Many of us pathologize our nightmares as symptoms of a broken mind and so naturally try to get rid of them. In fact, nightmares are not only one of the most visceral ways to meet our shadow, but often also a sign that the mind is healing. ― Charlie Morley (in Dreaming Through Darkness)

"With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for 'the positive affirmation of peace.'” actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

Yes, AI (like everything else) is not "over there." The (typically unconsciously held) assumption that the world has a dualistic (subject-object) structure leads to even stranger assumptions (e.g., of "machine sentience").

Just as the *cloud of unknowing* lies above you, between you and your God, so you must fashion a *cloud of forgetting* beneath you, between you and every created thing. ― Anonymous (in The Cloud of Unknowing)

🙏 ❤️ additional translations:

So close, you cannot see it So simple, you cannot believe it So easy, you cannot trust it So profound, you cannot fathom it So good, you cannot accept it

[E]mptiness practices seek not to obliterate the world of phenomena, nor to erase the self, but rather to understand the deepest nature of all phenomena and all selves―their voidness―in a way that frees us and frees up compassion. ― Rob Burbea (in: Seeing That Frees)

"A U M [Ōṁ] stands for the supreme Reality. It is a symbol for what is, what was, and what shall be. AUM also represents what is beyond past, present, and future.

Where the hell is the "Board of Peace?” Over 500 Palestinians have been killed since the “ceasefire.” This comes days after the IDF itself admitted the Palestinian death toll is over 70,000.  The use of American taxpayer-funded weapons makes us complicit.  Stop the slaughter.

[A]llow your mind to be as it naturally is, and let thoughts dissolve in themselves. This is your innate mind, which is an unidentifiable, self-knowing, natural awareness. ― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)

There is no Bodhi-tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight? Hui Neng Goodnight everyone enjoy the simple insight of this verse.

[I]n the network of linguistic interactions in which we move, we maintain an ongoing descriptive recursion which we call the "I." It enables us to conserve our linguistic operational coherence and our adaptation in the domain of language. ― H. Maturana & F. Varela (in The Tree of Knowledge)

Before you conceptualize anything, you are, even before the knowingness, you are. You have only to apperceive this knowingness, this love to be, the Self. . . . [T]he Self wants to know itself. ― Nisargadatta (in Consciousness and the Absolute)

Without letting it dwindle away from indifference, retain the words through learning, discern their meaning through reflection, practice one-pointedly through meditation training, and accomplish the welfare of self and others. ~ Padmasambhava

1/3 "The mind of the Buddha is one's own mind. This is something that cannot be expressed by words; one can only see it for oneself. It is beyond expression; it is beyond description or conception and cannot be expressed."

If you want to understand your mind, sit down and observe it. — Anagarika Munindra

To all the white liberals who are shocked right now: Yes, I hear you. I was shocked too when Trump was elected in 2016. Then, I got over the shock, and woke up more fully to the reality of the American Empire. It's time you did too.

Reality is in the process of awakening all of itself to itself. And that part of the picture is going to be hard to see if we fixate on the absolute view—if we use the absolute view to hide from our humanness. — Adyashanti (in The End of Your World)

"To transcend the self, force yourself to be alone with it long enough to get so bored and exhausted that you are happy to let it go." www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

As the saying goes, when you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

Self-control, being thoughtful of others, and friendliness—these states of mind are meritorious and the seeds of fruit both hereafter and here. — Nagarjuna (in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, transl. Siderits & Katsura)

❄️ Impermanence. Snow building up again after 3 minutes. Gratitude for having warmth, shelter and food. May all beings who are in the path of this storm be safe, warm and have nourishment. Immeasurable gratitude for all those plowing streets and highways and attending to power lines and stations 🌹🙏💎

Republicans serve the openly antidemocratic rich and express the rabid need to bring people to submission through gleeful brutality. Democrats serve the rich who want to maintain a semblance of decorum and civility while their pursuit of more wealth and power necessitates creeping fascism.

Ask why they opposed abolishing ICE under Biden yet are suddenly for it now -- when ICE has been abusive for decades and Biden increased the ICE budget enormously. Ask whether there was a dark money payoff to harass the "Abolish ICE" movement and to insert Dem talking points on ICE into media...

[A]ll sentient beings...want nothing but happiness. Unfortunately, through their negative actions they only create the causes for further pain and suffering. Take this to heart and consider all [to be your] parents, wandering blindly and endlessly through painful samsaric states.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. — Meister Eckhart (in The Essential Sermons)

The joy of the spirit ever abides, But not what seems pleasant to the senses. Both these, differing in their purpose, prompt Us to action. All is well for those who choose The joy of the spirit, but [Those who prefer the pleasant] Miss the goal of life. — The Katha Upanishad (trans. Eknath Easwaran)

Today's political parties won't save the day.

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

Samsara is abiding confusion about who you are.

I think everyone could benefit from a little aurora break

The only certainty, it seems to me, is that those who believe they are certainly right are certainly wrong. ― Iain McGilchrist (in The Master and His Emissary)

There's enough in the world for everyone's need; there is not enough for everyone's greed. ― (attributed to) Mahatma Gandhi

Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for. ― Henri Bergson (in The Creative Mind)

[N]ot knowing what makes up our world of experience, which is the closest world to us, is a crying shame. There are many things to be shamed about in the world, but this ignorance is one of the worst. ― Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela (in The Tree of Knowledge)

"AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the datacenters will be shuttered or sold for parts. So what will be left behind?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

On this ever-revolving wheel of life The individual self goes round and round Through life after life, believing itself To be a separate creature, until It sees its identity with the Lord of Love And attains immortality in the indivisible whole. ―The Shvetashvatara Upanishad

“This is what America needs right now.” #WalkForPeace youtube.com/shorts/FxpP0...

He's perfect. As always.

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)

Fun Boy Three living up to their name. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aC-...

People who truly follow the way don't look at the faults of the world who looks at the faults of the world only adds to their own. I don't condemn the faults of others my own wrongs are what I condemn once you stop trying to lay blame all your afflictions will shatter. ―The Platform Sutra

We are going to do something terrible to you—we are going to deprive you of an enemy. —Soviet official Georgi Arbatov (in 1988) These words were prescient. Without an outer enemy, an inner void opens, but instead of stepping into and exploring it, we collectively recoiled and great calamity ensued.

"Waking up to nearly $2 billion in grant cancellations means front-line providers are forced to cease overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, and peer recovery services immediately, leaving our communities defenseless against a raging crisis." Horrendous cruelty. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

February 1: COURAGE with Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, free, online Feb 1: 11-12:30 MT www.upaya.org/program/the-... What is the measure of our humanity? This is the vital question we are ask as many of us find ourselves in sorrow, rage, and grief.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost, right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. ― Lao Tzu

[W]hat the Tathagata speaks of as streams of thoughts are no streams [of thought]. Thus they are called "streams of thought." And how so?... [A] past thought cannot be found. A future thought cannot be found. Nor can a present thought be found. ―The Diamond Sutra (trans. Red Pine)

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. ― C.G. Jung

We're in the world, not against it.