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Those who approach isolated Zen cases from the slogan-centered frameworks of contemporary Western religious thought (e.g., 'Buddhism', 'Daoism', 'Gnosticism', 'Psychonauticism') as opposed to contextual and investigative scholarship are liable to assume that the doctrinal positions regarding those terms that said religious systems use amongst themselves in their almost exclusively online communities were authoritative in Zen communities.
However, this is already something we might call a '3rd order' problem.
A '2nd order' problem that comes up far more frequently in Western engagement with Zen is the assertion that the textual records of Zen Masters ought to be ignored entirely in deference to various sorts of prayer rituals or scriptural authorities and that such rituals and authorities constitute true engagement with Zen, as advocated by Zen texts.
A short exploration of the following terms reveals a tradition whose defining characteristics are not rooted in the slogan-centered framework of Western religious thought
#####Zen Masters on Nirvana
> A monk asked Jianfeng, " 'The Blessed Ones of the ten directions are on one road, the gate of nirvana'--where is that road?"
>Jianfeng drew a line in the air with his staff and said, "It is here."
How is that road traversed?
#####Ignorance
>Foyan said, "As soon as you say you understand Zen, people watch whatever you do and whatever you say, wondering why you said this or that. If you claim to understand Zen, moreover, this is actually a contention of ignorance."
Zen, not a kind of gnosis.
What do Zen Masters contend with?
#####Buddhahood
>Baizhang said, "With a fatal disease, ordinary physicians fold their arms, unable to do anything. There has never been such a thing as 'Buddha' - do not understand it as Buddha. 'Buddha' is a medicine for sentient beings. Without disease, one shouldn't take medicine. When medicine and disease are both dissolved, it is like pure water; Buddhahood is like a sweet herb mingling with the water, or like honey mixed with the water - it is most sweet and delicious. (But) if you judge from the standpoint of the pure water, it is not affected; it is not that it doesn't exist - it is originally there."
Understanding it in terms of enlightenment and ignorance is quite the affliction. How does Buddha help with any of that?
No. Way. Out.
Unsavable
Unsavable, often rendered as the non-translated "Icchantika" by Western Buddhists in both ostensibly a
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i'm a Saudi National that just recently graduated from a school in the U.S. Does anyone know how I can attest my diploma?? I found information for how non-Saudi citizens can do it, but I got no clue how I can.
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I am new-ish, but I learned about the $200 incentive and filled out the necessary stuff online 2 weeks ago. I got my second dose at the same store I now work at, so I don't expect any problems.
I know it takes a little while to get my rewards cash but I forget how long. Anyone refresh my memory? I would appreciate it.
So on Monday I'm attesting to my reserve unit. What actually happens on the day and is there a certain dress code I should stick to?
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My testnet validator was funded yesterday and activated today, but ever since the first epoch it was assigned to, it has Missed all its assignments. I followed the Somer Esat medium setup guide. When I run status checks in the terminal on lighthousevalidator and lighthousebeacon, both showed green "active (running)". It is like I missed an on switch for my client somewhere. Any suggestions?
Using an Intel Nuc, Ubuntu, Lighthouse.
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One of the annoyances of the beacon chain protocol is that the difficulty of verifying blocks to keep up with the chain potentially varies widely. Currently, there are ~100,000 validators, but theoretically the number can go anywhere up to ~4 million. This is unfortunate, because the possibility of the validator count going that high means that client devs have to work harder to make their clients able to handle that amount and node operators have to make sure their hardware can handle it, but that extra computation capability never actually gets used in practice.
There have recently been some proposals to mitigate this problem, and they tend to have to do with the idea of implementing a cap on the number of active validators (proposed numbers for the cap have been `2**19` validators ~= 16.7M ETH and `2**20` validators ~= 33.5M ETH staking). If there are more active validators than the cap, some of the validators are randomly probabilistically "slept" for a short period of time (eg. a few hours to a few days). Asleep validators get no rewards, but they also have no responsibilities and can even go offline for that duration. Theoretically, it's even safe to give the opportunity for asleep validators to withdraw more quickly if they choose to exit.
Here's a concrete proposal: https://ethresear.ch/t/simplified-active-validator-cap-and-rotation-proposal/9022
Implementing something like this will reduce the load of verifying the beacon chain, making it easier for both validators and non-validators to run a node, and it will also make decentralized staking pools more viable because it will be more practical for each decentralized staking pool participant to run a node.
