The non-monk Buddhists who could enter chats are great actually. I mean those who actually actively practice meditation etc. Very friendly and down to earth.
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
buddhists have entered the chat
wait actually buddhists can’t enter the chat, that’s illegal
Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 day ago
Buddhist minds are so quiet The chat cannot enter them
Maiq@piefed.social 1 day ago
The chat is attachment. Too be free of suffering one must let the chat go.
Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
There’s a misconception that to practice non-attachment, you have to literally live in a cave. There’s a very large part of Buddhism that is geared for people who are still fully engaged in life. In fact many think it’s the more spiritually challenging route because you’d have to live in the middle of all the temptations, turmoil and drama, without getting lost in it. The joke is that a family dinner is a good litmus test for how well one is doing. It’s a process of constantly letting issues arise, being with the response that arises in you, and if an action must come, learning how to take the action through compassion. That allows for even political activism - it’s just fueled by wishing people happiness, not by wanting to see the other side lose. The non-attachment is in not believing that the outcome one prefers is the outcome that should come about. But it’s fine to work towards a goal, as one would in a video game.
bsit@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
There was a good podcast on the political activism part recently: …acast.com/…/finding-freedom-in-troubled-times-wi…
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 day ago
The Tao is silent
https://archive.org/details/taoissilent0000smul
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