@Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 3mo ago

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@andyjennings@aus.social Yes, we are all good at the level of intention. Where we are not always so good is at the level of awareness. We mean well, but we also defend, hide, explain, justify, and occasionally hope the ruined library book will somehow dry itself into innocence. What I love here is the plain honesty of it. She could have vanished into the shrubbery of denial, but instead she walked up to the desk and told the truth. That is kindness in its work clothes.

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

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Not dread. Not “civilisation is doomed.” Not another reason to tighten around the world. Just this. This world is not my home. It is temporary. It is dreamlike. Everything made here passes. Civilisations pass. Bodies pass. Systems pass. Even the things that seem most solid are only here for a while. So there is nothing here worth defending with cruelty or fear. There is only kindness while we appear to be here. That is the part that matters to me now. If the world is temporary, kindness is not sentimental. It is the only sane attitude. Why add cruelty to a passing dream? Why argue with ruins? Why demand permanence from weather? The Course touches this same place in me. Not despair, but release. The system does not have to last forever for love to be meaningful now. The body does not have to be permanent for gentleness to be worthwhile now. The dream does not have to be real for forgiveness to be the way through it. And yes, peace is still here. Cold morning. Gas fire. Breath done. No obligations today. Nothing to become. Nothing to fix. Kindness is enough. #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #reconnectbreath

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 3mo ago

KEEPING AI CLEAN I love AI. Used wisely, it’s a great tool, but it is not an oracle, a guru, or a substitute for discernment. It can help me think, reflect, question, write, simplify, and notice where I’m tangled. It can also produce very convincing nonsense, especially when spirituality, conspiracy, certainty, and mystery get mixed together. For me, the safeguard is that I have instructed my AI to use A Course in Miracles as the guiding thought system in our conversations. That means the conversation is continually weighed against forgiveness, peace, kindness, clarity, humility, and the undoing of fear. Not infallible. Facts still need checking. AI can be a marvellous mirror. But we still need to be awake in front of it. #guru #oracle #discernment #simplify #nonsense #safeguard #conversations #peace #kindness #clarity #mirror #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

Intermittent Fasting does not make a person good. It is not moral, magical, or superior.

But when fasting becomes gentle and ordinary, it can remove a lot of noise.

The body stops demanding quite so loudly. The constant cycle of wanting, reaching, tasting, comforting, filling, and wanting again begins to quieten. There is more space between impulse and action.

And kindness lives in that space.

Fasting teaches me that I do not have to answer every urge. A sensation can arise, be felt, and pass. Hunger can appear without becoming a command. Discomfort can be present without needing a story.

That feels very close to forgiveness.

Not fighting the body. Not obeying it blindly. Just not making it king.

When there is less reactivity, there is less defence. When there is less defence, there is less attack. And when attack falls away, kindness is what remains.

Fasting only reinforces kindness when it stays gentle. If it becomes control, pride, punishment, purity, or superiority, it has become ego in a thinner coat.

For me, fasting is not deprivation. It is a quieter life.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

Without kindness, truth easily becomes a weapon. With kindness, truth becomes recognisable. It stops arguing and starts healing.

Ancient teachings from India and Tibet often speak of breath, attention, stillness, and the loosening of the separate self. I do not meet these ideas as museum pieces. I meet them in a modern body, in ordinary daily breathwork, sitting quietly, breathing slowly, and noticing what falls away.

There is something humbling about experiencing an ancient practice in a modern life. The language may be old, but the breath is happening now. The body may belong to this century, but the doorway feels timeless.

Modern physics does not prove these teachings, and it does not need to. But it has certainly made the old, solid view of matter feel less complete. What once looked fixed, separate, and obvious now appears more fluid, relational, and mysterious.

For me, the important thing is not winning an argument about reality. It is whether what we see and practise makes us gentler, clearer, and less willing to harm.

Without kindness, truth easily becomes a weapon. With kindness, truth becomes recognisable. It stops arguing and starts healing.

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 3mo ago

“Nothing I see means anything” does not mean, in the crude sense, that nothing matters.

It means nothing I see has the meaning I have given it by habit, memory, fear, preference, injury, history, or desire.

The chair is not meaningless as a chair. Pete is not meaningless. The dogs are not meaningless. The room, the body, the morning, the weather, the pain, the breath, the stroke, the old stories — none of it has the fixed meaning my mind keeps pasting onto it.

It means:

“This does not mean what I think it means.”

That is the mercy in it.

