traditions, Buddha was protected by Nagas, or serpents, at birth and after his death. Among the Egyptians, the serpent Uraeus was put on their royal head-dress. In the New Testament, Christ exhorted the apostles to be “as wise as serpents.” The Ophite Gnostics was known as the “Brotherhood of the Serpents,” and displayed a living serpent to symbolize the Christos-principle.

Shelter by Lily seika Jones

[yoga-onion]

Buddha to his disciples, mini-series (18)

The Middle Way - A relaxed, laidback way of life, eh?

The fundamental spirit of Buddha's teaching, is the Middle Way. By following the Middle Way (Ref), the Buddha was able to reach the supreme and absolute truth. What, then, is the Middle Way? It is not the path of the pleasure-addicted, lust-crazed people of the world. That is one extreme. On the other hand, it is not too extreme asceticism and striving. It is a leisurely path, away from such two opposing contradictions, and without extremes.

We should learn to live in a relaxed, laidback way.

That is the basis of the Buddha's teaching.

It takes surprising courage to choose a relaxed, leisurely way of life in this world today.

You may be criticised by those who feel safe in their pigeonholes as a 'good for nothing' or a ‘failure’, so that may eventually fall into self-deprecation. They are only afraid of you. Buddha and Christ were both hermits who began by renouncing the world. You are not a failure, you are a person of courage. Let them speak whatever. Don't worry about it, let's relax, take it easy and live the Great Way.

That’s okay, is not it?

ブッダから弟子たちへ、ミニシリーズ (18)

中道 〜 ゆったり、のんびり生きる、ええじゃないか。

仏の教え、仏教の根本精神は中道である。中道（参照）を歩むことによって、ブッダは至高にして絶対の真理に到達することができた。では、中道とは何か？それは快楽に溺れ、欲望に狂った世間の人々が歩んでいる道ではない。それは一つの極端だ。かと言って、極端すぎる禁欲主義や努力でもない。そのような相反する2つの矛盾から離れ、両極端を排した、ゆったりとした大道である。

わたしたちは、ゆったり、のんびり生きる生き方を学ぶべきである。

それが釈迦の教えの基本である。

この世にあって、ゆったり、のんびり生きる生き方を選ぶことは意外と勇気のいることです。

鳩の巣箱に収まって安心している人々に「役立たず」とか「落ちこばれ」と批判され、終いには自己蔑視に落ち入るかもしれない。彼らはあなたを恐れているだけに過ぎません。ブッダもキリストも、世間を捨てることから始めた、世捨て人たちです。あなたは落ちこぼれではなく、勇気のある人です。誰が何を言ってもいいじゃないですか。気にすることはありません、ゆったりとのんびりと、大道を生きましょう。

ええじゃないか、ええじゃないか。

#zen #mindfulness #buddhism #wisdom #philosophy #buddha #nature #art #take it easy

[radical-revolution]

Who were the four most powerful individuals in history? Russell's answer:

“If I had to select four men who have had more power than any others, I should mention Buddha and Jesus Christ, Pythagoras and Galileo. No one of the four had much success in his own lifetime. No one of these four had the support of the State until after his beliefs and propaganda had achieved a great measure of success. No one of the four would have affected human life as he has done if power had been his primary object. No one of the four sought the kind of power that enslaves others, but the kind that sets them free—in the case of the first two, by showing how to master the desires that lead to strife, and thence to defeat slavery and subjection; in the case of the second two, by pointing the way towards control of natural forces. It is not ultimately by violence and war that men are ruled, but by the wisdom of those who appeal to the common desires of mankind, for happiness, for inward and outward peace, and for the understanding of the world in which by no choice of our own, we have to live.”

— Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch: XVII: The Ethics of Power, p. 284

Image: Bertrand Russell, 1954.

[writerbuddha]

Since the Force is not a power one has, but rather what gives one their power, would it be reasonable, if accurate to assume the Light and Dark Sides of the Force are not just means to the power of the Force, but also psychological states of mind? Joseph Campbell's reading on Christ's "peace" and the Buddha's "Nirvana" as inherent within us and where we can properly act from by our learning to center ourselves in them has had me wondering.

