Buddhism

“The source of suffering is a false belief in permanence and the existence of separate selves.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Old Path White Clouds

Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma

• [[ Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma ]]

1. Sutrayana

• [[ Four Noble Truths ]]
  • [[ Noble Eightfold Path ]]
• Meditation
  • Samadhi (concentration)
  • Vipassana (insight)
  • Metta
  • [[ everything constantly changes (impermanence) ]]
• Nibbana (the goal of the path)
  • The cessation of fabrications of the mind

2. Mahayana

• Emptiness
• Compassion Ideal: Bodhisattva → Being who wants to awaken all other beings

3. Vajrayana (Tibetan Tradition)

• Even emptiness is empty
• Awakening and delusion come together
  • Buddhist Tantra

### Finding a home in Buddhism ! [[ Book - Approaching Vajrayana - David Chapman#Person-Yana Fit ]]

Not the path of “just letting be”/no striving

By him who knows not, who sees not as it really is (the causal uprising and ceasing) . . . training must be done . . . practice must be done . . . exertion must be made . . . there must be no turning back. . . there must be energy. . . there must be mindfulness . . . there must be earnestness. - Samyutta Nikdya, read in [[ Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory by Joanna Macy ]]

## Critiques

David Chapman on Consensus Buddhism

https://vividness.live/buddhist-ethics-a-tantric-critique

! [[ Buddhist Tantra#Mainstream Buddhism and Tantra ]]

#### Vague Path to Save All Beings

• Bodhisattvayana—the Buddhist path of compassion:
  1. Compassion
  2. ???
  3. Save all sentient beings!

Rejection of Power

• Power is needed if we want to create change in the World for the good of all
  • Like any tool, power can be used for good or ill

Tags: #MOC #curate