#Anicca #Anatta #Dukkha

∴ and i am it and faith until all fracture is fact Pollux, orbital-twinned, this self-shell sloughing stay we splintered, stay this split / ter ing spentlight leans, done with its leaning tatters of over-meddled mettle stuff'd with will-broke break / le things ciphered, ruptures rumbling sum writ upon my crackle / cant under ember, ember under r’mbr’ng slow, more slow, more low toes buried where whoknows goes starsun shine on skullsoil rift-rifted, i rattle-rack ad terminum velocitatis the light loosening

#vss365 #velocity

#promptcombo #rupture @victoriaspires.bsky.social

#poemsabout #spent @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#anatta

may have just quenched a rousing colloquy over the self in psychology by suggesting that “self” is just an illusion or placeholder that points to emptiness or nothing

and using the self in self-driving car as an example

this is why I don’t get invited to certain cocktail parties #Lacan #anatta

As Cinco Lembranças de Buda Um cântico budista frequentemente entoado nos monastérios Theravada declara:“Estou sujeito ao envelhecimento… sujeito à doença… sujeito à morte…” Essa é a tradução padrão da língua Pali para o português, mas… O post As Cinco Lembranças de Buda apareceu primeiro em o sol na cabeça.

Default mode network connectivity. This image shows main regions of the default mode network (yellow) and connectivity between the regions color-coded by structural traversing direction. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 4.0).

The #DefaultModeNetwork constructs our sense of continuous self through autobiographical narrative and self-referential processing. #Buddhist #meditation practices reduce #DMN activity, correlating with experiences of #anattā (#NonSelf). This convergence […]

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Lateralization of the human brain, which is divided into two hemispheres. The left brain controls functions that have to do with logic and reason, while the right brain controls functions involving creativity and emotion. Note: This type of left-right assignment is highly simplified and does not correspond to the current state of research, which assumes overlapping and interconnected functional systems. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 2.5)

After surveying #Buddhism's #historical and #philosophical claims, the next posts will outline its scientific relevance. Let's begin with #Neuroscience and split-brain research, which under controlled conditions can reveal dissociable streams of perception […]

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King Milinda ask questions. From Hutchinson’s story of the nations, 1920. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: public domain)

#Menander I (#Milinda) features in the #Milindapañha as an inquisitive #Hellenistic king debating with the monk #Nāgasena. The text highlights #Buddhism's rational, dialogical method—using analogy and debate to clarify #nonself (#anatta), #rebirth, and […]

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Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside Parental guidance suggested.

Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside

Parental guidance suggested.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/04/pale...

#anatta,# book, #Buddhism, #DrSeuss, #GatelessGate, #Halloween, #Zen

Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside When my brother and I were four and five, we were obsessed with the Dr. Suess poem _What Was I Scared Of?_ , better known to adherents as "Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside". This gothic thriller, in which a disembodied pair of cabbage-coloured dungarees relentlessly creeps out Our Protagonist, is ripped from the pages of The Sneetches and Other Stories. (Not literally, unless you want serious grup trouble.) These days you can also read it online, though the text is accompanied by only two of the original Lovecraftian illustrations. Suffice it to say the experience pal… I mean, underwhelms, by comparison. For reasons I can no longer fathom, over a period of months this story completely possessed our young imaginations. At one point we actually stuffed a pair of green denim jeans with wadded newspaper and stood it in the corner of our shared bedroom, to serve as icon to our prostrations. Then we would cower on the far side of the bed, peek out at it, and scream "Pale green pants!" before diving to the floor. Needless to say, the book itself became liturgy, to be read aloud (yet again) by any adult we could talk into it. The most memorable kokyo was my grandmother, who, having intoned the poem's macabre refrain (_"Pale green pants…. WITH NOBODY INSIDE!"_), remarked, "I think the pale green pants are scary enough." Commentary worthy of Mumon. These days I judiciously abstain from looking deeply into this whole adventure, for fear of stumbling on uncomfortable truths about religion in general. But having recently recovered these memories – or recovered _from_ them – I plunged down the Internet rabbit hole to find out if others were similarly enthralled to this scrap of Seussgeist. tldr: Yes. Yes they were. Far from falling into obscurity, it appears _PGP_ is so popular today you can buy just that, stripped of epistolary padding. What's more, its illustrations – o feat of nefarious genius – now glow in the dark. Which has led one believing dad to read it to his kids under a black light. Or he did, until he was picked up by Child Welfare. Nor are my brother and I alone in making idols unto the Chartreuse One. Another fellow stuffed a pair of pale green pants (!) and stood it in the corner of his preschooler's bedroom (!!) because the kid was afraid of the dark (!!!). OK, that guy may really be evil, but another – professional artist, this one – taxidermed some chromatically-correct britches in a relaxed yet empty posture and gave them to his (25-year-old) sister for Christmas. Upshot: ours is not the only family to find Deep If Somewhat Disturbing Significance in this tale of tailored terror. Surprisingly, I've yet to encounter a single Net-cruising helicopter pilot wailing, "Never let your tender darlings read this horrifying book!!!!!", or claiming that it's a thinly-veiled Wiccan conspiracy to make our children worship Satan and wear ugly pants. Closest was one mom who recommended only middle school kids be permitted to read it. Right, lady. Best get a few years under your belt before you meet The Doctor. Or maybe that's insensitive. Perhaps the spectre of unfashionable clothing run amok has special resonance for women. I'll withdraw the statement. In the end, it may be that the scariest thing about _Pale Green Pants_ is its power to inspire such vague obedience in all of us who, once as children, fell under its mildly-alarming spell. It's the single thread running through every account I've collected, starting with my own: we all fear the Pants, we all cheer the Pants, we all stand ready, like an army of cereal-munching Renfields, to serve the Lime-Hued Lord. How much more exciting all of this might be if He actually wanted anything. But now I'm back on religion. And in all candour, there may be a touch of Zen in there somewhere; a creak of the Gateless Gate in those selfless slacks. Witness this flash of Suessian insight: _I said, "I do not fear those pants_ _With nobody inside them."_ _I said, and said, and said those words._ _I said them. But I lied them._ Been there, lied that. _(Adapted fromGrowing Up Home, copyright RK Henderson. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside

