In the lineage of such great writers like our very own spongeing the bob youtu.be/jiaVFg8U6rU?...

Skill issue truly

That one terminal state of Awakening that the suttas describe might be surely out of reach for people with such difficulties but is *any* amount of relief from suffering beyond capacity as well?

But the thing I struggle with is that the capacity to pay attention is mediated biologically, so then what for people with mental illnesses of all sorts whose ability to maintain awareness is limited?

I hope I'm not being harmfully reductive in the previous tweet for how I described the 3rd and 4th NTs

The crux of the questions that I struggle with in relation to the dhamma is that the suttas say that the way out of suffering is to be present in such a degree as to see "through" the various fetters of craving and grasping.

Meditation was another thing that I kept seeing and the logic of it made sense. If you struggle placing your attention in any one place for a long period of time (as I very much do), why not practice that a bunch so that in time it might get easier?

Fast forward to my early 20s and I was at a place in my life where a long overdue ADHD diagnosis forced to me recontextualize a lot of challenges that I'd faced upto that point and sent me looking for strategies to manage my symptoms (to complement my meds) and the term mindfulness kept popping up

In the height of my rebellious teen years I became entirely disillusioned by all of it and began to question a lot of the morals I'd grown up on

The disconnect in world views between the folks in my family and the folks I went to school with was jarring. 2 mutually exclusive headcanons about the origin of the universe and our place in it

I was raised by Hindu parents in a small town where I spent a few formative years attending a private Christian school. 2/n

My relationship with buddhism is a complicated one. Faith in general is something that I have a very hard time with. 1/n

I'm not a screwup, I'm intentionally trying to be a cautionary tale 😅😭

Damnit I swear I can English better than that reply would have one believe

Probably worth to mention the context of have don't have cable and became a fan of the Lebatard multiverse through pfto and youtube clips!

Im reminded of this meme from years ago about Dave Rubin and about how he indeed agrees with that.

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He says, as he finally gets an invite code to this app