WARNING: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain" - the Great Alexander Pope (reddit)
O, those Greeks of Macedonia were something
This is in reference to the spring in the Pierian Mountains in Macedonia, sacred to the Muses. The first line of this couplet is often misquoted as "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
In Greek mythology, the "Pierian Spring" of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia was sacred to the mythological Pierides and the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a couplet in Pope's 1711 poem An Essay on Criticism:
WQ says no such thing. What we say is that, in an ultimate sense, "self" (soul, ego, atman, atta, spirit) is impersonal.
So there IS a "self"?
In a conventional sense, of course there is! How else would we live in a squiggly universe without a sense of our boundaries demarcating where we end and others start?
Oh, so I don't have to give everything away, join a commune, and do whatevers my Guru tells me to?
Ugh, no, you do not. Be yourself. Think. Practice. Buddhism only makes sense for those who practice the Dhamma, not the debaters or scholars of it.
Wait, then, so I'm as "real" as this chair? - Yes.
EGO DEATH is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity" [1]. The term is used in various contexts, with related meanings.
The 19th-century psychologist and philosopher William James uses the synonymous term "self-surrender." Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term "psychic death," referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche (soul) [2].
So I can be responsible with a career? - Yes.
In death and rebirth explanations, ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition [3, 4, 5, 6] as described by mythologist Joseph Campbell in his research on the "Hero's Journey" [3].
It is a recurrent theme in world mythology and is also used as a metaphor in some strands of contemporary Western thinking [6].
In descriptions of drugs, the term is used synonymously with "ego loss" [7, 8, 1, 9] to refer to temporary loss of one's sense of having a self due to the use or abuse of drugs [10, 11, 1], be they negative (deluded) hallucinogens or positive (pro-realization) entheogens.
The term was used as such by Harvard Dr. Timothy Leary and others [1] to describe the death of the ego [12] in the first phase of an LSD trip, in which a "complete transcendence" of the self [Note 1] occurs.
Did the Grateful Dead know about this?
The concept is also used in contemporary New Age spirituality and in the modern understanding of ancient Eastern religions (such as Nondualism/Advaita/Oneness) to describe a permanent loss of "attachment to a separate sense of self" [Web 1] and self-centeredness [13] (egoism, egotism, selfishness, conceit).
This kind of conception is a part of Eckhart Tolle's Buddhist-like teachings, where Ego is presented as an accumulation of thoughts and emotions, continuously identified with [and clung to], which creates the idea and feeling of being a separate entity from one's self, and only by disidentifying one's consciousness from it can one truly be free from suffering [14]. More
Life: break us to wake us? DRUNK
(T&H Inspiration & Motivation) I was disgusted, busted, and not to be trusted. I was a drunkard, an alcoholic. I wasted 33 years of my life in my head before Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins explained this
(Buddhism Podcast) Oct. 21, 2025: Buddhism Explained. Where do our thoughts come from? We know the thoughts that just seem to appear in our heads – have we ever truly wondered where they come from?
This post explores Buddhism's unique perspective on the mind (stream of cittas, consciousness), revealing that our thoughts do not spring from a fixed "self" but rather from an intricate dance of interconnected supporting conditions. These are spelled out in the 12 causal links of Dependent Origination.
Discover the profound teachings of Dependent Origination and anatta ("not-self," that all things, while real, are impersonal, impermanent, and utterly incapable of fulfilling us, and are therefore quite illusory, maya) to unlock a surprising sense of freedom and a deeper understanding of who or what we truly are. This is an invitation to see our mind in a whole new light.
00:00 - The question behind the question (infinite regress)
It's maya, an illusion, but it follows rules this samsara, wheel of life and death, rebirth and suffering. It is as real as a dream. Are we the divine play of Brahman, GOD,
(Buddhism Podcast)
June 26, 2025: Buddhism Explained. [Who’s watching? There is watching; the question assumes a watcher, a habit of our customary way of thinking built into the language with nouns that do verbs. But if watching is only an impersonal process, then what?]
What if [that which or] the one who watches our thoughts is just another thought? This video gently follows a deep question in Buddhism: Who observes the observer?
