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Three Gates of Buddha
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The official "Shanti" light novel is so gay that I had to take it upon myself to illustrate some excerpts from it.
Sooo here ya go!
(Fyi there's even more gay stuff that I simply could not illustrate because the book did it itself.)
(These scenes below are my favorite.)
Sha Wujing's Nickname
I was asked a very specific question on Discord: "In the book, do they refer to Wujing more as Sēng or Heshang?" These are both variants for "monk."
Here are the results:
Sha seng (沙僧; "Monk Sha") - 814 times
Wiktionary explains that seng (僧) is a "clipping" of sengqie (僧伽), a transliteration of Sangha, or the "community of monks, nuns, novices and laity."
Sha heshang (沙和尚; "Teacher/Priest Sha") - 94 times
As for heshang (和尚), it is "[b]orrowed from Prakrit 𑀉𑀯𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (uvajjhāa), 𑀉𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (uajjhāa), 𑀉𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (ujjhāa), 𑀑𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (ŏjjhāa, 'teacher; religious teacher'), all from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya, 'teacher; preceptor; spiritual adviser'."
I didn't know the etymology of these terms until now. Very interesting.
Sha Wujing from the 1986 TV series.
the four thoughts that turn the mind to dharma
thank you everyone who has sent me messages, who has commented on my blog, who has made me feel so heard and valued that i feel the need to organize this little community journal of mine. thank you for everyone who has come to me for advice, with curiosity and new ideas, wanting to know more about my syncretism between hellenic polytheism and buddhism. i've gone through all of my posts and organized the tags, both for the ease of others and my own use (i've also removed the phrasing 'hellenic' unless followed by 'pagan' or 'polytheist')
ideally all my posts on grecobuddhism and more are now easy to find. i used basic tags so i'm sure it's imperfect, but it's better than not trying at all. i've updated my introduction post to add a tag index, explaining all of the tags (leaving out a few self-explanatory ones) so that this blog is easier to navigate. i'm just honored that there are enough of you showing enough interest that this is even necessary. thank you to my personal temple, thank you to my ragtag sangha, thank you thank you thank you!
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Anarchotaoism
Miniature painting of 24 Jain Tirthankaras from Jaipur (c. 1850).
On the Dawning of Compassion
Compassion arises like an itch, spontaneously and without effort. It requires no special tending or intention beyond the practice of being with what is.
In the cultivation of awareness, one naturally takes note of (and accord with) the implications of one’s glimpsing of one’s true self. Namely, that its limits are boundless, and that every variety of experience is natal to one’s being.
From this experiential vantage, a universal sense and flow of compassion emerges as the very act of according with reality.
This compassion isn’t tropic, and it often doesn’t fit the performative mold of attempts at the cultivation of compassion for compassion’s sake.
Rather this compassion is more dispositional in nature- transmuting anger with sadness, and through the great gate of sadness reaching through to touch the heart of all beings, beneath the play of greed, anger, and ignorance, to what those things give rise to shield- namely, the self unknown.
~JRP
