Anon studies Buddhism
Anon studies Buddhism
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There are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone.
Zen is said to be based on a "special transmission outside scriptures"
I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you're together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
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The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.
Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren't meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.
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To be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding
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Taoism: Just be.
Me: is
Taoism: Not like that
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Could be death metal lyrics
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That actually makes perfect sense to me.
Curiosity and imagined reality both arise from lack of complete knowledge. These things are both illusions, which are also a lack of complete knowledge. But these are the path to greater knowledge.
The tao te ching is notorious for its wildly disparate translations and it's poetic ambiguity. As the saying goes, if you've read two translations of the tao te ching you've read two different books
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yeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
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And when they hit you with the real stick it really hurts
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