maybe the way I use 'ungroundedness' is similar to how Alok uses 'change'. But it's at the societal level... I feel how superficial belonging based on body performance and judgement is precarious, and so what's deeper? Kindness.

I'm interested in Buddhism as a trans person. I don't experience my kind of transness as microscopic change. I do experience it as ungroundedness, a lack of familiar comfort to grasp, which turns me to compassion as the source of groundedness. It's a doorway for me to feel kinship with others.

I mean I guess the resonance is also about the person we idolize, but it's not really about them so much as what they perform and how we receive it?

idk, it's rare to see ppl being kind in powerful ways. so when I see it, I try to be impressed by it 😁.

but yes, chill out too.

idolizing is not always about you. We have ideals in our hearts that we lack courage to fully believe in, and our hearts resonate when we see these ideals embodied, modelled, performed by another, so we project onto the idol the best of ourselves. This can inspire us. Not about you, it's about us?

Here, the AI addresses both my emotional need to be witnessed as well as the factual issues I ask about. NGL this is exactly what a teacher/mentor should have done with my question.

Again, the externalities, and using without permission (breaks second precept) bother me.

#ai #buddhism #ethical_ai

oh wow, I felt something similar just now and posted about the construction of citizenship feeling hollow in the light of compassion.

Thank you for holding the line in your heart and continually encouraging us to do the same!❤️‍🔥

A sgn that stood out for me among many was "when cruelty becomes normal, compassion becomes radical"

@tricyclemag.bsky.social @ralphdelarosa.bsky.social #weloveralphdelarosa

Thank you so much. Sometimes the news just breaks me and then I see people like you and fellow citizens standing up and my heart unfreezes.

having a philophical-spiritual attunement and practicing to embody it with meditation.

Reading into the story, she got her deepest wish granted (a family). So why did she stick around and become a disciple of a difficult practice? Presumably she felt the sting of unsatisfactoriness even with her deepest wish granted? It's a deep story from her POV as well as Siddhartha's.