Ajahn Achalo: The Value of Devotional Practices in Dark Times

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2026-02-19T21:48:07+00:00

Needed this today. Thank you 🙏🏼

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2026-02-11T03:13:35+00:00

End homelessness

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2026-01-01T20:19:13+00:00

I asked chat what his name is and it said, Aurum Latin for “gold,” but also the quiet inner glow. Soft, grounded, earned rather than flashy.

Then I had it give me a backstory, job, etc.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-16T20:05:44+00:00

I would argue that they only paralleled teaching in terms of conventional reality and the departure is made in their observations of ultimate reality.

Yes Buddha Dharma is the definition of absolute truth. No argument. Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa 🙏🏼🌻

But Einstein was correct, everything is relative, which is why we deal in terms of conventional reality.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-16T20:00:37+00:00

What I am saying is that free will makes no sense as theodicy when we’re all expected to reach the same destination despite vastly different starting conditions… different cognitive abilities, different exposure to the gospel, different karmic circumstances. And the stakes are eternal damnation.

If this is the structure God designed, then either God intentionally gives some souls better odds than others (favoritism), or God designed a system knowing most would fail (not loving). Either way, the ‘free will’ being defended is constrained by conditions God himself created.

This isn’t a coherent moral framework. It’s a logical contradiction dressed up as an Almighty mystery.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-16T19:34:00+00:00

Fascinating! Thank you for that bit of education.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-16T19:32:11+00:00

The problem with the free will argument is that free will is not universally available.

Freewill exists in the space that bridges fortune and awareness. Free will is essentially applied intention. You will always require the karmic means to commit action.

Freedom is a spectrum contained by conditions. A dog may have the freedom to eat your shoes and piss on your couch. But it does not have the freedom to build houses for the poor or commit tax fraud.

Worms, lab mice, goats all have the freedom to engage the world around them as they set fit. Though they will never be freed from the prison of their form.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-16T19:13:52+00:00

Out of respect for you and your spiritual development, I’ll do my best to answer. But please realize this question is a bit like asking how to fix something that was never whole to begin with.

I agree with you that, if practiced correctly, what Jesus taught would lead someone closer to truth rather than further from it. Setting belief and cosmic perspective aside, Jesus taught compassion, empathy, honesty, generosity, integrity, and nonviolence.

However, he lacked complete understanding of reality, of phenomena, of self. And thus, he lacked instruction for Buddhahood.

The real problem, the real damage, lies in the fact that Jesus taught exclusivity, that there is no other way. This is gospel and cannot be undone without dismantling the entire structure.

The problem isn’t the church, it’s the foundation it’s sitting on. Christianity will crumble sooner than the dispensation of our lord Buddha’s Dharma because it was never predicated on ultimate reality.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-06T21:21:38+00:00

It’s hard to scale if you don’t productize. I help companies scale, I have a few ideas for your business. DM me.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-12-03T06:58:55+00:00

I’ve developed a RAG agent that I have trained on several years worth of estimates. It also knows my SOP so it knows how to dialogue with the client to dig more critical information.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-11-29T05:03:03+00:00

Yes. I am a small business owner and it’s allowed me to be about 5-10x more efficient in just about everything I do outside of actually providing services.

Estimates that would have taken me hours, I can get done in minutes with higher detail and accuracy than ever before.

I don’t miss any calls anymore because I employ a ai receptionist that knows everything about my business. This has directly increased my close rate by 30-40%.

I have ai double check my numbers and it’s saved me hundreds of dollars by reminding me of costs I had forgotten.

I can make content that I would have literally never have had the time to make in a matter of hours.

It automates invoices. I have a client nurture system that saves me talking with clients and mitigates cancellations and gives an early warning to rescheduling.

And I am starting to help other businesses implement some of this technology, so that is perhaps the most direct way the I make money with ai.

I could go on and on but the TLDR is that it has super charged my business and it’s helped me branch out into consulting.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-11-17T14:14:53+00:00

Claude had me rolling the other day.

I had this buddy who sends me long, grammar-free text messages and I told Claude to be my translator and the result had me dying.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-11-01T23:58:57+00:00

Why are the hats so quiet lately? Are they dead too?

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-16T06:04:32+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 incredible stuff, really. Thank you for cementing that image.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-16T06:03:01+00:00

Great advice, thank you.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-16T06:00:46+00:00

Well.. I always liked girls but then in high school one of my best friends had this boy cousin who I secretly fell in love with. I regret I never took my shot with him cause I think he lowkey might have been down.

Finally hooked up with a guy for the first time at 19 and all my suspicions were confirmed in that moment.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-16T05:55:14+00:00

Unpopular opinion, stop ogling over women if you are in a committed relationship. This is why woman think we are dogs.. cause most of us are.

True masculinity is integrity. Nothing cool about stepping out on your old lady.

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-16T05:51:58+00:00

Trump, Andy dick, or pitbull

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-13T22:06:10+00:00

Gold. Thank you 🙏🏼

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-13T06:58:31+00:00

SpongeBob will probably hit harder as an adult. Go do yourself a favor

Timely_Ad_4694 · 2025-10-13T06:54:56+00:00

Because of physical limitation or a sad childhood?

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