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boyjumps · 24 days

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" Even if the whole Himalaya mountain were turned into gold, it would still not be able to satisfy the desires of just one person. Human desires are limitless. Knowing this, you should have peace of mind. " Buddha (Udānavarga 2)

#zen #mindfulness #buddhism #buddha #wisdom #philosophy #nature #art #zen teachings

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ruth-t · 17 days

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Spirit feels, ego thinks.

How could feelings ever be

wrong when they were

meant to be felt?

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thatshinx · 2 months

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Sun Wukong’s Point of view

Thinking about how Sun Wukong declared himself “Great Sage Equal To Heaven”. Not above heaven, equal. He wasn’t claiming to be better than the gods, just equal. He was asking to be seen as a peer and from his point of view he probably couldn’t see why that was so offensive. He was certainly as strong as the gods, (he proved that later on when he beat Li Jing, and Li Nezha) he was well versed in Taoist philosophy, and he was made from the heavens so why was he seen as less than!

In his eyes all he had done was know his worth and not know the proper etiquette due to his upbringing (He was literally raised by animals).

Imagine his hope when he was excepted as an equal. He thought he had finally proved himself, that now he would be taken seriously.

But it was all a lie. A ruse made to truck him into complacency. They didn’t see him as an equal, and they never would! he could win a fistfight with the emperor and still be seen as of lower status. So he decided to make them regret thinking Sun Wukong could be pushed aside and forgotten. he caused as much mischief as he could while also racking up immortality. That way even if they tried to get rid of him they couldn’t. This later worked against him as Bhuddha himself found a way to get rid of him without death.

I imagine him thinking over his life in his head wondering where he went wrong and sure, he would redo a few things if he could but he still didn’t understand why he wasn’t worthy of being an equal before he went of his rampage. and it would take 500 years for someone to show him why and tell him how to be better.

#They brought him to heaven in hopes of teaching him how to be a proper immortal and then proceeded to never teach him anything #Imagine how much could have been avoided if the emperor had assigned him a celestial master instead of pushing him aside #It really took hundreds of years for someone to consider him worth teaching.#Unless you count Master Subhoddi. Though he gave up on him soooooo #jttw sun wukong #sun wukong angst #jttw #jttw analysis #jttw monkey king #monkey king #literary analysis #lmk sun wukong #sun wukong lmk #lmk monkey king #Also I’m pretty sure 500 years under a mountain didn’t teach him anything #It just made him hate heaven and Buddha

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cadmar · 6 months

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Comes to You

Have you ever noticed that the world comes to you? In fact, the entire universe comes to you! It all comes to you, and the question becomes: what is your answer?

"Comes to you" comes from all your sensory processes. You do not have to do anything. You don't have to lift a finger! It is a gift from the universe. The chemical-electrical signals of the universe enters inside of you. Then, what do you do with this gift?

You are in an enclosed bubble and the entire universe is outside. The universe enters inside your bubble, one input at a time. The amount the universe enters inside your bubble depends on your reaction. What do you do with all of this?

Your reaction is your answer. You push back. You take the very, small piece of the universe and you bounce it back to where it came from. A small piece of the universe stays with you and the rest bounces back. What stays with you, changes you.

The universe enters and the universe leaves. How much the universe leaves behind depends on you. That is how simple this is! This is what the universe left behind: The universe gave you life. Gave you consciousness. Gave you existence. And now, what do you do?

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maggiecheungs · 9 months

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POV: you’re the son of a qing court official and your venerable teacher has just paused his lesson on ideal confucian masculinity to give the class a PSA about the temptations of running off and becoming a taoist monk

#the 'running off to become a monk' trope is one of my absolute favourites it's sooooo funny every time #it happens so often in books and everyone around them always loses their shit #noble parents out here like 'we must teach our children to respect the buddha and remember the impermanence of mortal life BUT NOT TOO MUCH #'we're buddhist..... but not *that* buddhist. stop reciting sutras and go earn lots of money and honour as a state official <3'#meme of the red chamber #dream of the red chamber #hong lou meng #books

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sketching-shark · 2 months

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4th panel for a comic about Golden Cicada. Man is now fully in his evil yaoguai warlord stage.

#jttw au #golden cicada #keep in mind that there's basically no information in jttw itself as to what Golden Cicada was like in his lives #before his reincarnation in Tang Sanzang #this is more about me thinking that being 'heedless of Buddha's teachings'#was probably something a lot worse than falling asleep during one of Buddha's lectures #given all the lives he had to lead before becoming a buddha again #shark's sketches

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anonymocha · 1 month

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Can we talk about Kaalaa Baunaa’s wilderness chat for a sec:

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Kaalaa Baunaa: Have you noticed? This part of the sky is very different from the outside world.

Timekeeper: The solitude they endure is mirrored in the other's.

