Lmst

Standing Up Injustice is our responsibility. rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/stan... #antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

Standing Up

Standing Up

Injustice is our responsibility.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/standing-up.html

#antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

Standing Up

Injustice is our responsibility.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/06/standing-up.html

#antinomianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #dharma, #hermitpractice, #Quaker, #quietism, #Rinzai, #sangha, #Zen

#Nāgārjuna’s #Madhyamaka employs radical negation (#prasaṅga) to reveal the limits of conceptual thought, dissolving all views — including #emptiness (#sunyata) itself. This apophatic method aims at direct, non-conceptual wisdom (#prajñā), resonating with #Zen’s emphasis on silence and immediacy. Liberation arises not by grasping truth, but by letting go.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-19-nagarjuna_and_limits_of_conceptual_thought/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

Burning sheet of paper. This image symbolizes the limitations of language and, thus, conceptual thinking, and the liberating act of relinquishing fixed views. Like Nāgārjuna’s method, it reminds us that true clarity arises not by adding more words, but by letting them go. Source: Bakir Custovicꜛ on Unsplashꜛ (license: Unsplash Licenseꜛ).

Le #streaming #zen du jour, avec encore de l'eau pour affronter la chaleur. Courage, et bonne fin de semaine quand même.🧘🏻 ⛲ 🕯️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc32mtbPMak

The storm was SO intense last night that you could cut the humidity with a knife this morning. I’ve never experienced anything like it in the northeast. It also made for a beautiful backdrop. #nature #zen

Early morning sun shining through the trees, creating rays of light over a backyard lawn. A black metal fence in the foreground with a lone shrub, and a partial view of two cars in the driveway behind the fence.

Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism 🙏

@boo_ @AAKL @9to5Mac Hi Klara. I reckon you've made fine points & well expressed. I shall readily & entirely concede that my choice of comparison was crude & legitimately liable for criticism. Let me try though to explain what was/is in my mind, wrt all the Mozilla shenanigans & imbroglio.

First, i readily join the bands of voices criticising Mozilla over many years for apparently letting Firefox fall far behind the competition. One does not even need to consider the chromium-based competition, to be able to criticise their apparent loss of interest in FF until comparatively recent months. Even staying within the Gecko-sphere, the fact that single-Dev projects like #Floorp & #Zen have been able to create quite excellent forks in short time that far exceed the limited innovation Mozilla have done in FF for many years, should shame them. Moreover, other single-Dev projects like the fabulous #FirefoxSecondSidebar, & then also ofc the AOs #TreeStyleTab & #Sidebery, illustrate by comparison how negligent the FF Devs have been [or maybe, been allowed to be], in not natively incorporating such great innovations that elevate the UX so considerably.

Secondly, the brouhaha recently re the ToS / ToC or whatever we call it. Mozilla possibly could not have been more ham-fisted & incompetent wrt how badly they mismanaged the situation, & they deserved a lot [but far from all, IMO] of the worldwide criticism they incurred. As to the germane details themselves, fwiw i tend atm to fall on the side of the argument that they were very clumsy, but not being evil by design... & in matters like these i always ask myself the counterfactual "well ok, do i now distrust them enough to actually abandon them & thence choose to cut off my nose to spite my face by entering the actual proven evil empire of chromium-based browsers?". My answer remains NO!!!

Thirdly, the #AI problem. Lemme state upfront that i despise the entire global fetish that's erupted for #LLMs / #GenerativeAI. I loathe & despise the vast intellectual property theft perpetrated in training these things, despair at the shocking environmental implications of them, & alternatively scream & cackle at the gross human stupidity manifested by peeps all over the rock blindly accepting the hallucinated garbage produced by these monstrosities. Do i want AI in my Foxes? Nope. Would i prefer Mozilla was not apparently bent on this path? Yep. However, again i ask myself that counterfactual, which i am able to mediate with the knowledge that atm anyway, knowledgeable users are still able to actively choose not to use it, & deactivate it, in their Foxes. Is that the best way Mozilla could have done it? No, ofc not. Is it overall a scenario that i can still use to my advantage? Yes. Is it a least-worst alternative to the chromium horrors? Yep.

