#cultivating compassion

[compassionmattersmost]

From Suffering to Compassion: Transforming Life with ME/CFS

Living with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) often feels like carrying an invisible weight that never goes away. The exhaustion is far beyond ordinary tiredness, permeating not just the body but the mind and heart as well. For many of us, this illness can feel like a curse, a complete derailment of life’s trajectory. Yet, over the years, I’ve come to see it also as a strange and unexpected…

[adambernard55]

5 Essential Techniques to Master Loving-Kindness Meditation

What is Loving-Kindness Meditation? Loving-kindness meditation, also known as metta meditation, is a powerful practice that can transform your life and enhance your overall well-being. Rooted in Buddhism, this meditation technique involves cultivating feelings of love, compassion, and kindness towards yourself and others. By incorporating loving-kindness meditation into your daily routine, you…

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Wei Ying

[ghostoffuturespast]

Ngl, I've been stress planting all day.

[peacemore-springs]

Cannabis and The NHS

Where are the prescriptions of cannabis seeds our nations are so in need of? Is government approval such a daunting next step? 53 years is a long enough wait for an amendment to an act of parliament.

Growing and cultivating plants is a natural remedy in itself. To specify the inclusion of the cannabis plant into the processes of medicinal cultivation would have a profound effect upon the mental well being of those presently suffering its lack of presence. To grow your own medicinal requirement in the privacy of your own home, from seed to plant, can help to redress the synthetic medicinal system we presently live with.

Global pharmaceutical corporations presently administer an unnecessarily large amount of synthetic products into biological networks to ensure the totalitarian control they have over both the public and private living of populations is secure. The maintenance and growth of their own economic advantage is reliant upon this administered control.

Integrating cannabis cultivation into personal horticulture could offer a transformative, empowering approach to health and well-being. Growing your own medicine taps into self-sufficiency, connects you deeply with the healing process, and offers a sense of personal control that is very much missing in conventional treatments.

It's about time the conversation moved beyond the stigma and into practical, compassionate solutions.

Encouraging the personal cultivation of medicinal plants could challenge the dominance of big pharma and pave the way for a more balanced, holistic healthcare approach.

We live to cultivate ways of reducing the suffering of living beings. A progressive amendment to a 1971 act of parliament is a step towards helping us achieve this goal. Present and future generations deserve the support.

a lotus of peace to you all 🙏

[namitha]

This moment is love. I am infinite. I am loving awareness.

🌿 Ram Dass

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[fellsilver]

Inquisitive rogue is perfect for Laeral and how she operates, but consider . . . what if she was locked into phantom after the Crown and that's why she leans so hard into her wizard levels after being freed

[weekend-whip]

Yo look at this elemental compass I found

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE

[cafffine]

people who free themselves of corporation-inflicted consumer guilt by deciding that they don’t need to ‘waste time’ on small actions like recycling or avoiding fast fashion when they can or trying to shop local ect. congrats that’s the saddest shit I ever heard. Yes, you’re allowed to take long hot showers, you’re not destroying anything, but to think that average people stop for a moment to wash out their cans and recycle them is proof of a successful propaganda campaign and not genuine hope and care is not how I’m gonna live.

[bandzboy]

i don’t know if you’re an army but yoongi did not write snooze for his “fans” to go and shit on the very juniors he was trying to comfort with the lyrics

i am not exactly an army i'm more of a casual listener but i know the song and it's a very nice song really but also this brings up these discussions i've been seeing on twt about how some armys don't even read their lyrics or even care much about their music as much as they say they do and it's sad

[black-quadrant]

shoutout to the people who use their powers here for good -- the people that are always there with an uplifting comment and the first like. those who enthusiastically reblog and take time out of their day to notice someone who needs to be seen. you know who you are. love you! ♡

[raffaellopalandri]

Happy Bodhi Day!

