sangha: an interconnected interdependence_🌿

sangha is a unity of everything and seeing how every single micro-entity is interconnected with you and with each other. it is an awareness of what exist and how one is part of the united existence. in other words it togetherness, belonging-ness, a feeling of equanimity, one-ness, united existence, collective kinship and a synthesis of anicca and anata. when we, the buddhist say, "sanghang sharanam gacchami" in tri-saran panchasheel, we take refuge to this sangha. 

i was watching this sci-fi documentary of carl sagan and neil degrasse tyson called "cosmos: a spacetime odyssey" in which tyson while standing under the tree explains how he is connected to the tree. he says that the DNA of tree and himself has similarities in many ways and have gone through ages of evolution which makes both of them as relatives and parts of family.

i was looking at that relation from darwinian's perspective locating it in his theory of evolution. now the proposition about sangha and sanghalogy put forward by the venerable of the buddhist community have provided a space to explore the same argument from a buddhist perspective.

📑 sangha: an interconnected interdependence_ 
🖋 @dnyanesh_____

healing buddha_🌿

i was reading "buddha and his dhamma" last night. the last book by babasaheb, published posthumously in 1957, right after the next year of his mahaprinirvana. although the book is self-explanatory and a discourse in itself to understand buddhism from the indian context.

there is a three-page introduction to the book. where babasaheb raised a few methodological questions on the historiography and iconography of buddha. he implied that historians of the buddhist study so far have not addressed the scientific and epistemological gaps while showcasing buddha's life events.

as we progress through the book chapter by chapter, it becomes a very reflective journey. not only does it unravel the societal phenomena that we encounter daily, but it extensively also brings a metaphysical view to the philosophy of buddhism vis-a-vis its meta-distortion by brahminism.

the book convinces us at the end that to understand buddhism in india, there are limitations to the textual and physical evidence. nonetheless, babasaheb supports the "scientific reconstruction" of history as one part of the inquiry. to fill the remaining gap, he also suggests that one could always go for another i.e. "experiential line of inquiry" through the practice of buddhism and mahasatipatthana.

while practicing the same, a reflection, which wasn't mentioned anywhere that i could assemble during mahasatipatana, was that buddha's transition while transcending into the realm of enlightenment is so very inspiring, any person could get a glimpse of it through its experience.

for buddha, 'dukkha' was an ultimate truth arising from 'desires'. thus, the simple remedy [for few but complex for many] to reduce the 'dukkha' is the reduction of desires, gradually, one by one.

desires could be that in the form of attachment as well. for example, for me, expecting the warmth of a friend all the time, especially during the occurrence of 'dukkha' was an attachment. till, the time i reduced the expectation, and desire for the attachment, the 'dukkha' of that particular attachment weathered away simultaneously.

"atah, deep, bhavah"_

📑 healing buddha_
🖋 @dnyanesh_____

"atah, deep, bhavah"

12:30PM:17/08/21

on wamandada_🌿

a singer and lyricist who had brilliance in writing and articulating the complex questions mere in two or three simple lines, which any lay-person could understand and relate to. he was also a social transformer whose life had in long-span revolutionized the marathi musical traditions, specifically the folk-music.

his songs, ghazals, and bhim-geete represented the glimpses of life, suffering, pain, and happiness of the working and oppressed classes, along with the gratitude towards the revolutionary leaders like babasaheb, ramai, jyotiba, sau etc.

while talking about pain and suffering, his lyricistical visualization of the masses never undermined them to inferior to others. because the basis for his writing was “manuski” aka humanity.

because of his tremendous contribution to the social sphere aligned with bhim geete, people called him “yug kavi”, i.e. the poet of this age.

📑 on wamandada_
🖋 @dnyanesh_____

yug kavi, wamandada kardak

cosmic laborers_🌿

gazing at stars, the moon, and even the little tinkling objects in the sky at nights have been the best play that i could fantasize since childhood. always wondering to imagine where do all they live? what do all they do? do they talk to each other? do they all have any language? and so many questions likewise.

more than that, i had my own theories to justify their relations with me. that, they all go to work as laborers in the daytime. just like i go with mumma-bappu, and they might be coming back to their sky-home in the night to rest, that too like me.

such a fun it was! now i think of it with so much existing knowledge like cosmology, big-bang, and so on. but i don't know why they always keep me away from the theories that I intended to articulate in childhood. ~

📑 cosmic laborers_
🖋 @dnyanesh_____

a star and the gossips and the theories

babasaheb's photos_🌿

the ideas, theories, programs, activism etc. that babasaheb has written and worked upon throughout his life are very inspiring. apart from those, one can also see that he had a unique style of living. not just unique, but it was more of a socio-politically transformational.

when i was a kid; in my initial impression of him, i did not know what particular books he has written or what specific activism he did for me or the community where we used to celebrate bhim jayanti. We knew a few words like "educate", "samvidhan", "buddham sharanam gachhami" etc. in a very scattered manner, but I did not know what do they all mean then.

nevertheless, the most compelling thing that used to hit so effectively to my childhood's mind was his photo on our wall. with a black and white suit on, a tie with a black coated transparent glasses; seating beside ramai and budhha and always gazing at me as if checking whether i am studying or not. that attraction of suit and tie motivated me more than anything.

till today, this has been a continuous process since then with various of his photos.

📑 babasaheb's photos 🌱
🖋 @dnyanesh_____

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar