#video about sadhus on #psychedelics (5-MeO-DMT, misleadingly called “DMT” in the video title) one of whom (of the #Aghoris) sort of laughed at it, dismissing it as a “temporary glimpse” though “powerful”, which changed the YouTuber Dakota’s perspective: “There’s a big difference between seeing something profound and becoming something profound.” #religion
on 02026-04-22wow, the #Aghoris are a Shaivite cult practicing #cannibalism in #India today. #religion
on 02026-04-22#history of #aniconism and #iconoclasm in #Judaism #religion
on 02026-04-21#news of two unnamed soldiers of #Israel smashing a Jesus statue in a village in Southern #Lebanon, for which they were sentenced to 30 days in military prison. #aniconism #iconoclasm #religion
on 02026-04-21PG’s copy of #The-Light-of-Asia #Buddhism #ebook. #religion
on 02025-12-16"The Light of Asia" #Buddhism #ebook originally published in 01892, one of the first English-language books on Buddhism. #religion
on 02025-12-16#Buddhism #video of Thich Nhat Hanh talking about “hungry ghosts” who are still alive in the flesh but do not know how to trust to receive love. #religion
on 02025-10-07#Deutsche-Welle explains how most men in #Thailand become monks for a while. #Theravada #Buddhism #education #schooling #religion
on 02024-11-27in #Thailand nearly all men become monks in wats for a while in their youth, a quarter of a million at any given time. I’m curious how old this tradition is. #Theravada #Buddhism #education #schooling #religion
on 02024-11-27#Thich-Nhat-Hanh on dependent arising (#paticcasamuppada) of clouds and paper, sunshine, and observation #Buddhism #religion
on 02024-09-12criticism of westernized #Buddhism: “Some meditators claim that meditation is the cure for human psychology, in so many words, and this is obviously incorrect.” #religion
on 02023-01-15the Great Mass of Suffering sutra. #Buddhism #religion
on 02023-01-15renunciation and asceticism play a huge role in #Buddhism. “I think Consensus “Buddhism” has more in common with liberal Christianity than Buddhism.” By a tantrika advocating #tantra: “However, throughout Sutrayana, there’s the idea that permanence is the only genuinely desirable state … Tantra, on the other hand, accepts change, values temporary pleasures, and rejects nirvana.” #religion
on 02023-01-15discussion of problems in Westernized #Buddhism #religion
on 02023-01-15Chanda Sutta: when desire is desirable in #Buddhism #religion
on 02022-05-21food for the factors of awakening, Āhāra Sutta (SN 46:51) #Buddhism #religion
on 02022-02-09short sutta on how he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. #Buddhism #religion
on 02021-12-17The Fruits of the Contemplative Life, Sāmaññaphala Sutta, DN 2. This contains the list of games the Buddha would not play, some basic rules of conduct for monks (though not the whole vinaya), supernatural powers, the first four jhanas, and forbidding holier-than-thou arguments. #Buddhism #religion
on 02021-12-17MN 131 PTS: M iii 187 Bhaddekaratta Sutta: An Auspicious Day translation cc-by-sa #Buddhism #religion
on 02021-12-11“An Anthropologist From Mars” Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s take on what #Buddhism teaches about priorities. "So try to face the ways of the world with equanimity and not let yourself get sucked into the narratives or systems of values that people use to tie you in, to keep you going along with their view of the world. After all, they want to make sure that everyone around them shares the same values so that they can feel comfortable, so they don’t have to face the huge abyss inside their hearts, the huge emptiness, the huge void, when those values are exposed for what they are. And their way of avoiding that is to rest assured that everybody else believes the way they do, thinks the way they do, and acts the way they do. But you’re not performing them any service by playing along.” #religion
on 02021-12-01