Tag: Buddha

Existence is fractal; the same themes and designs repeat themselves on multiple scales and iterations.  But that’s not an excuse to lapse into laziness via the phrases, “It’s all love,” or “Everything’s an art,” or whatever other form complacency may take.  Delving deep into life and understanding those undying truths…then skillfully reiterating them in different fashions…It doesn’t…

To me, the idea of discipline is not so much being “good at what you love” as much as learning to love everything…. So that you naturally become good at it.  😉

Beware of those who say they know the answers. Also, beware of those who don’t WANT to know.

Addictions/aversions (IMHO) do not demonstrate lack of energy; on the contrary, it takes INCREDIBLE energy to perpetuate habitual addiction/aversions.  That energy is simply trapped in a static loop.  Once you use [contemplation/meditation/willpower/etc] to hack yourself and undo that loop, that’s when you can tap mind-bending energy.  But you gotta be willing to hack yourself.  And it’s not…

We all ingest suffering.  And whether we’re motivated through desperation or virtue, some of us will digest that negativity into wisdom, ability, or both.  The other things?  The bad habits, grudges, and reactiveness?  You can guess what happens to that stuff.   Don’t forget to flush.  😉

There is nothing in reality we know for sure, and that being the case, we mustn’t wed ourselves to a glittering premise.  Instead, I say let evidence direct us to whatever premise is fitting—dull or shiny—and in this way, we wed ourselves to Truth.  And once that happens?   I hope you believe as I…

Willpower is built through brute repetition—partially.  It’s also built by closing those comforting background programs that are always draining it.  Everyone knows about the willpower upgrades attained through discipline and hard work, but IMHO, to tap the purest store of willpower, we need to mentally defragment ourselves and engage in a psychic cleanup of useless viewpoints/processes.

I can be cultish by INTRODUCING ambiguity (energy/entities/magic), I can be scientifically cynical by DISREGARDING ambiguity (everything must meet a burden of evidence), or I can be spiritual by ACCEPTING ambiguity (being able to function as if a premise is true, but upon seeing contrary evidence, be fluid enough to instantly change my opinion).  I…

My philosophical expressions are only things that I’d like someone else to say to me—whether it be “me” right now, or a past version of myself.  In order to pull this off, however, I have to do my best to actively LIVE this stuff.   F*ck the talk, hail the Walk.

Common platitude:  “Skills take 10,000 hours to master.”  So that means with above average dedication (1 hour per day, no days off), that’s 27.397 years to master ONE SKILL.  That is WAY too long.  BUT:  I believe that within all skills, there exists a core group of abilities—discipline, creative problem solving, fluid analysis (accepting the possibility…