Tag: Buddha

If I goof up or procrastinate, I’ll laugh and grin…but only if it’s the exception and not the rule, because most of the time, I like to trust myself to be productive and sharp.  As far as others go, I like to be as forgiving as possible, because who knows what they’ve gone through?  As…

I believe Life gives people clues.  I believe these clues—gentle at first, but more forceful as time progresses—urge people to stop mindlessly repeating what others have said/done, and to iterate timeless truths in a manner which is both eternal and novel.  And isn’t that the goal of a legit teacher?  Not to have their students…

What if there is no “why” behind anything?  What if there was no [heaven/nirvana/god/enlightenment/etc./etc.] and this was it?  To me, it seems the sensible thing to do in that case would be to enjoy the present moment, apply myself so that I experience fulfillment, and be nice to others.  But if you get down to…

Do whatever floats your boat—a heroic dose of psychedelics, meditation, prayer, ritual, magic, holy quests…my theory is that if you pursue a method to its given end, it’s only going to reveal that everyone/everything is interconnected, and to be brutally honest with yourself to keep your perception clear, which in turn allows you to intuit…

A Zen koan implies that if you encounter [Buddha] on the road, you need to kill him because your perception is divorced from the reality that you ARE [Buddha], and need no teacher or savior.  But what if the idea of “teacher” was just an illusory concept that the all-powerful aspect of ourselves created so…

Symbols hold power over us, right?  Don’t we prefer certain body shapes or high numbers in a bank account because they signify a higher societal status, or the ability to manipulate worldly goods?  (We can go deeper than that, but I’ll stick with those because they’re obvious).  To me that means that if there’s a…

(Feel free to correct me; I don’t understand the math behind science) Strip away the dry connotations that weigh down science and trace its mechanisms down to the frontiers of discovery, where electrons are clouds of probabilities that collapse into points when entangled with observation, or how electrons don’t move between orbits but teleport onto…

Will existence fall apart without us?  Are humans REALLY that important?  Do we NEED to accomplish this or that?  Take away the urgency of righteousness and epic causes, and every endeavor becomes quantified by whether or not it propagates fulfillment.  The rest is just cool dress-up we can choose to engage in.

Where did “I” begin?  On my birthday?  Or nine months before that, when “I” was conceived?  But didn’t “I” have separate components that existed in my mother and father?  And weren’t those components born from ancestors that were born from the earth that was born from stars that were born from gravitationally condensed gas that…

Within any given instant, it seems that holding myself accountable for my own shortcomings results in immediate frustration and unpleasant truth.  But what’s the alternative?  I’d much rather hold myself accountable than let my shortcomings accumulate and invite some external force to illustrate my ignorance in some catastrophic fashion.  Not only does self accountability increase…