diff --git a/app/(aspects)/words/marks/draft.mdx b/app/(aspects)/words/marks/draft.mdx new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d239caf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/(aspects)/words/marks/draft.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ + +There's a language without question marks. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/app/(aspects)/words/path/draft.mdx b/app/(aspects)/words/path/draft.mdx deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29b..00000000 diff --git a/app/(aspects)/words/silence/draft.mdx b/app/(aspects)/words/silence/draft.mdx new file mode 100644 index 00000000..84f7db77 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/(aspects)/words/silence/draft.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ + +Listen to the sound of silence. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/app/(aspects)/words/task/page.mdx b/app/(aspects)/words/task/page.mdx new file mode 100644 index 00000000..82f49679 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/(aspects)/words/task/page.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# 🍀 The Fourfold Task + +The four observations on Buddha's first teachings are commonly stated in today's +language as something along the lines of: + +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 + +These realizations evoke the Bodhisattva vows, translated to modern terms as +something that resembles these contradictory promises: + +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 + +The four truths and vows can also be framed using the lenses of +secularism[1][Batchelor1],[2][Batchelor2] as: + +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 + +[Batchelor1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Rtfmj4dn4 +[Batchelor2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEYEojWNXI + +In my own practice I have decided to realign the realization and vows as: + +Feel, lose, note, sing. + +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. + +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 + diff --git a/app/(aspects)/words/trail/draft.mdx b/app/(aspects)/words/way/draft.mdx similarity index 99% rename from app/(aspects)/words/trail/draft.mdx rename to app/(aspects)/words/way/draft.mdx index 2d3ad04f..bb8cd559 100644 --- a/app/(aspects)/words/trail/draft.mdx +++ b/app/(aspects)/words/way/draft.mdx @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ + + + # 🛤️ The Pursuit I've had a lot of luck in my life. I was lucky to have been raised to be diff --git a/app/(aspects)/words/way/page.mdx b/app/(aspects)/words/way/page.mdx new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6f2ac42 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/(aspects)/words/way/page.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# 🧭 The Way of the World + +[To _journey_ and to _feel_, the purpose of life][life] + +[life]: /words/life + +[_Let go_ and _be still_, the need of the mind][task] + +[task]: /words/task