#The Middle Way

[deepinsamsara]

"do not think in extremes; the answer is rarely all or nothing. skillful action is finding pathways even amidst contradictory options. solutions are found by going beyond the superficial and into the subtle. understand that life is the integration of complexity. everything is situational and multilinear. find the middle path and challenge yourself to think deeper." - yung pueblo

[salonduthe]

Not acting on our habitual patterns is only the first step toward not harming others or ourselves. The transformative process begins at a deeper level when we contact the rawness we’re left with whenever we refrain. As a way of working with our aggressive tendencies, Dzigar Kongtrül teaches the nonviolent practice of simmering. He says that rather than “boil in our aggression like a piece of meat cooking in a soup,” we simmer in it. We allow ourselves to wait, to sit patiently with the urge to act or speak in our usual ways and feel the full force of that urge without turning away or giving in. Neither repressing nor rejecting, we stay in the middle between the two extremes, in the middle between yes and no, right and wrong, true and false. This is the journey of developing a kindhearted and courageous tolerance for our pain.

~ Pema Chödrön

(with thanks to aliveonallchannels)

[skeletonfumes]

Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku

[yoga-onion]

The Quest for Buddhism (87)

Middle Way - the fundamental of the Buddha's teachings

The term "middle" in the Middle Way refers not to the middle of between the two things, but to moving away from the two things and transcending contradictory conflicts, while the "way" refers to the practice and method.

The unbiased, middle and correct path that is free from the two views of refusal and regularity, or existence and nothingness.

The Middle Way (Skt: Madhyama -pratipada, Pali: Majjhima-paṭipada) is a common Buddhist term used to refer to one of the major aspects of the Dhamma, that is, the teaching of the Buddha. It was given by the Buddha during his first sermon to the five bhikkhus (first turning of the wheel) at Sarnath. It refers specifically to the Noble Eightfold Path (Ref).

The phrasing (with "patipada"), refers to a spiritual practice that steers clear of both extreme asceticism and sensual indulgence. This spiritual path is defined as the noble eightfold path that leads to awakening.

The term Middle Way is widely valued in Buddhism, and its meaning can be shallow or deep, but all sects agree that the core of their dogma is expressed in terms of the Middle Way.

仏教の探求 (87)

中道〜ブッダの教えの基本

中道の〈中〉は、両極端な2つのものの中間ではなく、2つのものから離れて矛盾対立を超えることを意味し、〈道〉は実践・方法を指す。

断・常の二見、あるいは有・無の二辺を離れた不偏にして中正なる道のこと。

中道 (ちゅうどう、梵: ﾏﾃﾞｨﾔﾔﾏｰ･ﾌﾟﾗﾃｨﾊﾟｯﾄﾞ、巴: ﾏｯｼﾞﾏｰ･ﾊﾟﾃｨﾊﾟﾀﾞｰ)は、ダンマ、すなわちブッダの教えの大きな側面を指す共通の仏教用語である。ブッダが鹿野�� (ろくやおん、梵: サールナート) において五比丘に対して初めての説法を行った際に（初転法輪）、ブッダによって与えられたものである。具体的には八正道（参照）を指す。

この表現 (“ﾊﾟﾃｨﾊﾟﾀﾞ”) は、極端な禁欲と官能的な耽溺の両方を避ける精神的な修行を指す。この精神的な道は、覚醒につながる八正道と定義されている。

中道の語は仏教において広く重んじられているため、その意味には浅深があるが、各宗がその教理の核心を中道の語で表す点は一致する。

[divinum-pacis]

Nagarjuna & The Buddhist Middle Way

In this episode, we explore the teachings of the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna and his school, known as Madhyamika, or "The Middle Way".

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[visenyaism]

Wyll being a terrible monster hunter is something that is so special actually. told to hunt heartless devil? immediately convinced of her goodness and humanity and without hesitation agrees to defy the devil who has his soul in custody and spare karlach at tremendous personal physical cost. vampire in camp? well hes handsome and funny and pretty polite about where he puts his teeth so it’s fine all things considered. finding out the person who ritualistically disemboweled a tiefling in front of him is a bhaalspawn like an unholy progeny of the god of murder that is culturally immediately reviled? no that’s his friend and he completely trusts in their ability to fight their nature with their own inner light. it doesn’t matter that they created the absolute they’re not that person anymore. Like Wyll. you are literally categorically not hunting the monsters. guy of all time

[jamienojaem]

"When things don't go as we had hoped, we either look for external influences to blame instead of reflecting on what we could have done differently, or we go too far in that latter extreme and blame ourselves too much. There is a happy middle ground wherein we consider possible outcomes if we had done things differently, but we don't call ourselves failures or losers just because we didn't have all the facts right off the bat. It's very easy to spot these extremes when other people go off on a tangent, venting about everything that went wrong without seeing what they could have done differently, but the trick is to catch ourselves when WE do it. We bend over backward to reason with ourselves so that we can feel better about what happened, but even if we walk away from the experience feeling justified, we don't walk away from it any wiser."

