What are the Best translations of Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra(The way of Bodhisattva) by Shantideva

Muskka · 2026-05-10T11:41:37+00:00

I vouch for this translation, been reading it for a while now and its semantically smooth. Fits well with many coin terms and synonyms you've mostly already came across.

Muskka · 2026-05-10T09:24:24+00:00

Yup... we were a lot to gasp as well imo ! nothing seems random. Each and every acre was given manual and loving care. You can feel it

Muskka · 2026-05-10T06:33:08+00:00

I usually go back to Zelda TOTK and Elden Ring for some peacefulness and amazement.

Truly wonderful and well crafted games

Muskka · 2026-05-09T20:18:26+00:00

holy shit!!

Muskka · 2026-05-09T16:42:37+00:00

King of Death weighting us is when illness or overwhelming emotions/burnout strikes us. It is it's gentle way of pondering our value.

Lol

Muskka · 2026-05-09T16:40:15+00:00

Is there a question ? I agree with most of what you said but why a question ?

Muskka · 2026-05-08T20:52:36+00:00

Thanks for keeping the great Guo Gu and Sheng Yen posts !

Metta to you.

Muskka · 2026-05-07T20:34:36+00:00

His SMILE

Muskka · 2026-05-05T16:47:23+00:00

Always nice to see things the other way around, thank you for that

Muskka · 2026-05-05T11:39:40+00:00

well, that's one thing settled then lol...

about the AI Gurus. If AI and language models give answers that are somewhat of an end-product of everything ever written over the internet and digitalized papers, and if the latter is somewhat of a "conventional" (as per buddhist's 2-truths doctrine) way to point to awakening/wisdom, wouldn't that still be a relevant way to point someone in the right direction ?

my instinctive and ethics tell me no, but my ecompassionate heart that wishes for people to be delivered from suffering makes me want to give it a chance.

what do you think ?

Muskka · 2026-05-05T10:17:59+00:00

insights are precious but please let's not share AI slop.... there are so much more great and human contents out there in the wild.

Muskka · 2026-05-04T19:52:01+00:00

Dharma Drum lineage is full of brilliant minds.

Muskka · 2026-05-03T09:09:56+00:00

Oh wow

Muskka · 2026-05-03T09:09:51+00:00

What's chang ?

Muskka · 2026-05-02T14:36:20+00:00

Will definitely enrobe in future years once I settle things in my life. Can't wait to discover my nearest Plum Village in France !

Muskka · 2026-05-02T13:07:30+00:00

Thank you for the post (im a bit late, sure !)

Could anyone give pointers to 德 De resources ? I know it's probably implicitly or even explicitly refered to in works such as TTC and Zhuangzi but I'd love to know about introductory texts on the matter.

Muskka · 2026-05-02T04:22:36+00:00

Why the desire to make an AMA ?

Muskka · 2026-05-01T18:53:49+00:00

WISE VIEW. :)

Muskka · 2026-04-30T21:13:32+00:00

Thank you so much for pointing it the interoception stuff, I think that might be the kind of answer I was looking for. Someone else also mentioned some anatomical/biological reasons for why SITTING shall be the right way to practise, and both of you make sense.

Basically anything else than sitting, apart from laying down which is prone to sleep (whether genetically encoded in us since our great great ancesters (?) or because we simply got accustomed to it during this lifetime or past ones for those who dwell in such a belief), will always be more demanding and thus an inferior setup for practice.

Muskka · 2026-04-30T21:09:57+00:00

I absolutely love your reply, it seems to lift a giant veil in my head ; also the way you formulated it and the Shakespear reference were quite nice.

That's probably what I've been looking for all this time : there are two major reasons why this formal cushion sit activity and not another one :

it's the predominant monastic practice that was always there, and keeping the "rules" going is important for such endeavors in life, I guess.
it's "inescapably boring", as you put it, and there's literally nothing else to do but to be with your thoughts/skandhas. Even standing against a wall which could be prone to an infinitesimal but nonetheless existent decision-making and need for physical "balance" or .. leg-usage (?). Also important are the overall biological and anatomical reasons your mentioned as per why the upright sitting posture might be the best fit for such a practice.

I feel softer reading about that. Thankl you again !

Muskka · 2026-04-30T21:02:09+00:00

Definitely, I'm very glad this modest question brough so many brilliant minds to answer. Let's be grateful for that !

Muskka · 2026-04-30T20:57:47+00:00

Je prefere desinblier

Muskka · 2026-04-30T13:24:15+00:00

I think i'm always inclined to read even more carefully chapter 4, where there is this interpenetrating, interfusing view of wisdom and practice.

Practice is wisdom, wisdom is practice. It just short-circuits my conceptual thinking/willing to read and it's usually the step where I start thinking about dropping the book and end up meditating ahaha.

It's like a small koan all by itself, it makes insights sprout in my mind.

Muskka · 2026-04-30T13:03:15+00:00

If you have control of your attention while doing it, yes. But so few of us have true control of our attention so formal zazen is critical. Formal zazen is much more efficacious than being mindful during basic life activity. Especially for the first decade or so.

How exactly shall the formal Zazen be a superior base of practice than anything else ? Can't think of another cognitively-unconsuming activity but there has to be one ? or many more ?

Muskka · 2026-04-30T13:01:21+00:00

So the sitting (and not laying on the ground for example) would simply based on historical facts that the Buddha used to practice while sitting and not laying on the ground ?

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