On being human. Our fears, desires, contradictions, and the possibility of living beyond them.
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Everything but the Dragon
Look at how we have spent centuries trying to change the world.
New religions.
New governments.
New political parties.
New ideologies.
Social movements.
Economic systems.
Technologies promising to liberate humanity.
And always, beneath it all, the same old hope.
Someone, or something outside of ourselves, is coming to save us.
We continually change the structures, replace the leaders, rewrite the rules, yet we carry the same fear, greed, division, conflict into whatever we build next.
We want a peaceful world while remaining at war within ourselves.
We want freedom while looking for someone to follow.
We want unity while defending the very identities that divide us.
At some point, we must recognise that we keep expecting something outside of ourselves to do the inner work we are unwilling to undertake ourselves.
This doesn’t mean abandoning the work of changing the world, but recognising that we are the very world we are trying to change.
No revolution can ever happen while inwardly we remain unchanged.
The revolution we keep waiting for is only, and has always been, an inside job.
And here, in the most unlikely of places, we might find others willing to undertake that work together.
Here, in this thing called cryptocurrency, our greed, fear, attachments are so grossly exposed.
This is what interests me about Ryoshi’s philosophy and ethereum:0xc5fb36dd2fb59d3b98deff88425a3f425ee469ed.
Not the promise that a token will liberate us, but the possibility of a community willing to examine its own conditioning while building something together.
A community that recognises the temptation to follow, to accumulate, to defend an identity, and dares to question those impulses in itself.
Let us ask not for another saviour. Just a place to begin.
@RyoshiResearch
ethereum:0xc5fb36dd2fb59d3b98deff88425a3f425ee469ed 🐉
The Unknown
Fear of the “unknown” is almost always fear of losing the accumulated known (relationships, status, beliefs, security, pleasures). The known creates the fear of its loss.
In essence, when we emerge from thinking, fear cannot exist.
If something goes so called ‘wrong’ today, notice if a whole verdict arrives. “Not good enough. Typical. Bastard. Bitch. Woe is me.” That kind of thing.
It feels like a fact. But it’s more like something happening that can be watched and felt: a tight chest, a hot face, an old series of sentences or images.
When we can watch it without arguing, it usually passes quicker than the verdict suggested.
And as if by magic, life is life’ing once again :)
For years we might want people to really see us.
In that we may recognise we have mostly stopped looking at ourself, hoping someone else would do it for us.
Then we can start to see ourselves, properly, first. Less dramatic. But more restful.
“MEDITATION is one of the greatest arts in life, perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody. That is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy, if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation. So meditation can take place when you are sitting on a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your wife, husband or child.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I've sorted my sleep, then I'll be ok.
When work settles down, then I'll be ok.
When I get a raise, then I’ll be ok.
When I’m 12%, body fat, then I’ll be ok.
When I am finally seen, then I'll be ok.
The "then" keeps moving, always just out of reach. The carrot on the stick.
The “ok” we are waiting for “then” is one we can feel “now”, if we can just see clearly the insatiable conditions we set for ourselves
One spark.
An almighty awakening.
$TSUKA 🐉
Let's have a 👀 at $TSUKA
The Bollinger Band has narrowed significantly—even more so than it was during the last major upturn.
At the same time, we see a double-bottom pattern on the RSI.
Everything suggests that a tiny spark is all it will take for the dragon to take flight.
Imagine discovering $TSUKA today, then uncovering its extraordinary history.
Some stories are too compelling to remain obscure forever.
The Dragon is one of them. 🐉
Appetite for Destruction
Not of the world.
Of the center.
Ryoshi never asked to be followed.
He called himself a nobody, owned nothing, left no keys, and vanished exactly as he had promised. The hand that began the thing refused to become the cage around it. What remained was the flame, carried forward by those who understood that the throne was always empty.
That was the original appetite: the deliberate dismantling of every structure that demands a center, and every story that tells you there is a special self that must be protected.
$TSUKA, $NEMO, and $KIZUNA are downstream of the same impulse.
The dragon does not rule. It burns away what no longer serves.
The fish does not lead. It swims as nobody and as everyone.
The crane holds the bond that appears only after hierarchy falls away.
Those who hold them have (consciously or not) already chosen the side that takes the old forms apart: centralised power, intermediary control, the ego that still wants a name to sit above the rest. They have chosen the work of removing what is not real so that what is real can be known.
