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- theodora...
I will miss this one live unfortunately. Here's some of my questions. What is the 4th turning of the dharma? Is it beyond a western idea that this is happening?... just another frame, in buddhism there's a sudden vs gradual enlightenment debate that's not really a debate. but there's a sense in rinzai zen of get the breakthrough first and then work on your form/healthy ego formation second.... Hmm, this translation IMHO misses a key point of the last line which is, the only thing you can stand on is karma aka your intentions and actions. As my teacher put it, "what you do matters".... - onWhat are some of your uncertainties? Experiences of failure (that maybe you still haven't turned into learnings yet?) Obvious realizations?bynithya...
The way I see it the confusion is because of the word suffering. Which is an inadequate translation of the original “dukkha”. Maybe a better way of saying it is that Buddhists aim to end all resistance to WHAT IS.... - marcello...
Nice! This little post feels like pretty close in spirit to the thing Buddhism calls "the Four Gates of Speech" ☸️ They're are a helpful list of questions to ask yourself if you're in doubt about whether to say something: Is it true? Is it necessary/beneficial?... - onI just noticed how the "no-self" doctrine supports the "materialist industrial epistemological complex"bymarcello...
Hm. From my vantage point, you're doing something that looks like pulling a (likely unintentional) sleight of hand by just quoting the first of Divia's tweets, because it doesn't really convey the concept the full context of Divia's thread is gesturing at.... - onI just noticed how the "no-self" doctrine supports the "materialist industrial epistemological complex"by
Hi everyone, happy to be here. A bit of nuance: I wouldn't say it supports it, though it is frequently forced into that direction. I guess one of the main issues is trying to get an epistemic answer to a metaphysical conundrum.... - onI just noticed how the "no-self" doctrine supports the "materialist industrial epistemological complex"byArun...
Yes! And today I was noticing how the Buddhist doctrine of 'no-self' contributes to this whole way of thinking— by denying that there's a self (claiming instead what we call a "self" are five aggregrates/skandas that interact in a way that seems selfy but doesn't actually... as a psycho-tech the defining of jhana as focusing on pleasure is a good intro to getting into it. But potentially very limiting to what’s possible. But, classically, in Buddhist text, it’s defined as the mind’s temporary absence of the five hindrances of craving for sensual... - nat...
ooh, I love the idea of states like vitamins! Yeah, I’d love to learn too. There’s a guided meditation on YouTube to bring you into the first Jhana. I listened to it last night. It put me into a deep meditation but nothing blissful.... - marcello...
"Well, this is it. I’m done. No point in doing any practice of any kind anymore." Here’s something a Tibetan Lama I like said about roughly this sort of practice hiccup where you think you’ve caught the golden ball: If you’re driving to Chandigarh, and you see a road sign that...