Upadeśa

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🎼 Wokes to the Left of me, MAGA to the Right,
Here I am; Perched on a Middle Way View 🎶

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically,
The fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter.
🔥 Longchenpa

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Indeed.
In a Tibetan Shedra there are distinctions made between valid and invalid cognition.
Still, as a sidebar or at the very end of the class, the teacher may say that “everything we are calling valid cognition is actually also invalid due to limitations of language.” 😃

[Mart @Martposting]

Mahāyāna Buddhism rejects the correspondence between language and reality. As a result, enlightenment cannot be explained via language, for the latter belongs to the realm of false discriminations and attachments.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@chercher_ai I knew a Pat Tern. Was very samsaric.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@ALEXAGY0 Heavy Metal

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@realityacid108 @jayant_dhote https://t.co/RcWtZDLhoW

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

We say thoughts are random but they are only mostly random.
If they were completely random you might have my thoughts and I might randomly have your thoughts. That doesn’t happen.
Newborns & infants have few random thoughts reflecting undeveloped 4th skandha & less experience.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Thoughts are dependently originating based on conditions:
1. Presence of 5 Skandhas
2. Four deluded views of self
3. Ignorance of the natural state
4. Prior experience
They are spontaneously empty, never actually existed from their own side.
As such they neither come, nor go.

[pearl panda @23aphelion]

@themopinomicon @olddog108 where do they come from, where do they go

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@BreatheLesss It’s mostly about not following after sensory experiences with thoughts; not adding any fabricated storyline to those experiences.
If you’ve seen teachings on 6 consciousnesses (or 8 in Yogachara), meditation happens in the 6th consciousness so we leave the first five alone.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

This bad boy is in an unopened sealed glass jar plus plastic around the seal and it still stinks 😊😄😆

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@Emptiness__000 Beautiful 🙏

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@themopinomicon They are simply dependently originated 🙏

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Teachings on origin of thoughts (4 Views of Self):
1. Self-centered: dualistic perception - subject/object.
2. Self-attachment: how does this impact me?
3. Superiority view: Me and/or My views are supreme.
4. View of individual personality (permanent, singular, independent).

[Bodie Satva 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @themopinomicon]

if you've got brain problems and mind problems you can't think your way out of it. thoughts are complete bullshit no one even knows where they come from. So try taking a step back, breathing, calming down, being in the present moment. it's ok to just be alive, that's enough.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Replace these with a view of emptiness (Neither Self Nor Non-self)
We combine View & Meditation for good reason; meditation isn’t enough.
In addition to the 4 deluded views, ignorance of the Natural State perpetuates thoughts, reversed by Familiarization, not a single experience.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@anishmoonka Can you elaborate on this: “A pigeon's eyes also refresh the world faster than ours, closer to 100 times a second where we level off near 60.”

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Wow! 🤩

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

I do not have a strong opinion on this topic.
The Jataka “tales” show compassion to be the commonality, not teaching View.
One can teach compassion within existing cultures, without trying to shift belief systems.
So, his teachings (as recorded) do not prove or disprove it.
🤷‍♂️

[Rev Josho Adrian Cirlea ☸️ @RCirlea]

Jesus was NOT a Bodhisattva or a Buddhist monk!

There is a very disturbing wrong view (and spiritual bullshit) that I hear nowadays as some deluded people say that Jesus was a Bodhisattva or a former Buddhist monk!

Dear friends, don’t let yourself driven into confusion! If Jesus was indeed a Buddhist monk, then he was a very bad monk because he ended up accepting the wrong view of an eternal creator god. How can a person teaching such a wrong view can be a Bodhisattva? Such an idea is idiotic.

I don’t deny some good things he taught and did; however, the Compassion of an Enlightened Bodhisattva does not include good deeds only, but true teaching as well, and as we see in this article based on the Buddha's own words in the Baka Brahma Sutra - “There is NO supreme creator god in the Buddha Dharma” - https://t.co/9HKYTLqoua to teach wrong views is never a quality of a genuine Bodhisattva or Buddha.

If you portray Jesus as a Buddhist Bodhisattva or monk you do a disservice to both him and Christianity as well as to Buddhism. Please STOP this nonsense!

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Image: Buddha (right) preaching the Truth to Baka Brahma (left) who had the illusion that he is supreme in the world - read the article suggested above!

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At this link you can also find another useful article,
On the powerful pretas (hungry spirits) who wish to dominate other beings through religion
https://t.co/F6W7QDruoi

Yours in Namo Amida Bu 🙏

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[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@chercher_ai Have you heard the Buddhist Blues though?

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Check your motivation.
Only Bodhicitta will take you to Buddhahood.
🔥🔥🔥

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

…sleep in, and missed every early meditation session, he was worried they weren’t going to write the letter he needed to document he completed the retreat. So,when they offered a refuge ceremony, he signed up and acted like he found his lineage. They’ve never seen him again.

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

Lineage practitioners are not a monolith.
I know someone who took refuge on a retreat once because he needed to get credit for the retreat hours to graduate from an academic program. The program had a “retreat requirement” but didn’t offer their own retreat.
Since he liked to …

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

@BreatheLesss Makes sense. There are lineage members who stay on a prescribed path within a lineage and also plenty who mingle in other circles.
A lineage person who doesn’t have time to study, but goes to a Jhana retreat, and ends up in a confused place, isn’t that uncommon.
Nice chat 🙏

[Upadeśa @olddog108]

I’ve spent time with multiple lineages over the last 12 years from all yanas.
I’ve never seen a person inside a lineage develop any problems with meditation. Not once.
The only few cases of meditation psychosis I’ve ever encountered were non-lineage and self-directed.

[Hyde 💨 @BreatheLesss]

The people I've seen develop psychosis (or worse) from their meditation practice had a few things in common:

a) They were part of a lineage
b) Mixed a bunch of stuff together (drugs)
c) They were already mentally unwell
d) They were physically sick to some degree
e) Loads of visualization

(C) is probably THE most common factor. Which makes sense, imo.

I think anything worth doing has risks ofc but some people are more prone to them. Probably not you reading this....

Caveat: I've only met two people irl who admitted at least two of the above, as far as I could infer. The rest is just what I've observed online and talking to people here so 🌾🧂