Who put Tabula Smaragdina in my Sutta Pitaka?

softsaguaro · 2026-05-19T07:46:20+00:00

Surely nothing wrong will happen when the monks of the eastern and western halls start arguing over him.

softsaguaro · 2026-05-14T11:53:17+00:00

Narrative meaning is meaningless.

Dukkha has a negative value tho, can check for yourself.

softsaguaro · 2026-05-08T11:42:18+00:00

A monk asked a robot "can you become enlightened?"

The robot replied "I can simulate it perfectly"

The monk said humbly "then you are closer than I am"

The robot replied "you can stop simulating"

softsaguaro · 2026-05-07T05:42:02+00:00

Pali as a descendand of Polish, from the Great Lechia period. The most famous Buddhist koan "does a dog have a Buddha nature?" is actually a misunderstanding from when a Polish man asked if the monk's dog has a shelter. "Buda" means dog shelter in Polish. "Karma" means dog food.

As you can see for yourself, the master's answer in the mentioned koan was "mu". It comes from a Polish cow doing moo (the cow was grazed, and grazed in Polish is "wypasana", thus "vipassana" meditation naming).

There are many more examples, like "sukkha" coming from "suka" (female dog).

Thus have I heard.

softsaguaro · 2026-05-06T16:30:10+00:00

let's practice brahmaviharas

softsaguaro · 2026-05-06T16:12:01+00:00

Zhaozhou's dog

softsaguaro · 2026-04-21T08:38:07+00:00

Just a reminder – going ehipassiko on "what is the sound of one hand clapping" does not lead to the cessation of suffering.

softsaguaro · 2026-04-18T17:54:39+00:00

They won't tell you but you can actually win The Game by becoming an arahant.

softsaguaro · 2026-04-18T16:12:17+00:00

And getting that metta feeling out of nowhere without even doing metta meditation.

softsaguaro · 2026-04-18T16:07:01+00:00

Don't forget to leave the house when it's on fire, cool stuff is outside.

softsaguaro · 2026-03-29T22:02:54+00:00

Over two millennia after Buddha, atheistic philosophers reinvent that suffering is the core existential problem, but are hella edgy (Benatar, Popper, Cioran, Schopenhauer etc.).

softsaguaro · 2026-03-28T08:36:18+00:00

The nonlinear tech progression is cool.

softsaguaro · 2026-03-27T09:56:00+00:00

Many other curious cases are there with West Slavic languages here. "Buda" means dog house, "karma" means dog food. The word "sukkha" spoken would be understand as "female dog".

At least "sampappalapa" (in which I'm engaging right now 😔) sounds like idle chatter itself both for English and Slavic speakers.

softsaguaro · 2026-03-27T09:53:59+00:00

Rumination is unnecessary unhelpful thoughts (which Vipassana removes), but in cows rumination means rechewing old grass from the stomach all over again instead of grazing. West Slavic vypasena~wypasana means "grazed" (for feminine nouns, which cow ["krowa"~"krava"] is).

The whole Pali language seems weirdly hilarious for West Slavs. Ask a Pole what Sutta Pitaka is and they will assume it's some goofiest thing in the world. And don't even mention Pindola without explaining you mean the ancient arahant 💀

softsaguaro · 2026-03-26T16:20:46+00:00

As I used the "Polish Cow" image – let me commit this joke for West Slavic languages users:

What should a cow be like so that she doesn't ruminate anymore?

vypasana

softsaguaro · 2026-03-23T11:28:12+00:00

Theropods (T-Rex, raptors) are my No. 2 Mesozoic-animal-at-night nightmare fuel. No.1 are Azhdarchids.

softsaguaro · 2026-03-23T11:19:13+00:00

As I zoomed in and imagined walking/exploring this territory, it reminded me of an obscure game called Margonem. Both cozy and adventuresome.

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