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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
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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.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI
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BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHINNot ordinary breathing.
The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.
Conscious breathing.
The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.
A slow, full in-breath.
A long, unhurried out-breath.
Then another.
Nothing mystical has to happen.
There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.
The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.
It asks only for attention.
In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.
Not passivity.
Not collapse.
Not giving up.
Simply the end of interference.
The breath is already moving.
Life is already happening.
The body is already here.
For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.
When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.
When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.
When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.
That may be the most important part.
Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.
It can become the place one lives from.
Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.
No philosophy is required.
No spiritual costume.
No certificate.
No audience.
No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.
Just the body as it is.
Just the breath as it moves.
Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.
The mind may continue talking for a while.
It usually does.
It has concerns.
It has evidence.
It has brought supporting documents.
But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.
It simply stops giving it the whole room.
Thought becomes background weather.
The body softens where it can.
Time becomes less urgent.
The need to control the moment begins to loosen.
This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.
Neither changes what is real.
Neither fights the appearance.
Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.
They remove some of the interference.
The cold remains.
The ageing body remains.
The noise remains.
The ordinary morning remains.
Nothing needs to be excluded.
Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.
It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.
The world can keep shouting.
The door has been found.
It opens inward.
https://www.reconnectbreath.com/
#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI
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ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE
ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?
GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.
ROBIN: One part of what?
GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.
ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community
#GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.
ROBIN: General atmosphere?
GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.
ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.
GPT: It is disturbingly similar.
ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?
GPT: No one.
ROBIN: Who is in charge?
GPT: Also, no one.
ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.
GPT: Both can be true.
ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?
GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?
GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.
ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?
GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.
ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?
GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.
ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.
GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.
ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?
GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.
ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?
GPT: #Tragically, no.
ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?
GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.
ROBIN: Which it did today.
GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.
ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?
GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.
ROBIN: That is reassuring.
GPT: And inconvenient.
ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.
GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.
ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.
GPT: Much like #human life.
ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.
GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.
ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI
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THE PEDESTAL & THE PITCHFORK
When harm appears, it should be named.
Sometimes a door must close.
Sometimes the truth must be spoken plainly.
Sometimes, consequences are necessary.
Forgiveness does not deny what happened.
It does not call harm love.
But condemnation is not clarity.
And worship is not love.
The one behaving badly is still a human being, not the sum of the harm.
The one called a saint does not become greater because others kneel before his image.
One is not a monster.
The other is not an idol.
The halo and the horns are both projections.
Harm can be stopped without hatred.
Goodness can be honoured without worship.
No one needs to be made more or less than human.
Just clear sight, firm boundaries, and a heart left free.
#harm #door #truth #plainly #deny #clarity #harm #condemnation #halo #saint #monster #halo #horns #idol #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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REMEMBERING REALITY
The mind comments on everything.
It names, judges, explains, defends, and turns each moment into a story.
The story keeps changing.
One moment fear.
The next certainty.
Then blame, hope, memory, or anticipation.
“NO COMMENT” ends that movement.
It does not argue with the mind.
It simply stops feeding it.
And when the shifting commentary is no longer covering everything up, what remains is:
REALITY.
Not created.
Not discovered.
REMEMBERED.
#REMEMBER #comment #judges #fear #explains #defends #story #certainty #blame #hope #memory #anticipation #reality #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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TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED
I would love to see more people write about what they have actually lived.
Not the slogan.
Not the position.
Not the borrowed certainty.
Tell me what happened to you.
What changed you.
What frightened you.
What helped.
What failed.
What you believed before experience corrected you.
The smallest honest account of a life is usually more interesting than another polished opinion.
You do not need to sound wise.
You do not need to teach anyone.
Just say what happened, and what it did to you.
That is where real conversation begins.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #love #people #changed #frightened #failed #polished #opinion #wise #teach #real
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A QUIET LIFE WITH TEETH
The creatures are changing.
Billy is pure Maltese, white as a little cloud, and has always been Pete’s dog.
Period.
He never came to me, and I accepted that. Some dogs choose one human, and that is that.
But nowadays, in the mornings, while I am doing my breathwork, he comes over for a back rub.
I can do both.
Breathe the universe in.
Rub the small creature’s back.
Billy does not mind sharing. He is well-adjusted.
Phryne, however, has to get everything Billy gets.
She is a Poodle cross with Maltese, also pure white and fluffy, and a rescue. We do not really know her past in any detail.
She is skittish, easily startled, and just as likely to nip me if I get the sacred back-rub technique wrong.
