KEY TO ENLIGHTENMENT IS TO BECOME DESIRELESS

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Today in Labor History July 1, 1766: François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, was tortured, beheaded and burnt on a pyre for reading Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique and, more importantly, for not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. The articles in Voltaire’s work included critiques of the Catholic Church, as well as Judaism and Islam. The general public loved the book, which sold out quickly after its first, anonymous, printing. The religious authorities hated it and censored it in France and Switzerland. Charles Dickens reference the torture and murder of la Barre in his novel, Tale of Two Cities. Voltaire tried, unsuccessfully, to defend la Barre. His writings immediately after the arrest did help several other young Frenchman get acquitted for the same offenses.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #freespeech #censorship #torture #voltaire #enlightenment #execution #books #author #writer #philosopher #fiction #dickens @bookstadon

"Incorporating the best of world #literature, “Between the Bridge and Barricade” argues, helped #Jews emerge into the modern era. Between 1450 and 1800, countless #books were made accessible from #European #languages and #Latin through #Yiddish, #Ladino and #JudeoItalian versions. They were produced by #Sephardi and #Ashkenazi Jews, printers and doctors, rabbis and proponents of the #Enlightenment. “#Translations,” writes Idelson-Shein, “seem to allow us to travel throughout the world without visas, passports or border crossings."

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/382422/worldly-wisdom-and-the-jewish-tradition-of-translation/

"He’s a child of the #Enlightenment. He is a major supporter of both the #arts and the #sciences. He plays the #harpsichord and the #organ and he’s a great patron of the #theater.”

Doesn't sound like #Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/trump-king-george.html

James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern geology, was born #OTD, 14 June (NS; 3 June OS). One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the conclusion of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of science:

The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.

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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2808

You don’t need hours of meditation to begin transforming your life. Just five minutes of sitting or moving meditation each day can help you develop consistent focus, enter flow states, and experience your true mind.

#Zen #Meditation #DailyPractice #Mindfulness #Enlightenment #FlowState #SpiritualGrowth #Awareness #Dhyana #Consciousness

https://youtube.com/shorts/5o2NSwLKU6k

What if your body, your thoughts, and your identity were nothing more than swirling waves in a vast ocean of energy?

#Zen #Consciousness #Karma #Energy #Reincarnation #Mindfulness #Meditation #SpiritualAwakening #DharmaTalk #ZenMaster #NatureOfMind #Enlightenment #zenmeditation

https://youtu.be/vkjeoKS7D_c

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Mahaparinibbana Sutta

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What is your mind?
Before enlightenment, you’re just guessing in the dark. After enlightenment, it’s like turning on the light. Zen is not about gaining something new — it's about seeing what’s already there.
Sit, clear your mind, and let the light come on.
#zen #zenbuddhism #mindfulness #enlightenment #awakening #buddhistquotes #meditationpractice #zenmaster #koan #zenartcenter #spiritualgrowth #consciousness #dharma #buddhism

People sometimes think, “Oh, you Buddhists are so selfish. All you want is enlightenment,” as if enlightenment is some kind of corrupting, self-seeking, narcissistic endeavor. Well, it’s not.

Before enlightenment: coffee.
After enlightenment: coffee.

No need to change your drink.
Just change your relationship to it.

Sit. Sip. Wake up.


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Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix

You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.

It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.

P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)

https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/05/rousseaus-political-philosophy-briefly.html?m=1