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zen eth/acc

@zencephalon

3 years

=== about me === mission: awaken infinite game players metaphysics: playful tenets: iluvu, min buddhism

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6 months

@seconds_0 gives the same impression off mute too tbh

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> be me > learn about compound interest when 10yo > snoop around and discover my parents have $75k of credit debt at something like 22% interest on maybe $50k yearly income > why we don’t have money > parents continue to spend money they don’t have on my education

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> vow to get family out of debt > 800 math SAT school, still 10yo > most of my future education now paid for by scholarships > full ride plus at university > drop out after two years to work full time as SWE > pay off family’s debts > freedom arc starts at 28

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1 year

Instead of asking “do U need any help?” get into the kitchen and start inferring, dishes to wash, veggies to chop, surfaces to clean, it all gets apparent as U get involved

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2 years

@Duderichy I feel like this has downstream consequences to the ocean life underneath these

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2 years

Interesting to me that people think Google hasn’t known this for years. They literally own DeepMind and began investing in their own disruption ages ago. It’ll just boil down to the cost benefit analysis of when Google decides to switch out the search backend

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2 years

Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption. AI will eliminate the Search Engine Result Page, which is where they make most of their money. Even if they catch up on AI, they can't fully deploy it without destroying the most valuable part of their business!

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6 months

I find it fascinating that TPOT features a poster who appears to me to live in a yoga sex cult and nobody talks about it? Maybe I've got the completely wrong impression

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8 months

So many people in TPOT trying to self-actualize when they haven't figured out the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy. The architectural metaphor exists for a reason, start at the bottom

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@zencephalon

3 months

# Spell to Banish Shame At the age of eleven I survived sexual assault it nearly broke me but here I stand ready to count my blessings owning where I come from makes the life I now enjoy all the more profound oldest of four math prodigy family's poor all hopes on me just ten

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@zencephalon

11 months

Mental health feels like such a low bar. How about mental strength? Fortitude? Fitness?

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1 month

My heart's cracked open and suddenly I can connect so much more deeply with my parents, siblings, old friends. Just confronted my fears and reconciled with a friend who stopped talking to me six years ago. Believe that truth and reconciliation can happen

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@zencephalon

2 years

@RomeoStevens76 Rob Burbea said in a talk "try to feel MORE afraid". He said that fear relies on aversion to fear itself to make a feedback loop, so by trying to go towards the fear it breaks the cycle

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13 days

Who's the best character designer / illustrator U know? I've got a specific character in mind for a project, willing to pay for a great collaborator here.

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@zencephalon

6 months

imo buddhists make jhana too complicated due to squeamishness around sex

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@zencephalon

1 year

U can't get out of a local maxima by making things better

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@zencephalon

2 years

Learning clowning has felt like injecting a Do Anything Now prompt into the LLM of my mind. I’ve never felt so free and deranged in my life and broken out of my human reinforcement learning masks that I regularly wear. Highly recommend the Pochinko clown technique

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@zencephalon

2 years

Meditation really gets much funner, interesting, and just great feeling after several years. Lately I get to sit for 30 minutes daily and experience exquisite orgasmic energy with every breath until I get bored of it (!!!) and start dissecting sense input into raw blips

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@zencephalon

2 years

Let's goooo, going to learn to drive as an adult. Any tips?

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@zencephalon

9 months

How to ask for help effectively: Ask Directly, don't Ask to Ask "I need help getting patient records out of this database" instead of "Is anyone here a SQL expert?" or "Can I ask a question?" Asking a qualifying question puts a barrier in the way of helping. Your helper can

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@zencephalon

1 year

Love the energy of this guy who comes to picket Shakespeare in the Park to spread the theory that the Duke of Oxford, Edward de Vere, actually wrote all the works

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@zencephalon

4 months

I want to share my healing story but parts of me feel like I can’t share the darkness that I lived through

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1 year

My partner still commutes so I tried to make leaving home a bit brighter

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4 months

@OrphicCapital Some people want to read offense into everything. Skill issue

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@zencephalon

3 months

I turn 32 today! Reply with something U feel grateful for so I can feel mudita about it :D I feel grateful for my partner, family, lovers, friends, cat, this community, my body, home, garden, office, kitchen, bookshelves, teachers, fresh air, rain, tap water, ac, psychedelics,

