Tag: Buddha
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Musings
I like to quality-check my actions by assessing if they’re ethical and functional within a given context. The rest of it—religion, mysticism, supernatural, etc. etc.—can be added on later. I’ve seen too many people led astray by their idea of how things “truly are,” to not assess each situation as a separate set of circumstances.
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We see the same archetypes over and over—the same heroes and villains in different masks and different guises. I’m not concerned with creating something wholly new so much as arranging these proven devices into a resonant configuration, so that they’ll channel transcendence to whoever beholds them.
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The seconds that pass, even as I type this, are tools and opportunities. The question of how I arrange them, how I direct them, how I can enjoy them most across the span of time… Asking that question infuses me with meaning.
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Being able to manage “screwups” by recognizing their potential and relegating them to an area where they can do no harm and still produce benefits is an invaluable skill. It’s actually one that I use on myself. Because I know in certain contexts, I can function with confidence, and in others, I had best step…
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Those deep lessons at the bottom of every craft, the ones that are revealed through the pursuit of excellence… I’m starting to think they could be roughly defined as “the Art of Life.”
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I used to be addicted to video games, until I started exploring the wider possibilities of life, both with my body and my mind. It’s unbelievable—the heights of pain and pleasure, glory and triumph, humanity and brutality…the unchecked potential contained within 7 billion+ laughably fragile flesh-forms who live atop a spinning blue marble in the…
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If nothing matters over a sufficiently long span of time, then I might as well figure out what is functional, pair it with what I deem to be ethical, and do those things. The other stuff just doesn’t seem as interesting or relevant.
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When people continue to make the same kind of mistakes over and over, I treat them as if they have no free will. I put controls in place to make sure they don’t cause harm, but I don’t condemn them as being blatantly disrespectful, and I try to be kind to them. Why? Because I…
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From what I understand, knowledge can come from the vile and the holy, from the ugly and the beautiful. Even if it’s “evil,” it can be used defensively, as a shield against those with malicious intentions. Another way to say it would be: I’m pretty sure that knowledge doesn’t have cooties.
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When I feel resonance in my writing, it isn’t because I’ve simply written what I believe to be true, or what I believe to be exciting. It’s because I’ve gone to war with every misconception within my own mind that I’m capable of perceiving, and done my best to address them at the moment I…
Kent Wayne 