Ryoshi called it the gift of yourself. The process of self-actualisation on the blockchain
Milarepa lived it: the destruction of the old self so the true one could appear.
The same gesture continues on the chain: every admin key renounced, every founder cult refused, every clinging identity released.
The center was never the point.
The space it left behind is.
Step into it.
@RyoshiResearch
The choice remains yours.
Conviction that depends on someone else is borrowed. Ideas must be able to outlive their creators.
Hold only what you can release. What you cannot walk away from, owns you.
A community does not need permission to exist. It forms through participation, not proclamation.
And the real test comes when the incentives disappear. What remains when nobody is buying, nobody is watching and there’s nothing left to gain?
A culture that survives only favourable conditions was never a culture of any substance.
$TSUKA 🐉 The creator is not the centre.
$NEMO SUM 🐟Nobody is everybody.
$KIZUNA 🪽 The bond is the substance.
Understanding this is easy. Living it is the work.
Stop waiting for permission. Become the beginning.
Excellently McAfee points towards a very basic and yet powerful noticing practice.
The event is over, yet the mind keeps recreating it through resentment, anger, the need to be right etc…
We mistake this for responding to what happened, when usually we are unnecessarily keeping it alive.
Letting go is just refusing to keep suffering over something that is no longer happening.
We cannot change the past, but we can change our relationship to it.
In a word, sovereignty.
$TSUKA
John McAfee被问了无数次“成功的秘诀”，终于懒得再装了。
他直接说：你不会喜欢这个答案。
许多人终其一生都在拼命努力、频繁试错、疯狂内卷，结果依然在原地打转。
不是能力不够，也不是机运未到。
因为你本质上是一个被死死拴在海底的气球。
气球生来就该向上浮。
真正把你按在深水区窒息的，不是天赋的贫瘠，而是你身上的负重：
恐惧、怨恨、失望，以及对受害者身份的执念。
这些烂绳子不斩断，你再怎么折腾，也绝不可能浮出水面。
斩断它们，你浮到顶端只是一种物理必然。
McAfee 给出的解法极其冷酷，只有一句话：
立刻切断，绝不恋战。
伴侣惹毛你、合伙人背刺你，如果你在 10 秒钟内还无法翻篇，这局你就已经彻底输了。
因为那已经是过去。
10 秒前是过去，10 小时前是过去，10 年前同样是过去。
在这个物理世界里，过去根本不存在。
你每多愤怒一秒，都是在用现在的生命，为死掉的幽灵支付巨额租金。
停止反刍，停止怨恨，剪掉所有往下拉扯你的下坠力量。
困住你的从来不是残酷的外部世界，而是你自己死死攥着、舍不得松手的那根烂绳子。
The measure of the path is what hardship reveals and transforms within us.
Conviction without certainty. Perseverance without blind attachment.
The path changes the one who walks it.
Look into the eyes of the Dragon.
$TSUKA 🐉
Not every journey is meant to be understood.
Some will question the path.
Others will walk away.
But conviction is built through uncertainty, not comfort.
Keep believing. Keep moving forward.
The journey is the destination.
⛩️ $TSUKA
Genuinely sad to see this account go.
In a sea of noise, degeneracy, speculation, self-promotion and endless shilling, @Innerdevcrypto was one of the very few voices I consistently trusted and felt better for having listened to.
He consistently held the line and kept pointing towards something more important than most things that are discussed in this space.
Look inside.
Understand yourself. Question your conditioning. Take responsibility for your own consciousness.
Crypto speaks endlessly about freedom and sovereignty, yet so little about the inner development required to realise and enjoy either.
I hope those who resonate with his message will find the courage to speak up and carry that conversation forward.
The space needs more people who care about truth, integrity and genuine human development.
Thank you for being one of them @Innerdevcrypto.
🙏
Rise, $TSUKA community!
Create.
Contribute.
Make yourselves heard.
The Dragon’s story is ours to tell 🐉
NGL, $TSUKA looks really good.
Crazy how this is still sitting at $1M MC. Maybe the community needs to wake up and start working for their bags. Feels like an old school gem, but the X content could definitely be better.
Most of these are culturally hollow. Memes without meaning.
How about a coin with some philosophical depth for a change?
Something that stands for more than speculation, hype and the next wave of retail liquidity.
$TSUKA $NEMO $KIZUNA
