in loving acceptance of what is

the observer as the observed

through choiceless awareness – direct experience – observe:

  • nothing doesn’t change

  • nothing is perfect

  • nothing depends on nothing

so it goes for all that is,
for being as a whole

nothing is other than this

no one is

no one is another being

other than in the mind
or by convention,
there are no other beings

only in the mind or by convention
is anything or anyone an entity
apart from being as a whole

nothing is other than the whole

no one is

no one need do more than need be done to be and let be,
to live and let live with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity

in loving acceptance of what is:
the observer as the observed


2023-08-10 / notes

see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

apart from the title and subtitle and the additional four lines it ends with, this post is a snapshot on this date of part of another post

see the current version of that post – nothing – for some notes that apply to this post

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz

notes from nothing as at 2023-08-10:

notes

*a link – see note … and words by Maurice Frydman**

this post – one view of what is – displaces the Substack placeholder Coming soon

nothing is the absolute truth (!*)

Shunryu Suzuki: “… it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing.” (!gb !*)

there is only this: the present*

no one need do more than need be done to simply be and let be
with choiceless awareness – open to direct experience (!*) – to see
anyone or anything thought of as an entity as nothing but the whole

so it goes for all that is, for being as a whole / so it goes*

being as a whole / “being” – here and later – a mass noun (!?)

being as a whole / simply being and letting be: being well – and so may all be well*

the indented and bulleted lines in the post are the three marks of existence (!?)

nothing is perfect / ideal, complete, beyond change

ehipassiko / ehipaśyika; “which you can come and see” … ehi, paśya; “come, see” (!?)

/ what can be told and what can only be seen are the relative and absolute truths (!*)

pace* convention: to see anyone as an entity, see them as nothing other than the whole*

/ entities and identities (!*)

only in the mind … is anything or anyone an entity (!*)

being as a whole / in whatever passing forms arise and cease (!?)

see also Einstein’s letter to a grieving father / and see especially further notes*

see collateral damage from a “a kind of optical delusion” of consciousness (Einstein)

nothing doesn’t change, so this post – nothing – has done and will / a possible paradox*

in loving acceptance of what is: the observer as the observed

Tell me, what else should I have done?*

media bias

the telling omission



Caitlin Johnstone:

You’ve probably seen charts like this one from the Media Bias section of the AllSides website, where the biases of outlets are ranked from “Left” to “Center” to “Right.”

What you’ve never seen anywhere is a chart that ranks outlets in terms of how sympathetic they are to the US-centralized empire, with outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian and Fox News being listed on the extreme end of one side and more US-critical outlets like Consortium News, Mintpress News and Antiwar toward the other side. Notice how the above chart is so completely uninterested in foreign policy that it lists militarist smut rag The Atlantic in the same category as outlets that are often critical of US foreign policy like Jacobin and The Nation.*


2023-08-03 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz

the fig leaf here is the subhead in the screenshot:

Ratings based on online US political content only …
Ratings do not reflect accuracy or credibility; they reflect perspective only

the machine appeared in the distance

singing to itself of money


the image above from Twitter links to the article covered with this tweeted text:

Descriptive terms like “Rust Belt,” “deindustrialization,” and “manufacturing desert” increasingly applied to ever more portions of U.S. capitalism.*

from the article by Richard Wolff:

Earlier income and wealth gaps in the U.S., worsened by the export and automation of high-paying jobs, undermined the economic basis of that “vast middle class” that so many employees believed themselves to be part of. Over recent decades, workers who expected to enjoy “the American dream” found that increased costs of goods and services led to the dream being beyond their reach. Their children, especially those forced to borrow for college, found themselves in a similar situation or in a worse one. Resistances of all sorts arose (unionization drives, strikes, left and right “populisms”) as working-class living conditions kept deteriorating. Making matters worse, mass media celebrated the stupefying wealth of those few who profited most from neoliberal globalization. In the U.S., phenomena like former President Donald Trump, Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders, white supremacy, unionization, strikes, explicit anti-capitalism, “culture” wars, and frequently bizarre political extremism reflect deepening social divisions. Many in the U.S. feel betrayed after being abandoned by capitalism. Their differing explanations for the betrayal exacerbate the widely held sense of crisis in the nation.*

In short, capitalism destroys society.

It destroys anything that gets in its way in the pursuit of profits. It destroys the environment. It destroys democracy. It discards human beings without a second thought. (!?) / Bernie Sanders

Two other pertinent quotes:

There is no such thing as society.
—Margaret Thatcher*

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.
—John Maynard Keynes (attributed – mistakenly – see Quote Investigator)*

Richard Wolff clearly believes that he can best help by promoting democracy at work.*


2023-07-30 / notes … see also notes on authors and their posts under this date

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

“the machine appeared in the distance, singing to itself of money” (!?)

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz




democracy

the three essential elements

the image above – a screenshot from Twitter – links to the original tweet

find out more about Pierre Rosanvallon (!?)*


2023-07-23 / notes

*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

further notes are not appended to posts on fewer wurdz