Ryan Lucht

@nopranablem highly recommend yaza, but mostly enjoyed the camaraderie in doing it with others on retreat. not sure i would feel so apt to do it solo!

Day 3, 45m ✅ this was rough! Started the sit at 10pm after a long day of scheduled things Would have likely wavered if not for this structure, and a few years ago I would have anyway, eg "oh this is the kind and non-coercive thing to do for me" (which may have been true, but I'm going for a more meta-kind coercion here) When I heard about Shinzen's all-night sits (a form of zen yaza), that earlier version of me found it of zero interest, or as a form of punishment. It seems now there's enough internal cohesion where I could see myself doing this in a way that wouldn't break me

Doing 45 days of 45 min meditation sits! Will post 1 tweet a day on each sit with a short note on it This is your invitation to do your own commitment experiment

@discoholicmusic how are they gonna get the ball if they're still on the banned list

🪩🎹 #ntbts

you need to see this movie

damn they made that TV show into a tibetan buddhist practice ????

really good lesser-known dharma reads from my current bookshelf! leigh brasington - the gradual training kim allen - full simplicity: the art of renunciation and letting go gregory kramer - a whole-life path thanissaro bhikkhu - refuge

@nopranablem wait you're starting a cult and didn't tell me?

big things are happening on cuties.app

@Halo2onWindows @Dickfarmdunnz Dekkar is America's Band

@Dickfarmdunnz Tim Heidecker would never play at the rivoli

There’s no way

@attncopilot maybe you just didnt sleep long enough for it to really cook

Ok this service is quite bad and *not* recommended if you are running an existing business

Woo!

i met the buddha on the road and told him i'm a dog, i'm a mutt

get the "practice guide" book too. very beginner-friendly meditations if you have any basic familiarity with the dhamma but incredibly effective pointers to meaningful insight

cant stop telling everyone to do bhikku analayo's satipatthana meditations buddhistinquiry.org/resources/sati…

@TVachaW i don't hear this talked about nearly enough, any recs for books or dharma talks on the topic?

If one's spiritual path is going well, one should start feeling not just more peaceful and happy, but also more powerful. Especially in modern Buddhist circles, many people associate spiritual growth with a kind of almost insipid passivity. But the Buddha himself put a great emphasis on developing spiritual power. He even outlined the 4 Bases of Spiritual Power, which for him are: 1. Zeal / Enthusiasm 2. Heroic effort 3. Collectiveness of mind 4. An enquiring, curious, investigative mind This paints a very different picture to the kind of low-energy quietude that many associate with meditators. If one's spiritual path is going well, they should be observably vital, enthusiastic, and energetically investigating reality. Beyond meditation though, I think these are some of the qualities I see in the most successful and powerful people in daily life. Not every successful or powerful person is the smartest or most talented. But the qualities I almost always see in them is that they have an indefatigable enthusiasm for their tasks and goals and in indefatigable curiosity about the world. These active qualities are also the qualities that allow one to ultimately access a deeper peace than just acting out a quiet passivity. Deep peace is discovered by coming into fully contact with reality. And to come it full contact with reality we must investigate reality with an attitude of enthusiasm, curiosity and inquisitiveness.

@corbindreams ostensibly insight timer, kind of sort of?

does strava for meditation exist?

@nopranablem you've heard of a work-compatible retreat, now get ready for

Fill out this form if you're interested and want to be part of its potential development! tally.so/r/RGzRAd

At some point in the next year or two, I'd love to run a true "meditation + work retreat" with drop in sessions to work through emotional knots

@danielbrottman @PellucidJaguar reggie ray has his own trail of ex-students with tales of less than savoury teaching behavior too

@PellucidJaguar and the fact that he doesn't address it at all serves to discredit him and his thesis, more than it would to simply try to reckon honestly

reggie ray's tibetan buddhism books often describe something about the religion, and then have a paragraph like this explaining how even though it seems weird or impossible to westerners it actually is real and good etc. in this case, it seems like he could have mentioned that there were actually, yknow, some issues with the tibetan political system

@RomeoStevens76 @S0ulFragm3nt thanks for the link! funnily enough i have also been thinking about contextualizing the Sedona Method within my buddhist practice. I share the criticism of Larry Crane but deeply appreciate Hale Dwoskin's contributions docs.google.com/document/d/1sA…

@S0ulFragm3nt translated chat logs archive.org/details/wind-f…

I wish this were a joke and not an actual quote. "Using this method, one can attain freedom in two or three months." First question: "How can I attain freedom even more quickly?"

@Plus3Happiness what was your practice/background like pre-encountering LU/fetters?

for the first 30-40ppl i've guided in fetters back in 2024, i was okay to do one-offs but the issue was that most got the shift and soon enough returned to their conditioned pattern which unfortunately was -- not practicing. so i had to move to only work start-to-finish this has put off some folks who were interested, but doing it led to consistent results for those that followed the plan

where is the chapter in "80000 hours" about becoming a bodhisattva

@drrobcincotta Would love to see a comparison to github.com/tobi/qmd too

I have been testing the new Obsidian CLI with Claude Code on my research vault (4,663 files, 16 GB)... I know too many notes!! Early results are significant. Its going to change the way in which Claude Code can interact with Obsidian The way I see it, there are three ways Claude can connect to your vault: Filesystem (MCP or bash) reads/writes markdown files. Covers maybe 40% of what Obsidian actually knows. No awareness of backlinks, tags, properties, or the graph. To search content, it has to open every file individually. REST API MCP — talks to Obsidian via plugin. Gets you to about 55%. Better search, some metadata. But fragile setup and limited. Obsidian CLI ...Yay @obsdmd and @kepano !! it queries Obsidian's actual indexes. This would be about 85% of Obsidian's capabilities. The missing 15% is purely visual the canvas layout, graph view rendering, live preview. Everything else is there: search, backlinks, orphan detection, properties, tags with hierarchy and counts. The speed difference is real: Finding orphan notes: bash grep 15.6s vs CLI 0.26s (54× faster) Searching vault: bash grep 1.95s vs CLI 0.32s (6× faster) Token cost for orphan detection via MCP: about 7 million tokens. Via CLI: 100 tokens. That's 70,000× cheaper. The CLI uses Obsidian's pre-built search index the same thing that makes Obsidian's own search instant. Grep scans every file from scratch every time. The catch: right now this only works via Claude Code (which can run CLI commands through bash). Claude Desktop and claude.ai can't access it directly. There is an early CLI MCP server (obsidian-ts-mcp) that would bridge this gap but I haven't tested it yet. (I think that if you ask nicely Claude Code could create a version for you!) I'm using this as part of a research assistant stack connecting Claude to Obsidian, Zotero, PubMed and more. Posts on each piece coming.