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@redmaple the body is not a self. It is a biosystem of billions of living things that are constantly living, dying, and being regenerated from food.

When you dream you are completely unaware of the body, and yet you have a sense of your own existence. When you awaken from a dream there is an instantaneous persistence of identity. You knew you were "you" in your dream, and you know you are "you" when you awake and once again become aware of the body.

What is the "you"? Where does it come from?

@dioma My guess is that it has a lot to do with the fact that enlightenment and personal actualization is hard to monetize.

watching TV or playing videogames are are very flawed and ineffective form of meditation when you get down to it. It's all about mindlessly "flowing", but TV and videogames are monetizable, while sitting zazen or taking a peaceful walk through nature is difficult to monetize.

You don't need a lot of money to be happy once you give up impressing other people.

@redmaple I see it as the opposite. The existence of a separate self implies a soul, or some individual "self" that exists, and THAT is fanciful.

Your sense of self-awareness and conscious reality are emergent properties of your brain. Your identify is mere memory. There is real science to confirm this. Here is a Ted Talk about it (there are longer videos about this too, but this is a nice bite-size one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo

@Nocturn_Adrift @sam @dave @NEETzsche @polarisera You are correct. We are arguing over an abstraction. My point here was merely to cut through the nonsense and reveal the ultimate choice.

We can choose to live in a society based on reality, or we can choose to live in a society based on feelings and fantasies.

If we choose reality, then Feminism loses, because it is based entirely on feelings and fantasy.

If we choose feelings and fantasy, feminism loses, because trannies are "real women" too

@dioma That was a good answer actually. Well done.

Buddha nature is just shorthand for "the absolute", the real. Call it Buddha Nature, the Tao, the "True Self", the "Big I", the Logos, the Kingdom of God, or whatever you want.

These are all mere vocabulary. You cannot describe it because all words identity in order to separate. Something is A and thus is not B, C, D, etc.

However "It" is everything, including A - Z, and everything in between. Thus words are meaningless, and yet we use words

@dave @sam @NEETzsche @polarisera rights are not based on cognition, but responsibility.

Women are not even responsible in nature, but rely on men to protect and provide for them.

Feminism used government to extract male utility and resources in exchange for votes rather than sex and children, but they are no less dependent and no more responsible.

If you disagree, show me a functional society of women that don't require men whatsoever. They are either myths or scams to attract western donors

@dave @sam @NEETzsche @polarisera you are playing word-games. Feminism is not about "equally deserving of human rights and dignity". Children are deserving of human rights and dignity, and yet are not equal to adults, nor deserving of legal rights and status to adults.

Now, to circle back to the topic at hand: if we want to live in reality then Feminism in its entirety is a lie. If we want to live in the world of feelings and fantasy then TERFs are bigots and on "the wrong side of history".

@dave @sam @NEETzsche @polarisera The problem with Feminism is that it already rejects reality. It believes that men and women are equal, and used that fantasy to gain privileges for 100 years. Now it suddenly want to assert reality and tell trannies they aren't "real" women.

I'm sorry, but we as a society have to choose whether to live in reality or indulge in feelings and fantasies. If we choose reality, then Feminism is a lie. If we choose feelings and fantasy, then TERFs are bigots.

Choose

@dioma The koan does like this (paraphrasing):

A man is smoking a cigarette in the temple and dropping his ashes on the Buddha because he believes that all things are Buddha and thus the statue of Buddha is no different than an ashtray. What would you say to him to help him?

The man is very strong and will not allow you to hit him, and you cannot use force. He knows enough about Zen to understand all things have Buddha nature, but is unenlightened.

What would you do?

@dioma No, it was a bit of a misunderstanding. There is a saying that if you see the Buddha, you should "kill the Buddha", because the Buddha is not separate from yourself, so any separate Buddha is a false Buddha.

The conversation was about why Buddhists bow to statues of Buddha if they're not supposed to respect a Buddha outside of themselves, and then the exchange took place.

There is another koan about "dropping ashes on the Buddha" I will tell you in the next comment.

This video was randomly recommended to me and it's only 15 minutes long but it has it all, including a Buddhist Master who draws penises on the walls of temples.

https://youtu.be/SzmGkRF2ggU

Radio Free America (Episode 793) Lunacy with Turd Flinging Monkey
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"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows."

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

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@spectre No, they did sent the August payment to my bank account, and closed my account so I can't refund you, but at least Patreon didn't keep your money.

Sadly, I can't give you access to the MMM on SubscribeStar without you donating over there again. On the plus side it's only $5.