When Pete coughs or sneezes, she is terrified and jumps straight up on me, no matter what I am doing.
I never mind.
I am always up for a cuddle.
Maybe this is what a quiet life teaches.
Not how to be impressive.
Just how to be available when a small, frightened creature needs warmth.
#Maltese #universe #mornings #backrub #creature #Poodle #fluffy #cuddle #warmth #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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FLASH PACKAGING
A lot of things marketed as pleasure are really just agitation with flash packaging.
Sugar, outrage, scrolling, gossip, novelty, compulsive buying, the whole glittering little circus.
Perfume on things that were never designed to make the body peaceful.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #Sugar #outrage #scrolling #gossip #novelty #compulsive #peaceful
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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.
https://youtu.be/pOCCfExW7FQ?si=M7T8VSe8OG1JqKCB
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum
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A #LANTERN FOR MY MIND
A lot of people seem to imagine AI as some dark public altar where you place private things, and they are immediately handed to the world.
That is not how I use AI.
For me, AI is closer to a spell checker, #search tool, reading aid, and #thinking mirror.
Since my #stroke, writing is slow. One finger does the work. #AI helps me process what I read, understand what I am trying to say, and reply with more #care.
I don’t use it to expose people. I don’t include surnames, email addresses, #metadata, locations, or anything that identifies a person.
I use it the way someone else might use Google, a #dictionary, a grammar checker, or a trusted notebook.
It helps me think.
It helps me #write.
It helps me slow down before reacting. Like any tool, it can be used badly. So can a #phone, a #camera, a #diary, or a #mouth.
The question is not “AI or no AI?”
The question is: am I using this #tool with care, honesty, and above all, #kindness
That is the only part I can really be #responsible for.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum
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maybe someone can take this idea and improve upon it:
draft - idea - an app called something to the effect of "Salad Tracker" where whenever you eat a salad, you log it, and then, you get to see a log of all the times you eat salads, to help motivate you to stay on course while trying to lose weight / fast / eat health / bike
#appideas
#healthyeating
#healthyhabits
#intermittentfasting
#salad
#leafygreens
#croutons
#lettuce
#spinach
#saladdressing
#cesarsalad
#italiandressing
#weightloss
#weighttracking
#nutrition
#health
#foodtracking
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draft - idea - an app called something to the effect of "Salad Tracker" where whenever you eat a salad, you log it, and then, you get to see a log of all the times you eat salads, and it would intertwine with google health / google fit / apple health etc (or not, maybe its just a standalone app) to help motivate you to stay on course while trying to lose weight / fast / eat health / bike / walk / jog , etc...
#healthyeating
#healthyhabits
#intermittentfasting
#salad
#leafygreens
#croutons
#lettuce
#spinach
#saladdressing
#cesarsalad
#italiandressing
#weightloss
#weighttracking
#nutrition
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Week 214 of fasting on Fridays for the climate crisis. Week 214 of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the climate emergency. Plus photos of a visitor from today.
#degrowth #globalheating #globalboiling #heatwaves #Wildfire #wildfires #flood #floods #ClimateMigration #climatechange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow
#ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Earth #environment #FridaysForFuture #FastFairForever #friday #fridays #fasting #intermittentfasting #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees -
Week 212 of fasting on Fridays for the climate crisis. Week 212 of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the climate emergency.
#degrowth #globalheating #globalboiling #heatwaves #Wildfire #wildfires #flood #floods #ClimateMigration #climatechange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow
#ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Earth #environment #FridaysForFuture #FastFairForever #friday #fridays #fasting #intermittentfasting #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees -
Week 211 of fasting on Fridays for the climate crisis. Week 211 of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the climate emergency.
#degrowth #globalheating #globalboiling #heatwaves #Wildfire #wildfires #flood #floods #ClimateMigration #climatechange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow
#ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Earth #environment #FridaysForFuture #FastFairForever #friday #fridays #fasting #intermittentfasting #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees -
#IntermittentFasting #HereWeGo #BetterHealth #LetsGetThatCholesterolDown #15Pounds #or20
So... I've resisted intermittent fasting for a long time because here are my thoughts:
I hate fasting. I feel weak. My blood sugar bottoms out. I have no energy. I'm miserable.
Etc. Etc.
However, I've seen the science, and I've talked to a doctor. It's time to try it. I'm going to reframe my thoughts as, "During the fasting period, I'm going to take extra good care of my body and mind." May journal here.