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Peace begins when you stop trying to control what was never yours to control. Let what comes, come. Let what stays, stay. Let what leaves, leave. You can love deeply without clinging, and care without losing yourself. Sometimes, the greatest freedom is learning to let life unfold without fighting every change.

#Buddhism #Mindfulness #InnerPeace

Peace begins when you stop trying to control what was never yours to control. Let what comes, come. Let what stays, stay. Let what leaves, leave. You can love deeply without clinging, and care without losing yourself. Sometimes, the greatest freedom is learning to let life unfold without fighting every change.

#Buddhism #Mindfulness #InnerPeace

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#SakYant #SakYant #Tattoo #SakYant #buddhism #animism

Few are the people
who reach the Far Shore.
These others
simply scurry along
this shore.

But those who practice Dhamma
in line with the well-taught Dhamma,
will cross over the realm of Death
so hard to transcend.
~Dhammapada 85-6

#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #PaliCanon #suttas #sutta

"By the #Dharma is meant the heart, for there is no Dharma apart from the heart.
"

– Huangbo Xiyun

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Iti 41 Paññāparihīnasutta: Deprived of Wisdom

“Those beings are thoroughly deprived who are deprived of noble wisdom.…”

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Moment to moment. #buddhism #moments #travel #life #wanderbeast https://youtube.com/shorts/m2qAf2eA_Rg

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Moment to moment. #buddhism #moments #travel #life #wanderbeast https://youtube.com/shorts/m2qAf2eA_Rg

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"When there is no self, there is no other. What conflict remains?"

– Bankei

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bankei

Suffering the mind
Nirvana waits patiently
Anxious thoughts push on

Frenetic seeking ensues
Suffering intensifies

#tanka
#buddhism
#dailyhaikuprompt

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”

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If we don't critically analyze things, we become lost in a world of make-believe that has very little correspondence with reality. Shantideva compares self-obsession and its attendant conflicting emotions to a demon:

"All the harm with which this world is rife, All fear and suffering that there is, Clinging to the "I" has caused it!
What am I to do with this great demon?!?"

The Buddhist definition of a
demon is something harmful.

"The Practice of LoJong"
–Traleg Kyabgon

#Lojong
#Buddhism

Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
By Agence France-Press in Bangkok

Phra Wachirayan Wi arrested alongside woman he was filmed having sex with in latest scandal to hit country’s clergy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/11/thai-police-arrest-buddhist-abbot-suspicion-embezzling

#Thailand #AsiaPacific #Religion #Worldnews #Buddhism #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePressinBangkok

Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
By Agence France-Press in Bangkok

Phra Wachirayan Wi arrested alongside woman he was filmed having sex with in latest scandal to hit country’s clergy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/11/thai-police-arrest-buddhist-abbot-suspicion-embezzling

#Thailand #AsiaPacific #Religion #Worldnews #Buddhism #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePressinBangkok

Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
By Agence France-Press in Bangkok

Phra Wachirayan Wi arrested alongside woman he was filmed having sex with in latest scandal to hit country’s clergy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/11/thai-police-arrest-buddhist-abbot-suspicion-embezzling

#Thailand #AsiaPacific #Religion #Worldnews #Buddhism #TheGuardian #AgenceFrancePressinBangkok

Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/11/thai-police-arrest-buddhist-abbot-suspicion-embezzling #Thailand #AsiaPacific #Religion #WorldNews #Buddhism

All Buddhas in the past,
the Buddhas of the future,
and the Buddha at present—

#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #sutta

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

Vasudhara
Nepal, 13th century
#art #nepal #buddhism

Vasudhara
Nepal, 13th century
#art #nepal #buddhism

Vasudhara
Nepal, 13th century
#art #nepal #buddhism

Vasudhara
Nepal, 13th century
#art #nepal #buddhism

Vasudhara
Nepal, 13th century
#art #nepal #buddhism

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

DN 30 From… Lakkhana Sutta: The Marks of a Great Man

“He has great wisdom, widespread wisdom, joyful wisdom, fast wisdom, sharp wisdom, and penetrating wisdom.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

