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this sounds exactly like something a monk would say at a buddhist retreat
i now have reached the 4th jhāna
(, Thu 28 May 2026, 23:36, archived)
I mean, they're mostly silent, those retreats

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:05, archived)
ssshhhhh

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:12, archived)
Not when I'm there. Oi oi, party time

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 1:13, archived)
what did you catch? anything I'd recognize?

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 2:23, archived)
They are sort of like perch. Snakehead gourami I think, according to ai

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 2:46, archived)
they grow up to 12" it says here, is that right? Edit, no, Claude tells lies, snakeheads can be huge, it was bullshit
Shopping list:
Mekong Giant Catfish
Asian Redtail Catfish
Siamese Carp
Barramundi
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 2:55, archived)
Up to 12"? Don't tell Queef, he'll spend a fortune on them

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 8:04, archived)
you are happy in the retreat
but something is puzzling you
another monk ambles past, leaning towards you then away. a regular sway. their heavy breath, sweet with the meadows, filling the air about you, their feet knocking gently on the flagstones of the cloister as they depart
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:11, archived)
Does a cow have Buddha nature? Moo!

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:13, archived)
\o/

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:15, archived)
daisy?

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:14, archived)
;)))

(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:14, archived)

you try to stop the next monk who passes. you know it's forbidden to talk to the monks, but you have to. please, you say. please, I need - the monk pauses, looks at you with their deep, reflective eyes. Mmmmmmmmm, says the monk. lowers their head again, sways off. oh thank you, you say. yes I see. but the monk has moved away now, not listening to you
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:14, archived)

and you realise, with the quiet changenoise of a small pebble being dropped through the still surface of a lake. glop, goes the thought, into, or perhaps out of, your mind. moonks, you think to yourself. of course, moonks
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:35, archived)