#middle way

[yoga-onion]

The Quest for Buddhism (88)

Buddhacharita, Chapter 15: 'The First Turning of the Wheel' - Depiction of the Middle Way (Ref) and the Eightfold Path (Ref2)

The Buddhacharita is a Buddhist epic attributed to Ashvaghosha (80-150 CE, an ancient Indian Buddhist monk). The following is a translation of the text in Sanskrit:

'O Bhikkhus, do not speak to a respectful Arhat out of respect and according to your former habits. Respect and condemnation are the same thing to me, but let me turn you back from your vices.

See the two wings of the fools' indulgence, exhausting themselves and obsessing over the objects of their sensitivities, as negligent and not the path to immortality.

For example, here, the darkness of the night is brought to extinction by the lamp, but not by sprinkling water to extinction. Similarly, the darkness of ignorance is brought to extinction by the fire of the intellect, but not by the fatigue of the body.

For example, a fire-seeker does not get fire by chopping and tearing a piece of wood, but he gets fire by rubbing that same piece of wood in the right way. Similarly, one gains immortality from correct yoga, not from physical fatigue.

And he whose mind is overcome by dust (rajas) and darkness (tamas), and who is attached to the objects of lust without interest, will not attain fulfilment even in the worldly art of gain (arthaniti). Even in the vairagyavidhi (procedure of covetousness), which is the opposite of the world, he will not be able to attain fulfilment.

For example, there is no recovery for a person who is ill and eats the wrong food. In the same way, how can there be tranquillity for one who is sick with ignorance and is attached to the objects of lust?

For example, there is no stillness in a fire that stays on dry ground and is stirred by the wind. Similarly,there is no tranquillity in the heart that is subject to greed and on the ground of the object of lust.

I have renounced these two extremes and have attested to another path as the middle one (Middle Way), which is ultimately a guide to subdue suffering and to be at peace, happy and contented.

The path (1) shines with the rays of sunlight of right view, (2) is drawn by the wheel of pure thought, (3) has the rightly spoken word as its refuge, (4) has the pleasures of the amusement park hut through good deeds, (5) has a great harvest through life without blame, (6) has strength and followers through right action, (7) is everywhere protected by the fortress of right remembrance and (8) has the floor and seat of samādhi as its dwelling place.

Thus, here, this supreme path of the eight branches carries man out of death, old age and disease, and he who has been carried out of it and has done all he has to do will not go round again in this world or in the next.

仏教の探求 (88)

ブッダチャリタ第15章「初転法輪」〜中道・八正道（参照）の描写

『ブッダチャリタ』とは、馬鳴（めみょう、梵: ｱｼｭｳﾞｧｺﾞｰｼｬ、紀元後80年頃～150年頃、古代インドの仏教僧侶）の著作とされる仏教叙事詩である。以下、本文(梵語)の翻訳:

「比丘たちよ、尊敬する阿羅漢に対する尊敬の念から、かつての習慣に従って話してはならない。私には尊敬と非難は同じことであるが、汝たちを私が不徳から引き戻してあげよう。」

愚か者たちが耽っている、自分を疲労させることと、感官の対象に執着することとの、両翼は、怠慢であり、不死に至る道ではないと見なさい。

苦行と称される身体の疲労によって、乱された心が傷つけられる時、人は決して世間的な理解すら知ることはないであろう。ましてや感官を超えた真実の道を知ることにおいてをや。

例えば、ここで、灯火によって夜の闇は滅に至るが、水を撒くことによっては滅に至らない。同様に、知性の火によって無知の闇は消滅に至るが、身体の疲労によっては消滅に至らない。

例えば、火を求める人が、木片を切り刻み、引き裂いても火を得ないが、その同じ木片を正しい方法で摩擦すれば火を得る。 同様に、人は正しいヨーガから不死を得るのであって、身体の疲労からではない。

また、塵(ﾗｼﾞｬｽ)と闇(ﾀﾏｽ)に心が打ち負かされて 、利なき愛欲の対象に執着する者は、世間における利の処世術(ｱﾙﾀﾆｰﾃｨ)においても成就を得ることはできぬ。ましてや、世間とは真逆の離貪の手順(ｳﾞｧｲﾗ-ｷﾞｬｳﾞｨﾃﾞｨ)においてをや。

