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On the Five Remembrances
The word religion literally means to "go through again" (re-legere, etymologically speaking). Healthy religion is concerned with the calibration of the mind to reality, so that we may live nearest the sacred (that is, those experiences, understandings, and commitments most dear) and thereby not squander our lives, either through ignorance, negligence, or slippages of mind.
My practice for some years has been, upon arising, to silently but expressly recall the "Five Remembrances," which is a Buddhist teaching that seeks to fundamentally encapsulate the parameters of human life, so that we might not struggle so much when brushing up against their bound. In knowing our limits, we can celebrate the possibilities afforded within our bounds.
The Five Remembrances are:
1. I am of the nature to grow old, I cannot escape old age.
2. I am of the nature to get sick, I cannot escape sickness.
3. I am of the nature to die, I cannot escape death.
4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
5. I inherit the results of my actions of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.
~Sunyananda
In case no one told you growing up
- Bras last longer if you let them air dry. Don’t put them in the dryer.
- If you have a problem with frizzy hair, don’t dry your hair with a towel. It makes the frizzies worse. (I recently read an article that said to use a t-shirt? I brush mine out and let it air dry.)
- Whites wash best in hot water. Everything else can be in cold - save on your electricity bill.
- You can kill 99.9% of germs in a sponge by putting it in the dishwasher for a cycle or by microwaving it for 2 min (be sure to make the sponge damp before microwaving and to put a cup half full of water in with it and please DO NOT squeeze the sponge until it has cooled off)
- Airing out your room/house and letting sunlight in every so often can decrease the number of household pests like silverfish and ants.
- Black underwear is best during your period as stains are less likely to be visible.
- To save money, put aside 10% of each paycheck into a savings account. It’ll add up.
- Unless your hair has something on/in it (like grease or mud or something), using conditioner first can actually be the better choice. The conditioner holds in the good oils that help you hair look sleek and beautiful, which shampoo would otherwise wash away.
- Speaking of shampoo - if you have long hair, washing just the bits that touch your scalp is generally enough. The rest of your hair gets cleaned with just the run off from your scalp.
- If you put a tampon in and it’s uncomfortable/you can feel it, you didn’t do it quite right. A properly placed tampon is virtually unnoticeable by the wearer.
- Apply deodorant/antiperspirant a couple hours in advance of when you need it. This gives the product the chance to block your sweat glands. Using deodorant just before going somewhere where you’ll sweat (this means walking outside for people in high humidity places) results in your sweat washing the deodorant off and starkly limiting its usefulness.
- After running the dryer, use the dryer sheet from that load to brush out the lint catch - it gets everything off in a fraction of the time it’ll take you to get it clean with your bare hands. Paper towels also work well.
- Wash your face everyday, or as often as possible. Forget which brand of cleanser is best. Just washing your face everyday will guarantee you clearer skin. And do you best not to pop pimples, as tempting as the urge may be.
- Fold laundry asap after taking it from the dryer to avoid wrinkles. This may seem obvious for dress shirts and silly for things like t-shirts, but you’ll notice the difference even then once your shirts stop looking like unfolded paper balls.
To all the kids whose parents couldn’t help you with this kind of stuff
people will see nie huaisang hold a fan and say “hm. female trait.” just say you’re racist and go <3
okay im not done actually. the way this fandom has latched onto nie huaisang as a gnc icon based on nothing but a) he has a fan, b) he paints/is an artist, c) he likes poetry, and, most “damning” of all, d) he doesn’t practice any weapons & doesn’t carry any with him, is actually very, very white.
we get it, you subscribe to western ideals of hypermasculinity and therefore ascribe ur own ideas of what it means to be feminine/masculine onto these characters, on top of the obvious feminization & emasculating of easian men that is already so v prevalent in western society lol
it is VERY obvious some of yall just genuinely cannot conceive of a male character existing in a way that deviates from white cisheteronormative patriarchy without immediately slapping “effeminate” on there. like, i LIKE huaisang he’s my favorite character and as a gnc person myself i think itd be very funky if he were gnc but like. canonically he???? isnt???
mo xuanyu & wei wuxian are the ones who are Actually gnc (and that isnt. handled greatly. i know ppl make male wife jokes a lot now but when they say it abt wwx i WILL block with extreme prejudice lol), explicitly shown in the text
nie huaisang on the other hand? he just has different interests that dont necessarily line up with what is wholly expected of him as sect heir/leader and as a cultivator. but in general? like, gender-wise i dont see how That, Specifically, makes him effeminate.
