🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agoAnon studies Buddhismsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down117
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minus-squarethirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up26·2 days agoThere 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.
minus-squareTimewornTraveler@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoyeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoAnd when they hit you with the real stick it really hurts
There are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone.
I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you’re together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
yeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
And when they hit you with the real stick it really hurts