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Taking notes.. 🫡

This album, along with the next four albums, accompanied me during dark times of my teenage years.

Just as a skilled physician neither ignores illness nor becomes overwhelmed by it, so too the skilled practitioner of dhamma engages the suffering of sentient beings with clarity and confidence. Confidence not in outcomes, but in one's ability to perform one's best effort.

One need not merely observe suffering passively. Your capacity to act, to shape what unfolds, springs from the same source as your ability to feel the world's pain. They are not two.

Your very sensitivity to suffering can become your greatest strength.

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The Buddha's focus would not be on these issues but much more likely teaching to those who'd listen the dangers of becoming mindless zombies to social media.

TikTok is China's revenge on the West for getting them hooked on opium in the 1800s. Got social media dopamine addicts feening like crackheads.

And media pundits fueling the very reactivity the architects of the spectacle expected, in very predictable fashion.

The ignorance and emotional reactivity of the American populace makes the nation inherently and infinitely vulnerable to manipulation, whether that be foreign manipulation, domestic-oligarachic, or a combination of both.

Or if said 7-11s weren't franchises but owned by a single entity controlled by a dictatorship relishing in the data and access it has of a foreign power they see as an obstacle to their ambitions and all they had to do was sell it and continue expanding marketshare of their many other products.

Well if you want to argue it's a "ban" and the "ban" is bad then simply argue that you don't mind the threats that were presented to congress and that provoked them to vote for it. Otherwise I'd argue that nuance in language is important actually.

This is true

Most threats to the existence or survival of things are endogenous. That doesn't mean exogenous threats arent eyeing you. When in the amazon dont just pay attention to whats in front of you. If you're only looking out for the obvious you're already some other animals' prey.