Yes, that would be accurate! The power of the Force, the Force-powers and all that are externalized psychological states of the mind, made manifest by those who have the talent to have some control over the energy, which is the substance of those psychological states and the mind and self and consciousness.

For example, Yoda never manifests lethal bolts from himself, because he doesn’t have the psychological state of a violent storm. He is "only" able to absorb and repel those bolts, because he harnesses his mental state in which anger, hate and aggression, all what that lighting actually is, are dissolved or controlled. And if you watch Sidious, you don’t see him actually controlling his lightning. He can manifest it, sure, but in Episode III and VI, it's very clear that it's like allowing steam to burst out of his fingers, in the same way steam bursts out of your ears, so to speak, and he can direct that steam to targets and burning them. But when it’s reflected back onto him, he can't absorb it, he can't repel it. He is burning as well, this is why his face gets a scarred, distorted. He can only stop manifesting the steam. So, yes, the Force is not just giving strength to Jedi and Sith, it's not just a way to get strength, it’s also their psychological, mental, emotional, intellectual, spiritual processes.

The Kingdom of God and Nirvana would be a bit deeper that that, though, that’s more like the individual Force recognizing that its part of the cosmic Force, like a wave is part of an ocean, from which it's made of, from which it rises and into which it will be reversed. This way, they can rejoice for those around them who are transformed into the larger=cosmic Force from the smaller=living Force, and can conquer their fears and they can let go.

#jedi order #light side of the force #dark side of the force #star wars #the force #force powers #yoda #Darth sidious

[master-of-47-dudes]

So I showed the early stuff off a bit a few months back, but I've finally completed the first draft of Act 1 of my Lancer adventure path, Kindness of Strangers! The deets can be found on the pilot net discord, but:

LRBT-III, otherwise known as Blanche to the locals. This sun-baked dustbowl of a planet has the high honor of being one of the few habitable terrestrial bodies that anyone has discovered in the Long Rim- and probably the only one that's actually any use to anyone. Luckily- or not so luckily, if you ask some people- it was Union that found it first. Well, about 70 years ago when they stumbled across this star system they got it in their heads that the Long Rim's days were numbered. There’s untold millions living out there scattered along the emptiest shipping lane in the known galaxy who'd need a way out once no one needed to pass them by, and by Christ the Buddha Union was gonna be there for them waiting with open arms.

All of that is background, though. You? You’re a bunch of mercenaries who got their hands on a couple of GMSes, decided to make your manna selling violence for pay. Worlds like Blanche don't take to colonies very well, so even two generations in there's still plenty of frontier out there being settled and railroad tracks being laid. The people out there struggle day by day to survive, and people like you are there to protect them from those who got sick of the hard life. Not everyone out there has the guts to stand up for the little guy- that's why you're called Lancers.

A setting and a campaign all in one, Kindness Of Strangers and its (eventual) follow-up Dancing With the Devil are a series of Wild West-themed 2-mission adventures intended to take players from 0-12 as they find themselves embroiled in the midst of a corporate conspiracy to overthrow the Union-backed government of the isolated colony of Blanche and a ploy to seize control over a nearly completed Blinkstation. All the while, a strange religious movement worshipping an eons-dead alien civilization grows ever more influential in the background...

This campaign tackles themes of colonialism, nationalism, corruption, and conflict between indigenous peoples, settlers, and immigrants, all in a world where well-meaning intentions have gone sour and the ghosts of the past have come back to haunt it. It comes with:

- A setting guide for LRBT-III and its weird-as-hell star system!

- A 0-12 campaign split up into two books, Kindness of Strangers and Dancing With the Devil, that are made up of three 2-mission adventures each. And then a final mission to tie things up.

- 4 Alt-Frames: the IPS-N Nemo, the SSC Painted Lady, the Horus Roper, and the HA Grant (still working on these)

- New Reserves! (still working on these)

- New Exotic Gear (still working on these)

- New NPCs! (still working on these)

Things to look forward to:

- Rallying a town to fight off a horde of bandits!

