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Happy Lunar Bodhi Day – Jan 26, 2026

I end each post on this blog site, and on fishnu.org, with the words Faith and Patience. It's "first principle" advice for the sentient and sapient living in a magnificently complex world. It's not morbid to consider that we are creatures of a world where almost all life survives by consuming other life. The primary … Continue reading Happy Lunar Bodhi Day – Jan 26, 2026 →

Lunar Bodhi Day Eve Message – January 26, 2026

This blog is actually the 9th point I withheld from my blog from a couple of months ago, Bodhi Day 2025 Prep – Truths of Reality Beyond Sentience, where I listed eight items that give you hope there is more to life than what we normally perceive, all without the need for a supernatural component. That … Continue reading Lunar Bodhi Day Eve Message – January 26, 2026 →

Scale, A Pre Lunar Bodhi Day Message – Jan 2026

Most of us don't regularly deal with numbers larger than a few thousand. The majority of us: Make up to a few thousand dollars per month. Know at least a few dozen to a few hundred people. Travel in the order of a few hundred to a few thousand miles for vacation. I regularly work … Continue reading Scale, A Pre Lunar Bodhi Day Message – Jan 2026 →

Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2025 Message

🎅🎁 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎁🎅 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 →

Rev. Hanamoku’s Secular Bodhi Day 2025 Message – Premature Convergence

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 isn’t about lightning bolts, miracles, or magic. It’s about noticing what we usually overlook, and being humble enough to admit when we’ve accepted something too quickly, just because it was … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Secular Bodhi Day 2025 Message – Premature Convergence →

Rev. Hanamoku’s Bodhi Season 2025 Meditation

Today (December 1, 2025) begins what I call the "Bodhi Season"—the 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 →

Bodhi Day 2025 Prep – Truths of Reality Beyond Sentience

It's less than three weeks until Bodhi Day—Monday, 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 Living Graph and the Trained Matrix

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 →

The Parable of My Kāhili Ginger in Boise

After 22 years, my kāhili ginger finally bloomed! But before continuing, there is an arc of a Bodhi Day message in here—it's not just about one of my gardening experiences. I brought home a small kāhili 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 Kāhili Ginger in Boise →