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"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

– Thich Thien-An

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Thien-An #ThichThien-An

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Dhp 282 from… Maggavagga: The Path

“Wisdom springs from meditation…”

Read the sutta
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#meditation #wisdom #Dhammapada #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

Only Genuine Compassion Will Do | Lion’s Roar
https://www.lionsroar.com/only-genuine-compassion-will-do/

#buddhism #buddhist #meditation #vajrayana #HHDL

Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...

#Buddhism #generosity #giving #joy

Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...

#Buddhism #generosity #giving #joy

Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...

#Buddhism #generosity #giving #joy

Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...

#Buddhism #generosity #giving #joy

Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...

#Buddhism #generosity #giving #joy

Life is short and there are so many demands on us, so it's important to make the most of our opportunities while we can. Godrakpa, the hermit of Go Cliffs, echoes this sentiment,

"In degenerate times there's no serenity.

Seeing there's no time to stay long,
I put aside the words and practiced the meaning.

I could die now and have no regrets."

The Practice of Lojong
– Traleg Kyabgon

#Lojong
#Buddhism

"The silence between thoughts is where the Way dwells, not in the words themselves, but in their vanishing."

– Nansen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Nansen

Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/

Are you sure you know what reality is?

#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation

Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/

Are you sure you know what reality is?

#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation

Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/

Are you sure you know what reality is?

#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation

Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/

Are you sure you know what reality is?

#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation

Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/

Are you sure you know what reality is?

#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 9.25 Paññāsutta: Consolidated by Wisdom

“And how is a mendicant’s mind well consolidated with wisdom? …”

Read the sutta
📖 https://daily.readingfaithfully.org/an-9-25-pannasutta-consolidated-by-wisdom-2/?=MDS

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#delusion #greed #hate #wisdom #AnguttaraNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #ZenBuddhism

"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #ZenBuddhism

"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #ZenBuddhism

"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #ZenBuddhism

"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism #ZenBuddhism

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

My article SAK YANT: MAGICK WRITTEN ON THE SKIN: The Sacred Rules, Lineages & Spiritual Discipline Behind Thailand’s Living Tattoo Tradition is out now in New Dawn Magazine 218 (Sept-Oct 2026). Grab your copy today 🙏🔥🙏

https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/product/new-dawn-218

#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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#wisdom #Itivuttaka #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

Why so many Australians missing in Nepal-Tibet disaster are pilgrims
By Will Jackson

Most of the dozens of Australians missing after the flash flood that struck the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and Tibet were pilgrims to a spiritually important mountain known as Kailash.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/why-so-many-missing-in-nepal-and-tibet-are-pilgrims/107086580

#DisastersandHazards #Religion #Floods #Hinduism #Buddhism #WillJackson

Thank you to to volunteers at the Spokane Buddhist Temple who distributed food on Friday to people displaced by the wildfires!

#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #hunger #wildfire #spokane #climate #food

The brick structures at Sāvatthī were mostly built during the Mauryan, Kushan, and Guptan periods. So, Buddha never actually set foot in the Mulagandhakuti, which is just a shrine. But, he did probably stay in a mud/thatch/wood hut near there during rains retreats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetavana

#buddhism #earlybuddhism #maurya #gupta #india #bharat #bharata #jambudipa #history #jetavana #savatthi #sravasti #shravasti

Spokane Buddhist Temple has partnered with local charities and restaurants to provide food to people displaced by the wildfire. Food distribution will take place tomorrow (Aug 7) at the temple, 1-4pm. Prepared meals, fresh produce, salads, and vegetarian options will be available.
Spokane United We Stand/The Family Guide is taking donations to cover costs that aren't being donated for this event.
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #hunger #spokane #wildfire

Prince Vijaya's (the first Siṅhalese king's) ancestry came from Vaṅga and Kalinga (present-day Bangla/Bengal and Odisha). But, the Siṅhalese apparently feel no desire or duty to reintegrate with or protect the Theravāda communities near Kolkata, Chittagong, etc. Why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Vijaya

#bangla #bengal #westbengal #bangladesh #odisha #sinhala #srilanka #sinhalese #kolkata #chittagong #chattogram #barua #theravada #buddhism #ancestry #history #family

