cross-posted from: https://lemmy.selfhostcat.com/post/698400

The taste, the strength, the feeling, it’s perfect. My favorite before EC private barrels was Russell’s reserve SiB.

The taste, the strength, the feeling, it’s perfect. My favorite before EC private barrels was Russell’s reserve SiB.

Edit: I of course mean diary private diary entries.

I ask this having been to events with national/ethnic dress, food, and other cultures. What can a white American say their culture is? It feels that for better or worse it’s been all melted together.

Trying to trace back to European roots feels disingenuous because I’ve been disconnected from those roots for a few generations.

This also makes me wonder was their any political motive in making white American culture be everything and nothing?

I try to read more but what else is there when I don’t wanna just read? I’ve done some notebook stuff too but I’ve found using it too much makes me be anxious about writing a lot down lol.

For instance as I lay on the bed for 10-20 minutes waiting for my child to take their nap. Do I just stare into the void?

In order that all beings who have been my mothers May quickly be liberated from samsara and May attain perfect enlightenment, I dedicate all merit accumulated by Myself, and all ordinary and enlightened beings in the three times As well as the merit of the innately pure Buddha-nature.

https://garchen.net/chakrasamvara/

Watching my own partner give birth has given me a new appreciation for mothers, how much they physically, mentally, and spiritually go through to bring us into this world and take care of us. All beings have done this for us and deserve to be free from suffering.

Happy Mother’s Day.

Just got Mother’s Day flowers then searched the flowers :’(

In the past I’ve mostly done Anki for Chinese and Japanese but am looking for something else since I’ve fallen off Anki.

For Chinese I really need a service that I can read and OCR words to easily identify in a dictionary. I’m at a high intermediate or low advanced level but looking up words is annoying.

For Japanese I just need input for an intermediate level.

• Clozemaster?
• Italki?

Listing services I’ve found

• Clozemaster (but has a bad model now)
• tutor with something like italki
• Anki
• busuu
• librelingo

I run one huge media server, one backup, three mini optiplex server (one public, private, and local), and one off site.

• Is there a cheap Pi or something similar I could bring for the optiplex servers and then just let go of the others until I'm back?
• Do I just throw everything in a VPS except for local stuff?

Sorry this is political, if we don't want this here I will remove it. The only reason I thought this was worth sharing is the tidbits he shares on how his suffering brought him to Buddhism and the importance of acting as a Buddhist:

His quest for a way to deal with his suffering eventually led him to the Buddha’s teachings.

Mr. Mahdawi played a key role in organizing Vesak 2023 — a major joint celebration hosted by BCNY and CUBA to commemorate the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing.

The Buddhist Council of New York stands in firm support of Mr. Mohsen Mahdawi and affirms his steadfast dedication to nonviolence, inclusion, and respectful dialogue. His leadership exemplifies the values of mutual understanding, coexistence, and a commitment to the greater good.

As Buddhist Association president, Mohsen was committed to expanding the club’s reach to all members of Columbia’s community and beyond, constantly emphasizing the need for a compassionate and mindfully engaged world. He led collaborations with the Buddhist Council of New York, connecting community members with students, all in the hope of sharing Buddhist principles and practice. He hosted board meetings at his apartment, always ready with tea, snacks, and a deeply welcoming presence. Within our club, he spoke of his path to Buddhism in light of his harrowing experiences as a Palestinian refugee in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Our weekly meditations were a grounding space for him; they served as a place of healing and cultivated his passion for peacemaking and justice for all oppressed peoples.

s a Buddhist club on Columbia’s campus, we must remind ourselves that our practice transcends our meditation circles and theoretical conversations we have about interconnectedness and oneness. We must always turn outward to recognize the suffering, injustice, and oppression we witness around us. We must have the courage to speak out against, and engage with, this suffering, even when we feel fearful. Only then can we say we are truly living in the present moment.

I think this last line connects well with our Buddhist practice. A good reminder that it must not exist solely on the cushion and in our books.

Thich Nhat Hanh lived at 306 West 109th Street from 1962 to 1963 while studying and teaching at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) and Columbia University. This period marked a formative chapter in his life as a young scholar, teacher, and activist.

The street co-naming takes on added historical resonance as it coincides closely with the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War — a conflict during which Thich Nhat Hanh, born in Vietnam in 1926 and affectionately known as “Thay” by his students, was exiled for his outspoken advocacy for peace and reconciliation.

His efforts to end the violence led Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967, calling him “an Apostle of peace and nonviolence.” Over the decades, his teachings and writings on mindfulness and compassion have reached millions around the world, earning him recognition as “The Father of Mindfulness.”

Just made it again this morning and it’s so good on a BLT :)