Koan - A kōan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen. by JasonCarswell in Buddhism

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You like the looks of the flower,
as the flower looks like you,
surviving, thriving, alive and beautiful.

Koan - A kōan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen. by JasonCarswell in Buddhism

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Look at the flower and the flower also looks

10 Life Lessons From The Taoist Master Lao Tzu (Taoism) • /s/Life by JasonCarswell in Buddhism

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Buddhism + Taoism = Zen Buddhism.

Your favourite aspect of Buddhism by Edvin in Buddhism

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^

Your favourite aspect of Buddhism by Edvin in Buddhism

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That it's not necessarily a religion, but a philosophy that's scientifically proven to reduce suffering.

Your favourite aspect of Buddhism by Edvin in Buddhism

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After some quick research right speech is super interesting! I had never heard of it before. I briefly studied Buddhism in a religious studies class but we never discussed this. Thank you so much for sharing, definitely going to do some further reading on it. I'm happy right speech has had such a positive impact on your life :)

Your favourite aspect of Buddhism by Edvin in Buddhism

[–]quickbeam 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My favorite aspect of Buddhism (so far) is the concept of right speech, because it has helped me so much in my life and especially (funny enough) in relating to people online. A few years ago I started practicing right speech in online discussions. I'm still not always perfect, but my experience of being online has been a lot better when I am able to keep this in mind.

The Buddha of Oakland by JasonCarswell in Buddhism

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Thanks for making this Buddhism sub! by JasonCarswell in Buddhism

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Thank you. I designed it for the Buddha Lounge at Burning Man 2005. The 20'x60' temporary camping structure's walls were 12' foot tarps and the fire lotus mandala thing was on all of them, and just one in the center had the Buddha face with an elaborate shrine in front of it that kind of spread all throughout the structure. I had made several 4'x4' stencils, and one for the head. Each stencil was a quarter of the 8'x8' design. I got some friends and we used durable and cheap marking-paint (for parking lot lines, etc in very limited colours) to spray on the stencil.

It looked terrific. For a while. Cutting out all the stencils with a jigsaw the week or two before the event utterly fucked up my forearms. Having experienced the best and worst of the weather in Black Rock City, I knew we had to hammer down all the stakes, deep, deep into the playa. Unfortunately my arms were fucked, and the others were lazy. I hoped I was wrong, but half way through the week there was, as easily predicted, some heavy weather. Most of the tarps got utterly fucked.

If you really dig it, merchandise is still available on my old Café Press store, which I haven't collected from in at least a dozen years. It was barely breaking even. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Cafe+Press+DJ+Buddhaful

DJ Buddhaful, aka Pink Bunny, is a friend and I added headphones and gifted him it as a logo.

If you really really dig it, I could share the vector version of it and you and anyone could print/make your own stuff. If you do it for profit I expect a reasonable cut.

Eventually, once I finish the first draft of my story, I intend to start up another online store to pimp merch for it and generate support, as well as resurrect many of my old designs, and of course do a section to help raise funds for SaidIt (I designed the logo), promote it, and generate more of a DIY fandom accepting community content.

Thanks for making this Buddhism sub! by JasonCarswell in Buddhism

[–]MarquisBoniface 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Very cool, I dig it!