Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on Beautiful People

    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on Beautiful People

    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…

  • Shiva’s 112 Ways to Attain Enlightenment

    Shiva’s 112 Ways to Attain Enlightenment

    Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (sometimes spelt Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a 5000 year old Sanskrit text of the Shaivism. The text is a chapter from the Rudrayamala Tantra, a Bhairava Agama. Cast as a discourse between the god Shiva and his consort Devi or Shakti. Devi, asks Shiva to reveal the essence of the way to realisation of the highest reality.…

  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – The Threads of Union

    The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – The Threads of Union

    on Contemplations on Spiritual Disciplines 3. on Divine Powers 4. on Realizations   Before beginning any spiritual text it is customary to clear the mind of all distracting thoughts, to calm the breath and to purify the heart. Part One on Contemplations 1.1 Now, instruction in Union. 1.2. Union is restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind.…

  • The Song of the Avadhut

    The Song of the Avadhut

      “The Avadhuta Gita is a call to knowledge, the supreme knowledge of ultimate Truth. The Avadhut holds out no compromise with illusion, he offers no foothold on separation, he allows no semblance of duality at all to creep into our perception of reality. Perhaps his knowledge is, for mere man, too sublime, too austere,…

  • Characteristics of those unsuitable to be Gurus

    Proud, ruled by anger, and lacking vows, greedy, without knowledge, working to deceive disciples, a mind that has fallen from great bliss, without initiation, totally attached to wealth, unaware, of harsh and coarse words, filled with carnal desire, the wise disciples should abandon taking such people as causes of complete enlightenment as they would abandon…

  • Brahmananda Swaroopa

    Brahmananda Swaroopa

      Brahmananda Swaroopa, Isha Jagadisha Akhilananda Swaroopa, Isha Mahesha   Brahma refers to the creator. The creator has been described as emptiness, as boundlessness, as light, and as darkness – the ultimate reality. Whatever is the basis of creation, that’s Brahma. And Brahma is Akhila, which means he’s all-pervading. Ananda refers to the blissfulness or…

  • Lord Sri Brahma – The Creator of the Universe

    Lord Sri Brahma – The Creator of the Universe

      Lord Sri Brahma is the first member of the Brahmanical, Sri Vishnu being the second and Sri Rudra or Siva the third. Sri Brahma is the God of Creation. He is traditionally accepted as the Creator of the entire universe and all living creations, all the energy’s of dual world’s. Everything that exists is through…

  • The Eight Limbs of Yoga

    The Eight Limbs of Yoga

    Non-Violence – to others and to myself Truthfulness – honesty, don’t lie Non-Stealing – refrain from taking anything that is not freely offered Energy Moderation – preventing the dissipation of one’s energy through the misuse of the senses. preventing the dissipation of one’s energy through the misuse of the senses. e.g overstimulating foods, loud music,…

  • The Highest Blessings – Mangala Sutta

    The Highest Blessings – Mangala Sutta

    Thus I have heard that the Blessed One Was staying at Savatthi, Residing at the Jeta’s Grove In Anathapika’s Park. Then in the dark of the night, a radiant deva Illuminated all Jeta’s Grove. She bowed down low before the Blessed One Then standing to one side she said: ‘Devas are concerned with happiness And…

  • The Many Wines ~ Rumi

    The Many Wines ~ Rumi

    God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds. God has put into the form of  hashish a power to deliver the taster from self-consciousness. God has made sleep so that it erases every thought. God made Majnun love Layla so much that just her dog would…

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