Understanding the perfection of wisdom: it is all impersonal, empty (shunyata), not-self (anatta).
Step by step, we walk through the layers of awareness, the habit of searching, and the quiet freedom beyond identity.
Through the Buddha’s teachings, the Dharma, we see how presence needs no owner. We don’t have to become anyone — we’ve never been apart from this presence. It has always been here.
00:00 - The strange question that changes everything
04:20 - The mirror that reflects itself
09:21 - Meditation — where the question becomes real
14:38 - The peace beyond the search
18:44 - The unshaped presence
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(Solace Fox) March 2, 2025: Everything we know feels solid — real. But what if reality isn’t as complex as it seems? What if everything is so simple once we look at it from the right angle? This video dives into the hidden truths of perception, consciousness, and the true nature of reality. Get ready to challenge everything you thought was real.
🕒 TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The illusion of reality
02:15 - How our mind shapes everything
05:42 - What happens when we look closer?
09:10 - The secret behind perception
12:35 - Is everything we see just a social construct?
Why do we not get what we want? It is because wanting has no resolution. With wanting arises not having. The solution, then, is not wanting. But how can we not want? (And isn't not-wanting a kind of wanting?) The way to not want is simple: LOOK long enough to see things as they really are. This leads to revulsion, and the mind/heart lets go (renunciation or "inner letting go").
Of course. we don't do this because sensual pleasures are our only respite, our only chance at any kind of "escape" from dukkha (disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, the woe of never getting what we really want). What do we really want? Fulfillment, which is not available through endless wandering on life after life through samsara, chasing satisfaction first here then there and anywhere we imagine it might be hiding.
Even without wishing, if we calmed-and-intensified (which is what happens on the path of purification by stillness and insight or shamatha and vipassana) by the mind through the meditative absorptions and learned to look at four things (body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects), the heart/mind would let go. That is the ultimate solution. That is what the Buddha advocated as actual escape. One will not hear this terse explanation from the AI generator or Tan Geoff, but the answer is implicit amidst the misleading text and talk.
Not getting what you want? The Buddha’s solution
Ego Podcast (Buddhism) March 2, 2025: Sadly, while "Ego Podcast" seems smart and thought out, it is just an uncredited reading of American Ven. Thanissaro's poorly worded opinions. It's a scam unless Tan Geoff is behind it, but if he were, why would he use AI instead of his own melodious voice?
These writings, though read by Ven. Thanissaro himself on his website and made freely available at WatMetta.org, are fed to an AI voice that mispronounces Pali terms and names. (This particular talk is about Ajaan Fuang Jotiko). The reading sounds confident but translates Pali terms in an extreme and idiosyncratic way. Instead of being of benefit, they are sure to mislead.
Then to give a pretense of depth, AI is used to generate and add unrelated images. Just to get views and seem important? They sound smarmy for a reason: that is Tan Geoff's personality. Revolting to some (like us), soothing to others.
These opinions are offered free at accesstoinsight.org and Tan Geoff's dhammatalks.org. Sadly, AI or "Ego" has little understanding, so every summary of a lifted talk is misleading. Why do we often fail to get what we want? No reason is given. This video talks about connection between suffering and conviction. This video is a rip off of this talk:
The Buddha teaches that the pain of not getting what we want can spur us to put an end to the vicious circle of "wanting, not getting, pain, wanting more." Unfulfilled desires are therefore not only negative — they can spark a determination to follow a path that leads to liberation from suffering.
Or we could just keep wanting and wanting and never finding fulfillment in all the ordinary things we wished for (because the sensual world told us we'd be happy through sensuality). This is why millionaires take drugs and are miserable. They have come to know that getting what one wants does not work to end the desperate craving that keeps us working like slaves to get them. Word to the wise: let go. Or keep going, and in that Zen spirit of which Alan Watts speaks, "a fool who persists in his folly will become wise."
One thing this might mean, as a teacher who encourages students in more and more austerities and a hard path that builds their egos, is that by doing the impossible (foolishness), one will realize this is not the way to liberation (a wise realization). So what is? The Middle Way that avoids extremes
Team USA raises the American flag after winning gold with Simone Biles Owens in the center
Back, long ago, before Paris, Team USA succeeded. And now Simone Biles wins gold (CNN).