— Timber Hawkeye | Buddhist Boot Camp

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[raepliica]

they're down to their last cigarette so they're sharing✨️✨️

[coastaltowned]

the manuscript ending the album on the utter jawdrop moment that neither of the muses of the actual album were the first men to fuck her up with promises of marriage and babies, and that first heartbreak so long ago laid the scene for the woman she would become and the ways she would approach love and how we all watched her life like scenes in a show but she kept coming back to the manuscript of the first torrid affair that ruined her, to bookend an album about two love affairs that destroyed her utterly in almost the exact same way, because all her muses are acquired like bruises........ it's bone-chilling

[yoga-onion]

The Quest for Buddhism (80)

Noble Eightfold Path - 8 practices to free oneself from painful reincarnation leads to nirvana

In the Pali Canon's Bhavananuyutta sutta ("Mental Development Discourse", Anguttara Nikaya 7.67), the Buddha is recorded as saying (See image above).

The Buddhist path to liberation consists the Thirty Seven Factors of Enlightenment (Pali, sattatimsa bodhipakkhiya dhamma Ref). The most classical one is the Noble Eightfold Path, described in the Sutta Pitaka.

The Noble Eightfold Path is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth, in the form of nirvana.

The Noble Eightfold Path was preached by the Buddha in his first Dharma teaching (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Ref2). It is considered to be Marga (Pali: Magga, Ref4) among the Four Noble Truths (Ref3), and is also considered to be the specific content of the Middle Way.

The Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: 1) right view, 2) right resolve, 3) right speech, 4) right conduct, 5) right livelihood, 6) right effort, 7) right mindfulness, and 8) right samadhi ('meditative absorption or union'; alternatively, equanimous meditative awareness).

In early Buddhism, these practices started with understanding that the body-mind works in a corrupted way (right view), followed by entering the Buddhist path of self-observance, self-restraint, and cultivating kindness and compassion; and culminating in dhyana or samadhi, which reinforces these practices for the development of the body-mind.

仏教の探求 (80)

八正道 (はっしょうどう)〜辛い輪廻転生から解放され、涅槃に導くための8つの修行

パーリ仏典の増支部 (ぞうしぶ、巴: ｱﾝｸﾞｯﾀﾗ･ﾆｶｰﾔ 7.67)『ﾊﾞｰｳﾞｧﾇﾕｯﾀ･ｽｯﾀ (精神発展論)』には、ブッダが次のように語ったと記録されている:

僧侶たちよ、自分の心を瞑想的に発展させること (バヴァナ) に専念しない僧侶は、「ああ、執着することなく私の心が汚れから解放されますように！」と願っても、その心��解放されない。それはなぜか。「彼は自らの心を発展させていないからだ」と言わざるを得ない。何を開発していないのか？マインドフルネスの四つの基礎(四念住)、四つの正しい努力(四正断)、四つの自在力(四神足)、五つの霊的能力(五根)、五つの霊力(五力)、七つの悟りの要素(七覚支)、八正道においてだ」。

仏教の解脱の道は、三十七の悟りの要素（三十七道品、巴: ｻｯﾀｰﾃｨﾑｻ･ﾎﾞｰﾃﾞｨﾊﾟｯｷｬｰ･ﾀﾞﾝﾏ 参照)で構成されている。最も古典的なものが、経蔵 (きょうぞう、巴: ｽｯﾀ･ﾋﾟﾀｶ)に記述されている八正道である。八正道は、輪廻の苦しみから解放され、涅槃に至る仏教の修行の道筋を初期にまとめたものである。

八正道はブッダが最初の説法（初転法輪: 参照2）において説いたとされる。四諦 (したい: 参照3)のうちでは道諦(どうたい 参照4)にあたり、ブッダの説いた中道(ちゅうどう)の具体的内容ともされる。

八正道は、①正しい見解(正見)、②正しい智慧(正思)、③正しい言葉(正語)、④正しい行い(正業)、⑤正しい生活(正命)、⑥正しい努力(正精進)、⑦正しい心構え(正念)、⑧正しい三昧(正定:「瞑想的吸収または結合」または「平静な瞑想的意識」)という8つの修行から構成されている。

初期仏教では、これらの修行は、身心が腐敗していることを理解すること (正見) から始まり、自戒、自制、親切と慈悲を養う仏道に入り、身心の発展のためにこれらの修行を強化するディヤーナまたは三昧 (さんまい、梵: ｻﾏｰﾃﾞｨ) に至る。

[golden-snackoos]

forget me not.

[rennenaway]

I mean

I'm not wrong?

[bruciemilf]

Headcanon that, every year on their birthday, Kryptonians get new superpowers.

Clark doesn’t really keep track; That’s Bruce’s job, for the most part. This year? Mediumship.

me·​di·​um·​ship

/the capacity, function, or profession of a spiritualistic medium/

“Communication with spirits,” Bruce has this habit of nicking his thumb with his teeth, pretty, hazel eyes glossy with thought. Clark doesn’t need supervision to see how beautiful he is when his mind’s at work. “Fascinating.”

“Yep,”

Clark watches Thomas Wayne’s ghost give him the glare of the century behind his son’s back.

The skin of his jawline is entirely ripped off, peeled by Joe Chill’s gun, like the news article said. Sincerely, the Wayne glare scares Clark more.

“Fascinating.”