Tag: buddhism

My unavoidable death seems to make life into a time-bounded game. Over the scope of eons (still a blip in the eye of the cosmos) our worries become smaller and smaller, until the simpler things turn from tired cliches into the strongest measure of my personal experience–being present, appreciating the moment, and being genuinely nice…

For most of my life, I’ve focused on everything going wrong (or the potential for it to do so), wallowing in paranoia, condemnation, and exhausting vigilance. Nowadays, I focus on calibrating my perception toward solutions and good fortune, priming my subconscious to seek more of the same. In the cosmically short blip that is my…

Existence could be benevolent or malevolent. There’s plenty of ways to assert either possibility. When it comes to this subject, I like to keep my outlook general and vague, so I don’t stall my brain with a rat’s nest of specifics. So long as there isn’t definitive proof–an inarguable ontology that produces 100% predictability and…

Switching labels/aesthetics can be fun and novel, but I think the most important thing for me is the focus that underlies my words, plans, and justifications. Without a critical mass of positivity, I’ll subconsciously find ways to work against my aims, to make every expression a meaningless gesture that lacks the ability to align to a…

When things have gone awry, I used to inwardly match the urgency of the moment. Over time, I learned that even though I might need to be outwardly frantic, I prefer to internally compose myself as fast as possible. Personally, I get there through acceptance, which may appear as resignation. ”It is what it is,” “that happened,” and…

Since emotions are drivers of my perception (I either can’t think of anything positive when I’m severely depressed, or it all seems futile and not worth trying; or, if I’m in a good mood, it’s hard to dwell on things that infuriate me, or I’m willing to view them as solvable challenges), I believe managing…

To partake in society, we must honor a degree of baseline consensus. But in my opinion, this has nothing to do with existential self worth. In the absence of definitive metaphysical proof, we can’t assign worth in the passage of eons and upheaval of galaxies, where over the possibly incomprehensible span of time, good triggers bad and…

Maybe I’ve fallen into a foolish state of existential trust, but I find that if I build on what I’m given, I’m given more to build with. That doesn’t mean everything has to be put to immediate use, but I do believe there’s value in releasing anger and frustration (for me it’s not so much deliberately…

I’m drawn to writing because of the pleasure that arises from the act itself. There are other activities that come with transactional sacrifice–where I trade present discomfort for future gain–but they tend to become cliched and boring, so I like to use writing as a portal into synchronicity, novelty, and possible transcendence. Those may not be the…

From what I’ve seen, creative expression is an amplification of perspective and belief. It can boost and uplift, invent reasons to suppress or oppress, craft a prison from an overabundance of caution, or liberate the potential in our transient lives. Whatever path is chosen, creativity won’t be denied. But I believe that when it’s channeled into a…