Tao Te Ching
Jālandhara ཛཱ་ལནྡྷ་ར་པ།
("The Ḍākinī's Chosen One")
888 CE –
Mahasiddha #46
Jalandhara ཛཱ་ལནྡྷ་ར་པ། “The Ḍākinī's Chosen One” (late 9th century)
Another wealthy and privileged brahmin who saw through the materialistic values of his culture and renounced it to search for a more meaningful life, Jalandhara left everything to live in a cremation ground meditating. Going on to become an important mother-tantra siddha, one of the nine naths, and guru to 10 of the 84 Mahasiddhas; he founded one of the two main nath lineages (A Hindu tradition favored by Kabir that blended Shaivism, Buddhism and Yoga traditions using Hatha Yoga to transform the physical into awakened perception of “absolute reality”), taught practices that unify the male and female forces, dissolve the subject/object dichotomy, and open the non-dual doors of perception. Mahasiddha #46
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Quotes by Jālandhara (3 quotes)
“Everything we do is a passing show… an insubstantial, hollow illusion.”
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“Gather every thought and concept into the clarifying universe of body, speech, and mind that empties into the all-embracing mind.”
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“Know that emptiness is the most sublime pleasure.”
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