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QinShiHuangsShlong [none/use name]

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  • White people are at it again, white Jesus wasn't enough

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  • In my familiarity with Buddhism, mainly Chan Buddhism I think, a Buddha is a fully enlightened being who escapes samsara and is able to rediscover and teach the Dharma. There have been many Buddhas in the past and there will be many in the future, but only one fully enlightened Buddha appears in the world at a given time.

    An arhat and other enlightened beings can also escape samsara, but they do not rediscover the Dharma on their own or establish a new teaching in the world the way a Buddha does.

    A Bodhisattva is someone who will become a Buddha in the future and is delaying final Buddhahood out of compassion for all sentient beings, and Budai is a specific Bodhisattva who is traditionally regarded as an incarnation or manifestation of Maitreya, the future Buddha.

    Not an expert but this is how I'm familiar with it.

  • American socialist candidates in the year 2040:

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  • I think if you needed 4 goes around to figure out that:

    1. killing innocent men women and children halfway across the world to further enrich your overlords
    2. stealing the populations farmland to grow heroin

    Is bad, you should die and I hope thats not a controversial opinion.

  • White people are at it again, white Jesus wasn't enough

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  • I was speaking more from my experience with Chan Buddhism specifically, I’ll take your word on how it’s understood in Theravada, since that’s not my background. In the Chan context I’m somewhat familiar with, Buddhism isn’t usually framed as there being only one Buddha in an absolute sense, and figures like bodhisattvas and manifestations play a bigger role in how people understand practice and symbolism. From what I’ve seen and heard, Budai isn’t understood as Sakyamuni Buddha, but is commonly associated with Maitreya, sometimes described as an incarnation or symbolic manifestation rather than literally being “the Buddha himself.” There’s also generally an understanding in Chan that multiple Buddhas exist across different times and realms, so Sakyamuni isn’t seen as the only Buddha to ever exist, just the one connected to our current world and historical period.

    I could be wrong and I definitely wouldn't take my word for it but that's my understanding at least.

  • This sucks. Free him.

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  • The unfortunate truth is at least currently in the imperial core and its client states any left wing organisation is either non existent or has been neutered into innefectuality at least for now. The rearming of the BPP is promising but I think is yet to be indictive of any wider trend.

  • This sucks. Free him.

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  • No the line of thought is form a proper organization to make your fascist killing not only morally correct and cathartic but meaningful.

  • White people are at it again, white Jesus wasn't enough

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  • Isn't there like a bunch of Buddhas? And if you're talking about Budai is he not recognized as a Buddha or at least a Bodhisattva or an incarnation of Maitreya?

  • Hunter S Thompson on the United States

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  • We have become

    Like it wasn't from it's literal inception.

  • New york crimes has a take

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  • Well when you dont imagine all the people in the other countries human it can very easily feel like the first time now that white people deel threatened.

  • This sucks. Free him.

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  • Another concrete example of how adventurism while cathartic is a bad time.