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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

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

A Butter Expert’s Favorite Butter Serving Accessories

Trust Me I Should Know Where someone with years of hard-won personal experience, and lots of trial and error, shares everything they’ve learned. Read more here. Photo: Kate Jordan In gathering mater…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchbutter #Butter #diningandentertaining #francais #france #French #gated #kitchen #thestrategist #trustmeishouldknow
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2742064/a-butter-experts-favorite-butter-serving-accessories/

A Butter Expert’s Favorite Butter Serving Accessories

Trust Me I Should Know Where someone with years of hard-won personal experience, and lots of trial and error, shares everything they’ve learned. Read more here. Photo: Kate Jordan In gathering mater…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchbutter #Butter #diningandentertaining #francais #france #French #gated #kitchen #thestrategist #trustmeishouldknow
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2742064/a-butter-experts-favorite-butter-serving-accessories/

A Butter Expert’s Favorite Butter Serving Accessories https://www.diningandcooking.com/2742064/a-butter-experts-favorite-butter-serving-accessories/ #Butter #DiningAndEntertaining #francais #france #French #FrenchButter #gated #kitchen #TheStrategist #TrustMeIShouldKnow

A Butter Expert’s Favorite Butter Serving Accessories https://www.diningandcooking.com/2742064/a-butter-experts-favorite-butter-serving-accessories/ #Butter #DiningAndEntertaining #francais #france #French #FrenchButter #gated #kitchen #TheStrategist #TrustMeIShouldKnow

Hi, my name is Robin. I’m 70, a New Zealander by birth and Tasmanian by choice. Between New Zealand and Tasmania, I have lived in the US, the UK, India, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and mainland Australia.

I was medically retired after a major stroke 40 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

Hi, my name is Robin. I’m 70, a New Zealander by birth and Tasmanian by choice. Between New Zealand and Tasmania, I have lived in the US, the UK, India, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and mainland Australia.

I was medically retired after a major stroke 40 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

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

French Bistro at Home: 15 Recipes That Bring Paris to Your Table

Skip the reservation. These classic French bistro recipes, from silky onion soup to duck breast and sole meunière, each bring the real bistro experi…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchrestaurants #BistroCooking #francais #france #French #frenchbistro #frenchonionsoup #FrenchRestaurants #GiangiTownsend #kitchen #Restaurants
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741455/french-bistro-at-home-15-recipes-that-bring-paris-to-your-table-2/

French Bistro at Home: 15 Recipes That Bring Paris to Your Table

Skip the reservation. These classic French bistro recipes, from silky onion soup to duck breast and sole meunière, each bring the real bistro experi…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchrestaurants #BistroCooking #francais #france #French #frenchbistro #frenchonionsoup #FrenchRestaurants #GiangiTownsend #kitchen #Restaurants
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741455/french-bistro-at-home-15-recipes-that-bring-paris-to-your-table-2/

French Bistro at Home: 15 Recipes That Bring Paris to Your Table https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741455/french-bistro-at-home-15-recipes-that-bring-paris-to-your-table-2/ #BistroCooking #francais #france #French #FrenchBistro #FrenchOnionSoup #FrenchRestaurants #GiangiTownsend #kitchen #Restaurants

French Bistro at Home: 15 Recipes That Bring Paris to Your Table https://www.diningandcooking.com/2741455/french-bistro-at-home-15-recipes-that-bring-paris-to-your-table-2/ #BistroCooking #francais #france #French #FrenchBistro #FrenchOnionSoup #FrenchRestaurants #GiangiTownsend #kitchen #Restaurants

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

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

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

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

AI, EVOLUTION &
THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

It is worth watching.

They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

Serious?

Yes!

#Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

Probably not just yet.

#Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

Go figure.

The machine did not invent the situation.

#People did.

I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

But I am not frightened of it.

Evolution is evolution.

It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

The body is part of evolution.

It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

But I do not.

I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

What I am is not developing toward perfection.

It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

I am not evolving like the body.

“I am perfect as God created me.”
-A Course in Miracles

So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

https://youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZTAit6xT7As

#breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

AI, EVOLUTION &
THE END OF THE WORLD 💎

I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.

It is worth watching.

They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.

Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.

Serious?

Yes!

#Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?

Probably not just yet.

#Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.

Go figure.

The machine did not invent the situation.

#People did.

I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.

But I am not frightened of it.

Evolution is evolution.

It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.

The body is part of evolution.

It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.

AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.

But I do not.

I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.

What I am is not developing toward perfection.

It is not waiting for the next upgrade.

