#attachment

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

Rooted in Craving

Mendicants, I will teach you about nine things rooted in craving. And what are the nine things rooted in craving? Craving is a cause of seeking. Seeking is a cause of gaining material possessions. Gaining material possessions is a cause of assessing. Assessing is a cause of desire and lust. Desire and lust is a cause of attachment. Attachment is a cause of ownership. Ownership is a cause of stinginess. Stinginess is a cause of safeguarding. Owing to safeguarding, many bad, unskillful things come to be: taking up the rod and the sword, quarrels, arguments, and fights, accusations, divisive speech, and lies. These are the nine things rooted in craving.

--- AN 9.23 - Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato

#buddhism #craving #MaterialPossessions #attachment #ownership #stinginess #safeguarding #violence

ghostmonkey@sysad.org

Rumi, a 13th century Persian spiritual teacher, was asked:

What is spiritual maturity?

  1. It's when we stop trying to change others and focus on changing ourselves.
  2. It is when we accept people as they are.
  3. It is when we understand that everyone is correct according to their own perspective.
  4. It is when we learn to "let go".
  5. It is when we are able to not have "expectations" in a relationship, and we give of ourselves for the pleasure of giving.
  6. It is when we understand that what we do, we do for our own peace.
  7. It's when we stop showing the world how smart we are.
  8. It's when we stop seeking approval from others.
  9. It's when we stop comparing ourselves to others.
  10. It is when we are at peace with ourselves.
  11. It is when we are able to distinguish between "need" and "want" and we are able to let go of that want.
  12. Spiritual maturity is gained when we stop attaching "happiness" to material things!

#rumi #quotes #spirituality #maturity #perspective #attachment #freedom #peace #spiritual #wisdom

digit@iviv.hu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PE_gOnCDA

Pacific - Break Your Social System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pjx4BrA7rI (with lyrics)
#music #socialsystem #followtherules #obey #beyou #attachment #wish #notalone #change #breakyoursocialsystem #changeitall #goldenyears #ahead #if #youunderstood #wishyouunderstood #goodtune #goodlyrics #uplifting #inspiring #encouraging #wecanstillmendthis #thanks #thanksthomyorke #thomyorke #goodupload #hearditwhile #or #founditwhile #listeningto #boc #beautifulplace #hearditon #an #album #called #reveries #by #pacific

When you really are yourself,
nothing can go wrong.
No matter what you take,
you will never be you,
if you follow the rules.
Can't you see that you are not the only one
(Break it, break your social system)
Got you give it up to change it all
(Break it, break your social system)

See you at the club,
holding on to your old life,
as if it is was golden years of joy.
Wish you understood,
you are really free.
No matter what you take,
you never be you,
if you follow the rules.
Cant you see that you are not the only one.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you're not the only one]
Got to give it up to change it all.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you've got to change it all]
Cant you see that you are not the only one.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you're not the only one]
Got to give it up to change it all.
+ (Break it, break your social system)
+ [Babe, you got to change it all]

(Break it, break your social system)
+ [change it all]

[Babe, you got to change it all]

(Break it, break your social system)
+ [change it all]

[Babe, you got to change it all]

digit@iviv.hu

#welcometomyworld ... aw. lost my old #joindiaspora post with that hashtag.

... i've still to get fluent at extracting info from the data dl with #jq.

that welcome to my world post(s), methinks a lot of peeps on other sites could benefit from hearing it. not really in a pleasant way ~ well, sorta pleasant, for some, re-framing their pain, but more so just to help people realise where we are, the situation we're in, to help them adjust to it, and not keep banging into it in the dark, injuring themselves more. nor encouraging others to take knocks in the dark either.

it's frightening (both in a #stultophobia way, and for the larger societal implications) how wrapped up and desperately clinging to the tightest #overtonwindow some people have become. especially in this insne backwards upside-down time. [(... and largely because of the #censorship bubble they dont realise is there, or worse, actively crave, pursue, and applaud. (oh my effing #waitiko nightmare tragedy)).]

reminds again of #MattiasDesmet's #PsychologyOfTotalitarianism...

and so that again why i want reach out to them... in #healthy ways, for their #health, to help them out of that #harmful #attachment.

#unhealthyattachment to #censorshipbubble and #strongman in the #freefloatinganxiety that breeds totalitarianism, and has people give away their power to #authority no matter how #attrocious ... and worse, they cling all the more tightly, the more insane and atrocious things get.

so... #thankyou, for every little you do to speak out against the madness, and help bring people back to sanity, out of the #massformation #psychelogical state of being.

i may have had a head start on betrayal by systems purported to care, and so longer to see through it, but then i also had a head start before even that head start, having already nearly been killed by #pharma, so i was already cagey aware they're not to be trusted, and that things purported to care, may not really care.

.. and when it's a Corporation...

a psychopathic system like a corporation

well, better to #facethehorror than get done in by it, by naivety, walking into its maw, thinking you're walking into its caring arms. NO! it does not care, it cannot care, it is mandated by law to maximise profits ("to protect the shareholders") ~ as if the ruthless greedy sorts it attracts needed that rule telling them to maximise wealth extraction, ha! ~ . . . and in the case of pharma, they bought themselves the elimination of a rule too, that of liability... so they can get away with anything, murder and worse. ... and still people gladly go forth... "if there was anything wrong, the media would tell us", so desperately they cling, refusing to put two and two together. and then pharma has friends who are known genocidali eugenicists and ecocidalists and anthrocidalists and omnicidalists ... and still people believe the lies, and run into the maw, all the more fervently...

keep on speaking out.

keep on speaking truth to power, and truth to the delusional disempowered.

silence kills all, and worse.