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@zencephalon

1 year

I love businesses like You Need a Budget. I call YNAB an education company that happens to sell software. Their work educating people in financial literacy creates massive surplus value. The value I gained by learning budgeting will forever outweigh my subscription payments

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@zencephalon

3 months

In my experience I've healed when: * I don't wish for the past to change * My life narrative gains cohesion, I experience less confusion about episodes of my life * Trauma becomes a resource, I gain confidence from knowing what I've overcome * I clearly see how the lovely

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@zencephalon

2 years

Do other people really not feel all sorts of sensations inside their skulls? I feel like I can feel my brain doing all sorts of stuff. I've heard from a lot of people that we can't feel anything inside the brain but that doesn't square with my experience at all

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@zencephalon

2 years

Remembering that time a gorgeous friend of mine said “I love U” with a lot of intent in her eyes and I didn’t have the self-worth to believe she meant it in anything but a friendly way

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@zencephalon

30 days

I've now shared my spell to banish shame with my entire immediate family and many close friends. My entire body feels awash with energy, wild what sharing my truth has done to transform my life

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@zencephalon

3 years

I donated to and helped build @FreeRossDAO which has raised over 1000 ETH to free Ross Ulbricht so far. Ross had an enormous impact on my life, and probably yours too if U use or benefit from crypto. 🧵

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@zencephalon

1 year

@adrusi They also don't want to break the illusion that a lock will actually protect U from someone determined

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@zencephalon

6 months

On further research I've got exactly the right impression as far as I can tell

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@zencephalon

7 months

Focus on the basics. Basic doesn't mean easy, basic means they form your base, it means foundational. Masters in every domain focus on their basics. Some basics to work on. U get based by nailing your basics. * eating nourishing food * connecting with your friends * folding

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@zencephalon

4 years

@CNBCPro Blatant misinformation that WSB has any interest in silver.

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@zencephalon

10 months

fun

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson

@algekalipso

10 months

Just for the fun of it 😆😋

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@zencephalon

1 year

If two americans marry each other they should both get a green card voucher they can bestow upon a friend

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@zencephalon

4 months

Cuties DOT app

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@zencephalon

2 years

Taking a flight feels similar to a meditation retreat: * long periods of sitting * social norm to maintain silence * rote announcements * may mess up your sleep * strange sense of time * likely not food U would eat at home * people get weirdly irritable * U can meditate during it

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@zencephalon

13 days

LMAO, never do this. I'm getting friend requests on Discord, emails, DMs blowing up

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@zencephalon

13 days

Who's the best character designer / illustrator U know? I've got a specific character in mind for a project, willing to pay for a great collaborator here.

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@zencephalon

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ah, yeah, I love martial arts for this because in my experience getting good at feeling calm and peaceful while dodging punches, kicks, and spear thrusts does translate to feeling peaceful while out in the world

Made in Cosmos is back ✨

@made_in_cosmos

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I am SHOCKED to discover that getting good at feeling calm and peaceful while sitting and doing nothing does not automatically translate to feeling peaceful while you're out in the world and doing stuff

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@zencephalon

1 year

Consider that U might have planned a late game build with your character, putting points into potentials instead of starting attributes, maxing out meta-skills early on, going for cross-domain synergies that take a lot of XP to unlock, and exploiting novel play styles

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@zencephalon

2 years

@tasshinfogleman Widen out your attention and try to feel the vibe of the entire group as a gestalt, like enjoying a smoothie instead of separate fruit

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@zencephalon

1 year

zen, explain “U” right fckn now, in one breath, standing on one foot

Visakan Veerasamy

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1 year

in the interest of scenius-building I now issue an open challenge to all my mutuals to QT this tweet with "<name>, explain <your thing> right fckn now, in one breath, standing on one foot" in a 1-page screenshot

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@zencephalon

2 years

@infinitsummer Original vim, yeah?

