In creating a lineage, it is crucial that the students feel they will never be able to surpass the master. There are of course, creative and competent individuals who could very well re-invent practices, adapt their understanding toward an…
Dinner tastes like cardboard.
1 – If we think about how good breakfast will taste while eating dinner, we won’t taste our dinner. 2 – Not tasting dinner, we imagine dinner doesn’t taste good, and insist that breakfast is better. 3 –…
Living through Maya
The word Maya can mean “to measure”. When we measure anything we focus on one dimension of it’s presence. I am 6ft tall, but that description alone is insufficient. When we look out at the world, we do so through…
Why I love you
We have these moments of clarity, you know – sometimes long after an event. When the perturbations have settled like sand on a beach who’s tide has never again returned high enough to create turbulence and turbidity. Only then, regarding…
Better thinks, no thinks
For every increase in consciousness, there is an increase in sensitivity to both joy and pain. This is the deal life gives, which includes the ability to foresee our own dissolution. To try to slip this deal we feel…
The singular voice and the crowd
A crowd shouting a slogan has one idea. A group discussing has many ideas. If crowd’s idea turns out to be wrong, the crowd cannot course-correct. The means to do that is absent. They can only receive a new slogan…
The group and the individual – Ezra Klein and Sam Harris overview
I listened to Sam Harris’ podcast with Ezra Klein yesterday. A long listen. My summary without the long backstory: Ezra Klein is well informed concerning Charles Murray, and is very concerned about how suggesting differences in intelligence between races…
On Solitude and Speaking to Groups.
If you are in a resonant room alone, sing one note. That note exists apart from a harmony, or a chord played on an instrument. That note has no reference to correct or incorrect pitch, so you can’t say it…
Letting things develop
We used to have so much fun as kids watching the image develop after the Polaroid Instant camera spat out the square, interesting smelling cloud of grey chemicals on a piece of backing paper. In about a minute, the chemicals…
Does suffering create the Buddha?
With each increase in conscious awareness, there lies an increase in responsibility. If you know how to hurt someone, you know also how not to. It therefore becomes harder and harder to call your harmful actions accidental. Falling asleep absolves…