There is the mental category śāṭhya in Buddhism, a kind of dishonesty that is always bad.

There is ‘allowed lying’ within games, like the card game ‘Cheat’ (or B.S.), or social deduction games. The vow extends to these sorts of ‘allowed deception’ games - I won’t play (or lie within) them.

There are cases like a trusted doctor lying to a patient as a last-resort to save their life, that can be beneficial. The vow extends to these cases - I won’t lie even to spare lives. I think it’s relatively more beneficial for me to set this extra commitment of honesty, though I don’t think it’s necessarily beneficial for others to take this sort of vow.

I gave Coyote permission to lie to me whenever he wants, because I trust him like that. This is from a personal view though, that he’s an enlightened bodhisattva.

The person who assaults me is watching my activity here.

I have been. I wish people would give me more opportunity to establish peace & prosperity for others too.

Don’t despair - good does happen. Present intention is the means.

Buddhism is all mental health. I’m interested in repairing a bike, for easier travel.

I get repetitive strain from typing, and mudras help stretch out the hands & so forth. There is the channel Three Vajras on YouTube, a resource for mudras.

In the karmic view, generosity automatically returns merit (good karma), which is more guaranteed than money. Money isn’t necessarily valuable - e.g. monetary systems collapsing, theft.

I’m specifying ‘from humans’ partly because I often pray to deities for food, e.g. Yellow Jambhala.

There’s also findhelp.org, which seems similar. I’ve looked into resource directories, and tried out many places, and typically it takes more energy going to & using these places than the food given. Doing routes through garbages has been more reliable, convenient, & nourishing, despite the obvious uncleanliness.

It’s normal for people to be openly abusive toward me, including authorities, such that I don’t consider it appropriate attempting to socialize casually in-person. This is partly why I limit speaking publicly online. It can also be challenging finding a window where I’m able to travel and attend events, e.g. because being overexerted & undernourished is normal. I doubt any of these places are in walking distance. There’s an issue of available places requiring more energy to walk to than the food refills, and I’m used to routines of foraging for food from the ground or in garbages. People often don’t tolerate foraging from public garbages though, and can get violent about it. Solitude has been good for me, though isn’t a strict requirement.

I follow Buddhist ethics, prayed to Ratnasambhava Buddha to guide and protect the backyard qua refuge, and want to make a miniature flower-box stupa for insects/birds. Regarding the miniature flower-box stupa, note in the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha says:

Those who made rock stupas,
Stupas out of sandal, aloe, deodar, and other woods,
As well as brick, tile, mud, and other materials;
All those who made buddha stupas
Out of piles of earth in desolate places;
And even children in play
Who made buddha stupas out of heaps of sand—
All such people have certainly attained
The path of the buddhas.

I don’t have a sure ranking of what is the worst thing I’ve done. Tentatively, I think the worst is when living in my first apartment over a decade ago, I bought traps to poison cockroaches there. I don’t think I learned the perception of them as sentient beings at the time. I also think having done catch-and-release fishing during childhood is relatively high, e.g. there were also fish that died after swallowing the hook.

If anyone has doubts, they can say. I’m used to being cross-examined, and know how to speak precisely & carefully. I’ve been preferring to limit language-communication to public writing online.

My email is just beumuth@gmail.com, though I much prefer the tree-style form of communication like here over email.

My favorite Star Trek character is Seven of Nine, though I haven’t fully watched the series.

I’m interested in both meditation & technology. Meditation can be like a spaceship, in that it can give powers like transporting to different places, or contacting relatively ‘alien’ beings. Though, I think it’s possible for technology to induce meditation much more conveniently than e.g. changing lifestyle in order to learn how to meditate.

There’s an LGBTQ reading of the film Toy Story (1995) that I’m unsure has been considered. One element is how “to infinity and beyond” references the transfinite numbers; there’s allusion to Alan Turing, and AI is a topic.

The HDMI port still works on this Chromebook, despite the built-in screen being unusable. Though, this was supposed to be a temporary while a Linux laptop that was destroyed in violence was being replaced; that Linux laptop that was destroyed was a replacement for another that was destroyed in violence, which was a replacement I paid for from one that was stolen from me, which was a replacement for an old laptop I needed to abandon when entering homelessness. I’m requesting my father/family to replace it, which I think is appropriate. Though, there’s a higher issue of an intolerance toward generosity. I’m of the view of so-called Dharmic religions (e.g. Buddhism) that there is an underlying law of karma such that generosity results in karmic merit that guarantees pleasant results. Everything I do in my career I offer freely. Money often seems like virtue training wheels, and it’s bothersome to even have to regard. I took vows several years ago to refrain from handling tangible currencies (e.g. cash or cards), and to refrain from entering commercial buildings.

I have a roughly 10ft by 10ft porch attached to a 10ft by 10ft open yard area. Following ethics of abstaining from killing beings & abstaining from destroying plant life has lead to designing the back yard qua ecological refuge/shrine, qua bodhisattva. I’m wanting to request advice & material support regarding some of the modules & micro-modules, as future posts - e.g. lining the small hanging solar-powered bird(/insect) bath with sepum & elfin thyme. More immediately, I really need the Linux laptop replaced and for my bike to be repaired.

I’m ready for non-hostility.

Genocide affects groups & individuals, and doesn’t require a total erasure. Bahanna culture is tattered & stained with past & ongoing genocides, as well as mass-destruction of animals. Regarding ‘the five precepts’ in Buddhism, Bahanna culture seems addicted to killing, stealing, sexual-misconduct, dishonesty, & alcohol. I regard the word ‘Bahanna’ (etymology: borrowed from Hopi) qua essential gift. There’s odd, & there’s evil/unskillful.

I’m going to somehow need the laptop replaced; I’m unsure how much the remaining rectangle of screen.will stay (semi-)functional. There is plenty law enforcement in my family. The context is entangled in citizen ethics as well, e.g. I don’t think it’s necessarily appropriate for law enforcement to attempt to just intervene & resolve things. I’m going to request my father to help replace the laptop for now. Particularly, I need a higher-end Linux laptop; have a four-year degree in programming, and have been on a computer since I was two. Though, I don’t want to have to keep being financially dependent on my father. Without having used any violence, the person who was attacking me is now feeling regretful; he’s emotionally volatile, the context can be very overwhelming for him. Others also encourage him to be violent or intolerant toward me, and again it isn’t abnormal for people to treat me this way in general. In the culture I’m in, people often force/persuade loved ones to attack other loved ones.

I’m being targeted with genocide, such that it can become dangerous just me speaking/being in places. I often report on misconduct in my experience. Because of this, I am requesting permission, because I’m unsure if that’s going to be too much for people. I recently read the article "Bisbee Deportation" on Wikipedia, which I think is a part of the context.

There are people & cultures that don’t recognize the existence of ‘male homosexuality’. This can vary from denying that it exists within humans, within nature, or as a sort of category. There’s also those that recognize it as a category, though as something disallowed or punishable. And, there’s also those who disprefer the sexuality for other reasons, and are intolerant of it.

My ethnicity, as I’ve been told, is half Puerto Rican, a quarter Ukrainian, and a quarter English/Scottish. There are those who aren’t tolerant ‘ethnic mixing’, as one example, which I think is influenced by how ethnic category systems can force a sort of divisive choosing here.