Parental guidance suggested.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/04/pale-green-pants...

#anatta,# book, #Buddhism, #DrSeuss, #GatelessGate, #Halloween, #Zen

Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside When my brother and I were four and five, we were obsessed with the Dr. Suess poem _What Was I Scared Of?_ , better known to adherents as "Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside". This gothic thriller, in which a disembodied pair of cabbage-coloured dungarees relentlessly creeps out Our Protagonist, is ripped from the pages of The Sneetches and Other Stories. (Not literally, unless you want serious grup trouble.) These days you can also read it online, though the text is accompanied by only two of the original Lovecraftian illustrations. Suffice it to say the experience pal… I mean, underwhelms, by comparison. For reasons I can no longer fathom, over a period of months this story completely possessed our young imaginations. At one point we actually stuffed a pair of green denim jeans with wadded newspaper and stood it in the corner of our shared bedroom, to serve as icon to our prostrations. Then we would cower on the far side of the bed, peek out at it, and scream "Pale green pants!" before diving to the floor. Needless to say, the book itself became liturgy, to be read aloud (yet again) by any adult we could talk into it. The most memorable kokyo was my grandmother, who, having intoned the poem's macabre refrain (_"Pale green pants…. WITH NOBODY INSIDE!"_), remarked, "I think the pale green pants are scary enough." Commentary worthy of Mumon. These days I judiciously abstain from looking deeply into this whole adventure, for fear of stumbling on uncomfortable truths about religion in general. But having recently recovered these memories – or recovered _from_ them – I plunged down the Internet rabbit hole to find out if others were similarly enthralled to this scrap of Seussgeist. tldr: Yes. Yes they were. Far from falling into obscurity, it appears _PGP_ is so popular today you can buy just that, stripped of epistolary padding. What's more, its illustrations – o feat of nefarious genius – now glow in the dark. Which has led one believing dad to read it to his kids under a black light. Or he did, until he was picked up by Child Welfare. Nor are my brother and I alone in making idols unto the Chartreuse One. Another fellow stuffed a pair of pale green pants (!) and stood it in the corner of his preschooler's bedroom (!!) because the kid was afraid of the dark (!!!). OK, that guy may really be evil, but another – professional artist, this one – taxidermed some chromatically-correct britches in a relaxed yet empty posture and gave them to his (25-year-old) sister for Christmas. Upshot: ours is not the only family to find Deep If Somewhat Disturbing Significance in this tale of tailored terror. Surprisingly, I've yet to encounter a single Net-cruising helicopter pilot wailing, "Never let your tender darlings read this horrifying book!!!!!", or claiming that it's a thinly-veiled Wiccan conspiracy to make our children worship Satan and wear ugly pants. Closest was one mom who recommended only middle school kids be permitted to read it. Right, lady. Best get a few years under your belt before you meet The Doctor. Or maybe that's insensitive. Perhaps the spectre of unfashionable clothing run amok has special resonance for women. I'll withdraw the statement. In the end, it may be that the scariest thing about _Pale Green Pants_ is its power to inspire such vague obedience in all of us who, once as children, fell under its mildly-alarming spell. It's the single thread running through every account I've collected, starting with my own: we all fear the Pants, we all cheer the Pants, we all stand ready, like an army of cereal-munching Renfields, to serve the Lime-Hued Lord. How much more exciting all of this might be if He actually wanted anything. But now I'm back on religion. And in all candour, there may be a touch of Zen in there somewhere; a creak of the Gateless Gate in those selfless slacks. Witness this flash of Suessian insight: _I said, "I do not fear those pants_ _With nobody inside them."_ _I said, and said, and said those words._ _I said them. But I lied them._ Been there, lied that. _(Adapted fromGrowing Up Home, copyright RK Henderson. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside

