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Fantastic biography of an outstanding modern philosopher who understood the challenges and implications of science probably better than most working in these fields.

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As soon as “I” look for the thinker of thoughts, it hits me: There is simply thinking. But no one or thing is doing it. It’s just happening all on its own. ― Meditator's report (in The Elephant and the Blind, by Thomas Metzinger)

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At the core, below any superficial language, beneath any gender, race, color, or creed ... we are all the same.... When you go to sleep, you're actually going to meet me―and every other sentient being on this planet―at this deepest possible level. ― Andrew Holecek (in Dream Yoga)

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my beloved and courageous brother bhikkhu bodhi speaks my heart www.lionsroar.com/commentary-p...

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[S]ome beings who are not childish and have seen the truth have attained the transcendent sublime wisdom. They have understood that the nature of all phenomena is inexpressible. ― Unravelling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (transl. 84000 Project)

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The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find. ― Iain McGilchrist (in The Master and His Emissary)

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"[T]he Biden ascendancy in many ways resembled the Soviet Union in the early 1980s when three successive geriatric leaders died within as many years." History repeats itself when one fails to learn from it (b/c of ignorance). A costly mistake if there ever was one. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Not to know the equality of appearance [and] emptiness And get attached to appearances is delusion But to get attached to emptiness is delusion too .... What you must do is rest in the spaciousness Of the equality of appearance [and] emptiness. — Khenpo Rinpoche (in Dream Yoga, A. Holecek)

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As long as consciousness does not rest in projection only, the tendencies of grasping self and other will not cease. — Vasubandhu (in: Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only, transl. B. Connelly and W. Teng)

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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. ― Epictetus

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The neo-conservative ascendancy has...appropriated America's self-image as the model for a universal civilization in the service of a global free market. For a public nurtured on such illusions the coming years will be traumatic. ― John Gray (in False Dawn, 1998) This trauma is playing out now.

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Let food into Gaza NOW! Netanyahu and his government are starving 2 million civilians. This is day 76 of the blockade. Trucks with food are waiting to get in but are blocked. Children have already died from withholding food. The U.S. is complicit in this gross violation of international law.

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We can't forget about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Trump is still defying a Supreme Court order to bring him home. Tell your Members of Congress: this is a direct attack on our Constitutional rights. indivisible.org/reso...

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The mind is the bodhi tree the body is the mirror's stand the mirror itself is so clear dust has no place to land. ― The Platform Sutra (transl. Red Pine)

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[C]onventional success can...become spiritual failure, because success is so distracting, and because it tends to keep us heading out for more. There is no tyranny as great as the tyranny of success. We get lost and addicted to the projections of the mind. ― Andrew Holecek (in Dream Yoga)

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The menu is not the meal. ― Alan Watts

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Meditate today, even for just five minutes. See if you can have just a few moments where you distinguish awareness, which is like the sky, from thoughts and feelings, which are like the weather. We need both the sky and the weather, but they’re not the same thing.

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Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise. — Nagarjuna (in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way—Nagarjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā)

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My dreamlike form Appeared to dreamlike beings To show them the dreamlike path That leads to dreamlike enlightenment. — The Buddha (Bhadrakalpa Sūtra)

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What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience. History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster. We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.

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Rely on the meaning, not on the letters. Rely on the transcendent wisdom, not on ordinary consciousness. Rely on the teaching, not on the person. Rely on sūtras of definitive meaning, not on sūtras of provisional meaning. — Ugraparipṛcchā Sūtra

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I Am That I Am. — Exodus 3:14 I am this. This I am. — Nondual Shaiva Tantra

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Iain McGilchrist on the left brain hemisphere's delusional thinking.

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“The human being is not an enemy. The enemy is fear, segregation, and ignorance.” tricycle.org/article/mohs...

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"We philosophers have long dreamed of finding a way to demonstrate the interdependence of the sciences and the humanities. Well, here it is." — @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social "The Blind Spot" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204880...

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There is no Mystery. You already know Reality. You only need to stop talking to yourself, and learn to wordlessly pay attention. ― Steve Hagen (in The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe)

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Humans (and other animals) are not brains in a vat (or "meat machines").

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. ― Mark Twain

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Have President Trump and Secretary Rubio even looked at the U.S. Citizenship test? Because one of the questions we ask those who want to become citizens is about the rights protected by the First Amendment. I don't think either of them could pass that test if they tried.

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“It’s a romantic image that Indigenous people have been using everything they do for thousands of years.... If we change the picture, it’s kind of unromantic, and it seems that people like romanticism.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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