Posts Tagged ‘natural devotion’



The Place of the Hidden Moon: Erotic Mysticism (Expanded)

The Place of the Hid­den Moon: Erotic Mys­ti­cism in the Vaishnava-sahajiya Cult of Ben­gal, by Edward C. Dimock, Jr.
SOME EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS
In her 1989 fore­word, Wendy Doniger says:
This is the most reli­able and indeed alto­gether the best book I know on all of the many Indo­log­i­cal sub­jects with which it deals, some of them major […]


Natural devotion through karate

Often­times I’ve been asked to describe what a nat­ural devo­tion is com­pared to prac­tice found in insti­tu­tion­alised forms of Chai­tanya Vaish­nav­ism and their branches. In other words, I needed a good story peo­ple can imag­ine, take roles and iden­tify with. I finally got one, and that was — through karate.


Watercolour class

How does an artist, or say a philoso­pher, apply for a job? What would be his-her resume?