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Buddha passes away peacefully in the backwater town of Kusinara. Ananda & the unenlightened are very distressed, Buddha emphasizes to remember the dhamma bc thats the real teacher
Parinibbana - death of the enlightened one, "as a flame that goes out with the wind goes to rest and cannot be defined"
sa-upadi-sesa: achievement of Nibanna, maintains residual fuel for fires of hatred, ignorance & craving (lost at death)

"Its a Buddhist heresy that Arahants cease to exist" by whose standard?

Was the Buddha poisoned ?!

Feminine ass Buddha subtly hinting "I could live forever if u wanted me to" & the chad Ananda straight faces

Selfishness, greed & ambition were rampant in the later years of the Buddha's life

Ajatasattu's comical attempts to kill the Buddha

Old buddha, king pasenedi dies a sad death

Importance & continuity of the Sangha(community)

If Egypt "didn't initially participate in the Acial Age" then isn't the whole premise of this globe spanning ideology pretty fucking fred bear

Hesitant acceptance of women

Egotistic golden rule - a person who loves the self, should not harm the self of others

Spreading of the dhamma; going to different cities and crowds join the monkhood or laity, kings & merchants donate pleasure parks; Buddha goes back home & enlightens most of his family aside from his ex wife (apparently her brother is a Judas); different preachings for laymen & monks bc going forth is required for true yoga & meditation which is required for true understanding of the 4 truths

Buddha's teachings are spreading, Yasa the merchant boy brought a ton of his upper caste friends to be enlightened (teaching from the Buddha immediately enlightens) and they are told to go out & spread the word.
Anatman : there is no self, no singular unchanging identifiable entity. All is fluid & changing

The chain = desire leading to suffering loop

Buddha teaching his 5 buddies in Varanasi; real granular talk about the dhamma, chain of dependent causation

Brahma convinced Buddha to spread his Dhamma; first he will go to his old ascetic buddies in Varanasi who abandoned him

Buddha's thoughts personified as Brahma is an interesting idea

Gotama has achieved Nibbana! He just needed to abandon asceticism & embrace compassion & mindfulness; all while embracing the 4 truths & following the 8 paths. The chapter dives into accounts from the Pali Canon of the epiphany

Building theology; desire leads to need for change; medication is helping

GoAT's making his own doctrine. He calls it the middle path, for it lying between extreme asceticism & extreme indulgence. It so far features mindfulness of actions and their causes

Ch 2 recap - learning indian religions & finding out they dont work for him