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536 pieces, 2013 to 2025.
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2024
2023
- Some important differences between the meaning of wisdom in East and West
- Do you believe your thoughts?
- What Is Our Philosophical View?
- Creating Software Through Experiencing the Domain
- The Eclipsing of Wisdom by the Cult of Celebrity
- Answering Common Questions about DesignFlow
- Thinking about Ideas as a System: Effective Communication
- The Three Eras of Knowledge Objects
2022
- The Missing Half of Programmatic
- Thinking about Ideas as a System: Evaluation of Ideas
- Thinking about Ideas as a System: Ideas as Cost
- The Three Fundamental Principles of Software Projects
- The Pyramid of Goodness for Research and Development Organizations
- Quantum Coin Toss
- Our Commitment to Ecologically Sustainable Online Advertising
2021
- How Much Does an Ad Impression Emit Carbon?
- Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: The Actual Method
- Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: The Five Fives
- Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: Introduction
- Is carbon neutrality a viable solution for reaching sustainability goals?
- New Rules of Advertising: Zero Data
- New Rules of Advertising
2020
2019
- 14 Thoughts on Being Friends with Small Children
- Hidden costs of deep learning
- Automated Research and Beyond: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
- How to (not) buy an online ad impression?
- Is GDPR unfair to smaller publishers?
- Creating brand safe markets in a digital world
- Is advertising what’s wrong with the internet?
- Unlocking the human future of the internet
- Thou Shalt Not Fear Automatons
2018
- Big publishers a safe-haven for advertisers. Fact or fiction?
- (tested) 5-Minute Hello World Blockchain with Ethereum on Mac or Ubuntu
- Deploying / Publishing Python Packages to PyPi with Travis (works)
- Hyperparameter Optimization with Keras
- A Comprehensive List of Hyperparameter Optimization & Tuning Solutions
- autonomio/talos
2017
- Native Advertising, FTC Policy, and Children
- TOTES: Online Advertising Threat Exposure Suppression
- Comprehensive List of COPPA Enforcements and Fines
- Can a 12-bit Bit Gate Be a 1-bit Gate Instead?
- Scientific Linux - Wikipedia
- we lock ourselves to tiniest of things and then let those things entirely bewilder ourselves. So we forget what we really are.
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
- Event Latency Scaled --- --- --- 1 CPU cycle 0.3 ns 1 s Level 1 cache access 0.9 ns 3 s Level 2 cache access 2.8 ns 9 s Level 3 cache…
- Is it node.js or some other magical Javascript creature?
- hypercomputing
- The Heartbleed Weakness
- Modern Micro Kernel
- Photograph, 22 August 2017
- Photograph, 21 August 2017
- a 3 + b 3 + c 3 = 33
- Easy 6502 by skilldrick
- prove something in the short-term to prove something else in the long
- Figure, 17 August 2017
- Decimal Hexadecimal Binary --- --- --- 0 0 0000 1 1 0001 2 2 0010 3 3 0011 4 4 0100 5 5 0101 6 6 0110 7 7 0111 8 8 1000 9 9 1001 10 A 1010…
- This is how scaling looks like
- From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that this new art of applied electricity would be of greater benefit to the human race…
- APOD: 2016 January 25 - Where Your Elements Came From
- Hypercalc — The Calculator That Doesn’t Overflow at MROB
- Working Out of the Kernel
- WTF is adToken?! A Primer to Ad Network 2.0 Schemes
- Data as Cost — Big Cakes are Nice if you Like Cake
- Internet on Ad Fraud – Prelude
- Five Essential Points on Data Visualization
- Jigme Lingpa on Sickness
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (10) – Afterword
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (2) – History
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (3) – Symptoms
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (4) – Nature and Composition
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (5) – Causes
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (6) – From First Sensation to Development and the Mistake of Procrastination
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (7) – Treatment
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (9) – Prevention
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer – Introduction
- Light on Pranayama
- Thoughts on Pseudo Decentralization
- Introduction to Mind Training
- Learning Something New
- Motivation
- On Spiritual Development
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer – Short Background to Master Cheng
- How to Buy Ethereum in 5 Minutes without Feeling Like an Idiot
- Demystifying Buddhism — Part 1 — Prelude
- Pixalate’s Secret War on Xindi Botnet (Intro) — Full. Spectrum. Goddamn. Cyber.