As a Buddhist, I find deep significance in celebrating Bodhi Day, a revered observance that commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became known as the Buddha. Bodhi Day, typically held on December 8th in many Buddhist traditions, marks the pivotal moment when the Buddha attained supreme awakening under the Bodhi tree. Buddha’s Bodhi – image taken from Internet This…

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[nyxi-pixie]

thinking about yosano again. honestly its so wild how her backstory is the most heart wrenchingly depressing of every bsd character when shes up against like. the horrors of stormbringer and the misery of everything atsushi has ever experienced. and like akutagawa in general. and she still wins the misery competition

i have only actually shed tears consuming canon bsd content ONCE and it was watching a dream of butterflies. ITS SO SAD FOR WHY.

anyway every time i see this image i start eating my walls

[llycaons]

I can and have xed out of fics that make lwj speak too much. in fact I just did. stop giving that man paragraphs!!

[morethanwonderful]

One of the things that makes Wei Wuxian (and MDZS as a whole) both fascinating and kind of hard to talk about is that, at least for me, my moral compass and the novel's own internal moral compass are very, very different.

Like, for example, there's Wei Wuxian's mass torture of the Wen clan after he returns from the Burial Mounds. Is he justified in doing that?

Personally, my impulse is to say no, of course not. I don't believe in retributive justice in general, and even if I did, Wei Wuxian goes to some pretty graphically extreme lengths in his vengeance. I'd say that, no matter how terrible he is to you, torturing every single one of a man's soldiers to death for your personal enjoyment, then spending several days cutting off that man's body parts and making him eat his own legs is. uh. pretty objectively a horrible thing to do. And I think that in a lot of other stories, if the main character committed that kind of violence, they would either repent or be treated as over-violent and morally gray.

Despite my impulse to say Wei Wuxian is in the wrong, though, MDZS's narrative itself never really condemns him.

He's not supported by the story for doing this, exactly, since Lan Zhan, whose pov we get a lot of in those scenes, is clearly disturbed by it all. But at the same time, he's still portrayed as a good person after that point, and the narrative never punishes him for his actions. His torture of the Wen is one of his lowest points, and his treatment of Wen Chao shows us how horribly warped he is by all his trauma, but sickness and corruption are two different things. Even for all I want to say his actions are objectively wrong, I can't bring myself to call him evil in that moment. I mostly just feel bad for him. So what gives?

Well the thing is, MDZS is in large part a story about violent cycles of revenge, and alongside that, the society that Wwx lives in is an extremely violent and vengeful one. And within the moral standards of his own society, Wei Wuxian's torture and killing of Wen soldiers is not inherently wrong. Even Xiao Xingchen, the paragon of goodness and purity, tells Xue Yang that he would have been justified in chopping off Chang Ci'an's fingers or arm to avenge the loss of his finger, because vengeful violence is judged not by whether an act is inherently evil, but by whether it's in proportion to what you're revenging.

MDZS's internal morals as a narrative are complicated, but as best as I can figure it out, it's like this: The vengeful cycles inherent to this society lead to a lot of needless suffering and harm. Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan are both extremely good people, and part of their goodness (and the way they get their happy ending) is by learning to move beyond that need for vengeance. However, the story also doesn't completely condemn the idea of retributive justice. Wei Wuxian says Xue Yang must die for his crimes, and Lan Zhan is the one who kills him.

So Wei Wuxian's society judges violence based on its proportionality, and MDZS's narrative is teetering between endorsing and condemning this viewpoint. And that's why we can see the horror in what Wei Wuxian does to Wen Chao and his soldiers, but the story is not inclined to call it evil. After all, Wen Chao not only tormented and nearly killed Wei Wuxian, but slaughtered the entirety of the Jiang clan. Wwx's treatment of him, nightmarish as it is, is an eye for an eye, sadism for sadism, and near-extermination for near-extermination. He could have tortured every single Wen soldier to death himself, and though the narrative would surely highlight how nightmarish those actions were and how unhealthy they made Wwx seem, the act also wouln't be condemned, because the Wen clan slaughtered every single Jiang.

For as horrific as Wei Wuxian's vengeance is, by the standards of the violent world he grew up in, it's never actually out of proportion with what is justified.