Dozens of pets from California will be in need of homes here in Seattle next week.

"From Ground Zero": Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza

"We laugh, but inept is our laughter,
We should weep, and weep sore,
Who are shattered like glass and thereafter
Remolded no more."
Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri, Studies in Islamic Poetry

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BDG feature: Seeing the Invisible: Prison Dharma

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Knowing that this body is like an earthen jar, making one's mind secure like a fortified town, one should fight Mara with the weapon of Knowledge. One should still continue to guard one's mind, and feel no attachment to that which has been gained - Buddhism For World Peace And Humanity (Facebook)

The path to awakening is not a journey to some far-off destination but a continual unfolding of the awakening in the here and now.
As we engage with the Dharma, we come to see that our practice is not merely a means to an end but the very manifestation of the awakening we seek.
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“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Quiet Morpheus, I'm on my grind!!" I scream as I rapidly change screens on my Apple Vision Pro. An IV Drip of Panera Killer Lemonade and Soylent provides all my nutrients and more stimulation than Heisenberg Blue Crystal.