Ikkyu Sojun

Doubts are not weakness. They are the crack in the cathedral of lies. When the dogma demands blind faith, doubt becomes the highest form of loyalty to truth!

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Japan, 1490.

A skinny old monk in tattered black robes staggers out of a Kyoto brothel at dawn, reeking of sake and sex, a blind woman half his age clinging to his arm.

The temple gates are still locked.
The “proper” monks are inside chanting sutras.

He just laughs, loud enough to wake the crows.

This is Ikkyū Sōjun.

They called him Crazy Cloud.

And he earned it.

Born a royal bastard (emperor’s son, no throne), he was dumped in a Zen monastery as a kid so the court wouldn’t have to look at him.

By twenty he was already too much: too sharp, too loud, too alive.

They kept kicking him out of temples.

He kept coming back with dirtier robes and a grin.

He broke every rule they had:

- Slept with courtesans while the abbots preached celibacy

- Drank rivers of sake while they counted breaths

- At seventy-seven fell stupidly, gloriously in love with a blind singer named Mori and wrote her poems so raw they still make monks blush five hundred years later

- When they finally handed him the fancy certificate that said “You Are Enlightened,” he used it to light his pipe

His most famous line, carved on half the sake cups in Kyoto:

“One night of love with a beautiful woman is worth more than a hundred thousand years of sitting zazen with a dead heart.”

He saw Buddha in the curve of a thigh, in the burn of cheap liquor, in the laughter of fishmongers at 3 a.m.

While the Zen bureaucracy turned enlightenment into paperwork, Ikkyū turned it back into wildfire.

He died at eighty-seven, still laughing, surrounded by lovers and drunk poets.

The temple priests still won’t mention his name in morning service.
The brothel girls kept his poems under their pillows for centuries.

Crazy Cloud never asked permission to be free.

He just was.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Is the EU “protecting” Ukraine by supplying its male population to a futile conflict simply to avoid its leaders acknowledging the undeniable reality of its defeat?

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@ChechenCenter @DavidSatter Nonsense..

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@whistlecapital But it still makes you angry.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

A tanker full of Russian diesel is sailing to New York while Europe empties its treasury and guts its industry for Ukraine. US ambitions and Kiev’s stupidity started this war. Ordinary Europeans want cheap Russian energy. The elites want endless military contracts.

We pay for their game every time we fill the tank.

That’s the simple truth.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@poetentiate Mate, that’s how you make money – it’s called trading.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Some EU politicians care more about Ukraine than their own countries.

In my estimation, that's because the Ukraine project is simply more profitable for them than serving their own voters.

This is the simple truth.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Anyone who still thinks the war in Ukraine or any major war of the past sixty years is fundamentally about freedom and democracy is a special kind of retarded.

This is the simple truth.

[Rob @TheBouchee]

@ConciousLabRat So much anti-Ukraine, pro-Russian BS posts like this on my "for you" feed ever since Musk's Anti-Zelensky tweet. The narrative is definitely being pushed.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@TheBouchee Tell him.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Zelensky is calling Ukrainians back from exile. You’d have to be out of your mind to return and risk dying in a war that is already lost. Your life is not his political project.

Stay where you are. Don’t answer that call.

This is the simple truth.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@Erickschultz11 Always follow the money, especially when they say it’s about freedom and democracy!

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@elonmusk It’s even worse in EU politics.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@Ali3Mctavish What?

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Ukraine joining the EU? As a bankrupt, corrupt failed state? Every other candidate had to meet strict, non-negotiable criteria. For Ukraine the standard is apparently “get as corrupt and undemocratic as possible and we’ll wave you in.”

That’s not a process. That’s a political favor. Completely unfair.

This is the simple truth.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@twit_grim It’s not our shield; it’s an anchor pulling us down.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

France, Italy, Greece, Spain and soon Germany. All with debt bigger than their GDP. They bet the Ukraine war would unlock cheap Russian energy and resources. Instead they’re watching Trump cut deals with Putin while Europe goes broke.

We need a deal with Russia faster than the Americans. We’re the neighbors. We can’t save Ukraine if we can’t even save ourselves without Russia, and the only real security guarantor for Ukraine has always been Russia.

NATO as a protective option at this stage is pure delusion.

This is the simple truth.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@Mortenovich What?

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@TheBouchee Conspiracy theory .... People simply don't like the war and Zelensky....

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

@CatfishHummer What ever you believe mate...

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Follow the money. Always!

That’s why the US is cutting deals with Russia while Europe gets left behind. Russia has energy, resources, and real leverage. Europe has debt, declining industry, and nothing left to offer.

This is the simple truth.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Russia has Italy’s GDP, they say. Not a great power. Yet that “Italy” is fighting the whole of NATO’s proxy in Ukraine and winning. Ukraine is asking for a ceasefire.

What does that say about GDP?

In my estimation, nominal GDP is just a debt pyramid the West plays to feel superior. PPP is what actually builds strength and power.

This is the simple truth.