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Faithful laity sending dāna/act of generosity of fresh vegetables to feed the forest Sangha and children of Dhammagiri Foundation, home to orphans and disadvantaged children from the hill tribes of Mae Hong Son, Northern Thailand.🙏
Okay, I finished reading the Majjhima Nikāya this morning. That means I'm approximately half way done with the Pali Canon of #Buddhism I started in October. Next up is the Samyutta Nikāya, which academics say is the oldest layer in the collection.
@apodoxus The Samyutta Nikaya (Connected discourses) is probably best done as ~x number of pages per day if you want to have some target. As you say, the length varies greatly.
Or you might just pick a length of time.
You can also skip over long suttas on days you don't have much time and come back to them later. Those post-it type flags work great for that.
@ReadingFaithfully_org Alright, this is smart. I will go with this, based on time. Perfect. Thank you. That was helpful. I didn't think of it myself! I'll take a look at your post.
Thoughts, feelings, perceptions are just that: thoughts, feelings and perceptions. They arise, stay for a while and cease. They're not you, not yours, not self.
When distracted you don't realize the natural state.
When meditating you stray into concepts or a particular meditation.
So train yourself in the true path:
Continuous freshness, undistracted while not meditating.
I've had this thing for well over a decade (maybe 15 years?) and I can't believe that I haven't taken a picture of it until now.
This is a crystal ball that has two layers of some weird form of laser etching inside it: one, in the background, is some form of Tibetan Buddhist emblem and the other is a spiral of written Tibetan (I think?) that is likely either part of the Heart Sutra or some other major work of Tibetan Buddhist scripture. (I don't read Tibetan and have no idea how to even start decoding this.)
It's one of my favourite things. I just love the look and the vibe it brings.
However innumerable beings are, I vow to meet them with kindness and interest.
However inexhaustible the states of suffering are, I vow to touch them with
patience and love.
However immeasurable the dharmas are, I vow to explore them deeply.
However incomparable the mystery of interbeing, I vow to surrender to it freely. #ThichNhatHanh
"A man is riding a horse that is galloping very quickly. Another man, standing alongside the road, yells at him, “Where are you going?” and the man on the horse yells back, “I don’t know. Ask the horse.”
I'm not quite comfortable with the za-zen, shitting-meditation, but some other features and potentialities of this in-vogue phenomenon in the Western world do bother me somewhat.
I might be worried about the buddhist thought's influence and application in the modern world with it's mandatory science-based worry about the future of our planet. Oftentimes it sounds like an excuse of not taking parts and not acting, as long as "my" peace of mind prevails. This is what the marketized version 'mindfulness' may do to many practitioners, and one's own peace of mind in a turmoiled reality might sound like an immoral escape.
I respect Buddhism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism, like other sincere and evolved religions, and of course cherish it's updated analytic presentation in the SEP.
@ekknappenberger Maybe the SEP-entry on authenticity could capture something essential? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authenticity/ I didn't have that on my mind when using the attribute 'sincere'. But the criticism of authenticity as, e.g., self-indulgency, does resonate. I really don't like what Adorno condemned as the "liturgy of inwardness". Perhaps even stoicism, fashionable among affluent people, is culpable of propagating something like that?