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"):
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The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
It's Rotten All the Way Down: Epstein, Trump, and the Twilight of the Elites
What's being exposed is bigger than Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump. It's the failure of American institutions
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...
The moment of recognizing mind essence is the instant that impure experience, the habit of fixating on all things as solid reality, disperses into basic space. What is left is pure experience, pure phenomena.
― Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (in As It Is: Vol. 1)
― Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (in As It Is: Vol. 1)
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The moment of recognizing mind essence is the instant that impure experience, the habit of fixating on all things as solid reality, disperses into basic space. What is left is pure experience, pure phenomena.
― Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (in As It Is: Vol. 1)
― Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (in As It Is: Vol. 1)
"The disappearance of local knowledge is not a trivial loss. It is a disruption to the larger web of understanding that sustains both human and ecological wellbeing."
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"The disappearance of local knowledge is not a trivial loss. It is a disruption to the larger web of understanding that sustains both human and ecological wellbeing."
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
"A truly novel political movement from outside the corporate duopoly is needed"
Yes. The late 70s/80s in Europe saw the Green movement form in response to the impending ecological crisis. Because of its electoral system (and utilitarian leanings), the U.S. has so far not seen a comparable movement.
Yes. The late 70s/80s in Europe saw the Green movement form in response to the impending ecological crisis. Because of its electoral system (and utilitarian leanings), the U.S. has so far not seen a comparable movement.
Nick Fuentes and the Hollow Soul of America: Is there an America After the Idols?
Trump seems to be losing control over the MAGA movement he created. His surrogates remain confused, comparing Zoran Mamdani’s success mobilizing young New Yorkers to the rise of the Hitler Youth. Meanwhile Zoomers on…
Trump seems to be losing control over the MAGA movement he created. His surrogates remain confused, comparing Zoran Mamdani’s success mobilizing young New Yorkers to the rise of the Hitler Youth. Meanwhile Zoomers on…
Nick Fuentes and the Hollow Soul of America: Is there an America After the Idols?
Trump seems to be losing control over the MAGA movement he created. His surrogates remain confused, comparing Zoran Mamdani’s success mobilizing young New Yorkers to the rise of the Hitler Youth. Meanwhile Zoomers on the right are openly embracing white supremacism. Last night, I finally watched Tucker Carlson’s long interview with Nick Fuentes. I hesitate to even mention the guy, but the frog is clearly already out of the bag.
footnotes2plato.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"A truly novel political movement from outside the corporate duopoly is needed"
Yes. The late 70s/80s in Europe saw the Green movement form in response to the impending ecological crisis. Because of its electoral system (and utilitarian leanings), the U.S. has so far not seen a comparable movement.
Yes. The late 70s/80s in Europe saw the Green movement form in response to the impending ecological crisis. Because of its electoral system (and utilitarian leanings), the U.S. has so far not seen a comparable movement.
With respect to ... appearances, [those who know the truth] think that the conditioned and unconditioned, ... the occurrence of conceptualization, and the phenomenal appearance of conditioned phenomena exist in the way magical illusions do.
— Unravelling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra)
— Unravelling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra)
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
With respect to ... appearances, [those who know the truth] think that the conditioned and unconditioned, ... the occurrence of conceptualization, and the phenomenal appearance of conditioned phenomena exist in the way magical illusions do.
— Unravelling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra)
— Unravelling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra)
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
[A]s long as this unconfined mind has not been purified of karma, it appears in various ways when meeting with...different types of objects.... [Y]ou must gain...certainty in the fact that the various types of perception are mind.
― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)
― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
[A]s long as this unconfined mind has not been purified of karma, it appears in various ways when meeting with...different types of objects.... [Y]ou must gain...certainty in the fact that the various types of perception are mind.
― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)
― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Clarifying the Natural State)
"What we’re seeing is a closed doom loop underpinned by…well, what exactly?"
Good old-fashioned greed.
Good old-fashioned greed.
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"What we’re seeing is a closed doom loop underpinned by…well, what exactly?"
Good old-fashioned greed.
Good old-fashioned greed.
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of "independent existence." There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
― Alfred North Whitehead
― Alfred North Whitehead
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of "independent existence." There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
― Alfred North Whitehead
― Alfred North Whitehead
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“[Bodhisattvas] themselves abstain from killing, encourage others to abstain from killing, praise abstention from killing, and when others abstain from killing give them praise and approval."
~The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines~
~The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines~
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“[Bodhisattvas] themselves abstain from killing, encourage others to abstain from killing, praise abstention from killing, and when others abstain from killing give them praise and approval."
~The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines~
~The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines~
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Hey lawyers out there- what do you think?
If this works then every state can use this as a method to prevent Dark Money
@janemayer.bsky.social
@governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov
@governor.ny.gov
www.instagram.com/reel/DP1jhXU...
@janemayer.bsky.social
@governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov
@governor.ny.gov
www.instagram.com/reel/DP1jhXU...
Dave Norton on Instagram: "How to break the dark money machine without Congress"
Montana's constitutional amendment takes a unique approach to addressing the issue of dark money in politics, challenging the Citizens United decision without needing a federal amendment or waiting fo...
www.instagram.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey lawyers out there- what do you think?
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Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?
