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Ivan Mir
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Ivan Mir
@ivmirx
🚧 building indie apps 🌻 caring for the land ☸️ trying to stay heedful
Valdivia, Chile Katılım Şubat 2013
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@realitymap I mean, the quoted account self-identifies as ML – they see all spiritual practices as population control methods
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I'll never understand why people who have a surface-level skimming wikipedia understanding of buddhism can be so wrong yet speak so loudly and confidently. insane
Communist Party of Genovia@MissPavIichenko
@skillfulUndead My point is that people need to stop treating Buddhism as a non-problematic alternative to Abrahamic religions when Buddhism is a religion like any other and has its own problems
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@vividvoid > it liberates what is human, what is alive, what is present
German Romanticism's ears are sticking out again
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Postmodernism is predicated on the idea that if we dissolve the conditioning of the past, it liberates what is human, what is alive, what is present. Psychotherapy also broadly operates on this principle.
This may have been true in the 70s but these days it just leaves you totally defenseless against memetic colonization. We no longer have working culture, community and religion to buttress our souls against the onslaught of media and materialism.
In 2026, if you don't consciously, purposefully take the reins of self creation, you are fucked.
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@PennyGongo @blaisew_c The idea has been producing amazing outcomes when actually put into practice, and mostly chill outcomes when applied as a cargo cult
But at large, not walking the talk is a purely human problem and every idea suffers from it – secular or spiritual
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@ivmirx @blaisew_c You realistically can’t separate the idea from its application though if that’s what the idea produces time and time again
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Westerners romanticize Buddhism because it was popularized here in a stripped-down form by D. T. Suzuki as a kind of therapeutic practice rather than a religion. We think it's just meditating and believing in "karma". But it is a religion. It just has the benefit of unfamiliarity
Viktor@FB_viktor
Buddhism in my opinion is the only religion worth giving a chance for anyone fed up with the Abrahamic religions bs
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To portray Buddhism as uniquely "pure" and only violent when it's "distorted" by individuals—whereas Abrahamic religions are inherently violent—is not a historically or philosophically serious position. It's a double standard based on superficial comparisons. Great PR.
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@southmtmonk Lots of these things are listed as something a contemplative should not do in Sāmaññaphala Sutta (DN 2)
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One of the big reasons I moved to a rural area: collecting rainwater, managing the treatment plant, and fighting vegetation that wants to eat your house is grounding
Hard to believe I took so much online-brained nonsense seriously just 5 years ago
detty@0ddette
This is the way
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a lot of what makes stand out execs or founders is imo outsized emotional regulation capability & metabolism
they either have sufficiently large nervous system capacity and/or process things quickly enough that they don't get stuck in rumination/overthinking loops, and are thus able to switch between contexts without them contaminating each other, carrying emotions and identities from one to the other
the greatest talent is nervous system capacity & executive function
Stuart Buck@stuartbuck1
We need a "Day in the Life of Patrick Collison." Most people in his position would be drowning 24/7 in emails and Slack messages, prepping to meet with everyone from direct reports to investors to board members, tied up with strategic decisions like "does Stripe buy company X or not," screening daily invitations to public appearances, deciding who to recruit for top positions, and much more. And yet he's doing this--how? Is he amazing at delegation? Does he have an AI-system to help him process incoming emails/texts/calls? How does he prioritize what to focus on? Does he never sleep? What is his secret??
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@realitymap The lack of respect goes far beyond that: I see little respect for the teacher lineages, for the Buddhist cultures/communities, and of course for the Buddha himself – they distort and throw away "unnecessary" parts of a teaching taught by a perfectly enlightened being 🫠
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I think the main problem with western pseudo-buddhist circles is a total lack of respect for the scope and value of the practice. they reduce lifelong ontological commitments into disposable unserious products u can schedule to receive at your convenience on a zoom call. insane
daniel brottman 🪷@danielbrottman
medieval tibet: "my pupil. you have diligently practiced the teachings in this cave for 13 years. you are now ready to receive the highest, most complete, final teaching of mahamudra" me rolling out of bed: *burb* mm ok i guess i'll get on this zoom call to learn the mahamoody
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@lihkin_nyc @shagbark_hick @Empty_America Colombia is (mostly) Andean, Venezuela is Caribbean + check the population pyramids (VZ is much younger).
Also, Venezuelans tend to be surprisingly similar to Russians in many attitudes and lifestyle preferences. Colombians – not so much.
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@ivmirx @shagbark_hick @Empty_America I never really understood this, like what really sets apart a Colombian from a Venezuelan?
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Nationalists encountered the same thing in the Balkans during the early 20th century.
In some areas, locals simply identified as "Christians" or "Muslims" and were unable to understand the question or answer when asked about their nationality.
che capybara 🇵🇸@vogon_laureate
Very last European uncontacted tribe to catch the nationalist mind virus
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@OpusLux @shagbark_hick @Empty_America That would be a tiny fringe minority, probably mostly online dwellers
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Wool ponchos are so underrated, it's like wearing a blanket all day~
Perfect for sedentary work too because they help keep your hands warm, just add a pair of wool socks too.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine. A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years. The wool jumper: - Came from a sheep - Required grass and rain - Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried - Will keep you warm when wet - Will not melt if exposed to a flame - Will probably outlive you - Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years The polyester fleece: - Came from an oil refinery in Texas - Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents - Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe - Will get cold and clammy when wet - Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame - Will be in landfill within five years - Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226 But yes. The sheep is the problem. The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain. The sheep is the problem.
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@shagbark_hick @Empty_America Mostly the same in LatAm since the 19th century: really strong national identities, love their flags, etc.
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@Empty_America One wonders if any part of this mentality persisted in the New World, or if one can find this mentality anywhere in the New World today.
As far as I remember even in the most isolated backwaters of the USA, everyone knows they're an American.
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"but it's bad to believe things that are wrong" rationalists hate to see the delusional golden retriever guy coming
Brandon Luu, MD@BrandonLuuMD
Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology. Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested. Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel. Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.
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@gzcl3000 Most of the time, it's not really Buddhism here, but a Romanticized secular stress relief program.
I can recommend this article. Once you know the signs, you'll see them everywhere:
dhammatalks.org/books/PurityOf…
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Why does Buddhism has such a bad rep in the west?
gabe@allgarbled
i wonder how many defense tech engineers got into buddhism from tpot and now practice orgasmic jhana 10 bliss while they work on their day job coding missile targeting systems that will someday tear a small middle eastern nation to shreds
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