Absolutely beautiful. Reminiscent of Joanna Macy (Rest in Peace, Eco-Elder): “the heart that breaks open can contain the whole world”.

The whole body, from your digestive system to your mitochondria, is an integrated, uninterrupted energetic circuit

pulling out unwieldy nails is a purification practice

we all share the same absolutely marvelous sky

I keep thinking about “Cooking with an empty cauldron” It’s an apt inner alchemy (Neidan) metaphor for meditating ineffectively or imagining moving qi without 1st actually gathering Jing & qi. The phrase was coined by Zhang Boduan d.1082 in the WuZhenPian, Awakening to Reality

in deep thanks to tenzin wangyal rinpoche, i will now become an excellent sleeper. (and, with practice, a more wakeful-to-the-world being too). 💤 🧘‍♂️

There remains far more alpha in algorithms that improve the learning capacity of the human neural network than in those that improve the learning capacity of computationally abstracted neural networks.

dharma deck dos done

Why do Buddhists only use shampoo? Because they recognize the pain of conditioning.

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My friend Reb told me about a fractal conception of god that goes like this: Imagine you are like a kidney cell amongst kidney cells. You simply *cannot* understand the emergent agency that you are a part of – aka a Person. No amount of philosophizing is going to help

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend Gabriel C. Brown transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

shakyamuni buddha definitely figured some stuff out. like how nice it is to sit under a tree. among other important things worth investigating for oneself. 🌲