Posts tagged ‘love’

Ёлки палки смешались с грязью..
Ванна набрана третий день. ,
погадай на руке мне бритвой , новогодняя моя тень.
По раздавленным, по ухабам, талоснежной могильной мглы,
Я гроб собственный нёс устало
не вытаскивая иглы.
не разбрасывая надежды, не раскалывая новогодних шаров,
я как порванная одежда на шалаве пляшущей для ментов.
Стервенелый пёс на закваске, ебануто влюблённый поэт, коронованный в своей маске ,от больничной кареты в след  .
От тюремного чая Майский и от морга где тишина,
новый год мне сделает райским в храме выпивший старшина.
И колючей сосны под венку и со ста до нуля в метель.
И больничную ту постельку и с артерии кровь потерь.
Мама спрятала меня в подарке, под ночнушками в старом шкафу .
Подарила меня мне в закладке и на пропись подложки в графу
Поднесет к губам тихо палец и шепнет раздевайся урод,
Я твой порваный школьный ранец ты мой любящий новый год.
Fir trees, sticks — all mixed with mud.
The bath’s been steaming three days straight.
Tell my fortune: razor, blood —
My New Year’s shadow, my dark fate.

Over ruts, over crushed debris,
Through thaw-snow, grave-dark, deep and vast —
I dragged my own coffin tiredly,
Not pulling needles out, not holding fast,

Not smashing any Christmas balls — just passed.

I’m like torn clothes on a whore
Dancing for the cops with a nasty grin.
A rabid dog on sourdough starter’s core,
A poet sick with love within,

Still crowned inside his mask of tin,
Trailing the ambulance’s track so thin —

May prison tea,
The morgue where silence holds its breath.
New Year will make a saint of me
In the temple where a drunk sergeant deals out death.
A spiny pine branch under the wreath’s debris,

And from a hundred down to zero in the blizzard’s sheath.

And that hospital bed,
And the artery’s blood of loss.
Mom hid me in a gift — unsaid,
Under nightgowns.

She gave me to myself as a drug to toss,
As a scribble in a ledger’s cross.

She’ll bring a finger to her lips,
Whisper: undress, you freak.
I’m your torn school backpack’s ripped-out strips,
You’re my loving New Year, my peak.

Translation by DeepSeek and me

Sasha Tret'yak poem

https://stihi.ru/avtor/sashatretyak

仁

Confucius’s fundamental idea was “ren\jin” 仁 – humanity, kindness. And its essence is that you need to think of others more than of yourself. This resonated with me, and I remembered the words of one christian monk: that you should do good without expecting gratitude from people, that you should do good not for the sake of thanks, but for God, and God\Karma will repay you.

Old master with flowers
jin
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Vika Magnitskaya Design - avoiding losses
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the best we can do is leave this world better than we were born - earth view from ISS
View from International Space Station

HUMANISM IS Understanding HUMAN before any title such as religion, sex, race, politics, wealth, status or culture.
A philosophy that rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual’s dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason.
  1. Bodhisattva vows – what they really mean

Living beings are countless – I swear to free them all.
Mental aberrations are endless – I swear to end them all.
Teachings are limitless – I swear to understand them all.
The Buddha’s path is the highest – I swear to realize it.

It is like saying: “I live as if there are no limits.”

For example: “To free all beings” does not mean literally saving everyone. It means: I do not exclude anyone from my compassion, even difficult people, unpleasant people, or guilty people.

  1. Why a bodhisattva is NOT altruism (this is very important).

Ordinary altruism: There is me who helps others. I sacrifice myself. I am good; you receive help.

Even in the best case, there is still: hidden hierarchy, moral superiority, expectation of gratitude (even unconsciously).

The bodhisattva path is different. A bodhisattva acts from the understanding that: the boundary between “me” and “others” is conditional, another person’s suffering is not really “someone else’s but also mine”.

So: the bodhisattva does not “sacrifice himself”, he removes suffering where it exists.

A good formula: a bodhisattva is not kind, a bodhisattva is clear-seeing.

He does not help out of duty. He simply cannot ignore suffering – just like you cannot ignore pain in your own hand.

Why is this hard to accept? Because our mind is built on “me/mine/not mine”. The bodhisattva acts after this structure begins to fall apart.

  1. Why the bodhisattva path is psychologically very difficult:

3.1. Because there is no final “exit”. In Hinayana/Theravada there is an idea: “I will be liberated — and then it ends.” In Mahayana: there is no final ending, no point where you can say: “I did enough.”

This is hard because: the ego wants completion and reward.

3.2. Because you cannot hide in purity

A bodhisattva: stays in the world, works with conflict, aggression, ignorance,is constantly in contact with suffering.

At the same time: he cannot allow hatred, he cannot say: “This is not my problem.” This requires great inner stability.

3.3. Because compassion without wisdom breaks a person. This is very important and rarely said.

If there is compassion, but no understanding of emptiness, then a person burns out, becomes a rescuer, a martyr, or a cynic.

That is why Mahayana always says: compassion + emptiness,
not just “be a good person”.

3.4. Because the image “I am a good person” keeps collapsing.

The bodhisattva path constantly uncovers: hidden egoism, pride, the desire to be important.

Again and again you see: “I helped, but not purely,” “I wanted recognition,” “I felt anger.”

This is unpleasant. And you cannot simply walk away from it without abandoning the path.

  1. One simple summary

Bodhisattva vows are not promises, but direction. A bodhisattva is not an altruist, because there is no “other”. The difficulty of the path is the lack of final comfort and ego reward.

Said honestly and directly:

The bodhisattva path is a life without spiritual illusions – even without the illusion of one’s own spiritual growth and perfection.

BIG BLACK CAT AND A GIRL

The main difference between Mahayana and Hinayana:

The icon in Mahayana practice is the bodhisattva, not the “individual saint.”

A bodhisattva strives for awakening for the sake of all beings, not just for their own liberation.

Compassion and wisdom are equal in importance.

Hinayana asks: “How can I end my suffering?”

Mahayana asks: “How can there be liberation if someone else is still suffering?”

P.S. A bodhisattva is not necessarily a deity or a rebirthed; one can follow the bodhisattva path as a monk or an average person.

I want to add that bodhisattva way of thinking can be applied to all the aspects of life, to business as well. When you start business not for own prosperity but for the progress and well-being of others as well. the accent in this case shifts towards altruism and charity, not ego. Dont do business to become rich, but gain main target to help as many ppl as it is possible via money you get from business staying sustainable.

guanyin-bodhisattva-sculpture
Guanyin Bodhisattva sculpture