Bodhisattva, not a Buddha. A Buddha has escaped samsara, a bodhisattva is usually holding off on finishing enlightenment in the hopes of helping others attain it, though others are just on the verge of it.

Siddhartha Gautama was born a bodhisattva, but became a Buddha when he achieved enlightenment, at which point he wasn’t reborn.

This means that what the Dalai Lama is saying is ultimately that he’s either continuing to forgo enlightenment or that he has accepted that it hasn’t come in this lifetime. If he had it would’ve been a big deal in his school of Buddhism and all that recognize him as the bodhisattva he claims to be. Like, an astronomically big deal.

For a country it’s huge. For a landmass it’s small.

Deportations will stop soon. Remember the whole nitrogen execution thing from last year? They have the budget to build gas chambers and nobody will stop them

Rhode Island isn’t a landmass. It’s a political division. Europe is large for everything but continents. But it’s a moderately sized peninsula on the Eurasian continent.

Nobody is claiming it’s small like Luxembourg, we’re saying its small like India (yes I know its 3x the size of india)

Mama Parsons said it best

They have limits?

Yeah, their statement made that crystal clear. They’re calling her a burglar.

I think in this case its less that and more absolute delusion

Yeah, DHS’s side of the story made their intentions clear: that woman isn’t returning home

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Pack on a few pounds now. Food’s about to get cripplingly expensive

I suspect it’s hopelessness. The people I saw start smoking young didn’t expect to hit 80 in any way that was desirable. Cancer, lung disease, heart attacks… those are future problems, and those who don’t believe themselves to have a future don’t care at best and are happy to go at worst.

The thing a lot of them didn’t get was that the years it takes are the ones coming soon, not the ones far off into the future.