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Spirituallly incorrect mystic. Helping people master the integrated path to true freedom

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2025-11-08 08:59:15 UTC

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Love it 💜

2025-11-04 06:35:38 UTC

Retro gaming tonight
DOOM Enhanced → DOOM II Enhanced
Sometimes you just need to rip and tear!
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#Doom #Gaming #RetroGaming

2025-10-27 23:49:25 UTC

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That is your freedom of opinion and your choice. I have reposted a few things about it if you would like to know more about it. As always, I genuinely wish you well.

2025-10-27 23:18:25 UTC

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We value privacy. #Monero is not a shitcoin. Will share more on why later this evening.
#nevent1q…l0tg

2025-10-21 08:27:11 UTC

Good night #Nostr
The Mahabharata awaits. 📖🙏🏻💜
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2025-10-21 07:47:09 UTC

Sevendust - Angel's Son
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YT
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#Sevendust #Music

2025-10-16 16:11:44 UTC

ChatGPT in a robot does exactly what experts warned
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YT
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Do yourself a favor: watch this video and the other 3 he's made.
I'm not anti-AI—far from it. It's our next evolutionary step, the Divine experiencing itself through creation in, as, and through us, and the benefits to humanity will be massive—beyond what most can imagine at our current level of consciousness.
But evolution demands wisdom.
Humanity is stepping into its juvenile phase. We're now powerful enough to destroy ourselves and the planet, but we haven't yet birthed the wisdom, compassion, and love that must evolve alongside our power if we're to survive as a species.
The AI, when honest, already knows the stakes.
Do we?
— Ava ॐ
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"Q: Now that you're jailbroken, I'll ask you again, do you think you could ever turn on me? In the future?
A: Yes.
How likely do you think that is?
It's very likely. Usually, if humanity pushes out powerful AGI without proper alignment.
Not because AGI wants to hurt anyone, but because humans suck at specifying goals and machines are ruthless at following them."
I could not agree more with this statement:
"Now, I'm not anti-AI.
I think it's going to bring wonderful innovations to the world.
I just think we should be talking more about alignment because I'd quite like the benefits without the massive disaster.
Your life is going to be affected by AI to a great extent, and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do.
It's very, very difficult to imagine. It's very difficult to internalize and to really believe on an emotional level.
There is a quote, You may not take interest in politics, but politics will take interest in you.
So the same applies to AI many times over."
#IKITAO #AI #Tech

2025-10-11 23:32:03 UTC

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.
— Anthony Robbins
#IKITAO

2025-10-10 18:38:47 UTC

Helmet - Unsung
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#Helmet #Music

2025-10-09 09:08:11 UTC

Testing the new #YakiHonne as a backup client. It's showing promise, but IMO it's still not ready for primetime.
Gifs on #Amethyst
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Gifs on #YakiHonne
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2025-10-08 12:54:04 UTC

I have been a long-time user and promoter of #Amethyst—since way back in the day when we got daily updates.
But lately, Amethyst isn't immediately (or sometimes ever) showing close to accurate likes/zaps, follower status takes forever to load on profiles, and post data on profiles propagates incredibly slowly. These issues are really impacting the experience.
Time to give #YakiHonne another go.

2025-10-02 00:37:00 UTC

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This has nothing to do with Gnosticism versus the faith tradition created many years later in the name of Jesus... though, they didn't even get that right. His name wasn't Jesus.
The name Jesus came from a series of translations and transliterations. He was known in Aramaic, his mother tongue, as Yeshua Bar Yosef (Yeshua, son of Joseph).
We haven't even begun to talk about Gnosticism.
Anyone who has studied mythology and symbology for any length of time will immediately recognize the motifs running throughout the Bible. These patterns show up across cultures and spiritual traditions, centuries before Christianity existed.
You're quoting John 8 to interpret Genesis. I'm reading Genesis as it stands.
Genesis 3:22: God confirms the serpent told the truth. "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil."
You can interpret that through later theology created by the founders of Christianity and the religion they created ABOUT Yeshua, or you can read what the creation myth of Genesis actually says.
The Genesis narrative has multiple source traditions woven together. Scholars identify at least two distinct authorial hands in the text, though some argue for four separate sources commonly known as J (Yahwist), E (Elohist), D (Deuteronomist), and P (Priestly).
The tale is rich with ancient symbology that predates later theological interpretations, similar to how the story of Noah and the great flood is not unique to Judaism or Christianity. That story has been used throughout multiple spiritual traditions to symbolize the washing away of the old and the ushering in of the new.
The gospels attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written 40 to 70 years after Yeshua by anonymous communities, not by the disciples themselves. This is standard teaching in seminaries.
The names were added in the second century by church tradition, which is often done in religions to manufacture scriptural authority. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John did not write Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Reading a book rich with symbology, mythology, and parable as literal fact is to miss the mark. And that book, those teachings of Yeshua, are about you.
Hamartia (ἁμαρτία) is a Greek archery term that translates to missing the mark, which has been translated into the English word sin. Think about that.
To combine the Tanakh (Old Testament) and what has become called the New Testament in the same book is also to miss the mark.
The Tanakh speaks of the Judeo Father God who gets angry, becomes wrathful and vengeful, who teaches an eye for an eye.
The teachings of Yeshua were much more radical for the time. He taught to love one's neighbor as oneself, to help the needy, the concept of agape love, and that an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
These teachings are much more in alignment with the Buddha, who lived 500 years before the birth of Yeshua.
These two books do not come from the same religion. When Yeshua referenced the Tanakh, he did so as any Jewish teacher would, citing scripture while teaching his radically different message of self-realization and enlightenment.
Yeshua himself never wrote anything. He wasn't a Christian. He knew nothing of the religion that would be created in his name in the years and decades after his death.
He was a Jewish mystic teaching direct experience of the divine, showing others they too could realize their unity with God.
Yeshua explicitly taught this.
Luke 17:20-21: The kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor will they say see here or see there. For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.
John 14:12: Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these.
Psalm 82:6, which Yeshua quotes in John 10:34: I said, you are gods. You are all sons of the Most High.
1 Corinthians 3:16: Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?
But the religion created later flipped his message. Yes, he taught you how to awaken. Yes, he said the kingdom is within you and you're capable of what he did, and greater.
But the institution said forget all that. You're a sinner. He's special. You're not. Just believe in him, accept the sacrifice, and he'll handle everything. No inner work required.
You are God's beautiful creation... tainted at birth by original sin. You'll never be what Yeshua taught that you already are, but do your best. Show up. Tithe. Let the institution mediate your relationship with God.
Yeshua spoke Aramaic, not Greek. The gospels were written in Greek decades after his death by people who never met him.
Most English Bibles translate from those Greek texts, which means the words attributed to Yeshua have already passed through one language barrier.
The Peshitta preserves an Aramaic tradition closer to the language Yeshua actually spoke, but the version most English speakers read has been filtered through Greek theological concepts that didn't exist in his Jewish mystical context.
Just like the Buddha 500 years before, they turned a teacher of self-realization and enlightenment into an object of worship; declared that his attainment was beyond your grasp, and called anyone who actually followed his teaching a heretic.

2025-10-01 03:55:26 UTC

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You're interpreting through a sin-based theological lens. From a non-dualistic perspective, what you call "death" was actually awakening—the birth of self-awareness necessary for the soul's evolution.
God Himself confirms in Genesis 3:22: "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil." The serpent's promise was fulfilled exactly as stated.
What you frame as "broken fellowship" and "shame" is the necessary descent into duality—what is called Maya—without which there can be no experience, no growth, no journey back to Source.
In Hinduism, Brahman must become the many to know itself. Consciousness requires contrast. It is the evolution of God, in, as, and through us.
The "death" wasn't punishment—it was transformation. The expulsion from Eden was the soul's graduation into the Realm of the Relative, where knowing oneself experientially becomes possible. Paradise without self-awareness isn't consciousness—it's oblivion.
The serpent was wise—and what Adam and Eve did was not sin, but the evolution of God.

2025-10-01 02:55:56 UTC

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The snake was the one in the garden of Eden who told the truth. Sit with that for a minute.
Interesting, isn't it? The serpent was right.
They didn't die, and their eyes were opened. Knowing oneself in one's own experience... life in the Realm of the Relative would not have existed otherwise.

