🎅🎁 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
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
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 “AI Slop” 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”
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
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
We are problem solvers. We're thinkers. That's the schtick of our species. We don't need to depend solely on eons of evolution to patch the holes in our life strategies. We must train our brains to think as well as train our brains to perform valuable tasks. However, society places a premium on focusing on … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2023 Message
The Eternal Fishnu and I had fun playing with OpenAI's DALL-E-2 this weekend. It's very fascinating to see what he looked like during his manifestation as the ith Buddha during the Devonian. For the one person who hasn't heard of DALL-E or ChatGPT, DALL-E is an A.I. that generates images of whatever you describe and … Continue reading The Eternal Fishnu’s Favorite DALL-E Portraits
I spent many hours over the past Holiday season talking to ChatGPT. After one session, I was so impressed with its ease of use and answers that it was clear A.I. did reach a new level. It's certainly not "THE SINGULARITY", but it's now good enough - even after the current over-hype eventually fades - … Continue reading My Dharma Talk with ChatGPT
A Year and a Half into My Guitar Journey About a year and a half into my guitar journey, I feel I made honest progress through steady, dedicated practice. I continued well beyond that proverbial 90% who gives up after a year. So I rewarded myself the equivalent of a "blue belt" by purchasing my … Continue reading Music Theory Bodhi Day
Siddhartha Gautama himself. I was going for a hint of Santa Claus. Mrs. Hanamoku and I usually make more cookies, but we're both on a diet. We will partition these out through Christmas Day. For the Eternal Fishnu, I tried out a Jackson Pollock-ish technique for the "glitter" of a mahimahi. The Eternal Fishnu. I … Continue reading Hanamoku Family’s Christmas Cookies of 2021
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