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There's a language without question marks. |
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Listen to the sound of silence. |
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# 🍀 The Fourfold Task | ||
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The four observations on Buddha's first teachings are commonly stated in today's | ||
language as something along the lines of: | ||
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1. Existence is suffering | ||
2. The origin of suffering is craving | ||
3. The ceasing of suffering is the ceasing of craving | ||
4. The way to cease craving is the Buddha's path | ||
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These realizations evoke the Bodhisattva vows, translated to modern terms as | ||
something that resembles these contradictory promises: | ||
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1. Creations are numberless, we vow to free them | ||
2. Delusions are inexhaustible, we vow to transform them | ||
3. Reality is boundless, we vow to perceive it | ||
4. The awakened way is unsurpassable, we vow to embody it | ||
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The four truths and vows can also be framed using the lenses of | ||
secularism<sup>[1][Batchelor1],[2][Batchelor2]</sup> as: | ||
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1. Suffering is to be fully known | ||
2. What arises is to be let go of | ||
3. The ceasing is to be beheld | ||
4. The way is to be cultivated | ||
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[Batchelor1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Rtfmj4dn4 | ||
[Batchelor2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEYEojWNXI | ||
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In my own practice I have decided to realign the realization and vows as: | ||
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Feel, lose, note, sing. | ||
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Differently from teachings where the Bodhisattva vows arise from the realization | ||
of the four truths plus the compassion for other sentient beings (therefore the | ||
vows are a consequence of the enlightenment), my practice of these vows is the | ||
most pragmatic way to work on the fourfold task. That is, the vows are not a | ||
consequence but an implementation. | ||
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1. To free all beings, comprehend all suffering through empathy | ||
2. To deconstruct all illusions, abdicate compulsion through detachment | ||
3. To perceive reality, see past the veil of wants through attention | ||
4. To embody the path, cultivate the noble truths through practice | ||
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# 🛤️ The Pursuit | ||
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I've had a lot of luck in my life. I was lucky to have been raised to be | ||
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# 🧭 The Way of the World | ||
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[To _journey_ and to _feel_, the purpose of life][life] | ||
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[life]: /words/life | ||
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[_Let go_ and _be still_, the need of the mind][task] | ||
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[task]: /words/task |