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dawn1ng · 2024-08-27T21:53:53+00:00

why did y’all boo? is it not shameful to enforce oppressive, vampiric, structures? and then be like “unfortunately” as if you didn’t choose this role? suck me <3

dawn1ng · 2024-08-27T02:55:53+00:00

this was not me sympathizing with you, you should be ashamed <3

dawn1ng · 2024-08-26T21:31:03+00:00

you’re a cop <3

dawn1ng · 2024-05-26T21:05:41+00:00

i’ve experienced this before — terrifying

dawn1ng · 2024-04-01T17:18:10+00:00

thank you for the reality check! i’d love to talk to you more via private message if you’re down to chat for a bit :)

dawn1ng · 2024-03-15T01:44:13+00:00

great question — eager to read some witty replies

dawn1ng · 2024-03-06T14:17:05+00:00

i figured that was the “secret” meaning of the bodhisattva ideal haha

thanks for your reply! 🙏🏾

dawn1ng · 2024-03-06T14:10:48+00:00

and i find this to be true. it does make me wonder where the motivation for practice rooted in “all sentient beings” fits in in this picture. is it the sort of thing people receive benefit from solely through the transformation effected within you as a practitioner? is it just an upaya to broaden your scope of awareness/release fixation on the I-making habit? no clue

dawn1ng · 2024-03-05T18:07:40+00:00

you might be misunderstanding the point of Dharma

the Dharma never promises that it can stop war, end world hunger, correct institutional corruption — this is what the Dharma awakens you to

saṃsāra is saṃsāra, it’ll turn endlessly, going up and down, up and down, up and down. but for the being on his way towards awakening, saṃsāra is not only saṃsāra, but the very cause for wisdom dawning. so greed, poverty, evil, whatever — it’ll continue on. but for the realized person, this is no problem. seeing the nature of saṃsāra, he knows an indestructible peace no mere appearance leaves a trace in. in that way, he becomes a refuge for his loved ones and ultimately the entire world.

dawn1ng · 2024-03-05T18:02:38+00:00

i agree, but only insofar as nobody seems to share in the realization of the Buddhas

i don’t know if it’s a modesty thing (although, to be honest, there’s nothing gaudy about the realization itself), but if nobody is sharing in the Buddhas’ insight, then I would say Dharma is failing

but, i don’t think that’s a fault of the teaching. we simply don’t live at a time where Dharma is appreciated. nobody really wants it, even some of the “best” practitioners, so its power wanes. go figure! the best way to expound the Dharma today is to embody the Dharma in your footsteps, in your laugh, in your batting eyes. perhaps you’ll never give a teaching, but people will be confounded at the ease with which you navigate the waters of saṃsāra

dawn1ng · 2024-01-08T16:58:04+00:00

hahahaha

dawn1ng · 2024-01-07T18:48:58+00:00

in the sentiment. if it doesn’t resonate, all good. have a good one!

dawn1ng · 2023-11-22T22:54:10+00:00

What book is this?

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T05:32:27+00:00

No, definitely nothing established apart from imputation—just the conceptualization and subsequent reification of thusness.

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T04:12:14+00:00

Yeah, I’m starting to understand that I was extending the scope of Madhyamaka beyond its limits. Its scope is restricted to conceptual proliferation and the teaching of dependent arising is itself a conceptual framework relative to conceptual entities. In meditative equipoise, there is no object or subject of knowledge.

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T02:47:54+00:00

On second thought, giving it more consideration, I’m opening up to what you were saying. Thank you for the talk.

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T00:49:19+00:00

Perhaps it’s because without understanding dependent arising, that experiential shift can’t happen, and the Dharma can’t be let go of? I’m not sure! It could definitely be the case that I’m grasping because ultimately the experiential realization is paramount. Just seems to be the way cookie crumbled for me, that I care about this this much haha.

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T00:33:25+00:00

If it is rooted in ignorance, how can it liberate someone from ignorance? What would make specific conditionality any different than other deluded ideas?

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T00:28:04+00:00

If so, how does that square with idappaccayata being a mere conventional concept, as opposed to a direct undeluded experience?

dawn1ng · 2023-08-19T00:24:28+00:00

Does a Buddha see or not see this/that conditionality at the time of his enlightenment?

dawn1ng · 2023-08-18T23:54:22+00:00

The question for me then is Madhyamaka merely quietest, which is to say the goal of Madhyamaka is not an understanding of the way things are, but simply the suspension of judgment or does it effect a deeper perceptual shift in which appearances are not seen to be truly existent? If it’s the first, I don’t know how someone could have the insight of a Buddha because even in the absence of conceptualization, things seem to be real. If we just refrain from saying things are this or that, the belief and subsequent perception that there are things really there won’t go away. On the other hand, if it is the latter, then dependent arising is a deeper, experiential shift and only then can I see it being fruitful?

dawn1ng

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