例えば、病に冒されて、間違った食物を食べる人に、決して快復がない。 同様に、無知の病に冒され、愛欲の対象に執着する者に、どうして寂静があろうか。

例えば、乾いた地にとどまって、風にあおられた火に静まりがない。同様に、貪欲につき従われ、愛欲の対象という地にある心に静まりはない。

私はこの両極端を放棄して、その真ん中としての別な道、すなわち、究極的に苦しみを鎮める導き手であり、安穏であり、幸福で、息災なる〔道〕 を証得したのだ。

その道は、(1) 正しい見解という太陽光線で輝き、(2) 清らかな思惟の車に引かれ、(3) 正しく語られた言葉を精舎とし、(4) 善い行いによる遊園小屋の楽しみを持ち 、(5) 非難されない生活による大豊作を持ち、(6) 正しい行動による力と従者を持ち、(7) どこでも正しい念の砦に守られ、(8) 三昧という床と座を居住地としているのである。

このように、ここにおいて、八支よりなるこの最高の道は、人を死と老いと病から運び出すものであり、それから運び出されて 、すべてのなすべきことをなし終わった人は、再びこの世やあの世を巡ることはない。

#buddhacharita #ashvaghosha #middle way #noble eightfold path #immortality #buddha #buddhism #history #philosophy #nature #art #enlightenment

[phi-los-o-pher]

Enrich you inner world to enhance your outer world.

#self reflection #philosophy #pscyhology #expansion #contentment #peace #happiness #balance #middleway #middle way #universe #soul

[ididoktoday]

Feeling good? You’re ok.

Feeling bad? You’re ok.

#meditation #middle way #self care #self love #mental health #positive mental attitude #therapyworks #recovering people pleaser #spread kindness #recovery #kind notes to self #kindness #care for others

[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

#oh the experience of being 13 years old and seeing all my friends talking about wanting to have sex and obsessing over it #and being like 'we are all literally WAY too young to be having sex what the actual fuck are you talking about #why are you even considering it when we have much more important things to worry about. like how much middle school sucks' #you know what though. i still stand by this. that was an entirely reasonable thought to have and i WAS being normal about it #anyway #mine #asexuality

[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.

#9/11 #serious post #not a shitpost #this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks #politics #this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it #i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed #because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes. #and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries #we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government #but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation! #a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!! #a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support #so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*??? #well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains #and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel #truth is irrelevant #worse: to the people in charge #truth is a HINDRANCE #'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase #facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations

[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

#he just will not do it. hes too friendly #the way he at his core would never ever dream of throwing someone out for making a warlock pact.‘like that’s what’s at the middle of it all #this is why i wish he could actually be mad at his father. #bg3 #eldritch blastmaxxing

[joyboythehopepunk]

thankful middle way

aside from my strained relationship with humanity in general (for various reasons) my life is actually pretty okay.

i'm relatively healthy, relatively sane, and relatively content.

ofc i have had way less than this. and i know i could have more but..

i would really rather a peaceful alien intervention. or that humanity get its collective head out of its ass on all these things that we've been struggling with for way too long

but i get it. i have trauma. i'm fucked up (relatively speaking). i do dumb shit.

but i also do my best to be a little better each day. and i'm also worthy of love. sometimes i don't have the fucks to give about anything else except myself. but i take care. not to hurt myself or others. to be good.

will my life actually be better with a girlfriend? idk. sometimes i wonder if the woman i'm looking for exists.

but right now.. life is.. good. so i'm thankful.

and i'm thankful for the weirdness within and outside of me that led me on a lifelong spiritual path to begin with. i think i would be way way way more fucked up without it.

thanks ancestors! thanks gods! thanks mysterious cosmos!

but also fuck you and the gods (i'm gonna punch yall when i get to the otherside fr)

#personal #spiritual #spiritual path #middle way #witch of color #thankful #paranormal #weird #weirdo #the horrors #ancestors #gods #deities #spirits

[udayg]

The Middle Way

I hope you enjoy reading my new blog post: “The Middle Way: Conflict and Balance in Contemporary Society” I hope you find it inspiring, informative and engaging.

Conflict and Balance in Contemporary Society Three Buddhas, Inner Wall, Level 4, Borobudur, photograph by Anandajoti Bhikkhu There is a Buddhist axiom which rests at the very heart and foundation of Buddhist philosophy. In simple terms, it is to “seek the Middle Way” — to find the balance between the “extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification.” (Wikipedia entry on Middle Way). This…

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#balance #Buddha #Buddhism #cerebral hemispheres #duality #education #enlightenment #epiphany #equilibrium #flow state #George Lucas #golf #ideas #Middle Way #nature #Noble Eight-fold Path #perspective #philosophy #Star Wars #thought #transcendental meditation #unity consciousness #zen state