Team USA's Jade Carey (left), Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, and Simone Biles celebrate after winning gold during the gymnastics team final at Bercy Arena on Tuesday in Paris (Wally Skalij/LA Times).
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Look, Everybody, I can fly! Gymnast Biles in air
(LA Times) Fans at Bercy Arena wore white T-shirts with the Olympic rings printed across the front. Each ring featured a photo of a U.S. gymnast inside. Underneath, there was a single word: “Redemption.”
This felt like more. It was relief. It was a release.
It was gold.
The four members of the Olympic team who remembered their Tokyo disappointments rewrote their narratives by leading the United States of America back to gold with a dominant wire-to-wire performance in the team final on Tuesday.
Finishing with an untouchable 171.296 score, the north Americans ran across the floor after Simone Biles clinched the victory on floor, raising the U.S. flag to all sides of the arena and posing for photos.
Three years after withdrawing in the Olympic final because of "mental health" concerns, Biles blew a kiss to the crowd as she saluted the judges after her floor routine. More:
Her name is Simone [Aryan] Biles OWENS? And no one has noticed the similarity to that other great Olympian, Jesse Owens? He humiliated Hitler, Nazi officials, and white supremacists everywhere as a Black American beating the "master" race and others while Adolf and colleagues sat in the stands having to explain it to themselves. That was the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Blacks are better at sports? Diverse Americans are better than monochromatic Germans?
Ha, ha, Hitler! Eat this flag. This one's for Jesse Owens, furor! Go, Team USA, go!
People are suddenly confused about a stable definition for "woman" (female biological sex)? This is understandable because we confuse and conflate words like sex (biology), gender (psychology), and orientation (sexuality). These things are all social constructs (categories defined by humans); nevertheless, they are not arbitrary. They have a basis. They are not assigned at birth (partition) and carried out post-partum, but during conception or gestation (pregnancy).
They did not arise from nothing, nor by chance, nor by some doctor or doula's whim. There really is a binary of females and males and even another category (pandakas) extending or derived from those two in Buddhism and the other Dharmic religions of Asia.
It is unclear if our long held Western biological distinction (XX or XY) in the West has now failed.
It would seem so if neither scientists nor right wing commentators can win an argument with color-tinted, left-leaning college students wishing to expand our minds and sensitize our hearts to the plight of LGBTQIA+ groups.
It is time to be more sensitive, more inclusive, more openminded. Nevertheless, there is a binary and in addition a recognized exception. The exception (P) is blurry and muddled and confounded with flexible societal norms. There may be no ultimate biological basis for the exception (P). But biology, like everything else, is interdependent.
Beloved LGBT Nemo (Eurovision 2024)
In Buddhism and other Dharmic religions, nama-rupa (name-and-form or body-and-mind) is the name of the distinction and analysis of what are understood to be interdependent categories.
While we debate the old nature/nurture dichotomy, there has always been a third category of gender recognized (and not in a flattering or equal way). The third category is called pandaka.
While most modern people nowadays may want to avoid recognizing this binary, it is nevertheless possible to make a clear distinction between what are biological males and biological females, men and women and the other.
This is a serious response to this very funny satire by The Babylon Bee.
Our post title was inspired by a mainstream media article that scientists
give in and say they have no 'simple' definition for what a 'woman' is.
DEFINITION
In Buddhist physics (Abhidhamma), What is a "woman"? A "woman" is an adult female, a "female" being a person (gandhabba) reborn through karma in a body (rupa, kaya) with the presence or propensity of itthindriya(femininity, bhava).
More study (learning, hearting, suta) and investigation (bhāvanā) is necessary. Why? With regard to the condition of wisdom (paññā) arising in Buddhism, one distinguishes three kinds of knowledge: (1) knowledge based on thinking (cintā-mayā-paññā), knowledge based on [study and] learning (suta-mayā-paññā), and knowledge based on [meditation] mental development (bhāvanā-mayā-paññā) (Saṅgīti Sutra, DN 33).
