The problem with human beings is that very early on we learnt how to cheat.

Is all we're trying to do in this game is wake up. So simple, so natural, so easy. So why don't we? Because we don't really want to.

Humanity's deeper needs: meaning, community, transcendence.

Space peppered with spirit.

Truth is infinite and of the Void.
Knowledge is finite and of the World.

a fart fraught with meaning      (Beckett)

When the teacher gives an instruction you cannot understand, a part of you hasn't woken up yet.

Paradox is the rule, not the exception.

Mind in dantian. When it wanders off just bring it back.

Ever feel suspicious there's a bigger picture we're not quite getting?

From a certain point on, there is no more turning back. This point must be reached.

—Franz Kafka

Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen.

Humble literally means of the ground, earth, soil, dirt, dust

Bene qui latuit bene vixit

Peeling away the scabs of conditioning, worry & ambition, to reveal the truth – a gentle naked spark of awareness.

Ward off: turn aside something threatening; deflect; ward off a blow, trying to ward off a cold      (Merriam-Webster)

I am an archaeologist of morning

What spoils people is thinking (they have a choice)

We don't experience reality, we experience a world.
A world is what we turn reality into with our minds.

a dazed inarticulacy

The ground is our felt-sense of support and stability that lies beneath the body, and therefore our deepest ground is underground. There are different levels to this sense of being grounded. On one level—the most obvious one—we feel rooted in and connected to the earth. Our bodies are earth-bodies, and we are able to feel this earthy connection. Another level, less frequented, is archetypal.

—John Prendergast

A shift from economy to ecology.
From economics to ecologics.

Burn your bridges otherwise as soon as the going gets tough you'll run home to mummy.

Before we work on 

ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

why don't we do

something about

NATURAL

STUPIDITY?

(T-shirt slogan in TLV)

from a transcendent superstructure to an immanent infrastructure

An artist is someone who, for the life of them, cannot conform.

Measure progress in decades.

gratefully & gracefully

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

—Marguerite Duras

Don't waste time with people you don't admire. Life's too short.

The closer we get to the truth, the more difficult it is to face. Only purity can behold truth. Patiently await a moment of grace.

Last week my daughter had an English exam at school. She told me that many of the students had their phones on their laps, typing questions into an AI app, and then copying out the answers. I asked if there was no invigilator present. "Yes there was, but he was on his phone the whole time and didn't notice what people were doing."

Listen quietly in primed readiness. For as long as it takes. This is intelligence.

Internal work is all about changing the mind.

Meditation: Sein und Zeit

Invite spirit in and you'll go crazy. Keep it out and you'll get depressed. It's your choice. In fact it's the only choice.

An artist, in the act of creation, becomes a conduit for spirit. 

The same for us as we perform the Taiji Form.

I call it heightened awareness – the intense listening that draws spirit into the mix.

behold beingness, that most sacred of treasures

—Don Domanski

GRAVITY
I sink into Earth
Earth rises into me
LEVITY
I rise to Heaven
Heaven sinks into me
GRAVITY
I sink into Earth
Earth rises into me

MEDITATION 

Heedfulness

Vigilance

Diligence

Watchfulness

Awareness

Earnestness

LISTENING

The Internal is a milieu where money is irrelevant.
The only way to get ahead is through practice.

And wonder is a twine of wands lodged
to spine of nothing I know at least to hold.

—Clark Coolidge

We need energy to feel energy
we need spirit to engage spirit.

Deep is the new four-letter word.

I remember once discussing with teacher whether either of us would have started the work if we had known at the beginning how difficult it was going to be. We both said No, but then realised that it wasn't a matter of choice; it was destiny. We didn't choose the work, the work chose us.

Life's too short to dabble.

One continues on a long walk not by effort of will but through fidelity.

—Thomas A Clark

Tell it like it is. No one really listens anyway.

Deep down we are all infantile.