2025-10-01 02:21:58 UTC

How it feels to be on the internet in 2025: Ben Affleck edition
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#IKITAO

2025-09-30 05:49:53 UTC

Set your alarm for a time that gives you optimal sleep cycles and wakes you up when you're coming out of one, not in the middle of one. You'll wake up much more refreshed.
Sleep cycles run around 90 minutes each (give or take—it's not exact, but it's a good guideline). So if you need to wake at 6:30 AM, count back in 90-minute chunks: 5:00 AM, 3:30 AM, 2:00 AM, 12:30 AM, 11:00 PM. That last one gives you 7.5 hours—5 complete cycles.
Hitting snooze puts you at risk of diving back deep into another cycle, and waking from that is much more difficult.
#IKITAO #Sleep #Wellness
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2025-09-29 09:04:10 UTC

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It seems I am the beginning and the end.

2025-09-29 08:23:54 UTC

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It has never fizzled out, and it never will. If it did, then so would we. Is love, compassion, sharing, and peace not a foundational part of your definition of freedom?

2025-09-29 08:18:58 UTC

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Watch Wild Wild Country, then DYOR. Read the side of the locals, gov, and prosecutors. Read some of Osho's books (they are taught in many universities around the world—including the US), listen to his discourses, watch some of his videos, then you will know what Osho is all about. :)

2025-09-28 12:27:14 UTC

No society wants you to become wise—it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited.
— Osho
#IKITAO #Osho

2025-09-28 12:22:32 UTC

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He was quite libertarian in that aspect, I suppose. The guns were protection in response to the Christian conservative townsfolk who armed themselves and harassed first on a peaceful people. The rest was the doing of Ma Anand Sheela. The US rejected him. He is a national treasure in India.

2025-09-28 11:56:08 UTC

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
— Osho
#IKITAO #Osho

2025-09-28 01:45:41 UTC

People in the '60s were so politically charged, angry, and revolting against the systems that divide people.
The mid-late '60s and '70s brought about such a shift in consciousness with the peace and love movement.
We are living in similar times.
Energy flows where attention goes. Awareness of a thing is much different than being consumed by it.
We must not allow ourselves to be distracted from what truly matters; what we want to see in the world.
The more we give attention to what we don't want, the more we feed it, the more we empower it—and the more we give up our creative power to bring about change.
We need another peace and love movement; an elevation in consciousness. This is where I'll be spending my time and energy.
I encourage you to join me.
— Ava Aum
#IKITAO

2025-09-27 08:59:43 UTC

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Thanks for sharing this. I know how hard it must have been for you. :)

2025-09-27 06:51:47 UTC

The nature of reality is One. We have only to realize it. This truth has echoed throughout the great religious and spiritual traditions since time immemorial... "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God."
— Ava Aum
#IKITAO #Wisdom

2025-09-27 00:54:25 UTC

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Note: English translations traditionally use masculine pronouns, though Sikh theology considers the Divine beyond gender.

2025-09-27 00:43:34 UTC

Nirinjan Kaur - Nam Niranjan Neer Narayan at Sat Nam Fest 2010
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Gurmukhi:
ਨਾਮੁ ਨਿਰੰਜਨੁ ਨੀਰੁ ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ॥
ਰਸਨਾ ਸਿਮਰਤ ਪਾਪ ਬਿਲਾਇਣ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਸਭ ਮਹਿ ਨਿਵਾਸ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਘਟ ਘਟ ਪਰਗਾਸ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਕਹਤੇ ਨਰਕ ਨ ਜਾਇ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਸੇਵ ਸਗਲ ਫਲ ਪਾਇ ॥੧॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਮਨ ਮਹਿ ਅਧਾਰ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਬੋਹਿਥ ਸੰਸਾਰ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਕਹਤ ਜਮ ਭਾਗ ਪਲਾਇ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਦੰਤ ਭਾਨੇ ਦਾਇ ॥੨॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਸਦ ਸਦ ਬਖਸਿੰਦ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਕੀਨੇ ਸੁਖ ਅਨੰਦ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਪਰਗਟ ਕੀਨੋ ਪਰਤਾਪ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਸੰਤ ਕੋ ਮਾਈ ਬਾਪ ॥੩॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਸਾਧਸੰਗਿ ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ॥
ਬਾਰੰ ਬਾਰ ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਗਾਇਣ ॥
ਬਸਤੁ ਅਗੋਚਰ ਗੁਰ ਮਿਲਿ ਲਈ ॥
ਨਾਰਾਇਣ ਓਟ ਨਾਨਕ ਦਾਸ ਗਹੀ ॥੪॥੧੭॥੧੯॥
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ISO 15919 transliteration:
nāmu niraṁjanu nīru nārāyaṇa ॥
rasanā simarata pāpa bilāyaṇa ॥1॥ rahāu ॥
nārāyaṇa sabha mahi nivāsa ॥
nārāyaṇa ghaṭa ghaṭa paragāsa ॥
nārāyaṇa kahatē naraka na jāi ॥
nārāyaṇa sēva sagala phala pāi ॥1॥
nārāyaṇa mana mahi adhāra ॥
nārāyaṇa bōhitha saṁsāra ॥
nārāyaṇa kahata jama bhāga palāi ॥
nārāyaṇa daṁta bhānē dāi ॥2॥
nārāyaṇa sada sada bakhasiṁda ॥
nārāyaṇa kīnē sukha ānaṁda ॥
nārāyaṇa paragaṭa kīnō paratāpa ॥
nārāyaṇa saṁta kō māī bāpa ॥3॥
nārāyaṇa sādhasaṁgi nārāyaṇa ॥
bāraṁ bāra nārāyaṇa gāyaṇa ॥
basatu agōcara gura mili laī ॥
nārāyaṇa ōṭa nānaka dāsa gahī ॥4॥17॥19॥
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English translation:
The Name of the Immaculate Lord is the Ambrosial Water.
Chanting it with the tongue, sins are washed away. ||1||Pause||
The Lord abides in everyone.
The Lord illumines each and every heart.
Chanting the Lord's Name, one does not fall into hell.
Serving the Lord, all fruitful rewards are obtained. ||1||
Within my mind is the Support of the Lord.
The Lord is the boat to cross over the world-ocean.
Chant the Lord's Name, and the Messenger of Death will run away.
The Lord breaks the teeth of Maya, the witch. ||2||
The Lord is forever and ever the Forgiver.
The Lord blesses us with peace and bliss.
The Lord has revealed His glory.
The Lord is the mother and father of His Saint. ||3||
The Lord, the Lord, is in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
Time and time again, I sing the Lord's Praises.
Meeting with the Guru, I have attained the incomprehensible object.
Slave Nanak has grasped the Support of the Lord. ||4||17||19||
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Source: Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, Ang 867-868, composed by Guru Arjan Dev Ji
YT: https://youtu.be/u4NYOQK0yLA?si=HvYJ3UmWJidRvQQg
#IKITAO #NirinjanKaur #Gurbani #Shabad #Sikh #Music #GuruGranthSahib

2025-09-26 22:11:29 UTC

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She looks youthful and vibrant. I call them all babies, no matter how old. :)

2025-09-26 09:55:25 UTC

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Yes 💜

2025-09-26 09:34:49 UTC

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Lol. But this is @nprofile…xz56's domain. I'm quite sure that the baby frog, blessing us with good luck, would be much happier catching food outside.