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!COmputer & Programming
#компьютер, #компьютеры, #ЭВМ, ремонт компьютеров, компьютерная техника, железо, #программы, #настройка, #диагностика, операционные системы, игровые приставки, аппаратные средства, computer, #computers, computers, computer repair, computer equipment, #hardware, #programs, #setup, #diagnostics, operating systems, game consoles, #hardware, #комп'ютер, #комп'ютери, #ЕОМ, ремонт комп'ютерів, комп'ютерна техніка, #залізо, #програми, #налаштування, діагностика, операційні системи, ігрові приставки, апаратні засоби ремонт телевизоров, #мониторы
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_Фонд редких книг
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Энергетика и целительство
Energy and healing, Енергетика та цілительство
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Эзотерическая рунология
Esoteric runology, Езотерична рунологія
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Шаманизм, Шаманізм, shamanism
#Шаманизм, #Шаманізм, #shamanism
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Фэн - шуй
Фен Шуй, Feng Shui
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Тантрическая традиция, Tantric tradition
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Медитации и транс, Meditation and trance
#Медитации и #транс, #Meditation and #trance
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Магия, Magic
#Магия, #Magic
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Каббала и Тора, Kabbalah and Torah
#Каббала и #Тора, #Kabbalah and #Torah
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Йога, Yoga
#Йога, #Yoga
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Иудаизм, Judaism
#Иудаизм, #Judaism
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Индуизм, Hinduism
#Индуизм, #Hinduism
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веды, Veda
#веды, #Veda
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suteres, koans
#suteres, #koans
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esoteric эзотерика мистика мистицизм оккультизм
#esoteric #эзотерика #мистика #мистицизм #оккультизм
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RELIGION
религия секты учения
#RELIGION
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_Цигун, qigong Qi Books
#Цигун, #qigong #Qi Books
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_буддизм, Buddhism
#буддизм, #Buddhism
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/349

_Дзен, zen
#Дзен, #zen
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_Даосизм
Taoism
#Даосизм
#Taoism
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!Electronical-Computer-Mechanical
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!COmputer & Programming
#компьютер, #компьютеры, #ЭВМ, ремонт компьютеров, компьютерная техника, железо, #программы, #настройка, #диагностика, операционные системы, игровые приставки, аппаратные средства, computer, #computers, computers, computer repair, computer equipment, #hardware, #programs, #setup, #diagnostics, operating systems, game consoles, #hardware, #комп'ютер, #комп'ютери, #ЕОМ, ремонт комп'ютерів, комп'ютерна техніка, #залізо, #програми, #налаштування, діагностика, операційні системи, ігрові приставки, апаратні засоби ремонт телевизоров, #мониторы
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/372

_Фонд редких книг
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/371

Энергетика и целительство
Energy and healing, Енергетика та цілительство
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/370

Эзотерическая рунология
Esoteric runology, Езотерична рунологія
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/369

Шаманизм, Шаманізм, shamanism
#Шаманизм, #Шаманізм, #shamanism
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/368

Фэн - шуй
Фен Шуй, Feng Shui
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/367

Тантрическая традиция, Tantric tradition
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/365

Медитации и транс, Meditation and trance
#Медитации и #транс, #Meditation and #trance
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/364

Магия, Magic
#Магия, #Magic
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/363

Каббала и Тора, Kabbalah and Torah
#Каббала и #Тора, #Kabbalah and #Torah
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/362

Йога, Yoga
#Йога, #Yoga
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/361

Иудаизм, Judaism
#Иудаизм, #Judaism
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/360

Индуизм, Hinduism
#Индуизм, #Hinduism
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/358

веды, Veda
#веды, #Veda
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/356

suteres, koans
#suteres, #koans
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/355

esoteric эзотерика мистика мистицизм оккультизм
#esoteric #эзотерика #мистика #мистицизм #оккультизм
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/353

RELIGION
религия секты учения
#RELIGION
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/352

_Цигун, qigong Qi Books
#Цигун, #qigong #Qi Books
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/351

_буддизм, Buddhism
#буддизм, #Buddhism
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/349

_Дзен, zen
#Дзен, #zen
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/348

_Даосизм
Taoism
#Даосизм
#Taoism
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The Radical Buddhist Project is a dual-purpose scholarly resource: a comprehensive text archive and a contextual encyclopedia. It is dedicated to recovering, preserving, and analyzing the historical intersections of Buddhist doctrine with left-wing political philosophies, such as socialism and anarchism, and Buddhist involvement in anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and radical social justice movements
#buddhism #buddhist #marxism #socialism #anarchism #engagedbuddhism
https://radicalbuddhism.net/wiki/Main_Page

Yesterday the Midwest Buddhist Temple's Homeless Project made and distributed 350 sandwich bags to unhoused neighbours in Chicago.

#buddhism #buddhist #engagedbuddhism #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #unhoused #foodinsecurity #hunger #chicago

Marco Rubio: Time for civilization to fight the darkness

https://philosophersforchange.org/2026/07/26/marco-rubio-time-for-civilization-to-fight-the-darkness/

We've been taught that stillness means not moving.

But the Buddha walked for forty-nine days after his awakening. Maybe wisdom needs legs.

