Brother Spirit 🌀(Phap Linh)

I have wanted to write about this very thought many times — how Hollywood constantly tells us that the world can be saved by one man punching another man in the face.

The quote is from an excellent interview with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social — pls forgive my inept attempt at posting it. Link in reply

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

…the community of practitioners. It’s this idea that we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is that we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort. Thich Nhat Hanh said before he died that the next Buddha will be the Sangha…

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

Still a while to go… Publication spring 2027!

Preparing to embrace 175 leaders in the fields of climate, biodiversity and ocean protection today (from the whole continent of the Americas), to help them continue to metabolise their grief, rage and despair into resilience, courage and stubborn optimism.

Giving up isn’t an option.

Ah yes! We were very lucky to get to see the eclipse. It’s a rare and precious thing

Blood-moon moonset
Brotherhood
Sunrise

Who is with the moon tonight?

Never be numb to human suffering

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Sunrise sending beams of light through pillowed clouds this morning in yucatan

Somehow the world, the present moment, and the potential for awakening in us all is still unfathomably, achingly beautiful…

no matter all our attempts to pollute, attack, and annihilate it

There is something indestructible in the heart of reality, always waiting for us to turn towards it

Thank you for being there. Was a joy to meet the new cohort!

We need so many communities of resistance in these darkening times

Yup. And I’m there for it 🔥

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Capitalism and the Internet have even found ways to do this to mindfulness.

Once you see the pattern, you see it everywhere.

vimeo.com/1168468796

LLMs as a funfair mirror (of humanity) is the underlying metaphor i thought might get half an originality point but ok.. fair enough 😅

Scaling LLMs to produce AGI is like polishing a funfair mirror and expecting a genie to pop out

(Does that count?)

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere.
It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

Episode 100 is here! #TheWayOutIsIn #podcast Brother Phap Huu & Jo Confino are joined by Sister True Dedication to celebrate the legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. 🙏🏽

On the app 👉🏽 link.plumvillage.app/cKQv
More here 👉🏽 plumvillage.org/podcast/one-...

#mindfulness #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillageApp

Isn’t that the best kind?

Hahaha yes.. it’s the kind of irony that thinly veils the truth

Forget FOMO
Try JOMO

The joy of..

(Secret introvert delight of getting some extra alone time)

Which is why we need:
ABSTRACTION REBELLION 🥳

From one of Thay’s chapters, in the book W O N D E R — zen, science, and the possibility of freedom. (Coming out next spring)

(Descriptions of kiwi—i.e. abstractions—cannot convey the *experience* of kiwi)

Indeed, no abstract description of any experience whatsoever can capture that experience

Some of us have already tasted kiwi, and some of us have never tasted a kiwi.

They may ask "What is kiwi? Can you give me an idea?" But you cannot. Even combining all your ideas, you cannot explain what a kiwi is.

The only way is to offer them a kiwi

Then you don't have to say anything at all

Don’t live in the map

Return to the territory of your embodiment!

Join the ABSTRACTION REBELLION!

(The cutest ever placard courtesy of Siri Raworth-Krznaric — yes, that’s a toothpick)

Whitehead’s points out that this division elevates the mathematically describable (measurable) aspects of nature to the status of “truly real”

while relegating our lived experienced to a merely subjective status

— splitting in two what is in fact a single, unified field of experience

Absolutely — this phenomenon is itself a demonstration of how far the surreptitious substitution has progressed — we no longer even notice that the abstract representation (in this case language) is missing almost everything that truly matters