This is how Americans react when they are treated in the UK, Europe, Japan, S. Korea, and every other country that has a robust public healthcare system.

Just a reminder that the Goddess Namagiri was writing Modular Equations on Ramanujan’s tongue while he was sleeping. . .

"In death, only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death. What was born must die. Only the unborn is deathless. Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I."

Nisargadatta

At first a mantra might feel like something that you are thinking, but as you relax into practice, it feels more like a poem or a song that was already living inside, a doorway into Samadhi.

As a foreigner in 2018, my Japanese healthcare cost $100 per month. I don't recall a deductible ever coming up and my copays for medication and supplies were extremely small. Appointments were easy to make, and care came very swiftly. We could have that in the US.

Without social security, 37% of US citizens 65 and older would be in poverty. This ain't no pyramid scheme. This is a human dignity scheme. Social Security is a scheme for better societies, so obviously good and stabilizing that Otto Van Bismarck got it going in Prussia the 19th century.

it is almost inconceivable to me that someone could read the New Testament, and read it in an honest way, and if one agrees with its thrust, not come out with pronounced "Left wing" positions both economically and socially.

If one wants to know the nature of a thing, one must examine it in its pure state, since every addition to a thing is an obstacle to the knowledge of that thing.
—Plotinus (205–270), Enneads, IV.7, 10 [28–32]

The United States is at its best when it is a broad-minded and big-hearted compassionate country, when the most important goal is how well we take care of the most vulnerable. It's at its best when the goal is not producing larger yachts and mansions, but building a thriving society shared by all.

I remember getting into San Francisco after 7 months in Japan- fucking bowling ball of tension to the gut. Right wing economic policies are severely traumatizing to populations.

"I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

Gospel of Thomas- Logion 77