Michael Zittel 💙
@michaelzittel.bsky.social
🔔 Contemplative Sentinel
🏔️ Trauma-focused Therapist
📿 Applied Buddhist Psychology
🪷 Dharma teacher
📜 Neurospicy Writer building bridges between societal healing & liberation.
Never again isn’t a slogan.
It’s a vow.
https://michaelzittel.substack.com
🏔️ Trauma-focused Therapist
📿 Applied Buddhist Psychology
🪷 Dharma teacher
📜 Neurospicy Writer building bridges between societal healing & liberation.
Never again isn’t a slogan.
It’s a vow.
https://michaelzittel.substack.com
Reposted by Michael Zittel 💙
My New Substack drop explores the Rogue Sage,its initiations, and the vow it demands of us now.
Freedom is one fire: inner liberation, social liberty.
Awakening and justice are the same breath.
#RogueSage #SpiritualEmergence #WiseResistance
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Freedom is one fire: inner liberation, social liberty.
Awakening and justice are the same breath.
#RogueSage #SpiritualEmergence #WiseResistance
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
Rogue Sage: Awakened Archetype For Our Moment
They stand where fracture meets horizon.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My New Substack drop explores the Rogue Sage,its initiations, and the vow it demands of us now.
Freedom is one fire: inner liberation, social liberty.
Awakening and justice are the same breath.
#RogueSage #SpiritualEmergence #WiseResistance
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
Freedom is one fire: inner liberation, social liberty.
Awakening and justice are the same breath.
#RogueSage #SpiritualEmergence #WiseResistance
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
Reposted by Michael Zittel 💙
Reposted by Michael Zittel 💙
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
September 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
For LA contemplatives 🌿
Rogue Wisdom: Wired for Awakening
Awakening isn’t far away — it’s already wired into the nervous system. Join me for an open class exploring the body’s natural pull toward liberation. All are welcome.
#RogueWisdom #Meditation #Awakening #LosAngeles
Rogue Wisdom: Wired for Awakening
Awakening isn’t far away — it’s already wired into the nervous system. Join me for an open class exploring the body’s natural pull toward liberation. All are welcome.
#RogueWisdom #Meditation #Awakening #LosAngeles
August 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
For LA contemplatives 🌿
Rogue Wisdom: Wired for Awakening
Awakening isn’t far away — it’s already wired into the nervous system. Join me for an open class exploring the body’s natural pull toward liberation. All are welcome.
#RogueWisdom #Meditation #Awakening #LosAngeles
Rogue Wisdom: Wired for Awakening
Awakening isn’t far away — it’s already wired into the nervous system. Join me for an open class exploring the body’s natural pull toward liberation. All are welcome.
#RogueWisdom #Meditation #Awakening #LosAngeles
Reposted by Michael Zittel 💙
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August 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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“Steady progress on Rogue Wisdom: Awakening in Times of Collapse. Just crossed the halfway point — 5 chapters down, 5 to go. On track to finish this year 🙏 ⚡️
#RogueWisdom #Awakening #Buddhism #Meditation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CollapseAware #BookInProgress
#RogueWisdom #Awakening #Buddhism #Meditation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CollapseAware #BookInProgress
August 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Steady progress on Rogue Wisdom: Awakening in Times of Collapse. Just crossed the halfway point — 5 chapters down, 5 to go. On track to finish this year 🙏 ⚡️
#RogueWisdom #Awakening #Buddhism #Meditation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CollapseAware #BookInProgress
#RogueWisdom #Awakening #Buddhism #Meditation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CollapseAware #BookInProgress
Heading into teaching retreat today.
We’ll sit in silence, track the breath, watch the self try to rebuild itself—and let it fall quiet again.
Not chasing anything. Just remembering what the body already knows.
Grateful for the chance to listen that deeply, together.
We’ll sit in silence, track the breath, watch the self try to rebuild itself—and let it fall quiet again.
Not chasing anything. Just remembering what the body already knows.
Grateful for the chance to listen that deeply, together.
July 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Heading into teaching retreat today.
We’ll sit in silence, track the breath, watch the self try to rebuild itself—and let it fall quiet again.
Not chasing anything. Just remembering what the body already knows.
Grateful for the chance to listen that deeply, together.