Kaalaa Baunaa: Ha... You're right.

Kaalaa Baunaa: The land is filled with too much noise, they're all in too much hurry... Full of joy and sorrow.

Kaalaa Baunaa: Only in the moment when we gaze upon the universe in its entirety, are we able to momentarily become one with eternity. Just as before we are born, and after we pass from this world.

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Like, girl, wow, okay. Amazing. We need to meditate together. It’s gonna look like this.

#her philosophies remind me of Buddha’s teachings #god i need this woman to sit down and have a chat together #it can fix me #life is going so fast and so hastily i really do need a reminder to slow down #im so happy to be alive #kaalaa baunaa the woman you are #take a step back and use that moment to appreciate the world #the little things #the big things #the tiny things #no matter how little they are #Kaalaa Baunaa #reverse 1999 #mochats #kaalaa baunaa brainrot i love her so much she makes me feel safe #she is reverse 1999’s toriel to me

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herbaklava · 6 months

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Reading by candlelight is one of life’s greatest pleasures. <3

#current read: The Heart of the Buddha’s Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh

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yoga-onion · 2 years

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The Quest for Buddhism (112)

Buddhist cosmology

Brahmaviharas – From the teachings preached by the Buddha to his son Rahula (Ref)

“O Rahula, deepen your meditation on loving-kindness. Because if you deepen your meditation on loving-kindness, any resentment, hatred will disappear.

O Rahula, deepen your meditation on compassion. Because if you deepen your meditation on compassion, all harmful intentions will disappear.

O Rahula, deepen your meditation on sympathetic joy. Because if you deepen your meditation on sympathetic joy, any dissatisfaction will disappear.

O Rahula, deepen your meditation of equanimity. Because if you deepen your meditation on equanimity, any anger will disappear.”

Excerpt from Maha-rahulovada-sutta in Majjhima Nikaya (MN)]

仏教の探求 (112)

仏教の宇宙論

四無量心 (しむりょうしん) 〜ブッダが息子のラーフラ (羅睺羅:らごら参照)に説いた教法より

”ラーフラよ、慈の瞑想を深めなさい。なぜなら、慈の瞑想を深めれば、どんな瞋恚 (しんに: 憎悪)も消えてしまうからである。

ラーフラよ、悲の瞑想を深めなさい。なぜなら、悲の瞑想を深めれば、どんな害意も消えてしまうからである。

ラーフラよ、喜の瞑想を深めなさい。なぜなら、喜の瞑想を深めれば、どんな不満も消えてしまうからである。

ラーフラよ、捨の瞑想を深めなさい。なぜなら、捨の瞑想を深めれば、どんな怒りも消えてしまうからである。”

中部 (ちゅうぶ、巴: ﾏｯｼﾞﾏ･ﾆｶｰﾔ) の大ラーフラ教誡経 (だいラーフラきょうかいきょう、巴:ﾏﾊｰﾗｰﾌﾛｰｳﾞｧｰﾀﾞ･ｽｯﾀ) からの抜粋

#brahmaviharas #meditation on compassion #buddhism #buddha #rahula #son of buddha #meditation #eightfold path #maha-rahulovada-sutta #nature #art #philosophy #buddha's teachings

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someweirdoreblogger · 9 months

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Buddha sharing buddhist culture with his lover.

Brain rot time, that's all folks.

#mypost #where would he even start?#oh we all know he'd start with the food come on #though ror buddha obviously loves his candy fuck theres a whole canon brand named after him #i can't see Buddha being particularly picky about anything thats not obviously edible #i can see him devouring traditional buddhist cuisine like miso soup #rice #and tofu #and while liking buddhist food isnt at all required to date Buddha i think everyone would appreciate genuine interest in their own culture #Buddha is literally...well The Buddha so whos more perfect to teach you all the shit there is in buddhism?#buddha record of ragnarok #buddha #buddha ror

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akkivee · 4 months

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SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STOP RHYME ANIMA (DONT)

#vee queued to fill the void #hypanispoilers #THIS CONNECTION HAUNTS MY EVERY WAKING MOMENT #LIKE I THINK ABOUT KUUKOUS WANDERING MONK TENDENCIES AND ICHIROS POTENTIAL WANDERLUST ALL THE TIME #AND THEN RHYME ANIMA ACTUALLY WENT AND CONNECTED IT RHYME ANIMA IS SO CRAZY IM NOT SANE ENOUGH FOR THIS #YEARS IN THE FUTURE WHEN EVERYTHING IS CHILL AND THEYVE SETTLED INTO THEIR ROLES IN ADULTHOOD #KUUKOUS GOING TO FILL UP THAT TEMPLE OF HIS WITH MONKS WHO WANT TO FOLLOW HIS TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA #AND THERE WILL BE ENOUGH PEOPLE ON DECK FOR KUUKOU TO LEAVE TEMPLE IN SAFE HANDS SO #ICHIROS GOING TO WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD FOR HIMSELF AND KUUKOUS GOING TO GO WITH HIM #i’m not joking i think about this all the time lmao something kuukou’s said before that i feel is important #but idk if it’s in relation to him or someone else we don’t know this late into the game lol #is that radio answer of his where he says heirs to temples that leave bc they have other things they want to do #usually do come back later in their lives #kuukou is dead set on inheriting the temple so that’s why i’m not sure if he’s answering from his own experience as well #but i just think it’d be really cute if ichiro and kuukou did like a graduation like road trip #where they just go places and experience stuff before really saying goodbye to their youth lol #i love them very much lmao

