hello there! new #Introduction post: I'm Andy, a guy from western Colorado. i am trying to do practical #Solarpunk in my life, am a #Buddhist (Rinzai Zen), an amateur permaculturist, husband, and cat-dad of two.
by day i do IT in the #Library industry; by night, i'm a roguish ne'er do-well. i love everything!
There's a parable (one of Aesop's fables) sometimes told in #Buddhist monasteries, relevant to the debate of federating with #Threads:
"The story concerns a farmer who finds a viper freezing in the snow. Taking pity on it, he picks it up and places it within his coat. The viper, revived by the warmth, bites his rescuer, who dies realizing that it is his own fault."
The Ven. #Jaseung, a former leader of the Jogye Order, [#Korea’s] largest #Buddhist sect, has died in a fire at a temple in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, according to the Jogye Order on Thursday.
The Ven. Jaseung was visiting Chiljangsa temple in Anseong when a fire erupted at one of the buildings there
“Some scholars have suggested that the Shakyas, the clan of the historical Gautama Buddha, were originally Scythians from Central Asia, and that the Indian ethnonym Śākya has the same origin as “Scythian,” called Sakas in India.”