đ đ Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! đđ Mrs. Hanamoku and I made Christmas cookies yesterday (today is the day after Christmas 2025). As usual, I made a few big cookies of my two friends, The Eternal Fishnu and the Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet. I made a sunfish representation (ocean sunfish, mola mola) of both … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2025 Message
Bodhi Day is the celebration of seeing clearly, the moment when the familiar world looks different because we finally understand what was always there. Awakening isnât about lightning bolts, miracles, or magic. Itâs about noticing what we usually overlook, and being humble enough to admit when weâve accepted something too quickly, just because it was … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Secular Bodhi Day 2025 Message – Premature Convergence
Today (December 1, 2025) begins what I call the "Bodhi Season"âthe event-packed seven days before Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment, literally dealing with his demons. He sure did go through a lot for sitting under a tree! For those who cannot take this entire week to sit under a tree, as the 100th post on this … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Bodhi Season 2025 Meditation
It's less than three weeks until Bodhi DayâMonday, December 8, 2025. But we should prepare our minds well before that. This blog is an offering towards that purpose. I list a number of concepts that give us hope and appeal to our stubborn logical minds. There is much more to this world than just what … Continue reading Bodhi Day 2025 Prep – Truths of Reality Beyond Sentience
The large language models (LLM) of today learn from knowledge already stripped of fine context. In contrast, humans learn from experience immersed in Life on Earth, where meaning and context are inseparable. Human intelligence is embodied, contextual, and iterative while LLM intelligence is abstract, decontextualized, and somewhat laden in inertia. However, when comparing how human … Continue reading The Living Graph and the Trained Matrix
After 22 years, my kÄhili ginger finally bloomed! But before continuing, there is an arc of a Bodhi Day message in hereâit's not just about one of my gardening experiences. I brought home a small kÄhili ginger (hedychium gardnerianum) rhizome from Hilo Hattie back in 2003, during a visit to my mom and other family … Continue reading The Parable of My KÄhili Ginger in Boise
What has recently been coined "AI Slop" is the endless churn of "heavily AI-assisted content" (my nice, Zen-appropriate term for AI Slop). I ran into the phenomenon of âAI Slopâ while trying to figure out why the views on this site cut in half a few months ago (since July 2025). The concept isn't new. … Continue reading Zen and “AI Slop”
Judo and its cousins, Jiujitsu and Aikido, have made much headway into Western culture in terms of sport and philosophy. We've incorporated saying such as âif pushed, pull; if pulled, pushâ and "use your opponent's energy against them". Additionally, "xxx jiujitsu" is another form that's become cliche. For example: Marketing jiujitsuâTaking a competitorâs message and … Continue reading AI Judo: Focus, Edges, and Awareness
Merry Christmas! Many folks are surprised when I say that I consider myself a Christian ... even though I'm a Buddhist. They are sometimes offended because, for example, they don't like Christianity (or any religion) or one can't be Christian and something else at the same time. As an American, where Christian (Judeo-Christian) traditions, as … Continue reading Merry Christmas 2024 from Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku
Happy Bodhi Day Eve!!! I thought I'd offer something to meditate upon for Bodhi Day tomorrow (Sunday, December 8, 2024). Scaling Beyond Comprehension Everything is easy at a small scale. I usually say that a few times during workshops on business intelligence and/or big data. You can solve problems with precision, maintain clarity of purpose, … Continue reading Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku’s Bodhi Day 2024 Guidance
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