even if he didn’t subscribe to traditional cultivator roles because he refused to use his saber that doesn’t translate to being gnc or effeminate. his eschewing of cultivator norms is specific to the worldbuilding itself, it doesn’t mean he’s not conforming to specifically male gender roles?
being an adept scholar (which nie huaisang is, despite him pretending to be otherwise for most of the series) was actually one of the foremost ideals of being a man in ancient china. in general the more well-rounded one was (aka balancing both martial and intellectual pursuits), the better – this is also why the imperial court had both generals and scholars as court officials. huaisang being into the arts, poetry, and an intellectual in general is actually the opposite of him being coded as gnc/effeminate.
im not saying that you can’t headcanon him as gnc/effeminate, but it is very telling that those who do, mainly do so bc they see nhs through a white (colonialist, western) lens and therefore ascribe traits to him that just plainly aren’t there (while also ignoring the characters who are canonically gnc). thats how u get modern AUs where he’s the only one wearing crop tops and eyeshadow while it would be much more in-line with canon for him to have full tattoo sleeves and pierced ears.
The Quest for Buddhism (4)
The birth of Siddhartha (Buddha)
The Buddha’s father, Shuddhodana of the Gautama clan, was a raja (aristocrat) of Shakya, a province of Kosala, and his mother was Queen Maya (Māyādevī), daughter of Anushakya, the regent of neighbouring Koliya.
Legend has it that, on the night Siddhartha was conceived, Queen Maya dreamt that a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side, and ten months later Siddhartha was born.
Maya gave birth to a child in Lumbini, on the outskirts of Kapilavastu, on her way home for childbirth. It is said of this birth that the Buddha emerged from Māyā’s right side, took seven steps forward, held his right hand upwards and his left hand downwards, and said, “I am the only one under the heavens” (birth or conception in the Eightfold Path). Maya died seven days after giving birth. The child was named Siddhartha. Siddhartha was brought up by Maya’s younger sister Mahaprajapati in Kapilavastu, the capital of the Shakya tribe.
According to later biographical legends, during the birth celebrations, the hermit seer Asita journeyed from his mountain abode, analysed the child for the “32 signs of a great man” and then announced that he would either become a great king (chakravartin) or a great religious leader. Suddhodana held a naming ceremony on the fifth day and invited eight Brahmin scholars to read the future. All gave similar predictions. Kondañña, the youngest, and later to be the first arhat other than the Buddha, was reputed to be the only one who unequivocally predicted that Siddhartha would become a Buddha.
The day of the Buddha’s birth is widely celebrated in Theravada countries as Vesak. Buddha’s Birthday is called Buddha Purnima in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India as he is believed to have been born on a full moon day.

仏教の探求 (4)
お釈迦さま(梵:シッダールタ)の誕生
釈迦の父で、ガウタマ族の浄飯王(じょうぼん・おう、梵:シュッドーダナ)は、コーサラ国の属国であるシャーキヤのラージャ(貴族)であり、母は隣国コーリヤの執政アヌシャーキャの娘、摩耶夫人(梵:マーヤー)である。
伝説によると、シッダールタが懐妊した夜、マーヤーは6本の白い牙を持つ白い象が自分の右脇腹に入ってくる夢を見、10ヵ月後にシッダールタが誕生したと言われている。マーヤーは、出産のための里帰りの途上、カピラヴァストゥ郊外のルンビニで子を産んだ。この誕生に関して、釈迦はマーヤーの右脇から生まれ出て7歩あゆみ、右手を上に、左手を下に向けて、『天上天下唯我独尊』と言った(八正成道(はっしょうじょうどう)のうち降誕もしくは出胎)と物語られている。マーヤーは出産した7日後に死んだ。この子はシッダールタと名付けられた。シッダールタは、釈迦族の首都カピラヴァストゥで、マーヤーの妹、摩訶波闍波提(まか・はじゃはだい、梵:マハー・プラジャーパティー)に育てられた。
後世の伝記によると、誕生祝いのとき、仙人アシタが山からやってきて、この子を「三十二相(偉人の32の特徴)」として分析し、「偉大な王(梵:チャクラヴァルティン)または偉大な宗教指導者になる」と告げたということである。父シュッドーダナは5日目に命名の儀式を行い、8人のバラモン学者を招いて未来を占わせた。皆、同じような予言をした。一番若く、後に釈迦以外の最初の阿羅漢となるコンダニャーだけは、シッダールタが仏陀になることを明確に予言したと評判であった。
お釈迦さまの誕生日は、上座部仏教の国々ではウェーサーカ祭として広く祝われいる。満月の日に生まれたと信じられているため、ネパール、バングラデシュ、インドではブッダ・プルニマと呼ばれている。
another day i'm reminded that non-americans dont know what lemonade is
i'm now questioning my whole life? cause i thought i knew
describe a lemonade
Okay so
If you’re American, lemonade is a drink made from lemon juice, sugar, and water:
The garnish is all fancy and unnecessary window-dressing, but that is what lemonade looks like. I don’t care for it, but it’s super-popular in the South, and also enjoyed elsewhere.
