Trump is God

[cetus]

12 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

it's like having a 300 hp Kawasaki

I had to fact check that. You're right. The H2R

[cetus]

26 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

but that's what the bike is for. We have a very sophisticated device, then what I see is that using it as deep as you can is a must

Do you see the same with nuclear weapons?

[Lunatic]

31 minutes ago, Willy Phallicus said:

You can't have it both ways.

    “In April of this year, members of Le Refuge, a Buddhist group located near Marseilles, invited me to lead a ten-day retreat on the topic of the skillful use of desire on the path of Buddhist practice. This is a topic around which there is a great deal of confusion, so I thought it would be a useful theme for the retreat. Because the Buddha identified three types of craving as the origin of suffering and stress, many people have jumped to the conclusion that he condemned all forms of desire. However, he actually taught that skillful desires—aimed at abandoning the causes of suffering and developing mental qualities conducive to the end of suffering—play a crucial role in the path to the ultimate happiness of nibbāna, or unbinding. In fact, the desire to put an end to suffering plays such a dominant role in guiding the path that all the Buddha’s other teachings, including his teachings about the self and the world, are designed to serve that desire and to achieve its aim: a happiness so great that it puts an end to the need for desires of any kind.”
    “Desires for the End of Desire”, 18 March 2026, https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/DesiresForEndOfDesire/Section0003.html.
    I have not read the book.
    “And, in the end, you have to get rid of your desire for God. Then you are It!” (Levenson 1993, 113)

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6 minutes ago, Lunatic said:

many people have jumped to the conclusion that he condemned all forms of desire.

 I'll have to check that out.

Is desire to end all desire a desire? So- to- speak.

Edited 11 hours ago by cetus

[Lunatic]

1 hour ago, cetus said:

 I'll have to check that out.

Is desire to end all desire a desire? So- to- speak.

    Yes.
    The thought, e.g., “I am angry at Paul because he lied to me.” is brought to inquiry as “Paul lied to me,” “Paul shouldn't lie to me,” “I don't want Paul to lie to me,” etc. (“Isolating One-liners to Take to Inquiry”, https://thework.com/part-three/)
    “I don't want Paul to lie to me.”
    _Is it true that I don't want Paul to lie to me (= Is it true that I have a desire for Paul not to lie to me)?_
    “Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of _you_, not the other way around.” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, 152)
    So the desire for Paul not to lie to you metaphorically lets go of you.
    Then you move to the next stressful thought.
    Last, as Lester Levenson puts it, you let go of the desire to wake up.
    In other words, concurrent desires exist, and you let go of the unskillful ones.
    The skillful desire is wanting to end stress and the unskillful one is wanting Paul not to lie to you.
    
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    “Anyone who’s seeking happiness is seeking the Self. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are consciously seeking God, happiness, the Self, and those who are unconsciously seeking them.” (Levenson 1993, chap. 45, 343)
    So you consciously seek God by letting go of those desires that lead away from God.

[Breakingthewall]

8 hours ago, cetus said:

I had to fact check that. You're right. The H2R

😅yeah sounds insane

8 hours ago, cetus said:

Do you see the same with nuclear weapons?

The usefulness of nuclear weapons is deterrent, but to achieve this, they had to be used at least once. Now, thanks to nuclear weapons, we do not live in a state of total war; therefore, we are using them.

Edited 3 hours ago by Breakingthewall