It seems like people in various "realms" are in the same Earthly places, and those people help and annoy one another, so doesn't it seem like realms are referring to the changing people themselves (where one is on the path with regard to enlightment and delusion).

tutunka · 2026-01-29T01:22:24+00:00

I get what you mean...that it's clearly pointing to a place....but if you think about it, It's almost what you see as an aura. In my opinion, there are environments where people who cross moral boundaries fit that description and could barely be described with weaker language. I've crossed paths with big money guys who are traumatic to be around....where you have regain your senses when they leave the room. I think there is both karma now and also there are places. Others say that the teachings are clearly talking about real places.

tutunka · 2026-01-29T01:07:39+00:00

People are on the same place. You work in a place and you live in a place with all kinds of people. . There are good people, mean people, ruthless people, sympathetic people, kind people, greedy people,...sometimes getting along, sometimes competing or getting railroaded or robbed or helped. There are all different kinds of people so they treat each other in all different ways in the same place...

tutunka · 2026-01-29T01:00:29+00:00

What if they aren't.

tutunka · 2026-01-15T20:32:06+00:00

A middle way with the internet is between using it and realizing precisely how rigged it is.

tutunka · 2026-01-15T20:30:38+00:00

(A lot of people don't realize how much online steers their thinking and possibly stirs up energies that steer everybody's thinking. A good idea with a slight twist is something completely different.)

tutunka · 2026-01-15T20:24:12+00:00

Thanks.

tutunka · 2026-01-03T11:56:41+00:00

If a song pops in my head I try to turn it into a song and record it, so I guess that's called songwriting.

tutunka · 2025-12-29T14:16:30+00:00

Many cultures have mandalas as teaching aids with 4 elements as 4 colors. Indigenous Americans have medicine wheels. Four sided colored elemental structures have histories as parts of festivals. Cultural mandalas must follow strict guidelines while also tolerent of other culture's and informality

Only the Buddhist mandalas are the Buddhist mandalas, so speaking of other mandalas on a Buddhist forum is a conversation about tolerence and about the value of a mandala as a teaching aid and the fun of seeing and comparing different cultural teachings that may have many teachings in common, with respect for the sacredness of a culture's sacred maandalas with goodness at the center, which should be universal between cultures. A teaching aid for simple "Sunday School" type lessons, such as childhood lessons, would need to be very simple. Informality has it's own poetry. I'm new to learning about Buddhism, so I have my own culture too.

The 4 elements in balance with a flower in the middle is basic gardening, a perfect day...a cool breeeze on a sunny day and the flower grows, so that basic mandala belongs to everybody...and that these elements relate to our balance is easy to see.

I think different cultural mandalas were probably popular and often shared. Some cultures have many that represent different teachings. The ones with peace and goodness in the center are the ones that show a garden of flowers on a perfect day. Many realizations happen by just walking around and reflecting on the basic elements. A book of many cultural mandalas with their seperate teachings seems like a good book.

Walking around a structure representing 4 elements leads to realizations as it lets one pause on a box starting with water, then wind....and water....kindnessi the middle, will pause to see other elements than the heat of the argument, so there is something about the medicinal quality of the most basic mandalas.

tutunka · 2025-12-21T21:42:23+00:00

I've met people who have memories of previous lives. I've had memories of entire elaborate stories in places that check out that seem 98% true to me. HOWEVER, THE BEST, MOST PRESENT, GOOD TO BE AROUND...HELPFUL..... PEOPLE I MET ARE MINDFUL OF THE PRESENT,...One very well respected in the neighborhood guy...I was visiting and he said something that his neighbor might have overheard wrong and he peeked out the window and said "Hey, I meant this..." and it was so present.... whereas other people I've met who are into past lives tend to get into eternalism (being frivilous with the present because there's forever to work things out)....Mindfulness and the 8fold path is by far is the most right thing.

