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They need to make you hate some group As soon as you start judging people as a group, the rightists win.

They need to make you hate some group

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The tyrant fears bodhisattvas and saints not because the saint or bodhisattva will overthrow him, but because the bodhisattva makes tyranny look... unnecessary. Absurd, even. Like a man screaming at shadows while standing in broad daylight.

The moon is reflected
in ten thousand puddles—
break all the puddles,
the moon remains untouched.

Now then, professor:
Having deconstructed the Dharma
to fit your modern whims,
can you show me
one moment
of insight?

—silence—

Ah! There it is.

Buddhism and Activism: Sulak Sivaraksa’s Teachings on Social Change - Buddhistdoor Global Dipen Barua pays tribute to the activist philosophy of the INEB founder, who has become one of Engaged Buddhism's standard-bearers

BDG feature: Buddhism and Activism: Sulak Sivaraksa’s Teachings on Social Change

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"Undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings."

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche 🙏🙏🙏

Taking notes.. 🫡

This album, along with the next four albums, accompanied me during dark times of my teenage years.

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.

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.

Your very sensitivity to suffering can become your greatest strength.

Look carefully at how you meet others' distress. Some of you grasp it so tightly you become lost in it, while others build walls to keep it at bay. Both paths lead away from true understanding. Instead, rest in the space where compassion and wisdom meet.

Oh hey 👋
Sound the alarm 🚨
World’s on fire 🔥 and will only get hotter 🥵
Eyes are on fire. Ears are on fire. Noses are on fire. Tongues are on fire. Skin’s on fire. Minds are on fire. On fire with what? On fire with greed, fear and ignorance.
Buddhas Awaken We Need You Now 🙏🏽💙

Ahh no. 🤦‍♂️

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.

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.

And media pundits fueling the very reactivity the architects of the spectacle expected, in very predictable fashion.

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.

Same, David. Same. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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.

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.

This is true

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.

Verbal and ritual prayer's biggest role is in the tending and cultivation of collective identity.

Who are the "demos" when the "demos" is itself a carefully crafted product?

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"?

Topics Suppressed in China Are Underrepresented on TikTok, Study Says (Published 2023) The report, from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, could raise new concerns about whether Beijing influences the content on the popular video app.

I don't think research into that topic supports that assertion www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/b...

This image show a stereoview card on a slate mount depicting a statue of the Buddha laying on his side in a pose known as the Reclining Buddha or Sleeping Buddha. A man standing in the frame reveals the colossal size of the statue. The two photos that comprise the stereoviews are nearly identical, but are taken from slightly different angles to produce the ilusion of depth when viewed properly.

This colossal Sleeping Buddha was lost to the jungle when the Burmese city of Bago fell to invading forces in 1757.

The statue was recovered in 1881 after railroad workers began digging through a tree-covered mound looking for scrap stone. /🧵
🗃️ 📜 🎞️ #Burma