Brother Spirit (Phap Linh)
@brspirit.bsky.social
Monk at plum village monastery, student of Thich Nhat Hanh
Mostly not engaging with social media
Mostly not engaging with social media
This almost makes me too sad to repost.
Throughout human history, a few assaults on science and knowledge are infamous: the burning of the Library of Alexandria, the arrest and attacks on Galileo, Soviet Lysenkoism, Nazi book burning, and now the wholesale destruction of US scientific excellence by Trump.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This almost makes me too sad to repost.
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This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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NEW The Way Out Is In #podcast 🔔 This time Brother Phap Huu & Jo Confino explore the lifelong journey of self-forgiveness and how to forgive ourselves. 🙏🏽
On the app 👉🏽 link.plumvillage.app/hAWd
More here 👉🏽 plumvillage.org/podcast/self...
#mindfulness #Buddhism #zen #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillageApp
On the app 👉🏽 link.plumvillage.app/hAWd
More here 👉🏽 plumvillage.org/podcast/self...
#mindfulness #Buddhism #zen #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillageApp
December 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
NEW The Way Out Is In #podcast 🔔 This time Brother Phap Huu & Jo Confino explore the lifelong journey of self-forgiveness and how to forgive ourselves. 🙏🏽
On the app 👉🏽 link.plumvillage.app/hAWd
More here 👉🏽 plumvillage.org/podcast/self...
#mindfulness #Buddhism #zen #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillageApp
On the app 👉🏽 link.plumvillage.app/hAWd
More here 👉🏽 plumvillage.org/podcast/self...
#mindfulness #Buddhism #zen #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillageApp
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I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....
“every new solar panel erodes just a little bit the logic of oil imperialism.
“The push for clean energy is the push for peace.”
“The push for clean energy is the push for peace.”
We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis
Right now we’re just doing oil piracy
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Right now we’re just doing oil piracy
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“every new solar panel erodes just a little bit the logic of oil imperialism.
“The push for clean energy is the push for peace.”
“The push for clean energy is the push for peace.”
Love this! And hello.. that’s where i live 🙂
Give this article a read if you’re burned out and looking for a new way to imagine democracy.
“Life is a shared project, and all of us benefit when we cooperate to ensure that there is less suffering, and more joy, in the world.”
How might things be different if we took this sentiment seriously?
“Life is a shared project, and all of us benefit when we cooperate to ensure that there is less suffering, and more joy, in the world.”
How might things be different if we took this sentiment seriously?
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided country – here’s how ‘interbeing’ works
Meditation can change our perceptions about things we encounter in our daily lives − revealing the interconnectedness of reality.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Love this! And hello.. that’s where i live 🙂
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Pretty much all the professions really. I know of climate scientists who are saying a version of this. Environmental consultants too. All in the last week. May something (or some ones) wiser and more connected and rooted rise out of the chaos and crises.
The psychotherapeutic professions, I believe, need to use this collective, global crises to reconsider themselves and their mission
And there so much denial, resistance and fear and avoidance
And there so much denial, resistance and fear and avoidance
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Pretty much all the professions really. I know of climate scientists who are saying a version of this. Environmental consultants too. All in the last week. May something (or some ones) wiser and more connected and rooted rise out of the chaos and crises.
“Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population, but then fall sharply for billionaires and centimillionaires,
“these elites pay less than most of the households that earn much lower incomes”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
“these elites pay less than most of the households that earn much lower incomes”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population, but then fall sharply for billionaires and centimillionaires,
“these elites pay less than most of the households that earn much lower incomes”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
“these elites pay less than most of the households that earn much lower incomes”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
The only thing that makes ai interesting is us
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The only thing that makes ai interesting is us
Very honoured to have been invited to speak at this conference Wed 10th of December, 2pm EST / 8pm CET: “the mathematics of interbeing—a meditation”
free to register and join online
I’ll also be in conversation with one of my scientific heroes, Stuart Kauffman, right after my session.
free to register and join online
I’ll also be in conversation with one of my scientific heroes, Stuart Kauffman, right after my session.
🧠 Next week at Fields!
Join us Dec 9–11 for Multi-Scale Methods and Emergence in Neural & Cognitive Science, an international, interdisciplinary meeting. Register today: emergence-multiscale-neuro-workshop.github.io
Join us Dec 9–11 for Multi-Scale Methods and Emergence in Neural & Cognitive Science, an international, interdisciplinary meeting. Register today: emergence-multiscale-neuro-workshop.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very honoured to have been invited to speak at this conference Wed 10th of December, 2pm EST / 8pm CET: “the mathematics of interbeing—a meditation”
free to register and join online
I’ll also be in conversation with one of my scientific heroes, Stuart Kauffman, right after my session.
free to register and join online
I’ll also be in conversation with one of my scientific heroes, Stuart Kauffman, right after my session.
