vrijdag 19 juli 2019

liṅga

at Rumi Mausoleum, Konya !


'linga's...

this has been done in the past plenty
but when my-way-or-no-way attitude came
these things were all razed to the ground in many ways

otherwise all of Europe was full of temples like this
consecrated spaces like this


Carnac, Stonehenge, Gobleki Tepe...

these Eastern temples were never built as places of prayer
even today in India, nobody ever leaves a prayer in a temple

you're not supposed to pray or worship
but you're just supposed to sit there
and come

the idea was that you would
go and sit there
and benefit

this is how a temple was created
no priest, no prayer

there is a maintenance person
who is nów calling himself a priest...

certain families were appointed
to maintain the sanctity of the place
to keep it going in a certain way


you are just supposed to go there
sit there for some time and come

in South India
this tradition is still alive

you just sit there
and imbibe this'


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