vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There should be more giant Buddhas in urban areas 010
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Light That Shines Through the Universe by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. A scaled-down replica of one of the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, with hands made from melted down artillery shells. #Buddhism #Art 071
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In AN 3.102, the Nimittasutta, the Buddha says the practices of immersion (samādhi), exertion (paggaha), and equanimity (upekkhā) need to be properly balanced to develop the higher mind, just as a goldsmith carefully tends to gold in the crucible, fanning it, dousing it, or letting it be. #Buddhism 010
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is easy to see the faults of others, But truly difficult to see one’s own. One sifts out the faults of others like chaff, But conceals one’s own, As a deceitful gambler conceals a corrupt dice throw. Dhammapada 252, Peter Feldmeier translation #Buddhism 020
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Reading about the decline of Buddhism in India and it's less surprising that Buddhism was extirpated there than that it survived as long as it did. All the social functions that Brahmins performed - divination, medicine, advice on government and war - monks are literally forbidden from doing that. 000
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026well-argued series of posts about why the post-ASI crisis of meaning is a fake concern 030
Reposted by vacchagottaRollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026nobody ever resolves conversations like this anymore 1327
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have attained a level of inner peace such that I am no longer "nervous" before job interviews. Instead I feel whatever emotion I imagine a person facing a firing squad feels 070
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i've been talking a lot about going insane but when we get to the part of the singularity where there are robots walking around and doing jobs just like people I am going to fully lose it 1233
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026when google finally drops gemini 4 it's going to be able to read minds and time-travel 020
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Look at the way life survives: by feeding on other life. The need to eat entails unavoidable suffering not only for those who are eaten but also for those who feed, because we are never free of the need to feed. 110
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There is no fire like lust; there is no grip like hatred; there is no net like delusion; there is no river like craving. Dhammapada 251, Acharya Buddharakkhita translation #Buddhism 010
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026*Mission of Burma voice* that's when I reach for my fedora 100
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work." Michel Houellebecq, on his novel Whatever 010
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Under Buddhist ethics, killing a small creature is traditionally held to be less negative kamma than killing a large creature. But a human life is always worth more than an animal life, because only beings in the human realm or above can comprehend the dhamma. Another W for Buddhism. 090
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Then in nine streams the filth is always flowing. There is muck from the eyes, wax from the ears, and snot from the nostrils. The mouth sometimes vomits bile and sometimes phlegm. And from the body, sweat and waste. 100
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Why is everyone on Bluesky crying about Roy Lichtenstein? Have they never heard of Richard Prince or Sherrie Levine? 000
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thinking about the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the parallels between the three feelings, the first five states of mind and the five hindrances. I didn't want to put an arrow from delusion to contracted/distracted but Gemini told me that's actually the explanation given in the Abhidhamma 200
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Soṇa, there are ascetics and brahmins who—based on form [feeling, perception, etc.], which is impermanent, suffering, and perishable—regard themselves thus: ‘I’m better’, or ‘I’m equal’, or ‘I’m worse’. What is that but a failure to see truly?" SN 22.49, Soṇasutta, Sujato translation #Buddhism 011
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026*jeff foxworthy voice* if you have a heavenly golden wheel-treasure with a thousand spokes, rolling forth in the ten directions... you might be a chakravarti 011
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We can't agree on *what* exactly will happen, but we can all tell that the world is going to be changing extremely fast and at extreme amplitude 230
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Keeping the first precept seems easy at first but if you're very serious about it it's quite difficult. Mainly because you can't kill bugs. Not even termites eating your house. And if you have a pet you can't put it to sleep if it becomes terminally ill. 000
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Old guy at my store asked where the "guinea tees" werestatic.klipy.comSopranos The SopranosALT: Sopranos The Sopranos 000
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Some day I'll write a post about how the Buddha's dialogue with Ajātasattu's minister about the Vajjian Republic (in DN 16) is a subtle critique of democracy (given that the Vajjis are ultimately defeated) but if anyone knows what I'm talking about they can kind of work out the argument already 000
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm glad we all figured out a way to control alien minds vastly more powerful than ours. I was really worried there for a minute. 000
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026@norvid-studies.bsky.social Don't you have a thread for these 150
Reposted by vacchagottaTikkhapaññā☁ @tikkhapanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026From love, grief is born. From love, fear is born. One free from love is without grief; From where would fear come? ~Dhammapada 213 #Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #love #fear #grief #sutta 031
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hey! Let's get in an argument over some tedious bullshit from the distant past! 240
Reposted by vacchagottadimes disparu @monsurifan520.bsky.social · 25/02/2026buddhist youth pastor: you know who ELSE was a bit of an octopath traveler? 26224
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The average american's charitable donations go towards sending someone halfway across the world to convert one type of christian into another type of christian 010
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mendicants, the eight worldly conditions revolve around the world, and the world revolves around the eight worldly conditions. What eight? Gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, pleasure and pain. AN 8.5, Paṭhamalokadhammasutta, Sujato translation #Buddhism 000
Reposted by vacchagotta"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 13/06/2023(a bell rings, reminding me of previous times i have eaten) these memories are so good... might as well salivate. it's my choice. 234859
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Unfortunately I foresee the rationalists continuing to be right and everyone else continuing to be assmad 100
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is what most of the Aṅguttara Nikāya reads like 040
Reposted by vacchagottafurby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026FDA recalls 46,000 units of pleasure over possible contamination with lead. suffering is not thought to have been affected 1597
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The average AI lab employee believes things very strange to the average American, who thinks that god helps them find open parking spaces 061
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And the Buddha saw sentient beings with little dust in their eyes, and some with much dust in their eyes; with keen faculties and with weak faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and hard to teach. 140
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Kennedy center kind of sucks architecturally but I would be sad if they tore it down 100
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Being uncomfortable and not doing anything about it - not just for meditation sits! 0110
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026SN 7.12, Sujato translation Then the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to the home of the brahmin Udaya. Then Udaya filled the Buddha’s bowl with rice. The next day … Udaya again filled the Buddha’s bowl with rice. 110
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Visualization of parallels between suttas of the Sutta Piṭaka, by Cittadhammo Bhikkhu. Zoomable version available here www.dhammacharts.org/charts/digit... #Buddhism #DataViz 000
Reposted by vacchagottaEvery Day Is A Good Day ☀️ @everydayisagoodday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Good Morning ☀️ and have a great day. Daily #Zen #Buddhism 🙏 📷 by Anatoly Maltsev unsplash.com/photos/a-giant-buddha-… 074
Reposted by vacchagottaTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 14/09/2026Seems easier to convince them that they're trapped in an illusory world of dissatisfaction and striving called The Sandbox -- always returning to it in a new form -- but can escape the cycle of rebirth if they practice right speech, right action, right effort, and right mindfulness. 914315
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I don't get what people don't get about the danger of open models. Can't you take a supposedly aligned open model and trivially un-align it? Isn't that kind of an obvious problem? 200
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Would people take xrisk more seriously if Dario looked like this 171
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Let me tell you about another man who correctly abandoned his wife and child to seek something more important... *sits in chair backwards* a man by the name of Siddhartha Gotama 020
vacchagotta @vacchagotta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Up until recently, the way the genpub has been reacting/adapting to advances in AI has reminded me in a diagonal way of this old joke 170
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