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query — **habits***   ⁘   matches — **31** 

	### [Rhythms and Habits of Wholesome Life ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/practice/rhythms-and-habits-of-wholesome-life)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ practice](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/practice)
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			**2024-11-06** 
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			**2025-10-02** 
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		- This set of guidelines was written as a basic scaffold for more balanced rhythms and routines of life for two aspirants seeking to establish themselves on the path of self-awareness. We also look at helpful and harmful habits. May these notes prove useful for you too. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/practice/rhythms-and-habits-of-wholesome-life)

	### [Current Stream: Latest Content - Dive In and Explore! ▸](https://ananda.icu/current)

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			[**⊂ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [⊆ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root)
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			**2025-06-06** 
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			**2025-06-06** 
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		- Recent content added to the site — here in this current feed. Take a dip or dive in deep — explore and engage the manifold streams of consciousness. Latest talks, latest writings, latest main pages. All here for your convenience! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/current)

	### [Make Awareness Great Again! — Drain That Swamp · Follow the Truth — ▸](https://ananda.icu/maga)

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			**2025-12-06** 
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			**2025-12-06** 
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		- Welcome! Here you are then. Don't be shy. It's a stream of our latest digs. Please dig in. Make awareness great again. You can also find all this free media on the YouTube Playlist for shorts. Binge away! Make Your Awareness Great Again! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/maga)

	### [Press Info - For Publishers • Broadcasters • Reporters ▸](https://ananda.icu/press)

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			[**⊂ page**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/page) [⊆ root](https://ananda.icu/cat/page/root)
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			**2025-07-11** 
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			**2025-07-11** 
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		- Hello content person you. We can collaborate and content here may be shared. Yes the scoop is here — so link up and inquire. Available for interviews and quest apparitions. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/press)

	### [Pool of Videos → Into Direct Insight ▸](https://ananda.icu/video)

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			**2024-12-12** 
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			**2025-06-18** 
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		- Dive into our growing catalogue of videos. Some of them short and to the point. Others dreadfully long but packed with essential musings. Browse the @Mr.Om.Ananda ▸ YouTube channel for the latest digs. Enjoy the show! [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/video)

	### [Who Is This? - My Eloquent Egologue ▸](https://ananda.icu/who)

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			created
			**2025-05-18** 
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			**2025-06-18** 
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		- Well it is I of course, your favorite infinity in a nutshell. Embodied for your entertainment, in service to whatever that matters. Some call me Mr. Ananda. Others call me whatever else. Pleased to meet you. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/who)

	### [Progressive Enlightenment - Stations of Evolving Consciousness - v1.1 ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/progressive-enlightenment)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ kernel](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/kernel)
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			**2025-06-06** 
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			**2025-06-06** 
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		- As our consciousness evolves - in purification, refinement, unification, and liberation - we journey through a progression of distinct stations of awareness. Here we explore a general roadmap of the evolutionary path from automaton until absolution and beyond. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/kernel/progressive-enlightenment)

	### [Positive and Negative Mental States ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/mind/positive-negative-mental-states)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ mind](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/mind)
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			**2024-08-21** 
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			**2025-06-21** 
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		- Our mind is influenced by a spectrum of positive and negative mental states. This list of mental states serves as a basis for self-awareness, introspection, and inquiry into the inner influences that condition and liberate our awareness. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/mind/positive-negative-mental-states)

	### [A Holistic System Definition: Spirituality and Wisdom Grid ▸](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/a-holistic-system-definition-spirituality-and-wisdom-grid)

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			[**⊂ texts**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/texts) [⊆ vintage](https://ananda.icu/cat/texts/vintage)
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			**2010-11-11** 
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			**2026-01-08** 
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		- A working draft for a generic definition and model on the dynamics of wisdom and spirituality in the human society. Intended as a step towards parsing the totality of the human situation into a general model covering environment, society, universe, and the depths of the mind. (2010) [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/texts/vintage/a-holistic-system-definition-spirituality-and-wisdom-grid)

	### [Axis and Spheres of The Path • Harmony, Clarity, Presence (IP001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/into-the-path/ip001-axis-and-spheres-of-the-path-harmony-clarity-presence)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ into-the-path](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/into-the-path)
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			**2025-12-28** 
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			**2025-12-30** 
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			**469** 