Parental guidance suggested.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/04/pale-green-pants...

#anatta,# book, #Buddhism, #DrSeuss, #GatelessGate, #Halloween, #Zen

intarwebs impossible to use. Tis very different today from when we were at the Archduchess of Austria's place in Lugano, at the Villa Favorita & reading all there was to find on Robert Hunter's website, but #dukkha #anicca #anatta are the name of the game in this incarnation.

And #Buddha #dharma #sangha #karma #dukkha #anicca #anatta are Law & operate in every universe backwards & forwards across space & time.

I finally read something I could relate to when I got 400 pages into Mahasi Sayadaw's 'Manual of Insight'. Twas the 40 'tos' or 'dos' because every one of them

∴ past seeps oure marrow
gostes of days drip quyetly
wend we goe
·
walls bear adverts
gilt’d promises shimmer
treden past þis schyne ∴

#senryusunday #vss365 #haikufeels #poemspell #anicca #anatta #vairagya #wuwei #mindfulmischief

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þ "th" as in this

I miss doing yoga🧘. Haven’t been in a class in years & it was such a huge part of my life for so long & now we can barely bend over & palm ✋ the ground or lift our arms overhead. #anicca Everything changes #dukkha It’s all dissatisfactory #anatta It’s all non-self, which always leads me to Nihilism.

You can take the boy out of Thailand, but you can't take the Bodhisattva out of the boy.

#dukkha #anicca #anatta #Buddha #dharma #sangha #karma

The eight vijnanas: The Buddhist psychoanalysis Among the many philosophical and psychological systems developed within Buddhism, the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism introduces one of the most elaborate models of consciousness. Central to this...

The #Yogācāra school’s eightfold model of #consciousness ( #vijñāna) analyzes perception, identity and delusion. From sensory awareness to the “ #storehouse” ( #ĀlayaVijñāna), it provides a psychoanalytic framework without positing a permanent self ( #anatta). Here’s a brief overview:

#Buddhism

Karma and Samsara in Indian thought and Siddhartha’s revolutionary reinterpretation Among the many contributions of Siddhartha Gautama to the Indian religious and philosophical landscape, his reconceptualization of karma and samsara stands out as one of the most radical. While these ...

The concept of #karma in #Buddhism is defined as conditioned arising in which actions shape #consciousness without a permanent self/ #anatta. In contrast to Indian notions of a transmigrating soul, karma describes moment-to-moment identity, with liberation through ending craving and ignorance.

Avidyā: The Buddhist concept of ignorance The concept of avidyā, commonly translated as ‘ignorance’ or ‘unawareness’, holds a central position in Buddhist philosophy. It is considered one of the primary causes of human suffering (dukkha). Far...

In #Buddhism, #avidyā (ignorance) is framed not as lack of knowledge but as misperception of #impermanence ( #anicca), non-self ( #anatta) and causality. Overcoming avidyā requires transformative insight rather than intellectual learning. Here's a brief overview:

Didj’all miss me? Been a wild ride of insanity & misery since our worthless brother called the👮‍♀️on me & we were made homeless again after being homeless for 2,012 days & trapped in Thailand 🇹🇭 for 875 days. Karma can change w the swish of a🐎’s tail they say, & boy howdy can it. #dukkha #anicca #anatta

Dharma Wheel (dharmachakra; left) and the Hindu symbol of the Om (Aum; right).

#Buddhist #cosmology adapts and critiques #Indian models, emphasizing #impermanence (#annica), non-self (#anatta), and #DependentOrigination. Unlike #Hindu cosmology, it rejects creator gods and views cosmic realms as conditioned, not ultimate. Liberation […]

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Prajñā: The wisdom of insight in Buddhism Prajñā, often translated as ‘wisdom’ or ‘insight’, is a core concept in Buddhist philosophy. It refers to the direct understanding of reality as it is (tathatā), free from delusion and misperception (...

