Iriyāpatha The Four Postures and the Art of Continuous Presence

Iriyāpatha
The Four Postures and the Art of Continuous Presence.

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#TwoTruths #SammutiSacca #ParamatthaSacca #Abhidhamma #UltimateReality

#twotruths

It doesn’t dilute your original point. Yet….

#TwoTruths

Two truths and a lie -- which is the lie?
1. I have taken clown lessons
2. I learned how to drive at age 32
3. I used to play clarinet in high school #twotruths

Interesting how Israel proudly shows their ablity to take out an Iranian commander by a missile piercing through the wall and exploding in his bedroom with limited impact on the rest of the house. Meanwhile, contrast this with the "precision strikes" against Hamas flattening all of Gaza. #twoTruths

Bookmark resting on the driver-side hood of a metallic gray Nissan pickup truck on the coast of Oaxaca, above the exterior fender and wheel well, reading, "Buddha knows he does not really exist."

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #spoons #things #selves #theself #noself #illusory #projection #conceptualoverlay #sorta #kinda #realbutnotreallyreal #abearablelightness #likeawakingdream #middleway #between #existence #nonexistence #shunyata #emptiness #twotruths #madhyamaka #wisdom #liberation

Bookmark resting on a wooden table, leaning against a wooden napkin holder, reading, "Each extreme hints at the aspect of wisdom the other lacks."

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #middleway #madhyamaka #wisdom #between #twoextremes #realism #existence #essentialism #goldilocks #nothingness #nonexistence #nihilism #dialectic #neithernor #key #truth #shunyata #dreamlike #selves #sorta #betweenyesandno #kinda #twotruths #emptiness #fullness

Bookmark resting on an orange tile countertop, leaning against a white plastic salt shaker and painted yellow corner of a concrete wall, reading, "Is it always kind to be polite?"

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #beingnice #sopolite #justsmile #goalong #nooffense #smoothspeech #toughtruths #realcompassion #truelove #bodhicitta #twotruths #realistic #understanding #reorganize #information #fresheyes #solve #puzzle #skillfulmeans #freedom #liberation #path #wisdom

Bookmark resting on a wooden counter, leaning against a yellow plastic heat gun, reading, "There is no spoon."

#dharma #philosophy #art #religion #buddhism #reality #appearances #matrix #spoons #things #selves #illusory #projection #shunyata #emptiness #noself #dependentorigination #twotruths #middleway #wisdom #liberation

Bookmark resting on a taqueria tile countertop, leaning against a brown cloth dharma shoulder bag, reading, "Reality is a kind of unreality."

#dharma #philosophy #art #religion #buddhism #reality #appearances #illusory #projection #shunyata #emptiness #noself #dependentorigination #twotruths #middleway #wisdom #liberation

Bookmark resting on a cafe table, leaning against a brown cloth dharma shoulder bag, reading, "The essential meaning is the nonexistence of a self in anything."

#dharma #philosophy #art #religion #buddhism #shunyata #emptiness #noself #dependentorigination #twotruths #middleway #wisdom #isntnihilism #isthekey #liberation

Bookmark resting on a yellow plastic taqueria table cover, reading, "Emptiness doesn't undermine the complexity of emergence."

#buddhism #shunyata #emptiness #dependentorigination #interdependence #relativity #complexity #twotruths #wisdom #liberation #middleway

Bookmark on a light brown wooden table, leaning against a plate of vegetarian Oaxacan cheese (quesillo) empanadas, reading, "Not me nor mine."

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #selves #things #shunyata #noself #notthat #twotruths #wisdom #liberation

Bookmark reading, "Whatever way you think about things, that's the way they disappear."

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #things #selves #concepts #thoughts #language #sorta #dreamlike #shunyata #twotruths #wisdom

Bookmark on a wooden table leaning against a whole pizza with pear, blue cheese, pistachio, and balsamic reduction, reading, "Merely labeled." Beyond the pizza, various items are shown.

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #existence #selves #objects #concepts #bydesignation #ifwesayso #twotruths #shunyata #liberation

Bookmark on a gray cafe table next to a consumed beverage, reading, "The word is not the thing (and the thing is nothing more than the word)."

#dharma #philosophy #art #buddhism #identity #relation #merelylabeled #houseofcards #twotruths #liberation

Hosting trivia for our office Christmas party. Do you know the answer? #trivia #christmastrivia #twotruths #2truthsandalie