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Fuck, @chagmed got here first.
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Please, go for it. Let's make this a roast thread.
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I could, but it wouldn't be worth my time.
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Oh snap! Well done.
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That's sneaky, that is. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. (I didn't consider it a very clever jibe, though it did make me laugh as I was typing it.)
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The last remaining iota of my self-esteem centered around the belief that I matter enough for you to bother mocking me. Now you've destroyed even that, leaving me with absolutely no egoic ground to stand on. You literally just caused me to get enlightened.
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I had a friend like you, once. No matter what insults you threw at him, he'd find a way to self-deprecate his way out of them. I hated him.
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Hopefully, one day, when you say this same thing again to someone else, I'll be the friend that you'll refer to. It would be my honor to live on in your mind as a bad memory that elicits a feeling of hatred every time you're reminded of it.
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(Taking a break from taking the piss.) Stories gon' tell. I think the main thing is just to pay attention. Stories come and go, and they're not very special. Much like you, they're not worth the effort of putting them down. (It was a short break.)
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Yes, the key is to drop the identification with stories, which happens when one pays attention. Then it's no longer "me" narrating. It's more just the primate brain throwing a bunch of gibberish into consciousness, and I can take it or leave it. Kinda like your replies.
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Maybe I'm revealing my lack of initiation, but I feel these instructions only work when tied to practice. For instance, you say "when one pays attention." I can temporarily drop identification, but that came out of maintaining this equipoise *while meditating*.
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Oh I agree! If you want to get good at paying attention, you have to practice paying attention. That's meditation. The difference between attachment and non-attachment is largely a matter of how you're using your attention. Controlling your attention is a learn-able skill.
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My point was more specific: the instructions can contradict themselves if they're taken in aggregate. They are situational. When people don't do the work, they get confused about this and attack others instead of, you know, actually learning anything from the instructions.
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Yeah, no disagreement there. As I said to
@chagmed, this wasn't intended to literally be a practical instruction. It was pretty much virtue signaling and preaching to the converted.https://twitter.com/Failed_Buddhist/status/979749190099185664 … -
I was gonna remove the tweet because it's pretty much serves no function, but I do think that it sparked an informative conversation as to why these kinds of sound-bytes aren't useful. (Along with some entertaining banter.)
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Just snap my fingers and stop inventing narratives. Thanks.
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Yeah, this very much sounds like something from a Buddhist proverb generator. It wasn't meant as a teaching or instruction; I'm not a teacher. Just virtue signaling and singing to the choir.
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sorry, carry on
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Thanks for pointing it out, though. It's good to be informed when you're playing dharma obscurantism without realizing it, which is exactly what I was doing.
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If you're enjoying yourself and getting enough Vitamin C, keep doing what you're doing
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