You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
I hate when you hear about some high up buddhist (or hinduism) person and then you google and it's a white person
[PEACE] [LOVE] [UNITY] [RESPECT] (stay posi)
You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
My mental health nurse actually recommended me trying to be a buddhist although he's one of those yoga/bike-rides/meditation guys.
Tbf he has his shit together so I might ask him for buddhist temples to go to. I tried catholicism again recently and it sucked ass. I just need an organised religion to give me purpose. I'm jelly on my on
I'm thinking about going to the local buddhist temple next weekend. Is there a strand of buddhism that takes the words of the Buddha to be allegorical and doesn't have hard belief in the metaphysical or is doing that missing the point? I just can't believe in physical deities/Bodhisattvas but feel like I can learn from the stories and teachings.
chad wrote:becoming a....stoic? still brainstorming
IMO a really good book about this kind of philosophy-as-lifestyle thing or however you want to say it is Martha Nussbaum's "Therapy of Desire" https://press.princeton.edu/titles/30121.html She goes over the various Hellenistic schools with a focus on how the adherents would apply the teachings to their day-to-day lives.
Paul Mooney wrote:When I see homeless white person I start crying. (cries) What a waste of white skin.
i don't know if it's possible to live in the u.s. with its deeply engrained system of levels and constant evaluation without breaking some of the precepts of "full" buddhism, but trying to be friends with your enemy is nice, and so are chants, which were the startling elevation to my practice that i'd been seeking for quite some time. with mouth closed it becomes a song for your own body (you can feel the reverb all the way down your spine!). i don't want to post anything specific but i like the simple seed syllables. it really is better than drugs.
In looking at different places to visit in my area, I've encountered two practicing Soka Gakkai and the New Kadampa Tradition. It's my understanding that both of these aren't traditional buddhism and border on cult activity? To someone uninitiated, how can I be certain that what I'm involving myself in is traditional Tibetan buddhism?
I think traditional TIbetan buddhism is like being a monk. I would just go to a mahayana place. You don't have to go all in on believing in bodhisattvas, just meditate and be around people who are meditating
[PEACE] [LOVE] [UNITY] [RESPECT] (stay posi)
You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
and this is about daoism but it's so personable and fun and interesting:
[PEACE] [LOVE] [UNITY] [RESPECT] (stay posi)
You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