I still really love what MAPLE taught about Awakening and Responsibility; Wisdom, Love, and Power

I am one such person who had a positive experience at MAPLE and extended my stay it is not for everyone and the admissions try to vet incoming students to see if they would be good fits I would love to see more sincere attempts at integrating buddhism with modernity

you can either learn the mental movement of not resisting and then thrive on less sleep or given low sleep you are forced to not waste your waking hours overthinking and not being in flow meditating throughout the day helps lower the hours of sleep you need

If you fight fire with fire, you'll have more fire in the world Forgiveness is about noticing our own tendency to reach for unskillful selfish ways of coping and rejecting that in favor of compassion, kindness, and the like

Damn this showrunner.xyz is pretty easy to use to create scenes!

i was brought to maple in large part by discovering that soryu trained at sogenji, which happens to be where the universe re-routed me serendipitously in 2023 so by the time i got to maple, i had experienced 1 month of rinzai zen training in japan…

Every time you dunk on someone’s stupid, evil, unacceptable behavior and message, imagine yourself serving them. A slave on the line every other hater, towing the blocks up the pyramid, building the idol of oppression you hate. Attention is care, energy, fuel: starve them out.

> People don't love themselves. This is insanity. There is a lot of benefit to loving yourself. You get more capacity to sit with uncomfortable feelings that previously you might have turned to addictions to avoid To grow needs you to first take stock of where you are honestly

Hey if anyone wants to get first-hand info on MAPLE just come visit and see what it's like and talk to the people here. Sure spiritual training carries risks but just visiting for a week is pretty harmless. Fill out the guest form here monasticacademy.org/guests

Edward Frenkel The math move 37 is gonna be crazy.

One of the most high impactful donations would be to gift all the attendees of iliadconference.com A chatgpt pro plan so they can use pro reasoning models Far too many folks working on pro social causes are not having access to the most powerful models

My friend was asking > what are some movies that are about moloch-ian incentives something where individual characters are influenced by some Moloch type thing (i.e. the invisible hand of culture/markets etc.) and as a viewer, it's easy to see, but none of the characters see it