@Kragt Jung saved my life, too. Not an exaggeration.

Like most things given to you fast and cheap, it's fattening and bad for you.

sometimes you just need to go squat though

@Five, Seven, and Two Depends, what are your thoughts on eat pray love.

getting too caught up in your feelings isn't healthy

@Kragt Seething hatred comes to mind.

go and exert your body

and you get lost in that skill development

you will always win under those circumstances

@Darkness That is symptom management. I am talking about fixing the problem at its source. Symptom management buys you time only. The problem will return if you don't fix it.

^

it prepares you

at the very least

to make the transition more obtainable

at least in my exp

yea, the meditation for sure

I just recommend everyone to Ajahn Brahm. Decades of videos of his talks, very simple, somewhat repetitive, but strictly original buddhism.

I didn't know how to do it properly

we're so distracted it's difficult

Theravadan buddhism works, and with none of the highly religious ritualistic gobbledeegook other cultures added on to it.

Learn to let go, and to be mindful.

Simple is what works.

Tao

@Wojak Solid recommendation.

I heard he stepped down, recently?

It does have some ritualistic gobbledegook, but any sensible person can see the point isn't the ritual. In fact _the first listed stage of enlightenment is to accept that_.

@Five, Seven, and Two The self-help buddism is built to be as commercially accessable as possible. So it will lose what makes it useful in its quest to be more available.
If the average person is bad at introspection, and buddism requires it to work the average person will not be able to use buddism effectively.

Yes, over a disagreement. I forget about what.

Tao (/daʊ/, /taʊ/) or Dao (/daʊ/) DOW; from Chinese: 道; pinyin: Dào [tâu] ( listen)) is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path', 'route', 'road' or sometimes more loosely 'doctrine', 'principle' or 'holistic beliefs'.

pinyin is th eromanized written form of the chinese lingo

romanized*

Basically the council or whatever wouldn't back him over what he thought was essential and important. Being that was the case, he stepped down from it as the only viable solution.

Since he could not, _especially_ not as head monk, do otherwise.

You cannot be a buddhist and go "Well I'll just ignore this then"

take what's useful discard th rest

people are so set on association

want to be a part of someting

@Kragt That 'bad at introspection' part is what worries the fuck out of me. Buddhist principles are excellent for average introspection, but it's like any other philosophy: putty in the hands of a solipsist.

You develop introspection by meditating.

Hence the whole development of it.

@Wojak I'll need to look up who argued for what, then, I'd hadn't heard it was a doctrinal disagreement, half expected it to be a political falling out.