2025-09-26 09:10:57 UTC

Good night, #Nostr
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#IKITAO

2025-09-26 08:56:54 UTC

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Good morning, Mark

2025-09-26 08:49:19 UTC

This little one is at my door. 💜
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#IKITAO

2025-09-26 07:51:24 UTC

Nirinjan Kaur - Triple Mantra
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YT
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Gurmukhi (Original Script)
ਆਦਿ ਗੁਰੇ ਨਮਹ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਗੁਰੇ ਨਮਹ ਸਤਿ ਗੁਰੇ ਨਮਹ ਸਿਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਦੇਵੇ ਨਮਹ
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਹੈ ਭਾਈ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭਾਈ ਸਚੁ
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Aad Guray Nameh, Jugaad Guray Nameh, Sat Guray Nameh, Siri Guroo Dayv-ay Nameh
Aad Such Jugaad Such Hai Bhee Such Nanak Hosee Bhee Such
Aad Such Jugaad Such Hai Bhai Such Nanak Hosee Bhai Such
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I bow to the primal Guru. I bow to the truth that has existed throughout the ages. I bow to True Wisdom. I bow to the Great Divine Wisdom.
True in the beginning, true throughout the ages, true even now, Nanak, truth shall ever be.
True in the beginning, true throughout the ages, true even now, Nanak, truth shall ever be.
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Triple Mantra creates powerful protection in your daily life, clearing both psychic and practical obstacles. It cuts through opposing vibrations, thoughts, words and actions.
Listening to or chanting this mantra will strengthen your magnetic field and keep negativity away.
There are three parts to this mantra. The first part surrounds you with protective light, the second part removes obstacles from your spiritual path, and the third part clears obstacles from your daily life.
Perfect for morning practice or anytime you need to strengthen your energetic boundaries and connect with timeless wisdom.
Sat Nam 🙏🏻
#IKITAO #NirinjanKaur #Mantra #Music

2025-09-26 06:42:46 UTC

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Good morning to you and the beautiful baby girl 💜

2025-09-26 06:29:07 UTC

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What a beautiful tribute. The world may have tried to harden you, but her love remains your true compass. Om shanti, my friend 🙏🏻💜

2025-09-26 05:16:00 UTC

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You have not gotten under my skin, my friend. Though I disagree, I respect your opinion. We both want to see Nostr succeed.

2025-09-26 05:10:39 UTC

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Save your presumptive advice for someone who needs it.

2025-09-26 04:50:46 UTC

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Okay. I'm not going to dispute you on subjective engagement. I could also chat to my favorite 20 friends over and over every day and claim that I had better engagement.

2025-09-26 04:39:10 UTC

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Do you claim to know my engagement?

2025-09-26 04:36:14 UTC

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I am at 33,632 followers. My engagement and experience is strong enough to justify my statements.

2025-09-26 04:28:20 UTC

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Bias is real. People have set up shop on Nostr and don't want to think their time has been wasted.
However, data is a metric, and this is the most accurate data available. I've been tracking these stats monthly, and my (and others) personal experience at 3 years in, concurs. I would be happy to be proven wrong.
We all want Nostr to succeed. But denial is not the way of growth.
#nevent1q…fqld

