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Something that's been concerning me for a long time is how people don't want to leave social media platforms, even when they turn more toxic. The term these days is "enshittified".

I, for one, really appreciate #Mastodon for allowing one the ability to migrate from one instance to another, thereby not losing one's ever-so-precious "social graph".

Another interesting example of not losing one's "Social Graph" (in a migration from one server to another) is #Deltachat, which uses "AEAP" ("Advanced Email Address Porting").

I think these awesome migration features should be praised more. Taking such control back, over one's social graph is no small victory these days. Such ease of migration is a bulwark against enshittification; it's the easy ability to more elsewhere.

Note: #Buddhism has a comparable tradition of such protection through migration: once monks and nuns gain their "independence", they are much more free to wander from one monastery to the next.

How wonderful is existence, to be one of the many emanations of a world always longing to know itself again whether in the skin of a frog, a rock, a rose, the sky, or me! We give and take and feel and think and breathe in all in our infinite variations and ever-living connectedness. Each of us has never been before and will never be again, and through us the world delights anew.

And what sweet, dark peace when this form, too, crumbles away, like a wave upon the rocks spraying back into the vastness it was always part of. What bone-deep surrender in relaxing back into the Oneness, releasing that lovely fleeting illusion of individuality like a butterfly that you may admire and enjoy, but never clutch in a crushing grip.

Bless the illusion that is life and the dream that is death! What is has always been and always will be. You are One and never alone, vaster than the limitations of your current form could ever dare to understand and you are forever. #TootEssay #Buddhism #Daoism #mysticism

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Okidoki, we got a translation!
Ichikawa Hakugen's "A Side-View of Ikkyu's Insanity" an essay concerning Zen practice, philosophy, and the development of the monetary economy via sex work! A very interesting piece, tho the least explicitly anarchist of the ones completed. Much love❤️!
theanarchistlibrary.org/librar
#buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義

The Anarchist LibraryA Side View of Ikkyu’s “Insanity”Ichikawa Hakugen A Side View of Ikkyu’s “Insanity” 1970

@vjprema Bhante Sujato's translations, as well as 20% of the Wisdom Publications Bhikkhu Bodhi translations (arguably even better) of the Early Buddhist texts are free to read at:
suttacentral.net
I also did a 37-minute video presentation several years ago about the Early Buddhist Texts, explaining more context around about what you see in the chart below:
bhikkhu.ca/suttas/
(I apologize for the hissy audio in that older video - I'll do it over if I get enough requests)
#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada