Real Buddhism generated the texts, which were written down by the kind of people who rote-memorise.

It’s handy to have them, but possibly limiting as one goes.

Good job France!

Joe Biden, take note of how rigged the polks and press are and keep going.

I’m not gatekeeping at all. That’s a simple factual statement. I don’t look down on them, they do good things, so does the Catholic church.

Real Buddhism is not a religion. It has no baggage. It’s a practice. People who do the practices are Buddhists without needing to say. They simply are, you are what you DO. Not what you say.

The entire dhamma could be obliterated and it could be regenned with the practice.

Zen Flesh Zen Bones has an account of that… Monk sees master burning the books… “What are you doing?!”

Master says, “What are you saying?”

Religious people have holy things, practicers don’t.

Try remaking a religion from scratch with prayer.

So religions are what they are, not my cup of tea. Static, unyielding to change. Outdated.

Can’t gatekeep the truth.

All of them…

Fuck their fucking cookies.

MX

Pelosi is Catholic.

Tibetan Buddhism is the Catholic Church of Buddhism, far off the track, festooned with rituals and beliefs, all the same failures that accompany a religion as opposed to a practice.

Including buying karma, thus Pelosi and a Republican showing up, looking to buy enlightenment but of course not saying that.

The next incarnation of the Dalai Lama has already been chosen, he lives in Indiana so will be safer.

I have compassion for the people in the situation with China, but this is money/power games and won’t help them. Elephants fighting and stomping grasses.

I posted this in the other thread, and it’s for the US, but ColRegs are international… https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/navigation-rules-amalgamated

Perfect! There will still be boatbuilders there, and there are large wooden boat shops because cheap labor.

Start walking around the docks and looking around for personal boats and builders.

Find out what the indigenous folks use to get around on their own. I bet they mostly ride commercial boats, but there are always people who don’t.

Boats are designed for the waters they ply, different condittions everywhere.

You need ti learn localdesigns and materials, weather and nav conditions, how to repair and maintain, etc. Adding a motor is more learning and complexity, but also convenience.

Woodenboat magazine has a forum, for years there was a restoration thread from Vietnam but the poster passed on. It’s lukely the thread is still there.

Hochul yokel