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““The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”” — Bertrand Russell
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““Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”” — Joan Didion
The full fruition of Zen arises as it disappears.
Everything we need to know, or can understand about consciousness, is contained within the experience of consciousness itself.
““But by what immediate apprehension can we grasp this principle that is higher than intelligence? We may answer that we apprehend it by that part...
Good morning. Wet and lush after the rain.
“Originally no Zen. Thank you. Go home. Drink tea.” — Zen saying
You can’t follow The Way, you are The Way.
““Fanaticism is always a compensation for hidden doubt.”” — Carl Jung
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““Paradox is a characteristic of the Gnostic writings. It does more justice to the unknowable than clarity can do, for uniformity of meaning robs the...
““Refusal of The Call Often in actual life, and not infrequently in the myths and popular tales, we encounter the dull case of the call...
Bob’s favourite spot.
AI, neither this nor that
I’m currently reading a couple of blogs which talk about AI in two very different and contrasting ways. Loud Thinking is pragmatic, down to earth...
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The DJ tonight played Miss You by The Rolling Stones which always reminds me when Prince was once asked what Rolling Stones song he wished...
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You have to write the story of your life before you can forget it and leave it behind.
Toast just likes looking but not going out.
The other side
One day, a young monk approached Joshu and asked, "Master, what happens when we die?" Joshu replied, "I don't know." The monk was surprised. "But...
Four legged animals who have lost a limb just get on with it.
One of my favourite books, Nothing to Grasp, has just been republished.
This is… fun? 😕 “The real danger is not that machines will trick you. The real danger is that you will trick yourself into thinking...
Dog & door.
There is a there there, but when you're there, there's nothing there.
Another beautiful day…This morning accompanying my son as he drives to the train station to pick up his girlfriend to bring her home for the...
At a certain point your life becomes its own entertainment.
““And so, if we become convinced that consciousness is Fundamental, we will realize that we have always been in direct contact with the most fundamental...
““It may, in fact, be impossible to talk about any aspect of the universe objectively, because the universe is ultimately defined by different perspectives on...
Dog & dinner.
Tears are just tears
The Zen master Tokusan had a wife whom he deeply loved. When she died, he was found by his disciples weeping and wailing loudly. One...
There’s a reason why people who go travelling to find themselves never do. Because there’s no one to find. Or even anyone to do the...
This is fun. The Threshold And The Mask. A fictional dialogue between Alan Watts, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Robert Saltzman written by ChatGPT-4.o.
““Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”” — Werner Heisenberg
Just sit
Just sit. And listen. And watch. Shit just happens doesn’t it?! All those thoughts and images and memories and plans all just appear from… where? ...
If you don’t know what to do next just wait and see what you do next.
With no proper rain for weeks now, the brook is just about managing a trickle.A very different story to the winter floods…
My greatest regret? Taking life too seriously.
““What we are looking for is what is looking.”” — Francis of Assisi
AI/ LLM’s reveal how integral and intertwined language is with the world, how we are partly made of language. It demonstrates the illusion of duality...
““The surest sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness.”” — Michel de Montaigne
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It’s all just shtick.
The problems caused by thoughts are not solved by more thinking.