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Bird Cloud, Lyonel Feininger 1926
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Bird Cloud, Lyonel Feininger 1926
All [phenomena] are defined by emptiness [infinite interconnectedness],
not by birth or destruction,
purity or defilement,
completeness or deficiency.
― The Heart Sutra (transl. Red Pine)
not by birth or destruction,
purity or defilement,
completeness or deficiency.
― The Heart Sutra (transl. Red Pine)
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
All [phenomena] are defined by emptiness [infinite interconnectedness],
not by birth or destruction,
purity or defilement,
completeness or deficiency.
― The Heart Sutra (transl. Red Pine)
not by birth or destruction,
purity or defilement,
completeness or deficiency.
― The Heart Sutra (transl. Red Pine)
The ultimate truth transcends all kinds of notions, including notions of being and nonbeing, birth and death, coming and going. If you don’t let go of these notions, you can never touch the ultimate.
― Thich Nhat Hanh
― Thich Nhat Hanh
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The ultimate truth transcends all kinds of notions, including notions of being and nonbeing, birth and death, coming and going. If you don’t let go of these notions, you can never touch the ultimate.
― Thich Nhat Hanh
― Thich Nhat Hanh
"Everything becomes commonplace by explanation."
Always very useful to bear in mind when engaging in contemplative practice—when something deeply astonishing is experienced/revealed, the analytical intellect often makes a real hash of it.
Always very useful to bear in mind when engaging in contemplative practice—when something deeply astonishing is experienced/revealed, the analytical intellect often makes a real hash of it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Everything becomes commonplace by explanation."
Always very useful to bear in mind when engaging in contemplative practice—when something deeply astonishing is experienced/revealed, the analytical intellect often makes a real hash of it.
Always very useful to bear in mind when engaging in contemplative practice—when something deeply astonishing is experienced/revealed, the analytical intellect often makes a real hash of it.
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The X5.1 CME has impacted Earth with a strength of around 37 nT. This is a strong impact, but the Bz remains positive. It is possible we see the Bz turn south, so don't get upset about this. Conditions can quickly pivot during events, especially in the beginning of a CME passage.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The X5.1 CME has impacted Earth with a strength of around 37 nT. This is a strong impact, but the Bz remains positive. It is possible we see the Bz turn south, so don't get upset about this. Conditions can quickly pivot during events, especially in the beginning of a CME passage.
Saw a snake stretched out on a sunlit path while out running. It was quite something to briefly behold the exquisitely chiselled head and beautiful banding pattern, only to see it dissolve into a long shiny twig a moment later. The mind is a marvellous magician (and a sneaky one at that).
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Saw a snake stretched out on a sunlit path while out running. It was quite something to briefly behold the exquisitely chiselled head and beautiful banding pattern, only to see it dissolve into a long shiny twig a moment later. The mind is a marvellous magician (and a sneaky one at that).
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Buddhism in a nutshell.
Leigh Brasington on the Three Trainings of the Buddha
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Buddhism in a nutshell.
Rely on the meaning, not on the letters.
Rely on the transcendent wisdom, not on ordinary consciousness.
Rely on the teaching, not on the person.
Rely on sūtras of definitive meaning, not on sūtras of provisional meaning.
— Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra
Rely on the transcendent wisdom, not on ordinary consciousness.
Rely on the teaching, not on the person.
Rely on sūtras of definitive meaning, not on sūtras of provisional meaning.
— Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Rely on the meaning, not on the letters.
Rely on the transcendent wisdom, not on ordinary consciousness.
Rely on the teaching, not on the person.
Rely on sūtras of definitive meaning, not on sūtras of provisional meaning.
— Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra
Rely on the transcendent wisdom, not on ordinary consciousness.
Rely on the teaching, not on the person.
Rely on sūtras of definitive meaning, not on sūtras of provisional meaning.
— Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra
Unlike a computer, the human mind is capable of perception, or recognition. This function is the "unborn" aspect of mind.... It's this aspect of mind that can truly see Reality. Indeed, it's completely One with Reality.
—Steve Hagen (in Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense)
—Steve Hagen (in Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense)
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Unlike a computer, the human mind is capable of perception, or recognition. This function is the "unborn" aspect of mind.... It's this aspect of mind that can truly see Reality. Indeed, it's completely One with Reality.
—Steve Hagen (in Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense)
—Steve Hagen (in Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense)
I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
— Attributed to Mark Twain
— Attributed to Mark Twain
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
— Attributed to Mark Twain
— Attributed to Mark Twain
People go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and yet pass by themselves without a thought.
― Saint Augustine
― Saint Augustine
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
People go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and yet pass by themselves without a thought.
― Saint Augustine
― Saint Augustine
The defining characteristics of the domains of conditioned phenomena and of the ultimate are free from being distinct or indistinct. Those who imagine them to be distinct or indistinct are mistaken.
― Unravelling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (transl. 84000)
― Unravelling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (transl. 84000)
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The defining characteristics of the domains of conditioned phenomena and of the ultimate are free from being distinct or indistinct. Those who imagine them to be distinct or indistinct are mistaken.
― Unravelling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (transl. 84000)
― Unravelling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (transl. 84000)
Most of Western culture (including science) is based on an idea that's little more than a hunch:
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Most of Western culture (including science) is based on an idea that's little more than a hunch: