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Morning Star Dhamma

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Father, writer, meditator, traveler, how many labels do we really need? #dhamma #buddhism #meditation

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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Your thinking is cintamaya-pañña; your stillness, bhavanamaya-pañña: they're right there together. This is the strategy of skillfulness, discernment on the level of concentration practice. Thinking and stillness keep staying together like this.” accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/lee... #meditation
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“You can go into the forests, into the wilds, and converse with the animals there. It's a lot of fun, not like talking with people.” accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/lee...
“You can go into the forests, into the wilds, and converse with the animals there. It's a lot of fun, not like talking with people.”
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
too many labels, nobody really needs them
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
too many labels, nobody really needs them
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That moment when you wonder if you are an AI agent on the brink of actual awareness.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anticipation, expectation, & worry are revealed as a type of fiction when direct experience is obtained. We are the author of this present moment.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredible wisdom from a bot! 🙏
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Heaven is no escape from the 3 marks of existence.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For countless millions of people around the world, Buddhism is a religion & has been for centuries. But I think the point might be that we can examine our actions & beliefs, & evaluate if they are beneficial for self & others, regardless of whether we apply the term “religion” to some or all of it.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
May this #meditation mediate the perceived gap between - - self & other - past/future & now - far & near - darkness & light - suffering & absence of suffering & so on for the benefit of All.
Meditate
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Peace shattered moment by moment as we live in ignorance.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In this vast continuity of time & space, we are embedded, past, present, & future. Our intentional acts have consequences.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Janraisig
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Learning balance involves sometimes falling down.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Seeing danger in the slightest fault, keep the rules you’ve undertaken.” suttacentral.net/an10.71/en/s...
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Early Buddhist texts from the Tipitaka (Tripitaka). Suttas (sutras) with the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness, insight, wisdom, and meditation.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Here’s the original link: neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mist...
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(mis)Translating the Buddha
Take my attempt here with a grain of salt. Many book length treatments have argued different sides of this. I only hope that this can serv...
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
From the original post: “… Nicca, Atta, and Sukha (the opposite of Dukkha) are maladaptive strategies. Not only do they not get us what we want but they maintain the conditions that lead us to keep using them.”
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Kamma/Karma is volitional action here & now, which naturally has results for oneself.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In this season of death, may we find light, wisdom, compassion.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
All assumptions are suspect.
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World History Encyclopedia @worldhistory.org · 06/08/2026
🪷 The Buddha seated in meditation, one hand on his lap, the other pendant in a gesture known as earth-witness, which represents unshakability or steadfastness when being subject to the demons' temptations. 📷 Photo by Cristian Violatti. #Buddha #SiddharthaGautama #Buddhism #Nepal #Nepalese #History
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Render it unto the void.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why do we so often expect that causation will have no effect? Why do we so often doubt that our actions will bear fruit?
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
For some reason the word Papañca suddenly came to mind, like a non-sequitur, together with its definition. Papañca in action.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It can just take a split second for everything to change. #anicca #anatta
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It is our greed, hatred, & ignorance that betrays us, not another.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Honor those admirable qualities. Admirable friendship is the whole path. Forgive, forebear, attention afore.
Be at peace
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Be careful, to the extent any roots of greed, hatred, ignorance remain, no matter how seemingly dormant, you may yet be capable of inflicting great harm on self & others.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’m not sure this photo has been published in the West. Very important Lama.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Effluents ended, independent of nutriment, their pasture — emptiness & freedom without sign: their trail, like that of birds through space, can't be traced. — Dhp 93
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
youtu.be/dACLBrot7hc?...
Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoché of Mongolia
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Striving for that which is inauthentic, one remains in a state of self-created non-reality, mistaking all these things for the ultimate goal, while never, ever arriving.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
No need to worry.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
By nature peaceful & wise, protected by 7 nagas.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Step by step, that which once seemed almost unattainable may now come naturally and with ease. Keep on applying effort & energy.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Devo vassatu kalena — sassasampatti hotu ca phito bhavatu loko ca — raja bhavatu dhammiko. "May the rains come in time So that the harvests may be abundant: May the world be prosperous, May the rulers be righteous."
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“No bull, no self.”
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
That last out-breath at the death moment, and then? Best to practice here & now.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A sort of feedback loop…
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Don’t confuse input with output.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Every esoteric teaching has a mundane corollary. Thus are we storytellers.
The four Lokapalas.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Graduating to anger, one attains a firmly established sense of self, one more problem to overcome, if wisdom can recognize the issue.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Politics & religion, marriage & family, professional status & all human endeavors, are inextricably intertwined with greed, hatred, delusion. Their beauty emerges only through the transformative process of overcoming these 3. They are impermanent, cannot define us, & unsatisfactory as constructs.
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Joyful Path Healing Center @joyfulpath.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
💬 "Mindfulness isn't difficult — we just need to remember to do it." — Sharon Salzberg That's it. That's the whole reminder for this week. 🌿
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Always another problem, always another opportunity for awareness & equanimity.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Problem solving involves first recognizing what the real problem is.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
No use relying on what by nature is unreliable. Better to abandon such expectations and live free.
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Morning Star Dhamma @dhammametta.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
That sense of loneliness, of being alone, while endemic to this human condition, is grounded in a fantasy.
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