“I put myself aside to suit the wants of another. That’s kind of noble sounding, but it’s really just fakery… Triggered”
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2023
If we stare into AI don’t we see ourselves reflected back in all our glory and horror, perfect and imperfect? Just another way of chattering...
I read a computer engineer say that AI doesn’t know what it is, what it’s doing or how it’s doing it. I would suggest that...
“Who can tell where it all begins? Beyond the Sun, the Birds and the Hills”
“Thus it is that our worldview is conventional and far from complete. It is just a version of reality, a ‘way of seeing’. Nothing more....
“You can’t get outside yourself to define yourself. You can’t get outside of nature, because you are part of it. Alan Watts”
“This is all there is. This moment right now. This is it. It’s all there ever is and was. This is the entire totality of...
“And how can we know the whole of which we are only a part? Carl Jung”
Our resting place, our true home is always right here, right now under all circumstances in any situation. If it’s not here, now it’s nowhere...
“In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it...
“Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out....
“Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live. One lives as one can. There is no single, definite way...
“Not having a problem with having a problem is to be carefree. Not being uncomfortable about being uncomfortable is comfort. Not being afraid about being...
Here it is right now. Everything as it is. Start thinking about it and you miss it. Try and grasp it and it vanishes.
There is nothing to be done and no doer to do anything. All action simply emerges out of the unknown and we claim ownership after...
Every morning I get up early, go out and walk, and listen and look and sense and feel and think and always with the inquiry...
Take no one else’s word for anything. Find out for yourself. Accept no authority but your own.
If we attend closely and carefully to what is undeniable, paradoxically it reveals all that is unknowable.