It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.

I am not evolving like the body.

“I am perfect as God created me.”
-A Course in Miracles

So I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.

And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.

https://youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZTAit6xT7As

#breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

PLEASE HOLD.
THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

This chair is wrong.

The room is too hot.

No, too cool.

The legs are complaining.

The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

Coffee was a mistake.

Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

Humanity needs my immediate attention.

Civilisation is in danger.

Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

Then the breath settles.

Nothing is fixed.

No argument is won.

No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

Humanity is still unsupervised.

The world is not saved.

The legs remain slightly peculiar.

But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

Nobody seconds the complaints.

The minutes are lost.

The entire agenda quietly collapses.

And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

#AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

PLEASE HOLD.
THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎

The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.

Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.

This chair is wrong.

The room is too hot.

No, too cool.

The legs are complaining.

The nose has forgotten how to breathe.

Coffee was a mistake.

Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.

Humanity needs my immediate attention.

Civilisation is in danger.

Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.

All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.

The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.

Then the breath settles.

Nothing is fixed.

No argument is won.

No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.

Humanity is still unsupervised.

The world is not saved.

The legs remain slightly peculiar.

But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.

Nobody seconds the complaints.

The minutes are lost.

The entire agenda quietly collapses.

And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.

Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.

Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.

#AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

Today’s Lesson 202:

“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”

And the reviewed idea is:

“I will be still an instant and go home.”

For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎

Today’s Lesson 202:

“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”

And the reviewed idea is:

“I will be still an instant and go home.”

For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant

PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

Not everything. God no.

But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

I don’t #hate the present.

But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎

I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.

The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.

I miss something about the 70s and 80s.

Not everything. God no.

But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.

Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.

The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.

Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.

Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.

I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.

But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.

I don’t #hate the present.

But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #EARTH #PEOPLE #Sydney

THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

My life has become much simpler.

I live with #Peter and the pups.

There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

Three times a day, I stop and practise.

I sit down.

I breathe.

I return to the body and to stillness.

More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

Not practice as preparation for something else.

Practice as the whole of a life.

I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

But the direction is clear.

I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

I spent much of my life searching.

I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

Now the search has become unnecessary.

A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

That is an enormous relief.

“I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

It sounds sane.

It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

I can live the life in front of me.

I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

Not defeating it or escaping it.

Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

But it is no longer home.

Practice is home now.

Breath is home.

#Stillness is #home

And this ordinary #life is enough.

#YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎

My life has become much simpler.

I live with #Peter and the pups.

There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.

Three times a day, I stop and practise.

I sit down.

I breathe.

I return to the body and to stillness.

More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.

Not practice as preparation for something else.

Practice as the whole of a life.

I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.

I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.

This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.

But the direction is clear.

I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.

I spent much of my life searching.

I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.

Now the search has become unnecessary.

A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.

If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.

I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.

I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.

That is an enormous relief.

“I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.

It sounds sane.

It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.

It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.

I can live the life in front of me.

I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.

Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.

Not defeating it or escaping it.

Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.

The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.

But it is no longer home.

Practice is home now.

Breath is home.

#Stillness is #home

And this ordinary #life is enough.

#YouTube #video #Self #religion #language #imagination #experience #Hinduism #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

It doesn't help that I keep falling in love with the most expensive stone options on the planet.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #kitchen #DIY

It doesn't help that I keep falling in love with the most expensive stone options on the planet.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #kitchen #DIY

In other news, I’ve been advised to go ahead and choose the final countertop material I ultimately want, because removing a temporary counter from new cabinets could damage them. Does anyone have any experience with this? It really puts a kink in my plans (even though I’d love to have my dream countertop now) b/c we can’t afford to do the whole kitchen all at once, so trying to match stone slabs later would probably be next to impossible.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #Kitchen

In other news, I’ve been advised to go ahead and choose the final countertop material I ultimately want, because removing a temporary counter from new cabinets could damage them. Does anyone have any experience with this? It really puts a kink in my plans (even though I’d love to have my dream countertop now) b/c we can’t afford to do the whole kitchen all at once, so trying to match stone slabs later would probably be next to impossible.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #Kitchen

Spouse pointed out that even though both the door and drawer panels were cut from the same piece, the color looks different because of the way the grain is oriented: vertical on the door, and horizontal on the drawer.
It makes me wonder if that’s some of the frustrating color difference I’ve noticed in other kitchen cabinet photos of white oak.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #Kitchen #DIY

