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vacchagotta
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Remember: the Buddha is always smiling.
The Buddha doesn't distinguish between healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms. He wants you to get to a place that's beyond all coping. #Buddhism
February 3, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The Buddha doesn't distinguish between healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms. He wants you to get to a place that's beyond all coping. #Buddhism
In these uncertain times, I can always rely on the ageless wisdom of the Buddha to guide me *opens my copy of the Aṅguttara Nikāya and it's on the sutta about the benefits of eating porridge*
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
In these uncertain times, I can always rely on the ageless wisdom of the Buddha to guide me *opens my copy of the Aṅguttara Nikāya and it's on the sutta about the benefits of eating porridge*
Monks, this transmigration (saṁsāra) has no known beginning...
The flow of blood you’ve shed when sacrificed as an animal or executed as a criminal while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.
My paraphrase of SN 15.13, Tiṁsamattasutta #Buddhism
The flow of blood you’ve shed when sacrificed as an animal or executed as a criminal while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.
My paraphrase of SN 15.13, Tiṁsamattasutta #Buddhism
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Monks, this transmigration (saṁsāra) has no known beginning...
The flow of blood you’ve shed when sacrificed as an animal or executed as a criminal while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.
My paraphrase of SN 15.13, Tiṁsamattasutta #Buddhism
The flow of blood you’ve shed when sacrificed as an animal or executed as a criminal while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.
My paraphrase of SN 15.13, Tiṁsamattasutta #Buddhism
Two really interesting things happen in the account of the events following shortly after the Buddha's awakening given in MN 26 (the story in the Khandaka is slightly different):
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Two really interesting things happen in the account of the events following shortly after the Buddha's awakening given in MN 26 (the story in the Khandaka is slightly different):
I would like openai to fail just so that roon, personally, suffers
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
I would like openai to fail just so that roon, personally, suffers
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I walk a fine line between one side of the line and the other side
January 31, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I walk a fine line between one side of the line and the other side
things are becoming more insane right on schedule
January 31, 2026 at 6:59 AM
things are becoming more insane right on schedule
Brahmin, if I had not given up defilements I might have become a god … a centaur … a spirit … or a human. But I have given up those defilements, cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them so they are unable to arise in the future.
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Brahmin, if I had not given up defilements I might have become a god … a centaur … a spirit … or a human. But I have given up those defilements, cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them so they are unable to arise in the future.
Some of the stock phrases in the Canon are funny to me. Like most of the time when the Buddha introduces a smile, he says "For by means of a simile some sensible people understand the meaning of what is said." And it comes off kind of passive aggressively? Obviously that's not the intention tho
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Some of the stock phrases in the Canon are funny to me. Like most of the time when the Buddha introduces a smile, he says "For by means of a simile some sensible people understand the meaning of what is said." And it comes off kind of passive aggressively? Obviously that's not the intention tho
The Buddha never spoke falsely or harshly, so when he called you a "worthless man" (moghapurisa in Pāḷi) it must have really stung.
January 29, 2026 at 11:57 PM
The Buddha never spoke falsely or harshly, so when he called you a "worthless man" (moghapurisa in Pāḷi) it must have really stung.
'When the perception of impermanence is developed and cultivated it’s very fruitful and beneficial. It has freedom from death as its objective and culmination.’ That’s what I said, but why did I say it?
January 29, 2026 at 5:29 PM
'When the perception of impermanence is developed and cultivated it’s very fruitful and beneficial. It has freedom from death as its objective and culmination.’ That’s what I said, but why did I say it?
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January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Mendicants, I have learned these two things for myself—to never be content with skillful qualities, and to never stop trying.
I never stopped trying, thinking: ‘Gladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body!
I never stopped trying, thinking: ‘Gladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body!
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Mendicants, I have learned these two things for myself—to never be content with skillful qualities, and to never stop trying.
I never stopped trying, thinking: ‘Gladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body!
I never stopped trying, thinking: ‘Gladly, let only skin, sinews, and bones remain! Let the flesh and blood waste away in my body!
There's a guy who writes about existential risk from AI named... Max Harms?
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
There's a guy who writes about existential risk from AI named... Max Harms?
Some of the most memorable and humanizing Buddha stories are hidden among the boring rules in the Khandhaka. Buddha getting frustrated at the quarrelling monks at Kosambi and leaving town, surviving assassination attempts by Devadatta, caring for the monk with dysentery.
January 27, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Some of the most memorable and humanizing Buddha stories are hidden among the boring rules in the Khandhaka. Buddha getting frustrated at the quarrelling monks at Kosambi and leaving town, surviving assassination attempts by Devadatta, caring for the monk with dysentery.
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Over many years of disciplined study I have gained the ability to worry about anything
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Over many years of disciplined study I have gained the ability to worry about anything
It's cool how Demis is Greek and Dario is Italian. It's very Classical. (We're ignoring their other halves for the purposes of this bisk)
January 26, 2026 at 9:57 PM
It's cool how Demis is Greek and Dario is Italian. It's very Classical. (We're ignoring their other halves for the purposes of this bisk)
Mahāyāna Buddhism was invented when people got tired of making statues of the same guy. But whoops! Most of the new guys look pretty much the same as the old guy.
January 26, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Mahāyāna Buddhism was invented when people got tired of making statues of the same guy. But whoops! Most of the new guys look pretty much the same as the old guy.
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nice motion. mind if i go through it?
January 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
nice motion. mind if i go through it?
The thing nobody tells you about Buddhism is how many lists of things you have to learn.
January 26, 2026 at 7:08 PM
The thing nobody tells you about Buddhism is how many lists of things you have to learn.
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When it is quiet or when it is noisy, which is better?
#Buddhism #Dhamma #BuddhistPractice #Theravada #meditation #Dharma
#Buddhism #Dhamma #BuddhistPractice #Theravada #meditation #Dharma
January 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
When it is quiet or when it is noisy, which is better?
#Buddhism #Dhamma #BuddhistPractice #Theravada #meditation #Dharma
#Buddhism #Dhamma #BuddhistPractice #Theravada #meditation #Dharma
The world is shrouded in ignorance.
Avarice and negligence make it not shine.
Muttered prayer is its tar pit.
Suffering is its greatest fear.
Snp 5.2, Ajitamāṇavapucchā, Sujato translation #Buddhism
Avarice and negligence make it not shine.
Muttered prayer is its tar pit.
Suffering is its greatest fear.
Snp 5.2, Ajitamāṇavapucchā, Sujato translation #Buddhism
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 AM
The world is shrouded in ignorance.
Avarice and negligence make it not shine.
Muttered prayer is its tar pit.
Suffering is its greatest fear.
Snp 5.2, Ajitamāṇavapucchā, Sujato translation #Buddhism
Avarice and negligence make it not shine.
Muttered prayer is its tar pit.
Suffering is its greatest fear.
Snp 5.2, Ajitamāṇavapucchā, Sujato translation #Buddhism
Buddhaghosa is clearly the Thomas Aquinas of Buddhism. So what does that make Nagarjuna?
January 23, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Buddhaghosa is clearly the Thomas Aquinas of Buddhism. So what does that make Nagarjuna?
