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the impossibility of escape is the essence of the game
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"...precisely because there is an unconditioned escape from the conditioned is discerned."
— Nibbana sutta
Syd Steyerhart@SydSteyerhart
the impossibility of escape is the essence of the game
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My car's getting bigger (big time)
My house getting bigger (big time)
My eyes getting bigger (big time)
And my mouth (big time)
My belly's getting bigger (big time)
And my bank account (big time)
Look at my circumstance (big time)
And the bulge in my
Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big!
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buddhism is like being in a pitch black cave w/ a single match burning quickly. u can see the light of the exit in the distance, clear as day, and actually it isn't that far at all. but its crucial you use that match to navigate ALL the way out. not halfway! u might not make it!
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There darkness is not found
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"...Getting fresh water out of salt water. The fresh water is there, but just relaxing or letting the salt water sit in a bowl is not going to get the salt to separate out. You have to distill it. the heat of the distillery stands for the effort of the practice."
— Ajahn Lee
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Buddhism is nothing like that for the Theravada Buddhist meditator. With Theravada Buddhist meditation we have a clear goal. Our goal is to overcome suffering. We understand that suffering is caused by an untrained mind. So we train our mind. We also have both the teachings how to do this, and the knowledge that millions have done this before us. For the Theravada Buddhist meditator... meditation is like going to the gym. It's not a mystery... We just have to put in the time, practice the techniques properly, and extend effort.
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42/Sources, if you want to go further than a thread can take you.
Primary: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, read with the commentaries of Buddhapālita and Candrakīrti.
Secondary, and the spine of how I have read it here: Jan Westerhoff, Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka. The reading of the causal field as something the mind builds is his, and so are the interpretations I flagged along the way as contested.
If you caught the negation thread last week, this is the same knife, turned on a new target.
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1/Strike a match and you get a flame. The most ordinary thing in the world. Around the 2nd century Nāgārjuna stared at that tiny event and built an argument that cause and effect cannot really work the way every one of us assumes.
It is far harder to wriggle out of than it looks. Let me take you through the whole thing slowly. Thread🧵🪷☸️
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most Christians have a pretty childish view of religion
but that's not a problem because Jesus loves his Children
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@realitymap The cave is dark for everyone but not everyone starts with the same amount of light. What matters is whether the flame is used for escape rather than fascination with shadows.
Good kamma gives the match but wisdom chooses the direction
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once saw a guy reject the entire field of philosophy as "pseudoreligious intellectual masturbation for the pretentious" and then i checked his profile and he was a devout Buddhist
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-learning the dhamma/growing sangha. so early next month I'm flying to asia (singapore, nepal, india, hopefully china) and could really use your support! I rely 100% on alms and generosity—ur dana will help facilitate the true dhamma in the west emptythrone.org/donate thank u 🪷
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within 48 hours of initiating sangha and truly dedicating the rest of my natural life to the dhamma—I recieved a call from a practitioner asking me to come to Singapore. I've never desired to teach or lead, but the opportunity is clearly kammic and aligned with the goal of-
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couple weeks ago I had the thought of travelling all over asia to study and practice this summer then last night I got a call that might completely orchestrate that ahhh s o s t o k e d
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