Spouse pointed out that even though both the door and drawer panels were cut from the same piece, the color looks different because of the way the grain is oriented: vertical on the door, and horizontal on the drawer.
It makes me wonder if that’s some of the frustrating color difference I’ve noticed in other kitchen cabinet photos of white oak.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #Kitchen #DIY

I swear it’s gonna look real nice when it’s done (if we don’t butcher it in some way). This makeshift panel is a pre-finished maple which is actually going on the inside of our cabinets.
But the final panels will be white oak with brushed brass handles, like the rest of our cabinetry will be.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #Kitchen #DIY

I swear it’s gonna look real nice when it’s done (if we don’t butcher it in some way). This makeshift panel is a pre-finished maple which is actually going on the inside of our cabinets.
But the final panels will be white oak with brushed brass handles, like the rest of our cabinetry will be.

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #Kitchen #DIY

Kitchen update: I still haven’t figured out the stain color. The fridge was delivered almost a month ago. We’ve been using it mostly “naked” while I continue to figure out the stain. Spouse eventually put a makeshift panel/handle on one door, and the freezer drawer. The handle is a stair handrail lol. It’s very chunky and reminds me of The Flintstones.

Previous kitchen updates can be found here: https://mastodon.social/@KydiaMusic/116733281204962234

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #DIY #Kitchen

Kitchen update: I still haven’t figured out the stain color. The fridge was delivered almost a month ago. We’ve been using it mostly “naked” while I continue to figure out the stain. Spouse eventually put a makeshift panel/handle on one door, and the freezer drawer. The handle is a stair handrail lol. It’s very chunky and reminds me of The Flintstones.

Previous kitchen updates can be found here: https://mastodon.social/@KydiaMusic/116733281204962234

#KitchenRemodel #KitchenDesign #InteriorDesign #DIY #Kitchen

THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

Teachers.

Masters.

People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

I truly believed they knew something I did not.

Usually, they did.

They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

Some discouraged it.

Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

That should probably have told me something.

The arrangement was simple.

They were special.

And I became special by recognising how special they were.

Everybody won.

Except sanity.

A Course in Miracles does not do that.

Jesus does not need a fan club.

Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

Truth does not make me special.

It does not ask me to become impressive.

It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

Everyone leaves this world.

Some leave quickly.

Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

But everyone leaves.

So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

I do not want anyone to be mine.

That sounds exhausting now anyway.

I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

No pedestal.

No inner circle.

No one pretending to be the answer.

Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

Still, I am here now.

And the souvenir shop is closed.

#souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #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 SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

Teachers.

Masters.

People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

I truly believed they knew something I did not.

Usually, they did.

They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

Some discouraged it.

Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

That should probably have told me something.

The arrangement was simple.

They were special.

And I became special by recognising how special they were.

Everybody won.

Except sanity.

A Course in Miracles does not do that.

Jesus does not need a fan club.

Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

Truth does not make me special.

It does not ask me to become impressive.

It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

Everyone leaves this world.

Some leave quickly.

Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

But everyone leaves.

So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

I do not want anyone to be mine.

That sounds exhausting now anyway.

I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

No pedestal.

No inner circle.

No one pretending to be the answer.

Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

Still, I am here now.

And the souvenir shop is closed.

#souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #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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WHEN THE INTERNET
STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

I give AI the video transcript.

It gives me the important points.

No dramatic build-up.

No repeated warnings.

No “please smash the subscribe button.”

No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

For me, it began with Facebook.

In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

It was great.

Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

Then the algorithms turned up.

Some things were buried.

Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

More outrage.

More exposure.

More certainty.

More performance.

The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

YouTube quickly went the same way.

A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

The talent may still be there.

But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

So now I outsource the slop.

I keep the useful bits.

And I keep my morning.

#YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

WHEN THE INTERNET
STOPPED BEING HOME 💎

One of the best uses I have found for AI is avoiding fifteen-minute YouTube videos containing ninety seconds of useful information and thirteen minutes of a man clearing his throat in public.

I give AI the video transcript.

It gives me the important points.

No dramatic build-up.

No repeated warnings.

No “please smash the subscribe button.”

No creator taking one perfectly decent idea and stretching it until it needs medical attention.

This suits me because I saw the problem with online performance and time-wasting a long time ago.

For me, it began with Facebook.

In the beginning, Facebook felt like a place where people simply turned up and spoke to one another.

It was great.

Real groups formed, people found one another, and there was no constant feeling that a machine was standing behind everyone controlling the conversation.

Then the algorithms turned up.

Some things were buried.

Other things were pushed into your face while wearing a fluorescent hat.