Fantastic article. So many discoveries like this still to be made
Promising new programme with fascinating plans to deploy #seismology to measure e.g. the volume of a peat bog, bulk density at a fine scale, connected porosity, soil texture, #SoilCarbon, and to track soil moisture..
#EarthRoverProgram
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#EarthRoverProgram
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Fantastic article. So many discoveries like this still to be made
So grateful to @bethsawin.bsky.social for (re) posting this beautiful thought, which i first encountered on Twitter (before you know what) and which I’ve been quoting ever since
Such a clear expression of the connection between the false idea of our separateness and systemic suffering and injustice
Such a clear expression of the connection between the false idea of our separateness and systemic suffering and injustice
For capitalism to keep operating it has to convince you that you are thing that ends at the boundaries of your body rather than a flow connected to uncountable others. After all, you can't really profit off extracting from yourself.
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So grateful to @bethsawin.bsky.social for (re) posting this beautiful thought, which i first encountered on Twitter (before you know what) and which I’ve been quoting ever since
Such a clear expression of the connection between the false idea of our separateness and systemic suffering and injustice
Such a clear expression of the connection between the false idea of our separateness and systemic suffering and injustice
I have not been posting much here, but our web team posted this today, so here it is
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An Invitation to a Reckoning With Your Deepest Dreams | Br. Phap Linh
YouTube video by Plum Village
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December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have not been posting much here, but our web team posted this today, so here it is
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For capitalism to keep operating it has to convince you that you are thing that ends at the boundaries of your body rather than a flow connected to uncountable others. After all, you can't really profit off extracting from yourself.
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For capitalism to keep operating it has to convince you that you are thing that ends at the boundaries of your body rather than a flow connected to uncountable others. After all, you can't really profit off extracting from yourself.
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Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
Guardians and protectors, now i step into this great charnel ground, this great bardo called the Internet.
I recognise that this is a place of wild and precarious forces. A place where i may see things disturbing and distracting that will tug at my attention and try to get in.
I recognise that this is a place of wild and precarious forces. A place where i may see things disturbing and distracting that will tug at my attention and try to get in.
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Guardians and protectors, now i step into this great charnel ground, this great bardo called the Internet.
I recognise that this is a place of wild and precarious forces. A place where i may see things disturbing and distracting that will tug at my attention and try to get in.
I recognise that this is a place of wild and precarious forces. A place where i may see things disturbing and distracting that will tug at my attention and try to get in.
Thinking about creating a temple of interbeing
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thinking about creating a temple of interbeing
Writing a book. New title/subtitle idea:
Touching the Ultimate —
Zen, science and the nature of reality
Thoughts?
Touching the Ultimate —
Zen, science and the nature of reality
Thoughts?
August 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Writing a book. New title/subtitle idea:
Touching the Ultimate —
Zen, science and the nature of reality
Thoughts?
Touching the Ultimate —
Zen, science and the nature of reality
Thoughts?
Hello people
May you be well
May you be happy
May you enjoy a moment of stillness and peace today
May you be well
May you be happy
May you enjoy a moment of stillness and peace today
May 7, 2023 at 12:38 PM
Hello people
May you be well
May you be happy
May you enjoy a moment of stillness and peace today
May you be well
May you be happy
May you enjoy a moment of stillness and peace today
Wishing everyone well today
May your pain be held in the tender heart of compassion…
May the experience of bathing your pain in compassion become the source of ever greater waves of compassion, radiating boundlessly, including those around you, spreading to embrace the entire cosmos
May your pain be held in the tender heart of compassion…
May the experience of bathing your pain in compassion become the source of ever greater waves of compassion, radiating boundlessly, including those around you, spreading to embrace the entire cosmos
April 20, 2023 at 12:55 PM
Wishing everyone well today
May your pain be held in the tender heart of compassion…
May the experience of bathing your pain in compassion become the source of ever greater waves of compassion, radiating boundlessly, including those around you, spreading to embrace the entire cosmos
May your pain be held in the tender heart of compassion…
May the experience of bathing your pain in compassion become the source of ever greater waves of compassion, radiating boundlessly, including those around you, spreading to embrace the entire cosmos
Assume the possibility of peace
April 17, 2023 at 12:14 PM
Assume the possibility of peace
May you all be well, May you all know peace and freedom from strife, May you know the refreshing waters of transcendent happiness and delight
🧙♂️🙏👍🙏✨
And here is a tree - patiently showing the way since the High Middle Ages
🧙♂️🙏👍🙏✨
And here is a tree - patiently showing the way since the High Middle Ages
April 15, 2023 at 5:03 AM
May you all be well, May you all know peace and freedom from strife, May you know the refreshing waters of transcendent happiness and delight
🧙♂️🙏👍🙏✨
And here is a tree - patiently showing the way since the High Middle Ages
🧙♂️🙏👍🙏✨
And here is a tree - patiently showing the way since the High Middle Ages