- An epic duel at sunset!

- Accidentally walking into a partial metavault and escaping with the only scars being mental ones!

- A weird amount of references to the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, like a probably legally dubious amount!

- Exploding plants!

- Exploding wildlife!

- The **CHRISTHEBUDDHASAURUS**

- Helping striking miners fight off Pinkertons!

- Investigating the bombing of a water filtration plant!

- AND MORE

...so this is really my first time doing this kind of thing so I don't entirely know what all to put here BUT I've put together first drafts of both the Field Guide to LRBT and Kindness of Strangers Act 1: A Streetcar Named Desire. They're not in any state where I can charge for them- I'd call them "playtest and editing ready" rn- but I figure I can share them here so people can give notes. If people think it's cool I could possibly do a kickstarter or something to get the money needed for art and help with editing and lcps and such.

Field Guide to LRBT:

Kindness of Strangers Act 1: A Streetcar Named Desire:

#lancer #lancer ttrpg #lancer rpg #third party content #huge success for me!!! #im happy to finally be ready to share it

[atheostic]

I love how Christians talk about early Christians like they were a monolith

Here's just a handful of early Christian denomination beliefs:

Adamites: Would hold services naked and were not monogamous.

Arianites: Believed that Jesus & God were two separate people, that Jesus was the son of God, and that Jesus didn't always exist.

Bardaisanites: Thought the sun, moon, and planets were living beings, to whom, under God, the government of this world was largely entrusted; and though Man was free, he was strongly influenced for good or for evil by the constellations.

Carpocratians: They believed in reincarnation and were encouraged to experience everything there is in life (sinful and moral alike) so that they wouldn't have to reincarnate to experience what they had missed out on. They believed that going against Jewish biblical law was a serious responsibility because said laws came from evil angels who created the world. They also were of the belief that Jesus wasn't a deity, but rather an enlightened role model people should strive to be like (kinda like the Buddha). (According to Irenaeus of Lyons)

Colarbasians: Believed the whole of truth and religion to be contained in the Greek alphabet; and that it was for this reason that Jesus was called the Alpha and Omega.

Marcionites: Believed the god Yahweh (the Jewish, Christian, & now Muslim god) was an evil, tyrannical deity, & that the god featured in the Hebrew Scriptures was not the Father of Jesus Christ. They forbade marriage and urged celibacy, since bringing more children into the world meant bringing more people into captivity to the evil Yahweh.

Montanists: Allowed women prominent positions in the sect, such as bishops, presbyters, and deacons.

Simonians: Believed that the Holy Spirit was feminine and reincarnated as different women, most notably Helen of Troy.

Valentinianists: Considered the god of the Old Testament as the imperfect creator of the material world. One needed to recognize the Father, the depth of all being, as the true source of divine power in order to achieve gnosis (knowledge). Gnosis, not faith, was the key to salvation.

#christianity #early christians #christian beliefs #religious beliefs #lol #christians #early christianity was WILD #christian denominations #abrahamic religions #religion #did you know #little known fact

[losrtphu]

LUNA SEA B-PASS 1996 21 Q&A [TRANS]

PART 2

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What's a dream that you've had recently?

RYUICHI: I had a dream where i was put on fire. i was on the rooftop of a building and i was talking to the sky and a random guy came and burned off my left arm.

SUGIZO: I don't remember.. i have a lot of dreams though.

INORAN: When we we're recording i was asleep dreaming about arranging songs.

J: I'm still dreaming now. I'm a boy who's always dreaming (laughs)

SHINYA: I always dream when i go to sleep so i don't know (laughs)

How would you describe what God is?

RYUICHI: Someone who knows everything

SUGIZO: God is the creator of everything, and all knowing. but his form might be all humans as well.

INORAN: ...I wonder where he could be

J: God's real form...i feel like it would be something inside all of us not a figure like Christ or Buddha

SHINYA: Something that is really important/precious. i have a really strong sense of faith so I've never missed hatsumoude (first shrine visit of the year).

