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“Dreher often invokes the experience of fourth-century Romans, who could not see that the ageless pagan world they’d inherited was at an end, and that they were on the verge of a radically new and less stable era.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/rod-dreher-religious-conservativism-jd-vance/685732/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNP-WSIyBxw63MEqs7jfKkXg

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This short video from Adyashanti speaks volumes about the nature of our existence.

https://youtube.com/shorts/IsCwBCKRTHY?si=0lh-er0dmNEbjOEY

#Adyashanti #OpenGateSangha #SpiritualBNR #SpiritualAwakening #Enlightenment

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1y

No, ricchezza né onore
Con frode o con viltà
Il secol venditore
Mercar non mi vedrà.

Giuseppe #Parini, Ode "Su la libertà campestre" (Rime degli Arcadi, vol. 13, p. 146)

#politics #ethics #literature #earlymodern #enlightenment

@italianstudies @bookstodon @earlymodern

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1y

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The lotus flower, with its symbolic significance, represents purity, beauty, strength, and endurance in Buddhism.
Originating from muddy water, it ascends to the surface, unveiling its beauty.

As a Buddhist symbol, it epitomizes enlightenment and the spiritual awakening from the world's suffering.

#buddha #Buddhism #lotus #lotusflower #lotusflowers #flowers #enlightenment

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1y

Has anyone tried the #Enlightenment DE for #Linux in the recent years?

How was the experience?

@linux

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2y

"...and memory would cease if ignorance would cease." On the chain of dependent origination, by Red Pine. #shakyamumi #buddha #enlightenment

After reflecting on the truth of dependent origination, Shakyamuni realized that suffering would cease if old age and death would cease, and old age and death would cease if birth would cease, and birth would cease if existence would cease, and existence would cease if attachment would cease, and attachment would cease if thirst would cease, and thirst would cease if sensation would cease, and sensation would cease if contact would cease, and contact would cease if the abodes would cease, and the abodes would cease if name and form would cease, and name and form would cease if consciousness would cease, and consciousness would cease if memory would cease, and memory would cease if ignorance would cease. And realizing that in this chain of endless transient events there is no self, Shakyamuni broke its links forever and realized Enlightenment.

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2y

Frantz Fanon on the failed promise of the European Enlightenment, and the need to forge a new path forward. From The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

#history #politicaltheory #decolonize #decolonization #decolonisation #postcolonialism #enlightenment #fanon #frantzfanon #racialjustice #antiimperialism #imperialism #colonialism #anticolonialism #psychoanalysis #humanist #humanism

"All the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have, at different times, existed in European thought. But Europeans have not carried out in practice the mission which fell to them..."

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"That same Europe where they were never done talking of Man, and where they never stopped proclaiming that they were only anxious for the welfare of Man: today we know with what sufferings humanity has paid for every one of their triumphs of the mind."

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"Let us decide not to imitate Europe; let us combine our muscles and our brains in a new direction. Let us try to create the whole man, whom Europe has been incapable of bringing to triumphant birth."

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3y

Another wonderful false imprint @ubleiden: it's from the collection of Prosper Marchand and this time Pierre Marteau is hiding the identity of the formidable female printer Susanne de Caux, who published the first few editions of Lettres persanes (including this second edition) in Amsterdam. Marteau, De Caux, Marchand and Montesquieu all united in this one copy - the French Enlightenment in #thefakerepublic | #histodons #enlightenment #earlymodons #earlymodern #bookhistory