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Brother K

@konchognorbu.bsky.social
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Buddhist monk since 1993. Copyeditor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Low-intensity birder. 96.37% vegan. 84000.co

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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 21h
Pete, I like you, but '28 might not be your turn. No one's in the mood for reasonable, nice guy, looking ahead politics. We want to hear, "I'm nominating Jack Smith as Attorney General and there's going to be a severe reckoning. Then an avalanche of legislation to constrain the executive."
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all." ~Pema Chodron~
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would have edited out "vaguely".
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read. Study. Apply. To close our series on The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche reminds us that making a translation available is only part of the work. The texts need to be read, studied, and applied in practice if they are to bring direct benefit.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe it's to be pronounced "Halfway to Hay-zoos" and it'll be about him discovering his appreciation for honest immigrants after all?
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe an oral test, and you're disqualified after the third "like".
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are the Pali suttas included in the Kangyur? In this new #AsktheTranslator, Dr. David Fiordalis responds to a reader from Turkey asking how the Pali Nikāyas, Chinese Āgamas, and Tibetan Kangyur relate to one another.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Starting to make Tuberville look sharp.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know the Kaliyuga teachings call this the "Age of Weapons", but this is beyond obscene.
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“An astonishing feat.” That is how Asanga Vajra Rinpoche describes the completion of The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines in English. 84000.co/translation/...
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Whoever wins super intelligent, wins". We've clearly lost.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would love a shot of the faces of the European representatives whose populations suffered numerous deaths this summer due to unprecedented heat and wildfires.
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#RealBuddhaQuotes No one is beyond the reach of light. 💚
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My best friend from high school's band just released a killer cover of the Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime".
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Life During Wartime
YouTube video by Firewater - Topic
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sponsored by United Healthcare. *chef's kiss*
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No band in the early scene matched the furious *menace* of Cleveland's Dead Boys. Off to his next incarnation goes guitarist Cheetah Chrome. Om Mani Padme Hung.
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Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer - live
YouTube video by Raw'N'Proud77
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Poster boy for The Banality of Evil.
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AH. For 84000 Senior Editor Dr. John Canti, the #OneWord for The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines is a single syllable: ah. You can now read the complete English translation freely in the 84000 Reading Room. 84000.co/translation/...
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wow. Might as well set up a cot in the back and never leave.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Was Black Flag headlining with the Ramones supporting?!
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#RealBuddhaQuotes What if someone else’s happiness could become a reason for our own joy? Life feels lighter when we learn to celebrate one another. 💛
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Boards of Canada - Everything You Do is a Balloon (2022, HQ)
YouTube video by Lost Media Archived!
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just anecdotally, I have no idea who that is.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wow. I was part of an org that presented her in DC in the 80's. No loving and merciful God would be taking these treasures from us now.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fantastic article about a sutra recitation tradition in Amdo. 84000.co/post/scriptu...
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Scripture as Living Practice
In the Amdo region of Tibet, three sūtras, the Samādhirāja, the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines, and The Good Eon, are recited together as a living substitute for the full Kangyur. Lowell...
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One bright moment out of the catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border concerns this unusual stupa. It was created on the banks of the Trishuli River to enshrine relics of Kyabje Penor Rinpoche, and appears to have withstood the raging flood when everything else around it was wiped out.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everything is just too stupid.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, I'm not enthusiastic about whatever military application they derive from this.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The cruelty and inhumanity of this is beyond description.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Or...they're suspicious of establishment figures who were close to Trump (even if by proxy), with no prior experience in elected office, creeping over to the other side.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And competitive low self-esteem is added to the Olympiad.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And yet we earn those salaries under the rapacious, extractive late-stage capitalism of this country.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yeah. Fun. This is all so much fun.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
He forgot to add "of the people in the room with me right now" after "ALL".
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
But Trump, as you may recall, did take a swing at your female reporter for asking about it.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No he did not. He mentioned her in the context of accurately pointing out that Trump has no interest in the hard details of his job, but only in the perks of power and the fluffing of his sycophantic retinue. You might also consider being accurate in your reporting.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And this quote is just Ossoff getting warmed up. This whole speech is so deliciously savage in its moral outrage. Ossoff is the one to watch, I'm telling you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0D...
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“I want the president's remaining supporters to hear this.” | Jon Ossoff in Atlanta | 08.16.2026
YouTube video by Jon Ossoff
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When I listen to Ossoff, I completely forget the name of whoever that California governor is. That "wants to travel with Natalie" line is laser-guided.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Taxing the wealthy fairly = dark road to Communism. Got it.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
He ran out of characters to end this post "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Call that out." Pleeeeease give us a different candidate.
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city trees @citytrees.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Who is my enemy? I'm no longer sure," can become the new, "I have never felt more politically homeless."
series of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social poasts that end on the punchline, "I have never felt more politically homeless."
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Mahasiddha" does not mean "tantric lay practitioner" as the article asserts. It means one of "great accomplishment" through the methods of tantra. Is that this guy? That'd be a big claim. In any case, the article should be edited for accuracy.
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha @translate84000.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sometimes what we need from the canon is not only an ideal to admire, but a story that makes room for our own ordinary struggles. In Virtue, Mischief, and Everything Between, 84000 research editor Dr. Annie Heckman writes about finding “her people” in the Buddhist canon
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Looking forward to contributing to Marx's resounding defeat in Nov.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Incredible Sulk.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Look at this slaughterhouse video." That's what did it for me.
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Brother K @konchognorbu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reminds me of:
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