@mattbutnot Yeah, you'd like Stephen Batchelor.
The punch line is that every culture become attached to it's specific Buddhism. Which is skillful up until a point.
@mattbutnot It's the non-technical audience he's trying to address it to that's the problem. You're operating way above the level of the people he's addressing.
You'd grok Owen's more scholarly comparative religion stuff. What I really wanted to draw your attention to was a couple points he makes in the Q&A at the end.
@mattbutnot I think you'd probably jive with Stephen Batchelor in particular pretty well.
@bruno Accusing other people of being a cop sounds like something a cop would do.
@Thaddeus I hope you gave yourself a chance to cry later.
My grandfather died suddenly, and I spent far longer than I should have before coming to terms with it.
@mattbutnot gonna enjoy listening to this. I offer https://www.againstthestream.org/podcasts/flower-garland-buddhism/ in trade.
@mattbutnot Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Noah Levine, Stephen Batchelor, and Michael Owens are probably the dominant influences on my practice.
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tired: "anyone who ____ is a cop" jokes are about undercover cops revealing themselves
wired: "anyone who _____ is a cop" jokes are about how capitalism enlists all of us to discipline and punish the behavior of our peers and ourselves, installing a cop within each person
@mattbutnot in-laws are farmers. I am eminently familiar.
It's kinda a truism that when evaluating threats people always pick "simple but unlikely" over "common but complicated".
@mattbutnot India in the 90's had a huge problem with resistance to salt iodization efforts. Some rural-indigenous, some foreign groups perfecting the rhetoric that would become the anti-vac/GMO movements.
@Qwyrdo only consumables (e.g. "You make a goodass sandwich, bromosapien!")
less than 48 hours left, please help me survive Afficher plus
@Qwyrdo earth orbit is being corrected. you may experience temporary asymmetric lateral acceleration dependent on local time and latitude, but leap years will no longer be necessary.
Mastodon needs more pangolins.
@Mirzaba topologically, a coffee cup is a torus. So coffee and donuts are the same shape. Makes ya think.
@Paragate if n=0 or p=q you get a really boring triangle. This may be squirrelly with complex numbers.
@Sir_Boops "May you live in interesting times"
@mattbutnot OKAY, So if Shakyamuni Buddha has a level of 1000 and he is the finite manifestation of an infinite Adi-Buddha. Then we model Adi-Buddha as equivalent to a line of infinite Buddhas spaced at regular intervals (1) and we assume Buddha Field's radiate in 3 dimensional space. Your exposure to enlightenment would be 1000 times the inverse square of the distance to any specific buddha, and Abi-Buddha's field would have a strength of (500/3)*pi^2 at all points.