Looking for reliable news on the hantavirus outbreak? Stepping out of my vaccine conference to be on the BBC world service radio in a few minutes to get into more detail. I’ll be doing more updates like this with @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social so let me know what you think and ask me anything!

deal with each thought the way a cat knocks something off a table

Here’s the thing that deconstructs institutional religion, for me. We’re not a brief arrangement of atoms experiencing the universe. We’re the universe briefly arranged into a form that can experience itself. There’s no old man on a cloud watching us.

April showers.. 🌦️ 🌈

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz: both open and closed.

སར་མ་རབ་རབ་མར་མ་དང༌། ས་མ་ཟལ་པ་ཆ་བར་དང་། ར་ལམ་གག་དང་སན་ལ་བ། འདས་བས་ད་ལར་བལ་བར་བ། ། ། ། ། "Like a star, hallucination, candle, magical illusion, dewdrop, bubble, dream, lightning, or a cloud — Know all compounded phenomena to be like this." ~Diamond Cutter Sūtra #dzogchen #dharma

One of Priest’s fellow-Episcopalians, a man, reported, “I had a total deconstruction of patriarchal religion.” #fungi #religion #spirituality #psychedelics michaelpollan.com/articles-arc...

I found 20 quid outside the supermarket and I felt a little bit guilty as I picked it up, so because it’s Good Friday I thought to myself, “What would Jesus do?”. So I turned it into wine...

Love and belonging high on the pyramid of basic needs. Also “Self-actualization is at the pinnacle of what Maslow defined as a hierarchy of human needs” “Maslow argued that, to be truly happy, painters need to paint, writers need to write, musicians need to play.” ~ Maslow 1.4.1908 Ref alt

"We have a particular capacity for believing lies, that cemeteries are for other people, hospitals are for other people, that we are going to live a long time. This is how we live. If we thought we were really going to die, we might review how we live.” - James Low #Impermanence

We have SUCH better things to do than bomb children to steal fossil fuels from the fragile miracle that is Earth.

“We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice.” — Terry Tempest Williams

Link to online event for those who cannot attend #NoKings tomorrow in person. Please share. We the People ⚖️🗽🇺🇸https://www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

🪷🫧✨🙏🏼 #dharma #nonduality #dzogchen

To be fair, it's better to pay ICE agents to stand around airports doing absolutely nothing than it is to pay them to brutalize people, but it looks like they're managing to do both.

Neither cessation nor origination, neither annihilation nor the eternal, neither singularity nor plurality, and neither the coming nor the going of any phenomenon. Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting, and thinking happening by themselves, for themselves, of themselves.

🪷 Stop octopus cruelty. Say NO to factory farming - sign today! action.ciwf.org.uk/page/163943/...

"We should learn to see everyday life as mandala - the luminous fringes of experience, which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life experience moving in the dance or play of the universe." ~Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche

"Other women merely speak of longing for Dharma She has faith from the core of the heart! Other women have faith in ornaments and decoration, She has longing for the essence of the three times, absent of good and bad. My reasoning is inferior but determination is huge!" from: Yeshe Tsogyel's song

Apparently, we are going to protest. This is meant to help you prepare and stay safe: open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

"Each #time a #woman 👩🏻 stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all #women 👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏻." — Maya Angelou

This thread’s now closed for new Q&A, but Dr Titanji’s a must follow for her generous offerings of health and infectious disease information. #publichealth

The Epstein class continues to push their agenda of profit before people and planet by cutting down crucial old growth forests. PLEASE take 1min to help defend against this atrocity b following the link.

The Woodland Cree First Nation in Alberta is challenging three Water Act approvals granted for large-scale peat mining in their traditional territory. The projects would strip nearly 900 hectares of muskeg over the next 45 to 48 years.

The essence of mind is like space, which does not need to be altered. It is just this way by itself. Do we need to imagine or fabricate the space in this room? It does not need to be manufactured. That is how the nature of all beings is. ~ Tulku Urgyen

Sadly, the firing of Noem is meaningless. Until Stephen Miller is removed (which requires a gallon of blessed Holy Water, a stake of pure gold driven through his black heart, and the recitation of exorcisms in dead languages), Noem is just a distraction. Miller is a DEMON. #StephenMiller #Evil

Not very long ago that the treasure holders of Tibet were exiled from their homeland. Buddhism spread to the U.S. in an effort to maintain these treasures. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche being one. #buddhism #dzogchen #freetibet youtu.be/FnfVh247-cg?...

All-timer meditation essay imo "When I did open to everything, there was no opposition — there was no enemy. I didn’t have to struggle with experience. At the same time, there was no truth, no state of perfection, no ideal, no final achievement." unfetteredmind.org/article/a-wa...

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Rich collection of teachings from various mystical traditions generously narrated by Samaneri Jayasara. ✨🪷 🫧 youtube.com/@samanerijay...

Attended an online Zen talk yesterday in which the speaker mentioned that the "royal ease" pose of the bodhisattva Kannon (Quanyin) portrays an accessible compassion and equanimity, and a readiness to act with kindness and wisdom.

This world could be so much better than this with just a little effort. We just need to get a handful of deranged men out of power and give power to those who know what power is for. We can be so much better than this.

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Honestly, no better way to summarize my own orientation to designing novel ecosystems in these troubled times than this: "One way civilization might meet the interwoven crises of our time — by aligning human, machine and planetary intelligence into a working whole." - Rimma Boshernitsan

@markey.senate.gov Way to go! Thank you so much for representing the Commonwealth and We the People 🗽🇺🇸✊🏼🙏🏼✨

It’s been a long winter #NewEngland

It kills me every damn time. #grammar #Virgo

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Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

From STANDING AT THE EDGE: Power, for example, can blunt our capacity for empathy, as if our brain had sustained serious damage. An article in the July/August, 2017 issue of The Atlantic summarized it this way: “The historian Henry Adams was being metaphorical, not medical, when he described

Thoughts manifest themselves within emptiness and are reabsorbed into it like a face appears and disappears in a mirror; the face has never been in the mirror, and when it ceases to be reflected in it, it has not really ceased to exist. The mirror itself has never changed. ~ Dilgo Khyentse

🌹🙏💎 Janes Low ~

I’ve had the experience of internet service being down for ~3 days (community-owned service) and wfh (can’t teach at a cafe) so this has been a practice w all the feels. Love not subscribing to a corporate provider but..😬

Ram Dass: The universe is made up of experiences designed to burn out our reactivity, which is our attachment, to pain, to pleasure, to fear, to all of it. As long as there’re places where we’re vulnerable, the universe will find ways to confront us w them. That’s the way the dance is designed.. ✨🔥🙏🏼

On meditation “As Shantideva says, there is nothing that will not get easier with familiarity. Therefore, if one keeps trying, it will get more and more familiar, and as that happens it will become easier and easier.” ~ Teachings from Tibet teachingsfromtibet.com

#BadBunny for the win!! #TeamBadBunny #FUTPUSA This gut gets it!

Can ya do it? ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche THE THREE ESSENTIAL POINTS OF RIGPA Resting freely, pervasive and wide open - these are the three essential points of rigpa. 1/

In the moment that we recognize the vastness of our own potential, it is still our habit patterns & tendencies that will continue to create the personality that informs our consciousness & our experience. Yet, within that experience lies the spaciousness and awareness that transcend it. ~ K. Dowman

Can't believe I've been doing this for 12months! For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc February 2026 edition #Anniversary