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ˢᵘᵈᵈᵉⁿ ʷᶦⁿᵈᶦⁿˢᵗᵃⁿᵗ ᵉᵐᵖᵗᶦⁿᵉˢˢ

[Alex Robinson @arobinsontweets]

The problem I have with Buddhism is that every old dharma teacher looks the same: powerful in mind and spirit, but frail in body.

I want the embodied version of Buddhism—one that unites spiritual insight with AI, information theory, physics, biology, health/medicine, and evolution. These fields all point to the same truth: the body is an energy system. It's not meant to be still. It's meant to move, pulse, vibrate, and express.

The old Buddhists are so unhealthy because in their quest to sit quietly with suffering they are trashing their bodies.

Our bodies are energy systems, constantly in motion, literally vibrating all the way down.

As soon as you get the insight of the mind from Buddhism, stop sitting and start moving.

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"Consciousness without feature, without end, luminous all around: Here water, earth, fire, & wind have no footing. Here long & short, coarse & fine, fair & foul, name & form are all brought to an end. With the cessation of [the activity of] consciousness, each is here brought to an end.'"

— Kevatta Sutta DN 11

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the majority of the gandharan text is non-mahayana and reflects the pali pretty closely and its entirely possible (especially considering their findspot) the bit of mahayana elements were later additions from a different cultural/societal context, as far as oral tradition goes. they could be a record of proto-divergent ideas developed around the time of their writing, whereas the continuity of the pali has much more context which was my point. my critique is more about the divergent doctrinal splits which came hundreds of years after those texts. I don't disregard mahayana entirely btw I just think its erroneous to consider it equal to the pali in authority and doctrine when it comes down to the core teachings

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yes but the pali canon is much much more historically established. plenty of secondary sources and receipts + the overall context is found in all subsequent splits which points to it as the clearest representation of a single common oral source predominating the others way before a split in doctrine

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@BunyipAlex88962 @B0dhisattvaa lol you laugh but its even more funny that you have no idea who wrote the texts you follow 😭

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tbh from my bit of study and scholar consensus it seems like the mahayana sutras were composed by small groups of people intentionally warping the teachings to fit cultural and societal contexts outside of what was doctrinally established and got get away with it because writing was new and most people were still illiterate so claims of historical accuracy were nearly impossible to verify. now that we have the internet and knowledge of how these things developed is freely available, its important we update our relationship to them based on the facts and logic no matter how inconvenient imo

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@BunyipAlex88962 @B0dhisattvaa I'm very curious how it works then!

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@BunyipAlex88962 @B0dhisattvaa lol my critique is with the tradition obviously not saying you wrote it

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this line of thinking is saying one can commit all sorts of unskillful actions and when you're ready you'll get "free entry" into a peaceful heaven realm. the idea of kamma is negated. according to the suttas there is no free entry, all beings are the inheritors of their kamma and no other being can save you. study and practice may be hard but it is not an excuse to rely on another being. this is fundamental to right view.

[Yeshe Cholwa @BunyipAlex88962]

@O1A2S3D @B0dhisattvaa @realitymap The only pure land that's got free entry is Amitabha due to his primal vow.
Medicine Buddha also has the same vow on just hearing his name Medicine Master Vaiḍūrya light Tathagata. Medicine Buddha sutra goes into detail about how lapis pure land.

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yeah I agree the lighter recollection practices for laypeople have their utility

just don't agree with this person presenting as a bhikku while essentially telling people they can do whatever they want, blame it on samsara, and amida will simply save them no matter what. unskillful

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@B0dhisattvaa @BunyipAlex88962 "Every day life is a realization that I am indeed incapable to save myself from samsara and that only Amida Buddha can do that for me."

because this is wrong view and more harmful than helpful unfortunately

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me after reading a sutta I've read 2,345 times

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“I do not see a single thing that is so responsible for the arising of unarisen unwholesome qualities, and the increase and expansion of arisen unwholesome qualities, as wrong view.”

“I do not see a single thing that is so very blameworthy as wrong view. Wrong view is the most blameworthy thing of all.”

— AN 1.306, 1.318

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@ssk_ksh @_elliodell lol well here the buddha says the exact opposite (predating amida and most other splits) so its probably you who is wrong sorry 🪷

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“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself;
no one can purify another.”

— Dhammapada 165

"You yourselves must strive; the Buddhas only point the way. Those meditative ones who tread the path are released from the bonds of Mara."

— Dhammapada 276

"Therefore, Ananda, be islands unto yourselves, refuges unto yourselves, seeking no external refuge; with the Dhamma as your island, the Dhamma as your refuge, seeking no other refuge."

— Mahaparinibbana Sutta DN 16

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@_elliodell

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@TWlTTERHAVER western spiritual community grows softer by the day smh

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@TWlTTERHAVER don't think they even know what they meant lol

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@campedersen 🛠️🪷

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if I'm not meditating or studying I'm probably creating something...so earlier this year I became deeply interested in creating a new way to concisely communicate multiple core dhamma concepts at once, especially thru diagrams & symbols which lead me to make what I call saccamandalas (realitymaps lol) the first one is a combination of the three marks/four noble truths/twelve links & the second is the four frames/five aggregates/eightfold path...a simple way to transmit and memorize these core ideas visually...also added diagrams I made on the four frames/jhana relation and bahiya sutta—all live on the site for you to discover 🪷 looks best on desktop (with a few easter eggs)—link below ↓ 🪷 sadhu

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https://t.co/yedKjn9Cf3