I'm listening to this audiobook C lent me. I don't remember the name, but it is about these four people that meet on the roof of "Toppers" in London. It is a place, like the Golden Gate Bridge, where people famously jump. Anyway, I was thinking about why suicide resonates. Each of the stories potential jumpers despairs her or his future. It ( Read more... )

Sitting this morning on the can taking my morning … (well you know), and reading an article in Buddhist magazine I had a realization. All of our past and future thinking is a denial of the Buddha-nature. (But this is not quit right.) It is the thought that I, the me, that is having the thought is the me of the future or the past and therefore ( Read more... )

It turns out that the journal knows ( Read more... )

About a week ago, I had the strange thought that all comedy involves some sort of self-reference. I think everything that is interesting and worthwhile involves self-reference. Maybe nothing that humans do is free of self-reference. So how does comedy involve S-R?
TEACHER: Willie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten ( Read more... )