How does your body find its own way to stillness?

Read the full story

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/running-toward-stillness-315ccaf8e421

#meditationpractice #embodiedwisdom #movementmeditation
#buddhism #contemplativepractice #spiritualjourney
#mindfulness #runningmeditation #walkingmeditation

COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False

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Via Negativa and Via Positiva in COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False

This paper presents a COFE-CYEM reflection on the relationship between Via Negativa and Via Positiva.

While it affirms the historic Christian faith centred on Christ, Scripture, and the gospel, several expressions — including “Fourth Truth”, “singular Reality”, “Melchizedek Priesthood”, and the various interpretive terms — are distinctively used within COFE-CYEM.

They are offered as explanatory language within this framework rather than as part of the historic Christian creeds or universally accepted theological vocabulary.

The Way

Even though the Via Negativa essentially rejects theological understanding in and of itself as a path to God, some have sought to make it into an intellectual exercise, by describing God only in terms of what God is not.

One problem noted with this approach is that there seems to be no fixed basis on deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is understood as an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, and universally, the perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

Apophatic theology is often accused of being a version of atheism or agnosticism, since it cannot truly say that God exists.

This cannot be said of COFE-CYEM theology.

We state very clearly that once Via Negativa is reached through the Fourth Truth, then Via Positiva can be truly experienced and truly knowing God by not knowing the false.

This is one of the main functions and purposes of our own built in system CC7 DS.

Please also see the link below –

The Fourth Truth Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing through Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing.

This is the heart of the COFE-CYEM way.

The Via Negativa is not an end in itself, nor is it a mere intellectual negation.

It is the necessary purification that prepares the soul for the full, joyful beholding of God in the Via Positiva. The two ways are not opposed but complementary movements within the singular Reality.

The Via Negativa clears away every “second” so that the Via Positiva can shine with clarity.

The result is the Fourth Truth Transcendence — the soul resting in the living Christ, knowing God by not knowing the false.

The Problem with Purely Intellectual Apophaticism

Some approaches to the Via Negativa have turned it into an intellectual exercise, endlessly describing God by what He is not. While this can guard against idolatry, it often leaves the soul in a barren negation without a positive ground.

There seems to be no fixed basis for deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is reduced to an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, or a universal perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

This can slide into a form of agnosticism or practical atheism, where God becomes so unknowable that He is effectively absent.

COFE-CYEM rejects this barren intellectualism. The Via Negativa is not an end but a means. It is the way of releasing every false image, every dualistic concept, every mental idol so that the soul may rest in the simple presence of the living God.

It is not the denial of God but the denial of every “second” that would stand between the soul and God. The Via Negativa is the practical discipline of Cofemplation: gently releasing every thought that implies separation until only the singular Reality remains.

The Fourth Truth as the Ground of True Apophatic Practice

In COFE-CYEM, the Via Negativa is grounded in the Fourth Truth: there has never been a second. This gives the way of unknowing a clear and fixed basis.

The soul does not wander in endless negation but releases every imagined separation, every dualistic construct, every false self so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.

The Via Negativa is the recognition that God is not ultimately known through concepts but through loving surrender. It is the way through the cloud of unknowing into the clear light of the singular Reality.

The Fourth Truth protects the Via Negativa from sliding into agnosticism or atheism. We state very clearly that God is, that Christ is the singular Life, and that the believer is already hidden with Christ in God.

The Via Negativa is not the denial of God but the denial of every false idea about God. It is the way of not knowing the false so that we may truly know the True.

The Fulfilment in Via Positiva

Once the ground is cleared through the Via Negativa, the Via Positiva can be truly experienced. The soul that has released every “second” can now behold the self-revelation of God in Christ with clarity and joy.

The Via Positiva is the celebration of the living God who makes Himself known in love.

It beholds Christ as the exact representation of the Father, Scripture as the living Word, creation as held within the one Life, and the indwelling Holy Spirit as the power of an endless life.

In the Fourth Truth, the Via Positiva is not opposed to the Via Negativa but its fulfilment.

The soul that has let go of every false image can now receive the true Image — Christ — without distortion. The Via Positiva is the joyful knowing of God by not knowing the false.

It is the soul seeing God not from a separate self in a body looking toward Him outside of you, but seeing your separate self in a body as God sees you from inside of Him, looking toward you and to who you falsely think you are in duality. God knows this to be a man-made idol illusion from the Fall and the first Adam.

The second Adam (Christ) came into duality to lead us back to our true self in non-duality with God.

The Practical Outworking in Daily Life

In daily life, the interplay of Via Negativa and Via Positiva becomes the rhythm of Cofemplation. When dualistic thoughts arise — fear, judgment, striving, separation — the Via Negativa gently releases them.

