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Love Pilgrim

@tasshinfogleman

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Love Pilgrim

@tasshinfogleman

5 months

be cringe in 2024. your life will legit get better on every front this is not a joke

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be cringe in 2023. your life will legit get better on every front this is not a joke

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take a brief moment to consider the possibility that something that is incredibly, even unsurmountably difficult for u right now could suddenly, quickly, easily become much more feasible, possible, available with the right idea, tool, context, frame, collaborator

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@christineist just move around

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1 year

you become an adult when you notice life has tradeoffs, when you deeply accept that as inescapable fact, and begin to intentionally choose which tradeoffs to make

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1 year

what’s a book that, when you learn someone else has read it, creates instant solidarity between you two?

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4 months

it will never fail to amaze me that you can REST MEANINGFULLY FROM ONE ACTIVITY BY EXERTING YOURSELF FULLY WITH ANOTHER

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4 months

breaking news: evidence would indicate that disagreeable people feel respected, cared for, valued, loved when being disagreed with??? that they may even enjoy it???

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4 months

if you truly believe in your heart of hearts that you can learn from every single person you meet, that you can grow through every single interaction you have, your whole life will be an endless psychoactive journey, a school prepared just for you by the universe itself

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7 months

when the student is ready, every person will feel like the teacher

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1 year

i have constantly been thinking about this page since i first saw it

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4 months

at least once in one's life it's worth going on a journey that demands you shoulder the weight of all of your equipment and appurtenances on your own back, so that you can viscerally feel the impact possession and ownership has on your life, and adapt accordingly

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9 months

i'm not married and i don't want kids but if my wife was pregnant with our child that would absolutely be extremely attractive to me and i can't believe we're even having this discourse

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5 months

fast forward a year from now. your life is the best it's ever been, entirely as a result of your own choices. what choices did you make now and in the coming months that created that reality for you?

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4 months

one of my conversational superpowers is that i track interruptions and always revisit what was dropped, as soon as possible

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5 months

Is the fucking secret to focused attention just really enjoying it Is this some kind of joke

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1 year

it can be a gift to someone to ask for their help

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8 months

nobody ever wants to hear this but money is probably not the bottleneck and time is probably not the bottleneck and good ideas are probably not the bottleneck

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7 months

in many ways, you are better positioned to hype up your friends and allies to the degree of accuracy and excellence that they deserve than they are

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2 years

if you have a spare couch or guest room, it seems to me that offering it to trusted friends, travelers, and couchsurfers for short and long stays is one of the most underrated but commendable, prosocial, even counter-culture (building a better world) actions available to you

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1 year

if you want to get an 80/20 of the benefit of Buddhism—something westerners are obsessed with, and perhaps not wrongly—practicing right speech will get you more more bang for your buck than right mindfulness—yet our culture spent all its points in the last decade on mindfulness

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2 years

The reason to avoid lying is that the brain is not type safe. Lying to others and lying to yourself are the same motion.

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6 months

the Shinzen Young quote that inspired me to start practicing meditation daily at ~19

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4 months

"this is draining my life force" is a really valid reason imo to quit something

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5 months

what's happening when someone discovers the same insight cyclically every six or eighteen months?

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3 months

a skillful, strategic way to compensate for a lack of specific skills is to collaborate with people who are not only skilled in the areas u lack, are deficient in, but also hold similar or complementary values, who can see the same larger vision u are aiming for, moving towards

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3 months

best way to avoid rejection under any circumstance is to simply never ask for what u want

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8 months

i want to live in a world where it's normal for male friends to: - say "i love you" to each other - cry in front of each other - hold hands or cuddle - express their feelings, be able to listen and provide emotional support

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2 years

i cannot overstate how extremely important it is to trust your weird, out-of-nowhere, never-been-asked before questions, to be loyal to them, to ask them without hesitation or apology—to wander with delight down the path they invite you down, to love the world they open up

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1 year

tits or ass? bro her ability to precisely describe her inner experience

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2 years

what's a life lesson you had to learn the hard way?

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2 years

you can often escape negative self-talk by looking for a story that's isomorphic to the unkind one that is kinder and more useful e.g.: i'm indecisive -> i'm experimental, playful, improvisational i suck at this -> i'm just getting started! same facts, different story

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9 months

if you want to reconnect with someone by sending them a message, consider sending them something that made you think of them, or telling them how you are, rather than asking them how they are and putting the onus on them to rebuild your relationship

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to find one's vow: - if you feel called to do something, act on that calling - if you know you shouldn't be doing something, stop doing it - to the extent you don't know what to do, try multiple safe-to-fail experiments in parallel. - look for, try to find a fun service project…

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1 year

they don't tell you when you sign up for the internet that you're learning to notice, harmonize with, and participate constructively in a self-organizing, emergent collective consciousness at the very edge of humanity's shared capabilities

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2 years

i'm trying this new thing where i actually let myself talk and write and reflect about my object level opinions out loud, especially the ones that feel vulnerable to share

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2 years

you’re tasshin, loving the whole universe [music video]

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2 years

your child asks you, why are we here? why are we alive? what do you say?