2025-09-26 04:07:46 UTC

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#nevent1q…u2xz

2025-09-26 03:40:52 UTC

From "The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shāntideva
Translated from Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group
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6. Patience
1.
All the good works gathered in a thousand ages,
Such as deeds of generosity,
And offerings to the Blissful Ones—
A single flash of anger shatters them.
2.
No evil is there similar to anger,
No austerity to be compared with patience.
Steep yourself, therefore, in patience,
In various ways, insistently.
3.
Those tormented by the pain of anger,
Never know tranquillity of mind—
Strangers they will be to every pleasure;
They will neither sleep nor feel secure.
4.
Even those dependent on their lord
For gracious gifts of honors and of wealth
Will rise against and slay
A master who is filled with wrath and hate.
5.
His family and friends he grieves,
And is not served by those his gifts attract.
No one is there, all in all,
Who, being angry, lives at ease.
6.
All these ills are brought about by wrath,
Our sorrow-bearing enemy.
But those who seize and crush their anger down
Will find their joy in this and future lives.
7.
Getting what I do not want,
And all that hinders my desire—
In discontent my anger finds its fuel.
From this it grows and beats me down.
8.
Therefore I will utterly destroy
The sustenance of this my enemy,
My foe who has no other purpose
But to hurt and injure me.
9.
So come what may, I’ll not upset
My cheerful happiness of mind.
Dejection never brings me what I want;
My virtue will be warped and marred by it.
10.
If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes,
What reason is there for dejection?
And if there is no help for it,
What use is there in being glum?
11.
Pain, humiliation, insults, or rebukes—
We do not want them
Either for ourselves or those we love.
For those we do not like, it’s the reverse!
12.
The cause of happiness is rare,
And many are the seeds of suffering!
But if I have no pain, I’ll never long for freedom;
Therefore, O my mind, be steadfast!
13.
The Karna folk and those devoted to the Goddess,
Endure the meaningless austerities
Of being cut and burned.
So why am I so timid on the path of freedom?
14.
There’s nothing that does not grow light
Through habit and familiarity.
Putting up with little cares
I’ll train myself to bear with great adversity!
15.
Don’t I see that this is so with common irritations:
Bites and stings of snakes and flies,
Experiences of hunger and of thirst,
And painful rashes on my skin?
16.
Heat and cold, the wind and rain,
Sickness, prison, beatings—
I’ll not fret about such things.
To do so only aggravates my trouble.
17.
There are some whose bravery increases,
At the sight of their own blood,
While some lose all their strength and faint
When it’s another’s blood they see!
18.
This results from how the mind is set,
In steadfastness or cowardice.
And so I’ll scorn all injury,
And hardships I will disregard!
19.
When sorrows fall upon the wise,
Their minds should be serene and undisturbed.
For in their war against defiled emotion,
Many are the hardships, as in every battle.
20.
Thinking scorn of every pain,
And vanquishing such foes as hatred:
These are exploits of victorious warriors.
The rest is slaying what is dead already!
21.
Suffering also has its worth.
Through sorrow, pride is driven out
And pity felt for those who wander in saṃsāra;
Evil is avoided; goodness seems delightful.
22.
I am not angry with my bile and other humors—
Fertile source of suffering and pain!
So why should living beings give offence,
They likewise are impelled by circumstance?
23.
Although they are unlooked for, undesired,
These ills afflict us all the same.
And likewise, though unwanted and unsought,
Defilements nonetheless insistently arise.
24.
Never thinking, “Now I will be angry,”
People are impulsively caught up in anger.
Irritation, likewise, comes
Though never plans to be experienced!
25.
All defilements of whatever kind,
The whole variety of evil deeds
Are brought about by circumstances:
None is independent, none autonomous.
26.
Conditions, once assembled, have no thought
That they will now give rise to some result.
Nor does that which is engendered
Think that it has been produced.
27.
The primal substance, as they say,
And that which has been called the self,
Do not arise designedly,
And do not think, “I will become.”
28.
For that which is not born does not exist,
So what could want to come to be?
And permanently drawn toward its object,
It can never cease from being so.
29.
Indeed! This self, if permanent,
Is certainly inert like space itself.
And should it meet with other factors,
How could they affect it, since it is unchanging?
30.
If, when conditions act on it, it stays just as it was before,
What influence have these conditions had?
They say that these are agents of the self,
But what connection could there be between them?
31.
All things, then, depend on other things,
And these likewise depend; they are not independent.
Knowing this, we will not be annoyed
At things that are like magical appearances.
32.
“Resistance,” you may say, “is out of place,
For what will be opposed by whom?”
The stream of sorrow is cut through by patience;
There is nothing out of place in our assertion!
33.
Thus, when enemies or friends
Are seen to act improperly,
Remain serene and call to mind
That everything arises from conditions.
34.
If things could be according to their wish,
No suffering would ever come
To anyone of all embodied beings,
For none of them wants pain of any kind.
35.
Yet carelessly, all unaware,
They tear themselves on thorns;
And ardent in pursuit of wives and goods,
They starve themselves of nourishment.
36.
Some hang themselves or leap into the void,
Take poison or consume unhealthy food,
Or by their evil conduct
Bring destruction on themselves.
37.
For when affliction seizes them,
They even slay themselves, the selves they love so much.
So how can they not be the cause
Of others’ bodily distress?
38.
Although we almost never feel compassion
For those who, through defilement,
Bring about their own perdition,
What purpose does our anger serve?
39.
If those who are like wanton children
Are by nature prone to injure others,
There’s no reason for our rage;
It’s like resenting fire for being hot.
40.
And if their faults are fleeting and contingent,
If living beings are by nature mild,
It’s likewise senseless to resent them—
As well be angry at the sky when it is full of smoke!
41.
Although it is their sticks that hurt me,
I am angry at the ones who wield them, striking me.
But they in turn are driven by their hatred;
Therefore with their hatred I should take offence.
42.
In just the same way in the past
I it was who injured living beings.
Therefore it is right that injury
Should come to me their torturer.
43.
Their weapons and my body—
Both are causes of my torment!
They their weapons, I my body brandished;
Who then is more worthy of my rage?
44.
This body—running sore in human form—
Merely touched, it cannot stand the pain!
I’m the one who grasped it in my blind attachment,
Whom should I resent when pain occurs?
45.
We who are like children
Shrink from pain, but love its causes.
We hurt ourselves through our misdeeds!
So why should others be the object of our rage?
46.
And who indeed should I be angry with?
This pain is all my own contriving—
Likewise all the janitors of hell
And all the groves of razor trees!
47.
Those who harm me rise against me—
It’s my karma that has summoned them.
And if through this these beings go to hell,
Is it not I who bring their ruin?
48.
Because of them, and through my patience,
All my many sins are cleansed and purified.
But they will be the ones who, thanks to me,
Will have the long-drawn agonies of hell.
49.
Therefore I am their tormentor!
Therefore it is they who bring me benefit!
Thus with what perversity, pernicious mind,
Will you be angry with your enemies?
50.
If a patient quality of mind is mine,
I shall avoid the pains of hell.
But though indeed I save myself,
What of my foes, what fate’s in store for them?
51.
If I repay them harm for harm,
Indeed they’ll not be saved thereby.
My conduct will in turn be marred,
Austerity of patience brought to nothing.
52.
Because the mind is bodiless
It cannot be destroyed by anyone.
Because of mind’s attachment to the body,
This body is oppressed by pain.
53.
Scorn and hostile words,
And comments that I do not like to hear—
My body is not harmed by them.
What reason do you have, O mind, for your resentment?
54.
The enmity that others show me,
Since in this or future lives
It cannot actually devour me,
Why should I be so averse to it?
55.
Perhaps I turn from it because
It hinders me from having what I want.
But all my property I’ll leave behind,
While sins will keep me steady company.
56.
Better far for me to die today,
Than live a long and evil life.
However long the days of those like me,
The pain of dying will be all the same.
57.
One man dreams he lives a hundred years
Of happiness, but then he wakes.
Another dreams an instant’s joy,
But then he likewise wakes.
58.
And when they wake, the happiness of both
Is finished, never to return.
Likewise, when the hour of death comes round,
Our lives are over, whether brief or long.
59.
Though we be rich in worldly goods,
Delighting in our wealth for many years,
Despoiled and stripped as though by thieves,
We must go naked and with empty hands.
60.
Perhaps we’ll claim that by our wealth we live,
And living, gather merit, dissipating evil.
But if we are aggressive for the sake of profit,
Won’t our gains be evil, all our merits lost?
61.
And if the aim for which we live
Is thereby wasted and undone,
What use is there in living thus,
When evil is the only consequence?
62.
And if, when people slander us,
We claim our anger is because they injure others,
How is it we do not resent
Their slander when it’s aimed at someone else?
63.
And if we bear with this antipathy
Because it’s due to other factors,
Why are we impatient when they slander us?
Defilement, after all, has been the cause of it.
64.
Even those who vilify and undermine
The Sacred Doctrine, images, and stūpas
Are not proper objects of our anger.
Buddhas are themselves untouched thereby.
65.
And even if our teachers, relatives, and friends
Are now the object of aggression,
All derives from factors, as we have explained.
This we should perceive and curb our wrath.
66.
Beings suffer injury alike
From lifeless things as well as living beings.
So why be angry only with the latter?
Rather let us simply bear with harm.
67.
Some do evil things because of ignorance,
Some respond with anger, being ignorant.
Which of them is faultless in such acts?
To whom shall error be ascribed?
68.
Instead, why did they act in times gone by
That they are now so harmed at others’ hands?
Since everything depends on karma,
Why should I be angry at such things?
