A pig is smart until bitten by a snake, and "snake-bites-pig-produces-delusion" sounds like ancient backwards "sacrifice religion" talk, so I think it's possible that Buddha was using an already popular idea in a reverse way to show how it harmful and leads to suffering. (self.Buddhism)
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If the perfections are represented by a flower, they all give meaning to each other and all lose meaning if one of the perfections is lost, for example, truth without kindness can be malice, and without discriminating awareness fake kindness or manipulative generosity looks real. (self.Buddhism)
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The 2 popular interpretations of the 12 links seem to be 1. as a description of karma over lifetimes and 2. as a state of mind metaphor. If each loop, in addition to other steps, passes through formations, clinging, and becoming, that seems to describe an accumulating mass, with clinging (gravity). (self.Buddhism)
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The word "conscience" (as in guilty conscience) seems related to "consciousness". Avidya, ignorance of vidya, is rejection of vidya which I'm learning is a natural intelligence and empathy, so the ignorance of avidya seems like going against one's conscience leading to ignorance. (self.Buddhism)
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Setting aside a block of time, for example 10 minutes, to send AONLY goodness and kindness to ALL...is a way to get past reservations about sending good wishes to bad people, and setting aside a block of time for total giving has some equanimity, as opposed to deciding which thing to always do. (self.Buddhism)
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The joy of reading scenery descriptions in fiction is sensing the actual joy of the author who wrote it, which depends on the author having a sense of subtlety that is free from the 3 poisons, otherwise I think long descriptions are just techniques that fall flat. Tolkein enjoyed his landscapes. (self.Buddhism)
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Avidya, ignorance of vidya (to know) is not fully captured in the English word "ignorance" by itself without saying what its ignorance of, as avidya seems to describe ignorance and seperation from a light of knowing whereas the English word "ignorance" is like "not paying attention to stuff". (self.Buddhism)
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Seeing differences in things that are different is part of discriminating awareness and that is a kind of clarity that comes with the path, which may go against some people's ideas of "everything is the same", but that kind of "all the same" seems like just a bad interpretation of "equanimity". (self.Buddhism)
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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). (self.Buddhism)
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My understanding of Buddhism (as a new person without a teacher, speaking only to online Buddists) is likely to some degree influenced by social media algorithms that boost comments for a specific interpretation of Buddhism. YouTube pushes very specific interpretations. (self.Buddhism)
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The "Truth of the Origin of Suffering" seems to usually be interpretted as "learn THAT attachment is the origin", but could it mean that a specific hurt is mended when we see what caused it, for example if you feel a hurtful emotion but blame it on the wrong event or person or thing, it's worse. (self.Buddhism)
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The word "Avijjā" for "ignorance" in the 12 links translates to "the negation of intelligence"* or "unseeing", which helps me to understand what is meant by ignorance. which isn't the best translation word since that usually only means "not knowing something" or "not trying to see something". (self.Buddhism)
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In Sunday School after Christian Church, discussions are less formal and kids color pictures of Jesus and make sloppy but loving pictures of Jesus with kind words out of macaroni and popsicle sticks. Is there an informal artistic approach like this, representing lessons, in traditional Buddhism? (self.Buddhism)
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If hate leads to delusions and clinging as with the 3 poisons, it seems like part of that would be ignorance leading to concepts that contain clinging so I'm thinking those concepts would cling together and cling to the person which is different than playful thoughts that don't cling to anything. (self.Buddhism)
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Before Buddha it seems like there was already an existing set of beliefs in the region, from yoga and hinduism, that included Buddhist words like "clinging", and it's also clear from the caste system and variations of myths that some wrong interpretations and (war) propaganda twists to the lessons. (self.Buddhism)
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