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5 months

lore recap be me only child, given name Michael. grow up in middle-class in a rich suburb. dad programmer, mom public health manager. they love me very much. anger is hard raised UU. like reading books, have a hard time making friends, get bullied occasionally, think girls are…

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2 years

in 2021, i started a men's group. i found that when i connected strongly with the men in my life, my life went better. i wanted to meet with these men more often.

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Love Pilgrim

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2 years

we are the universe trying to understand itself, trying to love itself i choose to believe that the universe is fundamentally good i choose to believe that people are fundamentally good all there is to do is be present and loving in this moment, for the rest of my life

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1 year

have you considered the possibility that if you're intimidated by someone they are a signal of a part of your soul that is longing to unfold and offer itself to the world

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6 months

one of the many wisdoms of the monastic traditions is that you generally don't talk for several hours after waking up

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3 years

slowly starting to learn you can just say your truth and then leave the other person to feel whatever the fuck they want to about it

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2 years

if you knew in advance that making a specific life choice would make you happier than you've ever been, but would also make you suffer more than you've ever suffered, what would you do?

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1 year

who do you imagine you might become if you fully accepted your power?

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1 year

tits or ass? bro, her indefatigable, insurmountable lust for life

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11 months

today is my birthday! if you want to celebrate with me, i'd love it if you took a moment to spread love in the world by initiating an interaction with a stranger or acquaintance. say hello, offer a genuine compliment, ask a question, listen. whatever feels good and loving ❤️

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1 year

i want to share a concept about relationships, which i learned in a very specific context, but transformed how i see relationships everywhere

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4 months

if u ask the universe for help, say yes to the ways it shows up to do so, even if they are surprising, unexpected, uncomfortable. u gotta do ur part when it does its part

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2 years

my biggest recommendation for people building a personal website is to do it iteratively. there's a tendency to try to get it right or perfect immediately and that will only slow you down. make the smallest possible website as soon as possible and build it out from there

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tits or ass? bro her radiant love for all beings

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The Buddha DISMANTLES Lay Person's WRONG VIEWS

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3 years

people are sacred, conversations are worship

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3 months

i showed my mom Procreate on the iPad a few times before she passed. she loved seeing me draw and had fun trying the app herself the other day i came across one of the drawings she made and 😭🙏💜

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4 months

i aspire to be wholesome without importing puritanism. you can be wholesome and also horny, playful, mischievous, rebellious, irreverent, silly, weird, disagreeable!

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Love Pilgrim

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4 years

friends, as you may have heard, i just emerged yesterday from 100 days of solitary retreat. i had planned on ~60 but stayed longer than expected, not because of the virus. i am safe and healthy and hope you are too.

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5 months

you cannot - and I cannot stress this enough - imagine how useful spending even 5 undistracted minutes pondering what your life purpose is

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you cannot - and I cannot stress this enough - imagine how useful spending even 5 undistracted minutes pondering this question is

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7 months

take the smallest step in the direction you know you need to go, down the road that terrifies and excites and calls you

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1 year

@strangestloop feeling beautiful, getting dressed up, dancing at an EDM festival as a woman, feeling my boobs bouncing as i move, feeling my own boobs, feeling men's eyes on me, being under a man i love taking me, getting railed, being ejaculated into, looking at my newborn for the first time

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1 month

what's an interpersonal skill that u worked hard at, now have, and are proud of having learned?

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2 years

neither an ass man nor a third more complex thing but a first, simpler thing

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2 years

people really be out here thinking their thoughts aren't actions

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2 years

if you scheduled your life in seasons, and you focused primarily on one thing for a quarter each year, what four activities would you focus on?

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1 year

*flirting* haha so how do you plan to use your life to benefit all beings?

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1 year

show me some music that makes you feel fucking glorious, like the universe has significance and you are the hero

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4 years

1 like = 1 tip for your meditation practice

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

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4 years

Everyone should do a one-opinion-per-like personal challenge (make it 2 or 3 if you have too few followers). Live-fire stress test of your brainstorming capacity

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1 year

i’ve perfected my morning routine. every day i wake up at 5:13 AM, rub water onto my face, open my phone, and watch balenciaga harry potter repeatedly for seven minutes

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paradoxically, the road to excellence requires periods of being a beginner, struggling at the basics, and above all a willingness to feel incompetent, look silly, make mistakes, be imperfect

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3 years

can you just raise your hand if you're here on Twitter to make friends?

