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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.
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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.
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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 🙏🔥🙏
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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.
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"By the #Dharma is meant the heart, for there is no Dharma apart from the heart.
"– Huangbo Xiyun
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Iti 41 Paññāparihīnasutta: Deprived of Wisdom
“Those beings are thoroughly deprived who are deprived of noble wisdom.…”
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"When there is no self, there is no other. What conflict remains?"
– Bankei
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Suffering the mind
Nirvana waits patiently
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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.…”
Read the sutta
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)
“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”
Read the sutta
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
SN 48.9 Paṭhamavibhaṅgasutta: Analysis (1st)
“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.…”
Read the sutta
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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"
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Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
By Agence France-Press in BangkokPhra 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
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Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
By Agence France-Press in BangkokPhra 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
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Thai police arrest Buddhist abbot on suspicion of embezzling $2.8m
By Agence France-Press in BangkokPhra 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
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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
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All Buddhas in the past,
the Buddhas of the future,
and the Buddha at present— -
"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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.…”
Read the sutta
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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.…”
Read the sutta
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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.…”
Read the sutta
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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.…”
Read the sutta
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After developing the ability to watch thoughts and feelings from a mental distance, an even greater freedom is to detach from the subjective feeling of a watcher (which is also impermanent). The result is ungrounded experience, where there is knowing but no knower.
#buddhism #earlybuddhism #detachment #thoughts #feelings #freedom #mind #mental #subjectivity #duality #dualism #impermanence #awareness #meditation
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Only 2 Hands – A guided meditation as a poem
I only have two hands.
The world is beyond my control.
The world has always been beyond my control.
The world will always be beyond my control.
The world does not depend on me.
Is okay and natural that the world is beyond my control.
There was a time when I was not in the world, there
will be a time again when I am not in the world.
The world does not depend on Me,
and that is a wonderful thing.
I only have two hands,I only have two hands,
but I have two hands.
This is the most amazing gift.
I am alive and I am aware
with these hands, I can make the world kinder, healthier and livelier.
With these hands, I can make the world harsher, angry, violent,
but the world goes on with or without me.I only have one voice,
but I have a voice,
and that is the most Amazing thing.
I am awake and I am alert.
With this voice,
I can make the world wise fascinating and beautiful.
With this voice, I can make the world confusing or true,
false or clear,
a travesty or an equity.
But the world goes on With or without me.I only have one lifetime in this form,
this form with two feet,
this form with two hands,
this form with one voice,
this form with this mind,
the moss goes on without me.
The ants go on without me.
The trees go on without me.
The sun burns on without me.I cannot direct the affairs of the world.
I cannot direct the turning of the earth.
I cannot direct the tides of the oceans.
I cannot scrap and recreate my life circumstance,
but I can steer my life’s flow.
The affairs of the world are beyond my control, and always will be.
But I can mold the process of my living experience
When I am aware of how I shape my living experience, I create better results.I cannot direct the affairs of the world,
just as I cannot direct the weaving of every spider’s web,
but participating with others in co creation.
I can still cultivate change in the natural world.
I can still cultivate change in the human world.
I have the realization that the natural world is real and fundamental.
I have the realization that the human world cannot be separated from the natural world.
I have the realization that the human world is an organic flowering of the natural world.I have the realization also that the natural world goes on without the human world,
just as the human world goes on without me.
The world is not conditioned on people,
just as it is not conditioned on my existence.
I am alive, awake, aware and alert.
I have the realization that this life is a precious gift.
I resolve and aspire to appreciate this gift and spend it wisely.The final bell is In 60 seconds.
Thank you for listening to only two hands, a meditation by Cooper Dozier.[ Intro I removed so it reads like a poem:
Only two hands. By Cooper Dozier. A bell will ring before each speaking part. This meditation is 23 minutes long. The silences in between speaking parts are about 90 to 100 seconds long. There is no requirement to follow the meditation as presented. Feel free to take any path that appears to you. I hope we all have a fruitful exploration. Settle in. The first bell will ring in 30 seconds. Loosen up and stretch your joints if you like. Try to take a comfortable posture which you can hold. Should you encounter mental or emotional difficulties? Feel free to open your eyes. Take a break or stop if needed. ]
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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).
