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This is a thread to post Buddhist-themed memes.

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This is a very simplified version of the Four Noble Truths.
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Vasana wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:12 pm Image

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Buddhists have been doing this meme thing for a long time...

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There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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And I quote:
meme
/miːm/
noun
1.
an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
2.
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE

"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
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Grigoris wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:46 pm And I quote:
meme
/miːm/
noun
1.
an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
2.
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations
Meme is shortened from memema, which, Greg you can confirm, connotes imitation, as in the word, mime and mimicry.

The oral tradition in Buddhism, particularly when we get into esoteric transmissions and guru yoga in the Tibetan context all relates to this copying and perpetuating of awakening.

I think the most meme like Buddhist memes would be things like Dharani, Mantra, and other chants.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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Queequeg wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:04 pmMeme is shortened from memema, which, Greg you can confirm, connotes imitation, as in the word, mime and mimicry.
Yes, to imitate or to copy.
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Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE

"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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“The road to hell is paved with flattened squirrels who could not make a decision.”
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”

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I have my doubts about that^ being an actual historically attributed quote; but it’s pretty good. Of course there are always going to be some exceptions to the above saying....
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I don't like samsara, it's course and rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere. :jedi:
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Thanks to coronavirus situation I have decided to waste my life making memes.
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For those who do virtuous actions,
goodness is what comes to pass.
For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.

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Fortyeightvows wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:02 am23.jpg
Should that not be Kurukulla instead or something?
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