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Welcome to Triratna Bitcoin! Explore Sangharakshita’s teachings and the intersection of Bitcoin and Buddhism. Delve into how Bitcoin’s emergent culture and broader societal changes align with and challenge Buddhist ideals. A practice community! 🧘‍♂️ https://t.me/triratnabitcoin

🚀 Rebooting Triratna Bitcoin 🚀

A few months ago, I paused this project, feeling unsure whether a group like this had a place.

Since then, it’s become clearer to me that the intersection of Buddhism, Bitcoin, and sovereignty is still fertile ground — perhaps now more than ever.

This isn’t about merging ideologies but exploring how ethical practice, decentralised tech, and inner freedom can support one another.

If that speaks to you, you’re very welcome here.

🧘‍♂️ ₿ 🙏

– Mike

I will be stepping down as the organiser on Meetup. I will also close this account, as well as the Telegram chat and channel, one week from today unless someone wishes to take them over.

Hi all,

I’ve decided to step back from organising the Triratna Bitcoin group. It’s been an interesting experiment, and I’ve enjoyed exploring this intersection with everyone. However, I’ve become less convinced about the need for such a hybrid group at this time.

Thank you to everyone who participated and for your input - it’s been a valuable experience!

Best wishes,

Mike 🙏

Join us tomorrow (Sun Dec 8th 11am GMT) to discuss the topic ‘The Approach to Buddhism’. We will also have time for personal reflection and a period of meditation. You can RSVP on Meetup.

https://www.meetup.com/triratna-bitcoin/events/304628186/?eventOrigin=home_next_event_you_are_hosting

Material:

https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=19

Join us tomorrow to discuss the topic ‘Why Buddhism?’ We will also have time for personal reflection and a period of meditation. You can RSVP on Meetup.

https://www.meetup.com/triratna-bitcoin/events/304756207/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Material:

https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=18

Join us tomorrow to discuss the topic ‘Why Buddhism?’ We will also have time for personal reflection and a period of meditation. You can RSVP on Meetup.

https://www.meetup.com/triratna-bitcoin/events/304756207/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=18

Join us for a new series of online sessions ‘Introducing Buddhism’.

These sessions will take place every Sunday at 11am GMT over 14 weeks (beginning 24/11), with a three week break for Christmas and New Year. Each session will also include a period of meditation.

Join our Telegram channel for more details!

You can also learn more about the series here:

https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/series/details?num=X04

Replying to Avatar Erik Cason

I’m coming to the sad conclusion that there really isn’t much going on inside of 90% of people. While they have the capacity and capability to self-reflect and creatively engage in the world, they don’t. They desire ease, comfort, and conformity above all else.

Not only that, but they fill themselves with so much garbage, propaganda, and ideals from others around them who are similar; they mute any real voice or agency that does come from within. They are not interested in the dynamic creative possibilities of the world, but the ease of obedience towards those who know what’s best for them. Their motto is ‘don’t rock the boat’.

These people are fucking dangerous, not because they want to hurt you, but because they lack the capacity to truly self-reflect in a meaningful way. They don’t care about what is true, just that the rules are followed. They don’t want to feel uncomfortable within self-reflection, but to flee into the values of others they have been told are theirs as well and is the only right way to be.

It is a valorization of callousness, a celebration of conformity, and a religious respect for authority to such an extent that their own personal responsibility vanishes.

These are NPCs. They are agents of the system and an integral part of how it functions and projects power. They are little more that drones at the subservience of the state, and only a radical awakening that forces them into the existential angst of what their only life is and means is the only thing that can truly awaken beings that are so asleep that they have forgotten their own being.

You influence the NPCs when you become the new authority.

https://youtu.be/YgemxdcSQoc?si=dMwmYqDYuj4srDUv

Buddhist perspectives on

society and culture

https://apramada.org/

Political systems, ideologies and propaganda are like the water we swim in. The worst situation is to be negatively influenced without realising it, the better situation is to be aware of the toxicity and thus be less affected by it, the best situation however is to seek fresh water.

‘Logical thinking and real life are not two separate orbits. Logic is for man the only means to master the problems of reality. “What is contradictory in theory, is no less contradictory in reality. No ideological inconsistency can provide a satisfactory, i.e., working, solution for the problems offered by the facts of the world. The only effect of contradictory ideologies is to conceal the real problems and thus to prevent people from finding in time an appropriate policy for solving them. Inconsistent ideologies may sometimes postpone the emergence of a manifest conflict. But they certainly aggravate the evils which they mask and render a final solution more difficult. They multiply the agonies, they intensify the hatreds, and make peaceful settlement impossible. It is a serious blunder to consider ideological contradictions harmless or even beneficial.’

- Human Action, Ludwig von Mises.

‘Not by hatred are hatreds ever pacified here (in the world). They are pacified by love. This is the eternal law.’

- Dhammapada, Verse 5.

Join us online this Sunday 27th Oct, 11am UK time. We will be discussing the 9th precept - abstaining from hatred or cultivating compassion.

We will also have a session of the mindfulness of breathing meditation 🕊️ 🧘‍♂️

https://www.meetup.com/triratna-bitcoin/events/304036352/?eventOrigin=home_next_event_you_are_hosting

Join us the Sunday when we’ll be discussing the 7th precept: abandoning covetousness for tranquility. This will be followed by a period of the mindfulness of breathing 🧘‍♂️

https://www.meetup.com/triratna-bitcoin/events/304035094/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

“Health is the highest gain. Contentment is the greatest wealth. A trustworthy person is the best kinsman. Nibbana is the highest bliss.” - Dhammapada

Join us this Sunday 13th 10am UTC+1, for meditation and a discussion of the 7th Precept ~ avoiding slanderous speech.

“Abandoning slanderous speech
a certain one abstains therefrom.

When he hears something at one place
he does not proclaim it elsewhere
to bring about a quarrel between the parties;
what he has heard here
he does not report there
to bring about a quarrel between the parties;
thus he brings together the discordant,
restores harmony,
harmony is his delight,
he exults in,
is passionately fond of harmony;
he utters speech that makes for harmony.”

- The Buddha to Cunda the Silversmith

“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Society cannot exist if the majority of people are not willing to renounce violence, to abstain from violating the lives, liberty, and property of others.”

— Human Action: A Treatise on Economics