- Founder of Asheyana Secular Buddhism (asheyana.org) - Author of Illu Solarium (illusolarium.org) - Developer of Thenuim (github.com/exertionriver/thenuim) - WordPress Site Editor (exertionriver.wordpress.com)https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mhpydq5okc22"When he had spoken, Moggallāna the Accountant said to the Buddha, “When his disciples are instructed and advised like this by the worthy Gotama, do all of them achieve the ultimate goal, extinguishment, or do some of them fail?” “Some succeed, while others fail.” https://suttacentral.net/mn107/en/sujato23 Mar 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpydq5okc22https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mhiipqmvgs22“While you are training in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, some bhikkhu might commit an offence or a transgression..." suttacentral.net/mn103/en/bodhi https://suttacentral.net/mn103/en/bodhi20 Mar 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiipqmvgs22https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mhiimyqs5222https://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/remember/20 Mar 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiimyqs5222https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mhiilaccjc22"The Peaceful Study is the third of six locations identified in 'Walking the Wakeful Path Home.' "The image of a peaceful study evokes a quiet, protected space, rich with sources of knowledge and wisdom; worlds of wonderment and amazing vistas to be found within the covers of each shelved tome." https://www.asheyana.org/walking-the-wakeful-path-home/8-contemplation-in-the-peaceful-study20 Mar 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiilaccjc22https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mhiiijsafc22"The Shaded Courtyard is the fourth of six locations identified in 'Walking the Wakeful Path Home.' "The image of a shaded courtyard evokes a flourishing, natural, peaceful place to spend time in Reflection, supported by the stability of nearby structure and society." https://www.asheyana.org/walking-the-wakeful-path-home/9-reflection-in-the-shaded-courtyard20 Mar 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiiijsafc22https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mhiie6dirk22In Asheyana, one with an established meditation practice does not meditate in order to release discursiveness, resolve hindrances, work for others' benefit, or improve one's own life..20 Mar 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiie6dirk22https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mdgipq37u227https://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/the-lesson-of-cruelty/27 Jan 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgipq37u227https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mc4dtasaak2yhttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/no-better-friend/11 Jan 2026 01:12 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc4dtasaak2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3mbjmtqddzs2jhttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/other-love-is-the-dim-light/03 Jan 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjmtqddzs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3maozxzl4f222https://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/over-a-river-rocks-jagged-edges/24 Dec 2025 00:46 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3maozxzl4f222https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m7fsyz7grk2phttps://suttacentral.net/an3.36/en/sujato "[D]id you not see...an elderly woman or a man—eighty, ninety, or a hundred years old—bent double, crooked, leaning on a staff, trembling as they walk, ailing, past their prime, with teeth broken, hair grey and scanty or bald, skin wrinkled, and limbs blotchy?"07 Dec 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7fsyz7grk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m7amku6fc22yas a newly single man in his late 40s with a stocked bookshelf, a regular meditation practice, and a full-time job, I support the 'noproach' approach to romance.. 😇🙏❤️05 Dec 2025 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7amku6fc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m72a7r42ns2chttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/student-prays-teacher-prays/03 Dec 2025 00:46 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m72a7r42ns2chttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m5afsi3vxs25suttacentral.net/mn8/en/sujato "Now in this regard, Cunda, you should work on self-effacement in each of the following ways. ‘Others will be cruel, but here we will not be cruel.’ ‘Others will kill living creatures, but here we will not kill living creatures...’" https://suttacentral.net/mn8/en/sujato10 Nov 2025 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5afsi3vxs25https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m3mtevxa5k2bHalloween Tip: your local old white fella who listens to online Christian influencers may know some fairly entertaining ghost stories.. 🎃👻😄20 Oct 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3mtevxa5k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m3kfrq6tgc2whttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/belief-is-the-wondrous-capacity/19 Oct 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3kfrq6tgc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3m254ceh3hc2fhttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/bodhisattva-path/01 Oct 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m254ceh3hc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lzvk7tq3m22k"[T]he reason why the Buddha declares dependent arising to be so deep and difficult to understand... [is] not simply because it describes the causal pattern governing the round, but because it describes that pattern in terms of bare conditions and conditioned phenomena without reference to a self.28 Sep 2025 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzvk7tq3m22khttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lzqhzw5dec2w"Like all other problems, the ailments of society arise from causes, and these can be traced in a sequence leading from the manifestations to the underlying roots."26 Sep 2025 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzqhzw5dec2whttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lzad3jzv2s2fhttps://suttacentral.net/snp1.3/en/sujato "At ease in any quarter, unresisting, content with whatever comes your way; prevailing over adversities, dauntless, live alone like a horned rhino."20 Sep 2025 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzad3jzv2s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lyksujta4c2wThe benefit of the 🤡 is the threat of pulling back the veil revealing what we've come to believe we would dread to see. Let the 🤡 pull back the veil. Behind the veil, there's nothing there to fear. The veil itself is the cause of fear. 😇🙏11 Sep 2025 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyksujta4c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lykru352zc2y"[T]he dispelling of discontent is the means for the meditative attainments." 😇🙏11 Sep 2025 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykru352zc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lxli3vbjas2ihttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/death-is-not-a-problem-to-solve/30 Aug 2025 02:01 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxli3vbjas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3luuplrojvc2phttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/fi-ouy-tknhi-sit-faek-nad-dnot-agere-thrwo-in-smoe-ausp-ociius-disnchry-necioty/26 Jul 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3luuplrojvc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3ltryhrkk5k2ohttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/there-is-no-broken-toy-to-fix/12 Jul 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltryhrkk5k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lt6csmnadc24https://www.asheyana.org/walking-the-wakeful-path-home/3-meditative-focuses/eight-foundations-of-mindfulness/2-mindfulness-of-senses/10-mindfulness-of-reflexive-action04 Jul 2025 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt6csmnadc24https://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lsuu2b46xs2qhttps://www.asheyana.org/walking-the-wakeful-path-home/3-meditative-focuses/eight-foundations-of-mindfulness/1-mindfulness-of-body/9-mindfulness-of-volitional-action01 Jul 2025 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsuu2b46xs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3ls7dsfttuk2lhttps://exertionriver.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/the-man-pushed-too-far/22 Jun 2025 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls7dsfttuk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lr564iaf7s2nhttps://www.asheyana.org/walking-the-wakeful-path-home/3-meditative-focuses/eight-restraints-of-mindfulness09 Jun 2025 00:54 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr564iaf7s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/exertionriver.bsky.social/post/3lq5p2j7ylc2b"When cattle ford a river, if the bull goes straight, they all go straight, because their leader is straight. "So it is for humans: when the one deemed chief does the right thing, what do you expect the rest to do? The whole country sleeps at ease, when the king is just.” https://suttacentral.net/an4.70/en/sujato27 May 2025 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:n7odurtzhui647bpwgrcsum6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq5p2j7ylc2b