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Buddha in the Garden by Zhong-Yang Huang

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Chinese (and Sino-Japanese) words borrowed from Sanskrit

禪, 禅 (chán, zen) ← ध्यान (dhyāna) = meditation, contemplation

劫 (jié, kō) ← कल्प (kalpa) = aeon, age

涅槃 (nièpán, nehan) ← निर्वाण (nirvāṇa) = cessation, extinction

沙門 (shāmén, shamon) ← श्रमण (śramaṇa) = ascetic, shaman

佛, 仏 (fó, butsu) ← बुद्ध (buddha) = Buddha, the awakened one

菩薩 (púsà, bosatsu) ← बोधिसत्त्व (bodhisattva) = awakened being

摩訶薩 (móhēsà, makasatsu) ← महासत्त्व (mahāsattva) = great being

魔 (mó, ma) ← मार (māra) = Mara, a demon

南無 (nāmó, namu) ← नमो (namo) = a bow

唵 (ǎn, on) ← ॐ (oṁ)

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Katherine Hayes, in two seminal books, My Mother Was a Computer (2005) and How We Became Posthuman (1999), has shown how the computational model of the mind emerged from a problematic reading of Claude Shannon’s information theory, and became the dominant paradigm. In this way, patterns took precedence over substance, leading to the still prevalent notion (not only among posthumanists and neuroscientists) that the mind could be, as it were, scanned and downloaded on a different platform (brain, body, or machine), just like software can be used on different types of hardware. As Hilary Putnam put it, it could just as well be made of Swiss cheese.

- Can (and Should) Neuroscience Naturalize Buddhism?, Bernard Faure

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Buddhism is perhaps the only religion that casually incorporates the idea of a Rick-and-Morty-esque multiverse into its cosmology, in texts that are over 2000 years old.

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The Lord's Prayer in Biblical Czech (bibličtina), based on spoken Czech of the 16th century. I copied this from my great-great-grandmother's Bible printed in 1863.

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There is an overwhelming sense of freedom after realizing you will never live the kind of life you wanted.

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Unlike the Americans, when we in Europe pronounce croissant following our native languages' pronunciation rules, we don't acknowledge the discontent of the French. They can't pronounce any of our words right even on the very rare occasion that they're nice enough to try.

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If you idolize the past, remember:

Nothing that has happened has prevented the present from being what it is.

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My Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic handwriting after about a year of practice three years ago. I haven't written anything since then as I moved to studying East Asian languages.

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I think most of Tumblr's attempts at world building religion are absolutely terrible because:

1. They think that only stupid people are faithful, anyone who's 'enlightened' won't be religious

2. Religions are some sort of centuries long con/conspiracy used to manipulate people (therefore no religion is real ever)

3. Are trying to make pantheon ala Greek/Roman mythology, but their knowledge is exclusively from Percy Jackson and the Tumblr-ified/woobified versions online

4. Legitimately believe that religion is just an accessory, (ie. A person is a Christian if they wear a cross, a person is Muslim if they wear a head covering)

5. They have an inability to engage with or write from the perspective of someone who's different from them

And the sad thing is that this could be so easily resolved if they were just willing to research (and do it on a place that isn't Tumblr or another social media platform)

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OK I FINISHED THE COMIC

You know, that classic Brennan Lee Mulligan monologue.

I'm sorry the first panel is so heavy I couldn't figure out how to split that sentence.

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