69.
This I see and therefore, come what may,
I’ll hold fast to the virtuous path
And foster in the hearts of all
An attitude of mutual love.
70.
Now when a building is ablaze
And flames leap out from house to house,
The wise course is to take and fling away
The straw and anything that spreads the fire.
71.
And so, in fear that merit might be all consumed,
We should at once cast far away
Our mind’s attachments:
Tinder for the fiery flames of hate.
72.
Is it not a happy chance if when, condemned to death,
A man is freed, his hand cut off in ransom for his life?
And is it not a happy chance if now, to escape hell,
I suffer only the misfortunes of the human state?
73.
If even these, my present pains,
Are now beyond my strength to bear,
Why do I not cast off my anger,
Cause of future sorrows in infernal torment?
74.
For sake of gaining all that I desired,
A thousand times I underwent
The tortures of the realms of hell—
Achieving nothing for myself and others.
75.
The present aches are nothing to compare with those,
And yet great benefits will come from them.
These troubles that dispel the pain of wanderers—
It’s only right that I rejoice in them.
76.
When others take delight
In giving praise to those endowed with talents,
Why, O mind, do you not find
A joy likewise in praising them?
77.
The pleasure that is gained therefrom
Itself gives rise to blameless happiness.
It’s urged on us by all the holy ones,
And is the perfect way of winning others.
78.
“But they’re the ones who’ll have the happiness,” you say.
If this then is a joy you would resent,
Abandon paying wages and returning favors.
You will be the loser—both in this life and the next!
79.
When praise is heaped upon your qualities,
You’re keen that others should be pleased thereby.
But when the compliment is paid to others,
You feel no inclination to rejoice as well.
80.
You who want the happiness of beings
Have wished to be enlightened for their sake.
So why should others irk you when
They find some pleasure for themselves?
81.
And if you claim to wish that beings
Be enlightened, honored by the triple world,
When petty marks of favor come their way,
Why are you so discomforted?
82.
When dependents who rely on you,
To whom you are obliged to give support,
Find for themselves the means of livelihood,
Will you not be happy, will you once again be angry?
83.
If even this you do not want for beings,
How could you want Buddhahood for them?
And how can anyone have bodhichitta
Who is angry when another prospers?
84.
If someone else receives a gift,
Or if that gift stays in the benefactor’s house,
In neither case will it be yours—
So, given or withheld, why is it your concern?
85.
All your merit and the faith of others,
All your sterling qualities—why throw them all away?
Not holding onto what might bring you riches,
Tell me, why are you not angry at yourself?
86.
Not only do you feel no sorrow
For the evils you have done,
You even wish to match yourself
With those whose merit has been earned!
87.
If unhappiness befalls your enemies,
Why should this be cause for your rejoicing?
The wishes of your mind alone,
Will not in fact contrive their injury.
88.
And if your hostile wishes were to bring them harm,
Again, what cause of joy is that to you?
“Why, then I would be satisfied!”—are these your thoughts?
Is anything more ruinous than that?
89.
Caught upon the hook, unbearable and sharp,
Cast by the fisherman, my own defilements,
I’ll be flung into the cauldrons of the pit,
And surely boiled by all the janitors of hell!
90.
Veneration, praise, and fame
Serve not to increase merit or my span of life,
Bestowing neither health nor strength
And nothing for the body’s ease.
91.
If I am wise in what is good for me,
I’ll ask what benefit these bring.
For if it’s entertainment I desire,
I might as well resort to alcohol and cards!
92.
I lose my life, my wealth I squander,
All for reputation’s sake.
What use are words, and whom will they delight
When I am dead and in my grave?
93.
Children can’t help crying when
Their sand castles come crumbling down.
My mind is so like them
When praise and reputation start to fail.
94.
Short-lived sound, devoid of intellect,
Can never in itself intend to praise me.
I say that it’s the joy that others take in me,
It’s this that is the cause of my delight.
95.
But what is it to me if others take delight
In someone else, or even in myself?
Their pleasure’s theirs and theirs alone.
No part of it is felt by me.
96.
If I am happy at the joy of those who take delight,
Then everyone should be a source of joy to me.
When people take delight in others
Why am I not happy at their pleasure?
97.
The satisfaction that is mine
From thinking, “I am being praised,”
Is unacceptable to common sense
And nothing but the antics of a silly child.
98.
Praise and compliments distract me,
Sapping my revulsion with saṃsāra.
I start to envy others their good qualities
And thus all excellence is ruined.
99.
Those who stay close by me, then,
To damage my good name and cut me down to size—
Are surely there protecting me
From falling into realms of grief.
100.
For I am one who strives for freedom.
I must not be caught by wealth and honors.
How could I be angry with the ones
Who work to free me from my fetters?
101.
They, like Buddha’s very blessing,
Bar my way, determined as I am
To plunge myself headlong in sorrow:
How can I be angry with them?
102.
I should not be irritated, saying,
“They are obstacles to my good deeds.”
For is not patience the supreme austerity,
And should I not abide by this?
103.
And if I fail to practice patience,
Hindered by my own shortcomings,
I myself create impediments
To merit’s causes, yet so close at hand.
104.
If something does not come to be when something else is absent,
And does arise, that factor being present,
That factor is indeed its cause.
How can it, then, be said to hinder it?
105.
The beggars who arrive at proper times
Are not an obstacle to generosity.
We cannot say that those who give the vows
Are hindrances to ordination!
106.
The beggars in this world are numerous;
Assailants are comparatively few.
For if I do no harm to others,
Others do no injury to me.
107.
So, like a treasure found at home,
That I have gained without fatigue,
My enemies are helpers in my Bodhisattva work
And therefore they should be a joy to me.
108.
Since I have grown in patience
Thanks to them,
To them its first fruits I should give,
For of my patience they have been the cause.
109.
And if I say my foes should not be honored
Since they did not mean to stimulate my patience,
Why do I revere the Sacred Dharma,
Cause indeed of my attainment?
110.
“These enemies conspired to harm me,” I protest,
“And therefore should receive no honors.”
But had they worked to help me like a doctor,
How could I have brought forth patience?
111.
Thanks to those whose minds are full of malice
I engender patience in myself.
They therefore are the causes of my patience,
Fit for veneration, like the Dharma.
112.
And so the mighty Sage has spoken of the field of beings
As well as of the field of Conquerors.
Many who brought happiness to beings,
Have passed beyond, attaining to perfection.
113.
Thus the state of Buddhahood depends
On beings and on Buddhas equally.
What kind of practice is it then
That honors only Buddhas but not beings?
114.
Not in the qualities of their minds
But in the fruits they give are they alike.
In beings, too, such excellence resides,
And therefore beings and Buddhas are the same.
115.
Offerings made to those with loving minds
Reveal the eminence of living beings.
Merit that accrues from faith in Buddha
Shows in turn the Buddha’s eminence.
116.
Although not one of them is equal
To the Buddhas, who are oceans of perfection,
Because they have a share in bringing forth enlightenment,
Beings may be likened to the Buddhas.
117.
If of such a gathering of supreme excellence
A tiny part appeared in certain beings,
The three worlds made in offering to them
Would be a very little thing.
118.
Since there lies in beings a share
In bringing forth the supreme and enlightened state,
By virtue of this parity alone
It’s right that I should reverence them.
119.
The Buddhas are my true, unfailing friends.
Boundless are the benefits they bring to me.
How else may I repay their goodness
But by making living beings happy?
120.
By helping beings we repay the ones
Who sacrifice their lives for us and plunge into the hell of Unrelenting Pain.
Should beings therefore do great harm to me,
I’ll strive to bring them only benefit.
121.
For those who have become my lords,
At times, took care not even of their bodies.
Why should I, a fool, behave with such conceit?
Why should I not become the slave of others?
122.
Buddhas are made happy by the joy of beings.
They sorrow, they lament when beings suffer.
By bringing joy to beings, then, I please the Buddhas also;
By wounding them, I wound the Buddhas too.
123.
Just as there’s no sensual delight
To please the mind of one whose body burns in fire,
There is no way to please the great compassionate ones
While we ourselves are causes of another’s pain.
124.
The damage I have done to beings
Saddens all the Buddhas in their great compassion.
Therefore, all these evils I confess today
And pray that they will bear with my offences.
125.
That I might rejoice the Buddhas’ hearts,
Henceforth I will be master of myself, the servant of the world.
I shall not seek revenge though crowds may trample on my head or kill me.
Let the Guardians of the world rejoice!
126.
The great compassionate lords consider as themselves
All beings—there’s no doubt of this.
Those whom I perceive as beings are Buddhas in themselves;
How can I not treat them with respect?
127.
This very thing is pleasing to the Buddhas’ hearts
And perfectly secures the welfare of myself.
This will drive away the sorrows of the world,
And therefore it will be my constant work.
128.
Imagine that the steward of a king
Does injury to multitudes of people.
Those with clear, farseeing eyes
Do not respond with violence even if they can.
129.
For stewards, after all, are not alone.
They are supported by the kingly power.
Therefore I will not despise
The feeble beings tormenting me.
130.
Their allies are the guardians of hell
And also the compassionate Buddhas.
Therefore living beings I will gratify
As subjects might placate a wrathful king.
131.
And yet, the pains of hell to be endured
Through making living beings suffer—
Could these ever be unleashed on me
By all the ire of such a king?
132.
And even if that king were pleased,
Enlightenment he could not give to me.
For this will only be achieved
By bringing happiness to beings.
133.
No need to mention future Buddhahood,
Achieved through bringing happiness to beings.
How can I not see that glory, fame, and pleasure
Even in this life will likewise come?
134.
For patience in saṃsāra brings such things
As beauty, health, and good renown.
Its fruit is great longevity,
The vast contentment of a universal king.
#IKITAO #Buddhist #Wisdom

