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Monk reading in the sunlight, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Yi Peng Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Yi Peng Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Yi Peng Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Yi Peng Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thinking about the evolving tree of religion-philosophy-sciences is wild, like, check it.
So it starts with African religions, then ancient egypt and the beginning of politics, then India and their religions and politics, then China, and Greece, and Rome, and all their philosophers and schools of thought, and then all the lines of thought evolve into countless more lines of thought molded by the events that happen around them, until the modern day!
It's easier to give examples when doing it backwards:
Marxism<-Hegelianism<-Kantianism<-Cartesianism<-Christian Philosophy<-Christian Theology<-Platonism<-Pre-Socratic Philosophy<-Greek Mythology<-Egyptian Mythology<-African Mythology
So to study Marxism properly, you have to have studied all of those before it! GREAT :3
“The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
—John Burroughs
Buddha Park in Nong Khai, Isaan province, Thailand
Dhaulagiri mountain, Nepal.
The name comes from Sanskrit where धवल (dhawala) means dazzling, white, beautiful[3] and गिरि (giri) means mountain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Solundir
Fuck George Lucas.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that you wrote Buddhism well enough that actual Buddhists appreciate and acknowledge your Jedi as decent-ish representation of their values, and then you wrote fucking Temple of Doom!!!!
You demonized and vilified my culture and my religion, and the worst part is that you have done better before. Star Wars came out before Indiana Jones; you have no excuse of 'you got better'. Fuck you and that franchise.
this is strictly between christian denominations ex. anglican and catholic
reblog with your answer and your religion
everytime i have to read about how 'bryke totally was sooo good at buddhism and hinduism and eastern philosophy guys' i think about how they named the pet bison of the main character Appa, which is the Tamil or-depending on how you transliterate it-Korean word for father while pronouncing the word incorrectly as 'Aapa' which is an Urdu term for older sister.
“I should dispel the suffering of others because it is suffering like my own suffering. I should help others too because of their nature as beings, which is like my own being. When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I strive after happiness only for myself? When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?”
— Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (8:94-96)
Sarcastic Zen Masters
ZEN BUDDHISM teaches that enlightenment can be gained from a sudden intuition of truth. Methods for achieving this 'sartori' include irreverence, profanity, and being hit with sticks. The aim is to reveal the folly of the ego.
Example: see the portrait of BODHIDHARMA, the First Patriarch of Chinese Zen Buddhism. Try to copy his expression. Does his compassion for all the world's suffering seem a little sarcastic?
That's because he's actually laughing at you, and at the very concept of your suffering.
SARTORI!!!
Brian Eno Oblique Strategies
London Buddhist Centre Urban Retreat 6th - 14th September 2014 http://www.lbc.org.uk/urbanretreat2014.htm