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@n0body I would watch that episode. #PieEating #StarTrek #TransporterAccident
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@n0body I would watch that episode. #PieEating #StarTrek #TransporterAccident
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@n0body I would watch that episode. #PieEating #StarTrek #TransporterAccident
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@n0body I would watch that episode. #PieEating #StarTrek #TransporterAccident
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"The five skandhas are the limit of reality. If we are going to find anything real, this is where we are going to find it." - Red Pine, commentary on the #HeartSutra. #FiveAggregates #buddhism
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Here are the various discourses - the five Pali Nikāyas of #Buddhism - translated by Biddku Sujato, available in print and digital format. These are eminently readable, modern translations of the #Pali canon.
https://suttacentral.net/editions
Bhante Sujato (Anthony Best) is a former musician who has toured with many popular bands of the 80s (INXS, Eurythmics, etc) and studied under Ajahn Brahm. He founded SuttaCentral to make these translations freely available to the public.
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My #buddhist take on Krugman's think piece on "rural rage" is that it treats the human psyche like another economic problem to solve. But the truth more #nuanced.
The human mind is designed to survive, not to be happy. Rage and angst are built into the human mind as surely as eyesight and navel-gazing.
Once basic needs are met, the path to equanimity lies in wisdom, which cannot be taught directly, only indirectly through the practice of compassion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/rural-voters-economy.html
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My #buddhist take on Krugman's think piece on "rural rage" is that it treats the human psyche like another economic problem to solve. But the truth more #nuanced.
The human mind is designed to survive, not to be happy. Rage and angst are built into the human mind as surely as eyesight and navel-gazing.
Once basic needs are met, the path to equanimity lies in wisdom, which cannot be taught directly, only indirectly through the practice of compassion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/rural-voters-economy.html
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My #buddhist take on Krugman's think piece on "rural rage" is that it treats the human psyche like another economic problem to solve. But the truth more #nuanced.
The human mind is designed to survive, not to be happy. Rage and angst are built into the human mind as surely as eyesight and navel-gazing.
Once basic needs are met, the path to equanimity lies in wisdom, which cannot be taught directly, only indirectly through the practice of compassion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/rural-voters-economy.html
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My #buddhist take on Krugman's think piece on "rural rage" is that it treats the human psyche like another economic problem to solve. But the truth more #nuanced.
The human mind is designed to survive, not to be happy. Rage and angst are built into the human mind as surely as eyesight and navel-gazing.
Once basic needs are met, the path to equanimity lies in wisdom, which cannot be taught directly, only indirectly through the practice of compassion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/rural-voters-economy.html
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a "christian" nation, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
The US was founded by Europeans fleeing religious persecution. They went on to persecute other religions and any form of dissent. This is why religious liberty and separation of church and state, were enshrined in the US constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
#history
#education
#constitution
#religion
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a "christian" nation, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
The US was founded by Europeans fleeing religious persecution. They went on to persecute other religions and any form of dissent. This is why religious liberty and separation of church and state, were enshrined in the US constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
#history
#education
#constitution
#religion
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a "christian" nation, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
The US was founded by Europeans fleeing religious persecution. They went on to persecute other religions and any form of dissent. This is why religious liberty and separation of church and state, were enshrined in the US constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
#history
#education
#constitution
#religion
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a "christian" nation, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
The US was founded by Europeans fleeing religious persecution. They went on to persecute other religions and any form of dissent. This is why religious liberty and separation of church and state, were enshrined in the US constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
#history
#education
#constitution
#religion
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a "christian" nation, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
The US was founded by Europeans fleeing religious persecution. They went on to persecute other religions and any form of dissent. This is why religious liberty and separation of church and state, were enshrined in the US constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
#history
#education
#constitution
#religion
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
FWIW Plato described five types of #republic, one of which is #democracy, none of which is "constitutional".
Plato's five regimes are: aristocracy, oligarchy, timocracy, democracy and tyranny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
#history
#education
#constitution
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
FWIW Plato described five types of #republic, one of which is #democracy, none of which is "constitutional".
Plato's five regimes are: aristocracy, oligarchy, timocracy, democracy and tyranny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
#history
#education
#constitution
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
FWIW Plato described five types of #republic, one of which is #democracy, none of which is "constitutional".
Plato's five regimes are: aristocracy, oligarchy, timocracy, democracy and tyranny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
#history
#education
#constitution
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
FWIW Plato described five types of #republic, one of which is #democracy, none of which is "constitutional".
Plato's five regimes are: aristocracy, oligarchy, timocracy, democracy and tyranny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
#history
#education
#constitution
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When a self-described "conservative" (reactionary) claims the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, remember this is a falsehood, while the #truth, limping behind, is more #nuanced.
FWIW Plato described five types of #republic, one of which is #democracy, none of which is "constitutional".
Plato's five regimes are: aristocracy, oligarchy, timocracy, democracy and tyranny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
#history
#education
#constitution
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"Profound questions are questions that contain everything, and profound answers are answers to every question." - Agnes Callard
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/philosophy-profundity-purpose-limits/673471/
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Doug's Dharma provides a secular #Buddhist view on whether AI is sentient / intelligent from the perspective of the #FiveAggregates: form, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPtuwBgalEU
Our view of intelligence and sentience is rooted in religious tradition and it is easier for people who did not grow up with the Western idea of a "soul" to accept some nuance in the nature of #sentience and #intelligence.
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Singer, 1972, proposes charitable acts of #compassion are obligatory, not optional (superogatory). The argument proceeds:
1. We are morally obligated to prevent bad things from happening to other people.
2. Hunger disease and suffering are very bad things.
3. Our luxuries are not meaningful.
4. Through #charity we can prevent bad things from happening.Another way to say this is that ordinary people are #evil.
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Leo Hurwitz, 1909-1991, pioneered #documentary #filmmaking and won the Peabody award for his film production during the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. He was later blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/opinion/adolf-eichmann-tv-trial.html
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The #buddhist parable of the anger-eating demon, who could only be vanquished by #patience and #kindness.
#buddhism #paramitas #perfections
A Handbook of Early Buddhist Wisdom, by Douglass Smith, 2023.
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"Right Speech, which is to speak truthfully, kindly, meaningfully, and in a way prone to bring people together rather than divide them. Harsh speech, indeed any kind of speech at all, is to be engaged in when we feel it is useful and helpful. Otherwise we should strive to keep our own counsel."
Douglass Smith, The Spiritual Life, A Handbook of Early #Buddhist Wisdom: The Path of the Mahamagala Sutta, 2021. #EightfoldPath
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"What happens to us is that whatever appears to our mind seems to have its own independent objective existence, and we need to check whether things exist in that way or not. And in that critical analysis we should try to search for emptiness... With the reasoning of dependent origination, we are able to dispel both the extremes of #nihilism and eternalism." - His Holiness the #DalaiLama
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The unusual timing of Dave Brubeck's "Time Out".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUFiKSmqivo
#Music #Jazz #DaveBrubeck #PaulDesmond #EugeneWright #JoeMorello #TakeFive #BlueRondo
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If you wish to attain the unsurpassed enlightenment
For yourself and the world,
The root is generation of an altruistic thought
That is stable and firm like a mountain,
An all-embracing compassion,
And a transcendent wisdom free of duality.- Nagarjuna, ca. 150 CE
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nagarjuna/
#buddhism
#philosophy
#poetry
#worldlit