Without the demand for meaning, life becomes something to experience rather than explain. Each moment is simply what it is, without requiring layers of interpretation or significance. This can lead to a more present, open approach to life, where every experience is accepted without judgment.

One of the hard problems: "What is the meaning of life?" ( Read more... )

I am nothing

I was nothing, and I will return to nothing,

that I can see and feel a substantial self, is only

temporary,

which cult is next -- which cult of immortality --

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pleasure and pain are two sides of the same empty coin

One of those nights when I fell asleep early and hard, and then woke up way way too early for the rest of the world ( Read more... )

is letting go of the outcome

I don't think most practitioners would agree

I'd swap my lifespan for that of a dog, I wish I could've granted Dax 56 years, but I've already lived these years, I cannot swap

maybe we already swapped, and will again

Earlier this week, when I was feeling stress about the upcoming quarterly meeting with my Boss, T said to me -- don't pregrieve, don't presuffer ( Read more... )

So, I snuggled B to sleep, but I'm still up, and ... ... starting to play with toys at midnight LOL ... ... I have to drive him home in the morning, but morning is elastic, he could work here for a while he said, so what if I stayed up playing with toys for a while ( Read more... )

It "felt like" 2° outside as I woke this morning. After peeing I went to the sunroom to check on the temperature there -- the space heater did its job of keeping temps in the 40s. I could temporarily bring the six plants all the way inside, instead ( Read more... )

This week, the Swiss government backed labeling Hamas a terrorist organization,They've given up their historic neutrality! First siding with Ukraine in 2022, now siding with Israel in 2023 ( Read more... )

I found this film by accident, K sent me a blog post by a film critic who's been having a helluva bad year, and in a different post she listed this film as a film about resilience, and I'd specifically listed in an answer to a questionnaire about management challenges I've been having -- a challenge relating to resilience, and her review of the ( Read more... )