Huangbo Xiyun: All of which are harmful and not at all the way to supreme knowledge. Plus: are there any protections from the moderation team from obviously disturbed users? Sooner or later, fact that the mods turn a blind eye to abuse in the forum is going to have real world consequences.

Mind is like the void in which there is no confusion or evil, as when the sun wheels through it shining upon the four corners of the world. For, when the sun rises and illuminates the whole earth, the void gains not in brilliance; and, when the sun sets, the void does not darken. The phenomena of light and dark alternate with each other, but the nature of the void remains unchanged. So it is with the Mind of the Buddha and of sentient beings.

If you look upon the Buddha as presenting a pure, bright or Enlightened appearance, or upon sentient beings as presenting a foul, dark or mortal-seeming appearance, these conceptions resulting from attachment to form will keep you from supreme knowledge, even after the passing of as many aeons as there are sands in the Ganges. There is only the One Mind and not a particle of anything else on which to lay hold, for this Mind is the Buddha. If you students of the Way do not awake to this Mind substance, you will overlay Mind with conceptual thought, you will seek the Buddha outside yourselves, and you will remain attached to forms, pious practices and so on, all of which are harmful and not at all the way to supreme knowledge.

Huangbo Xiyun, On the Transmission of Mind

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/u/FlameBlood: 0 points· 35 minutes ago

Honestly... die of cancer.

Better yet, kill yourself. Put a gun to your skull and pull the trigger. Make yourself an legend.

I'd love to hear of your death.

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Wandering Ronin commentary: This right here is what it all comes down to when we basically have an unmoderated forum that doesn't protect its users from harassment and abuse. The focus is apparently more on removing shitposts than in regulating the forum by actually banning mentally-disturbed people that conduct themselves in this manner. Bear in mind that this is the second time that another user has conducted themselves in this way towards me, and the first time went without even a temporary ban.

This user 'FlameBlood' has fixated dangerously on me, and targeted and harassed me for nearly two weeks now. Now the situation has escalated further and the user has told me four or five times in the same thread to commit suicide. Is this Zen discussion and debate, or merely an undiagnosed psychiatric disorder that is being left unchecked and allowed to run rampant in the forum? Is this a place that you are proud to support if this is what is allowed to happen in here? What is your say on the matter?

Submitted June 16, 2019 at 10:09PM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2MSqNA1