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the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

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Prehistoric rock carving of a whole bunch of deer. Bayankhongor, Mongolia

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'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

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Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji (永観堂禅林寺) | one r

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A statue of a Tengu (天狗) along the path up to the Hansōbō (半僧坊), the shrine of the local protective deity of Kenchōji Temple (建長寺) in Kamakura established on the temple grounds in 1890

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This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.

— Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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Zen (2009)

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This is so wholesome

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Can you feel the beating hearts of the beings around you? Can you feel the pulse of the Earth? Can you feel the longing for love of all that exists?

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Dhammapada

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable. How can a troubled mind Understand the way? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.

-The Dhammapada, trans. by Thomas Byrom.

Source: Teachings of the Buddha by Jack Kornfield, pg. 4.

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kindness is a discipline, not a trait

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You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.