Epigrams
If you want more people in your life that you feel safe with, become a safe person for others.
– 2024
Our spiritual life - built on the conventional life - is not wholly our own - it emerges from our interactions with life: others individuals and the legacy of artifacts and institutions from the past.
At some point this legacy becomes more obvious - there’s a clear attempt at creating memetic lode points, attractors both conceptually and physically in the Buddhist world. To essentially steer society more towards awakening.
To hack the emergence.
– 2024
Do not confuse the goodness of a thing with your own personal relationship with a thing.
– 2024
The hardest problems I’ve discovered so far:
- Choosing where to put my limited energy
- Balancing allowing and efforting
- Accepting the reality of life itself
– 2023
When life leaves and enters this world, attention and the ritual that supports it find their highest resonance.
– 2023
Find the fear, shame, and grief and send them all love.
– 2023
Noticing the ways our relationships change can help us navigate our own evolution.
Letting go of things is also choosing to be happy.
Good vibes are good medicine, unease is contagious, and stillness is the memetic prophylaxis that washes ours and our community’s minds clean.
Trees spread across the globe but we do not say the world is overpopulated by trees. We overpopulate this planet only insofar as we fail to shelter other life. Humans can aspire to be more like trees and mycelium, planetary citizens and ecological stewards.
Samsara in a nutshell: learning to play finite games with the spirit of an infinite player.
Kharma is the latent traces left by consciousness as it moves, the turbulence and wakes within itself. The rippling field of our charged consciousness. Sometimes it is beautiful and sometimes it is awful. There’s a beauty in silence as well. But it is in love that we are redeemed.
Is the narrative of yourself, your plans, a marble monument or a fuzzy thing like an impressionist painting that dances through time?