I'm weird and I love routine/ritual and I love obsessing over texts. Plus they apparently brewed their own beer.
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posted up at the monastery with tha boys cookin up vats of trappist ale while blasting chants and liturgical music
Sep 6, 2024
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I can't have a beer because I am an addict, but I like thinking about one in the way that Kūkai (Japanese Buddhist guy) uses like, mandalas. I think?
I'm not an alcoholic, but NA says I'm better off not drinking, and in general I find that how much I love drinking one beer makes me more sad when the second tastes gross or I am sleepy, because drinking beer is amazing and so wonderful. I love how beer tastes and feels, but it is also about the freedom of the occasion. Having the idea of a beer. Saying yes, I am going to have that beer. Smiling. Picking out a beer. Buying a beer. Cracking open a cold one. That is how you greet the best of days.
Kukai did this whole ten step (I kinda remember it being 13....) about visualization of "states of the mind" or jūjūshin, "ju" meaning like "abode" or "dwelling," I'm not gonna translate shin because its like pre-Buddhism Japanese and its saying like "true" and "God-like" in reality so just let me lie to you and say it means "mind" which it doesn't but it can't really mean anything to you or me. god. anyway. It's this very drawn out practice of creating these mind palaces and mansions that are so intricate and real that you can experience them as almost more real than the world around you, samsara to them. Then you put a deity in the center eventually until you can feel that as real, then you swap out the deity for yourself. I could be lying this is all from the dome. But this is what created those awesome mandalas, which are more like mind palace floorplans. All of this is to say that I am beginning the accidental process of visualizing a mind-beer, which has let me continue to enjoy beer by thinking about it and all of its joys, while not drinking it. I really recommend this, even if you do drink beer.
Mar 7, 2025
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brooms were put above doorways to signify the bev was ready, them big couldrons for brewing, and then the tall spikey hats they wore to standout in the market... i just find it fantastic knowing beer nowadays is considered as a man's drink so this kinda blew my mind
Apr 19, 2024
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Poetically, this was going to be the last date before I delete Hinge and take a break for a few months.
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