Ben Thacker-Gwaltney

lunar delight

Not the wind,
not the flag;
mind is moving.

#mind

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

When a mute tastes the sweetness of sugar, he can taste it, but he is unable to describe the experience. Similarly, when we look directly into the nature of mind we cannot really describe how this mind is actually experienced.
― Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (in Crystal Clear)

Hahaha! So true.

🌹💎~ "We can just allow things to be the way they are, allow tension to be. Even if you are stressed out, you can allow it, you can let it be the way it is. You can allow whatever mental states you have, even your compulsive, obsessive tendencies, to be what they are, not in order to see them as
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Human life expectancy is uncertain; death can come at any time.
Holding this thought in mind, I am attentive to each moment.

― Joan Halifax (in Being with Dying)

Vajrayana teaches that the world and life are not samsara. Samsara only comes into being when our mind is veiled by the fundamental ignorance that does not see the enlightened nature of all things. So samsara is purely a state of mind.

~ Anam Thubten

The ego is irrelevant YouTube video by James Low • Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings

Thank you @jameslowturkce.bsky.social
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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​. ​H​is topic​: “Protecting Human Dignity from the Threat of...

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Yes, I'm Buddhist and a teacher in our local sangha

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

When faith arises as a result of analysis, it is much more stable.

~ Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.

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The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.

“An effective method to overcome fear is to shift one's concern from oneself to others. When we actually see the difficulties that other people face, our own seem less enormous. When we come to the aid of others, our confidence is boosted and our fear and anguish are lessened.”

Advice from Heart

Since all phenomena, outer and inner, are dependently existent mere appearances,
They have no inherent nature, they are just appearance-emptiness.
If you know how they resemble dreams and illusions,
All comings and goings will be open and relaxed.

--Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

Self-occurring awareness is beyond arising, ceasing, and abiding.
Rest within this great primordial wisdom,
beyond the mind of conceptual ideas.
Realizing samsara and nirvana to be the dharmakaya
is utterly delightful.

~ Sera Khandro

From Ogmin's post:

We are the openness of presence offering hospitality to the shifting patterns we take to be identity.

~ James Low

'We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia's fragile Tigray region Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia's war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration's restrictions on foreign aid.

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia's war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration's restrictions on foreign aid.

"The Thus-Gone One is not pleased with beings with extensive wealth, nor displeased with beings who are poor. Rather, he extends great uninhibited love to those who have embarked on the correct path, and great uninhibited compassion to those who have embarked on a mistaken path."

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"I come not to praise education but to murder it."

HERE COMES THE TRUMP RECESSION-- Collapsing Jobs AND Rampaging Inflation

The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) for 1Q of 2025 is -2.8 %

The Atlanta Fed’s GDP estimate was +3% when Trump took Jan 20 to -2.8% today.

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JAPANESE BIKE RACE RUN YouTube video by Jelmar Vlog Channel

The best thing you will see today...

#bikesky

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Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie People seem to be confused. When workers are paid less than a living wage, they're forced to rely on taxpayer funded social safety nets to survive. That's not a taxpayer "handout" to workers. That's a taxpayer handout to corporations.

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man."
- Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC