3. Cucumberness Is

Third post today.
I have to laugh: What I'm struggling to say in my previous post is, of course, something people everywhere are always trying to express. Like, here, from Hinduism, there is an "Immortal Essence pervading everywhere".

What I haven't heard before is that our [karmic] bondage is "similar to cucumbers. . .

That is, "tied to their Creepers"

I was just cleaning out my emails and found this from Marz:

I'm listening today to a wonderful mantra to Shiva.
It involves cucumbers?

1: Om, We Worship the Tryambaka (the Three-Eyed One),

2: Who is Fragrant (as the Spiritual Essence), Increasing the Nourishment (of our Spiritual Core);

3: From these many Bondages (of Samsara) similar to Cucumbers (tied to their Creepers),

4: May I be Liberated from Death (Attachment to Perishable Things),
So that I am not separated from the perception of Immortality (Immortal Essence pervading everywhere).

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Or, as a T-shirt worn by Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) says,
ISNESS
IS

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Why am I on this roll with this today?

Maybe because Holy Week starts today, the lead-up to Easter.
All the strands come together for the Big Shebang of the Christian Year: love, betrayal, light and darkness, kindness, cruelty, death, rebirth....
I love that stuff.

And weirdly, it's the root story of the Russian novel The Master and Margarita, which I read last month.
A very curious book, written and set in Stalin's Moscow of the 1930's, the whole thing revolves around the story of Pontius Pilate's cowardice in and regret for allowing the execution of Jesus.

Pilate. Could have tried harder.