What is something that lasts forever?

RYUICHI: I still haven't found it.

SUGIZO: The idea of space. but there might not be anything that lasts forever, but on my level of thinking i would say space

INORAN:hmm... i would definitely say love

J: That is something that I've always been searching for

SHINYA: Something that is endless would have to mean that it's something that you have to pursue but i guess that would also make it impossible to reach.

How do you spend most of your nights and from what hours?

RYUICHI: The time that i do spend in my house is very short. around 12pm i take a bath, have dinner, watch a video on cars. yea i probably do those the most.

SUGIZO: I am always up until the sun comes.

INORAN: I turn the TV because there's always something always going on , but by 4am I'll definitely have NO energy

J: Around after 12pm I'm usually drinking and rolling on my sofa listening to music.

SHINYA: I space out while thinking about a bunch of stuff, while watching TV.

Favorite 3 CDs that you've been listening to during this recording period（TN: genuinely thought i was going insane because only shinya names CDs, everyone else just names the artist for some reason???)

RYUICHI: I haven't had any to listen to recently. I've kind of stopped listening to CDs.

SUGIZO: what I've been listening to is "ICE" and "DREAM DOLPHIN", but "TRICKY" has been my favorite since last year

INORAN: There's quite a lot so i cant pick what's my top 3, but i would probably say john Coltrane's album

J: Smashing pumpkins, Silverchair and John Osborne (TN: I'm guessing he means Ozzy Osborne)

SHINYA: none. when recording i only listen to our music, if i were to say which, style, mother and Eden.

Whats the first thing or person that comes to your mind when i say "quiet/still" ?

RYUICHI: I know a woman who is the exact meaning of the word silent, if i were to say an object..maybe a clock and i would also say that the waves of the sea feel still.

SUGIZO: The moon. the thought of death. I feel that if something is quiet/still it is like death, and not in a negative way but in a beautiful way

INORAN: I don't know...i think stillness coexists with movement

J: Me... why are you laughing??(laughs)

SHINYA: I think i would say God. i feel like he has a very still/quiet image.

Name a moment in the past when you've been the most angry

RYUICHI: I get pissed off when I'm denied to live the way i want to.

SUGIZO: Betrayal in human relationships, there's so many people that i would kill if i met them again. 　

INORAN: I get angry often so i honestly don't know (laughs)

J: Around high-school because i had to suddenly decided my own future

SHINYA: At the Budokan live a typhoon blew away the set, i genuinely went insane. (TN:pretty sure this was also their first Budokan live)

Name something that you want right now

RYUICHI: I know perfect things don't exist, but i want an honest love

SUGIZO: Sometime for my mind to go blank.

INORAN: Endless time.

J: Myself, time to be alone as myself.

SHINYA: A medicine that that makes me able to be awake all the time, sleeping is just a waste of time.

Name a book/s that you read often

RYUICHI: I think i have a lot of car books, the books are western so they have a different feel.

SUGIZO: Phillip k.dick books.

INORAN: I don't read books.

J: A book called それから(TN: no Eng title but I'd translate this as "after that/and then") which is a collection of stories by Akemi Edo

SHINYA: The books that i have, have lately been collections of short poems, its more like "Oh i have nothing to do so I'll just read"

A person who has your ideal lifestyle

RYUICHI: No one, I guess that would mean that person is myself.

SUGIZO: Jim Morrison, or Mike Tyson. I think after he came out of prison his performance has been amazing.

INORAN: The life that I'm living right now is the most ideal.

J: Someone who doesn't give up no matter what life throws at them.

SHINYA: Someone who enjoys life, as in, no matter what they do they have fun, i think that's wonderful.

What makes you want to hug someone?

RYUICHI: I really love casual gestures. gestures that come out without knowing.

SUGIZO: When I love that person so much I can't help it.

INORAN: When i want to hug them.

