ˢᵘᵈᵈᵉⁿ ʷᶦⁿᵈᶦⁿˢᵗᵃⁿᵗ ᵉᵐᵖᵗᶦⁿᵉˢˢ
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The problem I have with Buddhism is that every old dharma teacher looks the same: powerful in mind and spirit, but frail in body.
I want the embodied version of Buddhism—one that unites spiritual insight with AI, information theory, physics, biology, health/medicine, and evolution. These fields all point to the same truth: the body is an energy system. It's not meant to be still. It's meant to move, pulse, vibrate, and express.
The old Buddhists are so unhealthy because in their quest to sit quietly with suffering they are trashing their bodies.
Our bodies are energy systems, constantly in motion, literally vibrating all the way down.
As soon as you get the insight of the mind from Buddhism, stop sitting and start moving.
what if one of my followers gave me a large sum of money to focus on nothing but fully awakening and we record the whole thing for science
"Riches ruin only the foolish, not those in quest of the Beyond."
— Dhammapada 355
"Even though a person is adorned [in wealth], if they live in peace, are calm, controlled, established in [this contemplative] life, and have laid aside the rod toward all living beings—they are indeed a true seeker, an ascetic, a monk."
— Dhammapada 142
"As for the individual who has attained both internal tranquillity of awareness & insight into phenomena through heightened discernment, his duty is to make an effort in establishing ('tuning') those very same skillful qualities to a higher degree for the ending of the (mental) fermentations."
— Samadhi Sutta AN 4.94
"There are these three kinds of fermentations: the fermentation of sensuality, the fermentation of becoming, the fermentation of ignorance."
— Nibbedhika Sutta AN 6.63
tbh I'm more interested in emulating the samana era sangha (wandering) than joining the later invention of a fixed monastery sangha. there's also a lot of foreign cultural syncretic baggage to wade thru that I think is a bit distracting. samana era sangha is essentially non-existent in america but I plan on reviving it, just gonna require some funding. I talk about it in my most recent substack post
"Riches ruin only the foolish, not those in quest of the Beyond."
— Dhammapada 355
"Even though a person is adorned [in wealth], if they live in peace, are calm, controlled, established in [this contemplative] life, and have laid aside the rod toward all living beings—they are indeed a true seeker, an ascetic, a monk."
— Dhammapada 142
"As for the individual who has attained both internal tranquillity of awareness & insight into phenomena through heightened discernment, his duty is to make an effort in establishing ('tuning') those very same skillful qualities to a higher degree for the ending of the (mental) fermentations."
— Samadhi Sutta AN 4.94
"There are these three kinds of fermentations: the fermentation of sensuality, the fermentation of becoming, the fermentation of ignorance."
— Nibbedhika Sutta AN 6.63