DISCUSSION
Is this a serious answer? Yes. If it is serious, how does it advance the discussion? Just as in the West we argue for the words (social constructs) "male" and "female" to mean XY or XX chromosomes (a biological basis), if we can accept that definition as sufficient, Buddhism says something deeper is going on.
We do not become male or female (or "other," pandaka = pan, hermaphroditic, asexual, trans(itioning), fluid, ambiguous, confusing, perverted, non-normative, bent, queer, intersex, neuter, eunuch) without a biological/physical basis. Admittedly, this is interdependent not independent of social factors (behavior, culture, training and physical interventions whether intentional or unintentional). This basis has karma-result (vipaka, phala) as its cause and basis.
Intentional or unintentional interventions? Dr. Joel Wallach claims to have scientific proof and abundant clinical experience for the PHYSICAL basis for sex and gender confusion, which is currently on the rise. The cause, according to Dr. Wallach? A micronutrient deficiency during gestation, that is, during pregnancy the mother does not have a trace mineral or similar essential nutrient and this has a considerable subsequent effect. This is unintentional, and it is not limited to biological sex, gender expression, or sexuality/sexual orientation. A biologically female body in gestation or infancy may be exposed to an excess of androgens or estrogens (more likely plastic xenoestrogens), and this has an effect. A biologically male body in gestation or infancy may be exposed to an excess of androgens or estrogens (and for all we know there may be another class of compounds that in the future will be termed "pandakogens" such as Atrazine).
An interesting question is, What happens to a male who takes The Pill (female birth control)? Males can take it just as water can be put in a gas tank. It will not prevent pregnancy. But it may cause hormonal disruptions, mood changes, cancer, toxicity, erectile dysfunction, or feminization.
The interesting part is, If there is no biological difference between males and females, why then do substances like The Pill affect males and females differently? There are individual differences, of course, but the point is that there are general differences as well, and that should not be the case if everything is arbitrary and without a biological basis.
Moreover, there are intentional interventions (administered hormones, hormone blockers, traumas, molestations, surgeries such as female and male genital mutilation called FGM or common circumcision, abuse, exposure to environmental toxins, substances, drugs, etc.)
Having thought about this, it seems aggressive lesbians and academic sophists may be right: there is no binary so much as a trinary or trinity: male, female, and pandaka (everything else, blends, absences, permutations). Sadly, however, this is not well defined or studied and was subject to a great deal of sexism, sexist assumptions, and cultural prejudices. Definitions change, but the original definitions are not "arbitrary" simply because they depend on changing social conditions.
One can imagine the needs of a community of humans to perpetuate itself and control its members and their multiplications, combinations, and behaviors. Then the society, because of changing climate or other external circumstance (coming under attack or sudden prosperity) changes from active hunting and gathering to sedentary farming or business dealing, or whatever. Now the needs of that community are different, change, and fluid or more polarized.
There is normative male, normative female, and everything else (pan-daka), which by definition gets the label nonnormative. Not yet taking the third category into consideration, is there a difference
Note: The ancient rendering, translation, definition of pandaka as "eunuch" is very misleading but not without explanation. To us in modern times a eunuch would seem to be someone with removed genitalia, but in ancient times it was understood that those deprived of ordinary equipment (testicles, penis, clitoris, labia, vaginal canal, hormone, pituitary gland, pineal gland, other gland, or any part of the body) nevertheless found ways to be sexual, and these behaviors got them the label "eunuch," which often meant "pervert," "weirdo," "gay," "hypersexual," "flamboyant," "depraved," "pansexual," "nonnormative"... So it is not the lack of equipment that made one a "eunuch" but the subsequent increase of unusual (nonnormative) behavior associated or correlated with that lack.
Indeed, in India where this term originated (probably in ancient proto-India or the Indus Valley Civilization), there is even today a "Pandaka Festival" and it is NOT a bunch of Italian choir singers coming together and having tea, academic discussions, and a fashion show. What is it then? It is a pansexual, flamboyant, usually drunken or otherwise intoxicated, perverted, hypersexual "Pride Fest" of debauchery and depravity of all of the molested, neglected, abused, shamed, constrained, disciplined, forsaken, and exploited folks along with the healthy, well adjusted, questioning, and curious folks out to see the days long spectacle. It is considered dangerous, just as West Hollywood, Key West, San Francisco, or New York pride fests would be if public drunkenness, mass intoxication, and lawlessness were the norm. But in the US, we tamp it down so that these are nice, family-friendly entertainments.