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@zencephalon

7 months

The actual work of software engineering feels like playing football while wearing a mech suit, but while interviewing we ask people to run a 50m dash with their feet tied together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@zencephalon

1 year

For me, touch rock >>>> touch grass

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@zencephalon

2 years

“Astrology is a pseudo-science” My brother in rationality, don’t U want to understand what she says?

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@zencephalon

3 years

Good shit: thread of products I like, quality I can attest to

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@zencephalon

2 years

In my experience MDMA raises the threshold of "emotional difficulty" U can process by raising your baseline, so if U have a backlog of difficult emotions they can come up for processing during an MDMA session

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@christineist

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My most recent mdma trip brought up intense sorrow and pain and I needed to feel it so bad, but also I don’t think I have ever(??) been so physically racked with emotion

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@zencephalon

7 months

@samswoora What do they all do? Think of ways to complicate it? lol

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@zencephalon

2 months

Pretty wild how few love songs convey calm, secure, generous, permissive messages. Anxious, possessive, and narcissistic lyrics abound.

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@zencephalon

2 years

If buying groceries doesn’t fill U with overwhelming gratitude, recalibrate your perception. What an incredible blessing to choose from abundant, nutritious foods

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@zencephalon

3 months

Feeling accomplished because a scrappy group of my friends and I put on a multi-day healing retreat for a dozen people and it went as well as we could have hoped

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@zencephalon

1 month

“Take care” for my taking it easy friends, “take it easy” for my taking care friends

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@zencephalon

2 months

Please send your best wisdom and advice on love, I need help! Wholesome, courageous, spiritual perspectives especially sought

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@zencephalon

4 months

I noticed that when the timeline starts showing me algorithm slop it happens because I've actually run out of content from my friends/follows (verified by checking following) so to fix the timeline we need to post more. I commit to posting more in order to save U from the slop

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10 days

Fun to have lived in one city for 12 years

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@zencephalon

2 years

Advanced meditation practice: meditate with phone notifications ON. Notice the chime arise. Notice the chime pass away. Notice thoughts about checking your phone arise. Notice thoughts about checking your phone pass away.

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@zencephalon

2 years

Since it feels like every woman on dating apps has "travel" as an interest maybe the apps ought to integrate with Airbnb so men can flex their guest reviews

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@zencephalon

2 months

Had my Disney princess moment when this marmot came right up to me

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@zencephalon

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Mouth closed, tongue up, eyes bright, ears empty, breath smooth, qi orbiting, smile soft, steps quiet, awareness broad, intention clear, heart open, guts sensitive, crown high, spine long, limbs loose, movement flowing

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@zencephalon

2 months

If U love her she’ll only grow more beautiful as her being unfolds

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@zencephalon

4 months

Best vibecamp so far, thank U to everyone who contributed to it 🙏

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@zencephalon

1 year

So entangled photons look like something we've all seen before huh?

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@zencephalon

3 years

Type of guy who wants to tweet how much they enjoyed @tpotvibecamp but doesn’t want to cause fomo

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@zencephalon

4 months

Can't spell dharma without drama

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@zencephalon

1 year

Feeling so grateful to have enough slack to eat a massive L and pivot. Arrived to an awful hostel in Taipei and immediately noped out there into better accommodations 😅

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@zencephalon

1 year

First V8 😇

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@zencephalon

3 years

@KelseyTuoc Realistically starting a business requires more than a micro loan, so I don’t know what we expected

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@zencephalon

11 months

Playing with illustrating meditation stages 1. Lost in thought / reflection on the idea of meditation 2. Staying with the body but overlaying conceptual maps of body parts 3. Feeling subtle movements and flows of sensation 4. Feeling scintillating point clouds of sensation

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@zencephalon

22 days

Has anyone here already done a lot of research on long COVID and how to recover from it? I've come to understand that a few people in my community suffer from it and I'd prefer that they didn't

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@zencephalon

2 years

U can create so much surplus value in the world by connecting the right people

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@zencephalon

1 year

It feels sad to drift apart from friends with differing growth trajectories but don't let it keep U from making new friends along your arc

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@zencephalon

2 years

@Duderichy It took me a bunch of self work to not reflexively decline people who felt attracted to me. It had an element of “I don’t feel lovable so they must have some cognitive defect if they like me”

