A Doha for an American Buddhist...

Doha

Says Rahim:

"One who is of inherently noble nature, will remain unaffected even when he associates with bad people.  The sandalwood plant does not absorb poison when the snakes wind around it."

A Post for the Buddhists...

AI Overview:

In Buddhism, suffering, or dukkha, is a fundamental concept that is part of the first of the Four Noble Truths: 

• Suffering (dukkha)

  The first truth, which states that everyone experiences suffering in some way
• Origin of suffering (samudāya)

  The second truth, which states that all suffering comes from desire
• Cessation of suffering (nirodha)

  The third truth, which states that it is possible to stop suffering and achieve enlightenment
Path to the cessation of suffering (magga)
The fourth truth, which describes the Middle Way and the steps to achieve enlightenment

Buddhists believe that suffering is caused by: 

Impermanence: Life is constantly changing, and no moment is reliable 
Desire: People crave or grasp for things, but they are never enough and never last 
Pain: Physical pain, such as hunger, lack of sleep, or chronic disease, can cause suffering 
Emotional pain: Frustration, upset, or worry can cause emotional suffering 

The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to end the cycle of suffering and repeated death and rebirth, which is called nirvana. To achieve this, Buddhists follow the Eightfold Path, which includes: 

Right views
Right resolve or aspiration
Right speech
Right action or conduct
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration

On Anatta (No-Self)

Aristotle's Lagoon

h/t - Zwaremetalen239

More on Aristotle (excerpt):

When the Athenian philosopher Plato died in 347 BC his student, Aristotle, left Athens and moved to the Aegean island of Assos. With the help of other philosophers he established a new school on the nearby island of Lesbos, where he lived for two more years.

Waiting for AGI...

Exhortations to Virtue - Plato, "Euthydemus"

The Guilt-Pride Chronicles

Taking Pride in Atonement for Sins You Never Committed!

... like Modern Day German Millennials for the Crimes of Nazism

Zizek & Capitalism, A Zero-Books Critique+

...on putting the 'Efficient Cause' of Commodities BACK into your Commodity fetish

...and mediating "social-relations" without the need for labour produced commodities

I can't wait for the approaching Technological Singularity to arrive, can you?

...and observe its' impact on labourless social-relations.

Pokemon-Go World, Here we Come!

Ovo, we barely know ye

Anyone got an Assembly Theory?

...but then this is all still pretty foamy... and probably needs a few more holons (self-organizing holarchic open (SOHO) systems*)!

*One better suited to being less hierarchically produced/ controlled (perhaps by a very large "middle" bourgeois-like citizen replacement class)

Funny how a "capital-free"/ money-less futuristic  Star Trek Society still requires a rank hierarchy system... kinda like War Communism.

More on Byung-Chul Han

What's Your Part in All This?

Holons vs Bodies Without Organs

Madhyamika Buddhiism and Śūnyatā (Emptiness)

From Wikipedia:

Aristotle's four causes are a way to answer "why" questions about something that exists or changes in nature: 

• Material cause: The material from which something is made
• Formal cause: The structure or design of something
• Efficient cause: The primary starting point for change or rest
• Final cause: The end or goal of something

Aristotle believed that these four causes could be used to analyze both artificial and natural things. For example, a table's causes are: 

• Material: Made of wood
Formal: Designed with four legs of equal length
Efficient: Made by a carpenter
Final: Intended to support objects

Aristotle believed that his four causes were a general analytical scheme that could be applied to a wide range of situations. He believed that his predecessors lacked a complete understanding of causality and that their investigations were not entirely successful.

Responding to Marie-Louise von Franz's Concerns

...and Emptiness Matters as an explanation for Karl Marx's Commodity Fetishism under the "System of Capitalism" (consumer blindness to the commodities "efficient cause" and making it the focus).