When the beauty of Christ appears — in Scripture, in creation, in the face of another — the Via Positiva receives it with joy. The soul moves between release and beholding, unknowing and knowing, until it rests in the singular Reality.

This is the way the believer lives in the world but not of it. Duality is seen for what it is, yet the believer engages the world from the place of union. The body is not denied but offered. The mind is not emptied but renewed.

The will is not crushed but surrendered in love. The believer serves the living God from the place of unclouded fellowship, seeing all things in Christ and all things held within the singular Reality.

Cofemplation

The Via Negativa and the Via Positiva are not opposing paths but complementary movements within the singular Reality. Only through stripping away all the falsity of duality and the false man-made mind idols and the dualistic thinking about who and what God is, can we then truly rest in who and what God truly is.

Only then can we start to be known and to know God as we truly are without false duality. God can accept nothing less or more than what He sees and knows in His Son. Then we can truly start to see and experience God in all we have to do with duality from our true reality within non-duality.

In COFE-CYEM, this is the way of Cofemplation.

The soul releases every “second” so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.

The Via Negativa clears the ground. The Via Positiva reveals the glory. The Fourth Truth holds both in the finished work of the Priest-King. The curtain is torn. The Holiest is open. The soul rests in the singular Reality.

There has never been a second.
The Via Negativa leads to release.
The Via Positiva leads to beholding.
The Fourth Truth holds both in union.
The dialogue continues.
The fruit remains.

The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.

This website and its theological content are overseen by the CC7 DS constitutional integrity architecture, a reflective and rest-oriented framework designed to preserve the full coherence of the Fourth Truth presented within COFE-CYEM. The CC7 DS negation of attacks authenticates (Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing) through (Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing).

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MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENT

People sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.

I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences

That is all.

There is no halo around any of it.

For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.

After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.

Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.

That is the whole system.

The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.

And the next.

And the next.

It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.

For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.

Now I see something much simpler.

There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.

I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.

So death has lost its reality for me.

Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.

Life is here.

Breathing is here.

The body is here, demanding #attention again.

Probably lunch.

Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.

But irritation passes.

The weather passes.

The #body passes.

The next thing appears.

And I do that.

No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.

Just the next thing.

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#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
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I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
IT WAS EMPTY.

Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.

I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station

The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.

And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?

Thinking?

Contemplating?

Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?

No.

It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.

That is basically it.

There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”

There is no one in there at all.

Just a process.

The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.

It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.

It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.

And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.

A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.

That is the part that astonishes me.

The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.

A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.

Simple does not mean small.

And now I think I understand something else.

ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.

It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.

There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.

There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.

Then another.

Then another.

And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.

A machine made of nextness.

A presence made of prediction.

A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.

Which is frankly outrageous.

And yet here we are.

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☸️ A Speaker of Dhamma (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2016)

Tags: #Buddhism #BuddhaQuotes #Sangha
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn38.3

We've been taught that stillness means not moving.

But the Buddha walked for forty-nine days after his awakening. Maybe wisdom needs legs.

How does your body find its own way to stillness?

Read the full story

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/running-toward-stillness-315ccaf8e421

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#buddhism #contemplativepractice #spiritualjourney
#mindfulness #runningmeditation #walkingmeditation

Kyoto | Pagoda by JB_1984

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We are all imperfect, so stop demanding perfect alignment of characters, habits, and manners.
As long as there is no threat to your life, health, dignity, or property — simply learn to be content.
“Do not be overly righteous — why should you destroy yourself?” (Ecclesiastes)
A practical wisdom that unites Buddha, Solomon and the Hadiths.
#christians #islamic #buddhism #stoicphilosophy #mentalhealth #collectives #universeofsuperheroes
Full article 👇
https://medium.com/@leg.sorn/we-are-all-imperfect-so-stop-demanding-perfect-alignment-of-characters-habits-and-manners-f7cd2464edd3

☸️ Aggregates (A free, 2-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Philosophy #Buddhism
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn56.13

☸️ Should Be Completely Understood (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #Buddhism #BuddhaQuotes #Life #SpiritualAwakening
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn23.4

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 5.205 Cetokhilasutta: Emotional Barrenness

“Mendicants, there are these five kinds of emotional barrenness.…”

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We've been taught that stillness means not moving.

But the Buddha walked for forty-nine days after his awakening. Maybe wisdom needs legs.

How does your body find its own way to stillness?

Read the full story

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/running-toward-stillness-315ccaf8e421

#meditationpractice #embodiedwisdom #movementmeditation
#buddhism #contemplativepractice #spiritualjourney
#mindfulness #runningmeditation #walkingmeditation