collateral damage

miserable souls

Nicholas Vreeland:

The existence of the soul or self […] is not only firmly denied in Buddhism; belief in it is identified as the source of all our misery.*

the awakened see this and – when doing so may help – point it out*

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2023-05-16 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

buddhas / those awakened – from Pali, past participle of budh “to awake”*

the screenshot is from the front cover on Google Books*

anyone anywhere in a hierarchy is at risk of corruption – “power corrupts” – as is HH*

power manifests as – and cannot exist without – hierarchies of enablers*

emptiness (sunyata) is bedrock Buddhism / see helpful essay by Barbara O’Brien*

emptiness (sunyata) … is not nothingness but a vast creative potential / Nagarjuna (!?)

/ see also nothing – and a note there on belief in a separate self as delusional (Einstein)

further notes are often appended to copies on fw