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captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Dalai Lama, god-king for Tibetan Buddhists, will have a successor. That decision is consequentialEnglish10·3 days agoBodhisattva, 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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•US to dump billions of flies over Mexico in $30m fight against flesh-eating maggots2·4 days agoFor a country it’s huge. For a landmass it’s small.
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency” in U.S. History51·4 days agoDeportations 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
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•US to dump billions of flies over Mexico in $30m fight against flesh-eating maggots6·4 days agoRhode 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)
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•US Supreme Court takes up a Republican appeal to end limits on party spending in federal elections1·4 days agoMama Parsons said it best
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•California husband says he will continue to support MAGA movement after wife taken into federal custody4·4 days agoYeah, their statement made that crystal clear. They’re calling her a burglar.
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•California husband says he will continue to support MAGA movement after wife taken into federal custody1·4 days agoI think in this case its less that and more absolute delusion
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•California husband says he will continue to support MAGA movement after wife taken into federal custody4·4 days agoYeah, DHS’s side of the story made their intentions clear: that woman isn’t returning home
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Wisconson Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban1·5 days agodeleted by creator
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•ICE raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’3·5 days agoPack on a few pounds now. Food’s about to get cripplingly expensive
captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•New Study Shows Disposable Vapes Are Worse Than Cigarettes1·8 days agoI 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.
They lost steam when Fred Phelps died. Also they became normalized. But largely they were pissing off everyone on purpose. They protested the funerals of both gay people and soldiers