#Enlightenment is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 52 people shared 499 posts with it — around 17 a day. Activity is down 22% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 28 with 33 posts.

Posts with #Enlightenment

Angel Eyes

@angeleyesnyc.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

#EpistemicCrisis Pro tip: I don't listen to con men like @realDonaldTrump. I don't give them "a chance" because...con men. I'm less worried about being "fair" per se than about being tricked. #Enlightenment ideals matter, but some of them must be updated for the 21st century.

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Julia Anna Gospodarou

@juanngospodarou.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Leading image of my series #Enlightenment one of my favorite series where I explore the search for meaning and our place in life. The #EiffelTower is a structure that always fascinated me since I was a kid. www.juliaannagospodarou.c…. #architecturephotography #bwphotography #paris

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G M Thomas FRSA FRAS

@japanauthor.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

The great divide...Where earth meets sky. #Februarty ##divide #scape #dawn #photography #enlightenment

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

5 months ago

The body is a bodhi tree, the mind a bright mirror stand. Always diligently clean it, and let no dust alight. Shen Hsiu, 7th century #Photography #India #Buddhism #Chan #Enlightenment #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Next to a notice promoting a Sri Ramanasramam Commemorative Centenary Coin, minted in 99.9% pure silver, weighing 40 grams and having a diameter of 44 mm, a woman wearing a traditional Indian printed sari featuring animal motifs wipes down a black board with a green cloth dampened from the white plastic bucket at her feet.

The Fifth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, Hongren, wishing to pass on his robe and bowl to a successor, asked his disciples to write a poem to show their understanding,

Shen Hsiu, a learned senior monk experienced in meditation, wrote the above verse advocating a gradual process of achieving and maintaining the purity and clarity of the mirror-like mind. The emphasis was on a form of practice which involved cleaning the mind (mirror) from ignorance (dust) to attain purity.

Hui Neng, an illiterate woodcutter, challenged this by arguing that in ultimate reality the mind was already pure and enlightened. The mirror was not a physical item to be polished, but inherently empty. He advocated the sudden awakening to emptiness beyond form all-at-once, instantaneously, in the here-and-now:

Originally Bodhi has no tree,
The mirror has no stand.
Fundamentally, nothing exists,
so where can dust alight?

Hui Neng's poem demonstrated a direct, intuitive grasp of non-duality and secured his position as the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism.

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Tibor M. Kalman

@kalmantibs.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

I dunno, I'm not buying these recent *proof-of-life* posts from the President on Truth Social. 🤔😳🤨 #Enlightenment #Metaphysics #Epistemology

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verse-n-frames

@verse-n-frames.bsky.social

7 months ago

A sunbeam finds books on a shelf— I hope that at least some of the books find the light … #poetry #poem #imageandverse #EastCoastKin #photography #literature #books #Reading #light #Enlightenment #Stunday

The February evening sun slants through a south-facing window onto a bookshelf. This angled light creates a narrow beam that illuminates only a portion of the books on the shelf. The majority of the shelf is cast in a nearly black shadow.

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rachel

@baberosss.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

enlighten ✨ wip oil on canvas #oilpainting #traditionalart #enlightenment #surrealism

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Michael ✌🏻 with self

@peacewithself.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

In the quiet strength of a kind heart, the #world finds its gentlest power—unyielding, not through force, but through the unwavering grace of love that never gives up. 🤔 #FridayVibes #FridayMotivation #inspire #Lifestyle #Enlightenment #LifeLessons #JourneyWithin #Nature #PHOTOS #thoughts #peaceful

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Amy Borgman

@amyborgman.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

meadowsweet viewed as forgettable… Is that not enlightenment? #spirea #enlightenment #haiku #meadowsweet #JuliArty #garden #bloomscrolling #sweet 📷 mine

Purple Spirea (meadowsweet) shrub flower with lime green leaves. Growing in my perennial garden.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺

@codfather.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

"Men will never be free until the last King has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest" Credit - Diderot. Now there is a concept to get behind, the two power structures that have impoverished and enslaved the poor for millennia. #Philosophy #Enlightenment

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☆ Sean Sky ☆

@sean-druid-magic.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

♡ sending positive energy to those in need ♡ #positive #healing #energy #mindset #within #enlightenment #peace #cats #bluesky #catsofbluesky

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Linda Andersson Burnett

@lindaaburnett.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

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