🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext@sh.itjust.works • 1 day agoAnon studies Buddhismsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down119
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minus-squarethirtyfold8625linkfedilink27•1 day agoThere are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone. Zen is said to be based on a “special transmission outside scriptures” I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you’re together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
minus-square@TimewornTraveler@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish3•13 hours agoyeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
minus-squareCodexArcanumlinkfedilinkEnglish6•20 hours agoThe Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao. Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren’t meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.
minus-square@ThirdConsul@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish4•20 hours agoTo be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding
minus-squareddhlinkfedilinkEnglish2•20 hours agoAnd when they hit you with the real stick it really hurts
There are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone.
I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you’re together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
yeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.
Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren’t meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.
To be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic.
Could be death metal lyrics
And when they hit you with the real stick it really hurts