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Re: The story of Yung Pueblo
Yeah he seems to write a lot and do book tours and appearances with others. It’s Buddhism masquerading as self help, by taking these Buddhist topics and stripping them of their religious context he is making them more accessible? I’m not sure if that’s what he is intending, but it seems to be working, with 4m social media followers.
Jeroen
Re: Mastering Zazen, mastering one's life?
I find that much of wisdom has to do with letting things soak in… I came across this video, which says much about water and water management:
Like managing watersheds through the monsoon, wisdom takes the long view. It looks at what is happening in your life, how you relate to other beings, corporeal and incorporeal. It views what sinks to the bottom, and sees what can be learned from it.
Just sitting allows the silence to soak through you. It allows the mind to become quiet.
Jeroen
Re: Mastering Zazen, mastering one's life?
The opportunities which lie behind each instant! From doing good, from refraining to cause harm.
What are the possibilities beyond the stillness of zazen?
This is my reflection: the more I sit, the more I remember those instances of stillness and how the heaps, my perceptions and preferences adjust the different phenomena into "good, bad, meh" and their respective reactions.
Argh! Autopilot mode is still strong..
Kotishka
Re: Space - the final frontier
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/rover-finds-hints-of-an-ancient-martian-carbon-cycle/
Found this interesting. Apparently there is evidence that Mars in the first billion years of the solar systems life had a dense atmosphere with a lot of CO2 and liquid water…
Jeroen