A Third-&-a-Half point arises. I said above "knowledgeable users are still able to actively choose not to use it". What then though for non-knowledgeable users, for the non-geeks, the "regular peeps"? Here i admit my attitude is harsh & possibly mean, & i shall accept all criticism of it. IMO the "regular peeps" do not care one jot about any of this. They often struggle to grasp that a Search Engine is not a Browser. Many do not know or care that they have a substantial browser choice, beyond whatever came on their device. They think of "Browser" & "Chrome" as being synonymous & indivisible. They have no idea that they do not in fact have to tolerate their present miserable web UX of sites drowning in ads, trackers & malware. They have no idea of the existence, much less purpose, of #uBlockOrigin. I posit that these peeps are the target market, aka shooting fish in a barrel, of the present AI fetish, who know not &/or care not about any & all the ills of AI, who are unmotivated to lift a finger to improve their online UX, & who simply desire to accept whatever slop is served to them. IMO none of the recent Mozilla noise is relevant to them, as they're either not using FF anyway, or if they are, do not care about anything behind the curtain.

So, my OP was primitive & arguably invalidly comparing apples with oranges, but i wrote it with all the above in my mind. Fwiw.

🌀 Does the Universe Have Your Back? 
🧘 A Zen Talk on Karma, Focus & Intuition 
🗓️ Tomorrow! Thursday, June 19 | 7–8 PM ET 
📍 Livestream + in-person at 86 Joy St, Somerville 
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJnGhWY4MNo

We all want to believe the universe is looking out for us—but is it?

Join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a guided meditation, mantra practice, and an honest exploration of karma, suffering, and the search for clarity in a chaotic world.

#Zen #Karma #Meditation #Spirituality #Mindfulness #DharmaTalk #SomervilleEvents

#sketch #koan #gesture #drawing #painting #minimalism #watercolor #sumie #humor #wuwei #tao #zen #doodle #ink #aporia #scribble #comic #fantasy #character

if three is a good number
then four ought to be better
now seven comes along
followed by minus two
the fuck are we even doing

anyone presumes to tell you
about Zen is full of it
you must be the knock
on your own door

#reason #relax #being #Zen

Sky Shine,
Stone Silent,
Seashore Serenity
- C Novack

Where Stone Gazes At The Sky - https://chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/featured/where-stone-gazes-at-the-sky-chrystyne-novack.html

#BlackandWhite #classicmono #nature #AYearforArt #seashore #beach #BuyIntoArt #seascape #haiku #poetry #serenity #outdoors #sunrise #monochrome #zen #Art #photography #fotografie #FediGiftshop

Where Stone Gazes At The Sky is a black and white photograph capturing the serene beauty of the morning sun rising over the ocean with beams of light breaking through the clouds and the spectacular rock formations along Coral Cove Park's shoreline located in Florida.

BDG feature: The Dharma of Money, Part 2

#Buddhism #BuddhistPractice #Money #Debt #Precepts #Zen #Mahayana #Delusion #Dharma

Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism 🙏

How do you deal with the inevitable conflicts in your life?

In this Dharma Talk, Diane Musho Hamilton, Zen teacher and professional mediator, will guide you through the traditional fight-or-flight response and show you how to approach navigating conflict fearlessly and with innovation.

https://youtu.be/iClFj4DEQkQ?feature=shared #DharmaTalk #Zen #Conflict #ConflictResolution #mediation

Seems strange to not be mentally and emotionally exhausted from people.

Tonight, I'm relaxing into my recent book purchase, Hiking Zen, with hope of deep slumbering sleep so that I may head out into the forest with my dog just before sunrise.

#Hiking #Peaceful #Zen
#NewBeginnings