- How to Move Your Medium Posts to Wordpress (tested)
- Three Reasons Why Everyone Should Consider Using Ad Blocker
- Solving the problem of problem solving
- Anti Ad Fraud Company’s Guide to Countering Facepalm
- Dark Side of Google – Ad Fraud
- This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things
- Economic Centralization
- Fundamental Centralization
- Information Centralization
- Internet of Centralization
2016
- Impact of Invalid Traffic on Vendor Profitability
- Entropy and Invalid Traffic Detection
- Reminiscences of an Adtech Operator, Chapter Two
- The Macrobiotic Way of Life
- Things I Learned Building the Skynet PART 2 — How to Eat Dust
- If DDoS attacks trigger ads, does it mean the attacker is the target?
- Pseudo-randomness is the opposite of randomness
- Things I Learned Building the Skynet
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Letter, 15 August 2016 - Big Publishers Attack Brave the Browser — Round 2
- How Much Faster Does LC_ALL=C Make Things in Shell?
- The Web Is Not Blocked — The Big Publishers and Adtech Are
- Busting Malvertising Myths – How Malware Enters the Online Advertising Supply-Chain
- Busting Malvertising Myths – The Role of Adtech Industry in Malvertising
- Demystifying Causality — How to Move from Guesswork to Knowing
- Don’t Drink the L.E.A.N Koolaid
- What In the Actual #$%@ Is Going On with the Big Publishers’ Attack Against Brave?
- Online Anonymity for Researchers – The Simple Edition
- Comprehensive List of Major Publishers Reported in Malvertising Attacks
- Malvertising, a Serious Threat to Internet Users, Business and Society?
- Disable Twitter’s New “Best Tweets” Timeline Feature in 15 Seconds or Less
- Glossary of Tracking Tags
- References for Thank You For Ad Blocking
- Reminiscences of an Adtech Operator
- Why Block Ads?
- Open Letter to IAB Sweden on Ad Blocking
- Announcing the Advertising Technology Wall of Facepalm
- big view, small expectation
- On the Importance of Fostering Good Communication with Security Researchers
- What IAB is Not Telling You About Ad Blocking
- Eight Ad Fraud Predictions Nobody in Adtech Wants to Make — part 1
- Eight Ad Fraud Predictions Nobody in Adtech Wants to Make — part 2
2015
- WTF is Going on with Ad Fraud?!
- RESEARCHER: Here is the Fight Against Ad Fraud > #JOINFAST #GG
- the sense of desiring gets projected in to a lot of different things.
- A Comprehensive List of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Vendors
- DIRECT_BUY_POISONING: How Data Spam Leaves Transactions Vulnerable to Fraud
- Ad Fraud Does Matter, Rick Webb
- Simple Life, Simple Surrounding
- On Emptiness
- Golden Age of Windows XP Based Botnets Just Started
- try not to make closing move faster than you can exhale without feeling any pressure or lightness in the head. try not to move faster than you inhale without…
- when you cut down on busyness and aggression, and try to make room for boredom and compassion, it’s like breaking an addiction.
- Why Ad Companies Should Not Use a Cease and Desist with Security Researchers
- Botlab patch #1: block AWS IP ranges entirely
- #adtech like you’ve never seen it before
- “How About Ad Fraud Barry Adams?”
- Six Kinds of Perpetrators
- ad fraud expose: digital media supply chain like you’ve never seen before
- the dilemma of computer-aided sciences
- JCR Licklider - The Great Inspiration
- Understanding the Four Kinds of Online Advertising Fraud
- How Large is the Online Advertising Fraud Problem?
- Online Advertising Fraud: Who Is Operating It?
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The above graphic highlights the level of complexity involved in the practice of making a sandwich in your kitchen. To illustrate the… - Online Advertising Fraud: Why You Have to Read the ANA / White Ops Report
- Isolated System
- The Causes of a Thermodynamic System
- The 6,804 Types of Trading Desk - An Ontological Commentary on Trading Desks
- The Story of Maths
- Transistors & The End of Moore’s Law
- Getting in to heated debates about the higher vehicles (yanas) may be an indication of skipped work on the lower yanas.
