#Enlightenment

Meghan Roberts 🦦

It’s been over a year since I read the author’s response to a review of his work in which he dismissed the review author — a respected Enlightenment scholar —

AdvaitaVedanta4

The 3 layers of Impurity that conceal and obscure #Enlightenment are Malam Dirt Vikshepa Distraction & Ajnana Ignornace#Vedanta #Advaita Malam : six fold impuritykāmaḥ Desirekrōdhaḥ Angerlōbhaḥ Greedmōhaḥ Attachment madaḥ

Mark (🧘🧪🧙‍♂️💩❤️)

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Ppl find my use of "representation" problematic but am an enactivist: Simon: "Put an ant on [...] rug, and the movements of its legs become very complicated [...] complexity [...]

Ok, so I obviously fully agree that the “canon” of eighteenth-century Anglophone texts and their authors is a trash fire. But as someone who works on the C18– a field

Thread: So I’ve read in North Korea if Kim Jong Un dies, a possible successor is his sister, whose worked the politics of the regime. The Kim family has run

AQ

Have decided to consolidate some of my Twitter threads into one place: Why liberalism will be unseated as the dominant ideology within the West in the coming decades:https://twitter.com/AsfMQ/status/808741768841875456 Why the

[Thread]I have a correction for anyone that tells me I'm better than the born ahmadis because I am a convert & do things better than them. The reason is, is

imo, a taurus that is not fully developed is incredibly defensive, abrasive, super aggressive, quiet, guards up on a thousand, very selfish, stubborn ain’t even the word, and they can

I’ve noticed a few people asking for game recommendations during quarantine. Here are of a few of my favourite games to sink a lot of hours into (somewhat ranked): 1/

Stewart Alsop III - Host of Crazy Wisdom Podcast

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About 4 years ago, I found myself at the lowest point of my life. A chronic health issue had left me bedridden and I finally gave up, knowing that I

The #Enlightenment is dead.#Elitists have mobilized the #mob to reestablish the #oligarchy and return the world to tyranny and #authoritarianism.This isn’t #war on #systemicracism. It’s a war on the middle

Bruce Buchan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🐀

Among the most poisonous legacies of the era of European colonialism and slavery is the idea of race. Silvia Sebastiani and I have explored a little of the history of

1/ As Nietzsche and others emphasized, man is fundamentally a meaning seeking and narrative seeking animal.This fact is important in making sense of the contemporary crisis of culture, and how

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Awhile ago I was talking about tantric practices and someone made a really crude sexual joke about enlightenment that was... blasphemous... I can’t even repeat it... it made me so

I don't relate/resonate with everything in this, or some of the words used but there's a lot of really awesome teaching here, especially for loneliness in these times, so I

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fuelSelfMastery

Does being rich make you happier?///THREAD/// Let us look at Gautama Buddha’s life. Gautama was born into a wealthy family as a prince in present-day Nepal. Although he had an