Buddhism & awakening

Buddhist doctrine and the awakening path: enlightenment, nonduality, emptiness, no-self, lineages and teachers

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  1. nosilverv — trusted by 169 posters here
  2. vividvoid — trusted by 158 posters here
  3. the_wilderless — trusted by 149 posters here
  4. chercher_ai — trusted by 133 posters here
  5. danielbrottman — trusted by 130 posters here
  6. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 135 posters here
  7. RomeoStevens76 — trusted by 128 posters here
  8. TylerAlterman — trusted by 143 posters here
  9. algekalipso — trusted by 151 posters here
  10. WystanTBS — trusted by 112 posters here
  11. nopranablem — trusted by 113 posters here
  12. visakanv — trusted by 120 posters here

Top posts in Buddhism & awakening

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  1. Possible huge problem with psychospiritual journeys: Yes, there are deep structures in the labyrinth of my mind, and yes, I will have profound insights and fundamental shifts when I bring them into… (TylerAlterman) — 44 likes
  2. "maybe we can figure it out together" is one of the names of God (Malcolm_Ocean) — 37 likes
  3. An exciting life update for me: I am now entering the journeyman phase of spiritual work. My son is almost 18 and my householder duties are finished, so I'm packing up my house in the Pacific… (vividvoid) — 37 likes
  4. not thrilled that I’m becoming this guy, but: Love is literally a field we’re all embedded in, and it’s a very learnable skill to open up to it, channel it, transform it, and be transformed by it (the_wilderless) — 36 likes
  5. > be me > formless observer > in charge of making sure the formless void, is in fact, formless > occasionally have to check > one day, find out the void has taken form > formless void is now 10,000… (vividvoid) — 35 likes
  6. Babe are you okay you've been having insights for months but you've barely touched your integration (vividvoid) — 33 likes
  7. I think watching this video substantially increases the odds someone will get a glimpse of Enlightenment https://t.co/aA6nX1Nqz5 (nosilverv) — 33 likes
  8. I think I have been subtly mistaking indifference for equanimity for a long time, in many different situations, and this has been a pretty massive mistake I do know what true equanimity feels like,… (vividvoid) — 32 likes
  9. So weird that the eightfold path is basically “start living virtuously and directing your intention towards what’s good” and meditation culture has somehow so often turned it into “optimize your… (the_wilderless) — 32 likes
  10. if you want to get an 80/20 of the benefit of Buddhism—something westerners are obsessed with, and perhaps not wrongly—practicing right speech will get you more more bang for your buck than right… (tasshinfogleman) — 28 likes
  11. it was like an angel or a bodhisattva or something had descended upon us. she smiled at us and started blessing all of us for being there. this is not a word i use lightly but there's really no… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  12. > Betty, filled with spiritual radiance, said, ‘All the flowers are beautiful.’ > ‘Ah,’ said the teacher, blocking her, ‘but this flower is especially beautiful.’ > Betty rolled on the… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  13. the end of the hero's journey has really, substantively changed,, traditionally, you return to a home that you now understand in a different, higher way - you now *belong* in a different way now,… (the_wilderless) — 27 likes
  14. Re: Hanjo and Ananda - spiritual practitioners have to be accountable to the community they work with. If they're not, the best case scenario is that they're ineffective, and the worst is that they… (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  15. Wow what an incredible coincidence that your rigorous spiritual practice just happened to lead you to a perfectly conventional morality Amazing how the music of the spheres & its vast celestial… (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  16. I used to think that when Buddha said sometimes you have to clench your teeth & crush mind with mind, this was a rare instance in which he advocated for something unskillful. But I've seen so… (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  17. Okay, here is my intention: 1) check out Boulder, Santa Fe and Sedona and decide where to settle 2) find Dharma friends and fellow spiritual weirdos 3) build and maintain a thriving social scene by… (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  18. we are the universe trying to understand itself, trying to love itself i choose to believe that the universe is fundamentally good i choose to believe that people are fundamentally good all there is… (tasshinfogleman) — 26 likes
  19. going through a death and rebirth thing, need to leave all my possessions behind1 like, 1 dead-xiq take (exgenesis) — 26 likes
  20. did the buddhas ever notice that craving isnt suffering when your winning maybe they should have tried to Win more (myceliummage) — 26 likes
