Tag: Buddha
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Musings
In my experience, low doors are often the only way to escape low places. I take what I can get as a strategic move—not to settle, but to attain elevation so I can reach higher up, and continue ascending.
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In the parlance of warfare, procrastination is sitting back and letting the entropic forces of life maneuver on your position. They seek to take your high ground—the time you have left, your creative potential—a second at a time, making it less and less likely you’ll hit your objective. But even if you’re doomed to failure,…
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In the beginning, it’s incredibly useful to worship what I call “intermediary gods” (ideals like toughness, gurus, discipline, etc. etc.), but as one progresses, it’s very likely they will encounter nuanced situations where those ideals become hindrances. It doesn’t mean they should abandon these ideals, it just means that if they cling blindly to them…
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What if—at our cores—we’re secretly parts of an all-powerful being that purposefully limited itself, so that it could experience the joy of rediscovering its own power? Then all of existence would simultaneously be the cruelest, most empowering game we ever decided to play. Because collectively—at our all-powerful cores—we CHOSE to experience every atrocity, every…
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I’ve been one of those people who let the years go by, promising myself day after day I’m going to do this or that…and never getting it done. I hate being that person, so even if I’m restricted to spending a single minute in the day working toward my goals, I consider that a minute…
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I make it a point to indulge responsibly and routinely, but I can honestly say that some of the most miserable times in my life were when I qualified as a comfort junkie. And conversely, some of the best times in my life were when I was right in the thick of it, working my…
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I’m all for brutal honesty/assessment, in order to take accurate stock of the situation and craft a better strategy. And I’m all for tricks and tips, to explore possible pathways to increase my efficiency. But from what I see in my own failures—and the failures of others—these seem to be secondary concerns. The primary concern…
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Regarding matters of day-to-day routine, it’s pretty easy (most times) to articulate the next right thing to do, harder to actually do it, and much harder to do it under stress. And if you can do it without extrinsic pressure or for no immediate reward…well from what I’ve seen, that’s damn near a superpower.
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Those who are shackled to [doctrine/grammar/etiquette/ritual] and use it as blind justification for their ill-thought-out actions will invariably fail to grasp the true depths of strategy, and how to effectively break rules.
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My opinion is that if you truly learn your lesson, you will no longer think of a teacher as your “better,” or “someone special,” but simply as a friend. (I think this is what Buddha meant when he said he’d reincarnate as “maitreya,” which means friend. Or in other words: even the “highest spiritual being”…
Kent Wayne 