“The Stoics did, in fact, hold that emotions like fear or envy (or impassioned sexual attachments, or passionate love of anything whatsoever) either were, or arose from, false judgements and that the sage – a person who had attained moral and intellectual perfection – would not undergo them. The later Stoics of Roman Imperial times, Seneca and Epictetus, emphasise the doctrines (already central to the early Stoics’ teachings) that the sage is utterly immune to misfortune and that virtue is sufficient for happiness.”

Greek and Roman stoicism is very compatible with Buddhism.

“Arose from false judgements” is the key here, samsara is the grasping of illusion. It is the result of projecting permanence and self existence onto manifest reality, which, without exception, is impermanent and lacking self-existent nature.

Anyone know where I can find this type of girl

☸️ Do it for the Dharma ☸️

Go out, have fun, meet some dakinis

Retvrn to tradition (tits out)

The ten unanswered questions about certain views (ditthi):

1 The world is eternal.

2 The world is not eternal.

3 The world is (spatially) infinite.

4 The world is not (spatially) infinite.

5 The being imbued with a life force is identical with the body.

6 The being imbued with a life force is not identical with the body.

7 The Tathagata (a perfectly enlightened being) exists after death.

8 The Tathagata does not exist after death.

9 The Tathagata both exists and does not exist after death.

10 The Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist after death.

“Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §78.

great edit

At one time the Buddha was staying near Benares, in the deer park at Isipatana. There the Buddha addressed the group of five mendicants:

“Mendicants, these two extremes should not be cultivated by one who has gone forth. What two? Indulgence in sensual pleasures, which is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. And indulgence in self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and pointless. Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One woke up by understanding the middle way of practice, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishment.

And what is that middle way of practice? It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is: right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. This is that middle way of practice, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishment.

Now this is the noble truth of suffering. Rebirth is suffering; old age is suffering; illness is suffering; death is suffering; association with the disliked is suffering; separation from the liked is suffering; not getting what you wish for is suffering. In brief, the five grasping aggregates are suffering.

Now this is the noble truth of the origin of suffering. It’s the craving that leads to future rebirth, mixed up with relishing and greed, taking pleasure in various different realms. That is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving to continue existence, and craving to end existence.

Now this is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering. It’s the fading away and cessation of that very same craving with nothing left over; giving it away, letting it go, releasing it, and not adhering to it.

Now this is the noble truth of the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering. It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is: right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.

- SN 56.11
Dhammacakkappavattanasutta

https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/sujato

Such were the comments, then Lord Apollo, son of Zeus, said to Hermes: ‘Guide and Giver of Good Things, Hermes, Zeus’ son, would you not care to lie in bed beside golden Aphrodite, even though you were snared by unbreakable chains?’
The Messenger-God, Slayer of Argus, replied: ‘Lord Apollo, Far-Shooter, thrice as many inescapable links could hold me, and all you gods could be watching, and yes, all the goddesses too, if only I might sleep with golden Aphrodite.’
And at this, laughter rose from the deathless gods.

~ The Odyssey by Homer

You are already "awareness" with no further steps required, such as "resting" or "maintaining" or "integrating" or "stabilizing". You remain awareness permanently with no other option possible. All the enlightening wisdom insights possible don't improve it a bit. It just "is" as it is."

Properly understood, the insight of this post has the potential to put a lot of pop non-duality teachers, who thrive on an ever expanding market of “seekers,“ out of business.

The capacity of the mind to rationalize seeking is remarkable. One can realize the futility of trying to “stabilize“ one’s always-already nature, and then one can still think it makes sense to find ever better ways to achieve the “stabilization.“

Samsara, the noose around my neck.

Initiation to the 5-diety Heruka Cakrasaṃvara tantra 2-9 July.
Today the 28th is the last day to sign up.
The lessons will occur 9 am Swedish time.
We have a group set-up for pre-initiates, so comment and I’ll catch you.

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Chang means purified, or pure, clear and, limpid since the beginning, because there is nothing to purify. Chub means perfected, because even though one may think it is necessary to progress and to improve in order to achieve realization, the state of the individual has been perfect from the very beginning, there is nothing to perfect or to achieve that one does not already have. In general, sem means the mind, but in this case it refers to the state of consciousness, or "nature of mind." Distinguishing between the state of consciousness and the mind is like trying to separate a mirror from its reflection. [… ]
Thus, even though it is said that the mind is produced by dualism and its true condition, the state of consciousness, is beyond dualism, the nature of both is single and indivisible.

Through contentment there is a world within my heart .