I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Varanasi in the Game Refuge at Isipatana. There he addressed the group of five monks:
“Form, monks, is not self. If form were the self, this form would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible [to say] with regard to form, ‘Let this form be thus. Let this form not be thus.’ But precisely because form is not self, form lends itself to dis-ease. And it is not possible [to say] with regard to form, ‘Let this form be thus. Let this form not be thus.’
“Feeling is not self…
“Perception is not self…
“[Mental] fabrications are not self…
“Consciousness is not self. If consciousness were the self, this consciousness would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible [to say] with regard to consciousness, ‘Let my consciousness be thus. Let my consciousness not be thus.’ But precisely because consciousness is not self, consciousness lends itself to dis-ease. And it is not possible [to say] with regard to consciousness, ‘Let my consciousness be thus. Let my consciousness not be thus.’
“What do you think, monks — Is form constant or inconstant?”
“Inconstant, lord.”
“And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?”
“Stressful, lord.”
“And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to change as: ‘This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am’?”
“No, lord.”
“…Is feeling constant or inconstant?”
“Inconstant, lord.”…
“…Is perception constant or inconstant?”
“Inconstant, lord.”…
“…Are fabrications constant or inconstant?”
“Inconstant, lord.”…
“What do you think, monks — Is consciousness constant or inconstant?”
“Inconstant, lord.”
“And is that which is inconstant easeful or stressful?”
“Stressful, lord.”
“And is it fitting to regard what is inconstant, stressful, subject to change as: ‘This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am’?”
“No, lord.”
“Thus, monks, any form whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: every form is to be seen as it actually is with right discernment as: ‘This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.’
“Any feeling whatsoever…
“Any perception whatsoever…
“Any fabrications whatsoever…
“Any consciousness whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: every consciousness is to be seen as it actually is with right discernment as: ‘This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.’
“Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with perception, disenchanted with fabrications, disenchanted with consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, ‘Fully released.’ He discerns that ‘Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'”
That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the group of five monks delighted at his words. And while this explanation was being given, the hearts of the group of five monks, through not clinging (not being sustained), were fully released from fermentation/effluents.
for Ellina per our conversation on identity and the self yesterday. : )
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Truth Seeker
(October 29, 2020 - 11:08 am)THIS is what the alt-right needs, more spiritual stuff, not more violence. Damn feds keep infiltrating and trying to get people into gun fights and other illegal stuff! This is a huge problem with the alt-right and neo-nazi movement. Most people don’t even know that “swastika” is a Sanskrit word……sigh. I don’t care if it’s Christianity, white Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Sikhism, hermeticism, Rosicrucianism or whatever, people need spirituality.
In my personal (unpopular opinion), organizing militias won’t help at all. Why? Because the CIA, NSA, DARPA, Mossad, and Five Eyes Alliance are all run by Jews. They have weapons the public doesn’t even know about. Ordinary weapons, like shotguns or machine guns, simply aren’t going to be able to protect against nuclear missiles, or whatever else literal billions of dollars of US tax payer money has been paying for all these years. People are so worried whether or not the government is going to take away their guns, but whether or not people have guns, guns aren’t capable of fighting off a billion dollar defense budget.
What’s the other problem with militias? The (((Media))) can easily make the alt-right and other white-positive movements look bad! Imagine if whites across America started peacefully protesting against Jewish subversion and white genocide? For extra good optics, whites could also around doing things like feeding the homeless or cleaning up garbage in public areas during the peaceful protest.
When people see right wing groups on tv with all their guns and other weapons, they media is only going to focus on the guns and weapons! They’re going to portray the alt-right as greedy and selfish. The alt-right needs better optics. Obviously, yes whites have been through lots of injustices and have every right to be angry at the Jewish oppressors, but that anger can’t be shown in public.
That’s why the Charlottesville protests didn’t work. They kept shouting “JEWS WILL NOT REPLCE US!”, but those words don’t mean anything to normies! Normies are just going to think “those white males don’t like Jews, oh wow, they must be nazis, that’s so evil I don’t want to be an evil nazi”! And when protests have guns and other weapons, it just makes it even worse. whites normies have pathologically low-self-esteem, they need to first learn why they should be proud to be white, before they can even begin to understand why someone might not like, the Jews, they just won’t know otherwise.
It would have been much better at Charlottesville if they had been one guy giving public lectures on the accomplishments of white civilization. It’s much better optics to focus on what is great about the white race, rather saying than what’s bad about other races.
If there were no white people around, all the niggers would die. Niggers are too dumb to take care of themselves on their own. So if people care about black lives, they have to care about whites lives too, which is why the white black lives matter protesters are so idiotic. Whites people could lives without niggers, but niggers wouldn’t be able to live without whites.
