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🦇 Sentient comet 💫 Meditation freak 🙏🏻 Teacher 🍄 Author 🎙Podcaster 📚 SF nerd 🤖 Serial comma enthusiast 🌏 Raised by wolves 🐺 Bad influence 🧝🏻‍♂️

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    1. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 2
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and

      You can't fully escape conditioning unless you're unconscious; you can only get better at recognizing it in real time, and loosening its grip. That's not to say you can't shed specific conditions -- but you'll always be replacing it with other conditions.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    2. Ian Welsh‏ @iwelsh May 2
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and

      A lot of people seem to think you can reduce the amount of conditioning. Can't get rid of it entirely, of course, but it does feel like I just have less.

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 2
      Replying to @iwelsh @euvieivanova and

      Any functional human mind has to be conditioned by something, because nothing is independent of conditions. I agree that when you recognize that conditions are not you, then you can reduce or change them, though a lot of conditioning is biological/evolutionary.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova May 3
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @iwelsh and

      Yep, I'm talking about social conditioning specifically. The more I remove it and expose the deeper biological / evolutionary conditioning, the happier I seem to become. Millions of years of wisdom built into that.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
      Replying to @euvieivanova @iwelsh and

      Agree that suffering decreases when you remove social conditioning, though you also get increasingly more lonely as you realize that everyone around you is fucking crazy.

      2 replies 2 retweets 9 likes
    6. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and

      this is a really big part of the "waking down is hard" thing.

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    7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
      Replying to @danlistensto @euvieivanova and

      Yeah, it's easy to turn it into some kind of superiority complex, but it's not about being better than anyone -- it's about suffering less than most people, and seeing just how terrible people are at addressing their suffering but not being able to do anything about it.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and

      hmmm, wasn't thinking superiority complex though I guess you're right, spiritual pride is a problem for some people. was thinking more that you need to wake down and reintegrate because you still have your mundane life to deal with (unless you retreat to a monastery forever).

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
      Replying to @danlistensto @euvieivanova and

      Oh I didn't get the sense that you were thinking about that, just wanted to clarify. A life-long retreat sounds great, though that seems a bit like escapism to me. Being awake in the world is indeed much harder than being awake in a cave.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
      Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and

      more to the point, I don't see how permanent monasticism is AT ALL compatible with ethical living. one of the contradictions about so much of the Mahayana traditions that I can't quite reconcile. You literally take a vow to save all sentient beings. You have to be engaged.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas May 3
      Replying to @danlistensto @Failed_Buddhist and

      Yes, but according to that worldview, you are *magically* engaged. Your thoughts and prayers are beaming out of the monastery and influencing reality in a positive direction. (Not saying I believe that, but that's how it works in that tradition.)

      9:25 AM - 3 May 2018
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        2. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
          Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @Failed_Buddhist and

          Yeah. This is a big part of the archaic metaphysics that needs a reckoning imo. To be fair, it doesn't seem to be that big of a problem in Western Buddhism afaict. Bernie Glassman's approach seems more typical, and an appropriate update for American life.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist May 3
          Replying to @danlistensto @OortCloudAtlas and

          The dharma will be at its peak when the West is good at calling Buddhism on its bullshit, and vice versa. Though the flip-side of Western Buddhism dumping everything it finds too mystical is that it makes you wonder if there are useful parts that we just don't understand yet.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas May 3
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @danlistensto and

          Unfortunately, nobody can claim to know how deep reality works.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto May 3
          Replying to @OortCloudAtlas @Failed_Buddhist and

          I like it better that way. Way more fun.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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