Tag: Buddha

Art is the practice of using [keypads/paintbrushes/voices/bodies/etc.] to accurately beam feelings, concepts, and entire worlds into each others’ brains.   In a sense it’s a form of telepathy, and IMHO, we’d be remiss to not take advantage of it.  

The key to precision is being disciplined and aware:  The discipline to grind away, and the awareness to know when to relax.

When we are faced with cravings and urges, we are tempted by two traps:  to indulge or deny.   But luckily for us, there’s a way out:  to accept and to channel.  

I’m trying not to wait for the crack of the whip to keep driving me around the base of the mountain until I stumble up it by accident.   I’m trying to fixate on that sky-limned peak, and though each step may steal my breath and fatigue my legs, steam up that sucker with glorious…

It is easy to do nothing but perpetuate, but when we are at our best we go beyond; we CREATE.   And when we do so, we loose ourselves from the shackles of perpetuation.

Suffering can be a powerful tool; few things incentivize me to action more than suffering. I don’t seek it…but if it comes along, I try to make use of it.

People use various [meditations/rituals] to block out distractions that keep them from “stillness,” but I believe that approach is a halfway measure;  [mediation/ritual] is not designed to “block out” distraction; it is designed to evolve someone to the point where they can incorporate ANY STIMULUS into their mental flow… So that they can see past the illusory…

We neurotically buttress ourselves against suffering and death, but end up suffering or dying regardless.  So given these inevitabilities, why not follow our hearts?  Why not try and glimpse what has been hinted at by wise people; what we know (somewhere deep in our hearts) will make light and dark, suffering and comfort, death and…

As we grow older we are forced to choose between rusting…or sharpening.