Vivid Void

The schedule and curriculum for the 2026 Contemplative Hiking Retreat - hosted by @WystanTBS and me - is now finished! Here's how the retreat will flow over four days: Day 1: Mantra and Movement - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - Travel to Rawah Wilderness - Intro to Backpacking Skills - Intro to Mantra Meditation - Hiking - Wild Mindfulness: Situational Awareness, The Bewildering Present - Taoist Energy Meditation: Tu Ga Na Xin - 1-on-1 Coaching w/Gabe and Wystan Day 2: The Mountains Are Walking - Morning Tai Chi - Introduction to Traditional Za-Zen - Repairing the Fragmented Self: Mindfulness and Re-association - Hiking - Lakeside Za-Zen (Sitting Meditation) - 1-on-1s Day 3: View Like A Mountain, Preferring Nothing - Morning Tibetan Rites (Movement Practice) - Intro to Shamatha Meditation - Tibetan Sky Gazing Practice - Hiking - Tibetan Water Gazing - 1-on-1s - Night Session: Tibetan Fire Gazing Day 4: Wilderness Exodus - Morning Movement and Meditation - Hike Out - Lunch In Ft. Collins - Return to Nameless Mountain - Formal Meditation (Open) - Group Dinner - Evening Meditation Day 5: - Morning Movement and Meditation - Group Brunch - End of Retreat

@IkkyusDen I'm the same way

My zen practice self-regenerates no matter how hard I try to do pragmatic dharma

@hot_cocoa_girl A woman could never understand Sometimes I put a little chobani in there. Pure masculinity

As a woman, coffee tastes so good. No idea how men experience coffee though.

@Thomasdelvasto_ It's how they treat themselves

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world, but it still makes me sad how casually rude random people are on the internet I just don’t get it - what’s the point of being a dick to someone you barely know?

@selentelechia Same

@Bonecondor Hoooooooo

POV: fuck

@7HMOON @ne_wisp

@vividvoid @ne_wisp So not all of them

Periodic reminder that men should absolutely talk about their problems & emotions but absolutely not with a therapist. Find a priest, a coach, a good friend. But don't take risks with psychotherapy until state boards start canceling licenses for these public displays of insanity

First Repertoire workshop finished. About 20 people came out to practice mindfulness and presence on the Internet together. Feels amazing. Thanks to everyone who came out. We're doing it again next Tuesday at 5! Each session builds on each other but also stands alone. Join us!

@edwardleetwtr @pegobry_en Good point

@pegobry_en my guess is that the vast majority of people who are good at this stuff are making way more money as executive coaches, pro sports psychologists etc

Therapy is one of those professions like public relations where the top 1% are like Gandalf-tier wizards and everybody else is absolute human garbage that should be dumped in a volcano.

@dukecephalopod @Jabronski219835 Would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation with the bank

@Firebrandt76 It's pretty clearly trauma but a therapist of all people should be tracking THAT

@vividvoid I am so grateful I don’t live with a head full of feminism. “Tracking power” sounds like the most retarded waste of energy imaginable. And it absolutely ensures you will ruin every relationship.

Please be careful online. The tacit message of a lot of material on here is that you should hate, or be indifferent to yourself and others. Participating in the search process for the most insidious, subtle versions of this are rewarded.

@dyingscribe It's crazy how night and day it is when you meet someone who had a good therapist vs. someone who had one of the bottom 85%

@Pine_Ghosts I don't know about most but there are enough of them that this characterization lands

@vividvoid I'll go her one better: most female therapists harbour unconscious misandry which they take out on their male patients. They enjoy 'turning the tables' & emasculating them. The patient then withdraws which the therapist mistakenly takes as a sign of his 'patriarchal fragility'

@atlas_sugged Sorry that happened man

@vividvoid She sounds like the therapist I had from ages 10-17. Did more damage than any other human being in my life did, and there will be no accountability for that, ever

@realjoelroberts ouch

@vividvoid A documentary like “Supersize me” where a normal healthy man practices everything his feminist therapist tells him that ends with his inevitable suicide

@pippyhunk Keep blaming the mentally ill for their problems, you're making a very persuasive case and winning lots of people to your side

@vividvoid Men should be encouraged to unpack their issues with females beyond hate and hurt. Men often believe that women have failed them when the reality is men have belittled women so that even small instances of greater insight or intelligence she displays are triggers for him.

@ChadLloyd4 Long decades of strife and outrage punctuated by brief, uneasy detentes Same as it ever was

@vividvoid does anyone see any practical way to fix the momentum of this cultural philosophy other than to have your country to be locked in an active war with risk of death facing you every day?

@hormeze @shakoistsLog I know there are critiques of it but there is also a lot of good sound work built on top of it that is still relevant so it's kind of a wash

@vividvoid @shakoistsLog

@AUserofNoImport The person explicitly tracking power can't see the legal, cultural and psychological position she wields over the mentally ill man in her office

@vividvoid > explicitly tracking power Unique drop from the Therapist’s Coven: Whiteraven’s Amulet of Gynocentrism