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the past is not the present becoming set in stone, binding and inalterable. the past never manifests at all, only ever appearing as an idea in the present. the present transforms but does not become the past, the present leaves no trace behind, the present never leaves at all.

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This regenerative candle creates a new candle as it melts --

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this tweet brought to you by a recently retweeted commentary on america

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doubt you’ll ever hear me remark on politics. another way of looking at it is that I remark on politics plenty often, any time I remark on culture, I just have zero interest in the endlessly oscillating charade that is usually associated with the word

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Anosognosiogenesis

Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

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Anosognosiogenesis

Every cop show: damn, this serial killer is crafty, very smart and sneaky Every true crime podcast: despite dozens of complaints from neighbors, it took over a year for police to investigate the source of the foul odor

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‘do not build permanent structures in the land of despair. it is not where we live’ do not build permanent structures anywhere. they are all empty

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totally fine to travel to the conceptual realm— definitely do not recommend making a home there

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any picture that is looked at intentionally is an imperceptibly small fraction of the perfection that appears when intention is relinquished

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yup, i feel the same way 🙌 the moment itself is the most information dense, everything else is a weak representation of it that shouldn’t be taken too seriously

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Thank you Elon, it has all been worth it for this.

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onumi & zaphyre - Spider Tank

Shoutout to @zaphyremusic @onumi Twitter: https://twitter.com/OniMegumi SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/onumi Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/34yA07sOWHmruBJksNc0EY YouTube: http

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good lord

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"Each one of you are perfect as you are. And you all could use a little bit of improvement." Suzuki Roshi

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if your body can’t handle diet soda then maybe you’re ngmi. i’m speed running diet coke induced epigenetic adaptations

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Swami Vivekananda (স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ)

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. #SwamiVivekananda

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for the python crew: packagecontrol.io/packages/LSP-p

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we briefly interrupt our regularly scheduled emptiness posting for an important announcement for sublime text users: if you do not know about LSP, you should lsp.sublimetext.io

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The whole of the meditative path is about letting go, which leads to peace and flow through the attenuation of tanha. In some specific practices you might want to attend to the body more than say inner monologue. But in the general case let things arise and pass, let them go

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A lot of beginning meditators think meditation is about having no thoughts or no inner monologue or ever imagining the future or past. It’s not! Meditation does tend to reduce those things, your mind just gets more interested in what is here now, but it’s bad to push them away

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When you realize it’s just an idea you can handle it more playfully. You don’t get “lost” in thoughts and you aren’t grabbing it with your attention instinctively and frenetically. You’re just a spacious presence around the thoughts playing with the future

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Putting these together, there’s nothing wrong about thinking about the future or the past, as long as you experientially recognize you’re not *actually* in the future or the past, you’re sitting at a cafe or whatever. This matters bc you realize it’s a fabrication, a thought

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When things feel more like you, or more permanent, or like they’re the one perfect thing that will finally give you infinite happiness (eg crushes) they get more tanha. When you have big awareness and you watch something arise and pass into it mindfully, less tanha, less grab

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Tanha is a grabby sensation so fast that you don’t notice it without lots of practice. Among many other things it turns sensate particles into something that feel like “your problem”, I think (conjecture, could be wrong) “being triggered” is when you have a large amount of tanha

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But why does this matter? It doesn’t directly. Who cares that you can do a neat party trick of attention to inside and outside at the same time It matters because the real devil is a subtle mental mechanic called tanha that causes approximately all the problems

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You can only notice this if you can expand your awareness first. Try listen for an actual plane flying 5000ft above you, don’t imagine it just listen for it, check if there’s a plane, now while your awareness is expanded try imagining a cute dog, but without collapsing attention

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nightskinned hugslut

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the amount of sexual shame some of us are still carrying is immense. growing up constantly hearing messages of how filthy and dirty and unlovable we are for having sexual urges and desires. or for men, how worthless they are if they can't perform a certain way. —

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@peak_valley_pea

This is how our day-to-day experience of being alive seems to be: (tap to expand!)

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it's a curious pattern and it suggests we tend to underestimate the amount of assumption when we "0 index". there is a law 0 of thermodynamics, but i'm sure we could say even more obvious things

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The Lookout

F/2.0 and FIRE MIDS

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is there anything better for clarity in a mix than slightly offsetting elements that hit together. I mean wow

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I am going to be nice to everyone today whether they like it or not

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as any peak performer will confirm - when you are in the flow "you" are not there

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Book of Life, The

Inspired by Krishnamurti's perception that truth can be discovered by anyone, and that all life is interconnected. The Book of Life presents passages from Krishnamurti's talks and writings on a...

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'there is no learning if thought originates from conclusions'

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the concept keeps us one thought away from the present ☯️🧘‍♂️

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the idea of a tree is not a tree itself “when you look at a tree and you label it, categorize it— you cease to look at it”

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