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If you must hold on, hold lightly And when it’s time, let go

“Zen is feeling life not feeling something about life. – Alan Watts” I think I’m paraphrasing but you get the point.

https://youtu.be/odFAiCHIq3M Currently reading Ryokan’s One Robe, One Bowl. Jayasara reads these ‘wisdom texts’ so beautifully.

This pretty much sums up where I’m at right now… “It’s over, the “buddhas and patriarchs” disease That once gripped my chest. Now I’m just...

I’ve recently started using the new (improved) Reeder app. What I like about it is that it blurs the boundaries between content sources by allowing...

“No ontology in the history of humankind has been or is more metaphysical than materialism. Unlike all spiritual or religious ontologies ... the objective realm...

“Sometimes I am a philosopher, sometimes a religious person, sometimes a monk, sometimes an educator, sometimes a whiskey-drinker. – Taisen Deshimaru "Sometimes I am a...

The true, hidden origin of the so-called 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'

“Philosophers of mind talk much about the so-called 'Hard Problem of Consciousness.' But is it a real, objective problem to be solved, or… The true,...

Every so often I start a new blog like this one. For some reason I just stopped posting to my previous blog, As It Is....

To celebrate his blog’s 30th birthday I’ve started following Dave Winer’s Scripting News again, as well as his new Wordpress/ Fediverse ‘node’ Daveverse. He’s very...

Currently re-watching Gomorrah (La Serie) for the umpteenth time. It’s one of the few series that bears repeated viewing, alongside The Wire and Succession. Had...

This is Toast. She’s 15 years old. Her current features include arthritis, thyroid problems, deafness and a 50 metre walking range. She’s my only son’s...

I’ve no idea what I’m going to be posting here and that’s fine. Here’s a snap of the aurora my wife took last night.

“Nothing happens in which you are not entangled. Carl Jung”

“Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we...