There’s also pink lemonade, which is this but with added strawberries.
What you call lemonade we usually call by brand name (Sprite, Sierra Mist, 7-Up) but if we were going to put the type of drink into a category it’d be lemon-lime soda.
Who puts strawberries in pink lemonade? That stuff’s mostly grapefruit juice.
Lemonade made from powder is the pits. Lemonade made with the proper balance of sugar, water, and lemon is the ideal hot weather drink: refreshing, full of electrolytes and Vitamin C, actually quenches thirst(unlike sugary fizzy things like lemon lime soda or drinks made from sweeter, less acidic fruits). As other countries experience more severe summers they would be well-advised to adopt American style lemonade to their drink repertoire. Normally I can’t drink much of it, but if I’m doing yardwork or something similarly sweaty in the summer I can guzzle it right down and perk up like an aspirated plant getting watered.
Nah, it’s traditionally strawberries.
If it's grapefruit juice, that shit better be on the label in big print. Grapefruit plus any of a bunch of medications equals bad.
Minor correction: What your average British person calls "lemonade" is literally just lemon soda, not lemon-lime. We also have what's called "cloudy lemonade", which is a bit closer to something an American would recognise as lemonade but mass-produced and carbonated.
It's definitely possible to find traditional lemonade on sale here, but it's mostly the preserve of juice bars or upmarket hipsterish cafes. For the most part you're better off making your own.
It’s funny to point out to anti-theists that they very much do have a religion. Bc it makes them so mad. But like. Atheism is a set of religious beliefs. You believe, with absolute certainty, that there are no deities. You have extreme faith that this is the truth. You have no proof of this claim, it is something you believe deep within you. And they they go “b-but I can prove it!!! They’re not there!!!! If you fly up you don’t see dudes up there!!!!” As if that is actual proof that there is no G-d. When it’s not. It is something you cannot prove. I can’t prove there is a G-d, either. I have the same amount of evidence as you. It’s something I believe. Just like you believe there isn’t one. Nice religion, stop trying to use it to tear down minorities bc you think all of us are just different flavors of Christianity.
So here’s the thing: Actual atheism isn’t a belief system. It’s a lack of belief, and it has absolutely no other tenets or requirements beyond that. This means you can participate in religious life if you so choose and still be an atheist; in their explanation of who can be an atheist, atheists.org even goes so far as to use the example of “cultural Catholics.” Doesn’t matter what culture(s) you participate in, or what you do, it’s all about the lack of belief in dirties. They also point out that atheism isn’t a religion, in the same way that not collecting stamps isn’t a hobby. Atheism is not supposed to be a club of people with religion-like tenets. That literally goes against everything atheism is.
And THIS is why it’s so fucking telling that hardcore anti-theists treat atheism like an organised religion. They act like it’s a set of religious beliefs, when it explicitly very much is not. And that’s because this strain of anti-theism is very much a reaction to Christianity and Christian culture, so much so that it uses Christian ideology as a sort of basis for its structure. Atheism isn’t supposed to be a religion in any way at all, but fuck if anti-theists who don’t actually understand what atheism actually is keep trying to turn it into one because of how Christianity has so fundamentally influenced their worldview.
When one atheist (who was advocating for passive cultural genocide) said to another atheist who called them out for that they were "harming the atheist brand", that was extremely telling as to how they view atheism.









