@CardinalZay His heart was in the right place! He was trying to relate so badly all he had to say was his brother is gay too, but his brain skipped straight to vehicular manslaughter
@CardinalZay When my boss at my old job saw a photo of me and my boyfriend at my desk, he awkwardly pointed and asked if that’s my “significant other”. When I said yes, he paused contenplatively before saying,
“That’s nice. My brother’s husband died in a car crash in Italy.”
@DangrfieldNewby@smashbaals You got a book writing about it.
It’s a simple question of whoever wrote the book needed to be there or be told about the events, no?
@rongtangjushi Gokuraku Jōdo is both a real place in the far West, and within our minds.
It is the bonbū mind that requires distinguishing between one or the other.
@HootenWilson Surely someone who might think:
‘I am woman’, or ‘I am man’,
or ‘I am’ anything at all,
is fit for Māra to address.
— Soma Sutta, Buddhist scripture where a Buddhist nun rejects the demon Mara’s attempts to say her womanhood makes her inferior and unable to become enlightened
@VitalTelos Like how does Christianity work when higher ups decide in real time what is or isn’t Christianity anymore
The closest I’ve seen to it was the transition away from “Peace Be With You”
@VitalTelos I always wondered: if you were already reading or using a book that was taken out of the Bible due to a council, what are you supposed to do?
Is it just considered heresy? What if you already believed in it? Do you have to go to confession?
@lumpwazhere Doctors recommend not to mix medications to avoid side effects.
Meditation is, similarly, prescribed sober to avoid side effects.
Attempt basic meditation sober such as awareness of breath, or a simple mantra recitation (Budho in Pali is a good one), then build up from there.
@thugje_dorje Reminds me of a story from an abbot where someone approached them asking to learn Vajrayana:
Abbot asked if they knew the Hinayana; they said yes.
Abbot asked if they knew the Mahayana; they said yes.
Impressed, Abbot asked who their guru is?
They said “me.”
Abbot sighed.