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2 years

getting what i really deeply want by letting go of what i thought i wanted

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7 months

what helps you to be resilient, adaptive, and optimistic in the face of immense systems change, complex global problems, and tremendous uncertainty about the future? go off, hero

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3 years

I'd love to meet so many of you in person, if you'd like to meet me in person one day please leave a reply here as a sigil and a prayer that it will be so one day, in due time

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1 month

what activity can u do, what choice can u make, what metaphorical button can u press and ur life consistently gets better?

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4 months

i want to write a story where the two heterosexual main male-and-female main characters really, really, really don’t have sexual tension or romantic chemistry

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7 months

the subtle and mysterious art of consistently finding and immediately reading the exact-perfect-for-you-right-now book

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1 year

have you considered that the very person you judge and revile and cringe at and hate might be your best friend in the universe were you to give each other a chance

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2 years

well, it's finally here: The Path of Love, my book on loving kindness practice and the brahmavihārās ❤️ it's available in PDF, ePub, and MOBI for $0+ on Gumroad, + is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, so you can read, distribute, remix it freely

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at the end of my phone conversations with her, my mom would say "do you want a hug?" and pause so we could give each other an imaginary hug. if it was a video call, she'd put her arms up like she was hugging me. i loved those hugs 💜

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2 years

type of job where you just say and do kind things all day long and feel happy noticing that other people are happier for it

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1 year

there is the childhood of ignorance of tradeoffs, the rebellious youth of pretending they don't exist, and the maturity of accepting them as fact

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2 years

cannot begin to articulate how radical an act it is to believe in yourself faithfully, without fail, without faltering—

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1 year

people radically overestimate how long it takes to become friends; they radically overestimate how much time it takes to maintain a friendship; and they radically underestimate the vastness of possibility space of what a friendship could possibly look like

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2 years

one person's obvious is someone else's mind blown, life changed

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4 years

imagining a world in which our collective aspiration for speech was right speech, noble speech, rather than freedom of speech

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1 year

i tend to prefer socializing 1-1—what are your best tips and practices for enjoying socializing in groups?

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3 years

everyone is endlessly fascinating if you know how to watch and listen and ask questions

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2 years

i can't tell you how many times i've laughed in the last couple of weeks since finding this tweet

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23. it is most preferable to do fuck-all

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3 years

for the first years of my meditation practice I mostly followed the breath, did body scans, and noting. that was all well + good but if I could start over I would do more: - gratitude practice - positive self talk - loving kindness - lying down meditation - standing meditation

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shame is the aliveness killer

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2 years

in general as a writer i am very enamored of run-on sentences, i resent their reputation, they have been unfairly slandered; i intend to use them widely and freely and redeem them at least on the ink and pixels of my own pages

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1 year

the rate at which I have interesting experiences outpaces my ability to verbalize those experiences

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2 years

I am running a contest for the best informational blog posts with awards totaling $1,500. The contest will run until November 1, 2022. Find details here - and please share with anyone who might like to share their knowledge about an interesting topic!

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2 years

viewing your life as a story, what plot arc did you not see coming at all?

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1 year

when hanging with friends with kids—or with pets—i’ve found it helpful to attune to the fact that they are always keeping their kids or pets in their awareness, are constantly polling them for what’s happening with them

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instead, you quietly, resignedly, bravely accept them. you choose this instead of that, knowing that you have set a course with these advantages and those disadvantages, with these possibilities and those obstacles, having welcomed one future while having said goodbye to another

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when i was a kid, my mom would ask me before bed what the best parts and worst parts of my day were. i'd tell me mine and she'd tell me hers and we called it "best parts worst parts"

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you know how when a kid draws something and puts it on the fridge, you know that even though it's just colorful squiggles their act of expressing themselves is intrinsically perfect and you feel truly proud of them and you love them unendingly?

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1 year

here, learn you a right speech

Reflections on Buddhist Right Speech - Tasshin

Right Speech is the third component of Buddhism’s Noble Eightfold Path. Reflecting on Right Speech is a necessary component of the Buddhist spiritual path, but also provides useful guidelines for...

tasshin.com

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2 years

i have literally no proof that reincarnation exists but everything in my life makes more sense when I see things that way and it is fundamental to my worldview and life

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10,000 followers 🥳🙏❤️ to celebrate, give me a word/phrase and i'll reply with one of my favorite tweets that includes it! limiting to mutuals to keep this sane on my end 😂❤️

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what's the most psychoactive book you've ever read?

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