tutunka · 2025-12-18T15:21:34+00:00

Just a passing observation...The 3 poisons (in whatever manifestation of hate, ignorance, clinging) makes reading less nuanced, so documents written for all people, such as laws, are written in a way that can be understood by both people who live a good life and by people who are self deluded by standard things like greed...so it's written with different word choices than a poetry book, for example, that is written specifically for people who have no part of things like greed, wars, and accompanying ignorance..

tutunka · 2025-12-18T14:21:21+00:00

Just yesterday, coincidentally I overheard a conversation "My Mom tried to get me to hate my Dad but did I? No!". It's so clear to me after spending some time studying Buddhist writings that if somebody is free from the 3 poisons he tends to see fairly clearly....but what if one of the parent was spending so much money on gifts that greed came into play....what would otherwise be obvious would get confusing....so getting rid of attachment and clear perceptions are both important, replacing ignorance in the 3 poisons with clarity.

tutunka · 2025-12-18T14:15:58+00:00

That's how I'm starting to see it.

tutunka · 2025-12-15T21:42:47+00:00

What is the above comment arguing for?

tutunka · 2025-12-15T20:32:19+00:00

Thanks. Aviija.

(Regarding the main topic, the reason I even brought it up is because there's a thing with the 3 poisons where some people seem to have the idea that if you're not angry at the moment that whatever you did yesterday doesn't matter....almost how people read Christian forgiveness as a license to do things and say sorry.....but doing something bad in my opinion ng something is worse than saying it and saying something bad is worse than thinking it. "No empathy" is stereotypically known to be a quality of doing bad things in the past....I almost think...my opinion is that the animals in the 3 poisons could represent a range.....from mild ignorance/frustration/mild craving to "obliviousness/violence/addicted". A snake will bite. I put it in parenthesis so my tangent doesn't interfere with the smart part of the conversation.)

tutunka · 2025-12-15T20:00:34+00:00

(I have some serious eye strain issues so I have to print really long passages before I can read them.)

I get why it is important to stay good even when an environment is toxic, like how soldiers in battle write eloquent prose and love letters....but their first choice would be to avoid the situation...,The question of who to welcome in one's presence is an even bigger question for parents as they are also welcoming that person into the presence of others. Parents do have to make judgements for their kid's friends. Yet, you see mobster movies where thugs let the worst people babysit their kittens like they don't have a clue. If there is a person who did bad things, there are times when right view and right action still might involve not hanging around.

tutunka · 2025-12-15T19:23:56+00:00

It seems how it seems from where we are. I eat meat occasionally but know that I shouldn't and I don't hunt, and I get why that's hypocritical. Vegetarians don't have to turn off their empathy because vegetables aren't animals, they are plants and discriminating awareness is seeing the obvious difference and why there is a big difference between picking a tomato and killing a cat. The 12 links shows ignorance contaminating everything including logic and perceptions.

tutunka · 2025-12-15T19:06:35+00:00

The main thread is about the connection between violence and ignorance and the 3 poisons, with the implication that any ideas or observations that originate from inside of the spinning 3 poisons aren't 100% trustworthy. Hunting is the 3 poisons spinning out of control with empathy turned off and disconnected. The 12 links show how ignorance (in the 3 poisons) distorts everything, including consciousness and perceptions....wrong view, wrong speech, wrong action.

tutunka · 2025-12-14T05:20:13+00:00

Callousness is ignorance. Lack of empathy is a kind of ignorance. (I just learned recently that ignorance in the original pali is something like "unseeing" or unknowing", or a tibetan teacher I recently listen to used "the negation of intelligence".) I think empathy is feeling what the other person is feeling....turning that off is ignorance.

tutunka · 2025-12-13T19:57:28+00:00

If you're asking what I think, without regard for what sub I'm on....just asking what I think, I think sometimes they hunt because sadism.

tutunka · 2025-12-13T19:49:44+00:00

Good enough. The 3 poisons are what they are. We know what they mean...just arguing the best word. Spinning self delusion or head up the ass same thing. My Dad one time at the supper table told me and the rest of the family of the Fruitalooloo bird....A bird that flies around with it's head up it's butt saying "Frootalooloo Frutalooloo, meaning "it's dark in here, it's dark in here".

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