- It seems that there are three kinds of topics practitioners get in to discussions about. One is practice, which probably is better off not discussed. Then…
- The Vajra Master Said
- The moon had a red halo surrounding it after the initiation. One said “it’s some kind of reflection” to which the other replied “isn’t it all a reflection”…
- Like bangles on a young maid’s wrist; With many there are constant fights; With even two there will be rivalry: So I must remain alone.
- Once you have stemmed the continuous flow of exhausting tasks, idle chatter, and thoughts and can rely on being free from these three faults (physical, verbal…
- The 35 Buddhas
2014
- The Vajrayana, or diamond vehicle, is powerful because it is derived from the tranquility and readiness of the Hinayana, and the purity and soft heart of the…
- In the old days the sages treated disease by preventing illness before it began, just as a good government or emperor was able to take the necessary steps to…
- http://www.nanex.net
- What is Science?
- Einstein’s Fairy Tale
- I don’t understand why people think it’s so far fetched that one day large majority of programming will be done by machines
- Shantideva Aryadeva Nagarjuna Dharmakirti Vhasubandu
- what sense is there in using your time for but practicing dharma and doing good for other when in the end I will die anyway and all the wealth the sensory…
- When starved or sick, my body and mind go weak. All this I perceive quite clearly, but somehow I am not in it, I feel myself as if floating over it, aloof and…
- The Song of Gyalwa Gotsangpa on How to Practice with Illness
- They have disciplined their body, speech, and mind by eradicating distractions with the wrong kinds of objects, and have thus brought their senses under…
- when you are doing nothing, doing the minimum is a cause for doing more. when you are doing more, doing the minimum is a cause for doing nothing.
- McKinsey Global Institute From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services 3 The importance…
- Chart, 1 October 2014
- Stories of storytellers using media for positive change.
- Vayu | Aerial Solutions for Global Health
- Nagas
- From the HRI in my heart…
- On Causality and the Time of Our Death
- Your body could be hot and you could feel tired and your nose could be runny, but your concentration could still be good, your meditation could be good and you…
- I felt a lot worse on the morning after two joints than after a night spent in the bus with a flu.
- Dispelling Programmatic Myths: The Brand Trading Desk Opportunity
- A Call for Debate on the Points Made in the WFA’s Guide to Programmatic Media
- The Public Debate on WFA’s Guide to Programmatic Media
- Commentary on Data Ownership
- WFA Guide to Programmatic Media: What Every Advertiser Should Know About Media Markets
- What are Thoughts?
- Why CAPTCHA is Not a Viable Solution for Dealing with Online Advertising Fraud?
- Bring Guru’s blessing to all!
- Proteins are Neat: how to reduce the symptoms of your flu?
- two noble goals
- Basic Guidelines
- Not so long ago it was not out of the ordinary to use a computer to download an entire website or print a 1,000 pages at once. Given that’s the case, nothing…
- Why Does the Universe Exist?
- if you think you are doing well, then that has a lot to do with good actions in the past lives. So better keep acting good so in the future lifetimes too…
- Cartoon, 25 August 2014
- Autonomous drones delivering micro task batches to bottom of the pyramid homes that don’t have internet connection - ad powered.
- Diagram, 19 August 2014
- First you bring the mess to your practice and then you bring your practice to your mess.
- We’ve learn to think that there is a god and then there is all this worshipping we’re doing towards that god. If you would want to start to dissect it somehow…
- like sweet nectar
- By pushing things on to people, we stop things from coming in
- more worldly responsibilities leads to less time and attention for Dharma.
- giku - i shapkyu - u drengbu - e naro - o
- Concerning dullness, there are six kinds: dullness due to location, due to companionship, due to time, due to food, due to posture, and due to meditation.
- To try to utilise disturbing emotions as path while not having turned away from clinging to solid reality is like a fly becoming stuck in honey.
- Vajrasattva 100 Syllable Mantra
- What have we achieved so far with our self-centred mind? Particularly for the longer term?
- As suffering myself and others are equally trying to avoid it. As happiness myself and others are equally trying to achieve it.
- how to propagate effectively to the propagators?
- if you put your effort to your own happiness, then it’s very small minded approach. That same effort could benefit all beings.
- others are also avoiding suffering and seeking happiness
- Where is that I that wants to avoid suffering and find happiness?
