02-06-2014, 04:21 PM
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-hand...-hand_path
The right as passive is only according to your personal system, I have never seen that in any other system, personally, and I feel this is something you intend.
The modern use of the term Left Hand Path and Right Hand Path is connected very much to Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy in terms of modern western occultism as it was in her writings where it was first translated from tantric concepts and made widespread. These concepts have become so convoluted I give little weight to their use.
I use both hands as I was born with both hands.
Oh there is also a difference between "Right Hand/Left Hand" and "White Hand/Black Hand" which in Voodoo relates to there being a "Black Person" or "White Person" (not racial terms, obviously, likely pertaining to Right/Left Hands, but more directly related to control/evil and release/good) each which possesses both a White Hand and a Black Hand. Thus you could be a Black practitioner who uses the White Hand for your means, or a White practitioner who uses the Black Hand, which may appear to the outsider that the black is white and the white is black.
This quote from Julius Evola pretty much sums it up.
The right as passive is only according to your personal system, I have never seen that in any other system, personally, and I feel this is something you intend.
Quote:"In Buddhist tantra, the right hand symbolises the male aspect of compassion or skilful means, and the left hand represents the female aspect of wisdom or emptiness. Ritual hand-held attributes, such as the vajra and bell, vajra and lotus, damaru and bell, damaru and khatvanga, arrow and bow, curved knife and skull-cup, sword and shield, hook and rope snare, etc., placed in the right and left hands respectively, symbolise the union of the active male aspect of skilful means with the contemplative female aspect of wisdom.
Quote:In representations of the Buddha image, the right hand often makes an active mudra of skilful means - the earth-touching, protection, fearlessness, wish-granting or teaching mudra; whilst the left hand often remains in the passive mudra of meditative equipoise, resting in the lap and symbolising meditation on emptiness or wisdom.
Quote:Tantra is a set of esoteric Indian traditions with roots in Hinduism and later Buddhism (an outgrowth Dharmic tradition). Tantra is often divided by its practitioners into two different paths:dakshinachara and vamachara, translated as Right-Hand Path and Left-Hand Path respectively. Dakshinachara consists of traditional Hindu practices such as asceticism and meditation, while vamachara also includes ritual practices that conflict with mainstream Hinduism, such as sexual rituals, consumption of alcohol and other intoxicants, animal sacrifice, and flesh-eating. The two paths are viewed by Tantrists as equally valid approaches to enlightenment. Vamachara, however, is considered to be the faster[13][14] and more dangerous of the two paths, and is not suitable for all practitioners. The usage of the terms Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path is still current in modern Indian and Buddhist Tantra.
The modern use of the term Left Hand Path and Right Hand Path is connected very much to Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy in terms of modern western occultism as it was in her writings where it was first translated from tantric concepts and made widespread. These concepts have become so convoluted I give little weight to their use.
I use both hands as I was born with both hands.
Oh there is also a difference between "Right Hand/Left Hand" and "White Hand/Black Hand" which in Voodoo relates to there being a "Black Person" or "White Person" (not racial terms, obviously, likely pertaining to Right/Left Hands, but more directly related to control/evil and release/good) each which possesses both a White Hand and a Black Hand. Thus you could be a Black practitioner who uses the White Hand for your means, or a White practitioner who uses the Black Hand, which may appear to the outsider that the black is white and the white is black.
This quote from Julius Evola pretty much sums it up.
Quote:"There is a significant difference between the two Tantric paths, that of the right hand and that of the left hand (which both are under Shiva's aegis). In the former, the adept always experiences 'someone above him', even at the highest level of realization. In the latter, 'he becomes the ultimate Sovereign' (chakravartin = worldruler)."