Message from @Gordon Frohman
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children settle down
ducks eating from my hand
they were so cute
let us recall the tale of the buddha as he discovers the middle way
shakti settle down dont get triggered tonight ok
you're the one who asked me gordon
yes
i did
this is an excellend convo
im listening now
i'm out here telling you stories about your peoples' religion
i read up
okay
lets go
so
the buddha became emaciated
im not a nigger im willing to listen
good
me too
i promise
no this is right before he attained samyaksambuddhahood
under the bodhi tree
samywaddafuk?
enlightenment
he was under the illusion that he needed to deprive his body and senses of every stimuli in order to tap into some strange conception of enlightenment that had no ties to the body or mind and was just out there somewhere
so he hears a lute player tuning his lute
too tight and the lute makes the wrong tone
too loose and it also sounds off
that makes really good sense, depriving yourself of gluttonous stimuli
only when the lute was tuned perfectly in the middle
spelling
but
then the lute would give off the perfect note
the buddha realized the meaning
a farm girl comes and asks him if he wants some rice because she is compassionate to him and he has endured all of this suffering
he realizes the middle way
he takes the rice and eats it
the middle way?
his 5 disciples leave him out of disgust because they haven't understood what he realized
third position