- The five spiritual ways
- All Machine Readable
- The Repackaging Opportunity
- On Non-Sensical Talk
- all beings are equally suffering from pervasive suffering - they all need help equally
- LOSSLESS or not?
- Meditation on Love for All Living Beings
- stop giving suffering the value it doesn’t have.
- the buddhist definition of love & compassion
- the dearer or closer the feeling we have for living beings, the stronger our compassion will grow. the deeper we are able to see the suffering living beings…
- Algos for Hire
- become familiar with how to cultivate the awakened mind
- It’s better to start practicing love and compassion with those people that are right in front of you.
- love is our wish for others to be happy, compassion is our wish for others to avoid suffering.
- the wish alone is not enough
- to cultivate the awakened mind is to build these two aspirations
- Two Mental Factors
- when everything is important, nothing is when nothing is important, everything is
- While it is within our nature to be awakened, it is not within our nature to want it. We have to cultivate it.
- who do you thought it was that needed to be happy?
- beyond knowing how well you’ve done
- Peace is peace. With desire and hate Peace becomes ignorance. Ignorance becomes desire and hate.
- The Path to Equanimity Goes Through Concentration and Renunciation
- The Problem is Revealing Order in Data
- The Three Methods
- to cultivate the mind of altruism that wishes all beings to free from suffering.
- your meditation is on the difference between a friend and an enemy.
- If you single-mindedly focus on the size of your data, you are too easily ignoring the actual compression opportunity which is to maximise the number of…
- How about a system design where each variable (column) in the traditional database sits on its own instance in the cloud?
- The Quantum Problem and Christian Rhetoric
- What is it in programmatic that nobody is doing now but a lot of people will be doing in a few years from now?
- If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
- expectation, dissapointment
- Give Up Harsh Words!
- Never tell em how they are wrong. Never say how you are right.
- a drug is a drug when it’s used as a drug, regardless of its medicinal capabilities.
- “Who blazes forth light rays by a thousand stars”
- birth is a death sentence
- Cartoon, 8 May 2014
- Abstract: Probably not.
- Conversation, 6 May 2014
- The three greats of computing. Turing, Lick, Woz.
- Universal Theory of…
- Computational Complexity
- “…and may all beings, without exceptions, be established in that state.”
- Very immersive demo work running on 64kb.
- What you want is a racehorse on the track with blinders on. Instead we ended up with rainbow pooping unicorns.
- Hello World…
- A lot of the bullshit seems to be related with money. So the less you need it, the better.
- In the layman’s terms, “somebody basically screws you”, and you just go “ok I need to meditate more”
- The funny thing seems to be that I don’t even like intoxicants.
- This “not getting high everyday” stuff is pretty cool. Sweaty, but pretty cool.
- When I’m high, I want to do stupid things like watch TV or crappy youtube videos.
- When I’m not High…
- Withdrawal Symptoms
- of course I grave for it
- Efficiency and feasibility.
- Binary Block Sizes
- On Binary Encoding and Complexity
- How to Create Truly Impressive AI
- The Five Laws of Computer Program Efficiency
- The magical exists only in relation to the ordinary. Seeing the magical as ordinary, and ordinary as magical.
- P-values indicate confidence on the test, not on the data or finding
- Working Out of Kernel
- Practice is positive sum. Winning is zero sum.
- the physical building blocks of computing work just fine, it’s the way we use those building blocks that is not working fine.
- I am everything and everything is I.
- you can have achievement with no progress or progress without achievement.
- it’s possible that not everyone do everything because of you.
- Daily substance use seems to have a lot to do with not accepting things as they appear.
- I was maximizing all the while. But I was supposed to minimize.
- if it makes you feel worried and physically unwell, it’s probably better not to do it.
- So instead of learning to just sit with what appears and see right through it, one keeps reaching for the fix in the hope of that. But instead the whole makeup…
- there is definitely no reason to maximise the time with a substance, but to minimise it.
- Alternated states of mind experiences in relation to following desires might be interesting. But they are just that.
- The desire does not have to be a problem. You make it a problem by chasing it. The more you chase, the more you have a problem.
- What you eat and everything else you do makes up the contents of your mind.
- Learning to feel like everyone’s Mother.