J: There's lots of different cases so...i guess when i want to hug them (laughs)

SHINYA: After a performance. i can't explain it well but after I've used everything up/got everything out of my system i start to feel like i need to hug someone. (TN: proof -> 1:40 https://youtu.be/VAQ20Qoqgm0?si=QWOcF5rK2Md42-CF&t=101)

What do you think is a sin?

RYUICHI: I don't think anything outweighs the sin of lying to yourself.

SUGIZO: Betrayal, and also suicide.

INORAN: Betrayal.

J: Lying.

SHINYA: It's not something you can count, because living as a human at the core is a sin, if we can all live while being conscious of our actions i think the world would be a better place.

What have you lost recently?

RYUICHI: I think when you stop lying to yourself you have to make sacrifices....so there would also be a time where you have to lose friends or partners.

SUGIZO: Time (laughs)

INORAN: There are probably a lot of things I've lost, in order to gain something you need to lose something.

J: Nothing.

SHINYA: Even if i had lost something i don't really care, if I've gained something I've probably lost something in the process (laughs)

#visual kei #vkei #translation #LUNA SEA #jrock #b-pass #1996 #sugizo #ryuichi #ryuichi kawamura #j #wumf #inoran #shinya #真矢 #隆一 #河村隆一 #scans

[crazycatsiren]

My personal prayer beads

Mala:

Used in the context of Buddhism, a mala is a loop of prayer beads used for counting and keeping track of prayers/recitations when performing japa (meditative repetition of a mantra, sacred sound, or a divine name/epithet).

A mala consists of 108 beads. Often, factors of 108 such as 54, 27, 18 exist on the mala as well. A 109th "guru bead", not used for/included in prayer counting, is also very common.

The origin of the mala is actually unknown, which gives you an idea of just how old the religions that use it are. As far as my native land is concerned, there are no references to the use of malas in Chinese literature before the introduction of Buddhism during the Han dynasty. Historians can only theorize that the practice may have spread from India to China at that point in time.

Why 108 beads? There are lots of theories on this one, but the number itself has remained consistent. The number 108 holds religious significance in ancient Indian religions (including Buddhism). Traditional Buddhists believe that humans come with 108 afflictions or kleshas (mortal mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in unwholesome human actions). 108 is also the number of possible dharmas. In some Buddhist traditions, the 109th guru bead represents Amitabha Buddha or the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (the East Asian depiction/counterpart/equivalent of whom is Guanyin) who has 108 avatars.

Rosary:

The rosary ("crown of roses" or "garland of roses") is a string of prayer beads used primarily in Catholicism. The Rosary prayer, which the rosary beads are used for, is arranged in sets of 10 Hail Marys, referred to as "decades". Each decade is preceded by 1 Lord's Prayer and followed by 1 Glory Be. The rosary beads are used for saying these prayers in their proper sequence and tracking their numbers.

Traditionally, 5 decades are recited in 1 session, and each decade recalls and meditates on 1 of the Mysteries of the Rosary (events in the lives of Jesus Christ and his mother the Virgin Mary).

A litte bit about the Mysteries of the Rosary: In the 16th century, Pope Pius V established 15 Mysteries, and these Mysteries are grouped into 3 sets with 5 Mysteries in each set (the Joyful Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries, the Glorious Mysteries). Then in 2002, Pope John Paul II added a new set of 5 Mysteries, called the Luminous Mysteries. Now we have a total number of 20 Mysteries divided into 4 equal sets. The mysteries are recommended to be prayed on specific days of the week.

The exact origin of the rosary is subject to debate among scholars. The use of knotted prayer ropes in Christianity goes back to the Desert Fathers in the 3rd and early 4th centuries. The practice of meditation while praying "Hail Mary" goes back to Dominic of Prussia, a 15th-century Carthusian monk, and he called the practice "Life of Jesus Rosary" (vita Christi Rosarium). Then in 1977, Andreas Heinz, a theologian from Trier, discovered a vita Christi rosary that's thought to date all the way back to 1300. Pious tradition legend has it, the idea of the Rosary was given to Dominic of Osma by an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1214 in the church of Prouille, and this apparition received the title of Our Lady of the Rosary.

