When I first started, I was fairly certain “metta meditation” will not work for me. After all, I’m a bitter person with the self-worth less than a chicken nugget. If self-deprecation was a competitive sport, I’d be an Olympian.

Yet somehow it worked. Those four little sentences made a world of difference, day by day. So much so, I’m tweaking the phrasing, so I can be kinder to myself and others. If anyone else is interested, here’s your daily affirmation and reminder:

May I be safe
May I be peaceful
May I be kind to myself
May I accept myself as I am

May you be safe
May you be peaceful
May you be kind to yourself
May you accept yourself as you are

#meditation #mantra

🗑️ Trash pickup: cheaper than therapy, more existential than you’d think.

MetaFilter gets practical and philosophical about picking up the debris of the world as a hobby.

https://www.metafilter.com/210017/This-was-easier-to-get-into-than-I-thought#8757329

#philosophy #meditation #trash #hobby #bestofmetafilter

🗑️ Trash pickup: cheaper than therapy, more existential than you’d think.

MetaFilter gets practical and philosophical about picking up the debris of the world as a hobby.

https://www.metafilter.com/210017/This-was-easier-to-get-into-than-I-thought#8757329

#philosophy #meditation #trash #hobby #bestofmetafilter

happy to keep connected, always happy to discuss Snowdrift.coop @snowdrift and related crowdmatching, funding, etc

and glancing at your other interests, #Buddhism and #meditation all very much aligned with my other focus, FLO-Conscious-Living https://codeberg.org/FLO-Conscience/Conscious-Living

not to mention Portland area etc.

Cheers

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

today is one of those where you solve long-standing intellectually challenging problems, with intricate requirements and nested dependent stages with a matrices of ways in which everything could go immediately back to being broken, but everything was smooth..

and afterwards you can't quite remember how the entire thing was resolved, because it's been going on for so long with full cognitive flow, those perfect meditative hours in the terminal..

and the internal voice says, "hmm, well, revision control will know the before and after, so the middle part isn't important." 🤷

and then you move on 😌

#programming #engineering #meditation #work

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

today is one of those where you solve long-standing intellectually challenging problems, with intricate requirements and nested dependent stages with a matrices of ways in which everything could go immediately back to being broken, but everything was smooth..

and afterwards you can't quite remember how the entire thing was resolved, because it's been going on for so long with full cognitive flow, those perfect meditative hours in the terminal..

and the internal voice says, "hmm, well, revision control will know the before and after, so the middle part isn't important." 🤷

and then you move on 😌

#programming #engineering #meditation #work

💗 Tuesday PsyTrance 💗

There's an entire album, from all the way back in 2018, which exemplifies a canonical example of perfectly designed patterns and focused, driving beats which have defined the PsyTech sub-genre ever since.

It also features some of the best and most appropriately sci-fi / zen audio samples used since the mid-2010s. The descriptives on it are effectively precise:

> The purest of progressive vibes are invoked by expertly crafted sonic palettes, laying comfortably on raging basslines, rhythms and pulsating arpeggios.. haunting yet beautiful vocals that lead you dreamily into another dimension; filled with mystical pads and stabs; killer percussive patterns, fierce synthesizer lines, breathtaking ethnic instruments and mind blowing vocals. It pierces the soul, infiltrates the mind & body, elevates our energetic field and unites us as listeners...

Artist: Mindbenderz
Album: Tribalism
Purchase (IONO): https://ionomusic.bandcamp.com/album/tribalism
Streaming (soundcloud): https://soundcloud.com/mindbenderz/sets/mindbenderz-tribalism
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/tribalism/2414293
Spotify: it's on there too!

While we're at it... they're follow-up album "Cosmic Package" deserves an equally attentive listen, especially if they're combined into one back to back playlist.
- https://ionomusic.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-package

#psytrance #music #edm #progressive #trance #electronic #focus #meditation #streaming