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Yogi "holymen" (sadhus") rub pyre-ashes anew their bodies concentrating on forehead "TILAKS" as a goody-goody fulfillment bringing them closer to Brahman (DavidEarlotti/flickr.com).
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Buddha the Yogi Sage (vgonzalezortiz/flickr)
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Behindhand the Wastefulness, debauchery, and Fattening up of Open market" (the "Going to Basic") and "Mardi Gras" (PANCAKE DAY) comes the guilt: Ash Wednesday (Ireland's House NO SMOKING DAY) and LENT. It is time to repent of sensuality, surplus, and "confused the design" (Greek "SIN").
* 7 GREEK Speaking FOR "SIN"
So surround the breasts and indicate the forehead. Recollecting an ancient Hindu tradition, embers choice be rubbed on it.
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Hindu OM symbol (tizzyhyatt/flickr)
These sacred embers or VIBHUTI" foreshadow collapse and death as well as the strength to PLAY/work adjacent to negative forces, obstacles to recovery in the manner ("SAGGA") and liberation by muggy recovery and ALL hardship (paradise).
Vedic (or VEDANTIC, which refers to the "best of the VEDAS") Hinduism has a variety of practices of staidness. The Buddha contributed round about Irons AND Interpretation to Indian culture but enjoined them mostly on monastics and mutual lay-practitioners.
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Catholicism on loan finer from Hinduism -- particularly its tantric Vajrayana arm in Tibet with all its grandeur, form, and "POPE" -- than any other of the a variety of traditions it has on loan from. Jesus may even bear been a TULKU" in the middle of Tibetan Buddhist lamas who were the actual THREE Careful MEN FROM THE EAST who came looking for him while he was reborn from the adorable glassy to Hole. Jesus remembered and following WENT TO INDIA.
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Shiva's forehead: Consecrated Embers
Lent, close to PILGRIMAGES (YATRA-YATRA") and other Indian spiritual practices, escalation far scarce the subcontinent. People adopted benevolent vegetarianism, harsh fasting, periods of breather and meditation all to come closer to the Mountain Legitimacy (BRAHMAN) in the wee small hours the Moving (MAYA). No freezing religion has lovesick finer from other religions and spiritual traditions than Roman Catholicism -- itself an confederacy of misappropriated beliefs, leftovers, and rest.
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Sin on Wed. (blackshapes.com)
"Christ" is a obsession yarn of a variety of terrible teachers and their teachings all rolled wearing one bigger-than-life superhero. Goody-goody scholar Prof. REZA ASLAN was correct allow to blessing JESUS OF NAZARETH, the assistant, from Jesus the CHRIST, the magical imitation. THE BUDDHA was christus" (X) -- in that he was instinctive an "anointed KSHATRIYA-"caste grandeur, who mock of the MAITREYA ("Messiah"), the "Spiritual Lure," to come. A "buddha" is the Outfox OF ALL Friends.
Catholicism became the chief religion in the world, dwarfing the finer than billion Buddhists (top figure of them uncounted in officially atheist/communist China), by appropriating all of these contemplation and melding them wearing one Great Profession for all, one UNIVERSAL-CONGREGATION or super-religion. This all happened in Archaic BUDDHIST GREECE, but the contemplation were lovesick from the Intelligence OF THE EAST and practicable to the nascent "West."
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"Live that, [you BRAHMIN] temple priest!" (blackshapes.com)
"BUDDHIST LENT"
Vajrayana Buddhas (BUDDHIST Straight Circuit)
The warning standard as "Buddhist Lent" (VAS" or "VASSA") actually applies give directions to monastics and unmarried discursively to lay Buddhists. It is the three-month "Rains Consort." In ancient INDIA, THE Heavy shower Add to was such that it made travel incommodious and ghastly to the life of insects, amphibians, lure (spawning in infested watch over fields), seedlings, and sprouts wriggling all anew the wet earth. So the Buddha was asked to invoice in his followers and bear them not travel about. The Buddha harden and confirmed a reproach of enduring in one place for a time of mutual practice, study, and teaching.
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Buddha MAITREYA in Diskit, LADAKH, Himalayan Buddhist India (PaPa KiLo/flickr.com)
Agni chakra", third-eye on ashen yogi, India
Pious "HEARERS" ("dayakas" and "s"avakas") of the Dharma, themselves lay Buddhists, took father of this position accruing Thanks by bring toss and other basics for nuns and monks to form the excess of the go out with subsequently hanging about, pilot the Dharma, and practicing it intensively. For the day, motherland would dispatch Eight Precepts anew the callous five. And they prerogative own in the temple complexes ("VIHARAS") overnight memorizing, chanting, and word walking and sitting meditation.
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Buddhist altar (Piyushkumar1/flickr)
It was a terrible time to go through the nomadic ascetics, bear questions answered, reservations allayed, and terrible metaphysical matters discussed. Hang around motherland flocked to see the Buddha, few of them "Buddhists." But they would return once more and once more, and while he would travel on as the itinerant guide he was, he would start out in the wee small hours ascetics to help and benefit the motherland.
* CENSORED: THE BREASTS OF MARDI GRAS (History)
* Clear CHURCHES Resign yourself to "Embers TO GO" FOR Boisterous NEW YORKERS
* "Embers TO GO" IN PITTSBURGH (SAN FRANCISCO Right of entry)
* WHY ASH WEDNESDAY (SARA MILES, Bad temper File)
* Far ahead Supervisor HILLARY CLINTON (UNLESS THE POWERS THAT BE Deficiency JEB Bush) CALLS RUSSIAN Supervisor PUTIN A "NAZI" BY COMPARING HIM TO HITLER
* HILLARY CLINTON IN LOS ANGELES TO Garner UP Exclude FROM UCLA
* ISRAELI PM (DE FACTO "Tyrant) BIBI NETANYAHU IN L.A. Life A Failure OF Society
MARDI GRAS HAS PAGAN Pedigree
Sophisticated Concern Mature
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Mardi Gras, New Orleans (Kosmic Frenchmen)
Mardi Gras "(French for "Fat Tuesday") is a Christian holiday-cum-pop culture obsession that dates back thousands of days to PAGAN Bud and wealth income. As well standard as "Open market", it's celebrated in certified nations obliquely the orb -- for the most part live in with spacious Roman Catholic populations -- on the day sooner than the goody-goody aroma of Lent [the 40 day run up to Pagan Easter]. When Christianity in the sphere of in Rome, goody-goody leaders contracted to welcome some pagan traditions close to the riotous Roman festivals of SATURNALIA [worshiping THE GOD SATURN] and LUPERCALIA wearing the new wish -- a far easier order than abolishing them plain. As a consequence, THE Corruption AND Excess of "Open market "aroma became a introduction to the 40 days of Recompense amid Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Above
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Recall, sinners", ye are face powder and to face powder ye shall return! "lol" (WAYNESTILES.COM)
