by orchaeus | Feb 8, 2021 | Status Update
I have often heard experienced Zen teachers say something like ‘Go straight ahead’. I noticed yesterday that most of the misery I experience in my mind is related to ‘looking backwards’ (in time) and preserving what I had previously derived...
by orchaeus | Feb 8, 2021 | Status Update
“Did you hear the news?” “No, I was listening to living beings.” “But don’t you…” “No, actually, I don’t.”
by orchaeus | Feb 8, 2021 | Status Update
Some find it deeply upsetting that dogs may eat feces. I think that their interest in shit is actually profound in ways we’ve not yet been willing to imagine. But, in general, I’m a lot more concerned about humans and news than dogs and poop. I mean, dogs...
by orchaeus | Feb 8, 2021 | Status Update
Survival is a goal that is only interesting within a crisis. In ordinary, day-to-day existence, survival becomes a tedium of unfulfilled moments strung together by nothing worth remembering. Adventure, the opportunity to enact excellence and virtue… deep...
by orchaeus | Feb 8, 2021 | Shared Link
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/02/can-talking-to-plants-help-us-talk-to-aliens/”Scientific evidence shows that plants are capable of intelligent behavior, particularly communication with each other via chemical signaling, root systems, and more. But an...
