Today is Guanyin Bodhisattva’s Renunciation Day. 🙏

We have to remember, Guanyin is not separate from us. The compassion of Guanyin lives within every one of us. Whenever we act with selfless love and kindness, we become Guanyin for someone else. 🙏😊

So don't just pray to Guanyin.

Learn from Guanyin.

Practise like Guanyin.

Let Guanyin's compassion manifest through us.

Today, let us put compassion into action. Eat vegetarian for the day, be kind to someone, help someone in need, forgive someone, or simply bring happiness to another person.

We may think our individual actions are small, but if everyone plays their part and practises a little more compassion, this world will gradually become a kinder and better place.

I also encourage everyone to take some time to chant:

南无观世音菩萨

Namo Guanshiyin Pusa 🙏

Whether it is 10, 108, 1,000 times, or simply whenever you remember throughout the day, chant sincerely.

After chanting, dedicate all the merits to all sentient beings:

May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May all beings give rise to Bodhicitta, encounter the Dharma, and ultimately attain Buddhahood.

Let today not simply be another Buddhist holy day that passes by.

Make it a day of practice.

Make it a day of compassion.

Make it a day we become a little more like Guanyin. 🙏

南无大慈大悲观世音菩萨 🙏

Feeling calm and neutral when you're in a zen monestry with beautiful garden and clean place is something understandable. Feeling calm and neutral when someone is living in a clean environment with a healthy body is understandable.

But.... Is there anyone here who's attained this state of the Buddha even in condition where let's say you're living in a dirty place, feel sick and despite that you still feel the same way like living in a zen monestry for example?

It’s a paradoxical fallacy

How do you force yourself to not want things ?

So i’ve been dealing with an ever-worsening case of Social Anxiety and had taken the time to find materials online (especially Buddhist-Related) and had came through a passage which intrigued me and which i think holds alot of water, and it sort of goes like
Attachment isn’t the source of fear, attachment IS fear.

For quite some time, i’ve been holding it dear and have actually tried to live by it.
But the harder i tried, the more i realize it just truly isn’t possible- i’m truly stuck being like this.
Inorder for me to be better, i must let go the need to be better. So i tried to let go of getting better but then i realized i’m doing it in hopes of getting better and i can’t do it but i need to get better ?

Let’s suppose a scenario of me having to have to meet with a client. I’m nullifying all the expectations i have about might happen out of the interaction, but then few moments in a thought crossed “Why am i not getting better ? Why am i still making mistakes ? Wasn’t this suppose to make me better ?”

So, guys- please
Help me battle this thing inside of me
What do i need to do ?

I've been wondering whether bodhicitta — the aspiration to attain awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings — is a concept shared by all Buddhist traditions, or whether it is primarily associated with Mahayana Buddhism, including Tibetan Buddhism and Dzogchen.

As far as I understand, bodhicitta is central to the Mahayana path, but Theravada Buddhism seems to approach the path to liberation differently, with an emphasis on the cessation of suffering and the attainment of Nibbana.

I'd be interested in hearing from practitioners and people familiar with the different Buddhist schools, particularly regarding how these concepts are understood in actual practice rather than just in theory.

I was inspired by my visit to the Museum of Oriental Art in Italy, and wanted to make a piece of Buddhist art in my own way. All 49 koans and Mumon’s verses are here, with the whole book read aloud. The translation is the 1934 Senzaki and Reps version, checked line by line against the Chinese and gently modernized.

Free in your browser: https://killedbyapixel.github.io/GatelessGate/
Open source: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/GatelessGate

I have not been cheated on, but that doesn’t stop the intrusive thoughts of the ‘what ifs’ and ‘what would I even do if I found out my partner cheated on me?’ Hopefully that doesn’t negate this post because I truly would love some insight on this, if not for me than for my ability to bring back better advice for my friends who are not over the trauma of their own partners having affairs.

Ive fallen into those cheating story rabbit holes more than I would like. My own doing yes, but as a result it does make me look at everything differently. It makes me look at relationships as so much more fragile than they are/could be. So many stories of husbands waiting till the wife suffered through multiple deliveries to bring his children into the world just for her to get cheated on while she’s on year 3 of not feeling like her own person after motherhood. Too many men who get cheated on by women and then immediately told they ‘can’t cry/have to suck it up/be a man’ so they never get to even go through proper emotions others get to. And so on and so on. The stories are all horrible, and every single time the person never Truly feels like it wasn’t not their fault.

I find myself going through those rabbit hole imagination marathons of ‘what if it was ME who got cheated on’ and my immediate thoughts are all a mix of internalized misogyny and self blame.

Reading how cheating can cause ptsd? That’s a horrifying thought. That’s probably my worst fear right now.

I know I just gave an intense case of overthinking about something that’s not even happened to me, but it still poses the question- how does one heal from something like this without constantly believing it was their own fault? If not their fault for not giving enough love/attention to their partner, then their fault for not seeing the persons true character before entering a committed relationship?

Is it actually possible to ‘be an observer rather than react’ to something so horrible it can just give someone ptsd and life long trust issues? Is it possible to actually Feel in your gut how not at fault you are for your partners actions when it can “so easily be tied back to what you weren’t doing in said relationship for them to find a ‘fix’”?

cause there’s only so many times I or anyone can tell someone ‘forget about them, they cheated cause they wanted, it wasn’t you, you deserve better.’ It’s the same repetitive encouragement that no one truly believes anyway.