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		- We orient to the most basic bearings on the path. Your axis of two poles — between emptiness and fullness, for your liberation and fulfillment. Your three spheres of concern — for harmony, clarity and presence — from purity, recognition and reflection. These shape the basic lay of the land as we continue into the fuller map for the path. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/into-the-path/ip001-axis-and-spheres-of-the-path-harmony-clarity-presence)

	### [Three Tips for Negative Mental States (ST003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st003-three-tips-for-negative-mental-states)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ sage-tips](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/sage-tips)
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			**2025-11-22** 
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			**2025-11-23** 
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			**609** 

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		- Caught in the grip of negative mental states again? Does your mind turn into a claustrophobic tunnel? Worry not! Dig in thrice with Sage Tips. — Take a break and step back from that saturation. Zoom out and breathe. — Work what can and needs to change. Don't worry about the impossible. — Life is not a perfection performance for judges. Do the best you can. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/sage-tips/st003-three-tips-for-negative-mental-states)

	### [Mating NowHere and NoWhere — Everywhere in a Nutshell (WT003) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt003-mating-nowhere-nowhere-everywhere-in-a-nutshell)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ walkie-talkie](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/walkie-talkie)
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			**2025-11-25** 
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			**2025-11-26** 
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		- Be Now Here Nowhere. Simultaneously. Everywhere. At once. Aware of your total stack of awareness and cognitive dynamisms. Not somewhere on Jupiter or humping in a hippie pile. Actually right here and right now with no filters on. As it is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt003-mating-nowhere-nowhere-everywhere-in-a-nutshell)

	### [Rainbow Serpent Slipstream NoWHere Beyond Dodo Birds (WT004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt004-rainbow-serpent-slipstream-nowhere-beyond-dodo-birds)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ walkie-talkie](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/walkie-talkie)
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			**2025-11-27** 
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			**2025-11-27** 
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			**02:47** 
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		- We are not walking. We are driving far. Expand your mind. Broaden your horizons. Don't be a silly little bird suffering in your self-constructed cage. Break beyond the box and meet the fullness of your potentials. Be here now and everywhere. Soar beyond that tired old roost. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/walkie-talkie/wt004-rainbow-serpent-slipstream-nowhere-beyond-dodo-birds)

	### [Your Stupid Reactions · Get a Grip on Reality! (BZ002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz002-your-stupid-reactions-get-a-grip-on-reality)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps)
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			**2025-11-12** 
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			**2025-11-13** 
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			**608** 

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		- You a notch trigger-happy again? Need to lash out with your battle axe? Phantoms in sight — attack! If only you'd realize that you're typically reacting to projections in your head only — wrestling with your own habitual templates. Then in the odd case you're actually reacting to something actual, it's totally out of proportion. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz002-your-stupid-reactions-get-a-grip-on-reality)

	### [Prismatic Multi-Snap! Witness Plane Booming (BZ013) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz013-prismatic-multi-snap-witness-plane-booming)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ brief-snaps](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/brief-snaps)
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			**2025-12-16** 
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			**2025-12-17** 
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		- You ain't seen snaps my friend. Not until the rainbow prism of yonder space snaps the full works smack middle your dirty old windshield. This is that snap extravaganza. We serial snap the 12 dimensions and then some. Welcome to the mirror. You don't slice the heads off that old hydra with a sweet little butter knife. You need the multispectral bitter blade of acute self-knowledge. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/brief-snaps/bz013-prismatic-multi-snap-witness-plane-booming)

	### [Your Alternative Signal — Undoing the Brain Damage (RB001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb001-your-alternative-signal-undoing-the-brain-damage)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ random-banter](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/random-banter)
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			created
			**2025-11-24** 
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			**2025-11-25** 
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			**481** 

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		- We broadcast alternative signal. Bring you volumes of content to undo all that brain damage from ingesting surface pop chemicals from the algorithm. Like it or don't like it. Watch it anyway. It's good for you. It's a therapeutic process. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/random-banter/rb001-your-alternative-signal-undoing-the-brain-damage)

