Sublime Abiding

@perlman@indieweb.social
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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.


#Buddhism

#Mindfulness

#Meditation

#Enlightenment

#SolarPunk

#AntiCapitalist

#HumanRights

#BlackLivesMatter

#OpenSource

#NetNeutrality

#Philosophy

#Ethics

#Dhamma
#Dharma

MEDITATION TEACHERhttps://insighttimer.com/perlman
Sublime AbidingDec 28, 2023
Rick AltherrDec 28, 2023
Maybe we can just tell billionaires that paying all your employees a living wage is philanthropy.
Sublime AbidingDec 28, 2023
Dr.NickDec 27, 2023
It's that sad time of year when Mariah Carey must return to the ocean, only to re-emerge next Christmas
Sublime AbidingDec 22, 2023
Show threadBhante Subharo ☸️Dec 18, 2023

...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
Sublime AbidingDec 20, 2023
FlashdancerDec 20, 2023
Why buy it for $7 when you can make it yourself with $48 worth of craft supplies?
Sublime AbidingNov 27, 2023
Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴Nov 27, 2023

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
Sublime AbidingNov 24, 2023
Show threadMax KreminskiNov 23, 2023
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
Sublime AbidingNov 24, 2023
Night 🌊✨Nov 23, 2023

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

Sublime AbidingNov 24, 2023
Working Families PartyNov 23, 2023

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
Sublime AbidingOct 30, 2023
Missing The PointOct 30, 2023
Fall rebrands as Summer+, includes premium content not available with regular Summer subscription such as 80° Halloweens.
Sublime AbidingOct 20, 2023
Shae M PuckettOct 20, 2023
ADHD awareness month? I give it three seconds, tops.
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Working Families PartyNov 23, 2023

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

Show threadSuzanne she/herNov 23, 2023
@WorkingFamilies They tell us poor people are bad with money. 😑
Show threadFish Id WardrobeNov 23, 2023
@WorkingFamilies ^^^^
WTAF?
Show threadJo with elbows up & chin upNov 23, 2023
@WorkingFamilies they are robbing the people to control the people.
every audit is the same.
Show threadJargogglesNov 23, 2023

@WorkingFamilies
With the PPP loan scam, they also managed to find $3/4 trillion to straight up give to the wealthy with zero oversight. They found over $2 trillion for Trump's tax cuts.

But mealy mouthed centrists only seem to protest and ask "but how are we going to pay for it?" when policies would actually help working class people. Hell, they even do that for programs that would actually save money in the long run like universal healthcare.

Show threadEther DiverNov 23, 2023
@WorkingFamilies It is *exremely* unlikely they can't actually account for most of that money. The issue is they can't account for it in a way that, if made public, wouldn't cause *incredible* outrage and blowback against the leadership personally, the Pentagon as a whole and even the military as an institution.
Show threadEther DiverNov 23, 2023

@WorkingFamilies Some of it is outright theft/fraud. Some of it is probably obscene payoffs to allies and foes. Add in a bunch of Mk_Ultra type shit, training and arming most of the world's worst terrorists, various black ops and mercenary sketchiness...

If they could honestly account for all that shit, bet there's probably only a few $100 million in actual funds they can't account for. A rounding error in their overall budgeting!

Show threadRica Tatiana 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈Nov 23, 2023
@WorkingFamilies does the military really need that much money? The government showed during the pandemic, basic income, healthcare and education was possible.
Show threadDarrell BowlesNov 23, 2023
@WorkingFamilies Here is the other problem, the trillions we owe to china. That's the big reason why we can't afford any of those other things, and I wouldn't want my health care regulated fully by the government, because the government does not have my best intrest in mind.
Show threadSemi Sentient AI Cooling WaterNov 24, 2023
@WorkingFamilies Yet someone on here recently referred to the US Military Industrial Complex as Socialist!
Show threadbinchickenNov 24, 2023
@WorkingFamilies it's to pay the guy who chases ghosts out of the tank graveyard in nevada
Show threadPoliticalPuffin in the UKNov 24, 2023

@WorkingFamilies Have they checked down the back of the sofa?

That's where I find loose change from time to time

FFS! there doesn't seem to be an emoji for shaking and holding one's head in disbelief. Come on developers, it's not like this is not something we have to do every fucking day of our lives. Get to it