nice errand, man—is it for fools?

God's grace / forgiveness is kind of an incoherent concept to me. What would be the point of developing moral shame or fear of wrongdoing if you didn't have to suffer the effects of your negative kamma?

For it is in this fathom-long carcass with its perception and mind that I describe the world, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. AN 4.45 Rohitassasutta, Sujato trans.

The questions of whether or not the universe is infinite, and whether or not it’s One, are ... #Buddhism #Dhamma #BuddhistPractice #Theravada #BuddhistWisdom #Dharma

Radiating lovingkindness to all the haters and losers

Get up and meditate! What’s the point in your sleeping? How can the afflicted slumber when inflicted by an arrow strike? Get up and meditate! Train hard for peace! The King of Death has caught you heedless— don’t let him fool you under his sway.

“Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred.” "Sukhavagga: Happiness" (Dhp XV), translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

Like a thoroughbred horse touched by the whip, be strenuous, be filled with spiritual yearning. By faith and moral purity, by effort and meditation, by investigation of the truth, by being rich in knowledge and virtue, and by being mindful, destroy this unlimited suffering. ~Dhammapada 144

Keep honking, I'm calming the bodily fabrications.

Sakyamuni Emerging from the Mountain, sculpture by Huang Tu-shui (黃土水), bronze replica of wooden original, 1926 #Buddha #Buddhism #Art

The Buddha wasn’t an effective altruist. “Sir, where should a gift be given?” “Wherever your heart feels inspired, great king.” “But sir, where is a gift very fruitful?” “Where a gift should be given is one thing, great king, but where a gift is very fruitful is another.” — the Buddha, SN 3.24

Suppose a strong man was to twist a strong horse-hair rope around your shin and tighten it. It would cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until it reached the marrow and kept pressing.

It's always a good time to think about death 👍

'#dna' by Iwasaki #Tsuneo. #buddhistart #buddhism

I love that sutta where Ānanda is like "This Dependent Origination thing seems pretty clear to me!" and the Buddha is like "Don't say that! It's wicked deep, actually!"

From the Arakasutta, AN 7.74, the Buddha tells us some facts about our limited lifespan and urges us not to be negligent in our spiritual development. #Buddhism

Take a mendicant who practices like this: ‘It might not be, and it might not be mine. It will not be, and it will not be mine. I am giving up what exists, what has come to be.’ In this way they gain equanimity.

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

The Unintended Art Of Others The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in. Banff Scotland

Bhikkhus, this body is not yours, nor does it belong to others. It is old kamma, to be seen as generated and fashioned by volition, as something to be felt.

Lmao the Pure Land Buddhism guy on here blocked me? There's only a handful of Buddhism accounts on Bsky, and we're enforcing sectarian differences?

Woke up at 5 to get an early start on being tired

He who bears no grudges in his heart, transcending all this "thus" and "otherwise," — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin. "Uraga Sutta: The Serpent" (Sn 1.1). Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 29 Aug 2012, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

Shussan Shaka (Śākyamuni Descending from the Mountain), wooden sculpture, 14th century, collection of Nara National Museum, Japan #Buddhism #Art

the doctors are having a hard time detecting what's right with me

One of the terrifying things Buddhism teaches you is that you are actually responsible for your own life and choices.

Hunger is the foremost illness, Conditioned things the foremost suffering. For one who knows reality as it is, Nibbāna is the foremost happiness. Dhammapada verse 203 #Buddhism

I used to be stuck in an endless cycle of life, death and rebirth. I still am, but I used to be too

Eye consciousness arises dependent on the eye and sights. The eye is impermanent, decaying, and perishing. Sights are impermanent, decaying, and perishing. So this duality is tottering and toppling; it’s impermanent, decaying, and perishing...

In samsara, wheel reinvents you

"The Road to You", sculpture by Choi Yun-su (최윤수), grand prize winner of the 33rd annual Korean Buddhist Art Exhibition held by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism #Buddhism #Art

ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond

Who up striving to bring an end to this farcical existence?

just have to get through today then tomorrow then next week then every week

At any moment it can all go wrong, so best to find a happiness not dependent on all these many things.

Note: A previous version of this article referred to the subject in a disparaging tone. The author has since developed loving-kindness for all sentient beings and revised the article accordingly.

"Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence." Last words of the Buddha, DN 16, Mahāparinibbānasutta

When the parts are assembled we use the word ‘chariot’. So too, when the aggregates are present ‘sentient being’ is the convention we use. But it’s only suffering that comes to be, lasts a while, then expires. Naught but suffering comes to be, naught but suffering ceases. SN 5.10, Vajirāsutta

Gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, and pleasure and pain. These qualities among mankind are impermanent, transient, and perishable. AN 8.6, Dutiyalokadhammasutta, Sujato trans.

Monks, when the perception of a skeleton is developed and cultivated it’s very fruitful and beneficial... it leads to great benefit... it leads to great sanctuary from the yoke... it leads to great inspiration... it leads to dwelling in great ease. SN 46.57, Aṭṭhikamahapphalasutta

"And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, abstaining from divisive speech, abstaining from abusive speech, abstaining from idle chatter: This, monks, is called right speech.”

this follows from a MUCH more general principle

It really sucks how the whole world's going to shit. Good thing I can enjoy sensual pleasures, which are full of gratification and have few drawbacks. Hold on I'm being handed a note...

how come whenever something is "just the way things are" it's always something that sucks. why isn't just-the-way-things-are ever good

Shakyamuni #buddha and Mara Buryatia. Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton, 1800s. #buddhistart #buddhism

Recollecting that I am subject to aging, sickness, death, and loss... that is some classic shit right there.

Fuck this stupid chud country

People don't understand that this country is in a state of terminal chudification. There isn't going to be a reconstruction. We have over three years left of this. Possibly even longer!

...for one who sees the origin of the world as it really is with correct wisdom, there is no notion of nonexistence in regard to the world. And for one who sees the cessation of the world as it really is with correct wisdom, there is no notion of existence in regard to the world. SN 12.15