	### [Downtown Human World & The Causal Watchtower (CW001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/casual-watcher/cw001-downtown-human-world-the-causal-watchtower)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ casual-watcher](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/casual-watcher)
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			**2025-12-18** 
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			**2025-12-19** 
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			**476** 

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		- Down from the high hills once in a blue moon. Grazing around in downtown Yogyakarta — duty calls! Watching the ways of the world. Wonderings from the hermit watchtower — casual watcher is the causal watcher, observing the minds in the matrix. #CasualWatcher #WatchTower #HumanWorld #Unreal #Bubbles #CityMatrix #HermitLife #Solitude... [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/casual-watcher/cw001-downtown-human-world-the-causal-watchtower)

	### [Indecision — The Liminal Drift You Mistake for Freedom (K013) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k013-indecision-the-liminal-drift-you-mistake-for-freedom)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ kernel-talks](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/kernel-talks)
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			**2025-08-02** 
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			**2025-09-17** 
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		- We often procrastinate — postpone and bypass decisions. Who knows — we might think or feel differently later on. In the meantime, we drift in the freedom of our liminality. Eventually the environment forces your way — its way. Parameters and boundaries have already been set for you. In your misguided freedom, you have limited your prospects. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/kernel-talks/k013-indecision-the-liminal-drift-you-mistake-for-freedom)

	### [A Core Package — Basic Message in a Clear Bottle (OM004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om004-a-core-package-basic-message-in-a-clear-bottle)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			**2025-08-13** 
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			**2025-08-30** 
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		- — "So what is it that you wish to say?" ...asked no-one in particular, so I heard. Good question though — thanks for asking. Alright then. One neat baseline package for you. What I seek to communicate and share in thousand ways. 1. May we get over the narrow selves we're boxed into. Our tunnels: the fractured little identities we guard. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om004-a-core-package-basic-message-in-a-clear-bottle)

	### [Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om005-calling-of-truth-our-positive-and-negative-veils)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			**2025-08-31** 
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			**2025-10-01** 
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		- "The truth is out there — and in here somewhere... Behind these veils — but I can feel its presence?" But how is it that this truth is not ever with us, intimately present in our lives? Why does it hide so? Raw actuality, uncolored and unbiased, is always there. Ever-available for you — should you remove your veils. We have a negative veil — and we have a positive veil. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om005-calling-of-truth-our-positive-and-negative-veils)

	### [Lost and Found in Ever-Changing Environments (OM007) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om007-lost-and-found-in-ever-changing-environments)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			**2025-10-14** 
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			**2025-10-14** 
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		- Feeling lost and without direction? Happens at times. Why does it happen though? May we blame the environment? Or are we ourselves the architects of our disorientation? Where direction exists — but our self-framing is resistant. Then rise to a plane of awareness where specifics no longer matter. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om007-lost-and-found-in-ever-changing-environments)

	### [Into the Path — Purification, Insight, Contemplation (OM009) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om009-into-the-path-purification-insight-contemplation)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ open-musings](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/open-musings)
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			**2025-10-18** 
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			**2025-11-06** 
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		- Is there a path to be found here? A framework of methods one might engage? A bigger picture to provide context for all that has been shared? Yes: What has been shared so far are but early glimpses and windows into the path. In the whole of the journey, we have three major spheres of concern: Purification, insight and contemplation. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/open-musings/om009-into-the-path-purification-insight-contemplation)

	### [Don't Always React — Taming the Planes of Awareness (PK002) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk002-ala-aina-hotkyile-tajunnan-tasoja-taltuttamassa)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ pieni-kulkija](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/pieni-kulkija)
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			created
			**2025-07-18** 
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			**2025-11-12** 
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		- Translated from Finnish source material. You a shaky marionette? Getting upset over this and that? Stuffed and sighing with your stuff. Life keeps on rattling you. Bouncing silly day in and day out. No longer entertaining? So new legends from the foothills for Moomin people. Have a see? Little wanderer takes a pause. Wondering and pondering. Many are the wonderful things in the world. Sure is puzzling. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk002-ala-aina-hotkyile-tajunnan-tasoja-taltuttamassa)

