Tag: Buddha

Most people try and tailor external circumstances around their mental operating systems.  For individuals with a high caliber of talent/luck, they can keep this up indefinitely.  For the rest of us, it seems that reality will give us clues to look inward and upgrade our systems.  It seems to me that people who ignore those…

(win or learn) or lose.

I know we have to honor our designs—the talents/scars/inclinations that give us clues on how to act on a day-to-day basis.  But when I go to bed at night, I try to remember I’m nothing but a brief idea projected through a hodge-podge of light and matter for a snapshot of time… And man, when…

Some venerate their dreams by waiting years for the just-right circumstance, the just-right alignment of opportunity.  If that produces something worthwhile, then by all means, do it that way.  But more often than not—from what I’ve seen—it doesn’t.  I don’t believe the best way to honor my dreams is to anxiously wait, hoping for the…

I think once the author stops trying to force-write the thing they’d originally intended to write, it opens the possibility for their material to evolve into a better story than they could have ever imagined.

Once it hit home that the matter in my body was formed from exploding stars, that it was billions of years old, and before the birth of the Universe matter and energy may not have even existed (there might not have even been a “before” because time as we know it was instantiated by the…

IMHO, one should never get hooked on having a boss, leader, or teacher.  They’re only there to offer you advice and support so that in the long term, you will experience the glorious privilege of not needing them, and the dubious honor (and enormous headache) of possibly having to be one.

One who doesn’t experiment/test their beliefs will become chained to theory and ideals, and will subsequently be unable to surf the waves of functionality that briefly appear from instance to instance, from context to context.

I’ve heard tons of spiritualists bray, “I am not this body,” and shuck any responsibility to care for the flesh-vehicle that they’ve been gifted with.  I believe that position is woefully shortsighted; I see my body as a marvelous interface I use to interact with physical reality.  While I believe (though I cannot prove) that…

From what I’ve seen, the more people deny the myriad influences of external pressures—their “programming” in other words—the more they seem to get locked into it.