DN 30 From… Lakkhana Sutta: The Marks of a Great Man

“He has great wisdom, widespread wisdom, joyful wisdom, fast wisdom, sharp wisdom, and penetrating wisdom.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

DN 30 From… Lakkhana Sutta: The Marks of a Great Man

“He has great wisdom, widespread wisdom, joyful wisdom, fast wisdom, sharp wisdom, and penetrating wisdom.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

DN 30 From… Lakkhana Sutta: The Marks of a Great Man

“He has great wisdom, widespread wisdom, joyful wisdom, fast wisdom, sharp wisdom, and penetrating wisdom.…”

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

DN 30 From… Lakkhana Sutta: The Marks of a Great Man

“He has great wisdom, widespread wisdom, joyful wisdom, fast wisdom, sharp wisdom, and penetrating wisdom.…”

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When a foolish, incompetent bad person acts wrongly toward two people, they keep themselves broken and damaged. They ...

#Buddhism #Dhamma #Theravada #parents

Mindfulness is the path to the Deathless,
Heedlessness is the path to death.
The mindful never die,
the heedless are as if dead already.
~Dhammapada 21

#Buddhism #Theravada #mindfulness #mindful #sutta

Oren Jay Sofer has updated his recommended reading lists!

#Meditation #Mindfulness #Buddhism #NVC : https://www.orenjaysofer.com/reading-list

#Qigong #Movement #Trauma : https://www.orenjaysofer.com/qigong

Notably, a few excellent recommendations are missing from the current list, namely:

- Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson
- Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness (https://thefearlessheart.org/store/spinning/) by Miki Kashtan
- Reweaving Our Human Fabric (https://thefearlessheart.org/store/reweaving-our-human-fabric/) by Miki Kashtan

Also notably, the default links are mostly to #Amazon, so for anyone who plans on buying anything from the list, you may want to search for the #book or #books from an #ethical #bookseller yourself.

#OrenJaySofer #RickHanson #HardwiringHappiness #Happiness #NonviolentCommunication #MikiKashtan #Reading #ReadingList #ReadingLists #RecommendedReading #chikung #healing #embodiment #somatics #dharma #dhamma #bookstodon

BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎

AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.

It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.

AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.

Then there is the fear of losing #control

Most people understand a hammer.

AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.

That uncertainty invites #projection

But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.

Much of human #activity was already formulaic.

#writing

#administration

#advertising

#opinion

Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .

When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.

The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.

AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.

It can help.

It can deceive.

It can save time.

It can waste resources.

It can widen access.

It can concentrate power.

It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.

The question is not whether it is pure.

Nothing in this world is.

The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.

A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.

It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.

#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

ORDINARY GRACE 💎

Brunch was good today.

It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.

Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.

Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.

Probably nothing.

Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.

Be good, get rewarded.

Work hard, earn the prize.

But this does not feel like a prize.

It feels like life simply giving itself.

A clean house.

A delicious hamburger.

A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.

Breath moving through my body.

Peter.

Two small white #pups.

A #tranquil afternoon.

Nothing dramatic.

Nothing earned.

Just ordinary #grace.

Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.

Perhaps it is this.

Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...

#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI

Hi, I'm Robin. I’m a New Zealander by birth and Tasmanian by choice. Between New Zealand and Tasmania, I've lived in the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and mainland Australia.

I was medically retired after a major stroke years ago. I now live quietly in Hobart with my partner Peter and our two small white balls of fluff, Billy and Phryne.

My days include breathwork, regular fasting, writing, and A Course in Miracles. I rarely need to sit down and read the Course now. AI helps me bring its lessons directly into daily life and conversation.

