bad taoist = several old roommates of mine
Why wash the dishes piling up in the sink? Let the water flow around them
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 January 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
That reminds me the terrible book Zen Guitar for Assholes where the guy recommends doing everything “100%, all out, all the time” or something like that, including doing the dishes. Not realizing that maybe, just maybe such a white knuckle attitude might actually lead somebody to think “Right now I don’t really feel like I can the dishes 100% so I will postpone that task until I feel up to it” instead of some more, say, self-aware approaches to handling the task with minimum wear and tear on the psyche.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
"Reducing non-western culture to western paradigms - also dud" I've been wondering if the terms in English that are used to describe things like Duḥkha in the way intended or if they just make people think kof them in unintended ways.
You should totally check out this article by Carine Defoort:Is There Such A Thing As Chinese Philosophy?
Link is to a pdf file
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 January 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link
Today’s Daily Dharma is apropos.https://tricycle.org/magazine/special-transmission/
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
I guess philosophy is philosophy and even that doesnt exist
― | (Latham Green), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
thx for that link, from the chan/zen-zone
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 28 January 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
Sure. That was intense.
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link