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Causal law exists. Karma is real. Mind shapes matter which shapes mind in an endless loop. Both the worst and best fate that can befall you has already happened an inconceivable number of times. So do not seek suffering but also do not fear it. Just don’t seek or fear anything.

@binder_grinder Can you explain the tech and key engine pieces for this?

What commanders did you guys bring to Vegas? Here's my current spice: O'aka Accumulative Upkeep

Reality is not a unity and is also not a plurality. It is simply thusness, suchness, is-ness. That which remains when grasping at appearances stops. To identify with it or hold it in mind is to lose it. To perceive it without adding or subtracting from it is awakening.

@MYTHOTROPOS @BIMBOSATTVA_ Thoughts on Majora’s Mask?

Everyone keeps saying Ocarina of Time is the best Zelda but this is even worse than Skyward Slog, trying to solve this puzzleslop with a Nintendo 64 controller is giving me aids! Thank god they transitioned to the BOTW/Tears of the Kingdom formula and modernised.

Prajnaparamita，Baiju Monastery. 白居寺般若佛母 Her primary symbol is thePrajñāpāramitā Sūtra. The golden armor-like object held open in her hands is a special symbolic representation of this sutra, known as the "Scripture Armor" or "Thousand-Buddha Robe", signifying that the wisdom of Prajñāpāramitā protects all sentient beings, dispels delusion, and awakens enlightenment.

@TheGingerRoot96 Lingyin Temple close to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin

@acidsutra Where is this? Stunning. ❤️

Uh yeah

@NormanHates76 You’re welcome! Best of luck on your journey.

@acidsutra I see I am already feeling some simillarities with hermetic teachings and buddhism. Im no ways an expert but just skimming I feel like most of the things I have read all point to a few common truths. Thank you this has been a helpful starting point.

I feel zero anxiety about converting others because my confidence in my beliefs is supreme and absolute. If you really felt you had the best product on the market, would you feel compelled attack others’ products or let yours speak for itself? “Build it and they will come.”

@MYTHOTROPOS @BIMBOSATTVA_ Will work until it doesn’t. Probably for a couple more decades at least.

A lot of people my age keep saying we're at the brink of a horrible recession and I keep telling them that we aren't, because recessions like the days of yore simply can't happen under the reigning neoliberal system where the American dollar is the global currency. After 2008 the American government figured out that you can basically keep the NUMBERS GO UP economy indefinitely as long as you retain your global hegemony and keep stimulating and pumping money into the economy. This is why COVID tore apart so many Western countries but just bounced off America, stimulus checks meant the economy could keep running while the rest of the world slowed down to a crawl, and all it took was printing and unconditionally distributing money. The cost of this is, of course, inflation, which is why it's so important to America that it retains its currency hegemony. As long as trade is done in American dollars, inflation isn't a risk to the American economy, because there's still enough demand globally to keep the currency real and functional. For a long time economists didn't think this would work, but it did, and the further we get into the 21st century the more the American economy is built on this premise. And this also is why America cares so much about de-stabilising the Middle East and retaining military might, this is why the countries foreign policy is driven by the Pentagon and yet is perfectly in lock-step with the economy. In the 70s the Great Dark Lord of America Henry Kissinger, made a deal with Saudi Arabia, and by extension OPEC, to price all oil sales exclusively in dollars, which means perhaps the most important resource globally keeps the American dollar relevant and competitive regardless of how much money printing goes on back home, all that America needs to do is ensure nobody like the Ba'athists or Iran threatens the hegemony of the petrodollar, which is the real reason there's always a war going on there.

@asdkfjasdlfjd My problem with the book is why it never explains why the meridian is bloody. Wtf is even a meridian anyway.

Blood Meridian is sort of like the 'Rick and Morty' of literature as it requires a vastly high IQ and understanding of nihilistic philosophy to properly appreciate

@MYTHOTROPOS AI can return our crude mental inputs back to us as brilliantly cut gems, but just that. Those who wish it to be something more merely seek sweet relief from the intolerable weight of their own agency and beingness.

If AI cannot master StarCraft how can it master the symphony or epic poem or erotic roleplay? I’m too much of an animist for the consciousness debate, but the machine lacks something flesh does not, a thing that lets Man scrape the heavens while our manmade mirror may only watch.

Buddha has no fixed form. They are not present in the body nor in consciousness. By ceasing to identify with the aggregates, they become unlocatable. Sounds paradoxical until you realize reality itself is like this. The more you extend into it, the further it recedes from you.

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@NormanHates76 Also be mindful that there are a million ways to present it. Rather than making snap judgments of any particular teaching, try to understand the underlying principle that unites them. The point of Buddhism is not to fix a doctrine or view but to bring about wisdom and end sorrow.

@NormanHates76 You can start by reading the teachings of the Buddha. There are many books and resources out there for this. Do not believe them blindly, but also examine your own prejudices. Also, take your time to reflect on them. Some insights take years to mature and that’s okay.

@NormanHates76 Buddhism is tailored medicine. All versions of it are merely presentations aimed at the variety of capabilities and inclinations of sentient beings. The end goal is to eliminate obscurations to the clear seeing of reality and causation. Do you have a specific question?

@acidsutra What makes your version of buddhism true if I may ask? No need for long explanations if you could just point me somewhere.

@Substantial6187 Buddhas surf on the waves of mental causation.

Buddha bootstraps himself into omniscience using causality.

This book is insanely good. Absolute must read.

@algekalipso Paragraphs please. Like to read your thoughts but they’re always huge walls of text.

Continuing my investigation of the Avatamsaka Sutra has been delightful and very trippy. Actually, the highlights haven't really been the readings themselves or even the meditation on the concepts presented, but the utterly wild dreams that seem to have flourished as a consequence of engaging with this literature. I'm talking about dissolving not only my human sense of self but the sense of self in a very abstract way. Noticing the dualities we associate with dualistic thinking, not just scratching the surface but entering the Reality Realm, investigating their reality, experiencing them as shadows, as dreams, as echoes, as flames, as illusions. Unmasking the essence of decentralized transcendence within them, trying to grok the path-integral nature of every experience, the duality of oneness and multiplicity, of zero and infinity, internalizing the absence of an interior, externalizing the absence of an exterior, noticing the depth of co-arising happening on many levels. The invariance of consciousness being something far beyond traditional zero-ontology considerations: we're not in the realm of adding all colors together to create white or transparent, we're in the realm of adding diverse properties of consciousness. The feeling of change, the vacuuming of reification, the complementarity of now and never, and a sense that it's all okay because even those who suffer have no self, although I wouldn't endorse this upon reflection in a waking state.