Buddhism & Wicca.

I was going into this direction since quite some time, so now I need to share this so Buddhism & friends know what's going on.

For me, Buddhism is equally important as Wicca - religion of Witchcraft, and now the time has come for me to go to Wiccans to help them & learn. I go to them with compassion, with open mind and with open heart.

I'll try to be officially initiated into Wiccan religion as well.

I'll be putting effort into this mission, and for a longer while will be helping Buddhism much less. Perhaps my Buddhist friends will want to support me in my efforts to to help Wiccans, will support me when i'll try to find new friends for us all. I think it's called: 'working with connections' / pl: 'praca ze związkami' / in Buddhism.

Truth is what brings together instead of separating, but honesty is also important.

I intend to return and share lessons, and tell Buddhism about our new friends.

I had thoughts appearing in mind that Buddha Karmapa's 17th wife - Sangyumla - wants me to help her later with the magick of Witchcraft/Wicca that i'll learn, to be her 'court magician'
/ pl: 'nadworny mag' /, a more or less important one. ;)

I know that 'court magician' title sounds fancy / pl: 'ekstrawagancko' /, but when someone is dedicated then anything is possible. If not in this life, then perhaps in future lives, after rebirth(s)/reincarnation(s).




/ Wiccan Rede is the heart of the Wiccan Law.

The 'Law of Three' is like the Karmic Law, it states that what we do, what energy we send, will return to us three-fold. /

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P.S. I have the book: 'Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats' by H.H. Dalai Lama, Dzong-ka-ba & Jeffrey Hopkins. Not sure if it's my way, however. Contents of this book seem very complicated and advanced too.

P.S.S. Wicca is NOT satanism. As I understand it, satanism is inverted christianity - the same thing, but approached from other perspective. Wicca is something else, it includes belief in godess, it is completely different 'collection of ideas' than christianity, inverted or not.

Independent Thinking & Trust in One's Mind.

I am pretty sure that to be a good buddhist - at least in the diamond way school/lineage - one needs to be able to think independently, and one needs to trust in one's Mind.


But what is independent thinking?

After all, we are influenced by society, by media, by the internet, by religions, by collective psychology of a place we live in, etc.

Some people think they think independently, but are just repeating the words of others.

Do not get me wrong, I do not encourage not trusting wisdom of the wiser, sometimes trusting the wisdom of the wiser is very neccessery, I think.

I think I have inner teacher, that was introduced into my mind by the acts of meditation, and by the Refuge Ceremony that I've participated in.

I think that independent thinking can include lessons taken from others, even if not fully understood. The point is in deciding whether: 'Ok. This is for me', or 'This won't work very well in my case'. Making a choice of accepting the lesson or not, and then taking the responsibility - either: 'It's my own decision to think that way, to do things that way', or: 'It's my own decision to reeject this teaching, to not do it for now'. Independent thinkers also accept the consequences of their own decisions, instead of blaming teachers when something goes wrong. It's independent thinking to not blame teachers for the things we have heard from them, and opted to do by ourselves.


What is Trust in One's Mind?

I think it's impossible to know everything, to fully control our lives.

But then, we can take refuge in our friends and in our trusted teachers and in their lessons.

Then when we lose our / illusory / control over our lives, we have friends who can catch us when we fall. Everything turns to be allright, in the end.

'Falling' can be losing our / illusory / control over our lives, or losing a touch with reality. And reality is not as it seems or as explained by media, I think. I think and believe that miracles and supernatural powers are fact, for example. I've witnessed some in my life - for example during the Buddhist Refuge Ceremony i participated in.

When we fall, and friends whom we trust 'catch us up', it's like flying on the Icarus wings, then falling down. But then it's falling into a sea, and that sea is calm and warm. In the end one survives and is feeling well. :)

I've heard from a buddhist friend, she said that: 'Mind is like sea'. I think that it's true, regardless of whether one considers Mind to be personal, collective, or both.