https://thus.org/news/prayer-service-for-robert-thurman-june-17-at-2-pm-et/

Listen brah, everyone’s out there chasing the wrong things, sad deluded removed brah. Fuck that brah, ya want to be chained to samsara? Nah, fuck that, we’re hitting the cushion brah, getting the real gains – the nibbana gains, you feel me? That’s the revolution bro, the turning of the wheel of dharma.

If you're not hitting the cushion every day, developing pañña, then you're missing out on the biggest gains, bro. What kind of sad removed wastes their precious human rebirth? Fuck that brah.

Lot of sad removed out their indulging their delusions, brah. They're craving and clinging, and they don't even know it bro. Avidya is the killer of gains, you gonna waste your precious human rebirth, or you gonna be a sick enlightened removed?

Here's a reality check, brah: you're holding onto things that don't actually exist. I see these sad removed every day and they’re clinging to a permanent self, clinging to samsaric pleasure like it's gonna last forever. That’s sad logic brah. What did the Buddha say? The Buddha was a sick wise removed. He said everything is impermanent and unsatisfactory. Following the dharma bro, that’s where we get the gainz.

Go to the 'Lifestyle' section of a broadsheet and they paint a picture that we are all struggling to deal with stress and overwhelm. This is portrayed as an unavoidable feature of modern life.

A few things make it hard to believe –

• Firstly, it just doesn't square with my daily experiences. I'm not stressed out and overwhelmed, while living a pretty normal lifestyle with full-time work plus childcare and sports etc.
• The stats don't bear it out. Working time has gone way down – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Average_annual_hours_per_worker – it's below 35 hours a week most places, 46.25 in the highest in that table. Yes when I worked 80 hours a week I was exhausted, but that's not the norm, and the papers talk about it like it's some inescapable trend.
• Then there's the stats on TV-watching. How can it be true that modern life is hectic AND people watch telly for three hours a day?

I know this is coming across as a rant diguised as an AskLemmy question, but I have real curiosity about it.... am I the exception for not feeling busy? Is there some explanation I am missing for why people in a society with 35-hour workweeks feel busy? Do you find the 'hectic modern life' narrative relatable? Do you think people are lying about being busy for some reason, e.g. to avoid being asked to do things?

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/51443

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