Many who understand that enlightenment cannot be possessed because it is the dissolution of the possessor turn to the Buddhist path of the bodhisattva to help dissolve themselves. A bodhisattva is one who experiences nirvana—the selfless state free of suffering—but refuses the call to live in that freedom so that he or she may help […]
What is acting but pretending to be another persona, be it person or anthropomorphized other? The actors with the most depth are in touch with their feelings. You cannot understand another person’s feelings until you understand your own, and you cannot understand your own feelings and not understand another’s. The two understandings are one understanding; […]
I once had a nineteen-year-old roommate who spent hours upon hours of her average day playing a video game called The Sims. The Sims is a game in which players create regular life situations for their characters and watch them perform menial tasks, like taking out the trash, feeding the family pet, doing dishes, eating, […]
Repeal and Replace is one of the Washington, D.C. catch phrases for 2017. It is used in reference to the republican agenda to do away with former president Obama’s healthcare system. They don’t want to fix what they say is wrong with it, they want to get rid of it altogether and replace it with […]
Children projecting imaginary friends and situations is a fractal version of Spirit being/inhabiting all things. It also illustrates how you—the self, the thinker—really do not exist. You are only ever thought, not an entity separate from it. The egoic self is not more than thought—the thought that mistakes itself for a thinker. This is […]