Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Ajahn Khemakā will teach a day retreat on “The True Nature of our Existence” in London this Saturday (July 26th). On the day she will explore how we can use our reflective, contemplative capacity to develop wisdom. More info and booking: londoninsight.org/event/in-perso….

🚨For the first time in their entire history, BBC, Reuters, AP & AFP say their journalists on the ground face death by starvation

So sad to hear that the great Buddhist scholar, ecological philosopher, and environmental activist Joanna Macy has returned her borrowed stardust to the universe at nearly 100. Her translations of Rilke will outlive us all, and continue to help us live: themarginalian.org/2014/12/10/joa…

Two reasons mental health disability is rising: Failure to tackle social determinants of rising societal distress over 3 decades; & overreliance on an overly-medicalised MH ideology, leading poor outcomes, iatrogentic harm & chronic under-investment in psycho-social alternatives.

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

In this current era, we are far more interested in altering the particular individual who is driven into pain & suffering, than in collectively altering the social realities that have driven them there.

Our present bind, Tokarczuk observes, is that the old narratives about who we are and how the world works are untender and clearly broken, but we are yet to find tender new ones to take their place. 🙏❤️

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor (1966-July 2023) (who adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat in her last years). Her art below created for the cover of her 1994 album 'Universal Mother' #WomensArt

She is one of millions, an Afghan woman with credentials and dreams, now in prison just for being female. Since the fall of the Republic, Afghan women have been banned from school, work, and public life. August 15: Join the global protest, for freedom of Afghan women and girls.

If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. Victoria Erikson #longing #becoming

Fascinating comment from Nancy McWilliams suggesting that SSRIs work on panic/grief anxiety, but not on fear anxiety.

Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

Not everything you give will echo back to you. not every act of love, kindness or presence will be seen, named or remembered, but that doesn't make it any less real. 🌟⛵️🌊💌

Waking up to rainbows - a gentle reminder of hope ❤️

Afghan women rights activists mark 4 years since the fall of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, 4 years of fear, poverty, forced exile, killings, imprisonment, torture, and gender apartheid. Their slogans are: Education. Work. Freedom. #Afghanistan #StandWithAfghanWomen