Self-Immolation

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Below is a historically informed reading list to begin your journey. The order matters. This list is based on what we know some historical Platonists used as a curriculum. The first two are short and straightforward and will transform your life if you engage seriously with them. I recommend reading them frequently and meditating on them daily. This curriculum will take you through a plan of moral purification and gradually introduce you to deeper philosophical matters. While not part of the "standard" historical Platonic curriculum, as far as I know, I do also recommend reading Book VII of Plato's Republic, which contains the famous cave allegory. Additionally, Sallust's On the Gods and the World is a good introduction to the Platonic path. 1. The Pythagorean Golden Verses 2. The Handbook of Epictetus 3. Select dialogues of Plato: 1. Alcibiades I 2. Gorgias 3. Phaedo 4. Cratylus 5. Theaetetus 6. Sophist 7. Statesman 8. Phaedrus 9. Symposium 10. Philebus 11. Timaeus 12. Parmenides Moving on from here, there are ancient commentaries available on many of these texts, as well as numerous other Stoic and Platonic texts, such as those by Epictetus, Seneca, Plotinus and Proclus.

"Não diga a si mesmo nada além do que a impressão inicial lhe informa. Alguém lhe insultou, por exemplo. Diga isso, mas não que isso lhe causou algum mal. O fato de que meu filho está doente — isso eu posso ver. Mas 'que ele pode morrer', não. Foque nas primeiras impressões. Não extrapole e nada poderá lhe causar mal." — Marco Aurélio

The Vedanta recognises no sin, it only recognises error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. Every time you think in that way, you, as it were, rivet one more link in the chain that binds you down, you add one more layer of hypnotism on to your own soul. Therefore, whosoever thinks he is weak is wrong, whosoever thinks he is impure is wrong, and is throwing a bad thought into the world. This we must always bear in mind that in the Vedanta there is no attempt at reconciling the present life — the hypnotised life, this false life which we have assumed — with the ideal; but this false life must go, and the real life which is always existing must manifest itself, must shine out. No man becomes purer and purer, it is a matter of greater manifestation. The veil drops away, and the native purity of the soul begins to manifest itself. Everything is ours already — infinite purity, freedom, love, and power. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Swami Vivekananda

The Shivasutras first awakening. Sutra 1 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9281 Sutra 2 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9312 Sutra 3 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9362 Sutra 4 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9376 Sutra 5 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9438 Sutra 6 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9605 Sutra 7 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9759 Sutra 8 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9917 Sutra 9 https://t.me/easterntantriks/9919 Sutra 10 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10136 Summarizing the 8, 9, 10 Sutras. https://t.me/easterntantriks/10139 Expanded explanation of Shivasutra 8, 9, 10 from Swami Lakshmanjoo's. The Five States of the Individual Subjective Body. https://t.me/easterntantriks/10198 Four States of "जाग्रत" Jāgrat/Wakefulness. https://t.me/easterntantriks/10230 Four States of "स्वप्न" Swapna/Dreaming. https://t.me/easterntantriks/10301 Four States of "सुषुप्ती" Sușupti/ Deep Sleep. https://t.me/easterntantriks/10333 Three States of "तुर्य" Turya/ The Fourth. https://t.me/easterntantriks/10335 Sutra 11 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10397 Sutra 12 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10481 Sutra 13 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10559 Sutra 14 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10574 Sutra 15 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10657 Sutra 16 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10673 Sutra 17 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10702 Sutra 18 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10702 Sutra 19 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10817 Sutra 20 https://t.me/easterntantriks/10977 Sutra 21 https://t.me/easterntantriks/11010 Sutra 22 https://t.me/easterntantriks/11176 Conclusion https://t.me/easterntantriks/11185 End of the first awakening of the individual Jiva (soul) to Universality.

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For all people that make the common question: "How can I practice Greco-Buddhism?" Greco-Buddhism was not a religion, but a period of unique cultural syncretism. Greco-Buddhism didn't just disappeared into oblivion, but evolved as Buddhism was transmitted and disseminated into different regions and times. There's no need to "revive" Greco-Buddhism or any other Buddhist tradition tied to any specific period and peoples (Such as Tocharian Buddhism, Indo-Scythian Buddhism, etc). The "correct way" to practice Greco-Buddhism (or any other mentioned branch of historical Buddhism) is to follow Mahāyāna or Vajrayāna while incorporating veneration of Greco-Hellenic (Or related) deities as Dharmapālas.

NOT UTTERING FALSEHOOD 🌿Not keeping your word by refusing to give someone something that you have previously promised to hand over is a much greater mistake than whole-heartedly instructing an unfit person that Atma-Swarupa is the supreme reality. ~Ramana Maharshi •Guru Vachaka Kovai, v. 820 ______________________ Referring to Sri Krishna’s description of his gospel as the supreme secret which should be disclosed only to his true devotees and never to others, Sri Bhagavan explained the doctrine of adhikara [fitness]. If the highest truth is taught to the unworthy, it is bound to be perverted and abused. In fact the asuras like Hiranyakasipu were also Brahmavadins [expounders of Brahman]. They too declared ‘I am God’. Only by the ‘I’ they meant their ego. So they recognized no higher authority than their ego, and felt free to commit any sin. Indiscriminate preaching of the highest truth irrespective of the disciple’s fitness will therefore spell disaster and is forbidden by the Lord. Here in this verse, Sri Ramana is saying that not fulfilling the promise, which indirectly implies that uttering falsehood, is an even bigger mistake than the mistake of giving the Highest Knowledge or Truth to an unfit and an immature aspirant. [Sri Ramana Reminiscences, p. 80.] 🌷@ramanamaharishi🌷 🌼@SpiritualGroup🌼