Hint

He also was anti-sectarian

I agree, too, and I wonder how many of us agree vs how many don’t agree. TikTok came back online but with a note about thanking President Trump - hamfisted propaganda in its entirety. Democracy still has hope, but given the current social media climate, I wonder for how long.

Ouch, nice burn

When I used to live in a downtown urban area in in U.S. there was a polar vortex one winter with wind chill -40 degrees…but the pigeons were just out on the sidewalks per usual. I admired their ruggedness.

Blessings all around, and I wish more people realized the blessings of the earth and universe. Looks like you do. May you be happy, may you be peaceful, may you be well 🙏

Gasshō to you too, my friend, may you be peaceful, may you be well

Thank you for posting. What’s happening here is such an egregious crime. I’m happy to do what I can to help.

“The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.” -Tao Te Ching Ch. 8
Your thinking about rivers and streams reminded me of this immediately. Sounds like you’re already there.

All forms of disability (or even mere discomfort) can cut us off from what we wish to do with our lives. I’ve experienced some of this, but my path is not identical to anyone else’s. I’ve found Buddhism and the internet spaces for it. Sounds like you’ve found the Tao. I wish you the best my friend.

This is one of the biggest crimes of the modern age in medicine/society. They do this to trans people and also to people with various disabilities they find “unworthy” - just another part of why protecting our rights is so important.

“As a water bead on a lotus leaf,
as water on a red lily,
does not adhere,
so the sage
does not adhere
to the seen, the heard, or the sensed” -The Buddha

If we let go of attachment, we will find peace. This is the teaching of all Buddhas.

(From the Sutta Nipata)
#buddhism #spirituality #theravada

All conditioned phenomena
Are like dreams, illusions , bubbles 🫧, or shadows 🌒;
Like drops of dew, or flashes of lightning ⚡;
Thusly should they be contemplated.

- Diamond Sutra (Sending virtual hugs & positive thoughts 🤍)

#BeKind #Karuna

Oh you might be pleasantly surprised :)

…Why? You should understand that all such places are places of the Way. They are where the buddhas attain supreme awakening; they are where the buddhas turn the Dharma wheel; they are where the buddhas reach complete nirvana” - The Lotus Sutra (3/3)

…and practices it as taught, or wherever a volume of the sutra is kept, whether in a garden, or in a woods, or under a tree, or in a monk’s cell or a layman’s house, or in a palace, or in a mountain valley or an open field, in all these places you should put up a stupa and make offerings.. (2/3)

“Therefore, after the extinction of the (Buddha) Tathagata, you should all wholeheartedly embrace, read and recite, explain and copy, and practice (The Lotus Sutra) as you have been taught. In any land, wherever anyone accepts and embraces, reads and recites, explains and copies, (1/3)

Hello friend 🙏 I’m familiar with Stephen Bachelor and I have one of his books, but I haven’t read it yet. It’s Buddhism Without Beliefs. It’s probably obvious from my feed that I *do* have Buddhism with beliefs, but I am interested in what he has to say. I like to investigate opposing perspectives.

💀

Zazen: Just Sitting, Going Nowhere The Zen practice of just sitting, says Lewis Richmond, doesn’t help us to reach our destination. It allows us to stop having one. But how do you “go” nowhere?

Shikan, 30 minutes, every day (life happenings permitting): meditation “beyond sitting” - cools the overheated body and quiets the overactive mind: www.lionsroar.com/zazen-just-s...

May all beings find peace 🙏

Today I’m sharing with you a good luck “kadomatsu”, a bamboo and evergreen arrangement set out every New Year in Japan to invite happy guardians and spirits of ancestors who have passed on. May everyone everywhere on earth have happiness and good luck in the coming year 🎍 ❤️

Hey, you quit the GS server?

I think this is a problem all over the internet (or maybe just generally). I have a feed set up for every post that mentions zen, and literally less than 10% of it actually concerns zen.

Today is an auspicious day in Buddhism. Every year, the 17th day of the 11th month on the lunar calendar is Amitabha’s birthday - December 17th in our year 2024.
Buddhists take this day as an occasion for special temple services and contemplations. Peace to all 🕊️
Namo Amitabha Buddha
#buddhism

Scissors!?

I’m not sure what your exact goal of finding a temple would be, but would you be open to a temple that has hybrid in-person/online services and dharma talks/discussions? Drukpa Kagyu sanghas like this exist

“Since everything is a reflection Of our minds, Everything can be changed By our minds”
-Master Chin Kung #buddhism
Namu Amida Butsu, Namo Amituofo, hail to Amitabha Buddha and his Pure Land of Bliss
Statue of Amitabha Buddha (center) and his attendants Guan Yin and Dashizhi #art

This is a really great post

Ahhh that makes so much more sense than me thinking you just started and suddenly look like a pro artist for impossible reasons. I did Japanese brush painting (sumi-e) as a kid, so I have that as a base I guess, but I can’t draw with a pencil for my life. Guess it’s just a thing you have to keep at

Wow, look at all these cultists, amazing

Bruh how are you so good so fast. This is lighting a fire under my grass to practice drawing more, but I can’t imagine doing anything like this in a month or however long you’ve been doing this. I’m trying to draw manga characters and everyone comes out looking like goblins. I wanna draw Buddhas.