Happy feast of St Francis!

Happy Michaelmas everyone!

Happy Easter… Kommt eilet und laufet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fa...

Great day for the Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsZ...

ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor

Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto. This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson

Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!

TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour

Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism. "This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased." Hits different now that I'm a dad too!

Happy epiphany! Enjoy one of Bach's great epiphany cantatas, BWV 65 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzr...

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 🎄🌟🎄

Beethoven thread! He hit the ground running. The Op 1 piano trios were the first music he gave an opus number to, in 1795. Even this first work is awesome and worth listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_r...

On to the classical era! I got serious whiplash in Greenberg's survey course because he brought us straight from JS Bach to Haydn which is like mixing coke with 7 up. For a smoother transition try some CPE Bach, note the use of silence and homophonic texture in place of polyphony

It's Beethoven's birthday and I spent 2024 learning obsessively about classical music so wanted to do a thread that might be inspirational for the curious. I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!

With so many prisoners released in Syria, today is a good day to pray to St Leonard of Noblac, patron of captives, breaker of chains. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...

Claims www.shinzen.org/wp-content/u...

TIL there is actually a marsh mallow plant that is the basis of marshmallows

Q for @csaid.bsky.social should we be worried about this bird flu thing? manifold.markets/jgyou/will-t...

"The foxes have their lairs, the birds of heaven their nests, but I have no place to rest my head." Ste Therèse de Lisieux, pray for us!

Today's Gospel reading was about the transfiguration, such a cinematic event!

Happy Epiphany to all the gentiles out there!

Today's Bishop Barron sermon was especially good. The way to heaven is part of heaven! Buddhism flipped my perspective here namely, the spiritual path creates heaven _in this life_. You don't even have to believe in literal heaven (do we even know what that means?) if you believe in the Way

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It's pretty crazy how Nietzsche's critique of Descartes is basically identical to the Buddhist idea of anatta (no-self).

Posting late but Sunday was the feast of the Transfiguration!

I'ma let you finish, but Palestrina had the greatest mass of ALL TIME

I just got back from a retreat on theosis with Father Luke Dysinger. I was curious about connections to Buddhist monasticism as well as a deeper understanding of the Christian doctrine of salvation. Fr Luke's site: http://ldysinger.com/retreats/theosis-apokatastasis/00a_start_theosis-apokat.htm

> Be me > Be St Anthony the Great > Be in the desert > Be thinking about God alone > Seraphim shows up

So rough Wordle 736 6/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Heading off to a 10 day Goenka retreat, I’m super grateful for this article about the pitfalls (and benefits!) of the Goenka method https://storiesfromtheground.com/2020/05/23/vipassana-with-sn-goenka-pros-mostly-cons/

Uh hello, based department?

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In 258 BC the emperor of India, Ashoka the Great, was trying to convert his subjects in the Greek city of Kandahar to Buddhism, so he had these stone edicts about the Dhamma carved in Greek. Basically every word in that sentence blows my mind.

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Manifesting the bodhisattva John Carmack to perform a `git rebase`

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Just casually asking ChatGPT to find connections between Heidegger, McGilchrist, and Buddhism

Skin of my teeth Wordle 704 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Turns out Monterrey is an amazing city for architecture https://www.dezeen.com/tag/monterrey/

@berduck.deepfates.com parle-tu bien le français?

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I’m a little nervous but started listening to the Rob Burbea Jhana retreat today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaLPTYoq6sI&list=PLO6hhaAzLmiqUzBYuLLJQ8FexOTRxz8xF