Dependent Co-Arising
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Meditation, philosophy, lucid dreaming
You are prior to the idea 'I am'. Camp yourself there, prior to the words 'I am'.
—Nisargadatta
You are prior to the idea 'I am'. Camp yourself there, prior to the words 'I am'.
—Nisargadatta
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![There are moral dangers here. To take what might seem an “objective” economic approach to the origins of the world economy would be to treat the behavior of early European explorers, merchants, and conquerors as if they were simply rational responses to opportunities―as if this were just what anyone would have done in the same situation. This is what the use of equations [in economics] so often does: make it seem perfectly natural to assume that, if the price of silver in China is twice that of what it is in Seville, and inhabitants of Seville are capable of getting their hands on large quantities of silver and transporting it to China, then clearly they will, even if doing so requires the destruction of entire civilizations. . . . In fact, history makes it quite clear that this is not the case. Any number of civilizations have probably been in a position to wreak havoc on the scale that the European powers did in the 16th and 17th centuries, . . . but almost none actually did so.
― David Graeber (in Debt: The First 5,000 Years)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tqlqtnaocssoxvmsxethedjn/bafkreictu2kpcugq6g3tnc6lzy7bqdeg7moq7ynrqtdizracf2u5wv3kbu@jpeg)
Immorality often arises from unexamined and deeply flawed assumptions that are held up as "conventional knowledge" (or, worse, as "wisdom"):
Gate gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha
The vow creating a path that isn't a path for beings who aren't beings.
— Red Pine
The vow creating a path that isn't a path for beings who aren't beings.
— Red Pine
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Gate gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha
The vow creating a path that isn't a path for beings who aren't beings.
— Red Pine
The vow creating a path that isn't a path for beings who aren't beings.
— Red Pine
"If you can’t stand up for what’s good and right, and you’re too scared, you need to pass on the baton. Pass the torch. Put down the Dharma-teacher role and let other people who are ready and willing take it up."
"Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having." – The Dalai Lama
open.substack.com/pub/buddhist...
open.substack.com/pub/buddhist...
Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?
Dharma without courage becomes complicity
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"If you can’t stand up for what’s good and right, and you’re too scared, you need to pass on the baton. Pass the torch. Put down the Dharma-teacher role and let other people who are ready and willing take it up."
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I am extremely skeptical that anything we are building now is even close to SuperIntelligence. That's not the issue as this tech gets shoved down our throats.
The real problem facing us is not getting AI “right” but getting human’s wrong.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-real-d...
The real problem facing us is not getting AI “right” but getting human’s wrong.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-real-d...
The Real Danger of AI
No, it's not Skynet launching all the nuclear weapons.
www.everymansuniverse.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I am extremely skeptical that anything we are building now is even close to SuperIntelligence. That's not the issue as this tech gets shoved down our throats.
The real problem facing us is not getting AI “right” but getting human’s wrong.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-real-d...
The real problem facing us is not getting AI “right” but getting human’s wrong.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/the-real-d...
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The wealthy have stolen so much wealth and rigged the system so far that our economy is on the verge of collapse. They’re pushing fascism and dismantling democracy to get at what little remains.
We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...
We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...
The Game They Make Us Play: Capitalism as a Ticking Time-Bomb
We're standing at the end of a disastrous cycle that has played out time and time again.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The wealthy have stolen so much wealth and rigged the system so far that our economy is on the verge of collapse. They’re pushing fascism and dismantling democracy to get at what little remains.
We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...
We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Meditation begins now, right here. It can't begin someplace else or at some other time.... Nobody can bring awareness to your life but you.
― Steve Hagen (in Meditation Now or Never)
― Steve Hagen (in Meditation Now or Never)
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Meditation begins now, right here. It can't begin someplace else or at some other time.... Nobody can bring awareness to your life but you.
― Steve Hagen (in Meditation Now or Never)
― Steve Hagen (in Meditation Now or Never)
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Leave your attention free of dualistic action, don’t affirm or deny, but remain in uncontrived effortlessness, don’t accept or reject.The awakened state is to dwell undistractedly in that!
~ Guru Rinpoche
~ Guru Rinpoche
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Leave your attention free of dualistic action, don’t affirm or deny, but remain in uncontrived effortlessness, don’t accept or reject.The awakened state is to dwell undistractedly in that!
~ Guru Rinpoche
~ Guru Rinpoche
Such is the Buddhist goal: to experience that which cannot die because it was never born.
— David Loy (in Lack & Transcendence)
— David Loy (in Lack & Transcendence)
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Such is the Buddhist goal: to experience that which cannot die because it was never born.
