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when you pick a flower bud and it dies before it blooms

my heart is leaking fears filling up faster than i can pump it out my mind is full of doubt showing me how to make my nightmares come about: like moths to a flame. how easily i build my house on shame, with trust thrown to the dust. we all die one day.

#poetry #puke

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The Buddha taught that existence has three characteristics that are called the Three Dharma Seals: The 3 Dharma Seals form the basis of his entire teaching. 1. Dukha: Unsatisfactoriness; Suffering; Nothing(in the psychological world) can bring satisfaction. No manifested thing can satisfy craving. 2. Anitya: Impermanence; All existing conditioned things are impermanent. They will be born, they will exist for a while, and they will die. 3. Anatman: No Self. There is no independently existing self. From these 3 Dharma Seals emerge the Four Noble Truths. 1. The Truth of Suffering: Birth is suffering; Aging is suffering; Illness is suffering; Death is suffering; Union with what is displeasing is suffering; Separation from what is pleasing is suffering; Not to get what one wants is suffering; In brief: the 5 aggregates subject to clinging are suffering. 2. The Cause of Suffering: It is this craving which leads to renewed existence accompanied by delight and lust, seeking delight here and there, craving for sensual pleasure, craving for existence, craving for extermination. 3. There is an end to suffering. 4. The way to end suffering is the Eight-fold Path. This Eight-fold Path has Eight Steps: 1-Right View, or Understanding(Creative Comprehension) 2-Right Intention, or Motivation(Upright Intentions) 3-Right Speech, or Communication(Upright Words) 4-Right Action, or Conduct(Absolute Sacrifice) 5-Right Vocation, or Livelihood(Upright Behavior) 6-Right Effort(Chastity) 7-Right Attention, or Mindfulness(Constant struggle against the black magicians), 8-Right Presence, or Concentration(Supreme Patience)

audio lecture Gnosis of Buddha Dharma 01: The Gnostic Buddha (via theperfectsolution144)

You had my attention until the butchered reinterpretations.

“Right Effort (Chastity)” Chastity? Sex is the least of what Right Effort refers to. Right Effort is aligning your action with truth. The Noble Truths are for everyone. Can you imgine if EVERYONE stopped having sex? Human life would cease to exist.

“Right Action/Conduct (Absolute Sacrifice)” Absolute Sacrifice? Absolute? The Buddha teaches that the only truth is change. Which is a fancy way of saying there are no absolutes. Sacrifice is a christian concept. Buddhism teaches we are all Buddhas. Everything is divine. Everything is God. So what is there to sacrifice? Other than the notion of seperateness?

“Right Attention/Mindfullness (Constant struggle against the black magicians)” …. black magicians? Mindfullness is about taming monkey mind, that part of the mind that churns out the reactive associative thought form. Right attention is actively disciplining your mind, by bringing conscious awareness to the subconscious circus of thought. Unless this is refering to metaphoric inward black magicians, it couldnt be more off point.

Putting transcendental teachings into a whitewashed box, its not so surprising that they dont fit.

#butchering buddhism #misconception #what the actual fuck