Tag: Buddha

Failures are life’s riddles which, upon being solved, cause you to enter Beast Mode. 😆

Actively teach yourself, actively push yourself, actively question yourself and hold yourself accountable…be ACTIVE.  Eventually, you’ll transcend the need for a guru and the concept of “teacher” will fall away; there will only be guides, and buddies to party with.   No bosses, no masters, no gurus, no holy people…just endless play at an endless party.  😉

We get inundated by answers every second.  And most of us (especially those of us who ironically call themselves “wise”) fight those answers tooth and nail.  I don’t think it’s mass stupidity so much as mass stubbornness. 😉

It’s ironic that so many of us think we need a “cause” or a “mission” to draw a sense of energy and purpose…I believe that when we forgo all desire for causes and missions that we stumble upon the greatest “cause/mission” of all:  To love freely, to laugh with abandon, and to enjoy creating and…

I find that it’s an immense source of energy to place my mind in my dying self and seeing what he is regretful/proud of; that way I can focus on doing something supposedly “unpleasant” in the here and now.   When I consider life this way, inertia actually becomes uncomfortable.  The issue is no longer…

It is not enough to work hard, to feel good; the increasingly crowded earth has shown the need to consider many perspectives and variables.  I suspect that it may be our destiny to embrace complexity, to channel our good intention and purified focus through it… So that in the end, we may come back to what we know…

Many of us resist self-examination by thinking of ourselves as more or less balanced, or within an accepted boundary—“At least I’m not as bad as [so-and-so],” or, “At least I don’t do THAT…”  IMHO this is a counterproductive viewpoint.  Rather than asking myself, “How do I stay comfortable within the margins of society?”  I find it more…

Ignorance isn’t vanquished by beating our chests and sneering at it; it’s vanquished by acknowledging how easily we could have indulged in it.   Because if we were thrown a few chance twists of fate, WE could have been those very people we’re tempted to dismiss as “ignorant.”

There’s no room for perfection in a limitless life (unless it’s already perfect).  😉

There is no “stepping outside” or “detachedly observing” anything; that’s like being the prudish kid at the party who tries to look cool by bobbing his head in the corner.  Conversely, we know the dangers of obsessively identifying with any singular aspect; those are the drunk idiots obsessed with being the center of attention.  What…