COFE Yeshua Emet Ministry (CYEM)
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ROBINZZ3: THE TRILOGY
I have somehow ended up with three Mastodon accounts.
All called Robinzz3.
All looking like me.
All technically different people.
This is the sort of thing computers do while insisting they are making life easier.
The newest Robin lives at Aus.social, where I have been given 3,000 characters per post.
This is excellent news for me and possibly alarming news for everyone else.
The old Robin has 67 followers.
The new Robin has four.
And yet the new account is already getting more attention, which suggests follower numbers may be less important than being in the right room.
So I am going to stay here for a while and see what happens.
There will be no dramatic migration ceremony.
No digital removal van.
No small brass band playing as my followers are transferred across the internet.
For now, the three Robins will simply coexist.
One active.
Two increasingly historical.
A small federation of me.
One practical detail:
If you followed me on one of the old accounts, you will need to click Follow again here.
Mastodon does not assume that because you followed one Robin, you are ready for all available Robins.
Probably wise.
Anyway, this is the new account.
Same man.
Same breathwork.
Same opinions.
More letters.
#Mastodon #TRILOGY #technically #Robin #migration #followed #account #dramatic #click #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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STOP FEEDING CONFLICT
I did the A Course in Miracles Workbook for years.
Over and over.
I understood many of the lessons.
I valued them.
But I did not find lasting peace through them.
The mind could still turn a grievance, a fear, or an argument into a full-on unsettling production.
Then I began answering mental conflict with two simple words:
NO COMMENT.
I had no idea whether something so simple would work.
I only hoped it might.
What I did not yet realise was that all those years of doing the Workbook, however poorly, had trained my mind to listen to me.
So when I said NO COMMENT, and kept saying it, the mind eventually got the message.
Not as suppression.
Not as denial.
Not even as another argument with the ego.
Just no participation.
A thought appears.
NO COMMENT.
A grievance starts gathering evidence.
NO COMMENT.
Fear wants a hearing.
NO COMMENT.
For me, this simple practice has now replaced the Workbook.
Not the Text.
Not the Manual for Teachers.
I still need those because they explain the thought system and remind me not to make up my own spirituality.
My daily practice has become very simple now.
The Workbook trained my mind to listen to me.
NO COMMENT gives it one clear instruction:
Stop feeding conflict.
That is where the peace began.
#STOP #FEEDING #CONFLICT #Text #grievance #NoCOMMENT #feeding #Workbook #instruction #clear #DailyPractice #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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The Four Seals: The Hallmark of the Buddha’s Teaching
All that is conditioned is impermanent,
All that is tainted is suffering,
All phenomena are empty and devoid of self,
Nirvana is peace.It is often said that the mark of a real Buddhist is that they accept these four seals. These four statements encapsulate the uniqueness of the Buddha’s teachings and set those teachings apart from all other religions and philosophies.
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HOT SAUCE APOCALYPSE
Yesterday the lunch place had run out of hot sauce.
In Australia, this is barely news.
Aussies don’t really do hot sauce.
But some of us do.
Some of us have built whole fragile emotional ecosystems around a few drops of chilli on lunch.
I agreed to sweet chilli sauce instead, because apparently I am very mature.
But I did register my disappointment with the manageress.
Politely.
Firmly.
Historically.
Then I went for my walk.
Then I did my breathwork.
Then I noticed the day still had a slight dent in it.
This caught me off guard.
I had only just been saying that everything is perfect all the time now.
Apparently, “everything” includes the lunch place running out of hot sauce and me quietly wanting the owner told so this national disgrace never happens again.
That is how the ego works.
