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  1. Vraicking @[email protected] ·

    Pieces Without a Puzzle

    The season is changing. I feel the press of autumn on the threshold of my world. Summer is lingering, and will linger for a while yet. I can appreciate that, but I am glad for the fall. From a poem by Wendell Berry: "When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf." His name can be spelled as Amsunteygralt or Amsonteygralt. We can call him the demalion of rabbits, by which we mean he is the demalion of a wild animal, because, like cats and ducks, no rabbit1 is domesticated to the […]

    vraic.wordpress.com/2026/09/06

    #abstractcomics #art #arthistory #asemic #esoteric #lintarczynski
  2. Anagārika Alāra, PhD @[email protected] ·

    Nibbana/Nirvana is not a dualistic experience. Stop waiting for something beautiful or interesting to happen, in this world, and realise whatever happens here is impermanent and empty.

    #buddhism #nibbana #nirvana #dualism #duality #experience #desire #beauty #samsara #impermanence #anicca

    #buddhism #nibbana #nirvana #dualism #duality #experience
  3. ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] ·

    I can't recommend highly enough the entire set of verses from #Arahant Sumedhā. It's the longest set in the #Therigatha recounting her attempt to get her parents to allow her to ordain. In the process she does an amazing critique of lay life specifically and #samsara generally.

    Today's reading is just three verses where she explains the cause of her connection to the Buddha's teachings in this life.

    This page will give you links to three different translations:
    sutta.readingfaithfully.org/?q

    #arahant #therigatha #samsara