· @Vlangusy
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I think what can make meditating easier is the concept of synchronizing one's body with their mind, that we aim for there being no difference between what's going on on the outside and on the inside. The idea that if there would be someone to look at you while you're meditating they could be sure what they see is pretty much the same as what's in your head - just your body sitting and breathing and being alive.

#buddhism #meditation

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The Open Buddhist University · @obu
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Robert · @robert
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Right from the start we have this dichotomy. There is me, and there is the practice, and I am going to do the practice. It's like two mountains facing each other. And then people wonder why they don't make progress. We need to dissolve the boundary between the subject and the object. In other words, we have to become the meditation.

📚 Ani Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake

#buddhism #meditation #nondualism

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Michael Misamore · @mmisamore
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www2.hawaii.edu/~stroble/Buddh

This paper was very helpful to me for understanding violence and war from an early perspective. Recommended reading for fellow folks, with mettā.

#buddhism #theravada

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bodhidave · @bodhidave
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note on "suffering" in :

A perhaps better translation for the Buddhist Pali word "dukkha"— often presented as "suffering"— might be "unsatisfactoriness."

It can get subtle. It's not just about painful miserableness.

Because as long as we're not awakened — soberly in love with the wonder of living being — that's dukkha.

An analogy that occurs to me is how even when we're having fun in a dream, there's a kind of "suffering" entailed as long as we don't appreciate that it's a dream.

#buddhism

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Eph (they,them) · @Eph
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in re :

We practice the Dharma in order to understand that way, in order to be free. That is the heart of all the effort we make, because from freedom come connectedness, compassion, lovingkindness, and peace. "Insight Meditation," Joseph Goldstein

and

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions... "Two Treatises of Government," John Locke

Freedom naturally inspires compassion, kindness, health, and peace.

#Anarchism #buddhism #mindfulness #philosophy #compassion

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goldensunstars · @Goldensunstars
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“The mind is insubstantial, like an empty sky.
Pristine cognition, naturally originating,
Is primordially radiant -
Like the nucleus of the sun.
Pristine cognition is uninterrupted -
Like a river’s unceasing torrent.

Thoughts and memories are insubstantial -
Like breezes in the atmosphere.
All experiences are manifested by Mind -
Like the images in a mirror.
All phenomena are like clouds in the air -
Naturally originating,
And naturally dissolving.”

#buddhism #tibet #tibetanbuddhism

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Nathan Borson · @nathanborson
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Today's Hidden Brain podcast beautifully distills a key life lesson in a one-hour podcast
hiddenbrain.org/podcast/being- .
Two years ago, I thought I was kind to myself -- and I was, compared to many. I have since learned -- perhaps from some of the same practitioners as Dr. Neff -- that I can do a lot better. And I am, still with plenty of room for improvement! 😉
❤️🙏☸️

#buddhism #mindfulness #meditation #caring #compassion

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Rigpa Australia · @RigpaAustralia
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Mirabai · @squig
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P Gurgel-Segrillo · @GurgelSegrillo
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Metta Convention Week: Buddhist Bowl Trivia

Players: Bhante Sujato (In person) & Ajahn Brahmali.

Mon 25 Sep | 7-8.30pm AEST. Location: In person at Western Sydney University, Bankstown City campus or Online. Cost: Free

Two renowned Buddhist monks, Bhante Sujato and Ajahn Brahmali, go head-to-head in the Buddhist Bowl challenge. The questions will be contributed by monastics and lay practitioners

eventbrite.com.au/e/metta-conv

#theravada #buddhism #Metta #bhantesujato #ajahnbrahmali

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Rigpa Australia · @RigpaAustralia
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Sharon Cummings Art · @SharonCummingsArt
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Fūmyō · @rustlingleaves
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fulfilling
entire canyons—
ancient streams

Today's post touches on marketing and scam calls, anger and kindness, waters and canyons, and divorced mothers. So, it's quite a mix! It's also the first time I got enough courage to publish some of my haiku and senryu on the blog.

You can read at rustling-leaves.blog/posts/anc

The photo is a public domain photo by Jean Beaufort.

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#meditation #contemplation #mindfulness #buddhism #zen #blog #anger #kindness #poetry #poem #haiku #senryu

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Robert · @robert
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The first is training in ethics, or moral conduct, the second is training in meditation, and the third is training in wisdom. Nowadays everybody seems to he very interested in meditation. But to take meditation out of its context is like building the walls of a house without first laying the foundations: the walls may he very nice, but without a sturdy foundation, they are likely to collapse.

📚 Ani Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake

#buddhism #meditation

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Robert · @robert
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Greed is less heavy karmically [compared to hatred] in that it may not directly cause harm to others, but it is extremely difficult to uproot because nobody sees greed as a problem. Within reasonable boundaries, we like being a little greedy. It's nice. We want nice clothes, nice food, a nice place to live. … So we are not highly motivated to relinquish our desire.

📚 Ani Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake

#buddhism

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Mattthias · @Mattthias
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@fonecokid

Reincarnation: We are not created out of nothing. The sequence of incarnations is beginingless. Reincarnation is controlled by our karma.

Atheism: There is no creator, no person who made us or our world.

So, reincarnation and atheism fits perfect. Ask a Jaina or Buddhist.

#Hinduism #buddhism #karma

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Mattthias · @Mattthias
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"Liu Shifu [...] became a peasant movement organiser. Under his watch, The People’s Voice [1910s] emerged as China’s most influential organ of anarcho-communism, in whose pages there was no contradiction between embracing the latest science and embracing Buddhist and Taoist ideals."

Maia Ramnath, Non-Western Anarchisms and Postcolonialism

theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

#anarchism #buddhism #Taoism

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P Gurgel-Segrillo · @GurgelSegrillo
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Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai

Unusual Temples in Thailand that Take You on A Journey to Hell tripzilla.com/hell-temples-tha

#thailand #theravada #buddhism #temples #helltemples

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