It does not just want lunch.
It wants justice.
And there it was.
Not a catastrophe.
Not a spiritual failure.
Just a tiny place where preference had turned into grievance.
The hot sauce was missing.
The peace was not.
I had simply misplaced it for a moment under the sweet chilli sauce.
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All that is conditioned is impermanent,
All that is tainted is suffering,
All phenomena are empty and devoid of self,
Nirvana is peace.It is often said that the mark of a real Buddhist is that they accept these four seals. These four statements encapsulate the uniqueness of the Buddha’s teachings and set those teachings apart from all other religions and philosophies.
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SIMPLY DO THIS
The truth simplifies everything.
You don’t need to be kind because it is a moral duty.
You don’t need to be kind because it makes you spiritual.
You don’t need to be kind because it improves the self.
In reality, kindness is all that remains available.
The unkindness was the complication.
Fear, defence, grievance, specialness, needing to be right, needing to win, needing to be safe.
All of that makes kindness seem like a choice.
But when defence falls quiet, kindness is not manufactured.
It is simply what is left.
So the question becomes very simple:
What is the kind thing now?
Say less.
Soften the tone.
Tell the truth.
Leave the door open.
Put the fire on.
Feed the dog.
Drink the coffee.
Do nothing.
Simply do this.
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CLIMBING DOWN
#Hirayama, in #Perfect Days, is not a failed climber.
He is someone who saw the #ladder clearly and stopped obeying it.
That is a very different thing.
The world keeps whispering: more #status, more #usefulness, more #achievement, more #improvement, more #proof that the self is becoming something.
No one has to #whip us anymore. We do it internally and call it ambition.
Hirayama’s freedom is not that he cleans #toilets. That could easily be another prison.
His freedom is that he is not using his life to become impressive.
Water does not need to win.
The useless #tree does not need to justify its #existence.
And “I need do nothing” does not mean sitting around uselessly. It means I do not need to #manufacture a self.
The #body can #clean, #breathe, #walk, make #coffee, light #fires, put #shoes on, feed #dogs, and #love the ones nearby.
But there does not have to be a grand inner project of becoming #Worthy
Simple living is not automatically #holy.
Low status is not #awakening.
A small life can still be full of #grievance, vanity and comparison.
But a life without #comparison ?
That is #freedom.
Maybe the real act is not #climbingdown.
Maybe it is stopping the argument with where I am.
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"The problem is that honest efforts to preserve Buddhism can head down a slipperly slope to rigid, sterile orthodoxy. This has happened over and over through Buddhist history. As we slide further down that slope, essential principles and functions are forgotten. Experiential understanding is replaced with scholarship; then scholarship is replaced with text-worship. Living practice turns into rote ritual performance."
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May all beings everywhere, whether near or far, whether known to me or unknown, be filled with loving kindness and goodwill. May they be well. May they be peaceful and at ease. May they be happy and free from suffering.
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Lots of #Hollywood folks are trashing DJT, and I'm mostly cheering 'em on. But few are willing to criticize #China's Communist Party. #RichardGere did, and still does, and his career has likely suffered because of it. He hasn't backed down. #DalaiLama #Buddhism #Tibet #TibetanBuddhism #LionsRoar #CCP #Tankies #Cinema #Film #Religion #Spirituality #Politics https://www.lionsroar.com/richard-gere-the-wisdom-of-happiness/
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“According to our religion, #Mao deserves our compassion. At the time of judgement you cannot say ‘I am the leader’. And you can’t use money, trickery or your sharp tongue. The Lord of Death will measure your deeds accordingly.”
Screenshots from "Ganden: A Joyful Land". Free online streaming may be available through your #PublicLibrary. 📿 ☸️ 🙏 #Tibet #Buddhism #TibetanBuddhism #Religion #Spirituality #History #Documentary #Asia #Dharma #Dhamma #DalaïLama #Karma #China #CCP #Tankies
