Sleeping With Ants
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone.
Zen
Tidying up with Zen
Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Hard Work: The Greatest Con
You’ve heard it before: Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with themselves. But is this really true? You’ve heard it all before: “Hard work is good for you. The people who don’t work are lazy. Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with
Zen
Aikido and Zombies
Aikido can change your life… and the world. “The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt.
Essay
3-D Empathy
How we can become better empaths in a thoughtless age — for the betterment of ourselves and everyone around us.
The Importance of Being Vulnerable
When you ask someone what it means to be vulnerable they oftentimes start talking about it as a synonym for weakness.
Essay
Fickleness, yet Passion
There is a line of thinking that suggests that attachment and passion are anathema — a bane — to a healthy and productive life. If we give…
Simply Complex: This World is It.
A simple system is one where the parts are fully predictable: the lock on your front door, for instance, is a simple system. You insert…
Zen
Homeostasis: A Musing
“[Homeostasis is] the fundamental property of life that governs everything that living cells do, whether they’re living cells alone, or…