We’ll sit in silence, track the breath, watch the self try to rebuild itself—and let it fall quiet again.
Not chasing anything. Just remembering what the body already knows.
Grateful for the chance to listen that deeply, together.
Between ICE’s attacks on our communities, particularly targeting Latino populations & SCOTUS new ruling that could revoke protections of birth rite citizenship that could effect millions,
Here are some affordable resources in the LA area:
🏛️ Nonprofit & Pro Bono Legal Aid. 🧵
Here are some affordable resources in the LA area:
🏛️ Nonprofit & Pro Bono Legal Aid. 🧵
June 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Between ICE’s attacks on our communities, particularly targeting Latino populations & SCOTUS new ruling that could revoke protections of birth rite citizenship that could effect millions,
Here are some affordable resources in the LA area:
🏛️ Nonprofit & Pro Bono Legal Aid. 🧵
Here are some affordable resources in the LA area:
🏛️ Nonprofit & Pro Bono Legal Aid. 🧵
“Conscientious compassion is not a mere passive sympathy with the suffering of others, but an active commitment to stand up against systems of oppression and to pursue alternatives conducive to the general good.”
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Commentary: Protecting Human Dignity from the Threat of Moral Nihilism
In Vietnam for the UN International Day of Vesak in Ho Chi Minh City from May 5-8., Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave the May 6th keynote address. His topic: “Protecting Human Dignity from the Threat of...
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May 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Conscientious compassion is not a mere passive sympathy with the suffering of others, but an active commitment to stand up against systems of oppression and to pursue alternatives conducive to the general good.”
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1. RIGHT-WING INFLUENCE AS WRONG EFFORT
When energy feeds hatred, it’s not strength—it’s sickness rehearsed as righteousness.
Thoughts about pro authoritarian media and what it cultivates as direct contradictions to the path of awakening.
When energy feeds hatred, it’s not strength—it’s sickness rehearsed as righteousness.
Thoughts about pro authoritarian media and what it cultivates as direct contradictions to the path of awakening.
May 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
1. RIGHT-WING INFLUENCE AS WRONG EFFORT
When energy feeds hatred, it’s not strength—it’s sickness rehearsed as righteousness.
Thoughts about pro authoritarian media and what it cultivates as direct contradictions to the path of awakening.
When energy feeds hatred, it’s not strength—it’s sickness rehearsed as righteousness.
Thoughts about pro authoritarian media and what it cultivates as direct contradictions to the path of awakening.
Happening now. Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi giving a presentation on Abhidamma (Buddhist Psychology)
www.youtube.com/live/jhGRIjl...
www.youtube.com/live/jhGRIjl...
Back to the Roots: Mapping the Mind through Abhidharma with Bhikkhu Bodhi
YouTube video by Tergar Meditation Community
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May 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happening now. Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi giving a presentation on Abhidamma (Buddhist Psychology)
www.youtube.com/live/jhGRIjl...
www.youtube.com/live/jhGRIjl...
Late-stage capitalism feeds on despair.
Authoritarianism grows where meaning withers.
We need a new story.
Read: Social Dharmacracy
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Authoritarianism grows where meaning withers.
We need a new story.
Read: Social Dharmacracy
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
Social Dharmacracy: Reclaiming Democracy in an Age of Authoritarian Capitalism
A spirituality that is only inward-looking, disengaged from social concerns, can easily be co-opted to support the status quo.
open.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Late-stage capitalism feeds on despair.
Authoritarianism grows where meaning withers.
We need a new story.
Read: Social Dharmacracy
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
Authoritarianism grows where meaning withers.
We need a new story.
Read: Social Dharmacracy
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
RFK Jr. wants a national autism registry.
Track the “abnormal.” Store the data.
History screams a warning.
This is how genocidal systems begin.
Track the “abnormal.” Store the data.
History screams a warning.
This is how genocidal systems begin.
April 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
RFK Jr. wants a national autism registry.
Track the “abnormal.” Store the data.
History screams a warning.
This is how genocidal systems begin.
Track the “abnormal.” Store the data.
History screams a warning.
This is how genocidal systems begin.
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"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
— Rod Serling
— Rod Serling
November 7, 2024 at 1:57 AM
"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
— Rod Serling
— Rod Serling
Since RFK says autistic people don’t write poetry, I offer haiku:
1. RFK speaks loud—
facts run screaming from the room.
