I have heard:

One night the poet, Awhadi of Kerman, a very great Muslim poet, was sitting on his porch bent over a vessel. Shams e-Tabrizi, a great Sufı mystic, happened to pass by.

Shams e-Tabrizi looked at the poet, at what he was doing. He asked the poet, "What are you doing?"

The poet said, "Contemplating the moon in a bowl of water."

Shams e-Tabrizi started laughing, with an uproarious laughter, a mad laughter. The poet started feeling uncomfortable; a crowd gathered. And the poet said, "What is the matter? Why are you laughing so much? Why are you ridiculing me?"

Shams e-Tabrizi said, "Unless you have broken your neck, why don't you look directly at the moon in the sky?"

The moon is there, the full moon is there, and this poet was sitting with a bowl of water and looking into the bowl of water at the reflection of the moon!

Seeking truth in scriptures, seeking truth in philosophies, is looking at the reflection. If you ask somebody else how you should live your life you are asking for misguidance, because that man can only talk about his own life. And never, never, are two lives the same. Whatsoever he can say or impart to you will be about his own life — and that too only if he has lived. He may have asked somebody else, he may have followed somebody else, he may have been an imitator himself; then it is a reflection of a reflection. And centuries pass and people go on reflecting the reflection of the reflection of the reflection — and the real moon is always there in the sky waiting for you.

It is your moon, it is your sky, look directly. Be immediate about it. Why borrow my eyes or anybody else's eyes? You have been given eyes, beautiful eyes to see, and to see directly. Why borrow understanding from anybody? Remember, it may be an understanding to me, but the moment you borrow it, it becomes knowledge to you — it is no longer understanding.

Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself. It may be understanding for me, if I have looked at the moon, but the moment I say it to you it becomes knowledge, it is no longer understanding. Then it is just verbal, then it is just linguistic. And language is a lie.

— Osho (The Art of Dying: Talks on Hassidism, Ch 1)

#IKITAO

saturday night decisions

Coffee is ‘slave juice’ designed to keep the working class and the poors stimulated and working hard. There is a reason why a cup of joe is normalised at most workplaces around the world. The term ‘break’ is seldom used… it’s a ‘coffee break’ - state and industry sanctioned drug use designed to milk every last drop of energy from plebs.

Alcohol is a ‘numbing agent’ designed to keep the working class and the poors subdued and apathetic. Gotta balance out all that a caffeine anon! 100% pure alcohol can kill a human in small doses. Beer and wine etc. is just diluted / watered down poison. You know this right?

Ingesting alcohol and caffeine is like taking a sledge hammer to your endocrine system and circadian rhythm.

No amount of grass fed steak cooked in cast iron over coals can undo the physical and psychological damage of long term habitual low dose stimulant and depressant drug use.

Great health outcomes are seldom achieved whilst using depressants (alcohol) and stimulants (coffee) - even state sanctioned ones ;)

On that note:

My favourite coffee to drink is a flat white and my favourite alcohol is aged Rum! The El Dorado 12 Year Old 🙌🏽💃

Live free! Drink espresso martini’s 🍸 ☕️!!! 🙏

What is scary is your perception. It’s just doing its thing

Sandwiches are about the bread, not the filling or the sauce. If you can't taste an amazing bread in every byte, it's not a good sub.

GN.

The only thing we can do:

Building communities with mutual aid & standing to fight.

(yes, those are one thing, one doesn't exist without the other)

Remember, you always have the power to say no.

Refuse to participate.

Refuse to help making the world worse.

Refuse to work for the oppressor.

Refuse to fight for the invader.

#USpol

Yeah my brother has all sorts of degrees now and has become a member of the Native American council in the prison and holds sweat lodges when the prison he is in will allow it. He's become quite the scholar. The niece and I are going to dinner tomorrow to chat and catch up.

Yes, still error when trying to zap directly to your note

It's so weird.... I have a niece that is like 40 years old and she wants to talk to me to find out about what her dad is/was like My brother got sent to prison when I was 18. I am 51. He is still there. I want so much to be there for my niece, but all I can really tell her is what I know of him when I was pubescent lol. That's all I knew of him.

I found out the morning I was going to high school that he got sent away. Don't know why mom decided to tell us before school? Bad parenting mistake I guess. Had to go home from school I was so devastated.

I want to be there for my niece, but, man, this might be hard. All I have for her are my childhood memories and the few times I got to visit him in the joint. Send light. I might need it. Love 143

oh dear! thank you 😅 glad I asked. Let me troubleshoot some and follow up again

Looks like you're using an onchain payment QR. 1 satoshi sent onchain and not on lightning would cost a little and most likely never make it to you

The place I was getting my haircut at while I was a manager is charging 42 cuckbucks + tax & tips are appreciated… wtf damn

There should be a block and hide user button on their profile.

Ok Nostr, how do I block someone who is in my DMs but has no actual posts? They are barraging me with requests to be my sugar daddy which I don't want and didn't ask for.

#asknostr