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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 9h

From generosity comes wealth, happiness from morality. From tolerance comes beauty, splendor from heroic effort. Through concentration, one is peaceful; through understanding comes liberation. Compassion accomplishes all aims. ―Nāgārjuna (Ratnāvalī, The Precious Garland, trans. McClintock & Dunne)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 23h

If such inhumanity and cruelty is sanctioned by the highest court of a country, it puts the entire moral worldview that underpins this country's judicial and political systems into question.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brian Eno on how Lula helped the poor, which in turn stimulated small businesses.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taking nothing in the world as their own, Having no sorrow for what doesn't exist, And uninvolved in doctrines They are called "peaceful." ― Purābheda Sutta (trans. Gil Fronsdal)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What is here when there is no problem to solve? ― Loch Kelly

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People who hold onto the notion that self has an enduring essence are deluded as cattle. People who hold onto the notion of there being no self at all are more deluded still. Whatever you are fixated on, let that go. ― Saraha (in Moonbeams of Mahamudra, trans. Traleg Kyabgon)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The moment you recognize mind essence, it is impossible to find words or descriptions for how it is.... The very moment you recognize the essence of your own mind, there is no thing to see. ― Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (in As It Is: Vol. 1)

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there anyone more shameless in the eyes of those who have a conscience than someone who does not provide refuge for those who lack it, who does not, to the best of his abilities, comfort others or who takes the wealth of his subjects without thinking about them? ~ Mipham

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Gerrit @gerrit82.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2. The good that repudiates the bad is not better than the bad, since it operates on the principle of exclusion. Only the good that embraces both the good & the bad is truly good. Such is the goodness & trust of nature (de) that follows upon Dao. The sage who follows nature’s way does likewise. Chen

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As Zen master Pao-ch'e of Ma-ku shan was fanning himself, a monk came up and said: "The nature of the wind is constancy. There is no place it does not reach. Why do you still use a fan?"

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do not identify yourself with time, do not ask anxiously: ‘what next, what next?’ Step out of time and see it devour the world.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that much of today’s war coverage is focused on the cost to the “taxpayer” reveals a profound confusion about what it means to be living, breathing, compassionate human being.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The experience of mental clarity is awareness; the maintenance of attentiveness is mental stability; the realisation of self-cognising awareness as emptiness is insight. — Gampopa (cited in Moonbeams of Mahamudra)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's nothing "effective" about an altruism that's without care and compassion and draws on utterly naive and harmful assumptions about what is good and valuable.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All this is full. All that is full. From fullness, fullness comes. When fullness is taken from fullness, fullness still remains. — The Isha Upanishad

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

FYI, I wrote a biography of the French philosopher Henri Bergson which the NYT described as “lively and deft”, and which John Banville called “the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year” (in 2024). I am biased, but I think you should read it.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Compassion for all beings in all realms & universes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFeO...

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GUANYIN - Jah Wobble and family

YouTube video by andy squiff

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Now does not come and go, but includes everything all at once. When we’re aware of being in the Now, present moments come and go, like ripples and waves in the ocean of awake awareness. ― Loch Kelly

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The world doesn't want to be saved. I wants to be loved. That's how you save it. — Richard Brendan (cited in Loving the World as Our Body, by David Loy)

The iconic Apollo 8 picture of Earth rising above the surface of the moon.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But is it fascism? Do they really yearn for apocalypse? Isn't that polarizing? Shouldn't we be nice to them? We made a short video so folks can hear the end timers in their own words and judge for themselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not grasping at whatever arises in mind is tranquillity meditation, and realising that whatever arises in mind has no enduring essence is insight meditation. ― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Moonbeams of Mahamudra, trans. Traleg Kyabgon)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Start from love of place, then conjure a radically inclusive future where everyone can afford dignified lives, embrace common goals across difference, get outside,... take on the powerful joyously, draw on history and don’t be afraid to stir the soul." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

St. John of the Cross “I saw the river over which each soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven / and the name of that river was Suffering. / I saw the boat which carries souls across the river, and the name of that boat is Love”.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There is a profound silence which the noise of thought has never touched. It is that silence that has no measure, of such purity and clarity. —Krishnamurti

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I look at what I perceived to be evil as suffering. . . . This enormous shift became a pathway to love and compassion. ― Roshi Joan Halifax (at the 2026 Varela Contemplative Science Retreat)

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Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What does years of meditation practice do to one’s mental health: Are there benefits? Perhaps also risks? What is still unknown?