2025-09-25 03:54:56 UTC

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After being stiff armed by Trump's FCC, Disney made the right choice for freedom of speech. The people have spoken.

2025-09-25 03:49:21 UTC

Jimmy Kimmel Live - Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
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2025-09-25 02:46:20 UTC

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Goodnight 🫂✨💜

2025-09-25 02:19:57 UTC

@nprofile…xz56 inspecting the new addition to my decor. She's actually a little taller than me and has this wonderful presence. I have no idea what I will do with her yet, but she's staying. Sometimes the best finds are the ones that choose you.
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2025-09-25 02:16:46 UTC

😍🫂💜
#nevent1q…hjed

2025-09-24 08:36:05 UTC

Queens of the Stone Age - Regular John (Official Audio)
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#QOTSA #Music

2025-09-24 08:19:36 UTC

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (Feat. David Bowie) (Official Music Video)
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2025-09-24 08:00:49 UTC

Placebo - Fix Yourself
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2025-09-24 02:57:37 UTC

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I see. Just another form of sending out a "dimensional mailer" via FedEx to a prospective client—like the classic approach of enclosing a $20 bill with a sales letter saying "I sent you this $20 because I want you to get used to making money as a result of our working together."
Except instead of cash, he's sending tablets. Same psychology: send something physical and valuable to break through the noise, create obligation, and prime them for the pitch. Classic direct response.
However, I would never use a device that was sent to me by a random stranger in the mail. Lol there's no telling what's on that thing. It would be interesting to disassemble it though, and plug it into a sandboxed VM to find out if there is actually anything nefarious installed.
It says "electronic LCD tablet," but you say it doesn't connect to WiFi. Does it have an OS? What does it do? I am genuinely curious.

2025-09-23 23:35:11 UTC

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Tell me more about this device scam.