- Fallacies of Distributed Computing
- Brave new computing
- Can you run a 1,000,000 QPS on a single server (or a few hundred bucks per month on Amazon)? The short answer is a definite yes. In this…
- From Writing Software to Hacking Hardware
- Storing IDs with Machine Level Memory Management
- The Art of Not Selling Out
- Device drivers take on a special role in the Linux kernel. They are distinct “black boxes” that make a particular piece of hardware respond to a well-defined…
- From input to learning
- The Internal and External Aspects of Data Science
- If you’re not practicing, you’re stuck is samsara
- It’s not just a data revolution, it’s a science revolution.
- More on Singularity
- Why Singularity’s Goal Can’t Be Achieved?
- An autopsy of a data scientist
- Application Specific Operating System
- What is Programming? - The Definition of Programming
- Nature is answering all our questions all the time. We just refuse to listen.
- causes and constituent
- I think it’s very hard to focus on anything at all, unless we realise the transience of our life. The fact that death will come certainly, and sometimes…
- On Value of Implicative Negation
- a thing, a meaning generality, conception
- A thought is a thing of its own, and not an accurate reflection of another thing.
- First mind moves but body is still. Then body moves but mind is still.
- generalities, and specific generalities…
- meaning generality, like any other thing, is made of other things.
- not discriminating = not eliminating
- regardless of the time of writing, a text makes sense only when it makes sense. Teaching is only as good as it is useful for the practitioner.
- the conceptual mind never observes its object directly.
- the meaning generality is always there in conceptual thought.
- when the conceptual mind has an object, there is no possibility to see that thing in another way than conceptually.
- 674,45
- if we want the machines to do things that we can’t imagine, then we have to let the machines do what they want to do. For that to make any sense, the machine…
- Practice until you don’t know you’re practicing anymore. But first practice until all you know has become practice.
- You take away the center point, all relativity will go.
- figure out what you want and what others want, and then just match it.
- The Problem of Singularity
- Truth vs. Justified True Belief
- When you want to know if someone feels happy for something that you’ve done to their benefit, and if it really is a benefit, you have to…
- you start to look at nature closer and closer. Look at it from every possible angle. But also you just look.
- 673,30
- To go one mile to the west means to go back one mile to the east.
- how do you capture a few practical knowledge from a lot of people?
- precise analysis for yourself, general examination for other.
- Renouncing samsara is to want others to be free from it. If you don’t want to be free from it yourself, it’s not possible to want others to be free from it.
- Subtle breath
- actions are within the nature of man. if all of those actions are good, imagine the results.
- Don’t fool yourself by setting the causes for A now and think that B will happen later.
- It is within the nature of intelligence to perpetually move.
- It seems that what we call “free will” and think only we have, the particles and everything else has just the same. It’s the will to move.
- One of the contributing causes to the resulting intelligence we’re experiencing.
- What are the results we are looking for? Which causes seem to have the propensity towards those results? How can we best create those causes?
- 643 / 12
- one by one, moment by moment.
- When you do something for a long time, you naturally become good at it. Imagine if you do the right things for a long time.
- 642/8
- All love for others arise from love for oneself. All love for others is love for oneself.
- When everything is a practice then death is too.
- As much as we’re the mother of everything that will ever come to be after us, everything before was the mother of us. Like a child grows in the mother’s womb…
- doing things completely, without doing them for the sake of any particular agenda. doing them moment-by-moment, because you are there doing them.
- It’s enough to be bit by the ant just once, to avoid its path for good. Same is with any of our other negative mental states.
- Theistic religions fail to provide the language to deal with the world.
- Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?
- Death comes certainly Sometimes suddenly So better enjoy While we still have a chance Maybe if we learn to live completely We might be able to die completely…
- Dharma is a living thing
- Good is perfect Bad is perfect Perfect is perfect
- if you can’t give up other things, how can you give up I? if you can’t give up things when you are living, how can you do it when you’re dying?
- If you take it all in, you become one with all. If you push everything away, you are all alone.
- Right is mind Left is mind Being is mind
- you can’t know all the possible obstacles, so it does not make sense to try to cover every angle before getting started.
- external is made of internal.
- The student looks for the teacher. Teacher looks for the student.
- 64,800
- Repulsion and pity to entire samsara. Pity even to the part that makes me angry. Repulsion even to the part that I desire.
- 587, 210
- with one division all divisions arise
- 535,210
- When excited, return to basics.
