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Matthew Martin Ⓥ ☸
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My vegan Buddhist account, expect independent, de-institutionalized, secular mahayana ahimsayana Buddhism. I'm into lay, householder, precepts driven Buddhism.
Most of my life I've been low grade depressed. This last year, I've had medium to high grade anxiety instead. I did more Buddhist reading & Buddhist things when I was low grade depressed.
I think Siddhartha probably suffered from depression & hence his advice works so well for it.
Void Chickena Christmas carol makes more sense from a Buddhist perspective than a Christian one
the actual mechanism of Scrooge's transformation is way more Buddhist than Christian
there's no salvation through grace, no acceptance of a savior, no forgiveness of sins through faith
what happens is he's forced to see clearly.
he witnesses the causes and conditions of his own suffering and the suffering he creates. he sees dependent origination in action - how his choices ripple outward, how Tiny Tim's fate is entangled with his own actions
The mastodon server I'm on doesn't appear to have tweets from tags anymore. I'm guessing that is an optimization to reduce server load.
A weekly, low-pressure peer-led Buddhist sutra discussion group for the Fediverse. It's not Buddhist school. Just a casual place for us to read and chat and share with each other
Each Saturday, we read and discuss one chapter of a Buddhist sutra starting with the Lotus Sutra
we're moving on to Ch.11 he Emergence of the Jeweled Stupa
How to Join
Read Chapter ELEVEN before or on Saturday Dec 6
(if you're not caught up on the previous chapters that's okay. you can still join in the discussion of this chapter)
Post your thoughts anytime on Saturday using the hashtag #Mastodharma
Follow and/or pin the hashtag #mastodharma so you can keep up with the discussion and boost others
Where to Read or Listen
text (html) https://sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/index.htm
text (pdf) https://huntingtonarchive.org/resources/downloads/sutras/06lotusVimalakirti/Lotus%20Sutra.doc.pdf
audio with on screen text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZFnYFP851A
Good day to hold a vegetarian feast for Bodhisattvas.
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Tofu Musubi"A new study of 155 drink samples sold in the UK found that all of them contained microplastics, while hot drinks such as #coffee and #tea contained elevated amounts.
The study suggests that hotter temperatures combined with plastic-lined to-go cups may result in the highest amount of #microplastics entering the human body, based on a comparison of common drink types.
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