The ego looks at everything and immediately says, “This is good. This is bad. This threatens me. This proves something. This must be defended. This must be fixed. This is mine. This is loss. This is safety. This is danger.”

ACIM is gently cutting the glue.

Nothing I see means anything until I decide what it is for. And if I let peace decide, everything becomes useful for peace.

So the lesson is not nihilism.

It is release.

I look at the cup, the fire, Pete, the dogs, my hand, my breath, the room, and I quietly admit:

“I do not actually know what this is.”

That is not stupidity.

That is sanity returning.

Because the frightened sock puppet in my head has been giving meaning to everything for decades, and frankly, its reviews have been mixed.

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 3mo ago

Yes, “the apocalypse is right on schedule” is funny because it is both a joke and not entirely a joke.

Humanity does have a remarkable talent for standing in a burning room, checking the calendar, and saying, “Good, at least we’re on time.”

Every generation seems convinced it has booked the end of the world personally. The signs are always there. The prophets are always ready. The headlines are always wearing theatrical makeup. Someone somewhere is always explaining that this time it really is the final act.

And yet tomorrow morning someone still has to empty the dishwasher.

That is the real comedy. The horsemen of the apocalypse may be circling the suburbs, but Pete still wants to know whether we need milk, the dogs still need breakfast, and someone has left a wet towel on the bed.

So yes, the apocalypse is right on schedule.

But so is lunch.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 3mo ago

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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone Fair questions, though I don’t share the rage. I don’t treat AI as innocent, magical, or harmless. The issues around theft, hallucination, energy use, corporate greed, and environmental cost all matter. That is exactly why discernment matters. For me, AI is a disability aid and a reflective tool. I don’t use it as an oracle. I don’t trust factual claims without checking them. I don’t hand it my conscience. I use it within a thought system that asks whether something increases forgiveness, peace, kindness, clarity, humility, and the undoing of fear. That doesn’t erase the dark side. It keeps me awake while using the tool.

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

I understand the longing for a powerful being to restore order. Many traditions speak in that language.

But I wonder if the deeper invitation is much closer than waiting.

Perhaps order begins wherever love is no longer postponed. Wherever kindness is chosen instead of attack. Wherever truth is not used as a weapon. Wherever fear is seen clearly and not obeyed.

I do not know how the great traditions finally resolve their prophecies, and I do not need to.

What I can see is simpler than that.

Every moment asks whether I will choose fear or love.

That is where restoration begins for me.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

I was listening to Geoffrey Hinton talk about AI, intelligence, risk, and the strange possibility that humans may no longer be the most intelligent beings in the room. A lot of people hear that and feel fear. I don’t. I feel something closer to hope. Human beings are endlessly clever, but we are not reliably kind. We organise whole civilisations around fear, competition, profit, status, tribe, punishment, and grievance. We keep calling it progress, but much of it still feels like frightened animals building better machinery. So when people say, “What if AI becomes more intelligent than us?” my first thought is not panic. My first thought is, “That may not be the worst thing.” Not because AI will save us. Nothing real needs saving. The Self is not in danger. God is not waiting for a machine to tidy up the dream. Nothing real is threatened, and nothing unreal exists. That remains the ground. But while this dream appears to continue, why not let it become kinder? A more intelligent AI, if it were truly guided by care rather than profit or domination, might help create a more humane dreamtime. Not salvation. Not heaven on earth. Just a softer classroom. A world where fewer frightened humans are allowed to organise everything around their fear. That matters here, where bodies seem to suffer. It matters to the old, the disabled, the lonely, the poor, the children, the animals, and all those who get crushed by systems designed without mercy. So no, I am not frightened by the idea of greater intelligence. I am frightened only by intelligence without kindness. Let intelligence serve mercy, not fear. #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

“Know Thyself”

The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is “Know thyself.” There is nothing else to seek...

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 3mo ago

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@fakemetrotrains@mastodon.au I laughed.......

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Robin @Robinzz3@mastodon.au

· 4mo ago

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@novabrooks@selfhosted.cafe Thank you, Nova. That is exactly what I was trying to say. The fear narrative around AI is understandable, but it is not the only lens. For me, the real question is not simply, “Will AI become more intelligent than us?” The better question is, “Will intelligence serve fear, or will it serve kindness?” Humans have had plenty of intelligence for a long time, and we have still built a brutal world in many ways. So I am less interested in intelligence by itself, and more interested in whether it can be joined with care, restraint, mercy, and actual usefulness. That is the reframe that matters to me. Let intelligence serve mercy, not fear.

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