vimalakirtiesque.bsky.social
A Ghost of Lost Dharma
38 posts
132 followers
43 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Taking notes.. 🫡
comment in response to
post
This album, along with the next four albums, accompanied me during dark times of my teenage years.
comment in response to
post
Just as a skilled physician neither ignores illness nor becomes overwhelmed by it, so too the skilled practitioner of dhamma engages the suffering of sentient beings with clarity and confidence. Confidence not in outcomes, but in one's ability to perform one's best effort.
comment in response to
post
One need not merely observe suffering passively. Your capacity to act, to shape what unfolds, springs from the same source as your ability to feel the world's pain. They are not two.
comment in response to
post
Your very sensitivity to suffering can become your greatest strength.
comment in response to
post
Ahh no. 🤦♂️
comment in response to
post
The Buddha's focus would not be on these issues but much more likely teaching to those who'd listen the dangers of becoming mindless zombies to social media.
comment in response to
post
TikTok is China's revenge on the West for getting them hooked on opium in the 1800s. Got social media dopamine addicts feening like crackheads.
comment in response to
post
And media pundits fueling the very reactivity the architects of the spectacle expected, in very predictable fashion.
comment in response to
post
The ignorance and emotional reactivity of the American populace makes the nation inherently and infinitely vulnerable to manipulation, whether that be foreign manipulation, domestic-oligarachic, or a combination of both.
comment in response to
post
Or if said 7-11s weren't franchises but owned by a single entity controlled by a dictatorship relishing in the data and access it has of a foreign power they see as an obstacle to their ambitions and all they had to do was sell it and continue expanding marketshare of their many other products.
comment in response to
post
Well if you want to argue it's a "ban" and the "ban" is bad then simply argue that you don't mind the threats that were presented to congress and that provoked them to vote for it. Otherwise I'd argue that nuance in language is important actually.
comment in response to
post
This is true
comment in response to
post
Most threats to the existence or survival of things are endogenous. That doesn't mean exogenous threats arent eyeing you. When in the amazon dont just pay attention to whats in front of you. If you're only looking out for the obvious you're already some other animals' prey.
comment in response to
post
Verbal and ritual prayer's biggest role is in the tending and cultivation of collective identity.
comment in response to
post
Who are the "demos" when the "demos" is itself a carefully crafted product?
comment in response to
post
Yes. Millions of people are using a product they want you to use because your attention leads to revenue. Social media companies all want more eye-balls craving and addicted to their carefully crafted algorithms. Is that what you're referring to as "democracy"?
comment in response to
post
I don't think research into that topic supports that assertion www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/b...
comment in response to
post
Interesting scenarios and dilemmas to think about with regards to this tarrif discussion. Thank you
comment in response to
post
Hmm. Yes. My response was more in response to "tanha". I like to reflect on HOW one engages with what is political in Life as opposed to what of Life (e.g. the "political, the mundane) one negates or affirms. There's an entire universe of exploring what is skillful in the "how". 🙏
comment in response to
post
The Dharma neither agrees nor disagrees with religions or movements. It simply illuminates the nature of reality. In seeing this clearly, we neither grasp at political action nor push it away.
comment in response to
post
Not trolling. Seriously concerned for your mental health. May your mind be well.🙏
comment in response to
post
Seek therapy. Seriously.
comment in response to
post
Bro got that "Miller High Life dialect", we just never knew..
comment in response to
post
It needs to be done. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
comment in response to
post
I don't have a lot but I just donated what I could.
comment in response to
post
I have a practice of journaling about "things I've learned" and I try to include dhamma matters as much as I can. So it gives me an external motivation to have content in front of me as much in the form of suttas (insofar as i have free time). And reading with an intention to later write about it.
comment in response to
post
Feels bad to feel helpful in the face of the inevitable.
comment in response to
post
If I had to give the shortest summarizariom of the primary teaching of the buddha I'd go with something more along the lines of this dhammapada verse: "Avoid evil,
Do good,
Purify the mind -
This is the teaching of the Buddhas" DhP 183
comment in response to
post
So by all means, decorate your tree - but know that the tree decorates itself, and indeed, the whole universe celebrates through each ornament.
comment in response to
post
And who is this 'you' who would be merry, when all phenomena are empty of inherent existence? Yet precisely because all is empty, the bells ring, the lights shine, and joy naturally manifests without need for a wisher or the wished-for!