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

#tloz #a link to the past #zelda #link #my art #I was happy with that first one but for some reason decided it still needed a companion piece so I spent way too long on that second one... #I don't think there was any time during the progress where I was happy with it but hfduhdfu at least I got to Attempt drawing moss hell yea #I also at some point sat in Pyu's art stream and said I enjoy drawing legs As I was being murdered by the infamously impossibe (imo) squat. #it's ok I had fun !! but I need to learn how to let doodles be doodles or I'll never finish stuff at this rate dfsuhfd #if everything in my tloz tag looks like it was drawn by different people uuuh 2023 was art crisis year ngl...... #I'm falling back into my old ways rn though #anyway I think about these two a lot I think they're both stone faced and awkward ppl in different ways but they try rly hard to be friends #like I like to think it starts out so incredibly awkward and a bit sad bc they keep stepping over each other's toes accidentally the harder #they try but idk they find comfy middle ground idk in my brain they have a very interesting friendship I wanna get around to drawing it #in a proper way that might make sense.... #if I don't write 200 tags I will die maybe it's bc I grew up on dA or smth #and yes I know how to find 1 (one) type of mushroom /I/ am not mushroom girl unfortunately smh

[ebishopwooten]

Centrist or Middle Way: Hated either way

Hated by the Right for being too liberal Hated by the Left for being too conservative Yet I am supposed to take sides? I can no longer tell the lesser of two evils (which is still evil). Ever heard of the Middle Way? It was a spiritual movement centuries ago, though in this politically correct culture we just call it “libertarianism”. You can actually be hated for being too positive? Granted…

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#libertarian #middle way #politics #satire

[raepliica]

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

#trigun #trimax #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #raepliica_art #sharing the lung disease🤸🤸 #anyway. they're always finding a way to be in each other's space no matter what #ww likes to quietly read the newspapers in the morning #but vash needs the attention like a spoiled cat so he'll try to be a little annoying to ww >:) #at first i wanted to give vash full black hair but it would've shifted this to another tone so i left it half-half..🧍 #umm not much else to say other than i blacked out in the middle of it and it was suddenly coloured and done

[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

#maybe it was just a jawdrop to me idk #taylor swift #ttpd #the manuscript #text #i keep saying it in the gc but the way the album is just a russian nesting doll of muses #you think its matty but beneath him its joe and beneath him its jake #and in the middle of it all is taylor screaming #this album is a fucking masterpiece

[golden-snackoos]

forget me not.

#apollo justice #ace attorney #trucy wright #thalassa gramarye #lamiroir #machi tobaye #my-art #the middle-most panel is drawn from the part where thalassa gets injured #her story is always so sad to think about #the way the parts left unsaid are soo miserable to think about with these games..

[rennenaway]

I mean

I'm not wrong?

#francis mosses #thats not my neighbor #tnmn #Kisses for all the artists who draw him as the pathetic middle aged guy he is #Mwah mwah #But like i see this so often #It's mainly the Doppelgänger fanarts who are like crazy yandere-fied #Which idm they're supposed to be that way i think #But like there's so much fanfic with this guy being the absolutes 'alpha male' ever #Which is so funny cause look at him #He just wants to sleep #Also can't believe that these shitposts do better than my actual art

[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.”

#thomas being a protective father and fucking with every suitor from #beyond the grave my beloved. he bothers Clark in small — but infuriating — ways. breaking all the chargers in his home. #so Clark can’t work from home or get work done on time. shut off the electricity in the middle of his interviews or meetings. #or talking to Bruce. writing articles about Perry white and blaming it on Clark. calling Lex Luthor hot. #PROTECTIVE DADDY THOMAS THATS ALL #bruce wayne #superbat #battinson #clark kent #thomas wayne #dc comics #dc #batman #text #text post

[egophiliac]

I saw comments that the new butler from Ridekamens look like Sebek

He...kinda does

I wasn't gonna say it, but. that was kind of my first thought when he was revealed. :') maybe this is what Sebek's older brother is doing these days? he ran off to buttle for secret agents at a superhero cafe? actually wait that would be rad as heck, I'll accept this headcanon

#art #twisted wonderland #ride kamens #i don't know how to tag this in a way that won't annoy literally everyone so uhhhh sorry about that #'but his surname is aijo' it's his SECRET AGENT NAME gosh you wanna blow his cover or what #...okay to be fair they're not really that much alike #beyond being green manservants themed after reptiles and having sorta similar hair and...well their personalities are different anyway #then again we have yet to actually experience leon so who knows #we'll be in the middle of a tense battle of good vs evil and he just appears behind us screaming GOSHUJINSAMA YOUR DRYCLEANING!!! #actually based on his description this seems pretty likely. hm.