#silentsunday #meditation #reflection #contemplation #nature Lake Leo in Washington state one of the nicest & quietest places we’ve ever camped! We saw beavers, Canadian geese with goslings, a bald eagle, and numerous types of damselflies and dragonflies protect our #nationalparks ! They belong to all of us

#silentsunday in the #pnw from our trip last year! Soon we will return, looking forward to #Vacation #reflections #contemplation #meditation #love & #peace to all of you on the #mastodon #Fediverse & Beyond

#GenerativeAI is most useful for the things we care about the least
"The #technology can certainly save time, but it does so precisely to the extent tt the user is willing to surrender #control over the final product.. Gen #AI makes a new sort of contractor available.. But cf'ed w skilled #humans, it has a ltd ability to understand what u want. Moreover, it lacks #intention, #contemplation & the comprehensive mastery of #detail tt yield great expressive achievements" 1/2
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/generative-ai-is-most-useful-for-the-things-we-care-about-the-least

Have a moment of contemplation before you plunge into the world again, okay?

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.” - Rumi

BDG news: ​​​​Bhutan to Host International Conference on Science, Mindfulness, and Meditation, Invites Abstracts from Presenters

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/49642s68

On this, World Meditation Day, a few random thoughts on practice:

• You can’t do meditation wrong. There’s no success or failure.
• In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is…
• Ordinary everyday life is meditation enough if we attend to it in the moment with simplicity, an open curious mind and without taking ownership of any of it.
• The only way one really gets any of the most important benefits of meditation practice is by giving up on the notion that there are any benefits to meditation practice.
• The heart of meditation is simply being interested in what is here now – being more interested in what is… rather than in what was, what will be, or what should be.

And finally…

What we’re really in the business of doing is helping people stay with the thoughts and feelings they are coming to meditation to escape.

— Ordinary Mind Zen teacher Barry Magid

Due to the influx of new folks, here is another introductory thread of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #Meditation #Contemplation #Hesychasm

I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread. #introduction #introductions

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Sometimes you just need a quick Multi Purpose Contemplation break... #UCL #Contemplation

This tapestry hangs in the Cloisters, the Upper Manhattan branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It dwarfs museum patrons; it is about 12 feet tall by 8 feet across. @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/12/upshot/ten-minute-challenge-unicorn.html #art #unicorn #contemplation

"On a clear night in 2020, two months after our pandemic lockdown began and halfway into my estranged mother’s four-month stay at our home, I stepped outside onto my front porch and noticed an emerald-green male luna moth sitting motionless near the bottom of the cherry door frame." —Elissa Altman for the Bitter Southerner

https://bittersoutherner.com/forever-less-of-beauty-elissa-altman-insomnia

It is time for #mountainmonday! This shot 'Contemplation' is from Milford Sound in #newzealand. A rare opportunity when all elements aligned - the sun rays, the clouds and an observing person. In reality, I wanted to do just the same - stay in awe and just watch.

For #SilentSunday

In a Cafe on South Park Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And also anywhere.
Enjoy your day, Fedi Friends.
xo

A #CradleCatholic. A #LapsedCatholic? As a wee lad, I did all the stuff - Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation. I was born here all my life. When I was around four years old, the church kicked out my mom and, by extension, my family. An #ExcludedCatholic? I explored other practices and faiths, #meditation, #yoga, #Buddhism, and all the things. I wanted to not convert to a religion or practice that I had not been born to or wasn't otherwise ancestrally connected. I explored Protestant fellowships but soon began seeking "the deeper things" back in the lives of saints. This led to a deep dive into the #EarlyChurch Fathers and early #ChurchHistory. Entering the #OrthodoxChurch, I lived in several monasteries and wandered around the US like the guy in Way of a Pilgrim. I was ultimately drawn to #Theosis and the #PrayerOfTheHeart, sometimes called the #JesusPrayer. That church became tedious as well. Long story short, decades later, a pandemic, and a few ends of the world here I am. I recently stumbled across a podcast called the #PopeFrancisGeneration. I'm intrigued. I am listening. Let's see where my current studies lead.

Some of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology #Contemplation #Hesychasm #Prayer #Ancestors #Death #Dying #Grief #DeathDoula #DeathAdvocacy #Apophatic #RadicalCompassion #Compassion #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquity #Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Drawing #Writing #VisualThinking #WriteToThink #Journal #BulletJournal #SystemsChange #Humanrights #Inclusion #Accessability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #DisabilityVoice #RacialEquality #PublicHealth #Grief #Hospice #Humanrights #Food #Health #Fasting #Movement

I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread to be.

I've migrated from @KielerPirat so here comes a new #introduction #neuhier

I got a first degree in Business Law before I took a second degree in #theology and #philosophy at the University of Bonn.
I'm interested in religion as an academic discipline, especially in #religiouspluralism #negativetheology #humandignity #pluriversality #internationallaw and in religion as practice #zen #buddhism #contemplation.
I'm living in Kiel, Germany, and work in the legal office of the Social Welfare Dep.