Your own little body too is full of mysteries and dangers, yet you are not afraid of it, for you take it as your own. What you do not know is that the entire universe is your body and you need not be afraid of it.

Watching the mind build a world: Lucid dreaming as a model for generative perception www.thetransmitter.org/perception/w... - super interesting piece by @magdalena-p.bsky.social!

“It’s so upsetting because it feels like we’ve been completely bamboozled by a candidate that so many people believe in." The argument for citizen assemblies (via sortition) becomes even stronger. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Since his first admin, Trump has been trying to stop our efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Tubman is an American hero — a giant of our history — who singlehandedly freed hundreds of enslaved people. I won’t stop fighting to honor her with this deserved recognition.

[A]t the still point [of the turning world], there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. ― T.S. Eliot

It is the ‘I-am-the-body’ idea that is so calamitous. It blinds you completely to your real nature. Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

A person who fosters the perception of the very beginning and ending of any syllable, sound, or musical note becomes . . . empty, open, and spacious. — Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (trans. Christopher Hareesh Wallis)

Well sure but there’s a “market” for everything, including K-12 ed, police protection, clean water. We just choose to treat certain things as a public good with a basic level of access for all. We could choose to see some access to youth sports as a public good, not a luxury.

Any understanding of the world or even of Buddhist practice is a construct of the mind. Paradoxically, for practitioners, Buddhist teachings are constructs of mind that point beyond themselves. — Gil Fronsdal

"Tonight you will illuminate the path of dreams like glowworms of the northern climes." www.youtube.com/watch?v=906K...

Nisargatta made a very similar point: If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.

The Christian monk Thomas Merton said that any political system is about as good or bad as the people who make it up. And the system doesn't transcend or change the people, it's our consciousness that has to change. — Adyashanti

That which, taken as causal or dependent, is the process of being-born and passing on, is, taken non-causally and beyond all dependence, declared to be nirvāṇa. ― Nāgārjuna (in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, trans. M. Sprung)

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

And Wallis continues: "From a spiritual perspective, the most effective political, social, or environmental activism is awakening to your true nature and helping others awaken." This notion has become a refrain across teachers/authors and spiritual traditions. Don't just do something, sit there.

"Those who are deeply disconnected from their own real nature, and are thus unable to tap into the inexhaustible wellspring of joy, love, and inspiration at their core, will express this inner disconnection and alienation in actions that others find difficult and painful."

Apparently, "250" is colloquially used in Chinese to describe someone as an "idiot" or "fool." More than a little eerie.

Postwar glass-and-steel offices promised modernity and progress. In Office in a Small City (1953), Hopper reveals the cost as he shows a single figure boxed into corporate solitude.

Having given up old contaminants without forming new ones, they neither pursue desires nor get entrenched in doctrines. Free from viewpoints, not clinging to the world, wise ones have no self-reproach. ― Mahābyūha Sutta (trans. Gil Fronsdal)

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour — William Blake (Auguries of Innocence)

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Views and opinions are easy to grasp because we can put them into words. Awareness on the other hand is beyond words, beyond grasping. Goodnight everyone sleep tight.

Not from itself nor from another nor without a cause does anything anywhere arise. ―Nāgārjuna (in The Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way)

“They are among the worst foods you can eat if you eat them often. Once in a while is OK, but eating them on a regular basis is a very bad idea.” Anecdotally, this goes for most popular foods, especially in the US, which many people now habitually consume b/c they are strapped for time and money.

You are prior to the idea 'I am'. Camp yourself there, prior to the words 'I am'. ~ Nisargadatta

The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst.

We’re constantly experiencing consciousness, but we’re not able to recognize its nature. By penetrating to the heart of things, through non-conceptual experience of the inherent energies and capacities of consciousness, we can actually realize that which is always the case, the ever-present pure

Others agree on this point: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4nn...

It's an eye-opening read, especially because it takes a long view of human history and upends a lot of views on "great civilizations," such as Rome, the Egyptians, and many more (which were at their peak highly extractive systems of exploitation, causing untold harm).

Fantastic work on tablas by Trilok Gurtu and the late Zakir Hussain. youtu.be/2tHEdIroUAA?...

The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself. Buddha, Goodnight.

A person who fosters the perception of the very beginning and ending of any syllable, sound, or musical note becomes . . . empty, open, and spacious. — Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (trans. Christopher Hareesh Wallis)

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

What are thoughts? Where do they come from? Where are they going? Who (or what) thinks them? All answers in words are just more thoughts. 😉

"If you think AI can become conscious, . . . it’s because you’ve forgotten what consciousness is." Yes, exactly this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

As long as you and I, or any group of people, are using food, clothing and shelter as a means of exploitation, of power, the problem of starvation will continue. —Krishnamurti

This world is nothing but impressions, since it manifests itself as an unreal object, Just like the case of those with [eye floaters] seeing unreal hairs in the moon and the like. — Vasubandhu (in The Twenty Verses)

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.

Another new interview! This time with my old friend @jysexton.bsky.social who I met a decade ago when we both warned people about Trump. Thank God everyone heeded our warnings and nothing bad happened! jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

Just returning to this: the experience of pure awareness. Great for focused study or dipping into select topics. And it's free for download. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

"Looking back, the article now seems to have predicted much of what was to come from Obama—bailouts for bankers throwing families out of their homes, watered down Wall Street regulations, and incremental health care reforms that enriched insurance companies." www.levernews.com/the-obama-wa...

Imagine that you were able to completely and absolutely give up control on every level. If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being. — Adyashanti (in Emptiness Dancing)

Fathers don’t exist without mothers and children.

It’s an unborn, unimpeded, and skylike experience where appearances that don’t truly exist arise and become liberated of their own accord. ~ Sera Khandro

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

J.J. Cale leading the way to the beyond. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x0J...