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Relating to the Giant Sequoias

January 14, 2018 1 Comment read Life, Tao
Relating to the Giant Sequoias

Drawing rays of relation from natural facts about Giant Sequoia trees to myself, to society as a whole, and to Taoism. Being reminded that only from stillness and emptiness does the fullness of change emerge. Being is born of non-being.

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Defining Spirituality and The Science of Enlightenment (Part 1)

September 6, 2017 0 Comments read Tao
Defining Spirituality and The Science of Enlightenment (Part 1)

Clearing up “spirituality” and the terminology surrounding it, including meditation, mindfulness, mysticism, and enlightenment, mostly with help from Shinzen Young’s book The Science of Enlightenment.

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How I Went From the External to the Internal: My Journey in “Fitness”

June 11, 2017 2 Comments read Fitness
How I Went From the External to the Internal: My Journey in “Fitness”

I’d like to share how I became my own healer and the almost fairy tale way of how the path of fitness brought me from the external to the internal.

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ARE YOU ONE?

May 27, 2017 0 Comments read Fitness, Life
ARE YOU ONE?

Thoughts on walking and disembodiment, electric self-balancing scooters, unicycles, and hoverboards. And a perfect example of absurd marketing.

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Muses Don’t Look Out Airplane Windows

April 10, 2017 3 Comments read Life
Muses Don’t Look Out Airplane Windows

I have to share a recent account of disenchantment, a condition I feel largely borne of disembodiment, and disembodiment endemic of perhaps 99% of the world.

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