	### [Centered Human — Or Are You Mole, Fish, Wasp or Bird? (PK004) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk004-keskipisteen-ihminen-vai-ootko-myyra-kala-amppari-lintu)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ pieni-kulkija](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/pieni-kulkija)
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			created
			**2025-07-22** 
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			**2025-11-12** 
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		- Translated from Finnish source material. Porcupine has spikes. Bird has feathers. Human child has centered brains. When wonky, we are but human animals. Sometimes a mole lurking underground. Often a fish going with the stream. Sometimes a wasp stinging without cause. Even at times a bird hovering in the skies. But let's come back home too. Base human nest isn't in the animal nests of phenomenal world. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/pieni-kulkija/pk004-keskipisteen-ihminen-vai-ootko-myyra-kala-amppari-lintu)

	### [Human: Authentic Reflector of Raw Living Experience (QD007) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd007-human-authentic-reflector-of-raw-living-experience)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			created
			**2025-07-16** 
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			**2025-09-30** 
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		- Can you share in one simple sentence what is most human about you? — Authentic reflector of raw living experience. This is the short longer version. What the AI will never replace? What no pretender will ever emulate? — Beardman yapping beneath the pine tree. Honest reflections. Unmodified living experience. Source of our human potential. Immediate and intimate encounter with what is. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd007-human-authentic-reflector-of-raw-living-experience)

	### [Sovereign Operator in the System of Your Egos (QD022) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd022-sovereign-operator-in-the-system-of-your-egos)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			created
			**2025-09-04** 
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			**2025-10-04** 
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			**684** 

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		- Caught up as the Mini-Me in a corner of your being? Have a look at your domains of attention as a whole. You exist across a system of interconnected planes. The basic planes for your avatars of attention: Instinctual: Your preservation. Core construct. Emotional: Your adaptation. Flow dynamics. Analytical: Your recognition. Catalytic responses. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd022-sovereign-operator-in-the-system-of-your-egos)

	### [Walking That High Talk — The Inward Warrior (QD039) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd039-walking-that-high-talk-the-inward-warrior)

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			[**⊂ talks**](https://ananda.icu/cat_root/talks) [⊆ quick-drops](https://ananda.icu/cat/talks/quick-drops)
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			created
			**2025-11-04** 
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			**2025-11-05** 
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			**471** 

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		- Talking is cheap. Walking your high talk burns your impurities. Then be not a bypassing hypocrite on the path. What is this spiritual warrior that they speak of? Someone who lashes out at others to validate themselves? Or someone who turns inward and slashes their own weeds? Don't be a bullshit warrior making a show of your spirits. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/quick-drops/qd039-walking-that-high-talk-the-inward-warrior)

	### [An Anthology for Oblivion · Rambler Without a Cause (MC001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/midnight-current/mc001-an-anthology-for-oblivion-rambler-without-a-cause)

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		- Broad spectrum of contemplations in one uncut stream. Into the meaning of life — and of death too. Yes of the productions happening. And books and new platforms too. And who the hell am I? A brief backstory there. Are you awake and what is wakefulness? And why are you darting around in myopic tunnels. I can't publish the first shred of fascinating when your foundations are veiled and all fidgety. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/midnight-current/mc001-an-anthology-for-oblivion-rambler-without-a-cause)

	### [Overview of Purification — Body, Speech and Mind (I001) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i001-overview-of-purification-body-speech-and-mind)

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		- Purification of the body, speech and mind are necessary for progress and the attainment of wholesome states of being. Impurities, sustained with habitual conditioning and lack of introspection, hinder our progress, distort our experiences, and generate misery in our lives. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/insight-series/i001-overview-of-purification-body-speech-and-mind)

	### [Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005) ▸](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r005-dealing-with-desire-transcend-the-churning)

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		- Pushes and pulls of our existence. We need to deal with them, we need to navigate wisely. That wisdom begins with recognition, clear understanding, and introspection. We separate need and want. We comprehend and contextualize desire. We understand its ephemerality, the waves of its coming and going, the hallucinatory nature of the "objects" we pursue. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/talks/reflection-series/r005-dealing-with-desire-transcend-the-churning)

	### [Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4 ▸](https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06)

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		- The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union. [Read more...](https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06)