  21. I'm gonna force y'all motherfuckers to get enlightened it's not even hard, everyone's just a bad teacher lol, let's go: First look at these pics https://t.co/isNfKaEfBU (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  22. OKAY I have FIGURED OUT why buddhists are SO FUCKING ANNOYING about being "mindful" or "present" or "be here now" or "wash your bowl" - I think that what is happening is that you are the ILLUSION,… (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  23. burbea, vajrayana, and metta are the best gateways to buddhist awakening for most. "increase soulfulness," "fully inhabit your life," and "become love" are infinitely better (more pleasurable) goals… (_brentbaum) — 24 likes
  24. Some observations from reading tweets from 3 years ago: 1. It is insane how many TPOT accounts have been suspended from that era 2. Vajrayana and other Tibetan concepts - however poorly we… (vividvoid) — 24 likes
  25. rob burbea "all this is being recorded. i feel like i'm speaking to people i'll probably never meet. i'll never know them, i'll never even know that they listened. ... they matter to me a lot"… (danielbrottman) — 24 likes
  26. personally i’m still working on the zeroth jhana (not being in fight / flight / freeze) (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  27. Ok, SO, I did a Jhana Jhourney retreat and I have to say that if ANYTHING they're being under-hyped: I VISIBLY put on muscle during this retreat loool (in addition to all else, noticed by both me… (nosilverv) — 24 likes
  28. well, it's finally here: The Path of Love, my book on loving kindness practice and the brahmavihārās ❤️it's available in PDF, ePub, and MOBI for $0+ on Gumroad, + is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0… (tasshinfogleman) — 23 likes
  29. I am once again begging dharma enjoyers to stop telling 19 year olds that they don't exist (the_wilderless) — 23 likes
  30. owning it: i want to be a buddha (s0ulDirect0r) — 23 likes
  31. “You are not the one who wakes up. You are the one who gets waken up from” — brutal, lmao (nosilverv) — 23 likes
  32. is this what the wheel of samsara is https://t.co/G83FOqYvMc (nosilverv) — 22 likes
  33. cultivation: + creates conditions for results to arise + goes at the pace of the slowest internal part + trusts the self enough to non-coerce + is curious about quality instead of hungry for… (_brentbaum) — 22 likes
  34. one of my favorite ideas i've had that i haven't seen anywhere else is that the practice of non-clinging, the practice of liberation, is synonymous with forgiving reality for samsara, forgiving… (danielbrottman) — 22 likes
  35. Western Buddhists be like: https://t.co/tcigdBiRGt (nosilverv) — 22 likes
  36. Bodhi count discourse is the number of noble truths you've realized (vividvoid) — 22 likes
  37. Everything I'm taking in right now points to the idea that the actual spiritual practice in one's life is active participation with the real life stuff: job, partner, chores. Not the retreat, not… (strangestloop) — 22 likes
  38. By the way, "you are not inferior to anyone" is a slightly less-insane way to say "if you meet the Buddha, kill him" The point is that *you're it*, there is no great gulf between you and history You… (vividvoid) — 22 likes
  39. we dishonor great men and women by turning them into deities rather than embodying our own inner greatness (visakanv) — 22 likes
  40. 6-7 years ago, a group of artists in Portland wanted to build a big wooden Buddha, bring it to Burning Man, and set it on fire There was a huge outcry on social media, you've never seen so many… (vividvoid) — 21 likes
  41. Overall I had a beautiful time at vibecamp, every time I turned a corner and saw a friendly face chilling on a hammock or hanging out on the grass I felt like I was living in a metta bubble, it was… (christineist) — 21 likes
  42. Each soul has its own rhythm and pace Trying to live faster than your soul will strain you Living slower than your soul will pain you Can you feel the pace of your soul? (the_wilderless) — 21 likes
  43. this was happening at the monastic academy in vermont. it's an absolutely gorgeous location in an absolutely gorgeous state, way out in the middle of nowhere, beautiful nature all around, can't hear… (QiaochuYuan) — 21 likes
  44. Did you know there is a huge list of all the games Buddha refused to play? It's the earliest written list of games in human history, and it appears in no less than 16 places in the Pali Canon. I've… (vividvoid) — 21 likes
  45. who up tryna liberate all beings? https://t.co/zQQLMYeAwG (nopranablem) — 21 likes
  46. This is a bday mudita thread 🌸🌸🌸 greetings to all🌸🌸🌸 (chercher_ai) — 21 likes
  47. TPOT is the memetic vehicle by which modern day Buddhism is trying to communicate with Eliezer Yudkowsky. (algekalipso) — 21 likes
  48. Why all this talk of no-self, killing the self, ego death? Why not “the self is like a cloud in the sky or a whirlpool in the water – kinda a ‘thing’ but impermanent, contextual, and with hazy… (TylerAlterman) — 20 likes
  49. it's remarkably difficult to explain california buddhism to a barely-online southeast asian culturally buddhist fella. where do i even start. first you have to explain white people (visakanv) — 20 likes
  50. Just listened to my first Burbea talk. Can't believe you all have been hiding this guy for so long. (vividvoid) — 20 likes

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