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boyjumps · 2 months

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"If you are calm and quiet when others are angry, you are doing what is in the best interest of both you and them. " - Buddha (Samyutta Nikhaya: 7.1)

#zen #mindfulness #buddhism #buddha #wisdom #philosophy #zen teachings #art #nature #enjoy life

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scary-senpai · 2 years

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Insomnia thoughts: you probably shouldn’t believe anything that tells you it is God. If humans can conceptualize it, it’s probably not actually God.

If you look up into the night sky, you can’t actually see the whole cosmos. You can only see to the end of your telescope. That’s the thing humans tend to forget, and why they’re susceptible to divine hi-jinks, and also hubris.

Edited to add: commentary applies to one punch man universe only! if a burning bush speaks to you, that is above my pay grade

#one punch man #opm #garou #garou opm #meta #I’m just a girl who teaches yoga for fun #Ca-Chan can’t sleep #i feel like this *might* fall under ‘if you meet the Buddha Jill him’#but I’m too tired to think about that right now #for a good time listen to ‘the three christs of Ypsilanti’ podcast from stuff you should know #tangential but interesting #I have a mail order ministry certificate so yeah

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pathofregeneration · 9 months

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Bruce Harman, Water of Life

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The Teachings of the Adepts, part III

“They are not to be confounded with speculative philosophy, that reasons from the known to that which it cannot know, trying by the flickering light of logic to grope its way into the darkness, and to feel the objects which it cannot see. These doctrines were taught by the children of light who possessed the power to see. Such men were the great religious reformers of all ages, from Confucius and Zoroaster down to Jacob Boehme and Eckartshausen, and their teachings have been verified by every one whose purity of mind and whose power of intellect have enabled him to see and to understand the things of the spirit.

Some of their doctrines refer to morals and ethics, others are of a purely scientific character; but both aspects of their teachings are intimately connected together, because beauty cannot be separated from truth. They both form the two pages of a leaf in the book of universal Nature, whose understanding confers upon the reader not merely opinions but knowledge, and renders him not only learned but illuminated with wisdom.

Among those who have taught the moral aspect of the secret doctrine there are none greater than Buddha, Plato, and Jesus of Nazareth; of those who have taught its scientific aspect there have been none more profound than Hermes Trismegistus, Pythagoras, and Paracelsus. They obtained their knowledge not merely from following the prescribed methods of learning, or by accepting the opinions of the ‘recognised authorities’ of their times, but they studied Nature by her own light, and they became lights themselves, whose rays illuminate the world of mind.”

— Franz Hartmann, The Life of Paracelsus

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cadmar · 1 month

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Releasing One's Spirit

Releasing is not done by yourself, but reducing the structure you have created that surrounds it. The unstructured will then be free to flow through the cracks and peep holes. It is this unstructured that creates insights, creativity, energy, and vitality!

To reduce the structures that you have built over the years can only be done by you, then the unstructured within can release itself!

To unbound the unstructured is to do in real time the structured that you are constantly re-enforcing and creating. Stop the creating of new structures can only be done in real time when it is happening and being created. Awareness, realizing that it is happening, and having your focus and spotlight on it is sufficient for it to cease being created.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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Gilt Bronze Seated Buddha Vairocana (China, Tony dynasty, c 720 CE)(唐鎏金青銅毗盧遮那佛坐像). The teaching gesture made by this figure, with the thumb of the right hand touching the little finger of the left, identifies him as Vairocana, the celestial Buddha who resides at the center of the cosmos. Vairocana is considered a transcendent form of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. Though similar in appearance, he exists on another plane, unhindered by a mortal body.

[Scott Horton]

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“Often, it is this anguish of parting - the death of a loved one, the breaking apart of a deep relationship, even the growing up of our children - that propels us into the search for a reality that will never let us down; so this opening passage illustrates, through the experience of Maitreyi, the state of seriousness, of being shocked into alertness, that makes one ready to absorb spiritual insight.”

― Eknath Easwaran, The Upanishads

#Scott Horton #Buddha Vairocana #teaching gesture #mudra #gesture #Eknath Easwaran #The Upanishads

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