(I will admit it also doesn’t help one single bit that sometimes the advice given by others is just a ‘nice spiritual’ version of ‘this is why you shouldn’t fall in love and be in a relationship.’ That doesn’t do anything for anyone to read- especially if that person actually got cheated on. so please 🙏).

This straight-up slaps. Straight fire. 🔥🔥🔥 Buddhist Cyberpunk Mantra J-Pop/K-Pop colab. It contains the entire Heart Sutra chanted by the Zen priest/musician Kanho Yakushiji. Ya'll gotta listen to this. Put the subtitles on too!

Would it be about compassion? Impermamence? Karma? Or maybe something else?

I have recently converted (I have no idea if that is the right word) to Buddhism and I was wondering if there were any books that go in depth in to not only the philosophy of Buddhism but also the more traditional religions aspects such as prayer etc?

“Mendicants, there are these five shackles of the heart. What five? Firstly, a mendicant isn’t free of greed, desire, fondness, thirst, passion, and craving for sensual pleasures. … These are the five shackles of the heart.

To give up these five shackles of the heart you should develop the four right efforts. What four? It’s when a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise. … so that unskillful qualities are given up … so that skillful qualities arise … They generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed. To give up these five shackles of the hearts you should develop these four right efforts.”

AN 9.82: Cetasovinibandhasutta

Hola, soy muy inexperto en todo lo que es el budismo, sin embargo, hace meses de he empapado de mucho del conocimiento que dejo buda, y si bien, sabia que la razon por la que sufrimos es el apego, hasta hace unos dias lo comprendi de forma en que aplicara en mi vida, que no soy feliz porque sigo aferrado a que ciertas cosas pasen, comprendi que sufro por el apego a que eso pase, pero ahora, como logro deshacerme del apego, como me libero? agredeceria algun consejo.

This last year has been a challenge. Mentally mostly.

My best friend died at 39 suddenly. The man i was seeing at the time ghosted me and I was very love bombed. I didn't realise how damaging this was until I processed it.

I met a great guy just afterwards,he's so great but I'm learning to be with a great guy. It's been 9 years since my previous serious relationship because he was abusive my ex, the father of my child. I share custody so its been hard to navigate for the last 10 years.

I had a years contract in my dream job but the company was distant unsupportive and my manager degraded me a lot. So I've been trying to get back into work but my confidence is shot.

I feel inferior in interviews, I feel overwhelmed, like a child. Not good enough. I don't have enthusiasm applying but I love the work, I do.

I'm living in a foreign country and my language is b1/2 level so it's harder for work.

I lost my mobility over the past three years due to bilateral hip replacement. I had one replacement this year and waiting for a second in a few weeks. It's been a lot.

I've been sick with Lyme's deiease and low iron recently. Thought I was going insane. The brain fog. Was fearful I'm getting early onset dementia.

I'm in a massive rut, I've been feeling overwhelmed, smothered from the new relationship, angry and for the first time in my life bitter and jealous of people my age with careers and stability.

I've lost a lot of track in such a small time.

My mobility is getting fixed but it's been hard losing it.

I need a break and I never get it. I'm struggling to leave the house. I've been reading up in Buddhistm, as I know that thoughts are driving all of this but now I'm wondering if I need treatment for depression.

Best practices to help? I know sometime physical stuff pushes away the mental stuff. I could use some guidance.

We are the fading memory of what has already passed.

The latency of the flesh machine can only show arisen things.

The fibers and filaments that run, eye to brain,

Could be outrun by a donkey.

By ordinary knowing, we cannot see the future,

Nor can we, by ordinary knowing, see the present.

We are as deformed gods, our heads on backwards

Defining ourselves by the ripples we leave in time.

To know the past is no great talent.

The past is probably all you know.

Arisen things cannot teach

The subtle and sublime.

What is arisen can only be

Endless variations on a theme;

To be the jackal who eats the rat,

Then the rat the jackal ate, and so on.

Better to know what is unarisen,

What is the cause of arising,

And how to cease arising.

Leaving no wake, only stillness.

I've been doing this for a while, and have gotten efficient to it. I'll start with pondering who I am, until I get to the point of staring through glass (the subject cannot be the object of the mind, the eye cannot see itself). I don't want to say it's jarring, but you can't really word it, you just look through it. I've gotten more comfortable and can approach it more often. What is that? In my mind, it's like touching sunyata. But you know, fall for a game with the carrot dangling. What's gone beyond that, I have experienced other perspectives from it. I'm not good at that part, it freaks me out every time. I did it once, and fully was immersed as a parrot in South America. Like strong psychedelic level convincing (I haven't tripped in 8 years or so). I've done that twice for people. I know I am doing something, I just have no idea what that is. I am recognizing that "I" is the same, whether dog or person or whatever, but idk what is happening after that. I cannot reliably do it yet, but it's beyond fascinating. What I keep getting is "we all experience the same emptiness, colored with what it is to be that". Is that the cosmic game of tag? That's some bs

I am a Buddhist; nice to meet you.
I am from Romania.
Namaste.

They chose the path of the bodhisattva, the arhat, or the pratyekabuddha; at what stage of the journey do they believe they are—are they still just at the beginning—and how far do they intend to go?

I’ve been wondering whether people of different faiths might experience the afterlife in ways that align with their own beliefs.

What if the afterlife is bigger than our individual religions can fully explain, and what we experience depends, in some way, on what we believe?
Perhaps the afterlife described in one religion and the realms of existence described in another aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Maybe people of different faiths can have very different experiences after death, and those experiences can all be real.

I’m curious how this possibility fits with Buddhist beliefs about karma, rebirth and the different realms of existence.

SAME