- We think that it’s the same I that’s doing those things. Because there is that kind of thought about doing.
- When you play chess, it’s common to lose just because you thought you are going to lose. Often it turns out that in one of the three dimensions; buttons, time…
- Basically existence means constantly changing
- Be the action. At that point nothing else exists.
- It doesn’t matter what you want to do. You feel like you want to do it because it is within the nature of mind to feel. So whatever you do, you can do it…
- The mind can engage in one activity only at any given time. For that time, the mind is that action. The mind only exist because the activity exist.
- The sage does not act, and so is not defeated. He does not grasp and therefore does not lose.
- Those old Masters who went to india to learn new things, they didn’t have the impact they did because of holding some kind of a one-sided view.
- walk without reaching towards a destination eat without aiming to satisfy your hunger
- When we say “I’m in San Francisco” or “I’m playing football”, it is the noun that represents being or existence.
- It is within the mind’s nature to be active, you don’t have to do anything particular, you don’t have to think per se.
- 490,160
- How come is it that a death of a great person is a loss?
- It’s a bit like a guy who would like to build a house if he had such an idea. But because the idea is not clear, he keeps hitting his thumb with the hammer…
- Loss is a situation where we have the expectation of a certain result, but end up with something we feel is inferior. So when we say that…
- Why make a big deal about walking a circle since we don’t make such a big deal about blood flowing either.
- Why would I want to limit the possibilities of self to what seems to be a set of emotional attachments?
- 480,100
- 50,760, 300
- Feeling arises through four causes; natural condition, training, mental dispositions and personalities.
- Mental factors represent the content of the mind.
- nature conceals nature.
- Not that there is anyone to feel it, but there is clearly a favorable feeling with that red knob.
- Regarding a child as a guest means that you appreciate him or her as a friend, a human guest, not a pet, not just “my son” or “my daughter” but a friend who…
- There are these wonderful tools called the mental factors. We just don’t use then well.
- there is definitely no time to waste
- Watch out what you aspire for.
- You have these tools, these mental factors. Use them well.
- At the moment when the cut appears and we are bleeding, yes, everything to that point is pre-destined. But it doesn’t mean we have to bleed to death. We have a…
- What is the result we are looking for? What are the causes we think lead to that result?
- Why do we establish such a limited view about ourselves? Or does that really matter at all. That limiting story is definitely there, imagine what you are…
- become friendly with everything
- become friendly with that which you fear and the fear itself.
- If you can’t be friendly with what you call your fear, how can you be friendly with yourself?
- yes, things appear as a result of causes and conditions. That means we can’t change what is happening right now, but it also means we can change the next.
- The most important thing is to know the most important thing
- there is not much more security in fight than there is in flight
- clarity to insanity
- it seems that at the level of thought self-preservance plays out as fantasies about money and sex
- The associations you make And the ones you keep They go with you
- I have the utmost respect for those who are truly unaffected by their desires and fears.
- masters of fantasies fantasise fantasies until all turns to one
- the dream starts to feel like a dream
- with misconduct there is no proper conduct
- Grosser the unreal Subtler the real
- when you start with dichotomy everything stops working Achilles knew this already
- Mind is thought Thought is pure Buddha nature It has the possibility of suffering And the possibility of happiness Everything
- The mind moves from moment to moment Like a tree Swaying in the wind Naturally Always returning To its center All
- basically if you believe that you were created by a concept, then you’ll definitely be stuck within thinking yourself as a concept
- What’s really going in is far more mind boggling and marvelous than any sci-fi can ever be.
- Why limit yourself to a concept?
- 42120
- Joy of insight
- One day practice, one step forward One day no practice, two steps back
- n = afflictive emotions = illness
- The more there are enlightenment The less there is rebirth in samsara
- There is no knower Beyond the knowing
- Death is the strongest of the propensities within birth
- Pain is a thing and therefore can only exist within the mind.
- There is really no such thing as having a flu, is there? When you feel hot or tired or lethargy or whatever, then of course there is the…
- when you push yourself with something technical, you get injured when you push yourself with something enduring, you fall ill
- Even sex The most definite of pleasures Ends in agonising pain and horrific fear
- There is intense suffering Following the so-called happiness Like the shadow following a flying eagle
- Things that seem to bring joy End up in a tense obsession All too easy
- Your task is not to seek love but merely to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- we’re here to make things better for everyone
- double compliment
- intellect = wisdom emotion = compassion
- When you criticise the other You criticise yourself. When you praise the other You praise yourself.
