After 2 years of training–and after many years prior to that of preparation–on a deep dharma retreat of the Four Turnings of Buddhadharma @emilywesthorn.bsky.social & I graduated 8 new people into the Buddhist Geeks lineage. See their shiny faces!? 🤩✨☸️🙏❤️

Mindfulness of Neofascism can be trained.

The problem with modern mindfulness is that it will always be focused on the self to the exclusion of all else. We need mindfulness of relationships and systems as well.

People are using GoFundMe for groceries. GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition. Americans are fundraising for basic necessities, while the top 1% increased their wealth to $52 trillion. This is what a rigged system designed by the wealthy looks like.

This is dope. releases.metalabel.xyz/r04/chorus

Jaded Postmodern Nihilists do have a Faith. They believe deeply, with utter conviction, in the Incomprehensibility of reality. Ironically, they are confident that they have comprehended this truth, and thus, it’s a Faith.

"Our neighbor-love has to transcend religious boundaries." – James Talarico youtu.be/nuDS-WX2yv4

If you can’t hang out with your friends from High School I have no interest in your spiritual realization.

Believing that Collapse is just around the corner makes one more susceptible to ideological capture, since people are always dumber when scared.

Imagine the anthropocentric self-delusion required to confidently claim that the 3rd interstellar object we've ever seen (like, ever) must, a priori, be a natural object.

Individualists want to study systems, they don't to see how they're actually participating in them.

"If you ever want proof that interconnectedness isn’t always something to celebrate, just contemplate how the beings of the world feed on one another, physically and emotionally. Interbeing is inter-eating." – Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

I engage on X.com to stay engaged in speech with Neofascists, but I love that Bluesky isn't that.

The same spinelessness that has people not speak up against a live-streamed genocide is the same exact spinelessness that keeps people from speaking up against a rising Neofascist regime.

Even losing it is it. "In the not finding is the finding." – Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Donald Trump is US Foreign Policy come home to roost. 🐣

Mindfulness is blind without values.

I created a CustomGPT that takes all of the food we normally have in our pantry (our staples), all the fresh ingredients we have on hand, and along with our dietary preferences it generates up a few recipes based on what we have on hand. This feels like a good use of AI.

It'd be easier to be here, if we weren't so cruel to each other.

Pariah.

May you be well.

If you want to be able to get absorbed in that which you can’t lose, then my suggestion would be to stop looking for states. youtu.be/Yhe5RpMFDLo?...

Few things hold up so well with time as genuine insight.

Interspection: the ability to pay attention to the experience between and among us www.contemplative.technology/p/from-indiv...

May all beings be safe. May those who commit atrocities be stopped.

"So, pish tosh, fuck your realizations, they're nothing. Let them go. All the crap you've built around Dharma, let go, it's just going to get you reborn as a God." – Lama Lena

You can't be surprised by the rise of Neofascism once you understand how Neoliberalism & Neoconservatism teamed up to extract wealth from our rural communities–like the one I grew up in–for decades.

I called out TPOT ("This Part of Twitter") as a bunch of spiritual narcissists, whose anti-political hyper-self-obsessed form of spirituality is fueling Neofascism's rise. Shockingly, they did not like that, and many of them called me a meanie. 😝 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Is the TPOT ("This Part of Twitter") sub-culture a spiritual expression of Neo-fascism? youtu.be/A0QW-X5GFSg?...

One of the most clever & sinister things that Big Tech has done is to convince us that everything should be easy. Now we're even more conditioned to believe that any kind of "friction" is problematic, rather than being a necessary part of maturation.

What do you do when there’s nothing left to do?

My heart breaks every day. 💔 My practice is to stay with it. ❤️‍🩹 Steady, steady. ❤️‍🔥

🔜 ☸️ Buddhaverse Think Insight Timer, but 100% generosity-based, and laser focused on Buddhadharma.

Coming Soon: ☸️ Buddhaverse : Open Source Dharma for Everyone

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain

One of the most illuminating talks I've seen on the philosophy of AI & Intelligence. youtu.be/HAJclcj25uM?...

A growing number of countries are pledging to recognize a Palestinian state, with more than 145 nations now joining the call for international recognition. cnn.it/3J5F1ey

What in the actual fuck!? 🐝 ☢️ abcnews.go.com/US/radioacti...

There are a lot of things I don't share on here, because it feels like I'm "preaching to the choir." It's a trade-off between ideological polarization for ideological homogeneity. Too much homogeneity = a boring echo chamber.

Gratitude to Ethan Nichtern for inviting me on his podcast, The Road Home, to discuss what are admittedly pretty sensitive & difficult topics. I've long looked at Ethan as a kind of older brother in the dharma, someone who has helped pave the way for millennial teachers like myself.

When you're so free, and so educated, and so well taken care of, that you can stop giving a shit about the people that you come from, or can disown them entirely, that's when shit really goes awry.

Working on a new app called NOTING. Coming soon to contemplative.technology.

Oreo And Reese’s Team Up To Sicken Dogs theonion.com/oreo-an...

It's not good for the progressive movement that many alt-right leaders are displaying more moral clarity than Bernie Sanders is. To be fair, younger progressives aren't making the same mistake, but with this epic cop out, Bernie officially lost the torch of progressive leadership.

Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews. Conflating these two things is one of the many problematic things I see occurring right now in the discourse regarding Israel & Palestine.

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It’s not meant to be, but this is a perfect argument for why we need the emergence of an alt-middle political class, so that we (the people) can make long-standing changes to the United States that aren’t negated by the incoming administration.

Describe an experience of derealization to a Western clinician, and you may receive a psychiatric diagnosis—and strong medication. Describe the same experience to a seasoned meditation teacher, and you may be congratulated. In their eyes, you might be waking up! So, who’s right? 🧵

Joanna Macy is an ancestor now. What a gift it has been for us to have her on the planet these past 96 years. May we carry her legacy onward, ever loving the Earth and all her creatures. #buddhism #deepecology #workthatreconnects

May I align my will with the will of Spirit.