Pandaka Festivals are little understood annual events in India. It is a time of debauchery, cross-dressing, homosexual revelry, alcohol and drug abuse, adultery, sodomy, and all manner of societally-condemned behavior. The event is certainly not limited to the reviled modern pandaka (a widely feared amalgam of "pervert, criminal, heartless male prostitute, bully, and panderer") but to any curious person full of shame and repression or shameless attempts to come to terms with impulses and urges.
Further in S. XXII, 95: "Suppose a person who is able to see were to behold many bubbles on the river Ganges as they were floating along. And suppose that person were to watch them and carefully examine them. Carefully examining them, they will appear empty, unreal, and insubstantial.
"In exactly the same way does the meditator behold all corporeal phenomena (body, form, ultimate materiality)... feelings... perceptions... mental formations... states of consciousness, whether of the past, present, or future...far or near. And one watches them and examines them carefully.
"After carefully examining them, they appear empty, unreal and insubstantial."
The Five Aggregates clung to as self are compared, respectively, to
a lump of froth,
a bubble,
a mirage,
a coreless plantain stem, and
a conjuring trick (S. XXII, 95).
See the Khandha Samyutta (S. XXII), The Path of Purification (Vis.M. XIV).
If we seek a "self" (an atta or atman, asoul, ego, personality, essence), what we find is not an eternal soul but a collection of aggregate factors: form (Four Elements, corporeality, materiality); feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousnesses. These are categories of heaps or groups. The first category is fourfold and constitutes the body; the remaining four categories is fourfold and constitutes the mind. These eight are reduced to five and should never be thought of as five things but rather five categories or aggregations of things. There is not one feeling but many feelings, countless feelings, uncountable instances of pleasant, painful, and neutral sensations associated with perceptions, formations, and consciousnesses (of each of the six senses). While referred to as things, this might be misleading. They are dynamic processes rather than anything tangible, stable, reliable, or fixed.
A. UNDERIVED(no-upādā): Four Elements [characteristics of matter]: solidity or earth-element (pathavī-dhātu), cohesive or water-element (āpo-dhātu), temperature or fire-element (tejo-dhātu), and motion or wind-element (vāyo-dhātu)
B. DERIVED(upādā): 24 secondary phenomena:
physical sense-organs of: seeing [not the eye but the sensitive portion within the eye that discerns forms],
hearing [not the ear but the sensitive material that discerns sounds],
smelling [not the nose...],
tasting [not the tongue...],
body [not the body but tactile sensation able to discern impression/pressure, temperature, etc.]
physical sense-objects of: form (body),
sound,
scent,
taste; ["bodily impacts" (photthabba) are generally omitted from this list because these physical objects of body-sensitivity are identical with the aforementioned solid, temperature, and motion elements; hence, their inclusion under "derived corporeality" would be a duplication.]
A male-born, female-presenting pandaka
femininity (itthindriya)
virility (purisindriya)
physical base of 'mind' (consciousness, not the heart itself but the sensitive material in or near the heart, hadaya-vatthu)
We began with an audacious idea, that we could easily define "woman" with a biological/physical basis. If sex were a binary (on/off, 1/0, male/female, black/white, yes/no), there would be present in the DNA, genome, chromosomes or alleles of the individual either itthindriya or purisindriya, and this would be a simple way of determining who is a woman and who a man. This may still be possible, but it does not easily explain the existence of spontaneous hermaphrodites, intersexuals, and asexuals (neutered). All of this is separate from gender, gender roles, sexual orientation, or how one presents. If modern Western science had XX and XY chromosomes to rely on, Buddhism thousands of years earlier (and the Old Vedic Religion thousands of years before that) had a better, more minute marker. It may even be the same marker. For at the level of the particle (kalapa) there are discernible aspects and components one cannot imagine being present in the West -- odor, color, and so on. There are propensities of the various elements (maha dhatus). Therefore, one with the power to discern them internally could, in theory, discern them (externally) in someone else and would know, "This being is a male or female."
