Posts by bodhidave@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #APJSN98UjYtMMaJpYG by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2022-11-06T02:22:31Z
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@stux I attended a zoom talk yesterday on "decolonializing psychology." It had a welcomed "heart" component. I asked the speaker, in essence, "What can we do?"He suggested, ๐โ๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ "๐ผ," ๐๐๐ก'๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ "๐ผ/๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ก๐ฆ."
(DIR) Post #AR6SZS7N1qrXSHqEfg by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2022-12-29T15:37:49Z
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@aaronpettman @Chrishallbeck us Buddhists on Wikipedia agree...
(DIR) Post #ASiX7CxBP3JkMxq5Am by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-02-15T22:19:55Z
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@lowqualityfacts ๐ฎ
(DIR) Post #ASqlFZS0b0u55BopQe by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-02-19T21:36:01Z
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@lowqualityfacts I was house-sitting for a few days for some friends who had a parrot. I spent most of my time upstairs.I had to go downstairs periodically, though, to answer their landline phone when it rang. However, most of the time it was not the phoneโit was the parrot trolling me by imitating the sound of the phone ringing.๐ค โ๏ธ ๐ฆ
(DIR) Post #ASwMlb3Aqw6nP88Wjw by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-02-22T14:06:42Z
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I'm reminded of the story of the Dalai Lama leading a group of Western Dharma teachers in a loving kindness meditation. He said to begin with the kind regard you naturally feel for yourselfโand his audience said "Wait, I don't think I have that."He was surprised, but skillfully switched up the instruction, to start instead by bringing others to mind first towards whom it's natural for us to feel kind regard... and then to work up to bringing ourselves to mind that way. ๐ โค๏ธ h/t @markcooper
(DIR) Post #ATcG2ruTYqrZnqvl6u by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-03-14T19:32:27Z
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@Trilobyter I used to live in Austin, and have recently moved to a place outside Asheville. We're getting some flowers now, and I initially thought I had bluebonnets. Turns out these are grape hyacinths and they're related to ... asparagus(?).
(DIR) Post #AUacLeoIWF2ShorFi4 by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-04-12T13:23:53Z
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I found my car battery had died, parked in a somewhat rough part of town. I stood beside it with jumper cables in my hand, and tried to catch the eye of folks passing by in their cars. Most wouldn't look at me.Then a fellow in a van stopped and said, "Need a jump?"... and he helped me out.I thanked him and offered him a few bucks afterwards. He said, "No way, buddy โ just pay it forward!"That was 35 years ago.I still remember him. โค๏ธ.h/t @J3Words
(DIR) Post #AUoVsV8OfQr9jltoK8 by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-04-19T15:14:45Z
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@StillIRise1963 I was living in Austin, TX, a few years ago when there was a "one in one hundred year" flood. Two years later ... there was another one.
(DIR) Post #AWaTIQ9QmLMP2OHvo8 by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-06-11T16:27:50Z
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@Trilobyter I think that's a "walking stick." And to my surprise, I'm seeing they're not particularly closely related to mantises: "Praying mantises and walking sticks may look similar, but they are not closely related. One difference: mantids are carnivores and walking sticks are herbivores."
(DIR) Post #AWrgAUChar0DFRgYJU by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-06-19T19:29:51Z
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@ElleGray "Avec mes souvenirs"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/06/13/orcas-attacking-boats/70317257007/
(DIR) Post #AX3EC7wYr1K6kaayLQ by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-06-21T12:34:44Z
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happy #solstice
(DIR) Post #AZrnrujtik3gS6HUkC by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-09-17T18:28:56Z
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1/3I've been in a couple conversations lately with persons who hold the view that there are no experiences that aren't pre-shaped by conceptual frameworks (and thus no cross-cultural commonalities in contemplative/ meditative experiences). An attendant view is often that mystical "via negativa" language is highly "abstract."This is sadly wrong. "Negative" contemplative language is about simple, practical, experiential processes. It's about cultivating *honesty* and a simple immediacy.
(DIR) Post #AZrnrvkzw8X5bnnt68 by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-09-17T18:33:16Z
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2/It's a big topic, but a couple quick notes:Language for expressing too-simple-for words experiencing is (1) often metaphoric and conscious of it's inadequacy (not infrequently playfully so) โ more a song or poem or celebration than a conceptual claim or proposition; and (2) such language is often *practical* โ entailing instructions for how we can go and look for ourself and uncover such experience first-hand.
(DIR) Post #AZrnrwb6oODUDQBVK4 by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2023-09-17T18:38:14Z
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3/3And it just seems obvious that much of our experience simply isn't in words. Music, art, awe at a sunset. Babies apparently have dreams in utero. What "conceptual set and framework" would obtain there?In my own case, I've awakened a number of times out of dreamless sleep and found myself in the middle of the meditative jhฤna sequence โ some wordless part of me knows how to do sleep, and knows how to do meditation in sleep ... and knows how to do words within my waking cognitive process.
(DIR) Post #AdbqaOsr4BEhZ4WuMi by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2024-01-07T17:02:40Z
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@ICareAboutTheWorld Your photo reminds me of one I took recently on a foggy day from the back porch of Windhorse #Zen Center, outside Asheville, North Carolina.#SilentSunday
(DIR) Post #AnUYYbrajrcwwcrzs0 by bodhidave@mstdn.social
2024-10-27T22:25:39Z
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@skinnylatte When my daughter was little, ~4 years old, she was quite shy ... and when I was speaking with someone, she'd often hide behind my legs ... but then she'd peek around and say to the person:"I like your shoes"... and they were invariably totally charmed. :)