Science files a suit.
2. Autism, he claims.
Yet it’s empathy that’s lost—
not our dignity.
3. Autism, he mocks.
Yet we build worlds from silence.
He just sells the noise.
1. RFK speaks loud—
facts run screaming from the room.
Science files a suit.
2. Autism, he claims.
Yet it’s empathy that’s lost—
not our dignity.
3. Autism, he mocks.
Yet we build worlds from silence.
He just sells the noise.
April 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Since RFK says autistic people don’t write poetry, I offer haiku:
1. RFK speaks loud—
facts run screaming from the room.
Science files a suit.
2. Autism, he claims.
Yet it’s empathy that’s lost—
not our dignity.
3. Autism, he mocks.
Yet we build worlds from silence.
He just sells the noise.
1. RFK speaks loud—
facts run screaming from the room.
Science files a suit.
2. Autism, he claims.
Yet it’s empathy that’s lost—
not our dignity.
3. Autism, he mocks.
Yet we build worlds from silence.
He just sells the noise.
Autistic people aren’t broken—they’re brilliant, creative, and part of our collective past, present & future. RFK’s harmful rhetoric erases our humanity and ignores the real work: building a world where neurodivergent people are supported, included, & empowered. ❌ Scapegoats
✅ Solidarity
✅ Solidarity
April 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Autistic people aren’t broken—they’re brilliant, creative, and part of our collective past, present & future. RFK’s harmful rhetoric erases our humanity and ignores the real work: building a world where neurodivergent people are supported, included, & empowered. ❌ Scapegoats
✅ Solidarity
✅ Solidarity
Inspired by Shinzen Young, who spoke of a book inscription that read, “Be the master of no position,” this drifts along that notion — the freedom that stirs when hands release their grip, when the weight of title and tether slips free, and the self stands unbound.
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open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
Be the Master of No Position
Stand nowhere.
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March 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Inspired by Shinzen Young, who spoke of a book inscription that read, “Be the master of no position,” this drifts along that notion — the freedom that stirs when hands release their grip, when the weight of title and tether slips free, and the self stands unbound.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
open.substack.com/pub/michaelz...
“A group is a lie”
..often attributed to Emerson (though no proof he said it).
Still, it reflects his and Thoreau’s philosophies, which emphasize self-reliance, personal integrity, and skepticism toward collective identities that suppress individuality.
..often attributed to Emerson (though no proof he said it).
Still, it reflects his and Thoreau’s philosophies, which emphasize self-reliance, personal integrity, and skepticism toward collective identities that suppress individuality.
March 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“A group is a lie”
..often attributed to Emerson (though no proof he said it).
Still, it reflects his and Thoreau’s philosophies, which emphasize self-reliance, personal integrity, and skepticism toward collective identities that suppress individuality.
..often attributed to Emerson (though no proof he said it).
Still, it reflects his and Thoreau’s philosophies, which emphasize self-reliance, personal integrity, and skepticism toward collective identities that suppress individuality.
Worth the read.
An apt analogy for who Trump is in the context of history
An apt analogy for who Trump is in the context of history
🔔 Quisling :: Hitler
As
🔔 Trump :: Putin
Makes more sense than past analogies, reframes authoritarian influence beyond invasions into ideological & systemic subjugation.
Watch video & read thread 🙏
*Thanks Amy Shira Teitel
@amyshirateitel.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/oHlYy...
As
🔔 Trump :: Putin
Makes more sense than past analogies, reframes authoritarian influence beyond invasions into ideological & systemic subjugation.
Watch video & read thread 🙏
*Thanks Amy Shira Teitel
@amyshirateitel.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/oHlYy...
Peanuts taught me about a pretty evil guy #shorts #history
YouTube video by The Vintage Space
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March 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Worth the read.
An apt analogy for who Trump is in the context of history
An apt analogy for who Trump is in the context of history
Camus saw fascism as a moral failure—rejecting reason, justice, and freedom for brute force. True rebellion affirms life; fascism betrays it through oppression.
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Camus saw fascism as a moral failure—rejecting reason, justice, and freedom for brute force. True rebellion affirms life; fascism betrays it through oppression.