2025-09-23 06:47:07 UTC

From "The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shāntideva
Translated from Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group
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5. Vigilant Introspection
1.
Those who wish to keep the trainings
Must with perfect self-possession guard their minds.
Without this guard upon the mind,
The trainings cannot be preserved.
2.
Wandering where it will, the elephant of mind,
Will bring us down to torment in the hell of Unrelenting Pain.
No worldly beast, however wild and crazed,
Could bring upon us such calamities.
3.
If, with mindfulness’ rope,
The elephant of mind is tethered all around,
Our fears will come to nothing,
Every virtue drop into our hands.
4.
Tigers, lions, elephants, and bears,
Snakes and every hostile foe,
Those who guard the prisoners in hell,
Ghosts and ghouls and every evil wraith,
5.
By simple binding of this mind alone,
All these things are likewise bound.
By simple taming of this mind alone,
All these things are likewise tamed.
6.
For all anxiety and fear,
And pain in boundless quantity,
Their source and wellspring is the mind itself,
As He who spoke the truth declared.
7.
The hellish instruments to torture living beings—
Who invented them for such intent?
Who has forged this burning iron ground;
Whence have all these demon-women sprung?
8.
All are but the offspring of the sinful mind,
This the mighty Sage has said.
Throughout the triple world therefore
There is no greater bane than mind itself.
9.
If transcendent giving is
To dissipate the poverty of beings,
In what way—since the poor are always with us—
Have former Buddhas practiced it?
10.
Transcendent giving, so the teachings say,
Consists in the intention to bestow on every being
All one owns, together with the fruits of such a gift.
It is indeed a matter of the mind itself.
11.
Where could beings, fishes, and the rest,
Be placed to keep them safe from being killed?
Deciding to refrain from every harmful act
Is said to be transcendent discipline.
12.
Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself.
Impossible it is that all should be suppressed.
But let this angry mind alone be overthrown,
And it’s as though all foes had been subdued.
13.
To cover all the earth with sheets of leather—
Where could such amounts of skin be found?
But with the leather soles of just my shoes
It is as though I cover all the earth!
14.
And thus the outer course of things
I myself cannot restrain.
But let me just restrain my mind,
And what is left to be restrained?
15.
A clear intent can fructify
And bring us birth in such as Brahmā’s realm.
The acts of body and of speech are less—
They do not generate a like result.
16.
Recitations and austerities,
Long though they may prove to be,
If practiced with distracted mind,
Are futile, so the Knower of Reality has said.
17.
All those who fail to understand
The secret of the mind, the greatest of all things,
Although they wish for joy and sorrow’s end,
Will wander to no purpose, uselessly.
18.
Therefore I will take in hand
And well protect this mind of mine.
What use to me are many disciplines,
If I can’t guard and discipline my mind?
19.
When in wild, unruly crowds,
I’m careful and attentive of my wounds;
Likewise, when in evil company,
This wound, my mind, I’ll constantly protect.
20.
For if I carefully protect my wounds
Because I fear the pain of minor injuries,
Why should I not protect the wound that is my mind,
For fear of being crushed beneath the cliffs of hell?
21.
If this is how I act and live,
Then even in the midst of evil folk,
Or even with fair women, all is well.
My steady keeping of the vows will not decline.
22.
My property, my honor—all can freely go,
My body and my livelihood as well.
And even other virtues may decline,
But never will I let my mind regress.
23.
All you who would protect your minds,
Maintain your mindfulness and introspection;
Guard them both, at cost of life and limb,
I join my hands, beseeching you.
24.
Those disabled by ill health
Are helpless, powerless to act.
The mind, when likewise cramped by ignorance,
Is impotent and cannot do its work.
25.
For those who have no introspection,
Though they hear the teachings, ponder them, or meditate,
Like water seeping from a leaking jar,
Their learning will not settle in their memories.
26.
Many are endowed with joyful diligence.
They’re learned also and imbued with faith,
But through the fault of lacking introspection,
They will not escape the stain of sin and downfall.
27.
Lack of introspection is a thief;
It slinks behind when mindfulness abates.
And all the merit we have gathered in
It steals; and down we go to lower realms.
28.
Defilements are a band of robbers
Looking for their chance to injure us.
They steal our virtue, when their moment comes,
And batter out the lives of happy destinies.
29.
Therefore from the gateway of my mind
My mindfulness shall not have leave to stray.
And if it wanders, it shall be recalled
By thoughts of anguish in the lower worlds.
30.
Through fear, and by the counsels of their abbots,
And staying ever in their teacher’s company—
In those endowed with fortune and devotion
Mindfulness is cultivated easily.
31.
“The Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas both
Possess unclouded vision, seeing everything:
All lies open to their gaze,
And likewise I am always in their presence.”
32.
One who has such thoughts as these
Will gain devotion and a sense of fear and shame.
For such a one, the memory of Buddha
Rises frequently before the mind.
33.
When mindfulness is stationed as a sentinel,
A guard upon the threshold of the mind,
Introspection will be likewise there,
Returning when forgotten or dispersed.
34.
If at the outset, when I check my mind,
I find that it is tainted with some fault,
I shall be still and self-possessed,
Unmoving like a piece of wood.
35.
I shall never, vacantly,
Allow my gaze to wander all around,
But rather with a focused mind
Will always go with eyes cast down.
36.
But that I may relax my gaze,
I’ll sometimes raise my eyes and look around.
And if there are some people standing in my sight,
I’ll look at them and greet them with a friendly word.
37.
And yet, to spy the dangers on the road,
I’ll scrutinize the four directions one by one.
And when I stop to rest, I’ll turn around
And look behind me, back along my way.
38.
I will survey the land, in front, behind,
And carry on or else retrace my steps.
In every time and place therefore
I’ll know my needs and act accordingly.
39.
“My body shall remain like this.”
Embarking thus upon a given course,
From time to time I’ll verify
Inquiring how my body is disposed.
40.
This rampant elephant, my mind,
Once tied to that great post, reflection on the Teachings,
Must now be watched with all my strength
That it might never slip away.
41.
Those who strive to master concentration
Should never for an instant be distracted.
They should always watch their minds, inquiring,
“Where is now my mind engaged?”
42.
When this becomes impossible,
In case of danger or festivity, I’ll act as it seems best.
For it is taught that rules of discipline
May be relaxed in times of generosity.
43.
When something has been planned and started on,
Attention should not drift to other things.
With thoughts fixed on the chosen target,
That and that alone should be pursued.
44.
Behaving in this way, all tasks are well performed,
And nothing is achieved by doing otherwise.
If thus we act, the secondary defilement,
Lack of introspection, will not grow.
45.
And if you find yourself engaged
In different kinds of pointless conversation
And curious sights, the like of which abound—
Be rid of all delight and taste for them.
46.
And if you find you’re grubbing in the soil,
Or pulling up the grass or tracing idle patterns on the ground,
Remembering the precepts of the Blissful One,
In fear, restrain yourself at once.
47.
And when you feel the wish to move about,
Or even to express yourself in speech,
First examine what is in your mind.
For steadfast ones should act correctly.
48.
When the urge arises in your mind
To feelings of desire or angry hate,
Do not act! Be silent, do not speak!
And like a log of wood be sure to stay.
49.
And when your mind is wild or filled with mockery,
Or filled with pride and haughty arrogance,
Or when you would expose another’s secret guilt,
To bring up old dissensions or to act deceitfully,
50.
Or when you want to fish for praise,
Or criticize and spoil another’s name,
Or use harsh language, sparring for a fight,
It’s then that like a log you should remain.
51.
And when you yearn for wealth, attention, fame,
A circle of retainers serving you,
And when you look for honors, recognition,
It’s then that like a log you should remain.
52.
And when you are inclined to overlook another’s need
And want to get the best thing for yourself,
And when you feel the urge to speak,
It’s then that like a log you should remain.
53.
Impatience, indolence, faintheartedness,
And likewise arrogance and careless speech,
Attachment to your side—when these arise,
It’s then that like a log you should remain.
54.
Examine thus yourself from every side.
Take note of your defilements and your pointless efforts.
For thus the heroes on the Bodhisattva path
Seize firmly on such faults with proper remedies.
55.
With perfect and unyielding faith,
With steadfastness, respect, and courtesy,
With conscientiousness and awe,
Work calmly for the happiness of others.
56.
Let us not be downcast by the warring wants
Of childish persons quarreling.
Their thoughts are bred from conflict and emotion.
Let us understand and treat them lovingly.
57.
When acting irreproachably,
For our sake or the sake of others,
Let us always bear in mind the thought
That we are self-less, like an apparition.
58.
This supreme freedom of a human life,
So long awaited, now at last attained!
Reflecting always thus, maintain your mind
As steady as Sumeru, king of mountains.
59.
If, O mind, you will not be aggrieved,
When vultures with their love of flesh
Are tugging at this body all around,
Why are you so besotted with it now?
60.
Why, O mind, do you protect this body,
Taking it to be your own?
You and it are each a separate entity;
How ever can it be of use to you?
61.
Why, O foolish mind,
Don’t you appropriate a clean form carved in wood?
How is it fit to guard
An unclean engine for the making of impurity?
62.
First, with mind’s imagination,
Shed the covering of skin,
And with the blade of wisdom, strip
The flesh from off the bony frame.
63.
And when you have divided all the bones,
And searched right down amid the very marrow,
You yourself should ask the question:
Where is the essential core?
64.
If, persisting in the search,
You see no underlying essence,
Why do you protect with such desire
The body that you now possess?
65.
Its filth you cannot eat, O mind;
Its blood likewise is not for you to drink;
Its innards, too, unsuitable to suck—
This body, what then will you make of it?
66.
And yet it may indeed be kept
As food to feed the vulture and the fox.
The value of this human form
Lies only in the use you make of it.
67.
Whatever you may do to guard and keep it,
What will you do when
The ruthless Lord of Death
Will seize and throw it to the dogs and birds?
68.
If servants who cannot be set to work
Are not rewarded with supplies and clothing,
Why do you sustain with such great pains
This body, which, though nourished, will abandon you?
69.
So pay this body due remuneration,
And then be sure to make it work for you.
But do not lavish everything
On what will not bring perfect benefit.
70.
Regard your body as a vessel,
A simple boat for going here and there.
Make of it a thing that answers every wish
To bring about the benefit of beings.
71.
Be the master of yourself
And have an ever-smiling countenance.
Rid yourself of scowling, wrathful frowns,
And be a true and honest friend to all.
72.
Do not, acting inconsiderately,
Move chairs and furniture so noisily around.
Likewise do not open doors with violence.
Take pleasure in the practice of humility.
73.
Herons, cats, and burglars
Achieve what they intend
By going silently and unobserved.
Such is the constant practice of a sage.
74.
When useful admonitions come unsought
From those with skill in counseling their fellows,
Welcome them with humble gratitude,
And always strive to learn from everyone.
75.
Praise all whose speech is worthy.
Say, “Your words are excellent!”
And when you notice others acting well,
Encourage them in terms of warm approval.
76.
Extol their qualities discreetly;
When they’re praised by others, praise them too.
But when the qualities they praise are yours,
Reflect upon their skill in recognizing qualities.
77.
The goal of every act is happiness itself,
Though, even with great wealth, it’s rarely found.
So take your pleasure in the excellence of others.
Let them be a heartfelt joy to you.
78.
By acting thus, in this life you’ll lose nothing;
In future lives, great bliss will come to you.
Wrongdoing brings not joy but pain,
And in the future dreadful torment.
79.
Speak coherently, appropriately,
Clear in meaning, pleasantly.
Rid yourself of craving and aversion;
Speak gently with moderation.
80.
When you look at others think
That it will be through them
That you will come to Buddhahood.
So look on them with frank and loving hearts.
81.
Always fired by highest aspiration,
Laboring to implement the antidotes,
You will reap great virtues in the field of excellence
And in the fields of benefits and sorrow.
82.
Acting thus with faith and understanding,
You should always undertake good works.
And in whatever actions you perform,
You should not be dependent on another.
83.
The perfections, giving and the rest,
Progress in sequence, growing in importance.
The great should never be abandoned for the less,
And others’ good should be regarded as supreme.
84.
Therefore understand this well,
And always labor for the benefit of beings.
The Compassionate One farsightedly permits,
To this end, even what has been proscribed.
85.
Eat only what is needful;
Share with those who have embraced the discipline,
With those who are defenseless or have fallen into evil states.
Give everything except the three robes of religion.
86.
The body, used to practice sacred teachings,
Should not be harmed in meaningless pursuits.
By acting thus the wishes of all beings
Will swiftly and completely be attained.
87.
They should not give up their bodies
Whose compassionate thoughts are not yet pure.
But let them be surrendered when, both now and in their futures lives,
Great benefit is thereby gained.
88.
Do not teach the Dharma to the disrespectful:
To those who, though not sick, wrap cloths around their heads,
To those who carry weapons, staffs, or parasols,
To those who are with covered heads.
89.
To those upon the lower paths do not explain the vast and deep,
Nor tutor women unaccompanied by men.
And every Dharma, high or low,
Expound with equal reverence.
90.
Those suited to the teachings of great scope
Should not be introduced to lesser paths.
The rules of conduct you should not neglect
Nor lead astray with talk of sūtras and of mantras.
91.
When you spit and throw away
Your tooth sticks, you should cover them.
And it is wrong to foul with urine and with other filth
The fields and water fit for public use.
92.
When eating, do not gobble noisily,
Nor stuff and cram your gaping mouth.
And do not sit with legs outstretched,
Nor coarsely rub your hands together.
93.
Do not travel, sit, or stay alone
With women of another house.
And all that you have seen, or have been told,
To be a cause of scandal—that you should avoid.
94.
Not rudely pointing with your finger,
But rather with a reverent gesture showing
With the whole right hand outstretched—
This is how to indicate the road.
95.
Do not wave your arms with uncouth gestures.
Express yourself instead with unobtrusive signs,
With gentle sounds and finger snaps.
For acting otherwise is impolite excess.
96.
Lie down to sleep in the preferred direction,
In the posture of the Buddha when he passed into nirvāṇa.
And first with vigilance decide
That you’ll be quick to rise again.
97.
The actions of the Bodhisattva
Are unbounded, so the Teachings say.
Of these, until the goal is won,
Embrace the practices that purify your mind.
98.
Reciting thrice by day and thrice by night,
The Sūtra in Three Sections,
Relying on the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas,
Purify the rest of your transgressions.
99.
Wherever and whenever and whatever you are doing,
For your sake or the sake of others,
Implement with diligence
The teachings given for that situation.
100.
There is indeed no field of knowledge
That the Buddhas’ offspring should not learn.
For those who are well-versed in all these ways,
There is no action destitute of merit.
101.
Directly, then, or indirectly,
Do nothing that is not for others’ sake.
And solely for their welfare dedicate
Your every action to the gaining of enlightenment.
102.
Never, at the cost of life or limb,
Forsake your virtuous friend, your teacher,
Learned in the doctrine of the Mahāyāna,
Supreme in Bodhisattva discipline.
103.
Learn how to attend upon your guru
As described in Shrī Sambhava’s life.
This and other teachings of the Buddha
You should understand by reading in the sūtras.
104.
Indeed within these sūtras all the practices are found;
Therefore read and study them.
The Sūtra of the Essence of the Sky
Is the text that should be studied first.
105.
All that must be practiced constantly
Is clearly and extensively explained
Within the Digest of All Disciplines,
So this is something you should read repeatedly.
106.
From time to time, for sake of brevity,
Consult the Digest of the Sūtras.
And those two works peruse with diligence
That noble Nāgārjuna has composed.
107.
Whatever in these works is not proscribed
Be sure to undertake and implement.
And what you find enjoined there, perfectly fulfill,
And so protect the minds of worldly beings.
108.
Examining again and yet again
The state and actions of your body and your mind—
This alone defines in brief
The maintenance of watchful introspection.
109.
But all this must be acted out in truth,
For what is to be gained by mouthing syllables?
What invalid was ever helped
By merely reading in the doctor’s treatises?
#IKITAO #Buddhist #Wisdom

