Dependent Co-Arising
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Meditation, philosophy, lucid dreaming
You are prior to the idea 'I am'. Camp yourself there, prior to the words 'I am'.
—Nisargadatta
You are prior to the idea 'I am'. Camp yourself there, prior to the words 'I am'.
—Nisargadatta
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![There are moral dangers here. To take what might seem an “objective” economic approach to the origins of the world economy would be to treat the behavior of early European explorers, merchants, and conquerors as if they were simply rational responses to opportunities―as if this were just what anyone would have done in the same situation. This is what the use of equations [in economics] so often does: make it seem perfectly natural to assume that, if the price of silver in China is twice that of what it is in Seville, and inhabitants of Seville are capable of getting their hands on large quantities of silver and transporting it to China, then clearly they will, even if doing so requires the destruction of entire civilizations. . . . In fact, history makes it quite clear that this is not the case. Any number of civilizations have probably been in a position to wreak havoc on the scale that the European powers did in the 16th and 17th centuries, . . . but almost none actually did so.
― David Graeber (in Debt: The First 5,000 Years)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tqlqtnaocssoxvmsxethedjn/bafkreictu2kpcugq6g3tnc6lzy7bqdeg7moq7ynrqtdizracf2u5wv3kbu@jpeg)
Immorality often arises from unexamined and deeply flawed assumptions that are held up as "conventional knowledge" (or, worse, as "wisdom"):
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
So simple, you cannot believe it
So easy, you cannot trust it
So profound, you cannot fathom it
So good, you cannot accept it
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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
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)
― Rob Burbea (in: Seeing That Frees)
February 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
[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)
― 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.
February 1, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"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.
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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.
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.
Israeli strikes kill over 30 in Gaza, health ministry says, in deadliest day in months | CNN
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 31 people on Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the highest day’s death toll in over two months.
www.cnn.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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.
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)
― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)
January 31, 2026 at 2:12 PM
[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)
― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)
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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.
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.
January 29, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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.
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)
― H. Maturana & F. Varela (in The Tree of Knowledge)
January 30, 2026 at 3:21 PM
[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)
― 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)
― Nisargadatta (in Consciousness and the Absolute)
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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)
― Nisargadatta (in Consciousness and the Absolute)
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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
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
January 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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
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
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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."
January 28, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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
— Anagarika Munindra
January 28, 2026 at 1:59 PM
If you want to understand your mind, sit down and observe it.
— Anagarika Munindra
— Anagarika Munindra
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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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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.
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)
— Adyashanti (in The End of Your World)
January 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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)
— 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...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
How to Have a ‘Don’t-Know Mind’
My quest to understand consciousness took me to a cave in New Mexico and then deep into the cosmos.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:10 PM
"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...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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As the saying goes, when you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
January 26, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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)
— Nagarjuna (in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, transl. Siderits & Katsura)
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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)
— Nagarjuna (in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, transl. Siderits & Katsura)
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❄️ 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 🌹🙏💎
January 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
❄️ 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 🌹🙏💎
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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.
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.
January 25, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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.
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.
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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...
Ask whether there was a dark money payoff to harass the "Abolish ICE" movement and to insert Dem talking points on ICE into media...
January 25, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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...
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.
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 PM
[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)
— Meister Eckhart (in The Essential Sermons)
January 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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)
— 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)
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)
January 23, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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)
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.
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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)
Just like the case of those with [myodesopsia eye disease] seeing unreal hairs in the moon and the like.
— Vasubandhu (in The Twenty Verses)
January 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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)
Just like the case of those with [myodesopsia eye disease] seeing unreal hairs in the moon and the like.
— Vasubandhu (in The Twenty Verses)
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Samsara is abiding confusion about who you are.
January 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Samsara is abiding confusion about who you are.