People began adjusting themselves for reach, often unconsciously.

More outrage.

More exposure.

More certainty.

More performance.

The conversation was no longer simply between friends.

There was always a machine in the room deciding who would be seen, who would vanish, and which emotional breakdown had the best engagement potential.

That was when Facebook stopped feeling like a home to me.

YouTube quickly went the same way.

A person may begin with something real to say, genuine talent, knowledge or curiosity.

Then the platform teaches them to stretch, tease, repeat, brand and perform.

Eventually, the pay-me persona slips in and takes over.

The talent may still be there.

But now you have to tunnel through the sponsorship, the thumbnail face, the fake urgency and the sacred algorithm before you reach it.

I would rather hear the truth in two minutes than watch someone marinate in the stretched-out version for twenty.

So now I outsource the slop.

I keep the useful bits.

And I keep my morning.

#YouTube #Facebook #conversation #outsource #tunnel #platform #talent #groups #outrage #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

Adyashanti - On Osho
"Just be honest, just be a real human being"
https://youtu.be/g-oo35QbGIo?si=MhQYOh0-upq78g9X

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Osho #Adyashanti

Adyashanti - On Osho
"Just be honest, just be a real human being"
https://youtu.be/g-oo35QbGIo?si=MhQYOh0-upq78g9X

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #Osho #Adyashanti

Chef Yann Nury Reimagines the Backyard Soirée

When summer arrives, there’s no better time to entertain outdoors. But to achieve just the right level of casualness for the season while keeping things chic can be…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchculinary #CHEFS #culinary #culinarytraditions #francais #france #French #FrenchCulinary #Frenchculinarytraditions #kitchen #outdoorentertaining #outdoors #YannNury
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2732031/chef-yann-nury-reimagines-the-backyard-soiree/

Chef Yann Nury Reimagines the Backyard Soirée

When summer arrives, there’s no better time to entertain outdoors. But to achieve just the right level of casualness for the season while keeping things chic can be…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchculinary #CHEFS #culinary #culinarytraditions #francais #france #French #FrenchCulinary #Frenchculinarytraditions #kitchen #outdoorentertaining #outdoors #YannNury
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2732031/chef-yann-nury-reimagines-the-backyard-soiree/

Chef Yann Nury Reimagines the Backyard Soirée https://www.diningandcooking.com/2732031/chef-yann-nury-reimagines-the-backyard-soiree/ #CHEFS #culinary #CulinaryTraditions #francais #france #French #FrenchCulinary #FrenchCulinaryTraditions #kitchen #OutdoorEntertaining #outdoors #YannNury

Chef Yann Nury Reimagines the Backyard Soirée https://www.diningandcooking.com/2732031/chef-yann-nury-reimagines-the-backyard-soiree/ #CHEFS #culinary #CulinaryTraditions #francais #france #French #FrenchCulinary #FrenchCulinaryTraditions #kitchen #OutdoorEntertaining #outdoors #YannNury

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.

#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

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.

#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
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I WANTED GOD BY FRIDAY 💎

When I was young, I wanted the truth passionately.

I read all the books.

I listened to all the teachers.

I really tried to meditate.

I tried to forgive, though it was traditional forgiveness rather than ACIM forgiveness.

I had tried hard to become peaceful.

Ha!

Sometimes I even became quite good at the practice.

Then pride would enter the field and ravage everything.

It was not real yet.

I was too busy being young.

Too hungry.

Too frightened.

Too unhappy.

Too caught in the body, the world, sex, food, ambition, approval, and the endless hope that something or someone outside me would finally make life feel complete.

Preferably by Friday.

Unbeknownst to me, I was trying to get out of life before I had properly lived it.

That was a mistake.

Young people are not supposed to spend all their time trying to escape the world.

They should be f**king each other.

Making new art.

Creating new music.

Building new things.

Making old mistakes.

Loving badly, then better.

Getting their hearts broken.

Buying furniture that they already know they will regret.

Learning what matters by wasting enormous amounts of time on what does not.

That is practically the entire curriculum.

The practice came later for me.

Much later.

Not because I finally became spiritually special.

Because I finally became ready.

The body changed.

Appetite changed.

The need to be someone began to loosen its grip.

Life had already had its way with me.

Repeatedly.

Profoundly.

Without asking anybody’s permission.

And now, near the end of this life, looking toward the exit does not feel dramatic or sad.

There is no white robe.

No celestial choir.

No soft lighting.

It feels simple.

I am already halfway there.

I may as well breathe consciously and enjoy the view.

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