#Prajñā or #wisdom in #Buddhism is understood as experiential insight into impermanence/ #anicca, non-self/ #anatta and emptiness/ #śūnyatā. Cultivated through study, reflection and #meditation, it is paired with #compassion and central to the #NobleEightfoldPath. Here‘s a brief overview:

Buddha-Nature (Tathāgatagarbha) and the process of awakening In Mahāyāna Buddhism, the concept of Buddha-Nature (tathāgatagarbha) has long served as a powerful metaphor for the innate potential of all beings to awaken. It affirms something simple but profound: ...

In #Mahāyāna #Buddhism, #BuddhaNature is understood not as a hidden essence but as the doctrinal claim that all beings possess an innate capacity for #awakening. It is interpreted as compatible with a process based #ontology, avoiding the notion of a permanent self/ #anatta. Here‘s a brief summary:

The role of compassion and loving-kindness in Buddhism Compassion, or karuṇā, occupies a prominent position within Buddhist thought and practice. It is regarded not simply as an emotion, but as a cultivated disposition toward relieving the suffering of ot...

#Compassion ( #karuṇā) and loving-kindness ( #mettā) are presented in #Buddhism as cultivated dispositions grounded in #nonself ( #anatta) and #interdependence. Their role is to connect #ethical conduct with #meditative insight, bridging personal and social transformation. Here‘s a brief overview:

Nirvana: The cessation of suffering in Buddhist thought Nirvana occupies a central position in Buddhist philosophy as the ultimate goal of the spiritual path. Often translated as ‘extinction’, ‘cessation’, or ‘liberation’, Nirvana signifies the end of suff...

#Nirvana in #Buddhism is defined as the cessation of #suffering ( #dukkha), #craving, and #ignorance. Rather than a metaphysical realm, it is described as the end of self-illusion ( #anatta) and #karmic cycles. This post investigates the topic and its role Buddhist #soteriology.

Dependent Origination: The interdependent nature of existence The doctrine of Dependent Origination (Paṭicca-samuppāda in Pāli, Pratītya-samutpāda in Sanskrit) is one of the central tenets of Buddhist philosophy. It provides an explanation for the arising and ce...

#DependentOrigination (paṭicca-samuppāda) in #Buddhism explains phenomena as arising through interdependent conditions. Through the twelve links ( #nidanas) it analyzes the origin of #suffering and its cessation, highlighting impermanence ( #anicca) and #nonself ( #anatta). Here‘s a brief overview.

The kanji 不動心, which reads fudōshin in Japanese, literally means “immovable mind”. The first character, 不 (fu), means “not” or “non-“. The second character, 動 (dō), means “move”. The third character, 心 (shin), means “mind” or “heart-mind”. Together, they convey the idea of a state of mind that is not moved or disturbed by external circumstances.

#Fudōshin (不動心), the "immovable mind", is a central #Zen concept denoting inner stability and #equanimity amid change. Rooted in Buddhist teachings on #impermanence (#anicca) and non-self (#anatta), it embodies resilience not through suppression, but through […]

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The kanji 無心, which reads mushin in Japanese, literally means “no-mind”. The first character, 無 (mu), means “none” or “without”. The second character, 心 (shin), means “mind” or “heart-mind”. Together, they convey the idea of a state of mind that is free from attachment and reactivity.

#Mushin (無心), the #Zen state of "#NoMind", denotes a mind free from grasping and reactivity, enabling spontaneous, lucid action. Unlike mere blankness, mushin embodies refined #awareness and non-conceptual clarity, aligning with Buddhist ideals of #equanimity […]

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The kanji 身心脱落, which reads shinjin datsuraku in Japanese, literally means “dropping off body and mind”. The first character, shin (身), refers to the body or physical form. The second character, jin (心), means mind or heart. The third character, datsu (脱), indicates shedding or casting off. The final character, raku (落), means to fall or drop. Together, they convey the idea of a complete letting go of both bodily self-attachment and mental clinging.

#ShinjinDatsuraku ("dropping off body and mind") is a pivotal #Zen concept expressing the experiential release of self-attachment and dualistic identification. Central to #Dōgen's teaching, it reflects the Buddhist insight into non-self (#anatta) and […]

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than sleeping on the ground, now that the woman who bore me won't open the door & let me in.

Hope you're doing OK.

6 minutes till lunch. Tom just said grace, & as we know grace is suffering.

#dukkha #anicca #anatta #karma #Buddha #dharma #sangha

thus spoke Kunga Tsöndru

used to see these kinds of unkempt, unhinged, untethered, & weathered homeless people in New York, then the lawless lying lawyer Colludy Rudy became Hizzoner & scooped 'em all up & drowned them in the East River when they destroyed Times Square & so Disney would come.

#dukkha #anicca #anatta #karma