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.

it's as if empathy doesn't esxist

And I agree, but handing a histrionic meditation principles without a roadmap is asking for trouble.

@Wojak I retract my previous argument. You are right here.

Nah, he wanted to make things less of a workload by expanding committees with people he trusts. Apparently it got vetoed by the use of some proxy or other legalese.

He thinks that was unethical, as the people who vetoed didn't even (according to him) know what was going on.

any ufc fans? 235 tonight

Ah, I see.

I'd link buuut no link.

So google ajahn brahm resignation

it's a very short letter.

I'm a fan.

What's going on?

@Xychotic Morning, brother.

brb

you're a fan but you dont know?

@Five, Seven, and Two Morning.

wtf is that

Basically Wojak showed up and the 4ish of us have been talking since then.

@Darkness I find it rather cozy under my rock, thank toy very much