the neoliberal ideology
wound me up
to find
the most profitable
career
that still fit
within my then-moral
compass

so ... let's wrap this up,

a third of my life later, here's the takeaway:

my Ego threatened to destroy the universe, that's the game we played last time, and I blinked, I compromised, I made peace, I've been making peace for a third of my life,

my Ego is afraid of me doing daily meditation, so my Ego was/is/will threaten[ing] the end of the universe, ( Read more... )

A big reason why I'm less worried about heading down a potentially dangerous zazen path these days is because I live with somebody who is a meditation teacher, who runs his own meditation group, and who is seeking further training from other accredited meditation teachers (I essentially lent him the $$$$ for his tuition, and paid for his trip to ( Read more... )