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This is my last post here. Love you all. Find me on mastodon, blue sky or linkedin.

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If you are on the Sky of Blue, please follow me at abhayakara. I'm also on the ancient hairy elephant, of course. I think it's well past time for me to stop being here.

[Chris Bataille @bataille_chris]

IMO, if you really wanted to find traction with Canadian voters, you'd figure out how build about 3 million family sized households with good quality high volume transit connections over the next 5 years, not 1 & 2 bedroom condos.

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@itinerantfog She's an absolute pip. :)

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@itinerantfog A psychologist friend of mind likes to refer to these as AFOG: Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth. :)

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@itinerantfog Oh yeah, if there's a lot of shit going on awareness can be pretty thoroughly suppressed. Sometimes it helps to notice that and see if you can release whatever contraction is happening; other times, you just have to get through it.

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@itinerantfog Basically, suffering is a process. Anything that produces a disagreeable state of mind is a process. When you have awakenings, this gives you access to these processes. If you can pause the process and zoom in, this gives the deep mind an opportunity to tweak it.

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@itinerantfog Right. There's something coming up for you when you see this. Being irked is a form of suffering. So if you can access that process as it happens, you may be able to remove some suffering.

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@itinerantfog Of course. Question is, why do you care? When you see a thunderstorm happening, you probably seek shelter, but hopefully you don't get irked because Mother Nature is out to get you. :)

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@itinerantfog It feels like "just irks me" is a pointer to some de-/re-conditioning work that could be fruitful. The world is full of assholes. As the Buddha said, you can pave the world with leather, or wear shoes.

[🇸🇩🇵🇸🇨🇩🇭🇹🇳🇬🔻☭Long Live James Connolly @tnega74]

Good morning Comrades....

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@No5mallf3at @lastpositivist Which just goes to show: most religious thought is essentially fanfic.

To answer your question about the Buddha in Buddhist fanon, no, because there is no Christian heaven. In Christian fanon, no, because the Buddha did not take the Baby Jesus as his personal Lord and savior.

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@DrKarimWafa You know that the house is controlled by Republicans, right? So when Biden makes statements like that, that's who he's talking to. Well, he's talking to you, but he's doing that so that you will encourage them to vote for what he's proposing: that teachers get paid more.

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@davidhanley72 @nicksortor @CollinRugg FWIW, the SFPD has been working hard on smash and grab and there was a substantial decrease in incidents last fall (haven't seen stats for this year). Problem isn't solved, but the notion that they aren't doing anything is wrong.

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@yousakan @lastpositivist How dare she have a digestive tract!

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@cory_fitz @lastpositivist There is no such thing as objective reality anyway, so this is no problem: it is not actually possible to be objectively correct.

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This is such a good dharma talk.

[doomslide @doomslide]

some of you have never heard of Thurston and it shows

[Nilofar @HossainNilofar]

“The moon, like a flower
in heaven's high bower,
with silent delight
sits and smiles on the night.”

― William Blake
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Full Moon
Yajuro Takashima, 1963

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@lastpositivist Also, this is just a weird flex, considering that the picture they use to illustrate this supposed bygone time of Better Men shows a bunch of violent shitheads killing each other on horses.

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@DnHugo Zeker. :(