Category: Bodhi Day

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 →

Merry Christmas 2024 from Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku

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 →

Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku’s Bodhi Day 2024 Guidance

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 →

Music Bodhi Day – Four-Year Update

I wrote a book this year. It's a fairly big book on artificial intelligence. All along, and even after it was published, people told me no one will read such a big book. I agree with them. I usually choose watching a 15 minute video over an hour video on the same subject. Better yet, … Continue reading Music Bodhi Day – Four-Year Update →