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We must believe in free will, we have no choice. ― Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day, if you've ever benefited from: — The weekend — 40-hour work weeks — Workplace safety standards — A minimum wage — Paid time off thank a union. Unions don’t just improve working conditions for their members, they help every American worker. Happy Labor Day!

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We humans spend maybe 10 percent of our time thinking about things we really need to think about. We spend the other 90 percent of our time imagining, fantasizing, and becoming involved in all sorts of internal stories and dramas that have no basis in truth. —Adyashanti (in The End of Your World)

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You have to be a light to yourself. That light can never be given by another, however respected by tradition. —Krishnamurti

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Most of people’s activities are valueless, if not outright destructive. Dominated by desire and fear, they can do nothing good. Ceasing to do evil precedes beginning to do good. Hence the need for stopping all activities for a time, to investigate one’s urges and their motives.

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“This is happening in Equatorial Guinea, in Eswatini, Sudan, Ghana, Liberia; in so many places where they are sending mostly innocent people who have not committed a crime in the US. This is unconscionable." Unconscionable, cruel, illegal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘It’s inhumane’: six ICE deportees held in one of world’s most repressive regimes

Believed to be first US deportations to fourth country, six face ‘horrific conditions’ in Equatorial Guinea, say lawyers

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Conventional truth consists of the expedient, ultimate truth consists what is aimed at. One who does not know the distinction between them goes down a bad road by means of mistaken concepts. ― Candrakīrti (in Candrakīrti's Middle Way; trans. Katsura & Siderits)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Before you conceptualize anything, you are, even before the knowingness, you are. You have only to apperceive this knowingness, this love to be, the Self. . . . The Self wants to know itself. ― Nisargadatta (in Consciousness and the Absolute)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@bodhidave.bsky.social's (bodhidave's) obit for those who knew him here or perhaps even in real life. "There's a miracle going on. There really, really is. And it's everything." So true🙏. I'll miss him here. www.mtnviewcremation.com/obituaries/D...

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Obituary information for Dr. David Leonard Collins III

View Dr. David Leonard Collins III's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

After half a century of neoliberalism, we are all drenched in capitalism's established religion, the worship of property rights. 1/

A car's frosted-over back windscreen, being scraped by a person's hand holding an ice-scraper. The person has scraped a Canadian maple leaf into the windscreen. In the background we see the capitol dome and a depressed caricature of Uncle Sam holding a sign reading 'I am busted.'

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway

Contact Congress today!

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just learnt that James "Blood" Ulmer has died. My old man was a big fan, and I have lots of fond memories seeing Ulmer play several times in the 80s. An outstanding musician with a great and kind presence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hog1...

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James Blood Ulmer - SOLOS: the jazz sessions

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is not essential to attain all nine stages of tranquillity to attain enlightenment. Even if you do attain the ninth stage of tranquillity, you may still be a scoundrel. ― Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (in Moonbeams of Mahamudra, trans. Traleg Kyabgon)

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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust @krishnamurti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The consciousness of one is the consciousness of all. —Krishnamurti

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The stated mission was liberation from suffering, and when the moment came to spend some accumulated reputation on it, the reputation was kept and the mission was not."

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As [meditators] practice mental stillness and insight, They will be liberated from the bonds of corruption And the bonds of phenomenal appearance. ― Unravelling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (transl. 84000)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Like a blind man commissioned to paint a street scene Without being able to see anything; If we do not meditate We will not get a true picture of anything. ― Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra (cited in Moonbeams of Mahamudra, by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As useful as science is, it will never provide a way for us to wake up to Ultimate Reality. Science remains forever in the conceptual. It wouldn't be science otherwise. This isn't a criticism. It's a necessary and unavoidable limitation. ― Steve Hagen (in The Grand Delusion)

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Dependent Co-Arising @asitisnow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Do not one's actions affect the person in after-births? Are you born now? Why do you think of other births? The fact is that there is neither birth nor death. Let the person who is born think of death and palliatives therefore. ― Ramana Maharshi

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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My forthcoming book When Death Comes is now listed at Amazon and other book stores. Please consider placing an advance order at your preferred bookseller. Advance sales make a big difference to the life of a book. www.amazon.com/When-Death-C...

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When Death Comes: Our Ultimate Transformation

Amazon.com: When Death Comes: Our Ultimate Transformation: 9780231202541: Thompson, Evan: Books

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