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@skillfulmean.bsky.social
harsh criticism and sarcasm from in and around buddhist traditions. updated intermittently by @r0landa.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I made him sound like a baptist preacher in this
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Saṅkhitta Sutta (AN 8:70)
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda describing the means by which Dabba Mallaputta, arhat, performed his duty of allocating lodgings to visiting monks

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August 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
July 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
June 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Middle Length Discourses, Ñāṇamoli and Bodhi, p433.
March 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
out-of-character to post about Metta but whatever it's the weekend
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October 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM
from red pine’s road to heaven
October 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Sengrui on Kumarajiva
October 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM
October 2, 2024 at 12:41 AM
September 24, 2024 at 12:30 AM
daoist feng zunshi criticizing buddhists. anthony c. yu's translation in his revised journey to the west
July 10, 2024 at 1:32 PM
July 8, 2024 at 1:05 PM
July 2, 2024 at 5:55 PM
zhiyi’s 小止觀 recommending to balance your stupid with your crazy
May 21, 2024 at 3:37 PM
few have gone as hard as miaozong did here. fyi horses are a common metaphor for enlightened beings
November 26, 2023 at 9:22 PM
anti-upanishads polemics with a bonus jab at "lowly people [who] weep in the face of death" in the Guhatthaka Sutta. endnotes for context. from Fronsdal's 『 The Buddha Before Buddhism』
November 26, 2023 at 8:03 PM
Hanshan hating on meat eaters. JP Seaton translation
November 26, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Master Hsuan Hua defending the Surangama Sutra against (depraved) skeptics. Elsewhere you can find him claiming homosexuality is a symptom of the dharma extinction age and that it’s proliferation will lead to human extinction

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November 11, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Yunqi Zhuhong on the Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci
November 10, 2023 at 2:00 AM
Lao-tzu lived during the Chou dynasty; the ruler did not know him, and the masses did not recognize him. He did not presume to put forth even one word of admonition [to the ruler], and was not able to save even one person [among the masses].

Zhiyi, Swanson (trans),『Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight』
October 6, 2023 at 5:49 PM
If God could give birth to a son, then evidently the Christian Heaven is the third one of the system of the Trailoka... viz the Kama-Dhatu; and God would be the ruler of one of the “Six Heavens of Desire”. So God himself and all the beings of his heaven are mortals

Pi-Cheng Lee『An Outline of Karma』
October 5, 2023 at 2:15 PM