Tag: Buddha

A wave of adversity—properly framed and strategically utilized—can be used to lift someone out of the trough of meaningless and incapability.

Being able to reliably produce positive outcomes is powerful. Being able to expand the scope/reach of those outcomes is REALLY powerful. Being able to articulate the reasoning/methodology (the why and how) of those outcomes is INCREDIBLY powerful. And if you can do all three at once?  That’s damn near a superpower.

If I can admit I don’t know, I am someone who can be taught. If I can evaluate and measure, I am someone who can assess. If I can initiate action, I am someone who can solve.

The arguments that sway me are borne from results and example.  I’m drawn to those who don’t just articulate principles, but embody them.  And so this is how I try to frame my arguments:  by achieving my objectives.  (It’s actually pretty relaxing.  I get stuff done, and unless it pertains to a specific task, I…

I don’t claim to be “detached from my body” or “spiritual (or not).”  I see [diet/spirituality exercise/writing/school/work/sleep/meditation/all activities] as interrelated pieces that bring me toward harmony.  Ultimately, I see the time and focus I apportion to each of them as my best expression of being.

Regardless of how fast I’ve run or how cleverly I’ve hidden, pain and suffering have found me and punished me without fail.  But when I stand tall, admit fault, figure out why something happened and decide on a sound course of action to address it accordingly, I find that pain and suffering were never really…

Man, in the short term, being angry and righteous feels SO good!  But unless it’s the rare exception where those two qualities are actually useful, I’d rather focus on achieving my objective.

For me, the greatest pleasure comes not from short-term gratification, but from engaging in a pursuit that may be painful, that may induce suffering, but ultimately, makes pain and suffering into worthwhile burdens.

The rough ore of pain and failure holds great potential, for through introspection and experimentation, we can turn that ore into the polished gem of realized insight and applicable knowledge.

To those who feed their darkness by refusing to acknowledge it, light becomes a source of ignorance, and transcendence remains an unknowable riddle.