by Gnostic Muse | Feb 14, 2018 | Buddhism and Taoism
The Four Noble Truths are foundational teachings of the great master Shakyamuni Buddha. “I teach suffering, its origin, cessation and path. That’s all I teach.” The Buddha is often compared to a physician. In the first two Noble Truths he diagnosed...
by Gnostic Muse | Jul 19, 2017 | Buddhism and Taoism, Gnostic Schools
“They go to many a refuge, to mountains, forests, parks, trees, and shrines: people threatened with danger. That’s not the secure refuge, that’s not the highest refuge, that’s not the refuge, having gone to which, you gain release from all...
by Gnostic Muse | Mar 7, 2017 | Buddhism and Taoism
“Tao is empty- Its use is never exhausted Bottomless- the origin of all things… Deeply subsistent- I don’t know whose child it is. It is older than the Ancestor.” -Tao Te Ching, 4 “Tao called Tao is not Tao. Names can name no lasting name....
by Gnostic Muse | Aug 28, 2016 | Buddhism and Taoism, Mantras and Prayers, Practices
“In the Universe there is nothing stronger than the power of Compassion. Cling on to it. In the event you faint due to your load of evil or perverse Karma, let the words of Kuan Yin’s mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM, reseal the pact of not falling back into cruelty or...
by Gnostic Muse | May 31, 2016 | Buddhism and Taoism, Christic Path
Buddhism is silence. Christianity is the Word. Gnosis is knowledge, insight, direct knowing. This is a universal teaching that is the essence of all religions, philosophies, the inspiration of art, music, and within science, scientifically wanting to understand...
by Gnostic Muse | Feb 11, 2016 | Buddhism and Taoism
The Venerable Tradition of Zen Zen is the spiritual progeny of both Buddhism and Taoism. Zen contains the radical teachings of the relationship of form and void, and the importance of practical direct experience through mental discipline. “To keep a guard again...