For me, AI plus ACIM has been a cosmic speed-up. It has helped me move through difficult concepts, question my own interpretations, and bring the Course out of the book and into actual practice. If you are a Course student who still finds some of it impenetrable, adding AI to the mix may be worth exploring. It changed everything for me.

These practices are steadily increasing my peace and reducing my tolerance for bullshit.

I write about ordinary life, human behaviour, AI, ageing, disability, stillness, and whatever remains after the performance ends.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #US #UK #India #Mexico #Europe #Asia #Australia

PAIN HAS A CALENDAR. 💎

There is only now.

That is not an idea to me anymore.

Pain taught me.

Future pain is unbearable.
Remembered pain is unbearable.
The mind can take one moment of pain and stretch it across the years.

But pain now is different.

Pain now can be breathed through.
Pain now can be met.
Pain now is only what it is.

Suffering begins when I leave the present and enter the story of what happened before, or what may happen next.

So I breathe.

The breath brings me back.

Not to a better future.
Not to a corrected past.
Just here.

Where I remember.

This body is temporary.
This life is temporary.
This pain is temporary.

Not as an argument.
Not to convince myself.

To remember.

I am not this body.
I am not Robin.
I am not the story of what happened to him.

I am not the author of myself.

That is the relief.

I do not have to make reality, hold it together, or know what comes next.

I am created.
I am held.
I am the Holy Son of God Himself.

That remembrance is enough to undo the world I made.

The Course calls this Atonement.

Not punishment.
Not payment.
Not the repair of something broken.

The remembrance of what has always been true.

And in that remembrance, I breathe deeply.

I become gentle.

I smile at a stranger in the street and watch them smile back.

Nothing has to be forced.

The past is not here.
The future is not here.
This body will pass.

But what I am does not pass.

I am that I am.

#Pain #Future #story #temporary #body #author #Suffering #payment #gentle #kindness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

DOMESTIC BLISS
BEGINS AT SIX AM 💎

I wake around 5:30 and rise dead on 6:00.

Not because I am enthusiastic.

Because apparently I am the opening staff.

First, stabilisation.

That requires socks and shoes.

Then I wash my face and beard, comb my hair, and attempt to look like someone qualified to operate a body.

First port of call: the office, to turn on the gas fire.

Then into the main lounge to turn on the heat at that end of the house.

The building is slowly being informed that another day has begun.

Next, the kitchen lights.

Food for the pups.

Breakfast things laid out for us.

Nobody has asked for any of this yet, which is one of the reasons I enjoy it.

Then I have a few minutes to sit in the office, check my socials, inspect the state of civilisation, and usually confirm that it remains unstable.

After that, I go back into the bedroom and wake the gang.

By then the house is warming up, the dogs are nearly fed, breakfast is laid out, the first cup of tea is on its way, and I have already had half an hour entirely to myself.

I love that first half hour.

It is quiet.

It is useful.

And for thirty minutes, I am clearly the most organised person in the building.

#building #person #dogs #breakfast #DOMESTIC #shoes #wash #body #face #social #office #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

Monkey baby Alfie's first time tasting the mango.

https://youtu.be/dB_PsFfB32c?si=o6AYwluFW8dzFUep

#Slow #peaceful #life #Monkey #baby #mango #youtube #wildlife #animals #zoo #forest #fruit #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

THE JOY OF BEING
AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎

I have been stripped of almost everything.

Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.

And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.

I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.

I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.

I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.

And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.

Abundant health.

Abundant wealth.

Fairly continuous peace of mind.

And ease of practice.

The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.

Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.

That is the great privilege of being an old man.

You get to become a monk again.

There is time.

There is space.

There is less interference.

Old age is usually presented as decline.

Pain.

Illness.

Loss.

A slow shutting down.

But at 70, that has not been my experience.

It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.

The world asks less of me now.

And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.

I can reset.

I can “choose once again.”

I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.

Nothing is missing.

Nothing needs to be acquired.

“I need do nothing.”

The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.

It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.

#FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI