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Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.

TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.

Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

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Someone: why are you leaving tumblr when you don’t even post nsfw content?

Me:

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Lesson 12.3: How to Meditate

Greetings, all! I know it’s been a while since the last lesson, but I’ve been thinking about something and I wanted to introduce it as the third installment of the meditation lessons. You can find the first two here and here. So let’s get to it!

First of all, “thinking” in itself is probably contradictory to what I’m about to say. And as a human being in this society, I am susceptible to thought. To filling empty space with words. To classifying things that do not need to be classified - the self as human, these words as a lesson, this community as a mystery school. I do not mean to project rightness or wrongness onto my (our) constant act of classification, but rather I want to show you how being mindful of our obsession with words can make meditation possible.

As Osho says in “Zen: The Path of Paradox,” meditation is the absence of mentation. A true state of meditation, as I said in Lesson 12.1, is presence. Rather, the absence of mental activity. Our approach to presence often involves trying to live in the present moment or making an effort to be present. In reality, this takes us further from meditation. Meditation is not and cannot be about effort. It is about the lack thereof. We call it mindfulness, but really it is being mind-less.

Many people already understand this, but the problem is that our approach to it sometimes becomes aggressive. We are so used to trying in this world (trying to sound smart, trying to be spiritual, trying to understand) that even in the case of meditation, we try not to try. We know that we must be effortless, so we make an effort to not exert effort. This is where meditation becomes difficult for some people, even me. Merely sitting and being still is an act of unlearning, or at least that’s what it feels like. It is so different from what we normally do every day that it feels awkward, so our minds begin to compensate for how uncomfortable we are. The mind is not accustomed to not always running, always comprehending the constantly-moving faces and places it’s seeing and devising thoughts or stories around these sights. The mind is not used to being still. So it may try to run even faster.

The key is: allow it.

If you try not to think, you are not meditating. If you are thinking, you are not meditating. I know it sounds like a paradox, but there is a middle ground where your spirit truly lies, where God is: just be.

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Oh I’m an asshole.

So today pulling into Stop and Shop, this lady cut me off and nearly drove into me, and then, when I tried to pass her, she swung to the right and nearly hit me again, and then flipped me off.

So somebody is having a bad day and taking it out on me. That’s fine. It’s harmless, and I don’t know what’s going on in this woman’s life. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt she’s not just a piece of shit and is just having a bad day.

But then I park and she follows me, and gets out of the car and starts swearing at me and getting in my face.

Now I go from “indifferent” to “I’m gonna fuck with this woman’s head.” Now I would say I’m a gentleman of size, and in all black and bemohawked I probably look spookier than I actually am, so props to this lady for getting in my face. Now of course I’m not going to hit her, or even threaten violence. That’s shitty. Nobody should get threatened with violence.

Instead, I take a step back, narrowing my eyes like I’m studying her face really closely, and then I touch one of the several piece of “occulty” jewelry I’m wearing (none of which, by the way, are magicked in any way at all). Then I mumble some nonsense under my breath, and then make the fig gesture and the horns at her.

She stops, wide-eyed.

“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO TO ME?”

I chuckled, and shake my head. “Nothing at all.” I say in a not-terrible convincing voice. “But every time something bad happens to you today, you’re gonna be thinking of me.”

Then I winked at her, and walked away.

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A mythical salamander, a creature I hadn’t heard of until recently! 🦎🔥

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Chakra Bath

A new activity that’s fun and full of vibrancy. Chakra bathing. A part of #aluras60daychallenge is trying new things.

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Jack’s Mother Is Rebuking You

In the video, his mum said at 6:25:

“He [Jack] didn’t get out.. maybe someone else will”.

But the drama-seekers who have no personal stake in any of this want to KEEP SAYING THE MASTER’S NAME OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER.  Your fucking obsession with watching the drama unfold and binging the episodes is in the very face of Jack’s mother!

EDUCATE THE LIVING SO THEY WILL NOT END UP IN THIS SITUATION.

^^ this is what Jack’s mother wants.  

Stop making it about YOU and YOUR morbid fascination.

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Crispy Chinese Honey Chicken (without Deep Frying) Make ultra-flavorful restaurant-style crispy sesame chicken without a ton of sugar or any deep frying.

Recipe => https://omnivorescookbook.com/crispy-chinese-honey-chicken/

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Is this how you roll?

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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.

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Neuro-Galactic Transcendence | Jeff Sullivan

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