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Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness

The Emerald

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A Simple Love, a Simple Life

In Tibetan Tantra, primal beings embrace naked with no adornments whatsoever. The Pharisees indulged in audaciously ornate rituals that had gotten away from the simple truth of nature. Jesus came, how? Clad in a single, unadorned white garment. He was a carpenter who spoke in simple parables about the forces of nature and returned people to the simplicity of love.

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