buddhists have entered the chat
wait actually buddhists can't enter the chat, that's illegal
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Buddhist minds are so quiet The chat cannot enter them
The chat is attachment. Too be free of suffering one must let the chat go.
There's a misconception that to practice non-attachment, you have to literally live in a cave. There's a very large part of Buddhism that is geared for people who are still fully engaged in life. In fact many think it's the more spiritually challenging route because you'd have to live in the middle of all the temptations, turmoil and drama, without getting lost in it. The joke is that a family dinner is a good litmus test for how well one is doing. It's a process of constantly letting issues arise, being with the response that arises in you, and if an action must come, learning how to take the action through compassion. That allows for even political activism - it's just fueled by wishing people happiness, not by wanting to see the other side lose. The non-attachment is in not believing that the outcome one prefers is the outcome that should come about. But it's fine to work towards a goal, as one would in a video game.
There was a good podcast on the political activism part recently: https://shows.acast.com/tantra-illuminated-with-dr-christopher-wallis/episodes/finding-freedom-in-troubled-times-with-tina-rasmussen
Oh yeah lol I was actually thinking about it when I wrote that but I forgot where I heard it.
The non-monk Buddhists who could enter chats are great actually. I mean those who actually actively practice meditation etc. Very friendly and down to earth.
There is a whole religion based on wanting to stop wanting.
Its like the religion I give most credence to when keeping to the wanting to stop wanting.
"You could make a religion out of this!"
Most people want to want for nothing...
But once that happens, then you start wanting the extra shit.
And humans are wired to never stop wanting extra shit, like through pretty much all of recorded history it has always taken a lot of work for someone to get to the point of wanting nothing once basic needs are met.
It's something people devote literal lifetimes too, and still might not truly pull off.
Even if you meant it in a hyper pedantic way like seconds before death, they'd still all either want to live or want to die, the slice that truly wouldn't care would be statistically insignificant
All their wants do eventually stop, of course ...
I want to want just enough so I can stop wanting
Here we go Jacques Lacan..
Right on OP!