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turns out the way you choose to live out each day dictates what your life will look like overall. no i know it's terrible
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.” – Bob Marley
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‘We are not afraid’: Indigenous Brazilian women stand up to gender violence
In Parque das Tribos, an indigenous neighbourhood in Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, violence against women is not uncommon.
“As a leader, I have experienced many things,” says Lutana Ribeiro, a member of the Kokama ethnic group, and the only female chief in Parque das Tribos, which is home to around 4,500 people. “Women knock on my door asking for help.”
Sparsely populated and relatively isolated in terms of air, road and sea access, the state of Amazonas faces particular challenges in access to public services, including for sexual and reproductive health support and gender-based violence response.
In 2021, at least one person called the national police emergency number in Brazil every minute to report domestic violence. From 2016 to 2021, the rate of femicide – defined as the intentional killing of a woman, motivated at least in part by her gender – was reported to have increased by over 44 per cent, with one woman dying as a result of femicide every seven hours.
In the state of Amazonas, of all women killed intentionally by another person, more than one in five were cases of femicide.
Ms. Ribeiro, who is well known among her community as a staunch defender of human rights, recently facilitated a series of workshops for survivors of gender-based violence, which were attended by 50 women from the area. “On the first day, few spoke. Today, most of them have spoken.”
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The Quest for Buddhism (120)
Buddhist cosmology
Samatha-vippasana – Buddhist yoga
Samatha-vipassana is the main form of Buddhist meditation and yogic practice, yoga. In a broad sense, it is part of Zen.
Buddhist yoga practice is samatha-vippasana, in which samatha (stillness: Ref) and vippasana (insight: Ref2) take place simultaneously. The emphasis on observation as well as cessation is characteristic of Buddhist meditation methods. Cessation and contemplation are often compared to two wheels, which are inseparable. The diverse development of this technique of prayer and meditation, incorporating yogic contemplation (meditation), is a characteristic of Buddhism.
Buddhist yoga encompasses a variety of methods which aim to develop the 37 aids to awakening (Ref3). Its ultimate goal is bodhi (awakening) or nirvana (cessation), traditionally seen as the permanent end of suffering (dukkha) and rebirth. Buddhist texts use a number of terms for spiritual praxis in addition to yoga, such as bhavana (“development”: Ref4) and jhana (dhyana: Ref5).
In early Buddhism, yoga practices included:
the rupa dhyanas (four meditations or mental absorptions: Ref6),
the four satipatthanas (foundations or establishments of mindfulness),
anapanasati (mindfulness of breath: Ref7),
the four immeasurable minds (supranormal states of mind),
the brahmaviharas (divine abodes: Ref8).
Anussati (contemplations, recollections)
*Note: the four satipatthanas are the most central and most important contemplation for attaining enlightenment since the time of the Buddha’s early Buddhism, and the core contemplative practice of the main Buddhist meditation of samatha-vipassana.
These meditations were seen as supported by the other elements of the Noble Eightfold Path (Ref9), such as ethics, right exertion, sense restraint and right view. Two mental qualities are said to be indispensable for yoga practice in Buddhism: samatha (calm, stability) and vipassanā (insight, clear seeing). Samatha is a stable, relaxed mind, associated with samadhi (mental unification, focus) and dhyana (a state of meditative absorption). Vipassana is insight or penetrative understanding into the true nature of phenomena, also defined as “seeing things as they truly are” (yathābhūtaṃ darśanam). A unique feature of classical Buddhism is its understanding of all phenomena (dhamma) as being empty of a self (Pali: anatta Skt: anatman, literally “non-self”).
仏教の探求 (120)
仏教の宇宙論
止観 〜 仏教ヨガ
止観 (しかん、梵: サマタ・ヴィパッサナー) とは、仏教の瞑想の主なものであり、ヨガ行である。広い意味で禅の一部に組み込まれている。
仏教のヨガ行は、サマタ (止: 参照) とヴィパッサナー (観: 参照2) が同時に行われる止観である。サマタ (止) だけでなくヴィパッサナー (観) も重視するところに、仏教の瞑想法の特徴がある。止観は、しばしば2つの車輪に例えられ、不離の関係にある。ヨーガ観法 (瞑想法) を取り入れて、この祈りと瞑想の技術が多様に発展したことが、仏教の特徴であるといえる。
仏教のヨガは、悟りを開くための37の修行項目(参照3)を開発することを目的とした様々な方法が組み込まれている。その究極の目標は菩提 (覚醒) または涅槃 (止)で、伝統的には苦 (梵・巴: ドゥッカ) と転生の永久的な終わりと見なされている。仏典では、ヨガ行に加えて、瞑想の発達 (バーヴァナー: 参照4) や禅定 (ぜんじょう、梵: デイヤーナ、巴: ジャーナ: 参照5) など、精神修養のための用語がいくつか使われている。
初期仏教では、ヨガの修行には以下のようなものがあった:
四禅 (しぜん、梵: ルーパデイヤーナ、四つの瞑想または精神的吸収: 参照6)
四念処 (しねんじょ、巴: チャッターロー・サティパッターナー、マインドフルネスの基礎となるもの)
安那般那念 (あんなはんなねん、巴:アーナーパーナ・サティ、呼吸を意識すること: 参照7)
四無量心 (しむりょうしん、巴: アッパマナー、心の超常的な状態: 参照8)
四梵住 (しぼんじゅう、梵・巴:ブラフマーヴィハーラ、神聖な住まい)
アヌサティ(観想、想起)
*注)四念処 (しねんじょ、巴: チャッターロー・サティパッターナー)とは、釈迦の初期仏教の時代から、悟りを得るための最も中心的で最も重要な観想であり、仏教の主要な瞑想である止観の中核をなす観想法である。
これらの瞑想は、倫理、正しい努力、感覚の抑制、正しい見方など、八正道(参照9)の他の要素によって支えられていると考えられていた。仏教では、ヨガの練習に欠かせない2つの精神的資質があると言われている。それがサマタ (静寂、安定) とヴィパッサナー (洞察、明察) である。サマタ (止) とは、安定したリラックスした心のことで、サマディ (三昧: 精神統一、集中) やディヤーナ (禅定: 瞑想的吸収の状態) に関連している。ヴィパッサナー(観) は現象の本質に対する洞察や浸透的な理解であり、「物事を本当にあるがままに見る」とも定義されている。古典仏教の特徴は、すべての現象(ダンマ)を無我 (むが、巴: アナッター、梵: アナートマン) のものと理解することである。
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[Text ID: “If love is a door I keep closed, will it be a wound I keep open?”]
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[Text ID: “I hope your hand is forever on your heart. / I hope your heart is forever safe.”]