Unravelling the Mysteries of Mind and Body through Abhidhamma (Inward Wisdom)
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Abhidhamma (Sayalay Susila and Dhr. Seven)
However, there are a number of problems. Problem 1: Would a shapeshifter (a being possessing the iddhi called the "power of transformation") exhibit femininity or masculinity, and would that remain constant throughout the transformation? It would likely change with the shift and revert to what it usually is, making it a viable marker only in the long run. This is impossible; no one can shape shift. Problem 2: If it is not discernible externally, we would only have self-report and not an objective measure. This is impossible; no one can discern particles (kalapas). Problem 3: What if everyone has both indriyas in varying measures, making not a binary but a propensity or predominance of one or the other? This is impossible; no one has indriyas (faculties). Problem 4: If it is not one OR the other but a combination of both, then it becomes a social construct as to what we mean by it, and if it is that everyone has "masculine" and "feminine" biological and psychological components (which is almost certainly the case) then there is instantly the possibility of a third construct, a blend resulting from a more or less equal level of both. This is impossible; no one has faculties. Problem 5: Once one is able to discern particles and sees the characteristics of femaleness and maleness, does it change in a single lifetime? It can, although this is extremely rare, or it can seem to change, which is common. This is impossible. No one does anything nor can they do anything. This applies to humans, which is a very rare kind of birth, but would it to devas or ghosts and animals. This is impossible; no one is reborn as a human, deva, animal, or anything else. So, as Douglas Adams would say, if you've already done six impossible things, could you call us so we can discuss a seventh: nailing this definition down and determining if this is a reliable basis for a stable definition of "sex."
FOR FURTHER READING
Indriya: 22 phenomenological faculties, femininity (itth-indriya), masculinity (puris-indriya), life faculty or vitality (jīvit-indriya)
wisdomlib.org 4.1. The Meaning of Indriya (Faculties) — femininity, masculinity, vitality, the first two material qualities designated as bhāvarūpa determine...
jstor.orgNĀMARŪPA IN BUDDHAGHOSA'S PHENOMENOLOGY (name-and-form):
taste (rasa), the feminine faculty (itthindriya), the masculine faculty (purusindriya), life faculty (jīvitindriya), the heart-substance (hadayavatthu)...
budsas.org BUDDHIST DICTIONARY: Explained in Pug. 55. itthindriya: 'femininity'; see bhāva.
dhammawheel.comWhat karma (Pali kamma) relates to gender differentiation? - Dhamma Wheel... Weak wholesome karma (kusala kamma) generates the female controlling faculty (itthindriya). Strong unwholesome karma (akusala kamma) causes the male controlling faculty to...
wisdomlib.org 22 Phenomenological Faculties: 1 definition... mind faculty (man indriya). Three physical faculties: femininity (itth-indriya); masculinity (puris-indriya); life or vitality (jivit indriya)
philpapers.org/rec/NGATAB
Towards a Buddhist Metaphysics of Gender (PhilPapers, Sept. 25, 2023) Buddhist tradition, the Buddha is depicted as claiming that there is something called woman-faculty or power (itth-indriya) and something called man-faculty or power...
discourse.suttacentral.net Pali glossary for Ven. Bodhi and Ven. Sujato (SuttaCentral.net, Feb. 6, 2019) itthindriya, [faculty of] femininity. idappaccayatā, specific conditionality. iddhābhisaṅkhāra, feat of psychic potency, used his psychic...
themindingcentre.org The Body in Buddhism: femininity (itth'indriya); masculinity. (puris'indriya); physical base of the mind (hadaya, vatthu); 35 bodily intimations (k ya,vi atti), verbal intimation (vac ,vi ...)
budinoucenje.wordpress.com What does dhamma mean in Theravada Abhidhamma?
Aug. 13, 2020... For example, a property of femininity (itthindriya) was added for the description of the matter or the physical mind-base (hadaya-vatthu)
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