Red Dirt
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The only true ‘free will’ is understanding who/what you are. This may seem small but the implications are truly amazing.
Wandering Man
Joined October 2025
Black fungus from Chernobyl (Cladosporium sphaerospermum) uses melanin to turn radiation into energy like plants do with sunlight. NASA tested it on the ISS: it grows 20% faster in space and a thin 1.7 mm layer blocks ~2% of cosmic radiation — 5× better than plastic. Potential
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Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don't like it.
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Ed Leedskalnin built Coral Castle alone,lifting 30-ton stones with no machines. He left behind a strange magnetic flywheel no one could explain. Now some guy claims he rebuilt it in his garage… and it levitates a rock. The box fan in the back spins the right way. 🤔
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Yang means the positive, and yin, the negative. Yang is identified with the south or sunny side of a mountain; yin, with the north or shady side. And note, this moment, that you cannot have a one-sided mountain.
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There is a beauty in being rejected, insulted, misunderstood, unseen and unsupported by people. It teaches you to always rely on yourself for everything.
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This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The first step on the Path is to know what you want, not what you ought to want.
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