link me the book
ill read it
no to the insane thing. but people are reductive. when people are ego driven, critical thinking about themselves is kinda deprioritized
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if its a decent intro to eastern thinking yeah i want to read that
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thanks ill add to my amazon list
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i would love to hear what you think about it. i have literally been pushing this book on people here for a decade. i think only alightsoul hsa ever actually read it and even that i cant verify
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re the community crisis fund idea, i wasnt kidding. that is 100% someth we could easily do
forget phil, i just want people who WANT therapy to
be able to have it no judgement. lno questions asked
this is the guy whose talks are basically the content of the book, they just structured it in a good way
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ill ask him what type of buddhist he is now im curious
hes very turn the other cheek pacifism oriented so i know its not one the militant offshoots
well I would be happy to
oh its $10 and under 200 pages yeah thats quick i just ordered iy
and i know the feeling well re: trying to push books i love on people, happy to be that guy for you i love reading and writing - its a subject i am a bit ignorant on and would love some basic knowledge
i have a friend who is literally a theravada (thai) monk who has his own monastery now. i bought him that book and he told me its in the shelf at his library now lol. that story i told earlier was at a mayahana (chinese variant in particular) thing i was invited to.
re zen buddhism everything i know basically suggests its the least religious and most mentally positive one to me. its like basically the newest, the guy I linked started the zen buddhism movement in the US (in SF) â itâs pretty modernity-focused. before you even read the book check out a list of zen koans, i can probably find a funny one. they give good insight into what that book might get into
sure man i will and thanks for the backstory
your friend has his own monastery? thats insanely cool
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he had to change his name and everything. had a lot of family and personal pressures that led to what hes inheriting, i kinda feel bad for him but im glad hes making the most of it and enjoying himself
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Itâs a small thing in a small place that someone young had to eventually take on. they basically groomed him for the role for it. i dunno if iâd even really consider him to be someone who comes off as that big of a religious guy. heâs like maybe 26/27 years old and the kinda guy who is a massive sam hyde fan for the less great reasons
there is some ironic nature in the fact that he was kinda phone-maxing during his religious retreat to thailand maybe 1.5 years ago and they didnât see any issue with it according to him. they specifically did teach him odd things like how to beg for money or other resources without begging for things (because you canât ask explicitly for things in their culture) that i still think about. when i got him that book he used that tek on me
him and i would talk about these differences sometimes because i did really enjoy zen buddhism and kinda always hated how religion perverted all the other ones to some degree. his argument about my shit and how his was good was that modern buddhism (like Mahayana) is itself a perversion of their buddhism and that there are many other offshoots like it, and that there was inherent nonreligious qualities that were good. those answers still didnt really satisfy me.
like, there is plenty of buddhism perversion and cope in places like SEA and thai buddhism to me. for example threats to nature and species conservation from those regions arent really coming from Atheists, and thatâs expressly nonbuddhist behavior to a guy like me. What he told me about the monks who suggested things like him using phones making sense didnât really paint things well for me either.
uhhh well its still kinda neat lol
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