Anahatamama

Love the mantis!

Today in the yard

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YouTube video by Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters Namkai Norbu - Advice for Establishing Presence and Awareness - Dzogchen

"Thus, being aware that the basis of Samsara and Nirvana is only the mind, one takes the decision to practice."
~Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Advice On Presence And Awareness www.awakeningtoreality.com/2009/09/mirr...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

Don't forget love; it will bring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

Mirabai

No additional words needed. This says it all. ⬇️

From the book, 'Easy Does It'. Artist: @lauramakabresku

It’s not that we have some essence inside us, some deep defining core-identity which gradually emerges to show itself in the world. Rather we are co-emergent with circumstances. Free of fixed defining essence, we are participants in an interactive matrix of collaborative responsivity. ~ James Low

Actually who we are is not something which can be known, because fundamentally we are part of a field of revelation diversely unfolding. We are not like the bud of a flower gradually opening to display the fulfilment of its potential.

As we attend to this ceaseless movement, it becomes clear that the narrative of our social persona, so effortful to maintain, is a cover-up, a deception, a lie. The stories we tell about ourselves are indeed just stories, mere fictions.

Sometimes our minds are clear and sometimes there is a lot of confusion. In fact our experience is ceaseless fluctuation: our body is full of sensations coming and going, and our thoughts and feelings are always changing.

The waves, tides and storms of our moods shift and turn, their momentary forms often ignored as we struggle to keep our bubble of seeming self-entity intact. Sometimes we are expansive, sometimes we contract. Sometimes we are hopeful, sometimes not.

To be a social being able to survive in the world requires the capacity to maintain a persona, a mask, a presentational self behind which we can hide the messiness of our fragile fleeting actual selfing. Our constructed persona floats on the surface of our life like a little bubble. 1/ James Low

VT joined late.

An artful image of Virginia Woolf. "I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim -this fine October." - Virginia Woolf

October's my favorite month. It's everything falling away, but hasn't quite yet, which feels like a beautiful place to be. 🍂

What I'm seeing here are scientists in the early days of the pandemic, considering possibilities. Your screenshots and memes aren't science.

High-ranking military officers today as a seated crowd with subtle, but mixed expressions.

They swore an oath..

I'm kinda thinking the military are not exactly on board with the current administration. Just a hunch

He truly is! Straight to the point and with an excellent sense of humor. I spend a lot of time listening to JL. Great to know you're appreciating him and his teachings, Tashi 🎇

Those were the early days. He’s discussed this since as not.

"The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings. They’re bragging about it. And they’re convinced they’ve got you too distracted to care."

YouTube video by act.tv Understanding Democratic Socialism

Democratic socialism is not communism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcAQ...

Who says

Would it make sense to test mothers for Hep B during labor or would the turn-around for test results make doing so impractical? Love Microbetv! Thank you.

a person with a pumpkin head is holding a starbucks cup of hot chocolate Alt: a person with a pumpkin head spilling a cup of hot coffee on themselves

Good morning

They broke his ribs. 😢😡

YouTube video by James Low • Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings 1/4 Non-duality is simple. Wiesen 07.2025

This process is simple and absolutely already present as intrinsic awareness. We're so used to thinking it's complicated. That we should be stopping thoughts through rigorous meditation, etc. No. It's the presence of awareness we already have. ✨ #dzogchen #buddhism www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maa...