- You choose If each moment Is special or not
- 108 years is 39,420 days
- A foot-print is a conventional truth as much as a foot is. Or a tissue box.
- once imagining might as well imagine something pleasent
- 340 x 108 = 36,720
- Use Your Time Well
- intelligence is intelligence
- Love is definitely in the air
2013
- Even money and sex might not go as planned
- All the world’s beauty is found within the mind
- How to make the whole life about spiritual practice.
- Like it or not, you are a limitless being. That seems to be the bottom line.
- heat is movement
- I had a dream that I was in some kind of a facility. I was fishing and fish bite instantly. When I reeled it in, only some pieces of its flash came out. “What…
- I understand how much it hurts when I tell a person what I see is wrong in them. I also understand how limiting that is to myself. More than everything, I…
- If it appears, why resist
- If the other person is not ready for your “favour” then it actually becomes a punishment. So better stick with favours that anyone can understand. Like…
- In order for a person to learn something new about themselves, they have to want to learn something new about themselves.
- It is only my own behaviour that I have to change. That’s all.
- Resistance is heat
- some people just want to believe what they believe
- Stillness has many names It is the counterpart of movement Intelligence comes in many forms
- That which appears, appears
- Wanting to change others and following that desire is the most dangerous things.
- Weak does not mean weak Balanced is in balance
- when you say something negative about a person, no matter how small it is, you pave the way for saying more negative things about the person. Once you say a…
- Where there is room for anxiety There is room for calm
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- Looking for freedom is the opposite of that which is being looked for When I’m already beyond any concept How can I find something that’s nothing but one
- To change the world Small or big The law of causality is the same
- You can’t change people You can help someone to change When they want to change
- Sex and money
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- You can think about taking the trash out. You can talk about taking the trash out. You can take the trash out. When you think about taking the trash out…
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- A Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path: Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen, Khenmo Trinlay Chodron: Kindle Store
- The prisoner who likes to stay in prison because it’s easy to get drugs
- We very clearly have no idea at all about the time of our death.
- Dual vs Non-dual
- How about running in to this floating in the space?
- how truly special it is to have human birth
- Looking at Other People
- we are all compressed hydrogen
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- Gross and Subtle
- I suffer because I worry. I worry because I suffer.
- Like Radio
- My negative actions live through countless lifetimes
- Negative karma is certain to bring suffering; it multiplies exponentially; if eradicated, it cannot bring its suffering result; and once created, it never…
- Photograph, 27 November 2013
- Vajrasattva Purification
- om vajra sattva hung
- Feet like chicken. Body like dragon. Head like tiger.
- First you have to imagine. Then pretend it. Finally you will do it.
- Urban Zoning
- Everything Starts from Small
- food, sex, food, sex, food, sex, food, sex, food, sex
- Form is empty. Emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form. Form is not other than emptiness.
- From Smallest of Seeds to Greatest of Events
- It’s really wonderful how things come together (and go apart).
- No Words
- On Studying
- Q&A
- Talking with People
- the mother borns from the child
- to have self-discipline, you gotta have a self
- to say that without a story, is a story in itself
- It can become very clear how the subtlest of changes in our actions lead to roaring changes in circumstances.
- Everything is named.
- How to meditate
- It is not possible to lift one leg without moving all the weight to the other. These two things go automatically together.
- Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend: With Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche
- Now I understand why sex is mostly better left for a situation where you don’t actually mind if there is a pregnancy.
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- Washing Dishes
- Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself — And there isn’t one.
- On Progress and Motivation
- Volitional Action
- Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- One avoids the bite of a tiger by treading carefully
- Idle Talk
- Taking Responsibility
- Thoughts on Causality and the Nature of Reality
- I’m none of that I thought I am Already beyond freedom Beyond happiness anything and everything I could have imagined Or attempt to explain
- On Learning vs. Action
- Know the knowers and all will be known
- The Man of Tao
- What is Happiness (not)?
- Just Enough Manifesto: Don’t Drink the Big Data Kool-Aid
- Room Full of Money: The Realities of Media Trading