I call it the rave yogi sandwich

Compassion and love are my very core. Free of all predilections, I am free to love. Above the unity of Being is the union of Love. Love is the meaning and purpose of duality. Nisargadatta

Analysis only goes so far. Eventually we must fall in love. Let this love end the nonsense of a meditator who meditates.

Today is the first of 25 days of #Crustmas! Post as many crustaceans as possible! (not just crabs) 🦑🧪 This year I'm less personally inclined towards "crabs are the ultimate form", and my piece below explains why. PS all posts will be right here on the crab feed 🦀 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Woke up with a panic attack and a racing mind. 👹🧠🔁 Would be a rough day if I didn't have confidence in methods to handle afflictive emotions. Instead it's handy to have sneaky emotions clearly illuminated.

The Four Immeasurables are like the extent of the body.

I love to fall in love.

The legs on the right side are now done (minus the orange bristles). Back to rendering the carapace the next few days and then adding some soft textures/drop shadow to the background. The end is finally in sight 🦀 Acrylic on panel #sciart

The Chinese buddhist eight consciousnesses model is tying together loose ends I wasn't sure what to do with otherwise. The progression of the path can be roughly understood from the basics of the model. Practical and psychological rather than typical bhumi language.

I am thankful for y'all 💜🙏 I hope you have a wonderful day

"Dharma" teachings arise naturally as the Universe's compassion for its own suffering. These teachings arise as all religions, spirituality, or beliefs that help remove the causes of our suffering. Even if we do not practice "dharma," we can appreciate a sense universal self-compassion.

Every year in the United States, tens of millions of turkeys are killed for the holiday of Thanksgiving, which is this Thursday, Nov 27, 2025. Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered advice in a 2018 teaching to help benefit the turkeys killed, and how we can think during the holiday. fpmt.org/lama-zopa-ri...

how dare you tell me happy hondadays when you know my family celebrates toyotathon

If we examine our authentic nature, nothing can be said to exist therein; Likewise, taking authenticity as the path, becoming one with it, Knowing it only in a moment of unimaged, nonconceptual vision, Consumed by it, we are completely, transparently naked. ~ Longchenpa

By fully believing our own bullshit and being carried away by it we come to understand how all beings do the same and are just like ourselves

This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

The empty cup holds the sun and moon.

To live is cosplay.

"I am" as an empty cup 🍵 Fill'er up with what's needed. Empty it out when finished. Rinse, repeat. No need to confuse the cup with the water.

Whoa whoa, we just gonna throw around the word "them"? We got a license for that kind of violence?

Also: ice cream.

I could die at any moment. Nothing I'm worried about now will matter to me then. Better learn to love before I disappear.

If you listen carefully, everyone's already figuring it out.

I could do anything with the right blanket.

Fearful Symmetry

A bodhisattva seeking or propounding final nirvana is like the drunk sibling who crashes the wedding reception.

Boys workin' on empty Is that the kinda way to face the burnin' heat? I just think about my baby I'm so full of love, I could barely eat Boys, when my baby found me I was three days on a drunken sin I woke with her walls around me Nothin' in her room but an empty crib

Um indicador de refinamento no treino da mente para a meditação ocorre quando passamos a admirar as aparições dela como prodígios dignos de reconhecimento e mesmo de apreciação. Notamos que estamos aprendendo a conduzir uma força da natureza dotada de mágica capaz de criar e transformar o mundo.

I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!

The sweetest chew-chew-chew sounds.

Beautiful ✨ The aspiration prayer of Samantabhadra (with subtitles) youtu.be/OjYqnDo1Xqg?...

A poesia já foi definida por W.H. Auden como a expressão clara de sentimentos misturados. Se for assim, a equanimidade pode ser dita como o espaço onde tal poesia pode operar.

There are still a few frogs out. So there's a bit of hope left.

Ok but like

The significant analogy for our natural base Is the sky, Which is not compounded. It does not come from anywhere. It has existed from the beginning. It does not go anywhere. ~ Tantra on the Heart of the Secret Wheel Of the Wisdom of the Great Perfection

Caught a fuzzy boy in the attic (cotton rat?). He had made quite the bed in the insulation (and dismantled all the noise traps). Very comfy. He had salt and bread under my roof, so he's invoked the rules of hospitality. He'll be fed and offered a fine winter villa in a premier field to the south.

#longfellow #compassion #buddhism

There's a greed for experiences in this body when I misinterpret reality. It dissipates when I see clearly.

There's only being, and whatever we say past that is a human brain adding human-ness. In the bird's head it adds bird-ness onto the base of being. A dog adds dog-ness. It's not a philosophical position. It's living, empty space where all life appears to itself.

Woodpecker Wednesday

Attention is like an intention that creates space to hold something.

Stop talking bb. Show me your karma 👹

I held on because I believed pain meant it was real. - Dostoevsky I let go because nothing that is real should hurt that long. - Kafka

Didn't expect aurora but sky is clearly red. Beautiful.

The people I can't stand are the best teachers I'll ever find.

New friend! A fall katydid? The body seems a bit different than the greenybois.