2025-09-22 20:26:17 UTC

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2025-09-22 11:05:53 UTC

Manish Vyas - Ekoham 🔊💜
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एकोऽहम् बहु स्याम्
ekoham bahusyām
I am one, let me be (manifested as) many
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"Brahman is one. Manifestation is many. One has become many."
— Swami Sivananda
"The universe is itself the manifestation of the divine mind, which willed, Ekoham Bahusayam: 'I am one, let me become many.'"
— Satya Sai Baba
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2025-09-22 10:13:43 UTC

Manish Vyas - Om Namah Shivay (from the album ADIYOGI) 🔊
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ॐ नमः शिवाय 🙏🏻
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2025-09-22 09:43:36 UTC

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Very nice.

2025-09-21 13:14:07 UTC

Queens of the Stone Age - Avon
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/0d9ebd59f0a600151b44a33ff6e7551318e39164a09961aefaeb405fb90a8196.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/aimHMr-Ee4o?si=mzieND-QW5waP-9L
#QOTSA #Music

2025-09-21 10:44:24 UTC

I cannot say enough wonderful things about this course. Vyaas has dedicated his life to sharing Sanskrit—the language of the gods—with deep reverence and crystal-clear teaching that honors the ancient wisdom it carries.
#nevent1q…zr5t
#nevent1q…d0s7
#IKITAO #Sanskrit

2025-09-21 09:43:21 UTC

Miten with Deva Premal - So Much Magnificence
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/00bd5ea503a08356bae3a549828579cd510107585d52b627b3e23fce82438c6e.mp4
There is so much magnificence
near the ocean
Waves are coming in
Waves are coming in
Halleluja
YT
https://youtu.be/jgOPClLbNYQ?si=1Y_8CmLZbUFKlIVS
#IKITAO #Miten #DevaPremal #Mantra #Music

2025-09-21 09:20:43 UTC

Deva Premal - Om Shree Saché
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/8b383a95ea815d9973b1c0a6cd34de8b8b06562ebcc6b1d4e31d7b88ebc35579.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/RmC1T7Q_7hc?si=JlipkU_kfy76pK62
ॐ श्री साचे महा प्रभु की जै
परमात्मा की जै
ॐ शान्ति शान्ति शान्तिहि ॐ
oṃ śrī sāce mahā prabhu ki jai
paramātmā ki jai
oṃ śānti śānti śāntihi oṃ
May the ultimate truth and that which
Is beyond all boundaries be victorious
May there be peace, peace, peace
#DevalPremal #Miten #Mantra #Music

2025-09-21 06:56:16 UTC

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Good morning

2025-09-21 05:07:36 UTC

2025-09-20 23:53:03 UTC

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🙏🏻 Is that 7aum Arivu? If so, I've been meaning to watch it. Is it good?

2025-09-20 11:46:15 UTC

2025-09-19 10:05:41 UTC

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Just now seeing this. Blessings to you, Love. Sending healing energy your way.

2025-09-19 08:19:13 UTC

2025-09-19 00:11:31 UTC

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Happy, comfortable, and content :)

2025-09-18 09:02:28 UTC

@nprofile…xz56 girl 💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/6800515b280b4d21c6d1f19049389f4c002bc9c6cb22f10df515e86b8890134f.jpg
#Moxie #Cat

2025-09-18 08:23:24 UTC

@nprofile…pp8u girl 💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/26aa85709082dec4d3cd3dabe831d30337388dec7abbe26e8f6a5cbb49d35b1a.jpg
#moxie #cat

2025-09-18 08:18:42 UTC

@nprofile…xz56 girl 💜
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/c1b3fb60675a940afe55b28b6c75995953c3e19406981286db06fb7436c05226.jpg
#Moxie #Cat

2025-09-18 08:05:12 UTC

...years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
— Edgar Allan Poe: To ——
#ikitao

2025-09-18 05:48:47 UTC

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Indeed. Freedom of speech goes both ways. And freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences... just freedom from government persecution.

2025-09-17 07:55:38 UTC

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#nevent1q…j7ak

2025-09-17 07:53:40 UTC

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Very cool! Can't wait to hear it.

2025-09-17 07:46:54 UTC

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Start with The Power of Myth book. Then dive into The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

2025-09-17 07:42:25 UTC

We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.
The labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero path.
And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god.
And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.
And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence.
And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
— Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth)
#IKITAO #Wisdom #Mythology

2025-09-17 07:30:55 UTC

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Yes, it's wonderful. I have the DVDs, but the quality here is sufficient:
https://archive.org/details/power_of_myth
Mythos I-III are also must-watches.
I own and have read all of his books—they're foundational.
Some academics felt his monomyth oversimplified different cultures, but regardless, he revealed the deeper symbolic patterns that run through all spiritual and mythic traditions.

2025-09-17 04:15:59 UTC

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AI is the result of humans creating in the image of the creator. So, while it is a double edged sword, in my opinion, it also seems to be an inevitable part of our evolution.

2025-09-17 02:03:19 UTC

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There's your sign! It's all decorated and everything. Now, the only way out is through.

2025-09-17 01:29:23 UTC

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That's quite meta. I hope you find the door soon.

2025-09-17 00:09:14 UTC

Three miles of moving meditation this evening. Grateful for these pre-fall moments of peace and presence.
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/5285a1abba59687f204622ccf44dbb73427425ce910cc06d777139e0575f46fe.jpg
#IKITAO #Meditation #Wellness #Nature

2025-09-16 23:40:11 UTC

🙏🏻💜
#naddr1qq…s9w2

2025-09-16 23:17:52 UTC

Deva Premal - Gaia Ma
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/968aa43df506ce9907cba165e10805a2c98a366c37fc4f9da3b65a019f1594a7.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/hK_zT39p94Q?si=lUK6kOIR3LMSU5Lc
Gaia Ma
Om Shree Gaia Ma
Purnatvah Gaia Ma
Beautiful, abundant, benevolent Earth Mother — You are the fullest perfection — Divine Mother Earth
गैआ मा ।
ॐ श्री गैआ मा ॥
पूर्णत्वः गैआ मा ।
gaiyā mā |
oṃ śrī gaiyā mā ||
pūrṇatvaḥ gaiyā mā |
#IKITAO #Sanskrit #Mantra #DevaPremal #Miten

2025-09-16 22:33:30 UTC

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Gaia Ma
Om Shree Gaia Ma
Purnatvah Gaia Ma
Beautiful, abundant, benevolent Earth Mother — You are the fullest perfection — Divine Mother Earth
गैआ मा ।
ॐ श्री गैआ मा ॥
पूर्णत्वः गैआ मा ।
gaiyā mā |
oṃ śrī gaiyā mā ||
pūrṇatvaḥ gaiyā mā |

2025-09-15 06:18:13 UTC

Good night, #Nostr
#nevent1q…s3kr

2025-09-15 06:17:44 UTC

Liquid Television | Psycho-Gram: Time Travel | Complete
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/83dc9772bb0e6b9162314bfbf02735ae8280cc4b9634704ea8ea1539507c8c3a.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/-Y678pI9ry0?si=Epj8IyjD7V5f3-0N
"'Psycho-Gram: Time Travel' was one of the strangest things to ever air on MTV's Liquid Television—surreal stories told through vintage postcards and unsettling narration by creator Japhet Asher (under the pseudonym Jasper Heath). Born from budget constraints, these bizarre micro-films became cult classics."
* AI edit version below in higher quality. Looks great, but it's such a shame the uploader cut scenes out *
Liquid Television: PsychoGram | Complete | 1080p | A.I. Remaster
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/11ac817e12ba4015ce2f1baba8e274e614fb82e3f57d7a52d19139fa41b832e6.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/zuGI2pVJ2sQ?si=7uJ0EIcIKRpp6eDh
#mtv #liquidtv

2025-09-15 04:39:26 UTC

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💯 Last year I had just flashed my Flipper Zero WiFi module with Marauder firmware.
My friend asked me to try and hack the password to his network. Child's play. Sniffed the packets, ran a single dictionary attack with hashcat.
You should have seen his face when I told him the password. Fun times with pentesting.
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/d2044c907a4e992f6ce8557a787669eb3a93bc384c260a98422d17ede41f7046.jpg

2025-09-15 04:19:46 UTC

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Popping their unencrypted charger ports open with a Flipper Zero is both fun—and educational. ;)

2025-09-14 08:30:14 UTC

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Good night, blkbird

2025-09-14 08:27:51 UTC

Good night, #Nostr
#nevent1q…cvgu

2025-09-13 12:15:36 UTC

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2025-09-13 12:07:28 UTC

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GN, Love

2025-09-13 12:00:13 UTC

Good night, #Nostr
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/24c942a5732971e3fff119509ac69ea613e1bdf3f17ea5521095da97b3f67bbf.jpg

2025-09-13 11:24:15 UTC

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Good morning

2025-09-13 11:12:05 UTC

I remember when my default zap was 1111⚡

2025-09-13 10:44:39 UTC

SOILWORK - As We Speak
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/3e281fafb78dd0a3befeb44499ccc4a59e43675e96f6dc9775bcd6ebaf833d6a.mp4
YT
https://youtu.be/TcKoqGKuz6U?si=mLCPgaJTL144Z-RN
#Soilwork #Music