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Peace. Ahimsa. May you and all beings be happy, well, feel safe, be peaceful and at ease. Former lawyer. Buddhism. Trying to be in the world but not of it. Note - don't follow back if little info, no posts🌷🙏
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Pemako Retreat Center, San Diego.
Photo is offered by the Aspen Times"
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any more stark: one is to live unnecessarily in the depths of unconscious darkness, and the other is to joyously smile drenched in the utter simplicity of being."
~ Lama Michael
Image is in front of the Lukhang Dzogchen and Six Yogas of Naropa Mural, 3rd Floor of the North Wall, 🧵
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lawyer–client relationship, the abrogation of the lawyer’s role as an advocate, and the elimination of judicial independence. As a result, while there was an elaborate facade of laws, the fundamental features of the Rule of Law no longer existed, and in their place had grown an arbitrary and 🧵
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Hitler hijacked the legal system to achieve this goal was an incremental one. It happened as a result of many steps that led to the breakdown of the ability of the legal system to fulfill its fundamental mission to protect the people from governmental tyranny."
"Nevertheless, these lawyers and 🧵
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"...His [Hitler’s] goal was not only to purge the legal profession of those he thought undesirable and coordinate the legal system to promote his agenda, but to control the legal system to a complete degree so that there was no real distinction between himself and the law. The process by which 🧵
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This is off-topic or the opposite maybe - a weirdly wonderful documentary, My Octopus Teacher.
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Just an FYI reminder -
"You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
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they remain in the room, especially when there’s no ventilation."
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"You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
"Airborne viruses travel much like cigarette smoke, he explained. The scent will be strongest beside a smoker, but those farther away will inhale more and more smoke if 🧵
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Maybe this time around people will decide wearing a mask is a good idea. For themselves, if not to prevent others from getting sick suffering and dying. Which seemed to be beyond yhis small effort.
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if they remain in the room, especially when there’s no ventilation."
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"You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
"Airborne viruses travel much like cigarette smoke, he explained. The scent will be strongest beside a smoker, but those farther away will inhale more and more smoke 🧵
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"And how far can an aerosol fly? 'The distance depends on their size and air currents,' she says. 'Their pathway could easily be hundreds of feet before they reach the ground.' ”
[Quote from Linsey Marr, aerosols expert, same article]
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'And what’s the cost of wearing a mask on the plane? Nothing, really!' ...
"There’s also something you can do for the good of humanity, too. And it involves distance.
'I can’t stress this enough,' says Malani. 'If you’re not feeling well don’t put others at risk." In other words, stay home!"
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"A good mask (think N95 or K95) that fits and is worn properly (don’t let your nostrils peek out) is the gold standard. You can’t always control the distance factor, says infectious disease professor Dr. Preeti Malani of the University of Michigan. 'But a mask is incredibly effective,' she says. 🧵
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smoke if they remain in the room, especially when there’s no ventilation."
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Because:
""You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
"Airborne viruses travel much like cigarette smoke, he explained. The scent will be strongest beside a smoker, but those farther away will inhale more and more🧵
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if they remain in the room, especially when there’s no ventilation."
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🌷 "We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
FDR State of the Union, Jan 1, 1944 🧵
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"You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
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associations and courts hold lawyers (and judges) responsible for any complicit conduct. Otherwise, this is what can happen. "...Hitler used the legal system to legitimize his terroristic dictatorship and, while eventually there was a complete breakdown in the Rule of Law, it did not happen 🧵
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and records, Christopher Healy, senior adviser to the Treasury Department's general counsel, had little to say when asked about who runs DOGE.
'I don't know the answer to that,' he told reporters Friday afternoon outside federal court in New York." (From posted article.)
We must insist that bar 🧵
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"The mystery about DOGE's organization and leadership does not appear limited to members of the public; lawyers for the Trump administration have similarly struggled with the question in court.
After a court hearing on Friday about DOGE's access to sensitive Treasury Department payment systems 🧵
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🌷🙏 Hoping I can take care of it well.
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Wishing you a full and complete healing and recovery. 🌷🙏
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Thank you. Do you water it so that water pours out from the bottom, or less? Thanks.
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✔ From the chart, the one I just got seems to be a Christmas cactus but it's blooming now. 🌞😉
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GM 🍵 ~ I am loking for a nice Christmas cactus and started looking up how to care for it, etc. Came across this which apparently says different varieties, with different leaves bloom at different times. Curious, is this holding true for yours?
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only teaches emptiness without context of the larger point.
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loving others as one's self - when one knows that all beings have the buddha nature one naturally identifies with other beings as if they are oneself.
The five defects also show that the Buddha-nature teaching is seen as a corrective by the RGV to the view that 🧵
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beings who think that their faults and defilements are their true nature.
4. Criticism of the real dharma or denial of what is real - this refers to those who overlook the fact that all beings have the buddha wisdom within and thus do not know the truth.
5. Excessive self-cherishing and not 🧵
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to aspire to Buddhahood. Buddha nature teachings provide confidence to those who feel like this.
2. Contempt for inferior sentient beings - knowing that all beings are of the lineage of the buddhas corrects the arrogance of some bodhisattvas.
3. Attachment to what is unreal - this refers to 🧵
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the relationship between the emptiness teachings and the buddha nature teaching. The root text is also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra (The Ultimate Teaching of the Mahāyāna)
The Five Defects Are:
1. The depressed mind or faintheartedness, that is, feeling inadequate and unable 🧵
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You don't ask for anything in return.
~ Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh
Do beggars have Buddha Nature?
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Via Lama Michel Gregory
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that person needs to be loved.
That is all.
You love without conditions whatsoever.
It means unconditional love.
You love in order to bring relief to that person, to transform the suffering in that person, to offer joy to him, to offer happiness to her because she needs that.
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Do not be afraid
To give the world
All that it needs
Maybe you forgot
You are the source
Of everything
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