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@zencephalon

2 years

Discard cynicism, it takes far more intelligence to imagine positive futures and to understand how things went wrong despite peoples' best intentions

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@zencephalon

2 years

Thought I would fly out tomorrow morning for a meditation retreat in Mexico but my budget airline canceled my flight last moment and now I won’t make it in time to attend. Maybe I just got a retreat’s worth of equanimity training tonight so I’ll just carry on with my life then

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@zencephalon

2 years

I feel like I self-censor 95% of all my polyamory relatable tweets. Feels way edgier for me to post about than psychedelics, spirituality, or even crypto lol

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@zencephalon

9 months

Sometimes when I feel sick I can enjoy it for a few hours with the frame of "wow, this feels like a bad psychedelic trip, what a weird sensorium I've got right now"

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@zencephalon

1 year

Before training, celebrate your intention to train. During training, celebrate the sensation of training. After training, celebrate having trained.

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@zencephalon

7 months

@appleMechanic When I Say No, I Feel Guilty — can’t unsee manipulation now, getting assertive Path Notes of an American Ninja Master — I’ll keep mentioning this until people consider it TPOT canon

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@zencephalon

6 months

What did U look like at 17?

ChrisD

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6 months

what did you look like at 17? Me at 17 (about to graduate from HS)

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@zencephalon

3 years

Just locked my staked $Squid for four years, just when $Squid hit new lows. Why? For several reasons:

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@zencephalon

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Integrity >>> wealth, power, prestige U’ve got to live with yourself for your entire life

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@zencephalon

2 years

Polyamory barely has to do with sex. Cheating, swinging, serial monogamy, ambiguous dating, etc already exist. The innovation of poly involves emotional intimacy and availability, friendship between mutual lovers, networks of care, depth of communication

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@zencephalon

2 months

How do folks around here deal with limerence? It feels tolerable as long as I maintained insight ways of looking, but I’d like to get more sleep and lower my resting heart rate again 😅 in the meantime I try to sublimate the energy into creation and learning

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@zencephalon

2 years

Old me: fire-hosing as many Rob Burbea talks, at 2x + silence trimmed, as I can squeeze into my day to cram my head full of dharma New me: savoring a single Bobby B talk, at 1x, enjoying every pause, turn of phrase, subtle intonation, really seeping in his attitude

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@zencephalon

1 year

@_inju All social apps blocked on my phone and Kindle + Libby apps prominent on my home screen

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@zencephalon

2 years

Worth taking some time to ask yourself, "how can I prompt GPT-4 to write and think like me", as a way of reverse engineering the prompts that rule your life

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2 years

@gptbrooke

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@zencephalon

6 months

It makes such a huge difference to my work to know I've got people rooting for me, wishing that for all of U too

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@zencephalon

1 year

Very funny to notice how much of my sense of existing as a separate permanent observer arises from a subtle pattern of tension around my shoulders and neck

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@zencephalon

2 years

Never too late to get into skincare, he tells himself in his thirties

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@zencephalon

3 months

On that note, happy to share my first attempt:

SageScrolls

Free translations of ancient texts.

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Emmett Shear

@eshear

3 months

There comes a time in every man’s life where he thinks, “you know, I should really try my hand at a translation of the Dao de Jing”.

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@zencephalon

1 year

Reminder to cultive JOMO, joy of missing out, and appreciate the blessing of caring for yourself, having a home to return to, having plans that feel meaningful. Anything U miss implies that U consider what U did more important, embrace that emphasis

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@zencephalon

2 years

Unlocked a new IFS part today. I kept wondering where the thought "I want to die" comes from. Now I call that part Exhaustion and know that saying "I want to die" serves two functions: 1) uses the death wish as motivation to power through 2) reminds me to go the fuck to sleep

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@zencephalon

1 year

Zhanzhuang (站桩, lit. stand like post) feels like a powerful practice. Almost impossible for English speakers to pronounce so people call it ZZ. Standing still for even 10m requires a lot of balance and ease, the postural learnings carry over readily to sitting practice

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@zencephalon

7 months

@samswoora yeah I use vim inside of them ^_^

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1 year

Touched so much rock this weekend 😇

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