360° J O Y 💕 F U L L

"Nonduality is the Truth. But here’s something else that’s true: Nonduality is a Lie. That is, the moment it claims to be the truth, the absolute truth, the most important truth, the truest truth, the highest truth, the only truth, it becomes a terrible lie. Nonduality is untrue when it divides itself in any way from duality, when it bypasses or suppresses authentic human feelings, when it shames the feminine, and judges our human vulnerability, fragility and sensitivity to be “less than”. Nonduality is a lie when it sits on its Absolutist throne, looking down in superiority at relative existence, deeming it to be “merely an illusion”, a projection of the separate self, our doubts and pains and broken hearts so many things to be transcended or extinguished. Nonduality is toxic when it loses its heart, its humanity, its humour, its fierce and deep compassion for the trauma and emotional wounding that lives on inside all human beings. Nonduality is the truth, yes, but please, I beg ...

and a chair as well,  there are people with games and stories to tell... Open Wide,   Come Inside,   it's Play School...   Unceded Worimi Country 2428 · s u r f - e y e Why so siri ass? Unless it is... 

The experience of awe prompts a predictable series of psychological changes. We become less reliant on preconceived notions and stereotypes. We become more curious and open-minded. And we become more willing to revise and update our mental “schemas”: the templates we use to understand ourselves and the world. The experience of awe has been called “a reset button” for the human brain. But we can’t generate a feeling of awe, and its associated processes, all on our own; we have to venture out into the world, and find something bigger than ourselves, in order to experience this kind of internal change. “In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean,”  Henry Thoreau wrote in contemplating  nature as a form of prayer  — a clarifying force for the mind and a purifying force for the spirit, a lever for opening up the psyche’s civilization-contracted pinhole of concerns. A generation later, in a different corner of Massachus...

 Ren Makes Music Ren Gill, a dynamic singer, guitarist and songwriter, was born in Wales. Known by his stage name, Ren, he came to attention on the pavements of Bath where he played with an indie-pop band called Trick the Fox. Unfortunately, Ren fell ill and needed to return to his Brighton home, where he was bedridden for several years. Stuck at home, Ren wrote songs and recorded music in his bedroom. Even though his underlying health problems were unresolved, Ren gradually regained sufficient strength to start busking on the streets of Brighton, often with his golden-voiced buddy, Sam Tomkins. Just listen to their stonking mash-up of The Weekend, James Brown and Alicia Keys. Ren is renowned for his soulful singing and guitar playing, and he doesn’t disappoint. Who would guess that he was suffering from serious and debilitating ailments? He glows when he performs. Meanwhile, Sam Tomkins has an incredible vocal range, which he puts to good use. Tassie comments, “I feel like I shoul...

 "Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It" The late poet Mary Oliver is among the most beloved writers of modern times. Amidst the harshness of life, she found redemption in the natural world and in beautiful, precise language. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award among her many honors — and published numerous collections of poetry and also some wonderful prose. Krista met with her in 2015 for this rare, intimate conversation. We offer it up anew, as nourishment. On Being Studios · Mary Oliver — Listening to the World On Being with Krista Tippett Mary Oliver “I got saved by the beauty of the world.” On Being Studios · Becoming Wise

SFF - Volunteers For Fun  Sharing Stories ~ Sydney Film Festival 2023

Mind Your Business ! Simple ! Direct ! Stress Less !  

What is the path of least resistance?  Answer: Being One Self.  As a baby we’re happy for no reason.  What gets in the way?  Ignorance. Education. Knowledge is missing. As we grow up we get told happiness has to be for a reason.  Told there’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, we don’t get told that the pot of gold is ourselves.  Falling in love with the rainbow, lost and in love with our ideas, our ignorance is our bliss.  Meanwhile the Grand Prize, and best kept secret in the universe fast asleep is ourselves. In the chase for happiness, like chasing a rainbow, the more you chase the further it gets. The more we chase happiness, the more the gold ‘as though’ separate from us seems to move away from us, and happiness appears to fly out the window. Seeing any reason for happiness, that reason can get taken away.  The moment it does we cry like babies. Simply watch when someone loses their phone... Suffering on account of one thing, ignoran...