#prayers #prayer beads #rosary #mala #catholicism #buddhism #religions #polytheism

[mrstsung]

Now i kinda wanted to draw more big shungus. Lol.

I dunno why but shang tsung all giant at the end of his ending in mk11 made me feel things when i played it. So remembering that i felt the need to share my love of giant shang.

Titan/god of souls/time keeper shang tsung x me his loyal servent and champion.

Shang tsung becoming basically a God of mortal kombat or souls makes sense,lore wise and narratively. I feel that's what they should have done. Honestly I'm sick of him not getting his flowers so to speak. But more so in a way that doesn't feel cheap nor take backs. Ya know? And if they were to do this dumb titans thing. They'd make them Huuuuuge normally,then for kombat and game mechanics,make them small and MORTAL! to fight in MORTAL kombat. It's irritating they forget that part of the point of the damn game and lore. That's integral. Yet they conveniently forget. Ugh.

Anyways. Big shungus. Like good lord buddha christ in elder gods that man was huge! (💖I may or may not have a thing for this btw but you heard nothing from me!💖)

He's such a cutie :3 <3 ^-^

Like good lord. Honestly i just love cary hiroyuki tagawa. Especially as shang tsung. But i just feel like it really should have ended with him. And on an open ended note. And the rest of the game being non canon and side games. Fr fr.

But back to shang x me.

If i was part of the ending to aftermath. It would go like this:

Being a loyal servant and champion of a sorcerer/god is not easy. But I'm cute,loyal,and honestly the only person that doesn't grate of shang tsung's nerves.

So he keeps me. He secretly loves my shenanigans but he doesn't always admit it aloud

However it wasn't until after all was said and done,shang was bored with his conquest of traveling time and space to collect souls for his soul well in the time lords/gods keep.

So he traveled to seek a champion,and loyalist to serve him and collect souls for him as well as fight for him in the bounds of mortal kombat. As now lord of mortal kombat he has a right to do so. Perhaps a companion for the eternal life he lives. It is quite lonely for a titan/god/time lord.

(Honestly shang tsung having a champion,a woman warrior none the less,would be actually a breath of fresh air. Or just another champion,ffs man also make him a mentor figure. And give him a wife. Better if all three. But ya know.)

So yeah me n big shang tsung. 💖 hope you enjoy.

(Used a base)

#my art #used a base #mortal kombat #shang tsung #self ship #self shipping #💚heart and soul🐍 #shang tsung mortal kombat #mk f/o #antagonist f/o #villain f/o #villain/antagonist f/o #big shungus #giant shang tsung gives me feelings 💖🥵😳👀🔥💕💋 #also shang calling me pet or my pet is just YeS 💕💋💕

[deconstructing-christian-girl]

"Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. The result is insight into the true nature of the object. When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It "inter-is" with everything else in the universe. ... When we see the nature of interbeing, barriers between ourselves and others are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding, compassion is born."

#Living Buddha Living Christ #Thich Nhat Hahn #Buddhism #Christianity #interfaith #interbeing

[santoschristos]

The Birth of Venus

Barbara Rosiak (etching, 1980)

We are being asked to be the Buddha’s child in Divine Mother’s Womb. To conceive the Buddha or Christ within us as a Divine Mother and give birth to freedom from suffering for all through our loving compassionate awareness, clarity, wisdom and kindness.

This requires a new way of being, a new awakening, to one humanity where there is love and compassion for all sentient beings, including all animals and the living essence and heart of this planet, Gaia, our Earth.

The real key is to elevate our vibrations so we CAN help others from that space of awareness, from the eternity of universal Spirit, with love and kindness. -- Altair

[talonabraxas]

Buddha Rising Iain Macarthur

"Buddha is the inner sun, exactly as Christian mystics describe the experience of God as a rising inner sun. He is the inner Christ. He is the rising sun, for example, in the Acts of the Apostles: "For in him we live and move and have our being" --Carl Jung, Psychology of Yoga and Meditation