My Troubled Mind

The name’s Jade. Black heterosexual cis-male. 34. 🇺🇸-born. 🇯🇲🇭🇹-family. ♈️. 🗽. Single. ✝️. INFJ. Confessions, current events, human rights, anxiety, music, anime, wrestling, theology and other things. @GTAsoldier (my social media handle almost everywhere) DNI: TERFs, SWERFs, MAPs/pedophiles, fundies, anti-theists, racists, minors, tradcats, anti-LGBTQ+s, radfems, hoteps.

[gtasoldier]

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[zenmister]

Zen Easter - Jesus

Jesus’s journey from suffering on the cross to death to resurrection provides a good example for how to transform suffering into awakening. Crucifixion, death by torture, is an extreme example of suffering. Death is an extreme example of acceptance, of giving in to the inevitability of circumstances. Physical resurrection from the grave is an extreme example of awakening. Sometimes it is helpful to have extreme examples to point out a more moderate path.

In Zen we are fortunate to have to opportunity to resurrect ourselves constantly. We begin by noticing that we are suffering, that we are on the cross. We recognize our inherent divinity or basic goodness. We understand that we don’t want to be on the cross and we don’t deserve to be on the cross. As we learn to accept our circumstances, which include our experience of suffering, we can see into the nature of our suffering. We can see into the nature of suffering. At that point we give up our resistance and experience a peaceful, living death. As we continue to live our life with this realization, we experience resurrection.

Once we learn to transform our suffering and practice resurrection in every moment, we can help others learn to work with their suffering and their minds to experience their own transformation. When we remember our basic goodness, we naturally feel compassion for everybody as they bear their crosses. Happy Easter.

[gtasoldier]

Kristos anesti.

[and-her-saints]

This is ‘Un-alived J3sus.’ Full reflection titled: "we ought to not look away: a small reflection on suffering, witness, censorship and the Crucifixion" up on my (free) substack

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[wetheurban]

I hope you find someone who can’t believe they get to love you.

[queers4christ]

"I give you a new commandment, love one another as I have loved you" (john 13:34)

Happy Maundy Thursday, friends ❤️

[a-really-big-cat]

The Sages cling to the One And take care of this world; Do not display themselves And therefore shine; Do not assert themselves And therefore stand out; Do not praise themselves And therefore succeed; Are not complacent And therefore endure; Do not contend And therefore no one under heaven Can contend with them.

-- Laozi, Daodejing Chapter 22

Rivers and seas Can rule the hundred valleys. Because they are good at lying low They are lords of the valleys.

Therefore those would be above Must speak as if they are below. Those who would lead Must speak as if they are behind.

-- Laozi, Daodejing Chapter 66

(trans. by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo)

[gtasoldier]

Chapter XXXIV 🎂

[gtasoldier]

Not even death can separate the love.

[gtasoldier]

Love is a form of self-sacrifice in & of itself.

[blacksoular]

[soundgrammar]

J Dilla

[retquits]

so don't get too comfortable.

high resolution free to download [ here ]

[gtasoldier]

Mawnin

[gtasoldier]

I’m too reclusive for my own good.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

‘even if a person has done X harmful thing, we should still have moral standards in terms of how we respond to that thing- having done a harmful action should not make you a free-for-all target for any kind of no-holds-barred abuse we can imagine’ is not a defense of X harmful thing, by the way

[gayleviticus]

'God is closer to us than we are to ourselves' always just seemed poetically nice but like. it makes sense. if God isn't just a good guy, or even an all-powerful entity that happens to be good, but goodness itself then anything good is God's presence around us. and for all the broken goodness in the world that festers into evil, we are surrounded by so much goodness and beauty that we could never capture God as a single thing