Thread by @owenbroadcast

lets look at a tibetan buddhist embryology chart

i dont know a ton about it but have been looking into (normal non esoteric) fetal development stuff recently and its pretty interesting.

this is a newer painting but im going to bump up the contrast here a little so we can see it more clearly. tibetan medical teachings are supposedly derived from this buddha called the medicine buddha, who is blue. fittingly, he's the first thing in the picture. go figure.

theres a text called the blue beryl that is attributed to him that is basically one of or the foundation for tibetan medical teachings. this is a cool little node of information because while i am obviously not buddhist the medical aspect of this world is very interesting.

if you think about where tibet is, they would have had access to medical practices and information from northern india (and nepal), and then also china, so thats two huge esoteric medical traditions right there merging together, plus their own stuff, + general central asian info

i have also heard colloquially that some information from the muslim world would have been accessible to them as well (either from the west or the uighurs). kind of makes sense, i can say in their astrological stuff you can see that same mix of different influences.

i think this painting is part of a series that was done to illustrate the entirety of the blue beryl, or at least it looks just like those paintings. just for comparison heres one on the left, and then one on the right. you can see its the same information in different paintings

actually though, i think both of those were done relatively recently.

anyway here is something interesting. this is illustrating the moment of conception. obviously we have, very tastefully, a man and a woman together. however, you may notice our little friend riding a rainbow:

thats the soul, the person basically, who will be incarnating as this couples child. in this worldview and cosmology, this is a person who has died and is now (somewhat unintentionally, kind of) seeking a place and way to get reborn. guess he found one.

he has essentially been cast back into the human realm + is being drawn in to the couple. ive also seen this illustrated in a set of murals that is in a temple near the dalai lamas palace. here, its depicted as a floating head with a long kind of spirit floaty tail (my phrasing)

the mural thats taken from is called the lukang murals. its pretty hard to get images of them because they keep it pretty lock and key in terms of image rights and photos so thats the best i can do. the full mural is a 360 degree room. so, lets look at this part:

you can see this guy over on the right, he is meant to contrast with this floaty head guy on the left. he is like a master practitioner or something, he has his situation totally under control, and he is opting to not get reborn, u could say hes more on the path to enlightenment.

so, like i said, in this system without a floating spirit there, no conception would take place. interestingly in some texts it says you also need, basically, the seed of a lustful thought, some "negative element" to seed the rebirth. sometimes this is not the case, see highlight

now we're leaving things i know even a little about but we can still check it out because its interesting. ill link to the pic at the end, im gonna not post some of the more graphic details, not really for any particular reason, you can check it out if you really want to.

each line is one week in fetal development. these bubbles are somewhat obviously the womb, and you can see different... things happening. im not really sure what specifically, i think its like different essences, some spiritual, some physical, changing, melding, etc.

this is a guess but i feel pretty good about it. in the literature timing of conception is a "big thing". theres 14 little diagrams before we see conception so, i think (14x2 =28 days) that this is showing the timing of the womans cycle and when conception can happen within that.

theres some emphasis on, if its not the right time conception will not be possible. you can guess what i blacked out here. this is just worth noting as i am pretty confident what this is showing is the male [stuff] mixing with the womans blood, thats what forms the fetal body

this mixture of red and white [stuff] (not being euphemistic, it takes several forms) is kind of a thing in tantric buddhism, in some heavier stuff they will say that in the spot where your soul is like, tethered to your body there is a red and white drop essence mixed together.

and that corresponds to the male and female essences you got from your mother and father (im a little out of my depth here, just telling you what i heard ["thus have i heard at one time"]). thats in your heart, its like an actual knot, that ties ur soul to ur body in this system.

interestingly i have even heard some guys talk about doing psycho-physical work (not sure what to call it) to loosen this knot slightly so that when you die its not as much of a shock when "you" leave your body. obviously im on the western theological side of things now [...]

i dont really poke into this stuff anymore, im not really sure what to think about it. theres sort of a "deep health", literally a "meta" physical aspect of studying the body here that i do think is interesting outside of any specific cosmological posits (topic for another time).

anyway, im not sure exactly what these next guys are (moved them so we can see them all) that happen after conception. i would assume its like, different elemental aspects of the body, kind of like the four humors, or the four elements, but medical, something like that.

i feel pretty good about that guess because of this guy here, you can see the different elements depicted, with the colors we just saw (for example, yellow is earth in tibetan stuff, not green, and you can see yellow at the base as this solid step formation).

if you look closely you can also see that the four colors of body here have slight varying details, for example the yellow one has a skeleton (kind of fitting for earth, if you think about it), the blue one has a mouth, the green one has smoke coming out of it (green is air), etc

the white one even has a face, its probably like "spirit" or mind or intelligence or something. not sure what this other white one is, maybe its supposed to be "red", he looks kind of shy (kinda has bathing venus energy, oddly enough). could be shame (jk),

fittingly i must now go feed my wife (pic below) meat. i will return.