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Former: Web Engineer, Nonprofit Director, University Administrator.

Now: Studying Theravada Buddhism with an emphasis on meditation and the early Buddhist texts.

🙏 May all beings be free of suffering.

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MEDITATION TEACHERhttps://insighttimer.com/perlman
Maybe we can just tell billionaires that paying all your employees a living wage is philanthropy.
It's that sad time of year when Mariah Carey must return to the ocean, only to re-emerge next Christmas

...said #Dhamma Talk video "My Favorite Buddhist Chant"​:
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2023/12/18/Dhamma_Talk_129.html

#Buddhist #Buddhism #dharma #Theravada #religion #spirituality

Topics: Pali/Pāḷi, cosmology, religion, distinctions between Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, doctrine, translation, #poetry, verse, big picture, rebirth, #spiritual seeking, striving, death, future lives, heaven, hell, ghost realm, #freedom from sin, salvation, removal of defilements, eternal life, devas; extremely long, yet not quite eternal life

#Video is of Taiping's central park (#Malaysia)

Dhamma Talk Video 129: My Favorite Buddhist Chant

Here’s a 61-min recorded video Dhamma Talk (113MB .mp4 - Tip: tap-and-hold to “Download link”, or right click to “Save Link As…“).

Ajahn Subharo
Why buy it for $7 when you can make it yourself with $48 worth of craft supplies?

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978042/popular-science-digital-magazine-discontinued

> The long-running publication has come to an end.

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine

Popular Science is doing away with its magazine format as the publication looks to “evolve beyond the digital magazine product.”

The Verge
the true audience of a paper is an enthusiastic undergrad in a country you’ve never been to working on something no one around them cares about twenty years after you’ve already left the field

The Navajo Nation was one of the hardest hit communities during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Today, many people are struggling to survive without adequate food or medical care.

Today is an opportunity to stand with those observing #NationalDayOfMourning and to go above and beyond land acknowledgement.

Donate to the Navajo Reservation - Navajo Relief Fund -- a service of nativepartnership.org

http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nrf_navajoreservation

Navajo Reservation - Navajo Relief Fund

To get this straight, we CAN’T afford:
- universal healthcare
- affordable housing
- student loan forgiveness
- or anything else to help working people struggling to get by.

But the Pentagon can take $3.8 trillion and not be able to say what they did with it. Okay. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-11-15/pentagon-failed-audit-shutdown-funding-12064619.html

‘This was not a surprise’: Pentagon again fails annual audit of $3.8 trillion in military assets

The Pentagon has again failed its independent annual audit, mainly because defense officials could not provide auditors with enough information to form a full accounting evaluation, according to the Defense Department’s yearly financial report released Wednesday.

Stars and Stripes
Fall rebrands as Summer+, includes premium content not available with regular Summer subscription such as 80° Halloweens.
ADHD awareness month? I give it three seconds, tops.