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Why am I doing this boring job? I need it to pay for myself. Yes, I will use AI because it gets the job done. I don’t need to waste my thinking power on pointless tasks.
You need to understand your students, because you are out of touch. You may have skills, but for students they are useless. Students are paying for this.
Give us something worth studying — something that makes a real difference, real-life experience!

For me, political and economic action are of secondary importance, though they are essential. There must be radical change in the political field, but such a change will have no depth if I do not pursue the whole. If the whole is not primary, if the whole is only secondary, then my action towards the secondary will have limited significance. If I see a certain path and act politically, this political action becomes important to me, not acting integrally. But if acting integrally is really important to me and if I pursue it, then political action, religious action and economic action will come rightly, deeply, fundamentally. If I do not pursue the other but merely confine myself to political, economic or social change, I create more misery.


From How to Find Peace

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If political action is separate from the total action of man, if it does not take into consideration his whole being, his psychological as well as his physical state, then it is mischievous, bringing further confusion and misery; and this is exactly what is taking place in the world at the present time. Cannot man, with all his problems, act as a complete human being, and not as a political entity separated from his psychological or spiritual state? A tree is the root, the trunk, the branch, the leaf and the flower. Any action which is not comprehensive, total, must inevitably lead to sorrow. There is only total human action, not political action, religious action, or Indian action. Action that is separative and fragmentary always leads to conflict both within and without.

From Commentaries on Living Series 3

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Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!

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It is one of the most difficult things to be free, to forget everything that one has known, inwardly of yesterday, to die to every experience one has had, pleasurable or painful. But only then is the mind free to live, to act totally. To do this requires an awareness without choice, a passive awareness in which all the secret longings, urges, compulsions, wishes and desires are revealed, where the mind does not choose but merely observes. The moment you choose, you have subtly established authority, and therefore the mind is no longer free. To be aware inwardly of every movement of thought, the implications of every word, the significance of every desire and wish, and not to deny or accept, but pursue, watch choicelessly, this frees the mind from authority. It is only when the mind is free that it can discover what is true and what is false, and not before; and this freedom is not at the end but at the beginning.

From Collected Works, Vol. 12

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Last month observed temperatures more than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average across Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic. This was associated with a negative N(AO) large-scale circulation pattern, which contributed to ridging over the region.

Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5.

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Germinal (1993)

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

About Zola's novel, Havelock Ellis wrote: "It was neither amusing enough nor outrageous enough to attract the multitude."

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Awareness implies observing the world as it is, to know the world, the trees, nature, the beauty and the ugliness, to be aware of your neighbour, what they are wearing, and also to be aware of what you are, inwardly. If you are so aware, you will see that there are a great many reactions – like and dislike, punishment and reward – in that awareness. Can you be aware without any choice, a choiceless awareness, just to be aware without choosing, without prejudice? To become totally aware of your consciousness means: can consciousness become aware of itself? Which means also can thought, your thinking, become aware of itself?

From Meeting Life

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What is essential is to see that one is confused, that all activity, all action which springs from confusion, must also be confused. It is like a confused person seeking a leader– his leader must also be confused. So it is essential to see that one is confused and not try to escape from it, not try to find explanations for it, but be passively, choicelessly, aware. Then you will see quite a different action springs from that passive awareness. If you make an effort to clarify the state of confusion, what you create will still be confused. But if you are aware of yourself, choicelessly, passively aware, then that confusion unfolds and fades away. You will see, if you experiment with this – and it will not take a long period of time because time is not involved in it at all – that clarification comes into being. But you must give your whole attention, your whole interest, to it.

From Collected Works, Vol. 5

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Karma is the process of time, the past moving through the present to the future; this chain is the way of thought. Thought is the result of time, and there can be that which is immeasurable, timeless, only when the process of thought has ceased. Stillness of the mind cannot be induced; it cannot be brought about through any practice or discipline. If the mind is made still, then whatever comes into it is only a self-projection, a response of memory. With the understanding of its conditioning, with the choiceless awareness of its own responses as thought and feeling, tranquillity comes to the mind. This breaking of the chain of karma is not a matter of time, for through time, the timeless is not.

From Commentaries on Living Series 2

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I'm proud to welcome the wonderful Daniele Turturici to the #storySeedLibrary ! :D

He's an Italian illustrator and comic artist drawing #solarpunk !

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EDIT: You can thank Daniele for sharing his art by joining his patreon.com/danieleturturici ! :)

#art #illustration #climate #climateChange #futurism #italy #hopepunk

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Face-to-face with a stunning Stejneger’s pit viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri) in Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam, photographed by @jake.smith.herping.
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Frost on my kitchen window
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What is meditation, and why should one meditate? Is it natural? Like breathing, like seeing, like hearing, is it natural? And why have we made it so unnatural, taking postures, following systems of Buddhist meditation, Tibetan meditation, Christian meditation, Tantric meditation, and the meditations set by your favourite guru? Aren't all those really abnormal? Why should I take a certain position to meditate? Why should I practice, practice, practice? To arrive where? Can I follow a system – twenty minutes in the morning, twenty minutes in the evening – to have a quiet mind? Having achieved a quiet little mind, I can go off and do other mischief all day long. Is there a way of meditating that is none of these things?

From Total Freedom

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#Krishnamurti
#Day37
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Systems imply repetition, practice, following a method. If you follow a method, a system, a practice, it becomes a routine. And when the mind becomes a mechanical thing, then you have conflict, then there is an escape through sex, or through other forms of activity. Therefore, at all costs, avoid any system of meditation, because a mechanical mind can never find out what truth is. The mechanical mind can become very disciplined and orderly, but that orderliness is in contradiction to the order we were talking about. In the orderliness of repetition, there is contradiction between what you are and what you should be, between the ideal, the perfect, and all the rest. There is contradiction in that, and where there is contradiction there is distortion, and therefore a tortured mind. And a tortured mind can never find out anything. So don’t belong to any system; don’t follow any guru.

From Inward Revolution

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Take part in the ‘Big Plastics Count’ in the UK in March

Your chance to contribute to the largest public study of what we waste to date.

It is not onerous and the more of us who contribute the better the data set.

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The Great Migration 🚀

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* - I know signal isn't federated, consider @matrix or @xmpp alternatively

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