If some white people started staging peaceful protests and were murdered/martyred by random niggers, that would be much better than these protests were these stupid guys are having this “WOOOOOO!!! Race war now!! 1488!! gas the kikes!!!” type of attitude. Otherwise, the white-positive message isn’t going to spread to the normies quickly enough. Protests where white people visibly through their expressions or verbally through their word show too much anger, aren’t going to work. Whites have a right to be angry, but showing the anger in public isn’t going to save the save race.
Aryans are naturally empathic and altruistic, and want to help the lower races like niggers, Mexicans, southeast asians, ect. If a white person feels compassion for the stupid niggers and spics, that is not a bad things, it’s a good thing. The alt-right should remind those people that the best way to help the lower races is to defend the white race first. Because if there were no more whites, there would be no more advanced technology to create food to feed all the nigger who are currently living off of charity and welfare check provided by whites. It would even be beneficial for the Jews if most Jews got kicked out of white countries. It’s not spiritually healthy for the Jews to be allowed to act out their parasitic nature. The Jews are self-destructive and whites need to help them by kicking them all out. Whites need to teach the Jews how to stop being so evil and parasitic. So whether someone hates Jews, niggers, and lower raves, or has compassion for them, either way, the goal should be the same: to kick all the non-whites out of the white countries. (Unless the non-whites are Japanese, Japanese should be allowed to visit since they aren’t parasites like the Jews or retarded with 80 point IQs like the niggers. There aren’t hordes of IQ 80 Japanese screeching there way into white countries. Japan is a beautiful ethno-state and allows white to visit.)
How would the Jews media be able to twist peaceful protests badly? It would be difficult for them. Imagine if something like the headline started showing up in the Jew media:
BREAKING NEWS: thousand of EVIL NAZIS across North America and Europe getting together to feed the homeless, clean up public parks, and celebrate EVIL NAZI music, art and literature.
vs
BREAKING NEWS: thousands of EVIL NAZIS across North America and Europe running around with GUNs and KNIVES.
See, in any case, the parasite media will try to distort things to make whites look bad, but parasites will have a much more difficult time with their smear campaign if they only show white people doing altruistic things. If people hear about “evil nazis” feeding the homeless, they will start to question the narrative.
The other thing is, what to do with women in the alt-right? It’s best for women to stay in the kitchen and take care of babies, but many modern day women are too arrogant and rebellious to have a desire to get back in the kitchen before they hit the wall. Women have big egos, one of the main needs of the female human’s psyche is to feel more compassionate than everyone else (not necessarily to actually genuinely be more compassionate, just to feel more compassionate). That’s the thing women get competitive about, and where all this leftist virtue signaling comes from.
Unlike men, women have absolutely no shame showing all kind of emotions in public, even extreme fear or sadness. Men don’t cry, but women, women will basically have crying competitions where whoever cries most is consider to be most virtuous/compassionate, because showing sadness over the suffering of nigger get them social status among their female friends. Even if then aren’t even feeling any sincere emotion, they will pretend to feel excessive emotions just to appear more virtuous for the purpose of impressing their friends. Women have no real sense of shame or honor, so they have no fear of appearing cowardly. Women of all races are an inferior lifeforms ruled by their emotions, and thus since they have no hope of controlling their own emotions they instinctually and naturally don’t care if other see them as weak an cowardly. Because deep down they know they are weak and cowardly, and there’s northing they can do about it.
So, to compensate for their inherent weakness and cowardliness, women have social heirarchies based on which lady can appear to be selfless, virtuous, kind and compassionate. (Again, I want to emphasize, here, not that all women are sincerely selfless/compassionate/virtuous, or even that all sincerely even aspire to be that way, no, just that all women want to appear that way outwardly. They want to appear to be compassionate, not that they actually want to be compassionate.)
Women certainly should be kept out of politics, but the question is how to do that. Women can only be convinced of things through rhetoric and not logic. Women with their arrogance and big egos, are always looking for ways to appear more compassionate than the women around her, it’s the female version of competition. Ironically, this competition to appear compassionate even go to such lengths to include machiavellian manipulation. So, the way to deal with these obnoxious women is to give them rhetoric which convinces them that being alt-right/nazi is the most compassionate thing to do. In reality, being alt-right/nazi IS the most compassionate thing to do, but most men don’t care about that fact very much, because unlike women, men don’t have the giant female ego which causes women to always have this needs to be more compassionate then others and virtue signal.
Changing the alt-right/nazi rhetoric to include not just emphasis on how whites have higher IQs, but also are more compassionate than other races, would serve a dual purpose: to wake up the normies to the fact the nazis aren’t “evil”, and to give the stupid obnoxious whores and tradthots something to focus on, keeping them busy and out of mens business.
Anyway bro, I agree with a lot of your idea you have on this site and think you have good optics. Keep up the good work.