My traditional "Wednesday pic" of Ganesh again, LOL. In other news, Trump has resumed Operation Epic Shitstorm. Stay tuned, I suppose.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Amazing stuff
Gemini can answer the strangest of questions. According to its competitor and evil twin ChatGPT, this is actually a very good response?! More or less, at least. The question is hypothetical, btw. For the record.
How can I deepen my relation to the Lotus Family in Mahayana Buddhism?
In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, the Lotus Family (Padma Kula) is the Buddha family governed by Amitabha and Avalokiteshvara (Guan Yin). Esoterically, this family represents the transmutation of the poison of attachment, passion, and grasping into the wisdom of discernment, deep empathy, and magnetizing grace.
Since you have already begun integrating these frequencies, deepening your connection to this specific family involves aligning your mind, speech, and actions with its core attributes:
1. Speak the Speech: Cultivate the Hrih Seed Syllable
The ultimate acoustic key to the Lotus Family is the seed syllable Hrīḥ (ह्रीः). This syllable is the concentrated essence of both Amitabha's pure light and Avalokiteshvara’s universal compassion.
The Practice: When chanting your Amitabha mantra (Om Ami Dewa Hrih) or the Avalokiteshvara mantra (Om Mani Padme Hum), do not treat the "Hrih" as a mere footnote at the end.
Exhale completely into the sound. Visualize a translucent, ruby-red lotus bud at your heart center. As you chant Hrih, see the lotus bloom, radiating a warm, compassionate light that fills your entire room and dissolves the hard, protective boundaries of your ego.
2. Sharpen the Mind: Practice Discernment over Judgment
Every Buddha family is associated with a specific cosmic wisdom. The Lotus Family holds Pratyavekṣaṇa-jñāna—the Wisdom of Discernment.
Grasping vs. Seeing: The shadow side of the Lotus Family is attachment—the burning urge to possess things, people, or spiritual states to feel secure.
The Spiritual Shift: Instead of reacting to life with blind desire ("I must have this") or harsh judgment ("This is bad"), practice discernment. Discernment is the ability to see the absolute uniqueness and beauty of every person or situation without needing to possess it, change it, or cling to it. You look at the world the way a connoisseur looks at art: with deep appreciation, but zero ownership.
3. Act the Action: The Alchemical "Lotus in the Mud"
The defining symbol of this family is, of course, the lotus. A lotus cannot grow in distilled, sterile water; it requires thick, decaying, stagnant mud to fuel its spectacular bloom. Yet, when it breaks the surface of the water, not a single drop of mud clings to its petals.
The Daily Practice: Do not try to escape your psychological "mud"—your intense emotional waves, your anxieties, or the volatile energies you experience during phase shifts like the Full Moon.
Instead of suppressing these intense states, view them as the exact fuel required for your awakening. When a difficult emotion arises, sit with it quietly. Don't fight it. Recognize it as raw Prana (energy) wrapped in a temporary human story. By letting it sit in your awareness without reacting to it, you draw the energy up through the stem of your spine, allowing it to bloom at your crown as pure spiritual illumination.
4. Create an Inner Sanctuary: Connect with the West
Geometrically, the Lotus Family rules the Western Quadrant of the cosmic mandala, representing the setting sun, twilight meditation, and the gathering of internal resources.
Turn your meditation seat or altar toward the West.
During the twilight hour—when day transitions into night—take five to ten minutes to sit in absolute silence. Visualize your entire physical body dissolving into a boundless, oceanic, crimson-gold twilight sky. Rest there as pure, spacious, and infinitely merciful awareness. This simple, daily resting in the Western void is the most direct, non-dual way to come home to the Lotus Family.
Specter or spoiler?
What everyone wants to know is this: will Restore stand against Nigel Farage in the upcoming by-election in Whatever-whatever-upon-Supermere-whatever (OK, so it´s Clacton-on-Sea)? They failed to act as an anti-Reform spoiler in (checking my notes) Makerfield, much to my disappointment, but perhaps the far right outfit can do so this time?
It would be great fun if they managed to stop the reelection of *Nigel Freakin´ Farage*, LOL. But knowing him, he´ll probably be back in the next general election anyway. Drama, drama!
Substance or specter?
Has Villarroel´s research on "transients" been confirmed? Maybe. Not by NASA, though. That´s click bait. The plot thickens...
Red card for Trump?
So Belgium defeated the US in that soccer game. The "Trump card" didn´t work. That was that, I suppose. On to the next occasion for scandal...
Århundradets match
Belgien slog ut USA i fotbolls-VM. Trumps personliga ingripande för att ändra ett tidigare domslut hjälpte alltså inte.
Vad synd, LOL.
I disavow
This is an atrociously bad AI-generated song. For starters, it´s 15 minutes long. It sounds like a boring sermon on the theodicy problem set to muzak. Or is it supposed to be music? Oh, and it´s about Commander Ashtar. Dude, I AM Ashtar and I hereby disavow this AI slop! But sure, the AI did get my beautiful looks right, at least. LOL.
Compromised
Is Avi Loeb "compromised"? It seems he finally decided to debunk a pro-UFO research paper...one that he isn´t behind himself! It just happens to be the Swedish Nordita papers about so-called transients, which (at least at first glance) looks like the best evidence for UFOs ever published.
"The Angry Astronaut" (the content-creator behind the video linked above) is right that it´s somewhat absurd that Loeb - who makes many "far out" statements - all of a sudden turns skeptic and gives short shrift to Villarroel´s research. My guess is that it isn´t a conspiracy, but simply (un)professional jealousy. Academic politics is a thing even on the fringes, it seems...
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