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The creature was sort of Buddhist Cerberus. It stalked and devoured the ones that tried to break the cycle of reincarnation,Related content
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I just read your friend Joe's story based on this drawing. Both the concept and the tale are super interesting! Keep up the good work.Β
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Aw cool...
You get these creatures from your dreams?
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What poison do you take to induce said dreams ?
Winsor McCay drew a strip "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" which had a different dreamer each episode, suffering the most confounded trash and weirdness in dreams because he or she ate a rarebit before retiring to bed.
A few names, story ideas, etc., came to me in dreams, but I have to recall them to use such.
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If it says "dream" than sure.
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That's a lotta meaningful dreams then
I shudder to think what the nightmares look like
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I barely have nightmares tbh. Its literally like once or twice a year. I guess I am at peace with myself, ommmm. Lol
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Ah... well that's a good source of inspiration either way
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If anyone is trying to *break the cycle of reincarnation*, they definitely deserve it. I vote for critter.
P.S. The idea of reincarnation is not Buddhist. I mean, it is, but originally it's much older than that and Buddhism just adopted it.
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You are right of course.
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Ah, that makes sense then.
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It is technically true that Buddhism adopted reincarnation, though I'd go a step further and say that Buddhism began as a reaction against Hinduism, and naturally inherited some of its teachings and changed them significantly. Buddhist reincarnation and Hindu reincarnation have differences both subtle and stark, so Mike's creature could be a "Buddhist Cerberus," or it could be both Hindu and Buddhist. Or it may transcend human conceptions of spirituality, playing a role in a much greater cosmic system which Hinduism and Buddhism perceive differently!... Just spitballing some thoughts!
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It seems like a kind of police or policy enforcer of samsara, the seemingly endless wheel of life and death.
This should be a problem for lichs (if mythologies, religious metaphors, and popular fantasy is allowed to mix)
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I wouldn't say it belongs to either. I'd say it's much older than both. Not to mention it's a law of Nature, so it doesn't really matter which humanΒ belief came up with the concept first.
As for what "their" reincarnation is like.... I don't know, but I'm honestly not too interested. I feel free to assume both would feel off to me and trigger rather negative associations because it is precisely due to their views on reincarnation that I resisted the concept for a long time in my own spiritual development, because I was literally repulsed by those beliefs. Which seems quite paradoxical right now....
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At no point did I say reincarnation belonged to either one. Other cultures believe in various forms of reincarnation as well, ranging from Alaskan Eskimos to African tribes. The only point I wanted to raise is that Hindu and Buddhist reincarnation are similar and different, and Mike's creature could belong to either system or fit into a much greater cosmic system which Buddhism and Hinduism perceive differently.
As far as personal beliefs go, I have no desire to discuss or argue such things on this page.
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It seemed kinda implied.
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I don't think it was, but based on your profile you are a very analytic and intuitive person who can perceive things few people even consider, so maybe it was implied indeed and I was merely being thoughtless. I don't know. All I know is I did nothing to imply such a thing consciously. I don't adhere to any one belief, and I sure as hell know damn well that reincarnation isn't exclusive to any group.
I'm just a loser who enjoys speculating the nature of Mike's creatures.
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And yet I sometimes overreact, too. I dislike it strongly when people ascribe certain spiritual concept or entity to a single religion, especially when they do so by assuming very wrong things. This makes me overly defensive on these things. Far too often they take for a given things that I know to not be true.... so if I react, it's because I kinda take it for the default situation, sometimes. And of course, I can be wrong this way.
Btw, I didn't want to start a belief argument either. My only intention was to point out why I personally dislike Buddhism / Hinduism and don't go into that direction, usually.
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Its maw looks a bit flat, it could use wider dark area
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I wonder if this is more a Hindu cerberus, since in all the forms of Buddhism I learned of, the cycle of reincarnation is either nonexistent, or it is a thing to be liberated from, depending on the culture or group. Perhaps this beast is even a pet of lord Yama's.
Fascinating beast, by the way, I can imagine it depicted on the walls of eastern holy temples.
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Yup liberated from, not clinging to the old incarnations
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Oooooooh. That's why it's called the Purifier! Excellent!
I reckon Tripitaka and Sun Wukong encountered this beast at one point or another on their journey West.
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Yeah, he is sort of scavenger of former identities and attachments.
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Interesting. In what context did you meet it?
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It devours a sorcerer who tries to cheat death and returns to the world of the living.
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Interesting. Were you a character in the dream, or just an observer?
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An observer, I think.
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