Top 100 songs of all time:
Friday I'm in love
Daydream believer
Top 100 songs of all time:
Friday I'm in love
Daydream believer
Over half of Americans say health care, a weeklong vacation and a new car are unaffordable: ABC News
abcnews.com/Politics/hal...
There are two issues: why voters won't solve these problems, and why this is a recipe for a deep political instability.
... and yet Newsom gets in trouble for saying focus government on the majority that elected you.
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Putting numbers together:
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Inflation adjusted Federal budget estimated to be highest ever... Goodbye Republican Party of fiscal responsibility.
1 in 3 Republicans say President using the office for personal profit: www.usnews.com/news/u-s-new...
www.reddit.com/r/psychology...
> Narcissists are persuasive speakers but terrible writers
Imagine not reading somebody but only ever listening to what they say.... And that's before we get to unfiltered access without speechwriters and editors.
www.psypost.org/people-who-b...
Trying to make a difference anywhere turns out to make a little difference everywhere.
We are. Especially misrepresenting conflicts between indigenous cultures.
25.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That is fair except for the golden age part. There was no golden age. That's a myth created in the 1900s to explain why a thousand years of Zen historical records (koans) all taught a tradition that rejects indigenous Japanese religions.
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Not really. Not if you're familiar with is saying his record.
But the way that you're interpreting his confidence and his enjoyment of being himself as intending to humiliate other people instead of tangentially doing it because they weren't like him...
That's not a reasonable interpretation.
Zen's war against Christian humility and buddhism's no self:
How much do you have to love yourself to practice Zen?
www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/mIAI...
This is an interesting couple of mistranslations.
Have you seen the original text in Chinese? Have you tried plugging it into Google translate?
It's weird but not unsurprising that KwanUm continues to advertise itself as Zen after the Japanese lineages were revealed to be indigenous religions unrelated to Indian-Chinese Zen. Much like Mormonism and Scientology aren't particularly concerned with academic integrity.
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24.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Economist: companies passed on much of the burden of the levies. By the end of last year around 60% of the cost of Mr Trump’s tariffs was being covered by consumers through higher prices, according to Goldman Sachs.
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www.netflix.com/title/816925...
Zen's only practice is public interview and stand-up is often like interviewing yourself or at least your stand-up persona.
Interviews bring reality to the surface.
This set is a great example of that.
One of the ways that Zen distinguishes itself from all the religions and philosophies is Zen Masters HAVE TO answer questions.
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Make AMA great again.
Think about it... You get more drama, more accountability, more public transparency, oh and less redaction of records.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/e...
American consumers will not get tariff refunds... Businesses and shareholders will get all the refunds.
If you're wondering why there's an affordability K-shaped economy, it's because of Robbin' Hoodilum economics that robs from everybody to give to the rich.
www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/2CkP...
Zen koans are transcripts: historical records of real life conversations
And why this was a unique threat to Buddhism and identity threat to Japanese indigenous religions like Zazen.
Framing in terms of the goal shapes the conversation: youtu.be/-ZHLPcdGvY0
"What if their goal was to make air travel @$#&ing annoying?"
Every time we reframe a conversation in terms of the goal of a political movement or a religious organization or a social club, we get somewhere interesting.
"I've seen people with actual experience make bad decisions here." - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
This quote really sums up modern arguments about Zen and academia and on social media.
Zen manners come from Zen enlightenment.
Christian humility and pluralism tolerance have no place in Zen study.
The lay precepts and the Four Statements of Zen do not ask us for either humility or tolerance.
www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/lmcu...
You've got to get a master to slam it on your toe.
That's what worked for Yunmen.
France has an Epstein commission. England arrested Prince Andrew.
Given how competitive Americans are? They're still jelly of the Autobahn speed limit! Will they be jealous of European Justice?
And wait till people on trial in Europe start testifying about which Americans knew what when...
www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/0uVN...
Why people hate rZen. Zen, and Enlightenment.
A follow-up to my post about MAGA and Buddhism.
I say my spiel:
Zen's 1k yrs of historical records (koans) from 5 lay precepts culture w/ the only Zen practice is public interview
...the only question I get is Why don't u believe church/guru more legit than history.
Meanwhile Zen is a tradition of answering the hardest questions publicly.
In the 1900s Western academics forced mysticism on Buddhisn; Japanese Critical Buddhism pushed back.
The West did everything to crush them.
But the argument remains... If you believe something then what's the catechism of what you believe??
1900s Western Buddhist was terrified of catechism.
People are often shocked when 1900s Zen scholarship is debunked. But think about how little from the 1900s we still find admirable and respectable.
From how medicine was practiced to how indigenous cultures were studied, the 1900s was mostly a train wreck.
www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/UF1p...
Zen master Buddha was famous for going out in public and telling people to their faces about his teaching.
This is a great way to understand why zen Masters are so engaged in public interview... And why public interview is the only Zen practice.
www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/LFke...
Zhaozhou and 1,000 hands