BLM up for a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!
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Althea
Althea told me...
I take solace in knowing that trump is in a prison of his own making. His fantasy of being adored is crashing around him. No matter where he goes, people hate him. He can't flee to the safety of his Klan rallies that are paid for by the RNC and the Fed taxpayers. I'd like to see him in prison, but he'll no doubt suffer greatly in civil court. He'll have to keep scamming the under educated in order to fund his legal woes.
I'm guessing that he'll either be litigating or serving time for the rest of his life. This Epstein case is going to have rather long tentacles. I'm sure he's vulnerable.
generally sentience is the criteria
Dutch Uncle
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Have all the Reddit Gamestop people start sending Trump postcards that say "LOSER!" Sacks of them.
Dutch Uncle
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An infinite number of them.
true. it's an analogy ( conservation of energy to samsara ( cyclical rebirth)
Trying to put a concept into understandable terms
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed it's difficult. How do we talk about a time before time began?
AProudLefty
The remora of JPP
yes on the animals at least. animals do not have a 'Buddha nature' but they are clearly aware of selfThat goes for the animals too. (And androids perhaps?)
AProudLefty
The remora of JPP
What does "infinite" even mean or entails? Stephen hints at a finite universe.
lol. by that definition there was no "time" before time (it's impossible -self exclusionary) and involves physics way beyond my ability to conceive
AProudLefty
The remora of JPP
What does having a 'Buddha nature' mean? And wouldn't being aware of self and feeling make it wrong to kill them?
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed. It's a matter of degrees. Consider someone very smart. Then think of Witold. Now think of a chimpanzee. A shepherd dog. At what point would it stop?That goes for the animals too. (And androids perhaps?
Says Theravada Buddhism?
In Zen, all animals are pure Zen; they live in the eternal now. "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep". Dogs are very good at it. So good they could become Democrats.
AProudLefty
The remora of JPP
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You win.
yes Buddhists are supposed to be vegetarian -but of course that is an ideal.
Factory farms are clearly an abomination -not just the killing for food, but the imposition of vast suffering on animals
is a defilement
Why Buddha Nature is one of the most important understandings in Mahayana Buddhism
https://buddhaweekly.com/buddha-nat...dhism-tathagatagarbha-buddha-nature-not-soul/
Dutch Uncle
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Dutch Uncle
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Agreed on "no time" and it's involves physics beyond my education level. The youtube link dumbs it down but my grasp of everything it said is tenuous at best.
AProudLefty
The remora of JPP
im really not all that good on Zen. I tend to intellectualize concepts instead of "just be"In Zen, all animals are pure Zen; they live in the eternal now. "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep". Dogs are very good at it. So good they could become Democrats.
I think the best was to describe Buddha nature is consciousness, more then just simple sentience-
an awareness and ability to achieve the Luminous mind (free from defilement)
Dutch Uncle
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What did the Japanese Zen master say to the New York hotdog vender? "Make me one with everything".
Isn't consciousness being in tune with everything around you? Being part of it, not just a voyeur?
This link details three views of the Universe, of existence. I'm going with Door #3. You? https://truthaparadox.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/three-models-of-the-universe/