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260312: THE SHAHED IN THE ROOM Why the drone parts in my Mykolaiv apartment tell us how to protect American troops in the Gulf and civilians in Ukraine.

260312: THE SHAHED IN THE ROOM
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Remember the instruction:
whatever you come across--go beyond.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

This morning I unhitched them —
 they’ve wandered off somewhere,
 to eat clover I imagine, fatten up.
 It’s peaceful here. Maybe I’ll stay awhile.2/

--Pir Elias Amidon

Impulse and Desire, my two little donkeys,
 pulling the cart of my life.
 We’ve come a long way
 but where we are always looks familiar.1/

Nothing ever happens to being.
It is always silent, empty, luminous, still, at peace, lacking nothing, needing nothing, wanting nothing and is, as such, happiness itself.
All that is necessary is to soften the focus of your attention from the content of experience and magnify being.
--Rupert Spira

Thoughts move. Emotions surge. Waves rise and fall. Yet the sky remains untouched. The ocean remains whole, even as waves appear upon its surface.
-That softening is grace. 3/

Kavi Jezzie Hackaday

When there is a turning inward, a quiet willingness to look beneath the agitation and the narrative, something begins to open. There is a sense of falling back — not into despair, but into something wider. A spaciousness. An equanimity. A presence that sees thought the way the sky sees clouds. 2/

The human being is conditioned to separation. From an early age, we learn to perceive ourselves as separate entities moving through a world of other separate entities. From that perception arises comparison, defense, fear, and the constant negotiation of identity.1/

🫂to you, Clare.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned, even as a peripheral person, with the problems of the human mind for something like forty-five years and to find that at the end of it one has no more to say than: "Try to be a little kinder."

Aldous Huxley

It can infuse ordinary activities, conversation, work and rest, so that being knowingly yourself becomes the background of all experience.2/

--Rupert Spira

Simply abide in being, as being.
This abiding in being, or abiding as being, is not something that need be limited to any formal period of so-called meditation.
It can be your natural disposition throughout the day. 1/

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” — Albert Camus

Relaxing into being,
Seeing the waves
Rise and fall,
Breathing with
The rhythm of life,
Feeling the heartbeat
Of existence,
Presence arises
By itself
There is no doer.

--@KavijiPoet

right on!

#SendBarronToWar

or jumping up and down
when you hear good news.
It is the faithful companion
we have always been seeking,
this feeling of fullness
that follows us everywhere
we go, less like a shadow
trailing the body, and more
like a glimmer held in the heart
that promises never to leave.2/

James Crews

Gratitude passes through you
like the clouds of mood,
like rain turning to sleet
or gray skies breaking into blue.
It is only gratefulness that stays,
holding your trembling hand
beneath the hospital sheet
as you count each breath,1/

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Awareness becomes consciousness when it has an object.
The object changes all the time.
In consciousness there is movement,
awareness itself is motionless and timeless, here and now.

Nasargadatta Maharaj

Not aware of something special. Not waiting for revelation. Simply aware.2/

Kavi Jezzie Hackaday

And so the invitation is simple. Not dramatic. Not grand. Just this: in this moment, I am aware.
Aware of being here.
Aware of sensation.
Aware of thought arising and passing.
Aware of the field of experience unfolding.1/

Operation Jeffrey Epstein

Ukrainian military experience of the modern war and defense is priceless today.

Ukraine knows all about Iranian drones and taking them down.
Ukraine has interceptor drones, production technologies.
Ukraine knows so much about modern-day air defense.

that is terrific....

To be present in grief.
To remain open in irritation.
To truly taste a sip of tea.
To meet another person without rehearsing our response.

These are not minor spiritual exercises. They are the living substance of awakening.

Kavi Jezzie Hackaday

Your elections did not augur well for your administration, right?

Yes, ok....elections this year. So nervous.