— David Loy (in Lack & Transcendence)
— David Loy (in Lack & Transcendence)
This is interesting but comes with a big caveat: most (all?) of the data on which the cited study is based are apparently from Western participants. It's therefore a stretch to say that the study captures "human brain development." Context and nuance matter.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is interesting but comes with a big caveat: most (all?) of the data on which the cited study is based are apparently from Western participants. It's therefore a stretch to say that the study captures "human brain development." Context and nuance matter.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up.
The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up.
The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
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The essence is like the original sun shining: naturally radiant and unformed.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The essence is like the original sun shining: naturally radiant and unformed.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
"[I]n a world shaped by conflict and fear, perhaps no vow, no matter how sacred, is entirely safe from the pull of politics."
Yes, when religion is used as an instrument for attaining power and influence, bigotry and ill-will inevitably follow.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Yes, when religion is used as an instrument for attaining power and influence, bigotry and ill-will inevitably follow.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"[I]n a world shaped by conflict and fear, perhaps no vow, no matter how sacred, is entirely safe from the pull of politics."
Yes, when religion is used as an instrument for attaining power and influence, bigotry and ill-will inevitably follow.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Yes, when religion is used as an instrument for attaining power and influence, bigotry and ill-will inevitably follow.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
When the thought "I'm losing my mind" (or any other thought) bubbles up, and I go look for that in which the thought supposedly appears ("the mind"), I invariably come up empty. It's comforting to know that a mind that cannot be found cannot be lost.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When the thought "I'm losing my mind" (or any other thought) bubbles up, and I go look for that in which the thought supposedly appears ("the mind"), I invariably come up empty. It's comforting to know that a mind that cannot be found cannot be lost.
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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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I could die at any moment.
Nothing I'm worried about now will matter to me then.
Better learn to love before I disappear.
Nothing I'm worried about now will matter to me then.
Better learn to love before I disappear.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I could die at any moment.
Nothing I'm worried about now will matter to me then.
Better learn to love before I disappear.
Nothing I'm worried about now will matter to me then.
Better learn to love before I disappear.
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Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. Don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experiencer ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. Don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experiencer ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness.
At the core, below any superficial language, beneath any gender, race, color, or creed...we are all the same.... When you go to sleep, you're actually going to meet me―and every other sentient being on this planet―at this deepest possible level.
― Andrew Holecek (in Dream Yoga)
― Andrew Holecek (in Dream Yoga)
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
At the core, below any superficial language, beneath any gender, race, color, or creed...we are all the same.... When you go to sleep, you're actually going to meet me―and every other sentient being on this planet―at this deepest possible level.
― Andrew Holecek (in Dream Yoga)
― Andrew Holecek (in Dream Yoga)
Given that governments across the world are now being taken over by the rich and powerful, not because of inherent aptitude or interest in the public good but because of blatant self-interest and self-dealing, sortition (the appointment of public officials by lottery) looks increasingly attractive.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Given that governments across the world are now being taken over by the rich and powerful, not because of inherent aptitude or interest in the public good but because of blatant self-interest and self-dealing, sortition (the appointment of public officials by lottery) looks increasingly attractive.
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If one can abandon the view of an independent and fixed self, one can certainly abandon ideologies that necessitate the suffering of others.
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If one can abandon the view of an independent and fixed self, one can certainly abandon ideologies that necessitate the suffering of others.
A personal contemplative practice, no matter how intense or deep, is ever-evolving and serendipitous—even an apparent plateau offers new views and possible new directions.
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A personal contemplative practice, no matter how intense or deep, is ever-evolving and serendipitous—even an apparent plateau offers new views and possible new directions.
Mind is a forerunner of all actions.
If a person speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows them like the cart that follows the ox.
If a person speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
―The Dhammapada
If a person speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows them like the cart that follows the ox.
If a person speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
―The Dhammapada
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Mind is a forerunner of all actions.
If a person speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows them like the cart that follows the ox.
If a person speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
―The Dhammapada
If a person speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows them like the cart that follows the ox.
If a person speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
―The Dhammapada
Birth and death are fully intertwined. One begets the other.
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Birth and death are fully intertwined. One begets the other.
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Sun in an Empty Room - 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sun in an Empty Room - 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40480
The fact that according to the Big Bang Theory, all matter of the known universe was once contained in an infinitely small space becomes somewhat less mind-boggling when one becomes familiar with the insight from modern physics that matter is mostly (entirely?) empty space.
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The fact that according to the Big Bang Theory, all matter of the known universe was once contained in an infinitely small space becomes somewhat less mind-boggling when one becomes familiar with the insight from modern physics that matter is mostly (entirely?) empty space.