Anthony Day Lets Leemon Baird Share The Vision . The Trust Layer of The Internet.  One of the most expansive interviews (so far) on DLT, innovative building and future challenges.  Highly recommend listening to the entire hour long, free range discussion on where layer one public distributed ledgers are inevitably heading for both start ups and enterprise.  Hedera's unique governance model is also simplified by Leemon.  In fact, Leemon simplifies everything he shares in this awesome interview. Thank you Anthony.  🔐What is DeRec and why is it important? #Hedera Co-Founder & @SwirldsLabs CEO @leemonbaird speaks in detail about Decentralized Recovery: the next step in #web3 user protections to drive adoption and accessibility. Full interview replay @Parity_tech : ➡️ https://t.co/3ButQhxhwA pic.twitter.com/DnrwUxZYuJ — Hedera (@hedera) December 5, 2022

Dr Anthony Joseph is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and long listed for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His most recent publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His new collection Sonnets for Albert was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry. Although this article’s title suggests that I am not the world’s coolest poet, I am at least in conversation wi...

"Home, identity, and self are ideas that apply to everyone navigating their way through life; each story is unique and fluid as time passes. These themes are the inspiration for the works featured on violinist  Olivia De Prato ‘s latest album,  Panorama , released April 14 on New Focus Recordings. The album’s five compositions mindfully explore the intimate details and diverse interpretations of these guiding concepts. From direct applications to wonderfully poetic interpretations, De Prato’s natural musicality and care create a successful collaborative narrative with each composer."   review by Kevin Baldwin "On Panorama, De Prato successfully finds the most vulnerable aspects of each work to create a much larger portrait of being human. Some of the composers celebrate their cultural identity while others highlight larger commonalities. De Prato’s curation of the album creates a panoramic view of coexistence, weaving multiple viewpoints into a cohesive throughline while...

This week, Hedera announced that COFRA Holdings, a Switzerland-based venture, will be the latest member to join the Hedera Governing Council. A 182-year-old family enterprise, COFRA’s mission is to amaze customers and be a force for good. Through this partnership, COFRA will work to develop innovative, blockchain-based solutions on Hedera, with an initial focus on establishing supply-chain transparency and tokenization models. Expressing his belief in this new partnership, Simon Olson, Co-Chair of the Membership Committee of Hedera said:  “In order to overcome problems like climate change and effectuate change on a global scale, you need to work with a wide cross-section of stakeholders. COFRA has a long, successful track record of building coalitions to tackle difficult problems and we believe that they will contribute enormously to Hedera."     Setting standards and driving industry change Performing sustainably and reaching for the highest ethical standards starts from...

Distributed Ledger Technology and #FutureNow.  DYOR  @Hedera Learning Centre   Understanding the difference between DAG vs blockchain is essential for keeping up with the evolving distributed ledger landscape. Which is where enterprise level innovation is currently creating a fundamentally different experience for using DLT and the decentralized "internet". Swirlds Labs was established with the mission to accelerate the future, built on Hedera – the most used, greenest, enterprise-grade public ledger for the decentralized economy.  Swirlds vision is to enable ‘Shared Worlds’, where anyone can gather, create, collaborate, conduct commerce and control their own online footprint.  Swirlds supports this vision by continuing to provide development and other support for the Hedera network, building community and enterprise solutions that enable fast, rapidly scalable adoption of Hedera network services, and cultivating projects that will change the way humans and orga...

Sydney Writers Festival is THE Hottest Ticket in Town Never Settle For Less Than You Know You Deserve.  T R U E - N A T U R E   

"Booze kills millions across the world – the facts will shock you" via Food24 Worldwide, 3.3 million deaths in 2012 were due to harmful use of alcohol, says a new report launched by WHO. Alcohol consumption can not only lead to dependence but also increases people’s risk of developing more than 200 diseases including liver cirrhosis and some cancers. In addition, harmful drinking can lead to violence and injuries. The report also finds that harmful use of alcohol makes people more susceptible to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia. ‘More needs to be done to protect populations from the negative health consequences of alcohol consumption,’ says Dr Oleg Chestnov, WHO Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health. ‘The report clearly shows that there is no room for complacency when it comes to reducing the harmful use of alcohol.’ ‘Lower-income groups are more affected by the social and health consequences of alcohol. They often lac...

 

 T H E - M A R G I N A L I A N  The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning “To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.” BY MARIA POPOVA UPDATE:  Since the publication of this piece in 2015, I have written about other excellent picture-book biographies of  Edwin Hubble ,  Corita Kent ,  Keith Haring ,  Maria Mitchell ,  Ada Lovelace ,  Louise Bourgeois ,  Wangari Maathai ,  Virginia Woolf ,  Galileo ,  Nellie Bly ,  Paul Erdos ,  Louis Braille ,  Mary Lou Williams ,  John Lewis ,  Muddy Waters ,  Paul Gauguin , and  Jane Jacobs . Margaret Mead extolled the value of “spiritual and ...

  View this post on Instagram A post shared by NonDualism | Advaita Vedanta (@non_dualism)